The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority.
The world will never see another peace conference like the one that took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world's major leaders, US President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and French Prime Minister George Clemenceau, met to discuss the peace settlements that would end World War I. These leaders faced huge issues, and as the weeks went by, their agenda grew.
This is a book by the Indian-born American physician and philosopher Deepak Chopra, in which he shares his thoughts and visions of the wizards in us, how we can find them, release them, get to know ourselves better and live in peace and harmony with the world. It is not religious or sectant book, just one to help us improve.
-Background Setting the Stage: Prereading Inside the Novel An A Separate Peace Study Guide Beyond the Text: Project Possibilities Suggested Essay Questions
The Lighthouse by P. D. James Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.
