Download or read book Domesticated Magic written by Wendy Palmer and published by Winterbourne Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mateo Taurasi and his family fled their island home when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in the Vaeringan Empire...and his family still use it every day in their cosy teahouse. The last thing they need is an Imperial barging in to catch them at it. Luckily, Jonas just wants to offer them a trade deal too good to resist. As hard as he tries, Mateo begins to find the cheerfully charming Jonas too good to resist, too. But an unfairly attractive Imperial is not Mateo’s only problem. Rumours of sorcery loose in the city mean trouble for the Taurasi. With Jonas caught up in the mess, Mateo must investigate. His family already lost their world once. Mateo can’t let them lose again. Not even if it costs him the man he really wishes he didn't have feelings for. c/w: explicit transm/m sex scenes
Download or read book A Pocketful of Pets written by Jane Belk Moncure and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike enlists the help of a variety of animals to find Mama Kangaroo's baby, but they all get so sleepy they hop in Mama's pouch for a nap.
Download or read book Animal Magic written by Rieka Moonsong and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Animal Magic, unlock the magical powers, guidance, and protections offered by animals while calling on mystical animal energy with magic, spells, and meditations to strengthen your craft.
Download or read book Free Life Fantasy Online Immortal Princess Light Novel Vol 6 written by Akisuzu Nenohi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Princess has been crowned Queen of the Underworld! As a newly evolved member of royalty, she has a whole array of powers and abilities at her fingertips. But a new wrinkle is added when a fascinating immortal witch appears. She has the body of a twelve-year-old girl and the fashion sense of a Gothic Lolita--plus some top-secret info about resurrection items!
Download or read book Magic Monsters and Make Believe Heroes written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because pop culture has run out of good ideas. Rather, it is precisely because these stories are so fantastic, some resonating so deeply that we elevate them to the status of religion. Illuminating everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dungeons and Dragons, and from Drunken Master to Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today.
Download or read book Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe written by Donato Verardi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.
Download or read book The Civilization of the South American Indians with Special Reference to Magic and Religion written by Rafael Karsten and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Fantasists written by David Jasper and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-04-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oathbound written by Bastion Press, Incorporated and published by Bastion Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast red desert of Arena sprawls south and westward from the nurturing plains of Penance. Spurred onward by the ancient promise of gold buried beneath the sands, massive armies of brutal warriors rumble across the scarred and wasted terrain. For the fortunate few, the ultimate dream of Arena still comes true - immeasurable riches, supreme command, and decades of extravagant and luxurious living atop the Queen's pedestal of pleasure. For most however, whatever dreams they may harbor are soundly crushed under years of backbreaking labor, constant battle, exhausting marches, gruesome butchery, and an infinity of accursed crimson sand.For the prospective Warlord, a sea of troubled choices and impossible trials awaits. Can you lead your army to victory against the savage legions of Minos Spar, the terrible war golems of Asheanna, or the unnatural technology of Ossian? Will your hidden mine escape the attention of the flying navies of the Grand Asherake? Strategy, fortune, alliances, and leadership are your only weapons in this endless and unforgiving struggle for wealth, power, and glory.Oathbound: Arena provides a new entry point into the world of the Forge. This is the Domain of Barbello, the Mask of Fury, the invincible mistress of rage, pain, warfare, and death. Who amongst you can withstand her test?
Download or read book The Magic of Organization written by Hugo Letiche and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring magic as a creative necessity in contemporary business, this book clarifies the differences between magic as an organizational resource and magic as fakery, pretence and manipulation. Using this lens, it highlights insights into the relationship between anthropology and business, and organizational studies.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication written by Maren Hartmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media domestication – the process of appropriating new media and technology – and delves into the theoretical, conceptual and social implications of the field’s advancement. Combining the work of the long-established experts in the field with that of emerging scholars, the chapters explore both the domestication concept itself and domestication processes in a wide range of fields, from smartphones used to monitor drug use to the question of time in the domestication of energy buildings. The international team of authors provide an accessible and thorough assessment of key issues, themes and problems with and within domestication research, and showcase the most important developments over the years. This truly interdisciplinary collection will be an important resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academic scholars in media, communication and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural geography, design studies and social studies of technology. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Download or read book The Anthropology of Religion Magic and Witchcraft written by Rebecca L. Stein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective and exposes students to the complexities of religion in small-scale and complex societies. The chapters incorporate key theoretical concepts and a wide range of ethnographic material. The fifth edition of The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft offers: • a revised introduction covering the foundations of the anthropology of religion, anthropological methods, and a push toward decolonizing the anthropology of religion, • expanded coverage of symbols, healing, wizardry, and the intersections of religion with other social institutions, • new case study material with examples drawn from around the globe, especially from Indigenous communities, • marginalia in each chapter introducing provocative small-case examples related to the chapter—many of these can be used as prompts for further research, small in-class case studies, or examples for hands-on learning, • a new chapter on religion and healing, especially useful for Anthropology programs without representation of four fields, as it provides a wider and more interdisciplinary application of the discipline, • a consistent review of foundations from chapter to chapter, linking material and enabling students to connect what they are learning throughout the course, and • further resources via a comprehensive companion website, including interactive activities, critical case studies, updated study questions, bibliographical suggestions (including video), and color images. This is an essential guide for students encountering the anthropology of religion for the first time and also for those with an ongoing interest in this fascinating field.
Download or read book Magic in Western Culture written by Brian P. Copenhaver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.
Download or read book Magic Purple Lightening written by Yue RiTianXiang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day of the moon, Tianxiang had always been silent and indifferent. However, he had inadvertently obtained the divine tool, Violet Lightning. However, Violet Lightning did not approve of YueRi Tianxiang's ability. Only by working hard to become a Saint Swordsman could he become the owner of the purple lightning. That was why he had striven hard to walk the path of a Saint Swordsman from now on. This path was also gradually changing Tian Xiang's cold and detached heart ...
Download or read book The Domestication of the Savage Mind written by Jack Goody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-11-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Goody's research in West Africa resulted in finding an alternative way of thinking about 'traditional' societies.
Download or read book Princess Lucinda Black Rose of the Empire written by Malcolm Harris and published by Relentless Fiction. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Lucinda Nightbane had it all. She had servants, a loving family and magical powers. It was a perfect, life any twelve year old girl would envy…up until the rebellious forces of good and light attacked! Princess Lucinda: The Black Rose of the Empire chronicles the origin, and first adventure of everyone’s favorite wicked princess as her life is turned upside down in part one of a three part epic story of loss, revenge, and change. Issue 1 contains; • An epic 64 page comic book style story • Gallery by some of the hottest new artist around • Appendix detailing background information about Lucinda’s world and family history.
Download or read book Cord Magic written by Brandy Williams and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blessed Threads & Magic Twists Cord magic is one of the easiest and most satisfying ways to make magic. This book shows you how to quickly and effectively twist your own magical cords, with specific tips for choosing colors, setting your intention, charging the cords, and incorporating powerful knot spells. You will discover dozens of hands-on instructional worksheets and specific projects for a myriad of magical purposes, including protection, transitions, finding new love, improving your creative life, celebrating a handfasting, and many more. Author Brandy Williams also includes guidance for working with embellishments, capturing the power of astrological signs, unmaking a cord, and choosing the best materials. Cord magic is portable and versatile—you can twist a cord in a matter of minutes, whether you're at home or out in public. You can wear a magically charged cord as an accessory or simply carry one in a pocket or bag. This book explores the history of cord magic and it teaches everything you need to know about the tools and techniques you need to create your own magical twists and knots.
