Books with author Paul James

Code Version: Can two school rivals save the Western world?Like many young men, Alexis dreams of adventure and being an adventurer, a Viking or a Pirate, or maybe just your movie-style heroic action man saving the Western world. He knows that he’s going to do it by leading his new school, an offshore boarding school and university built by his grandfather and a retired engineer, to ever greater success. The only barrier he sees standing in his way is a kid called Shane. Shane is only at the school because he somehow upsets people whenever he speaks, which isn’t too surprising because while they are very ordinary, he’s extraordinarily clever. It turns out this strange island school is full of misfits like him and he quickly sees that his destiny is to lead it to world away from the people who rejected him. His only real rival for head of the Institute is a kid called Alexis.Each of them believes that only by besting the other, and by clever detective work to stop the other’s rise, will they achieve their true place and that only under their leadership will the future of the world be safe. It’s a coming-of-age, do-or-die struggle, him or me – or is it? Can they both succeed?This visionary science fiction tale begins with Paul James’s new Dystopian Young Adult Fiction novel, The Modest Proposal Institute: An Old Path to a New Future, which launches two new heroes into the world and the cosmos.Buy The Modest Proposal Institute and start your journey to the New Future

Vincent van Gogh was one of the most prolific artists of the Post impressionism era. Here are a few interesting titbits from the life of the famous painter.Though van Gogh did not live for long he produced as many as 900 works of art in a span of ten years. He did this without any formal training and while battling mental illness.It was at the age of 27 that Vincent decided to pursue a career in painting and drawing after unsuccessful stints as a missionary and art dealer.Tragedy was a part and parcel of his life. Throughout his life he barely managed to make ends meet and it was only posthumously that his works earned the deserved fame. The only painting he sold in his lifetime was 'The Red Vineyard'.Many know of the infamous incident involving van Gogh and contemporary Paul Gauguin. An argument between the two friends sent Vincent into a frenzy and apparently, he chopped off his ear lobe (contrary to popular belief that he axed his entire ear).The famous painter who was enthusiastic about painting himself, eternized the wound by painting the Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.

No More Empires, the second book in the #1 Bestseller series The Modest Proposal Institute, starts where Alexis and Shane begin building their chosen worlds. We dive below the sea with Shane and fly into space with Alexis while, on the Earth’s surface, the institute struggles to survive amid the Western world’s collapse. Out of the turmoil, a rival emerges to challenge Alexis and Shane for the Institute's leadership. Tomas, who builds the institute’s robots, has his own ideas about how things should be done and his way doesn’t include Alexis and Shane. With the Founders seemingly enthralled by Tomas, Shane works secretly to prevent disaster right up to the moment Tomas decides to save the world from war and starvation.Who are the good guys now? And will they win?

All four books of The Modest Proposal Institute, An Old Path to a New Future, No More Empires, Rival Institutes, War of the Institutes, are here in one place. The story starts as the Western World slowly collapses after the Recession of 2020/21 and disintegrates into petty states, ruled by quarrelsome warlords. The Institute, which had been created in 2018 to stand apart from the coming collapse, is gradually drawn into the strife. It too is soon drifting into separate ‘institutes’ that become rivals and eventually opposing warring states. The end of that war separates Earth’s surface dwellers from the small number of escapees who have headed out into space and under the oceans, leaving behind a series of barriers between themselves and those left behind that they hope will keep the flame of mankind’s progress alive.

The near-future becomes horribly real in this third book of The Modest Proposal Institute dystopian sci-fi series.It’s 2029. The West’s collapse has left millions dead and millions more dying. The Institute’s Founders, Alexis, Shane, and Tomas, clash over how to save the West, and its people, and their individual initiatives lead them to fight each other. Each is sure their way is the only one and are equally sure the others’ meddling will make things worse. Each of them believes only they can save the West and, if they fail, a new thousand-year Dark Age beckons.With stakes as high as this, any violence can be justified, can’t it?

The Modest Proposal Institute, which began in 2018 with such high hopes of saving the future progress of mankind, has broken into rival factions by 2030. Book 4, War of the Institutes, brings to an end this dystopian young adult, near-future sci fi, history of Earth.Alexis and his pioneers have set up home on the moon and Mars, with an Earth 2.0 to come. Shane and his ocean pioneers are establishing mankind's presence on the seabed. Nadia and Tomas reign supreme in Western Europe and would like to extend their dominion across all the old Western lands. A splinter group, led by Jamie, wishes to live free in North America. All would be well if only they would be happy with what they have -- but not everyone can and on Earth mankind returns to its pre-industrial state.

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This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process―human development. Gee argues that children will need to be resilient, imaginative, hopeful, and deliberate learners to survive the deeply complex and unpredictable world in which they live. In a world beset by conflicting ideologies that give rise to hatred, violence, and war, Gee urges us to look to a broader set of ideas from seemingly unrelated disciplines for a viable vision of education. This book proposes a framework of principles that can be used to reconceptualize education, specifically literacy education, to better prepare students to be collaborators toward peace and sustainability.Book Features:Offers a new set of ideas about literacy, learning, and human development in a risk-laden, digitally driven modern world.Uses recent breakthroughs in research on brains, bodies, society, identity, and teaching and learning in and out of school.Stresses the importance of human growth and development to a more peaceful and equitable world.

This book, is typically a children's book that can be read as a bedtime story or even just to read in classes as it possesses many literary techniques and devices, as i wrote it for a class project. I have been told is a great book that keep you reading and its very imaginative as i got the top score in my class.So the story is generally about a mythical kingdom called Frel , where a young boy is the center of a world wind controversy over four very important crystals he doesn't even know he is in contact with. He is soon caught up in a adventure that could end up in his demise.

Forget about Forks! Edmonds, Washington is where all the really strange stuff happens.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Rated SeriesIt's like Twilight meets The Twilight Zone, designed by world-building acclaimed authorPaul James Keyes.The Beyond exists outside of time... few are fated to enter.High school sophomore Lewis Graham is awakened by a seemingly all-knowing creature appearing through a portal in his bedroom. The creature looks like a doll, dressed in a little button-down suit, and calls himself Mr. Gray. He says he is from the realm of immortals - a place called the Beyond - and that he is a Fate, like the three Fates of Greek and Roman mythology. Mr. Gray says he has come to lead Lewis to his destiny, and that it is imperative he does what he’s told.Mr. Gray insists on being taken to school with Lewis to help guide him through his day, but when Lewis follows Mr. Gray’s instructions, some very bad things start happening to the people around him. Lewis is forced to question what sort of destiny the creature really has in store for him.Mr. Gray claims no one else can see or hear him, but when a Native American girl at school sneaks Lewis a note containing three simple words, he is launched down a frightening and thought-provoking path:Don’t Trust It.This time-bending urban & paranormal fantasy series packs a horrifyingly spine-chilling punch.