A Hundred Billion Ghosts Gone

A Hundred Billion Ghosts Gone
Author: DM Sinclair
Publisher: DMS Print
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 177520345X

The "hilarious and compelling" breakout surprise of 2017 has an even-more-addictive sequel! It’s been seven years since all the ghosts came back. Now, in four days, they’ll all be invisible again. The clock is ticking. Meanwhile the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has been prominently annihilated in mid-speech. And he’s not the only one; other ghosts are also being obliterated from the face of the Earth. All the evidence points to the Post-Mortal Services Clinic, where Ryan Matney happens to be a lowly, bored lab assistant. So Ryan and the brilliant scientist Margie join forces with their incompetent and semi-corporeal detective Lowell and a sketchy psychic medium whose powers truly are medium at best. Together they race to stop the Clinic from falling into the wrong hands before the lights go out on the haunted world. And maybe, just maybe, Ryan won’t die this time. Yes he will. More than once. The second book in the series that has been called “crazy-fun and cleverly written”, “hugely imaginative”, and “the most fun I've had in fiction in a long time”.

A Hundred Billion Ghosts

A Hundred Billion Ghosts
Author: DM Sinclair
Publisher: DMS Print
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In a world-altering cosmic event, the ghosts of everyone who ever died suddenly become visible to the living. They may be dead, but they're ready to rejoin society. All hundred billion of them. In this strange new world where everyone stays around forever, Ryan Matney decides that life really begins at death. So, with the help of some questionable technology, he embarks on a permanent out-of-body experience and becomes a ghost himself. It doesn’t go well. And soon, Ryan finds that he wants his body back. But it’s not where he left it. And if he doesn’t get back into it by the end of the week, he’ll cease to exist. Totally. Forever. Also, there’s a breakfast cereal he really wants to try. That’s less of a problem. But still a problem. “Laced with poignancy, humor, and loads of twists and turns” (Rachel Reads). “I found myself up late at night instead of sleeping and ignoring household chores wanting to know what happened next” (JBronder Book Reviews)

Destined War Sovereign

Destined War Sovereign
Author: Ai Ling
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 962
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 163622203X

Every era had countless legends. Some legends could penetrate time and become memories of immortality. In this strange and joyful world of martial cultivation, could a Martial God whose memories were shattered and whose soul had been reborn establish his own legend ... A man should lie drunk on the knees of beauties, waking up to rule the world! The Ancestor will bring you into a vast and mysterious fantasy world where blood is like fire, passion is everywhere, and desire is limitless ...

Sources of Chinese Tradition

Sources of Chinese Tradition
Author: William Theodore De Bary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 1052
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231109383

Chronologically presents Chinese civilization, covering antiquity figures such as Confucius, Mencius, and Laozi; the Han dynasty, including readings from the "I Jing"; the development of Buddhism, including Daoism and Mahayana Buddhism; Neo-Confucianism; and thought in late imperial China.

Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans

Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans
Author: John Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009
Genre: Science
ISBN:

In the age of climate change and space stations, it's easy to forget that the final frontier may well lie beneath our feet; that the Earth's rocks is the stuff of which oil is made. And yet we understand so little of the very thing we're trying to protect. Geologists John Wilson and Dr. Ron Clowes narrate the tale of earth's coming-of-age in Ghost Mountains and Vanishing Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age . The vast jigsaw puzzle of geological plates that drifted together to form today's continents have not done with floating just yet. They also tell the story of Lithoprobe, created in Canada early 1980s, as part of an international program and seen as the best project in earth sciences' field. It combines multidisciplinary studies of the Canadian landmass and surrounding offshore margins to determine how the northern North American continent has formed over geological time from 4,000 million years ago to the present. Highlighted with informative sidebars and photographs, Ghost Mountains and Vanishing Oceans will help readers gain a better appreciation of the earth sciences and the terra firma that isn't so firm after all.

Adversaria Sinica

Adversaria Sinica
Author: Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1914
Genre: China
ISBN:

Capitalism

Capitalism
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1608464296

The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism” (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. “A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India’s impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ‘privatization of everything,’ and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous doses of state violence.” —The Nation “A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular . . . an impassioned manifesto.” —Kirkus Reviews “Roy’s central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book’s title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.” —Publishers Weekly