Dune (Movie Tie-In)

Dune (Movie Tie-In)
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 897
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780593640340
ISBN-13 : 0593640349
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Dune (Movie Tie-In) by : Frank Herbert

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING NOVEMBER 3rd, 2023 Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

Halfway Herbert

Halfway Herbert
Author :
Publisher : David C Cook
Total Pages :
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0781404940
ISBN-13 : 9780781404945
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Halfway Herbert by : Francis Chan

Halfway Herbert only does things half way and never finishes anything, but when he tells a half-truth, deciding he isn't exactly lying, everything falls apart. Suddenly Halfway Herbert learns that a Christlike life takes more than a partial effort. But can he finally give something his all? Halfway Herbert helps children discover the importance of honesty and offering their best for God in all they do. It's a delightful tale about how even a child can follow the 1st commandment and live fully for God.

The Book of Frank Herbert

The Book of Frank Herbert
Author :
Publisher : Berkley
Total Pages : 218
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0425045277
ISBN-13 : 9780425045275
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Frank Herbert by : Frank Herbert

Citizens, Cops, and Power

Citizens, Cops, and Power
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 160
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0226327310
ISBN-13 : 9780226327310
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Citizens, Cops, and Power by : Steve Herbert

Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, he shows that residents’ pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. Surprising and provocative, Citizens, Cops, and Power provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.

The Book of Merlyn

The Book of Merlyn
Author :
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 185
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781477317358
ISBN-13 : 147731735X
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Merlyn by : T.H. White

The long-lost conclusion to The Once and Future King, in which King Arthur faces his final battle against his son. This magical account of King Arthur’s last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard son, Mordred, Arthur returns to the Animal Council with Merlyn, where the deliberations center on ways to abolish war. More self-revealing than any other of White’s books, Merlyn shows his mind at work as he agonized over whether to join the fight against Nazi Germany while penning the epic that would become The Once and Future King. The Book of Merlyn has been cited as a major influence by such illustrious writers as Kazuo Ishiguro, J. K. Rowling, Helen Macdonald, Neil Gaiman, and Lev Grossman. “Arriving from beyond the curve of time and apparently from the grave, The Book of Merlyn stirs its own pages, saying, wait: you didn’t get the whole story. . . . It gives us a final glimpse of those two immortal characters, Wart and Merlyn, up close, slo-mo, with a considered and affectionate scrutiny. The book is an elegiac posting from a master storyteller of the twentieth century. Its reissue in our next century is just as welcome as when it first arrived forty years ago. . . . Certainly the moral questions about the military use of force perplex the world still. . . . The efficacy of treaties, the trading of insults among the potentates of the day, the testing of weapons, the weaponizing of trade—these strategies are still front and center. Rather terrifyingly so. We do well to revisit what that old schoolteacher of children, Merlyn, has been trying to point out to us about power and responsibility.” —Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked,from the foreword “Such a small thing, The Book of Merlyn, to hold so much. Joyful and despairing, heartbreaking, yet full of hope. As wonderful and fearful to read today as it was when I first found it in 1978. And the world has as much need of it today as it did then—more, perhaps. But will the world be ready to listen?” —Mercedes Lackey, New York Times–bestselling author of the Valdemar and Elves on the Road series

The Art and Science of Book Publishing

The Art and Science of Book Publishing
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 252
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105034798012
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art and Science of Book Publishing by : Herbert Smith Bailey

A reprint of Bailey's classic first published by Harper and Row in 1970. Contains a new preface (and now on alkaline paper). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Armageddon 2419 A.D.

Armageddon 2419 A.D.
Author :
Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 83
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781504045315
ISBN-13 : 1504045319
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Armageddon 2419 A.D. by : Philip Francis Nowlan

The groundbreaking novella that gave rise to science fiction’s original space hero, Buck Rogers. In 1927, World War I veteran Anthony Rogers is working for the American Radioactive Gas Corporation investigating strange phenomena in an abandoned coal mine when suddenly there’s a cave-in. Trapped in the mine and surrounded by radioactive gas, Rogers falls into a state of suspended animation . . . for nearly five hundred years. Waking in the year 2419, he first saves the beautiful Wilma Deering from attack and then discovers what has befallen his country: The United States has descended into chaos after Asian powers conquered the world with advanced weaponry centuries before. All that’s left are ragtag gangs battling for survival against their brutal overlords. But when Rogers shows them how to band together and fight for more than mere survival, he sparks a revolution that will decide the fate of the future world. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Losing Our Way

Losing Our Way
Author :
Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780767930840
ISBN-13 : 0767930843
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Losing Our Way by : Bob Herbert

From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind in an economy that has never fully recovered from the Great Recession. The portraits of those he encountered fuel his new book, Losing Our Way. Herbert’s combination of heartrending reporting and keen political analysis is the purest expression since the Occupy movement of the plight of the 99 percent. The individuals and families who are paying the price of America’s bad choices in recent decades form the book’s emotional center: an exhausted high school student in Brooklyn who works the overnight shift in a factory at minimum wage to help pay her family’s rent; a twenty-four-year-old soldier from Peachtree City, Georgia, who loses both legs in a misguided, mismanaged, seemingly endless war; a young woman, only recently engaged, who suffers devastating injuries in a tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis; and a group of parents in Pittsburgh who courageously fight back against the politicians who decimated funding for their children’s schools. Herbert reminds us of a time in America when unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation’s wealth, by current standards, was distributed much more equitably. Today, the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has widened dramatically, the nation’s physical plant is crumbling, and the inability to find decent work is a plague on a generation. Herbert traces where we went wrong and spotlights the drastic and dangerous shift of political power from ordinary Americans to the corporate and financial elite. Hope for America, he argues, lies in a concerted push to redress that political imbalance. Searing and unforgettable, Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream.

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 222
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781400868261
ISBN-13 : 1400868262
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by : Herbert Feis

This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Soldier

Soldier
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages :
Release :
ISBN-10 : OCLC:1114528216
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Soldier by :

Description: Soldier with his arm and head visible over canvas covered item. Probably Morotai, Maluku Islands, Indonesia.