Books with author James Locke

KNOCK KNOCK JOKES WITH BIBLICAL REFERENCES TO WORDS IN THE BIBLE!As a minister for many years, I have been surprised at some of the things that kids find funny. Admittedly, knock knock jokes are silly, but kids love them, and love retelling them. I have tried to write and compile a hundred of these knock knock jokes that are a play on biblical characters, words, and places. Have fun with the kids in your life, sharing a light-hearted moment, but also using it as a gateway to perhaps sharing the story behind these names. To help you do just that, I have added the biblical references to the stories in the Bible. You can also use this book in your Sunday School or Children's Church as a fun opener to lessons.God Bless You,James Lockear

"Fans of classic authors like Wells and Lovecraft will revel in Firelocke's tight fusion of strange ideas...a dreamy kind of madness that sweeps audiences along.... This sci-fi debut thrums with creative juice."--Kirkus Reviews (Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018) A Mind-Bending Thriller about Evil Wall Street Creeps and the Freedom Lovers who Fight Them!Meet Jack Tone. Thirty years old. Depressed and lonely. An information analyst in the sprawling Federal security bureaucracy. It's the year 2041, and America is a country ruled by ruthless billionaires and war profiteers.In Jack's America, the aristocrats live in luxurious depravity, while regular citizens struggle for existence. And the politicians just smirk--all the way to the bank to deposit their bribes. The government, far from defending the people, is a quagmire of fumblebuck bureaucracy. But most citizens are so zonked out on "Pharmatainment Tech" (including virtual reality games, interactive security dramas, screwball porn, and spirituality pills) that there is little organized resistance to the tyranny.Jack is barely shuffling through life, uninterested in the sleazy distractions the corporate government feeds the people to keep them sedated. He also hates his job spying on citizens from a dreary office seventeen stories underground. So it's understandable when, in a desperate moment, he decides to join a group of peculiar revolutionaries who call themselves "Faction 9." They are everything Jack is not: impulsive, passionate, unpredictable, conspiratorial, hard-partying, and utterly devoted to a radical and thoroughly un-American imperative: Hatred of Greed is the Salvation of Love.But once Jack goes rogue, he realizes he can't go back. And once Faction 9 decides to take out sociopathic billionaire Gregory Randolph Reid, Jack realizes that only two final cards remain for him in the deck of life: Liberty--or Death!

"Fans of classic authors like Wells and Lovecraft will revel in Firelocke's tight fusion of strange ideas...a dreamy kind of madness that sweeps audiences along.... This sci-fi debut thrums with creative juice."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Meet Jack Tone. Thirty years old. Depressed and lonely. An information analyst in the sprawling Federal security bureaucracy. It's the year 2041, and America is a country ruled by ruthless billionaires and war profiteers.In Jack's America, the aristocrats live in luxurious depravity, while regular citizens struggle for existence. And the politicians just smirk--all the way to the bank to deposit their bribes. The government, far from defending the people, is a quagmire of fumblebuck bureaucracy. But most citizens are so zonked out on "Pharmatainment Tech" (including virtual reality games, interactive security dramas, screwball porn, and spirituality pills) that there is little organized resistance to the tyranny.Jack is barely shuffling through life, uninterested in the sleazy distractions the corporate government feeds the people to keep them sedated. He also hates his job spying on citizens from a dreary office seventeen stories underground. So it's understandable when, in a desperate moment, he decides to join a group of peculiar revolutionaries who call themselves "Faction 9." They are everything Jack is not: impulsive, passionate, unpredictable, conspiratorial, hard-partying, and utterly devoted to a radical and thoroughly un-American imperative: Hatred of Greed is the Salvation of Love.But once Jack goes rogue, he realizes he can't go back. And once Faction 9 decides to take out sociopathic billionaire Gregory Randolph Reid, Jack realizes that only two final cards remain for him in the deck of life: Liberty--or Death!

The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from “flipping” into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of Silent Spring, this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future.

For millennia, humankind has exploited the Earth without counting the cost. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization. This short book, written at the age of eighty-six after a lifetime engaged in the science of the earth, is his testament.

The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is running a fever born of increased atmospheric greenhouse gases. Earth will adjust to these stresses, but the human race faces a severe test. It is already too late, Lovelock says, to prevent the global climate from "flipping" into an entirely new equilibrium that will threaten civilization as we know it. But we can do much to save humanity. In the tradition of Silent Spring, this is a call to address a major threat to our collective future.