Download or read book Night Masks written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.A. Salvatore's The Cleric Quintet tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of Faerûn. The assassins of the Night Masks stalk the shadowy streets of the city of Carradoon, led by the sinister killer known as Ghost. Cadderly struggles against the dreaded Chaos Curse in these dark, evil-haunted alleyways, with a silent death around every corner. From the Paperback edition.
Download or read book Night of Masks written by Andre Norton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of interplanetary war, a disfigured loner is given a chance at a new life—but at a steep cost, in this novel from “a superb storyteller” (The New York Times). Disfigured in the wars that destroyed his planet, Nik Kolherne lives a shadow existence in the sprawling refugee ghetto of the Dipple. He wears a mask to cover his scars and dreams about another country under an unfettered blue sky and a warm sun. But a chance encounter gives him the opportunity for a new face—and a new life. All he has to do is impersonate a young boy’s fantasy hero. So what if Nik is now allied with the Thieves’ Guild, a subversive outlaw group that seeks their prey on loosely held frontier worlds? A kid all alone in the world could use an ally. His mission is to lure Vandy Naudhin i’Akrama, the young son of a powerful warlord, from his high-security villa and deliver him to the Guild so they can access critical information locked in his brain. But when Nik and Vandy are shipped off to Dis, a burned-out wasteland of a planet, Nik realizes he’s a pawn in a spiraling web of political intrigue and intergalactic evil that threatens both their lives.
Download or read book Race into the Night written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the PJ Masks with their super-cool vehicles! Go along for the ride in this tabbed board book. Whether they’re protecting the city, saving the sky, or guarding Mystery Mountain, the PJ Masks have the perfect vehicle. Now readers can learn all about the Owl Glider, Cat-Car, Gekko-Mobile, and their new upgrades as well as brand-new vehicles like the PJ Air Jet! © 2021 FrogBox/Ent. One UK Ltd/Hasbro
Download or read book The Cleric Quintet written by R. A. Salvatore and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five popular novels featuring Cadderly, the heroic scholar priest, come together in a giant omnibus edition that includes Canticle, In Sylvan Shadows, Night Masks, The Fallen Fortress, and The Chaos Curse. Reprint.
Download or read book Shrouds of the Night written by David L. Block and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milky Way has captivated the mind of multitudes ever since the beginning of time. Particularly striking are its apparent dusty gaping voids. With the advent of near-infrared technology, astronomers have discovered an awesome new view of its structure, and of the structure of other galaxies around us. Galaxies are encased within Shrouds of the Night: shrouds or veils of cosmic dust, which have given us a totally incomplete picture of what our majestic Universe actually looks like. In this book, we feature some of the remarkable early photographic work of masters such as Isaac Roberts and Edward Barnard, before presenting to the reader the unmasked (dust penetrated) view of our cosmos, using some of the world’s largest ground and space-based telescopes.
Download or read book Neverwinter Nights written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pj Masks Explore the Night Look and Find written by Pi Kids and published by Pi Kids. This book was released on 2020 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't need Super Owl Eyes to find the things in this book! Help the PJ Masks protect the city by finding hidden objects in 8 shadowy scenes. Then, turn to the end of the book for even more Look and Find challenges!
Download or read book Masquerades written by Kate Novak and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her hometown is overtaken by a crime syndicate, the daughter of a disgraced Harper agent fights to free the local merchants from their underground overlords When Alias crosses swords with the underlings of the cunning, heartless lord of Westgate’s criminal guild—known only as the Faceless—he vows to destroy her. Accepting the challenge to rid Westgate of the maleficent Night Masks, Alias gathers old allies and new: the saurial paladin Dragonbait, the halfling Olive Ruskettle, the street performer Jamal, the sage Mintassan, and the charismatic Victor Dhostar, son of Westgate’s governing official. Yet even as Alias thwarts the nefarious efforts of the Night Masks, she becomes ever more entangled in the web woven by The Faceless—a web whose silken threads are spun from intrigue, political machinations, and murder. Masquerades is the tenth book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.
Download or read book Into the Night to Save the Day written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go into the night to save the day with Catboy, Owlette, and Gekko in this 8x8 storybook based on PJ Masks, the hit preschool series airing on Disney Junior! It’s a Cat-astrophe! When Romeo kidnaps Amaya and Greg and steals their pajamas, it’s up to Catboy to save his friends! But can Catboy do it on his own, or will it take teamwork to save the day? PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014
Download or read book Good Night Heroes written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of PJ Masks will love winding down and getting ready for bedtime with this deluxe storybook. Bedtime is the right time for storytime! See the PJ Masks go into the night to save the day and defeat all three nighttime villains. At the end of this busy night, these heroes sure are tired! Little ones will be inspired to go to bed after reading this fun storybook. PJ Masks © Frog Box / Entertainment One UK Limited / Walt Disney EMEA Productions Limited 2014
Download or read book In Step with the Times written by Paolo Israel and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozamxadbique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition throughout the twentieth century. Based on field research spanning seven years, this study shows how mapiko has undergone continuous reinvention by visionary individuals, has diversified into genres with broad generational appeal, and has enacted historical events and political engagements. This dense history of creativity and change has been sustained by a culture of competition deeply ingrained within the logic of ritual itself. The desire to outshine rivals on the dance ground drives performers to search for the new, the astonishing, and the topical. It is this spirit of rivalry and one-upmanship that keeps mapiko attuned to the times that it traverses. In Step with the Times is illustrated with vibrant photographs of mapiko masks and performances. It marks the most radical attempt to date to historicize an African performative tradition.
Download or read book The Intestines of the State written by Nicolas Argenti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today’s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the present, Argenti pays special attention to the repeated violent revolts staged by young victims of political oppression. He then combines this history with extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Oku chiefdom, discovering that the specter of past violence lives on in the masked dance performances that have earned intense devotion from today’s youth. Argenti contends that by evoking the imagery of past cataclysmic events, these masquerades allow young Oku men and women to address the inequities they face in their relations with elders and state authorities today.
Download or read book The G l d Spectacle written by Babatunde Lawal and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba and has taken an active part in Gelede. He writes from the perspective of an informed participant/observer of his own culture. Lawal bases his book on extensive field research--observations and interviews--conducted over more than two decades as well as on numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources. He casts significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede, and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach to the study of non-Western art. The book systematically covers the major aspects of the Gelede spectacle, presenting its cultural background and historical origins as preface to a vivid and detailed description of an actual performance. This is followed by a discussion of the iconography and aesthetics of costume, and an examination of the sculpted images on the masks. The book concludes with a discussion of the moral and aesthetic philosophy of Gelede and its responsiveness to technological and social change. The Gelede Spectacle is illustrated in color and black-and-white with over 100 field and museum photographs, including a rare sequence on the dressing of a masquerader. It offers, in addition, more than 60 Gelede song texts, proverbs, and divination verses, each in the original Yoruba as well as in translation. Lawal's interpretations of these pieces indicate the rich complexities of metaphor and analogy inherent in the Yoruba language and art.
Download or read book Stravaganza written by Mary Hoffman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she purchases a tiny figurine of a winged horse, Georgia's life is greatly altered as this talisman has the power to take her back to different periods in time and away from the chaos in which she lives, such as the land of Remora where the excitement of the Stellata, the annual horse race, has brought the city to life. Reprint.
Download or read book 80 Recipes For Beauty Face Masks written by Evelyn and published by Evaggelia Karageorgi. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book I tried to create a useful guide where you will find not only a list of face mask recipes, but also all the information you need to create your own.That’s right! No one can actually cover all the combinations, they are probably unlimited. Wouldn’t it be much more convenient to combine ingredients and make your own recipes? This is why I included two lists at the end of the book. The first one is a list of several skin problems and needs; at least the most common. Next to each skin issue, you will find some ingredients with the suitable properties. For example: Puffy eyes: cucumber, chamomile, avocado. This way, you can easily find what meets your special needs. Next, follows another list, which includes the ingredients that have been used in the recipes in this book. Next to each ingredient you will find some of their most beneficial nutrients, as well as how they benefit the skin; Easy, quick, economic and most of all: natural and safe! After all, could you apply on your face something safer than your food?
Download or read book Mask Makers and Their Craft written by Deborah Bell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiling 30 mask makers from around the world, this book explores the motivations and challenges of contemporary artists working to bring the traditional methods and conventions of mask making to an evolving global theatre. There are 181 photographs--including two sections of color plates--which illustrate how the mythic iconography of masks is used in the modern fields of dance, mime, theatre and storytelling. Topics include the ways in which mask artists and performers maintain a sense of universality despite varying local customs; the legacies of Italian mask makers Amleto and Donato Sartori and of the California-based Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre; and the ways in which traditional approaches in mask artistry continue to influence commercial mask performance ventures in film, on Broadway, and in touring companies.
Download or read book GameAxis Unwired written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GameAxis Unwired is a magazine dedicated to bring you the latest news, previews, reviews and events around the world and close to you. Every month rain or shine, our team of dedicated editors (and hardcore gamers!) put themselves in the line of fire to bring you news, previews and other things you will want to know.
