A retelling of the story of Noah's ark, embellished with elements from Romanian folklore, including how the devil sneaked aboard, the reason Noah threw a cat overboard, and the role of a snake in saving the ark. In this Romanian folk version of the Noah story, getting the animals to march, two by two, onto the ark is the easy part. It's Noah's stubborn wife who insists that she's staying on dry land. Frustrated, Noah finally declares, "Oh, you devil, come in!" and not only persuades his wife but also gives the Devil himself the invitation he needed to come aboard.

Jesus said that, 'as the days of Noah were, so will it be at the coming of the son of man. ' The story of Noah 's ark contains shadows regarding the last days. This book will reveal these shadows in unprecedented clarity. The shadows not only help to decipher an accurate timeline, but they also reveal the hand of God upon the church. This book is a marriage between bible prophecy and the body of Christ, written for the common person. Beginning at the Garden of Eden, the reader will engage in a life-changing experience. What was the fall of man like from God 's perspective? Readers will become acquainted with Noah and his trials, fallen angels, and giants! What was it really like for Noah? The plot thickens when a panoramic view of Noah 's story begins to explain God 's plans for His church until the second advent of Jesus. Noah 's ark is one story, revealing two revelations that lead to only one conclusion. Learn how God 's plan for His church and bible prophecy regarding the end-times can no longer be studied apart from one another. Will the church stay, or will the church go before the tribulation? Does God have a purpose for the tribulation? What role will fallen angels have in the tribulation? Will the nephilim return? Will you be part of the army that conquers with Jesus at Armageddon? It is a message that cannot be ignored. It all begins with you. Are you ready for Noah 's Ark and the End of Days?

"It’s an in-depth look at varied time periods and artists, which readers interested in gossip, drama, or art history will enjoy." Library Journal, Starred Review Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don’t they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin. But these potentially disastrous “negatives” can and have spurred the world of fine art to new heights. A look at the history of art tells us that rivalries have, in fact, not only benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but have also helped shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack, and therefore drawing the interest of a public who might not be drawn to the objects alone. There would be no Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo had rival Raphael not tricked the pope into assigning him the commission, certain that Michelangelo, who had never before worked with frescoes, would botch the job and become a laughing stock. Scandal and shock have proven to be powerful weapons when harnessed and wielded willfully and well. That scandal is good for exposure has been so obviously the case that many artists have courted it intentionally, which we will define as shock: intentionally overturning expectations of the majority in a way that traditionalist find dismaying or upsetting, but which a certain minority avant-garde find exciting. From Damien Hirst presenting the public with a shark embalmed in formaldehyde and entombed in a glass case to Marcel Duchamp trying to convince the art community that a urinal is a great sculpture shock has been a key promotional tool. The Devil in the Gallery is a guided tour of the history of art through it scandals, rivalries, and shocking acts, each of which resulted in a positive step forward for art in general and, in most cases, for the careers of the artists in question. In addition to telling dozens of stories, lavishly illustrated in full color, of such dramatic moments and arguing how they not only affected the history of art but affected it for the better, we will also examine the proactive role of the recipients of these intentionally dramatic actions: The art historians, the critics and even you, the general public. The Devil likes to lurk in dark corners of the art world, morphing into many forms. Let us shed light upon him.

From the chaos of New York City's Great Blackout of 1977, an unlikely hero emerges. Caught in the madness and mayhem of the streets of New York, Richard Miller knows there's no escape. Under the cover of darkness, a greater, more sinister darkness has begun to emerge. Now, with the barrier between the demon realm and his own world weakened to the breaking point, he must risk everything to save the city he loves along with everyone in it. Richard must summon every ounce of courage to confront the malevolent forces hounding him. Faced with bloodthirsty cultists hell-bent on destruction, human intolerance, and lustful demons with their own agenda, Richard discovers that it is up to him to put an end to the turmoil before it's too late. But first he must overcome his own dark desires. A dark, sexually charged tale of devilry that seduces the reader into believing the unbelievable, Sex With The Devil will take you on a mind-bending trip of gay erotic encounters and non-stop carnal exploits. This is a story guaranteed to arouse, make your imagination run wild, and get your blood pumping.

Retells the Old Testament story of how Noah and his family built the ark and saved the animals from the Great Flood.

Who is the 'Devil'? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence 'unpleasant' ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer. The new collection of essays and articles takes the Devil by the horns by tackling five key themes: free thought and free speech, politics and society, scientific humanism, religion, and the ideas of controversial intellectuals. For our own sake, we must give the Devil his due.

Charney crafts an intellectual masterpiece--the mystery of three missing masterpieces that sends criminals and curators alike on a rollicking chase through the art galleries and auction houses of Europe.

Basing their research on geophysics, oral legends, and archaeology, the authors offer evidence that the flood in the book of Genesis actually occurred.

Decades after the Apollo Program, a history professor discovers a new dimension to the program, which has been intentionally hidden by the government. His investigation leads to a final mission to the Moon, where the young lady Astronaut discovers the unthinkable.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.