In "The Chaos Conundrum," historian Aaron John Gulyas examines how the paranormal has intersected and influenced our culture in myriad ways, from the conspiracy beliefs of William Cooper and Exopolitics to the challenge that the stories of Gray Barker presented to our concept of self and time. He looks at the maelstrom of personalities, agendas, impressions, data, confusion, and contradictions that can be found in the world of the weird, and demonstrates how they have become an integral pa...

Conspiracies have always been part of American culture, but with the rise of social media has come an increase in belief in nontraditional explanations of events. This book highlights a subset of conspiratorial beliefs that grew in popularity in the early 21st century. These beliefs and the growing cynicism of the media have left conspiracy theorists with deep distrust of those in authority. A number of theories that have arisen over the years are explored. From QAnon beliefs regarding the...

Narratives based on conspiratorial and paranoid thinking have become increasingly prominent throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. From the prosaic to the outlandish, conspiracy theories involve aliens and Nazis, underground bases and mind control technology. They range from sinister tales of malevolent reptilian beings infiltrating our government to fears of the New World Order rounding up patriotic Americans and putting them into internment camps. These stories and their underlying conc...

Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paran...

An hourly guide that follows twenty-four mollusks to reveal the fascinating lives behind their shells.From morning to night and from the Arctic to the equator, snails, clams, and other shell-making mollusks have busy days. In this short book, acclaimed author and marine biologist Helen Scales shows readers exactly how these animals spend their time. Each chapter of Shell Day features a single mollusk during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four different...

These are the memoirs of the Melbourne born authorThese are the memoirs of the Melbourne born authorJohn R. Aarons, who has spent a lifetime fulfilling hisdream of travelling the world.His adventures are brought to life from the time as achild aged 3 he sneaked out the front door oneSaturday afternoon to go to a cinema matinee to avery mature age author writing novels.He is married and they have two daughters, two son-in-laws

1SYNOPSIS AND AUTHOR BIOA senior detective in charge of the art fraud department of the Victorian Police attends asymposium in Madrid. Afterwards he takes a holiday in Bilbao in the north of Spainspecifically to visit the famous Guggenheim Museum.Whilst riding the funicular to the top of the mountain that overlooks the city, he witnessessomething that starts an adventure that takes him on an exciting journey to countries he hadonly pr...

This is the fourth novel in the Martin Taylor art crime series and begins when Martin returnsto New York to give evidence in a murder trial related to the case he had worked on in 2020.Whilst in New York, the senior editor of the Houston Chronicle newspaper requests ameeting to discuss an assignment to assist in the purchase of some paintings which will beauctioned shortly in Houston. The paintings had belonged to a Mexican drug baron who hadmoved to...

he Docklands Mysteryis the second in a series of crime novels which featuresMartin Taylor, an Australian police detective with the art crime division at theVictorian State police headquarters in Melbourne's Docklands precinct. In thisnew tale, the owner of a Melbourne art gallery becomes involved in a mysteryafter having sold a valuable painting to a local businessman with criminalconnections. It turns out that the painting is more than just ...

Australian detective Martin Taylor is called to assist the New York Police Department in tracking downMaltese Cathedral treasures that had disappeared after being on display at a prestige art gallery. Sobegins an investigation that takes him on an amazing adventure through a number of fascinatingcountries.

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats.Interpreting records in the broadest sense, the 15 chapters in this volume explore a wide variety of records that represent new archival interpretations. The book is split into two parts, with the first part focusing on record forms that are not generally considered "...

The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of ApolloAt first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30—at what is now Johnson Space Center—would become known by many as “the Cathedral.” These members of the space program were the brightest of their generations, making split-second...