Download or read book The Orpheus Deception written by David Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STONE/ORPHEUS DECEPTION
Download or read book The Orpheus Deception written by David Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A testosterone-fueled thriller."—Publishers Weekly In his New York Times bestselling debut, The Echelon Vendetta, David Stone introduced covert operative Micah Dalton. Once, it was his job to take care of other agents’ mistakes. Coldly, cleanly—and permanently. Now, Micah is on the outs with his former employers, staying off the radar and hopefully out of firing range. When an attempt is made on his life in the rainy streets of Venice, he knows his best chance of survival is under the shadowy wings of the CIA. To prove his worth, he accepts their mission: an agent and old associate of Micah's has been taken in the China Sea, the only survivor of a brutal pirate attack. He's to find the man and find him fast. But Micah's mission is not about a man. It's about an elusive ship known only as The Mingo Dubai that is already under way, heading toward the West. And its cargo is death.
Download or read book Orpheus written by Ann Wroe and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today” (Library Journal). For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work, Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, tracing the man and the power he represents through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and the journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalizing Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalizing the fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death. “Did Orpheus exist? Wroe thinks he did, and still does, and dedicates this lyrical biography to doubters.” —The New Yorker “This insightful and visionary study, treading a perfect line between imagination and scholarship, is as readable and necessary as a fine novel. Ted Hughes, another mythographer, would have loved it.” —The Independent “A book to make readers laugh, sing and weep.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[Orpheus] will leave you dancing.” —New Statesman
Download or read book The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception written by Jonas Grethlein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new history of ancient aesthetics and its entanglement with ethics, with ongoing significance for current debates.
Download or read book The Venetian Judgment written by David Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author. CIA cleaner Micah Dalton has taken his revenge against the Serbian gang who shot his lover. Then he receives a mysterious jade box containing a stainless steel glasscutter. Someone is sending him a very serious message, a message that will force him back into action against a foe out to unleash chaos upon the world...
Download or read book Logic Theology and Poetry in Boethius Anselm Abelard and Alan of Lille written by E. Sweeney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.
Download or read book Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black written by Marcus Sedgwick and published by Walker Books US. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Black is lost between the world of war and the land of myth in this illustrated novel that transports the tale of Orpheus to World War II–era London. Brothers Marcus and Julian Sedgwick team up to pen this haunting tale of another pair of brothers, caught between life and death in World War II. Harry Black, a conscientious objector, artist, and firefighter battling the blazes of German bombing in London in 1944, wakes in the hospital to news that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry’s mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of war-torn London, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel, and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a search for his brother that will lead him deep into the city’s Underworld. With otherworldly paintings by Alexis Deacon depicting Harry’s surreal descent further into the depths of hell, this eerily beautiful blend of prose, verse, and illustration delves into love, loyalty, and the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood as it builds to a fierce indictment of mechanized warfare.
Download or read book The Echelon Vendetta written by David Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CIA agent Micah Dalton is a "cleaner." He takes care of other agents' mistakes. When a friend and mentor commits a grotesque suicide, Dalton's investigation leads him into the snare of a madman, into the arms of a beautiful, mysterious stranger-and into a conspiracy within his own agency. Dalton knows only one thing for certain-this job is going to get very messy.
Download or read book Holman New Testament Commentary Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians written by Max Anders and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in a series of twelve New Testament verse-by-verse commentary books edited by Max Anders. Includes discussion starters, teaching plan, and more. Great for lay teachers and pastors alike.
Download or read book Rhianon 5 Along the Way of Deception written by Natalie Yacobson and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five spirits of deceit have coaxed Princess Rhianon to abandon celestial being Madael. Now Rhianon is once again a fugitive, fearing persecution from both the earthly kingdom and the heavenly palace. By chance, Rhianon wanders into an area overrun by dragons and meets a beautiful young king.
Download or read book The Skorpion Directive written by David Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vienna for a secret meeting, CIA cleaner Micah Dalton notices he is being followed. When he turns the tables and captures one of his watchers-mysterious operative Veronika Miklas-he is targetd by not only his enemies but his allies. He has inadvertently uncovered a secret that could shatter America's strategic global alliances. And Dalton will have to push himself to the very edge in a desperate attempt to save his honor and his life.
Download or read book Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity written by Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy, and literature. However, its nature and role are still very controversial. The key problem of its relationship to Christianity has been discussed by ancient and modern authors from many different viewpoints, albeit too often tainted with apologetic interests and unconscious projections. This free and thorough study of the ancient sources sheds light on these questions and illuminates the complexity of the encounter between Classical culture and Jewish-Christian tradition. New perspectives on the relationship between Classical and Jewish-Christian culture On the avowed subject of Orphism Author is specialist within the field.
Download or read book The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience written by John Llewelyn and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-10-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Watchers written by J. J. Falcon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The angelic Watcher, Orpheus, has informed the young Endorian, Ian Fetter that he is the heir to the map and key, which will aid him on his mission to retrieve the secrets and golden seal that have been hidden for over five thousand years. Marco Gonzales, a federal officer seeks the truth about his own identity, and joins Ian. They travel to Europe to train under the mystic Endorian, Abbot Adrius, who reveals the true nature of evil, and the coming of the Dark Lord. Adrius solicits the help of Kasbar, the leader of the rebel forces, and his sidekick, Brother O'Leary, to find the command center of a space weapon that can destroy an entire city. Meanwhile, the Supreme Minister of Europe, Balarus, has joined forces with the evil Watcher, Toumus, to defeat the rebels, and create a new order by cloning a new, more powerful race of Goths in a chamber deep in the earth. Toumus has sent the Goth, Cronos, to stop Ian from retrieving the golden seal, and secure the map and key. On his mission, Ian will experience the trials and tribulations of the power of the forces of darkness, and will be betrayed by the one he trusts the most.
Download or read book Apollonius Argonautica written by M.M. DeForest and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an epic poem narrated by a self-declared opponent of epic poetry, the hero and his 50 Argonauts are thrust aside by the first heroine of third-person narrative and a forerunner of the powerful women in fiction.
Download or read book Orpheus in the Academy written by Joel Schwindt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.
Download or read book The Venetian Judgment written by David Stone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CIA "cleaner" Micah Dalton finds himself involved in a search for a traitor who is responsible for the death of Mildred Durant, an advisor to a NSA decryption team known as the Glass Cutters.
