LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael asusko

25 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael asusko

  • Mystery Stone from the Shenandoah
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    A beautiful tablet-like mystery stone has been found by the Shenandoah River, near Berryville, Virginia. Underneath its brown-orange patina, peck-marked shapes reveal a crystalline heartstone underneath and intriguing designs. Varied opinions have been offered by experts on the oriign of the designs, so the author takes you on a tour of the stone so you can make your own judgem...
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    14,91 €

  • The Elephant and the Chameleons
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    After a powerful twister uproots their home, two chameleon friends must find their way in a much larger world. Help comes from unexpected places, beginning with a great elephant by the river who offers them safety in his territory. But curiosity soon pulls the chameleons beyond what feels secure, leading them into new worlds, new dangers, and new friendships. As their journey u...
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    5,95 €

  • Guard of the Dead and Other Gospel Stories
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    These stories are inspired by persons who appear in the Gospels for only a few sentences. It imagines the drama of their encounter with a founder of a world religion at the time of the Roman Empire. Internal worlds are opened up, including a soldier who guards the dead, a madman who lives among tombs, a woman who battles demons, and Levianthan, a storm which would take the foun...
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    5,92 €

  • The Resistance & the Empire
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Delphi and Detinna try to retire from the struggle of their times, but become entangled in a movement that resists empire. After a series of action-packed, mathematically calculated escapes, they find themselves at the center of the resistance. Using psychic means they enter the halls of power to topple the empire, but encounter forces much darker and powerful than they had ima...
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    9,73 €

  • Delphi, the Time Thief, and the Dream World
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Delphi takes a time expansion workshop and finds he has a gift for out-of-body experiences. Soon, he finds himself remotely spying and engaged in a psychic war against powerful forces. He allies with Detinna, a defector who becomes his dream partner, and together they navigate the hazards of having a dream body. The main dangers are Time Thieves who are pirates of time and Watc...
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    7,65 €

  • Detinna and the Cave God
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Detinna and Delphi go to Guatemala to gain access to another world, so they can free the Time Thief imprisoned in a deep cave. The journey is an incursion into the beautiful landscape of Guatemala, interfaced with the spirits of olden times. The Lady of the Falls and the Spirit of Air are archetypal companions who would help them battle the Cave God who has more power than them...
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    7,63 €

  • The Generation of LIfe
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    This work explores the meaning of rock art, especially from deep caves of the paleolithic era. It approaches the problem of interpretation by focusing on a key concept, that art and ritual were used to generate life. Interestingly, this work further considers that creativity emerged from the tension between chaotic lines and more formed shapes. Past interpretive frames, statist...
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    5,95 €

  • The Lion and the Chameleon
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
      This set of stories features a lion who becomes friends with a tricky chameleon. The colorful cast of African animals grows to include a hyrax and hoopoe bird and more chameleons who must find ways survive the many 'snakes' of their world. The perennial theme of friendship and the meaning of being a true friend are addressed. These stories seem to move toward a typical ending...
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    6,17 €

  • Alien Ally
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Two lone survivors of a battle fleet make alien contact. Befriending and understanding an alien becomes the key to their survival as they encounter even more remote aliens who are disembodied. This is the start of an Odysseus-like tale, in which the survivors meet aliens in ever more exotic forms. ...
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    5,95 €

  • Street Images
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Those on the periphery of society are not necessarily culturally or spiritually poor. "Street persons" can harbor a rich life-story and genuine philosophic concerns. This work seeks to make public this hidden cultural wealth. We invited persons with hardship to create fiction or, in recounting an experience, to offer an image of hope.. From Clem who writes as he recovers from f...
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    5,95 €

  • Ten Pulses of Evolution & the Surprising Nature of Evolutionary Time
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    This work offers a novel way to map evolutionary time from life’s origin to the first humans. Rather than using a traditional, linear scale in which events bunch up toward the end, a logarithmic scale will be employed that expands our resolution as we come to the present. Such a scale will allow us to detect patterns that would otherwise be invisible. The basic concept of logar...
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    8,68 €

  • Caseness and Narrative
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
             Caseness and Narrative contrasts two ways of trying to help persons in emotional distress. The first, called Caseness, sees signs of distress as symptoms without significant meaning, makes a diagnosis in which the psychiatric system names the experience, and then uses methods such as drugging or electroshock to minimize or stop symptom expression. The second way, calle...
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    5,89 €

  • Child of the Elements
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    In human prehistory, premature children were the evolutionary future. Kinder is an early child, whose survival depends on a fierce mother. Because the father is absent, she offers her child to the Elements for protection. A second child, Huntress, aids in their survival by helping to make an alliance with a young wolf. Dangers in prehistory abound, as human adults were the size...
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    9,73 €

  • Moby and Marsupial Mole Dreaming
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Finn, retired from researching, attempts to time travel in the outback of Australia. He stays in the present, however, and encounters an indigenous person who’s following dreaming tracks. The two are captured by an outlaw group, who fight for indigenous rights, and Finn finds himself becoming their leader. Facing the military, Finn and his group must somehow overcome overwhelmi...
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    5,82 €

  • Streak and Cave Bear Dreaming
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Finn, an independent researcher and explorer, discovers a prehistoric Cave Bear and a human 'missing link,' in the Canadian Rockies. Declared a shaman, he joins a paleolithic clan, who are threatened by Thunder Heads, mysterious electrical beings. Finn returns to civilization and is placed in a psychiatric hospital. He has no evidence of the truth of his story until he shows so...
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    6,21 €

  • Sleek Back
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    In the outback of tropical Queensland, Australia. Finn discovers an archaic preserve. There, a Giant Salamander takes him on an evolutionary adventure through the land of the dinosaurs. This story embraces the paradox of how seemingly weaker animals, like mammals, survived. Finn lives to tell his story and to be coaxed backto sanity as he explains his wounds to his friends. Rea...
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    7,51 €

  • To the Beginning and Journey Through Here
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Zoe and Tod go vision questing on a mountain in Yosemite Park and find out that they have died. Transported to a Way-Station world, they are joined by a spirit being who serves as their guide. In the after world they experience colors, each producing an exotic experience which challenges their conception of being. In this in-between world, the couple encounter people, who still...
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    7,45 €

  • On the Mountain and Two Are Missing
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Zoe and Tod, having retired from the work world, take a second honeymoon to find a new direction in life. They experience the exceptional beauty of Yosemite, but its tinged with premonitions of death and signs of the spirit world. In the end the meet an indigneous stranger whose identity remains unknown. The man leaves them to their vision quest, and somethiing unexpected happe...
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    6,14 €

  • In the Wild and Do One Wild Thing
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Zoe and Tod have been married for many years and seek to reignite their relationship with a trip abroad. Zoe wants to go to Europe, and Tod agrees on the condition that they do one wild thing in each country. The wild thing leads to complications from accidentally ingesting mushrooms in Greece and a crash amid windmills in Spain. In the end their adventures and misadventures le...
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    6,07 €

  • On the Bay and a Child Found
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Zoe and Tod have been married for several years and have successful careers, but something is missing. Zoe has a dream that they should take a trip and that this will help them bring a child into their life. On a fisher boat they experience the Chesapeake with a crabber, and complications ensue. They discover a lost child, Tod becomes captive and Zoe becomes severely ill, but t...
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    5,99 €

  • Across the Gulf and Journey Into Un-Time
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Zoe and Tod, friends since childhood, decide to take a vacation in the mountains of Guatemala. In a remote village, they are welcomed and invited to see ancient Mayan rituals. The New Year is to be brought in during a cave ritual, but a problem develops. Time is stopped and the ancient gods make a demand to renew time. In the swirling chaos of un-time, Zoe and Tod have a revela...
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    6,02 €

  • Up Above and the Runaway
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    Zoe and Tod meet Mac, a homeless person, who they knew as Rock Man from an otherworldly experience. They all try to help a runaway teenager, who has dissociated into a symbolic world. Things become even more complicated when their lives intersect with a doctor, in need of a human subject for a risky experimental procedure. In the end something uncanny happens, which show  Zoe a...
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    7,68 €

  • Down Below and the Archon’s Castle
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    From an underground fort, Zoe enters another world to find her lost friend Tod. There, she finds help in the form of archetypal beings: a Sphere, a Rubbery Man and a Rock Man. Their journey ranges from down below where they find Ancient Ones made of stone, to an above world controlled by a mad scientist. Read this story to experience a  Wizard-of-Oz-like tale, the first of a se...
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    7,52 €

  • Animal Spell
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    After losing his pack, a lone wolfdog must navigate a world filled with peril, magic, and shifting allegiances. Torn between two groups-one ragtag but free, the other powerful but binding-he must decide where he truly belongs. Along the way, he encounters a Golden Lion who dreams of a new world, a Water Spouter who wields wisdom like a river, and a Dust Dragon who seeks to rul...
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    10,86 €

  • Little People & the Curious Time-Riding Animal
    Michael A. Susko / Michael ASusko
    When Flo drifts into a world where flowers sing and names are songs, she finds more than wonder-she finds a calling. The Little People live in harmony with giant blossoms, plant-creatures, and the mysterious ZheZheShang, a time-riding sailfin who knows the future. But when their world is threatened by the arrival of giant invaders-collectors from the other side who steal not on...
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    7,61 €