Download or read book Death s Dancer written by Jasmine Silvera and published by No Inside Voice LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isela Vogel has the power to attract the favor of the gods for anyone who can pay her fee but struggles to hide the degenerative hip condition that will end her career. Then she’s offered a job that will set her and her family up for life. Though her prospective patron is a formidable necromancer with a heated and infuriating gaze, she can hardly refuse the payday. The Allegiance of Necromancers is powerful but not omnipotent, and when someone starts murdering his kind, Azrael must enlist a human godsdancer in order to track down the killer. But why does she have to be so frustratingly stubborn—and intriguing? Azrael can make the dead walk, but he can’t make the very much alive Isela toe any line. Isela is thrown into a world of supernatural creatures—demons after dark, witches in the shadows, shifters running wild in city parks—where the grace of gods can truly infuse the blood of the most mortal-seeming dancer. As the danger increases with each thrilling discovery, trusting Azrael may be the only way to survive a conspiracy to destroy the fragile peace of a broken world. But the greatest threat is their growing attraction. Dancers and necromancers don’t mix for a reason—and death is the least of their worries. Journey to the magical streets of Prague in an alternate present-day thriller for lovers of romantic urban fantasy.
Download or read book The Death of All Things written by Faith Hunter and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade. No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins. Or does it? Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-one writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the mythical, fantastical, and futuristic bonds between life and death. Learn the cost of mortality, the perils—and joys—of the afterlife, and the potential pitfalls of immortality... Featuring stories from: K. M. Laney, Andrea Mullen, Faith Hunter, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Jason M. Hough, Julie Pitzel, Shaun Avery, Christie Golden, Leah Cutter, Aliette de Bodard, Andrew Dunlop, A. Merc Rustad, Ville Meriläinen, Amanda Kespohl, Mack Moyer, Fran Wilde, Kathryn McBride, Andrija Popovic, Jim C. Hines, Stephen Blackmoore, and Kiya Nicoll.
Download or read book The Closed Space written by Manuel Aguirre and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has always been far more engrossed by problems of origins than by those of decline and fall. When studying any period, we are always looking for the promise of what the next is to bring. Ever since Herodotus, and earlier still the questions imposing themselves upon the mind have been concerned with the rise of families, nations, kingdoms, social forms, or ideas. So, in medieval history, we have been searching so diligently for the origins of modern culture, that at times it would seem as though what we call the Middle Ages had been little more than the prelude to the Renaissance. But in history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced. The decay of overripe forms of civilisation is as suggestive a spectacle as the growth of new ones. And it occasionally happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay. The present work deals with the history of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries regarded as a period of termination, as the close of the Middle Ages. Such a view of them presented itself to the author of this volume, whilst endeavouring to arrive at a genuine understanding of the art of the brothers van Eyck and their contemporaries, that is to say, to grasp its meaning by seeing it in connexion with the entire life of their times. Now the common feature of the various manifestations of civilisation of that epoch proved to be inherent rather in that which links them to the past than in the germs which they contain of the future. The significance, not of the artists alone, but also of theologians, poets, chroniclers, princes, and statesmen, could be best appreciated by considering them, not as the harbingers of a coming culture, but as perfecting and concluding the old.
Download or read book Majesteria written by Melanie Santorini and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Majesteria is an inspirational story about one woman’s transformation through the seven years of menopause. It’s a story about mental breakdown and recovery, about finding new purpose and falling in love. It’s about horses, and sisters, and women’s love for one another. An honest and touching spiritual memoir from one of the first female vicars in the Church of England, Majesteria offers guidance and reflections on how one woman negotiated the change of life. It’s a rollercoaster ride that takes Melanie from England to Wales to Scotland. Eventually she and her husband leave everything behind to live nine months in a motorhome in search of freedom. Wherever you are on your life’s journey, and whatever your spiritual background, this is a hope filled book to energize and invigorate.
Download or read book Emblems of Mortality written by Clayton G. MacKenzie and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our own age, the engagement with death has been discretely narrowed into a brief process of formal commemoration and burial, but in Shakespeare's time it was ritualized into the very fabric of everyday life, where the reminders of death, the journey to the grave, and the moment of expiry were all central to the cultural engagement with mortality in post-Reformation England. Inevitably, this way of seeing the world impacted the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, not only in relation to the intellectual content of the drama but with regard to its visual impressions as well. Emblems of Mortality explores the relationship between Shakespeare's theatre and popular memento mori and funereal iconography of the Renaissance, combining cultural studies and historicism with semiotic analysis of period iconography. Through close reading of Elizabethan signs and sign systems with attention to historical context, the work seeks to demonstrate the quality and intention of some of Shakespeare's theatrical designs in a way that will appeal to scholars of drama and students of Shakespeare's work.
Download or read book Gaia Connections written by Alan S. Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1991 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Miller's writing style makes the book easy to pick up and difficult to put down. Written at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduates, it is an important and valuable acquisition for academic libraries.' -s CHOICE
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Download or read book Death Dance written by Linda Fairstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigating a doctor accused of drug-facilitated sexual assaults, Manhattan Assistant DA Alex Cooper learns of the grisly death of a world-class ballerina at Lincoln Center. Fairstein's latest "New York Times" bestseller is available in a Premium Edition.
Download or read book Cameo written by Darylyn Rose and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in deep thoughts and desire of one’s true self, in dreams, in memories, in wishes. My true loyalty to God, to nature, to moving oceans centered in the mist of a black universe. Cameo, a carved seashell, pink on white, trimmed with gold. Carved by man to show a beautiful reflection of a woman. Mother, daughter, sister, and young child. I was born aside the ocean. I lived most of my life by the ocean and someday to be lain down in ashes back to the ocean. I hope you all enjoy this book of poems.
Download or read book The Art Assassin written by Albert Wang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and groundbreaking nonfiction novel, Albert Wang who is an investigative reporter in the tradition of Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer reinvents his fictional alter-ego qi peng as a Utah conceptual artist who is trying to make it into the contemporary art world, particularly New York City, from a relative unknown.This mystery novel begins with qi peng's suicide within his future and leads down a darker path into this emerging artist's sordid past as he aspires to find love and appreciation from his fellow artists/characters/celebrities... Wang's controversial reportage as an act of performance art focuses on the spiritual "murder" of the soul as a counterpart to Truman Capote's classic book, "In Cold Blood," that looks at physical murder of humans.
Download or read book African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective written by Anke Graneß and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is – at least since the 20th century if not even earlier – inherently intercultural. The aim and target of the volume is to reveal, interrogate and analyse the intercultural dimension in African philosophy, and to critically interrogate the project of an intercultural philosophy from an African perspective. This volume is the first publication that explicitly discusses African philosophy as a challenge to the project of intercultural philosophy.
Download or read book A Concordance to the English Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins written by Robert J. Dilligan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sounding Off Theorizing Disability in Music written by Neil Lerner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability, understood as culturally stigmatized bodily difference (including physical and mental impairments of all kinds), is a pervasive and permanent aspect of the human condition. While the biology of bodily difference is the proper study for science and medicine, the meaning that we attach to bodily difference is the proper study of humanists. The interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies has recently emerged to theorize social and cultural constructions of the meaning of disability. Although there has been an astonishing outpouring of humanistic work in Disability Studies in the past ten years, there has been virtually no echo in musicology or music theory. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music is the first book-length work to focus on the historical and theoretical issues of music as it relates to disability. It shows that music, like literature and the other arts, simultaneously reflects and constructs cultural attitudes toward disability. Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music promises to be a landmark study for scholars and students of music, disability, and culture.
Download or read book Mortals and Immortals written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."
Download or read book Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits Volume 5 Sociology Magic and Religion of the Western Islanders written by A. C. Haddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth in a series compiling the results of an ethnographical research expedition in the Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Borneo. Originally published in 1904, it contains information on the societies and belief structures of the indigenous peoples living in the western islands of the Strait.
