Bøger af Robert Snyder

Bob's mind is conflicted. The left side always wants adventure while the right side develops sheer terror of what is about to happen. Karen is a non-athlete that is normally calm, but this adventure at age 65 has unsettled Karen. They could quit, but Bob has been planning this trip for over 30 years.

Geneticists/people of metal at the University of Nairobi conduct a centuries-long genetic engineering initiative that transforms biological Africans into an entirely new, immeasurably smarter human species. Meanwhile, the people of metal who led the Human Rescue Initiative in Africa have built human colonies on two distant planets to assure that humans survive somewhere.Colonists find strange mosaic-like formations of small stones at ground level on both planets. They form identical patterns that change in a fixed sequence. It’s a coded message that promises God’s overwhelming love to the message’s recipients if they can formally prove an “unsolvable” 20th-century math conjecture and send the proof in the direction of “God’s abode.”African leaders treat the message as genuine, just in case. God’s love is nothing to sneeze at, if He exists. Contemporary mathematicians aren’t yet smart enough to solve the conjecture, but it’s only a matter of time, and genetics.

The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting

All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present with vital new material on the city's revival with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities.

Long before the people of the former Eastern Block liberated themselves, they had discovered democratic freedom by putting into print their own ideas and chronicling their time. This work explores the role of journalism during the fall of the iron curtain, and beyond.