Download or read book As Above So Below A Hermann Horst Mystery written by Ingram Hargrave and published by Daegbrecan Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader’s Favorite 5-Star Review Seal Recipient “This book sucks you right into the pages and you become an invisible participant in the action.” “A fantastic read! Ingram Hargrave has produced a masterful historical mystery with his debut novel.” “I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to fans of suspense and intrigue everywhere.” “Fascinating characters. Wonderfully well written.” Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie’s classic murder mysteries, Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis, The Cloisters by Katy Hays, and followers of William Kent Krueger. At twenty-eight, Hermann Horst is the youngest professor of philosophy to grace the marble corridors and richly paneled lecture halls of Austria-Hungary’s esteemed University of Vienna. The charismatic young professor’s success has been driven in part by personal tragedy: the mysterious death of his only sister. Her fatal obsession with divination and the occult has placed Hermann on a course to scientifically and logically explain the psychology of the occult and those who believe in supernatural powers. The university affords Hermann the resources needed for his research, albeit under the guise of his sanctioned academic coursework. When a letter arrives from Senior Inspector Orczy Géza of the Budapest Gendarme asking for Hermann’s help in a murder investigation, Hermann jumps at the opportunity to put his research into practice. The investigation centers on Schattenturm, Shadow Tower in German, an extravagant Neo-Gothic estate built atop the ruins of a medieval fortress. The body of the estate’s gardener was found with an ancient war hammer lodged in the back of his skull, at the center of the swirling maze that surrounds the castle’s mausoleum. Géza’s investigation has been stalled by superstition surrounding the castle: a legend that ghosts and the devil are at work to drive out the family who recently acquired Schattenturm. A convenient story to assist a murderer perhaps, but one that has derailed Géza’s efforts all the same. Géza is a no-nonsense veteran of conflicts in Bosnia, but he’s at his limit with this investigation and he’ll have to learn to trust and confide in Hermann’s mentalist methods and knowledge of the occult if the investigation, and his career, are to be saved. The current owners of Schattenturm, the Baum family, acquired the castle under unscrupulous circumstances after establishing a coal mine in the town nearby that exploits the locals and robs the countryside of its peace and beauty. The displaced aristocratic owners, the von Voitsbergs, are still very much a factor in the estate’s realm. Hundreds of years of ownership and rule over the area are not easily forgotten, nor has the loss of their dark romantic home been amicably accepted. A handful of long-term servants know everyone’s secrets and are willing to take them to the grave, though not necessarily to their own. What lies beneath the black stones of Schattenturm, from the catacombs of the von Voitsberg crypt to terrible acts kept secret for decades, has destroyed lives. The secrets uncovered and the nature of the victim will shake Hermann and the readers, forcing them to question the morality of murder itself and whether some crimes should ever be forgiven.
Download or read book As Above So Below written by Ingram Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-eight, Hermann Horst is the youngest professor of philosophy to grace the marble corridors and richly paneled lecture halls of Austria-Hungary's esteemed University of Vienna. The charismatic young professor's success has been driven in part by personal tragedy: the mysterious death of his only sister. Her fatal obsession with divination and the occult has placed Hermann on a course to scientifically and logically explain the psychology of the occult and those who believe in supernatural powers. The university affords Hermann the resources needed for his research, albeit under the guise of his sanctioned academic coursework. When a letter arrives from Senior Inspector Orczy Géza of the Budapest Gendarme asking for Hermann's help in a murder investigation, Hermann jumps at the opportunity to put his research into practice. The investigation centers on Schattenturm, Shadow Tower in German, an extravagant Neo-Gothic estate built atop the ruins of a medieval fortress. The body of the estate's gardener was found with an ancient war hammer lodged in the back of his skull, at the center of the swirling maze that surrounds the castle's mausoleum. Géza's investigation has been stalled by superstition surrounding the castle: a legend that ghosts and the devil are at work to drive out the family who recently acquired Schattenturm. A convenient story to assist a murderer perhaps, but one that has derailed Géza's efforts all the same. Géza is a no-nonsense veteran of conflicts in Bosnia, but he's at his limit with this investigation and he'll have to learn to trust and confide in Hermann's mentalist methods and knowledge of the occult if the investigation, and his career, are to be saved. The current owners of Schattenturm, the Baum family, acquired the castle under unscrupulous circumstances after establishing a coal mine in the town nearby that exploits the locals and robs the countryside of its peace and beauty. The displaced aristocratic owners, the von Voitsbergs, are still very much a factor in the estate's realm. Hundreds of years of ownership and rule over the area are not easily forgotten, nor has the loss of their dark romantic home been amicably accepted. A handful of long-term servants know everyone's secrets and are willing to take them to the grave, though not necessarily to their own. What lies beneath the black stones of Schattenturm, from the catacombs of the von Voitsberg crypt to terrible acts kept secret for decades, has destroyed lives. The secrets uncovered and the nature of the victim will shake Hermann and the readers, forcing them to question the morality of murder itself and whether some crimes should ever be forgiven.
Download or read book The World Goes On Third Edition written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”
Download or read book The Broken House written by Horst Krüger and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary Mantel Twenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, people lived ordinary lives, believed in God, obeyed the law, and were gradually seduced by the promises of Nazism. He had been 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. With tragic inevitability, this world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble. Written in accomplished prose of lingering beauty, The Broken House is a moving coming-of-age story that provides a searing portrait of life under the Nazis.
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Year Round written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reader s Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Download or read book Secret Weapons of World War II written by William B. Breuer and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Acclaim for Secret Weapons of World War II "Breuer has produced yet another collection of rip-roaring tales. . . . A delightful addition to the niche that Breuer has so successfully carved out." -Publishers Weekly "It is Breuer's portrayal of the competition for technological superiority between the Allies and the Nazis that grabs the reader and shows the significance of each wartime discovery and invention." -State Journal-Register, Springfield, Illinois In the fast-paced, suspenseful Secret Weapons of World War II, noted military historian William Breuer chronicles the clandestine battle that occurred between the brilliant scientists and codebreakers of the Allies and the Axis powers. Re-creating the covert missions, hoaxes, spying, conspiracies, and electronic sleuthing, Breuer deftly uncovers the spectacular feats of the fascinating men and women who determined the outcome of the war-providing an unprecedented look at the least-known operations and plots conducted by both sides.
Download or read book The Mystery of God Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament written by Christopher Rowland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the perspectives of apocalypticism and early Jewish mysticism to illuminate the New Testament. The first part explores the importance of apocalypticism across the whole of the New Testament, and the second part the relevance of Jewish mystical to the New Testament.
Download or read book Animation Under the Swastika written by Rolf Giesen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives. They adored animation and their influence on German animation after World War II continues to this day. This study explores Hitler and Goebbels' efforts to establish a German cartoon industry to rival Walt Disney's and their love-hate relationship with American producers, whose films they studied behind locked doors. Despite their ambitious dream, all that remains of their efforts are a few cartoon shorts--advertising and puppet films starring dogs, cats, birds, hedgehogs, insects, Teutonic dwarves, and other fairy-tale ensemble. While these pieces do not hold much propaganda value, they perfectly illustrate Hannah Arendt's controversial description of those who perpetrated the Holocaust: the banality of evil.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-12-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book An Everlasting Name written by Maoz Azaryahu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-growing interest in cultural memory has generated an impressive body of academic literature on public commemoration, but not enough attention has been paid until now to the power and appeal of names to transcend death. This book is the first to investigates onymic commemoration as a technology of immortality. Bringing together issues as diverse as casualty lists on public display and honorific street-names, the inquiry expands on the commemorative capacity of an “everlasting name” as a site of remembrance. It explores how notions about names, being, fame and an afterlife have coalesced into prestigious and time-honored commemorative practices and traditions that demonstrate the cultural power of an “everlasting name” to confer immortality through remembrance. By linking ancient traditions and modern practices, this book offers a cross-cultural analysis of onymic commemoration that is broad in scope and covers a wide time frame, encompassing diverse historical periods, cultural contexts and geopolitical settings.
Download or read book The Victims at the Berlin Wall 1961 1989 written by Hans-Hermann Hertle and published by Ch. Links Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many deaths at the Berlin Wall have been publicized over the years in the media, the number, identity and fate of the victims still remain largely unknown. This handbook changes this by answering the following questions: How many people actually died at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989? Who were these people? How did they die? How were their relatives and their friends treated after their deaths? What public and political reactions were triggered in the East and the West by these fatalities? What were the consequences for the border guards who pulled the trigger and the military and political leaders who gave them their orders after the East German border regime collapsed and the Wall fell? How have the victims been commemorated since their deaths? By documenting the lives and circumstances under which these men and women died at the Wall, these deaths are placed in a contemporary historical context. The authors, in addition to systematically researching the relevant archives and examining all the legal proceedings and Stasi documents, also conducted interviews with family members and contemporary witnesses.
Download or read book Seiobo There Below written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The latest novel from “the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) Seiobo — a Japanese goddess — has a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every three thousand years: its fruit brings immortality. In Seiobo There Below, we see her returning again and again to mortal realms, searching for a glimpse of perfection. Beauty, in Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleetingly, the sacred — even if we are mostly unable to bear it. Seiobo shows us an ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan’s most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.… Over these scenes and more — structured by the Fibonacci sequence — Seiobo hovers, watching it all.
Download or read book Trade Policy between Law Diplomacy and Scholarship written by Christoph Herrmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 22 topical contributions on international trade law and policy, with a particular focus on EU external trade law, addressing countries ranging from Ukraine to Switzerland and the US (TTIP) and aspects from trade and IPRs to anti-dumping. The volume constitutes a state-of-the-art treatment of the many facets of trade policy in the 21st century from legal, diplomatic and academic standpoints. The book is dedicated to the memory of Horst Günter Krenzler, former Director General for External Relations for the European Commission and Chief Negotiator for the European Union in many trade negotiations, honorary professor of European Union law at the University of Munich and an of counsel with Freshfields' Brussels office after retirement from the Commission.
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Download or read book The New Underworld Order Triumph of Criminalism the Global Hegemony of Masonic Intelligence written by Christopher Story and published by Stranger Journalism. This book was released on 2006 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
