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Book The Hound and the Falcon

Download or read book The Hound and the Falcon written by Judith Tarr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred of St. Ruan's Abbey is a monk and a scholar, a religious man whose vocation is beyond question. But Alfred is also, without a doubt, one of the fair folk, for though he is more than seventy years old by the Abbey's records, he seems to be only a youth. But Alfred is drawn from the haven of his monastery into his dangerous currents of politics when an ambassador from the kingdom of Rhiyana to Richard Coeur de Leon is wounded and Alfred himself is sent to complete the mission. There he encounters the Hounds of God, who believe that the fair folk have no souls, and must be purged from the Church and from the world.

Book The Hound and the Falcon

Download or read book The Hound and the Falcon written by Antonia White and published by Little, Brown Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the letters between Antonia White - a lapsed Catholic - and a former Jesuit novice. Although Antonia White returned to Church, these letters record the conflicts which preceded and followed this reconversion. They also chart the unfolding of an intimate relationship between them.

Book The Hounds of God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Tarr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-01
  • ISBN : 9780552128544
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book The Hounds of God written by Judith Tarr and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poison at the Source

Download or read book The Poison at the Source written by P. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-03-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a response to the anomalies of the rapidly changing world of the early twentieth century when opportunities for self-expression and fulfilment were beginning to open up for women but nineteenth-century values and prejudices still widely prevailed. May Sinclair, Radclyffe Hall, Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White and Dorothy Richardson are seen as outspoken and innovative writers often marginalised or ignored by serious criticism.

Book A Variety of Catholic Modernists

Download or read book A Variety of Catholic Modernists written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hound and the Falcon

Download or read book The Hound and the Falcon written by Antonia White and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alamut

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Tarr
  • Publisher : Doubleday Books
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780385247207
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Alamut written by Judith Tarr and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantasy set in the days of the Crusades involves a hero who is half human and half immortal.

Book Tales of Romance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sir Charles Abraham Elton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1810
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Tales of Romance written by Sir Charles Abraham Elton and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pillar of Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Tarr
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-12-15
  • ISBN : 9780812539035
  • Pages : 678 pages

Download or read book Pillar of Fire written by Judith Tarr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-12-15 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as one of the finest authors of historical novels today, Judith Tarr has crafted a daring and provocative new interpretation of a crucial turning point in human history. This powerful saga is an intimate account of the lives of men and women in the ancient Egyptian empire.

Book The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins

Download or read book The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins written by Alois Musil and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scooby Doo  Encyclopedia

Download or read book Scooby Doo Encyclopedia written by Benjamin Bird and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "200+ characters and guest stars!"--Cover.

Book Hellhound

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  • Author : Nancy Holzner
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 1101595167
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Hellhound written by Nancy Holzner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call it Deadtown: the city’s quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders—but Victory Vaughn, Boston’s only professional demon slayer, isn’t exactly human…. Boston’s zombies have suddenly become inexplicably violent—horror movie-style—resulting in a catastrophic all-out battle against humans. More troubling to Vicky is that she’s had dreams and visions of herself fighting alongside the demons. At least, she hopes they’re just visions—otherwise, that puts her on the front lines of the wrong side of the war. Vicky’s not surprised to discover that Pryce, her demi-demon cousin and loathed adversary, is behind the outbreak of the zombie plague, having formed an unholy pact with the Old Ones. Now, as the violence escalates and alliances shift, Vicky knows she’s the only one who can stop the plague. Unless the pack of hellhounds on her trail finds her first.

Book The Middle Ages Unlocked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gillian Polack
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2015-06-15
  • ISBN : 1445645890
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book The Middle Ages Unlocked written by Gillian Polack and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique guide to all aspects of life in the Middle Ages.

Book The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture

Download or read book The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture written by Jerome Silbergeld and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as “running dogs,” and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both “the tigers” and “the flies.” Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery in Chinese art. The contributors, leading scholars in Chinese art history and related fields, consider depictions of animals not as simple, one-for-one symbolic equivalents: they pursue in depth, in complexity, and in multiple dimensions the ways that Chinese have used animals from earliest times to the present day to represent and rhetorically stage complex ideas about the world around them, examining what this means about China, past and present. In each chapter, a specific example or theme based on real or mythic creatures is derived from religious, political, or other sources, providing the detailed and learned examination needed to understand the means by which such imagery was embedded in Chinese cultural life. Bronze Age taotie motifs, calendrical animals, zoomorphic modes in Tantric Buddhist art, Song dragons and their painters, animal rebuses, Heaven-sent auspicious horses and foreign-sent tribute giraffes, the fantastic specimens depicted in the Qing Manual of Sea Oddities, the weirdly indeterminate creatures found in the contemporary art of Huang Yong Ping—these and other notable examples reveal Chinese attitudes over time toward the animal realm, explore Chinese psychology and patterns of imagination, and explain some of the critical means and motives of Chinese visual culture. The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture will find a ready audience among East Asian art and visual culture specialists and those with an interest in literary or visual rhetoric. Contributors: Sarah Allan, Qianshen Bai, Susan Bush, Daniel Greenberg, Carmelita (Carma) Hinton, Judy Chungwa Ho, Kristina Kleutghen, Kathlyn Liscomb, Jennifer Purtle, Jerome Silbergeld, Henrik Sørensen, and Eugene Y. Wang.

Book The Hounds of Heaven

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Bodio
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-07-05
  • ISBN : 1510705724
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book The Hounds of Heaven written by Stephen Bodio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the History of the Oldest Breed of Dog In 1992, two Russian movie makers left a cryptic note for New Mexican writer Stephen Bodio at his local bar. It led him to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, where he saw a film about the ancient breed of Central Asian sighthounds known as tazis. He would end up chasing these leads to Kazakhstan, where these beautiful dogs may have existed 6000 years ago. He found evidence in ancient rock paintings that these hounds, ancestors of such modern breeds as salukis and Afghans, were and still are used to hunt with birds of prey and horses in the Bronze Age, all along the old Silk Road. He brought back several pups to his home in New Mexico, bred them, and placed them with friends, some of whom wanted to use them to increase the genetic diversity of the saluki. Soviets tried to wipe out the breed, valued by tribal people as a symbol of their independence. But the greatest threat to them today might be the show-dog breeder’s closed stud books, though modern attacks on hunting with hounds might destroy their “work.” The Hounds of Heaven is a celebration of the Asian sighthound in all its names and glorious variety, a lament for disappearing ways, and an adventure. Its characters include scientists, hunters, and memorable dogs; Lashyn, the jealous girlfriend, who destroyed the bonsai; Ataika, the Kazakh princess who rules the world, who taught herself to hunt with hawk, falcon, and gun, entirely without commands; Kyran, who came speaking only Russian. Bodio blends science, history, and art to tell a tale that has not reached an end yet. As he says, “The hounds are still running.”

Book The Hound Of Ulster

Download or read book The Hound Of Ulster written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels. So the ancient prophecy went, and as the boy Cuchulain heard it, he went forward to claim the weapons of his manhood. This is the story of how he became the greatest of heroes - the Hound of Ulster.

Book The Tapestry of Health  Illness and Disease

Download or read book The Tapestry of Health Illness and Disease written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease” is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood.