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Book Doomsday in Pompeii

Download or read book Doomsday in Pompeii written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2015 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focus on the Family, Adventures in Odyssey."

Book The Last Days of Pompeii

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria C. Gardner Coates
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1606061151
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past, however, the authors of The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection explore Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Through cultural appropriation and projection, outstanding visual and literary artists of the last three centuries have made the ancient catastrophe their own, expressing contemporary concerns in diverse media--from paintings, prints, and sculpture, to theatrical performances, photography, and film. This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chass�riau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dal�, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol--surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection. Decadence investigates the perception of Pompeii as a site of impending and well-deserved doom due to the excesses of the ancient Romans, such as paganism, licentiousness, greed, gluttony, and violence. The catastrophic demise of the Vesuvian sites has become inexorably linked with the understanding of antiquity, turning Pompeii into a fundamental allegory for Apocalypse, to which all subsequent disasters (natural or man-made) are related, from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Resurrection examines how Pompeii and the Vesuvian cities have been reincarnated in modern guise through both scientific archaeology and fantasy, as each successive cultural reality superimposed its values and ideas on the distant past. An exhibition of the same name will be on view at the Getty Villa from September 12, 2012, through January 7, 2013; at the Cleveland Museum of Art from February 24 through May 19, 2013; and at the Mus�e national des beaux-arts du Qu�bec from June 13 through November 8, 2013.

Book Imagination Station Books 3 Pack  Doomsday in Pompeii   In Fear of the Spear   Trouble on the Orphan Train

Download or read book Imagination Station Books 3 Pack Doomsday in Pompeii In Fear of the Spear Trouble on the Orphan Train written by Marianne Hering and published by Imagination Station Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 900,000 copies sold in the series When they step into the Imagination Station, kids experience an unforgettable journey filled with action-packed adventure to inspire their imaginations. With each book, they're whisked away with cousins Patrick and Beth to embark on a new journey around the world and back in time. This 3-pack of books 16-18 includes the following: Doomsday in Pompeii, In Fear of the Spear, and Trouble on the Orphan Train. #16 Doomsday in Pompeii: It's the hottest adventure yet When Patrick takes a trip alone in the Imagination Station for science project research, things get a little explosive. First, his cousin Beth gets angry that she was left behind. Second, Eugene Meltsner sees red when he realizes that Patrick went to Pompeii in 79 A.D. a day before Mount Vesuvius erupts It doesn't help that the Imagination Station is on the blink and Whit has gone missing. As Beth and Eugene frantically try to find a way fix the machine, Patrick learns a few things about volcanoes: it's not the lava that comes first, it's poisonous gas. Will Eugene be able to reprogram the Imagination Station and send Beth to help Patrick? And what will happen to Patrick's new friends--a preacher, a looter, and a stray dog? Find out in Doomsday in Pompeii #17 In Fear of the Spear: Patrick and Beth have escaped from volcano lava only to be separated again, and no one knows exactly where Beth has gone. Eugene and Patrick frantically try to fix the Imagination Station so they can find Beth, who unbeknownst to them has landed in the Amazon jungle. Will Patrick find Beth? Will Eugene be able to fix the broken Imagination Station? What will happen to the strange man with the spear in his side? Find out in the latest Imagination Station adventure #18 Trouble on the Orphan Train: Patrick and Beth arrive on an orphan train, heading west. They befriend an orphan who is falsely accused of being part of a train robbery. No one will adopt the child. Patrick and Beth stay with their new friend until the end of the line. All the while, they search for Eugene, who is missing somewhere in time.

Book Showdown with the Shepherd

Download or read book Showdown with the Shepherd written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! The key to adventure lies within your imagination! Cousins Patrick and Beth go to the Holy Land in the tenth century BC. Their goal is to get back the ring Hugh stole and return him to 1450s England where he belongs. But troubles await them as soon as they step out of the Imagination Station. First they meet an angry bear and later an angry giant. Set against the backdrop of the David and Goliath story, the cousins learn that having a giant faith is more important than having a giant on your side.

Book The Last Days of Pompeii

Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Lord Lytton and published by . This book was released on with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Problems in Plymouth

Download or read book Problems in Plymouth written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! The Imagination Station Adventures continue! Patrick and Beth’s next adventure leads them to Plymouth Plantation in 1621. There they meet William Bradford, Miles Standish, and Chief Massasoit, who are trying to establish peace between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Things are anything but peaceful, however, when a musket is stolen and the Pilgrims conclude the Indians are planning war. Only Patrick and Beth know who the real thief is—the traitor Hugh—and it’s up to the cousins to find him and stop him from causing trouble. When the cousins hear a gunshot during the first Thanksgiving feast, their worst fears are realized. They rush to the Mayflower and try to set right history, even as Hugh desperately tries to change it.

Book The Last Days of Pompeii

Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written on the rectos of 180 p. (MA 247) and 131 p. (MA 248), containing the following portions of the novel: Book I, chapters 5, 8; Book II, chapters 4, 5, 9; Book III, chapters 2, 3; Book V, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and last. With revisions and corrections throughout. MA 247 is followed by four blank leaves. MA 248 contains two additional leaves at end with notes relating to the provenance of the manuscript.

Book Trouble on the Orphan Train

Download or read book Trouble on the Orphan Train written by Marianne Hering and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! When they step into the Imagination Station, kids experience an unforgettable journey filled with action-packed adventure. With each book, they’re whisked away with cousins Patrick and Beth to embark on a new journey around the world and back in time. This easy-to-read adventure is number 18 in the successful series that has now sold over 450,000 books in the series. Patrick and Beth arrive on an orphan train, heading west. They befriend an orphan who is falsely accused of being part of a train robbery. No one will adopt the child. Patrick and Beth stay with their new friend until the end of the line. All the while, they search for Eugene, who is missing somewhere in time.

Book Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Download or read book Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum written by Paul Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. In this book, the author brings the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum back to life from the ashes and ruins of their own homes.

Book Battle for Cannibal Island

Download or read book Battle for Cannibal Island written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! It’s 1852 and cousins Patrick and Beth sail to Fiji on the HMS Calliope under the command of Captain James E. Home. They arrive at the islands to find that the Christian Fijians are at war with the non-Christian Fijians. Missionary James Calvert is trying to make peace and suggests that the captain allow peace negotiations on board the British vessel. Patrick and Beth learn about sacrificial living when they observe Calvert’s determination to live on Fiji despite the dangers and impoverished conditions and that he is willing to risk his life to live as Jesus would.

Book Bodies from the Ash

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  • Author : James M. Deem
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-01
  • ISBN : 9780605019973
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Bodies from the Ash written by James M. Deem and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Days of Pompeii

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-05-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Amongst the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome, our protagonist nobleman Glaucus sets events in motion that culminate in love, jealousy and destruction.

Book Follow Me To

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  • Author : Murad Osmann
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-01-06
  • ISBN : 1629149551
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Follow Me To written by Murad Osmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Follow Me project was created in 2012 based on the concept of showing the beauty and uniqueness of different locations around the world. It is a story told through the eyes of two ordinary travelers who attempt to portray local lifestyles and narratives by means of photography. Since the project’s launch on Instagram, it has become a worldwide Internet sensation, emerging as a leading news feature and gathering millions of views on social media and the news sites that covered it. In each stunning image, photographer Murad Osmann is led to a new location by his girlfriend, Nataly Zakharova. These images remind us that in the hustle and bustle of daily life, we so often forget to stop and appreciate the things that surround us—the historical and architectural heritage left to us by our ancestors. Readers join Osmann from the point of view of the main character and are taken on a journey to different historical and cultural sites. The project aims to acquaint readers with different lifestyles. For Osmann and Zakharova, this theme seems infinite, as there are an endless number of places to visit on our planet. Paging through the book, readers will be invited to see something familiar to them from another point of view, via the lens of Osmann’s camera. Follow Zakharova and Osmann on a trip around the world, through such locations as Moscow, Madrid, Ibiza, Hong Kong, New York, and London.

Book The Last Days of Pompeii

    Book Details:
  • Author : Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Days of Pompeii

Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and published by Librofilio. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time to ancient Pompeii with "The Last Days of Pompeii" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a captivating and thrilling historical novel. Immerse yourself in a tale of love, intrigue, and tragedy at the heart of a city on the verge of being buried by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius. In this enchanting narrative, you will meet Nydia, a blind slave with a tragic fate, Glaucus, a Roman nobleman, and Ione, a priestess of Isis. Their lives intersect in a complex web of love, jealousy, and conspiracies as Pompeii prepares for its imminent fall. Edward Bulwer-Lytton takes you on an epic journey through ancient Rome, allowing you to discover the customs, beliefs, and struggles of this fascinating era. His descriptive and immersive writing transports you to the heart of this flourishing Roman city, enabling you to feel the intense emotions of its characters. "The Last Days of Pompeii" is a literary classic that has captivated readers since its publication. This novel offers a perfect blend of history, romance, and drama, all against the backdrop of an impending catastrophe. Dive into this captivating story and be carried away by the vibrant atmosphere and thrilling twists of "The Last Days of Pompeii". This book is a must-read for anyone passionate about history, adventure, and intense storytelling. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was a British writer and politician. He is known for his popular novels of the 19th century, such as "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834) and "Zanoni" (1842). Bulwer-Lytton was also a member of the British Parliament and held ministerial positions. His writing style was often characterized by romanticism and a passion for the occult. He is famous for the opening line of his novel "Paul Clifford" (1830): "It was a dark and stormy night." Bulwer-Lytton left a lasting mark on 19th-century literature.

Book Pompeii s Living Statues

Download or read book Pompeii s Living Statues written by Eugene J. Dwyer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption

Book Surprise at Yorktown

Download or read book Surprise at Yorktown written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! Travel two centuries back in time to the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown, Virginia. Cousins Patrick and Beth sneak through trenches and race across battlefields to warn General George Washington about a dangerous spy. The spy is stealing his secret plans and giving them to the British. Cannons roar and the ground shakes as the struggle reaches a climax. Washington’s ragtag soldiers are up against the most powerful army in the world. Will Patrick and Beth witness the American Revolution come to an end? Or will they be caught in a dangerous trap they can’t escape?