Download or read book The Mask Maker written by Diane Glancy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mixed-blood American Indian woman, divorcTe Edith Lewis travels to Oklahoma to teach children the art and custom of mask-making and discovers new meaning in her life. (General Fiction)

Download or read book Broken Shadows written by Jani Ojala and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2030s are here. A new decade commences for the casts of The Coleman Stories, Overbite and Oulunsalo Fiction. Old world's magics, that allowed life's delicate balance to exist for a moonage, revolt against mankind's excess. Sammy Sieppi's boss, Sandking has a recluse younger brother Maskmaker, whom has stolen the answer to one of life's quintessential questions: "what happens after we die?". The Absolution-Spear's foul abuse in the hands of the Marston dynasty, gets Shotimamimu the dream-owl talking, only unto the chosen few who can see him upon appearance. While this is going on, an experimental life-force declares hunting-season in the Siberian region of Yakutia, Russia. A force so grand-standingly unstoppabe, people have no choice but to try to understand and work around Nair, lest they become prey to him. Nothing will stop the six-meter wolf. Markus Leinonen goes for his first overseas trip with a friend, leaving Tiia alone with an owl in her dreams. Viktor has bought back Ouluinsalo, and is set in his ways running the town... until Ivan calls him about a beast in the East. The final Colemans are still looking for a place in the world that'll have them. Sammy SIeppi comes back from prison and his boss is now an old, legacy-obsessed man ruling New York's post-apocalyptic world of organized crime from a lonely castle. The Soisalo-family are set in their ways and best-selling author Petri wants to discover new horizon in the West. Eemeli Kangas' owl-dreams get merged with those of a woman living in the same town and the two discover a life-changing truth about a clan of astral seers that operate from a place man cannot tread. As life goes on and a new era commences, awareness of Maskmaker forces folk to ask some difficult questions about their lives. His demeaning life-story about a perpetual second place to a brother that has claimed his place as King... has driven the 66-year-old Marston-brother into a life of monstrous abuse. Of existential proportions. As long as the blade in his necklace has a pulse, the ink will never dry from his curated stories.

Download or read book The Road to Science Fiction From here to forever written by James E. Gunn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in Paperback The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classrooms in the late 1970s, these volumes became mass-market sellers. Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 these and other key works are gathered together for the first time in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction. Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline.

Download or read book Iroquois Masks and Maskmaking at Onondaga written by Jean Clare Hendry and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faces of Your Soul written by Elise Dirlam Ching and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Faces of Your Soul, Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching combine art and archetypes, meditation and acupressure, guided imagery, journaling, and many different creative processes in a collage of healing knowledge and wisdom. The authors start by stressing the balance of complementary opposites—left brain/right brain, challenge/comfort, practicality/the sacred—as crucial to beginning the journey. Then through guided imagery, they lead readers through subconscious realms to connect with archetypal sources of inner wisdom. This process frees the creative and healing spirit, connecting explorers with the body's instinctive intelligence, which expresses itself through the creation of art. Central to this process is a detailed description of maskmaking—including how to work with a partner to mold each other's gauze mask—balanced with self-explorations of the inner experience of this event. Poetry, personal stories, photographs, and a gallery of Kaleo Ching's evocative totemic masks expand the reader's experience of this richly resonant journey to self.

Download or read book Maskmaker written by Jane Johnson and published by Marion Lloyd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamie Wave is an ordinary boy, not particularly big or brave or clever. He knows a lot of jokes and he's good at making masks. But he will need all the talent he can muster when a sinister Maskmaker forces him to enter a dangerous faraway world. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Download or read book Masks written by E. C. Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When something goes horribly wrong during her traditional "Masking" ceremony in the magical world of Aygrima, Mara Holdfast must discover what happened before she is doomed to work as a slave in the mines for the rest of her life.

Download or read book Masks written by John Vornholt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enterprise™ journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. There, Captain Picard and an away team begin a quest for the planet's ruler and the great Wisdom Mask that the leader traditionally wears. Their mission: establish diplomatic relations. But Picard and his party lose contact with the ship, and Commander Riker leads a search party down to the planet to find them. Both men are unaware that their searchs are part of a madman's plan. A madman who is setting a trap that will ensnare both landing parties, and leave him poised to seize control of the awesome Wisdom Mask... And the planet Lorca itself.

Download or read book Lost Gods Summoners Book Two written by A.M. Yates and published by A.M. Yates. This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost her mother. Lost her home. Lost her destiny. Now Josie Day is about to lose the one bright light that has kept her from plunging into total darkness—a summoner hidden behind a mask of fire. Though she unmasked her mother’s murderer, revealing the traitor within her tribe, the threats keep coming. Her new power is linked to a forbidding prophecy. Death lurks in every pathway. A wolf prowls the city streets. As Josie struggles to find her way in her new home, her new life, and her new destiny, she will finally uncover another face shrouded behind the mask of a god. And she will lose even more. The sequel to Minor Gods Keywords: YA, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, teen, series, gods, goddess, magic, YA paranormal series, young adult books, teen books, best books for teens, best teen books series, teenager books, best books for teenagers, young adults, teen romance books, romance, fantasy books, young adult romance books, young adults book series, young adults fantasy books, fantasy book series, teenager

Download or read book Faces written by E. C. Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final novel in EC Blake's dystopian fantasy trilogy, The Masks of Aygrima The Masks of Aygrima is set in a land where people are forced to wear spell-imbued Masks that reveal any traitorous thoughts they have about their ruler, the Autarch. Mara Holdfast is a young woman gifted with the ability to see and use all the colors of magic. Two other people share this talent: the Autarch, who draws upon the very life-force of his subjects to fuel his existence and retain his control over the kingdom; and the legendary Lady of Pain and Fire, the only person who has ever truly challenged the Autarch’s despotic reign. After a devastating battle that takes a dreadful toll on both the rebel unMasked Army and the forces of Prince Chell, their ally from across the sea, Mara and her fellow survivors have no one to turn to for help but the Lady of Pain and Fire. As the Lady leads them to her haven beyond the mountain borders of the kingdom, Mara feels that she has found the one person who truly understands her, a mentor who can teach her to control and use her power for the greater good. Together, they may be able to at last free Agryma from the Autarch’s rule. Living within the Lady’s castle, cut off from her friends in the village far below, Mara immerses herself in her training. Still, she can’t entirely escape from hearing dark hints about the Lady, rumors that the Lady may, in her own way, be as ruthless as the Autarch himself. Yet it is not until they begin their campaign against the Autarch that Mara discovers where the real danger lies. Driven by the Lady’s thirst for revenge, will Mara and all her friends fall victim in a duel to the death between two masters of magic?

Download or read book Japanese Biographical Index written by and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Japanische Biographische Index verzeichnet in drei Bänden die 86.800 im Japanischen Biographischen Archiv enthaltenen Persönlichkeiten und erschließt 127.000 biographische Einträge aus 77 Quellenwerken in 178 Bänden, erschienen zwischen 1646 und 1998.

Download or read book Crafting Identity written by Pavel Shlossberg and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how dominant institutions of cultural production (art, media, and tourism) mediate Mexican “arte popular,” which makes Mexican indigeneity “digestible” from the standpoint of elite and popular Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore. The first ethnographic study of its kind, the book examines how indigenous and mestizo mask makers, both popular and elite, view and contest relations of power and inequality through their craft. Using data from his interviews with mask makers, collectors, museum curators, editors, and others, Pavel Shlossberg places the artisans within the larger context of their relationships with the nation-state and Mexican elites, as well as with the production cultures that inform international arts and crafts markets. In exploring the connection of mask making to capitalism, the book examines the symbolic and material pressures brought to bear on Mexican artisans to embody and enact self-racializing stereotypes and the performance of stigmatized indigenous identities. Shlossberg’s weaving of ethnographic data and cultural theory demystifies the way mask makers ascribe meaning to their practices and illuminates how these practices are influenced by state and cultural institutions. Demonstrating how the practice of mask making negotiates ethnoracial identity with regard to the Mexican state and the United States, Shlossberg shows how it derives meaning, value, and economic worth in the eyes of the state and cultural institutions that mediate between the mask maker and the market.

Download or read book The Mask Maker written by Ken Ulano and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmastime 2017, and the only thing the psychotic, but born with once-in-a-lifetime genius, ALBERT JOHNSON, wants is JILL PHILLIPS, the woman fueling his erotomania. The man screaming in the trunk of the Aston Martin heading into the Appalachian Mountains is how he plans to get her. When mutilated remains are discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Baltimore New Year's Day, DETECTIVES GARY ANDERSON and his partner, ANGELA OBONAUCH, are assigned the case. Gary believes it's the work of CARLOS DEGA, a gang leader who recently escaped from jail. Having spent his childhood abused and locked away in a shack of a home in rural Maryland, Albert's life completely derails when at eleven his father murders his mother in front of him. At sixteen, his dad's poor health forces the dysfunctional teen to seek employment, finding a janitorial position in Baltimore. Years later, he's staffed at a biopharmaceutical company where he fortuitously discovers research on advanced face transplants, allowing him to learn to perform them, even on himself, all the while scheming to kill Jill's husband and take his place. VICTOR ORTEGA, second in command of a gang named the Scorpions, taunted and mistreated Albert for years while working with him as a custodian at the same company as a means to cover up his criminal involvement. He pushes Albert to a breaking point and he kills Victor and his brother in ghastly fashion. When Carlos doesn't hear from Victor, he sends out a party of his men who go missing, too. Shortly thereafter, Albert transplants Jill's husband's face onto his own and shows up at her house, insisting the lights remain off while speaking little. The flustered and surprised Jill ultimately gives into the strangeness of the night despite feeling something's amiss because she'd been under the impression her husband was away on business. Hours later, she confirms her suspicions and sneaks off to the hospital where she learns her husband's been murdered and the imposter who raped her is related to her. Albert, upon returning home after his night with Jill, finds other gang members waiting for him and summarily kills them, too. He goes on the lam and sets up camp and a makeshift lab in the Appalachian Mountains where he transplants an officer's face onto his in order to kidnap Gary's girlfriend, GABBY MICHAELS, believing she's the bargaining chip to get Jill and gain safe passage. But Albert's scheme goes awry because he's too preoccupied with the persistent Carlos to notice Gary isn't following instructions. Unbeknownst to anyone, Angela's husband, CIA operative, DAVID OBONAUCH, has been tracking Carlos since locating him sometime after he escapes from prison. The inevitable confrontation on a dreary, blustery day between Gary, Carlos, David and Albert ultimately ends in Albert being shot and plunging from atop Blackwater Falls-the body's not immediately found, and Jill who lost so much, particularly her identity, leaves her family and life in Baltimore to go somewhere and try to make sense of it all.

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Download or read book Mediums and Magical Things written by Laurel Kendall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statues, paintings, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums who tend and use them in contemporary South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bali, and elsewhere in Asia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts.

Download or read book 64 to 256 megabit Reticle Generation written by Gregory K. Hearn and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mask maker written by 岡本綺堂 and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the playwright's most successful short plays is Shuzen-ji Monogatari, or Taleof the Shuzen temple, often referred to as The mask-maker.