A Blur Of Mass Motion

The poetry and writings of Erin Winona Flowers, compiled and annotated by Phyllis Jean Flowers, reaches into the poetry written by a teenager as she battled manic depression.

This is a true story! On one level it is part my autobiography. On another it deals with three generations of my family’s active involvement in war, terrorism, political and social conflict; and the tragic emotional and psychological consequences my family endured as a result. In 2009 as an Australian academic with expertise in global terrorism, and a one-time aspiring federal politician, I fled to France to try and deal with clinical depression, and associated Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I was fleeing the nightmare of a destroyed career and a shattered family. As I tried to battle the ‘Black Dog’ of depression, suicide was a very real option for me. But first, I decided to write a book about my research and involvement with Muslim ‘terrorists’ and revolutionary guerrilla groups in the Philippines. It was a way of combating a public media campaign that had destroyed my professional and private life. But to do this I needed to retrace both my own and my family’s earlier experiences with conflicts elsewhere, which influenced me to choose such research. In so doing I discovered new realities about the psychological condition I was battling and how it impacted on, and haunted, my own extended family over generations, and all due to war and social conflict with horrific human consequences. Ultimately, I have concluded I’m certainly not alone in my struggle. I’m merely another casualty of a brutal primeval human phenomenon, which continually infects the psychology of the next generation. It is the phenomenon of the subconscious human struggle for the survival of the fittest. Now with a greater understanding of my condition I have, at least so far, managed a stand-off with the Black Dog. I realise it wasn’t spawned by any particular condition of my own, but rather the very nature of human society. So far society still fails to take responsibility for generating such a condition and instead still promotes our innate species drive to achieve the survival of the fittest, an endgame which usually results in warfare. In the 21st century if we do not challenge and change our notion of what is needed to survive then forget the Koreas, ISIS, nuclear warfare, etc., human kind will eventually psychologically and then physically self-destruct. How did I come to this realisation? It all played out in a small village called Ouroux En Morvan, in France.

Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Magical Images: A Handbook of Stereo Photography provides both practical and theoretical understanding of stereoscopic imaging, primarily via photographic techniques, both film and digital. The book is in 3 parts Part 1 consists of fifteen chapters primarily devoted to the practical aspects of three-dimensional photography and imaging. This part of the book deals with the capture, processing and viewing of stereo images. Part 2 comprises six chapters in which the theoretical principles of the subject are analyzed in detail, to emphasize how different variables can affect the quality of stereoscopic images. Part 3 is made up of fourteen supplements which contain further technical information on various features of stereo photography, both theoretical and practical! The book also contains a number of stereoscopic images taken by the author purely for readers to enjoy!

hen Lee Sun has translated Laozi's Dao De Jing into both plain Chinese and English (Laozi's Dodejing, ISBN9781462067237). She is also self-taught on Daoism and Confucianism but had done studies and discussions on Western philosophies and linguistics in Taiwan University, Oxford University, and the University of California. She had also corresponded with Sir Alfred Ayer (A. J. Ayer) and Sir Karl Popper for many decades.

As the general’s son, Manu carries a heavy responsibility to protect Atlantis. The key to saving his world lies in retrieving a woman from above the surface: his people’s long-lost princess. But he never expects desires to ignite and reawaken his soul… A breathtaking romance told in this three-book collection. Read it all at once and go on an underwater marathon through the Atlantis kingdom in Return to Atlantis, A Drop in the Ocean, and Goddess of Sea and War. Free exclusive side story novella included. Turning the Tide is a 32,000 word romantic novella starring Elpis and detailing her secret mission.