Download or read book The Phoenix is a Strange Bird written by Jr Owen D Nee and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phoenix is a Strange Bird is a novel about two honest men caught in a war that has lost both glory and support, but nevertheless remains their mission. Advisors on a team providing assistance to a provincial government north of Saigon, the Colonel and the Captain face a weakened enemy that seldom shows its face, but manages to control the villages through terror at night. The two Americans devise a way to make pacification work. Success in a war that is winding-down has many enemies.
Download or read book The Gnostics and Their Remains written by Charles William King and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phoenix written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird” from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal). The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? Here, mythologist Joseph Nigg presents a comprehensive biography of this legendary creature. Beginning in ancient Egypt, Nigg’s sweeping narrative discusses the many myths and representations of the phoenix, including legends of the Chinese, where it was considered a sacred creature that presided over China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it appears in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; medieval Christianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo. “An exceptional work of scholarship.”—Publishers Weekly
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Download or read book Fushi no Kami Rebuilding Civilization Starts With a Village Volume 3 written by Mizuumi Amakawa and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash, who is studying in Itsutsu city to revive the convenient and plentiful life from the legends of the ancient civilization, managed to successfully produce compost and reintroduce tomatoes as an officially accepted edible food. After recovering from his fight with the werewolf, he once again aims to further improve the living standards of the city! Amidst all that, his fellow student Hermes is mocked for crafting a model airplane and daring to dream of soaring through the skies. In a world without the internal combustion engine, let alone cars, such ambitions only provoke laughter amongst his classmates, but Hermes persists. Deeply impressed by Hermesâ passion for flying, and slightly motivated by self-interest, Ash decides to help him revive aeronautical technology. He is determined to have the last laugh. This is the third chapter of the story about a young boy who sets out to revolutionize the world in order to rebuild civilization and create his ideal life!
Download or read book Out of Nihility written by Wu ZiQi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the birth of the Yinyang Continent, the two races of Yin and Yang had been born and bred. The Yang Race possessed the attribute of 'goodness', and possessed all sorts of superpowers to defend their 'goodness'. The attribute of the Yin Clan was' evil '. Demons, demons, ghosts, and other creatures belonged to it. They wanted to enslave the Yang Clan and control the entire continent. A youth who had comprehended 'creating from nothing' from the 'Classic of Virtue' was not tolerated by the current Heavenly Dao and had his body destroyed. His soul, by chance and coincidence, was taken in by the Yinyang Continent and reborn into the body of an ordinary Yang Clan youth. None: "The Yang race is good, forsaken by the Evil God; the Yin race is evil, born of the Good God. Tell me what is evil and what is good? " Close]
Download or read book Painted Tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa Mar shah written by John Punnett Peters and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bird on Fire written by Andrew Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density, such as Portland, Seattle, or New York. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing in their responsibility to address climate change.
Download or read book Heaven defying Doctor Girl written by San QianCha and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Xiao family had two women in their line of descent. The one who was born to be a piece of trash was the eldest daughter, Xiao Boyang. The people laughed at her, humiliated her, and looked down on her; her white clothes fluttered in the wind, and her celestial figure was beautiful and elegant. The people of the world praised her, praised her, and worshipped her as a goddess. In regards to this, Xiao Boxiang had a vile smile on his face. "White Lotus, we'll see!" After traveling across the world, she became a well-known, rich young miss of the Xiao family. She was born useless, so she had a fire burning in her body, and then she reconstructed her meridians. Allure was her. She was from the Ascendant continent. She was the one who crushed the white lotus, the Mysterious Beast, and the man dressed like a demon. Whose young heart did she steal?
Download or read book The Shura Spell written by Lai HaMaJiuChiTianERou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Divine Spell: What! He actually transmigrated? So what if he transmigrated? He actually possessed the body of a Good-for-nothing? God, do you want to play me to death! Apprentice Yuan, a super abnormal person who was born with divine power and was only 23 years old, yet had already reached the legendary Innate Stage. Yet, he died because he was young and easily trifled with other people's tricks, while he transmigrated to the Heavenly Calamity Continent and went through an unimaginable journey. What exactly was in front of him? Was it endless death? Or was it the A Peerless Expert that ruled the continent? All of this is just a mystery, let's enter the Deicide to find the real answer.
Download or read book Beyond the Second Sophistic written by Tim Whitmarsh and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic, and diverse culture, which cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity. Shining new light on a series of playful, imaginative texts that are left out of the traditional accounts of Greek literature, Whitmarsh models a more adventurous, exploratory approach to later Greek culture. Beyond the Second Sophistic offers not only a new way of looking at Greek literature from 300 BCE onwards, but also a challenge to the Eurocentric, aristocratic constructions placed on the Greek heritage. Accessible and lively, it will appeal to students and scholars of Greek literature and culture, Hellenistic Judaism, world literature, and cultural theory.
Download or read book The Adages of Erasmus written by Érasme and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated selection of 116 proverbs, which includes all the longer essays, is based on the translation in the Collected Works of Erasmus."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Mechanic written by LaaiA and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate gave me an interesting way, thanks to which I appreciate what I have, and most importantly, I find advantages within disadvantages. Because these flaws can be the biggest strength we have. every event in my life has made me who I have become. Whatever happens, you cannot betray yourself. You cannot become someone else to the detriment of your soul’s call. Each of us is unique in our own way, and this must be treasured as our most precious treasure. Be yourself.
Download or read book Approaching Chaos written by Lucy Wyatt and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first century civilization faces economic, ecological and spiritual meltdown. To survive this century as civilized people, we need to refer back to a time when city life was in harmony with nature and the wider environment. We cannot dismiss the ancients as 'primitive' when they had a blueprint for civilization that first appeared over 5,000 years ago. Perhaps we should look at the ancient past for solutions.
Download or read book Ite missa est Ritual Interactions around Mass in Chinese Society 1583 1720 written by Hongfan Yang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book dedicated to the propagation of the Mass in late Imperial China unfolds dynamic interactions between this essential Catholic ritual and various cultural expressions in Chinese society, including traditional religion, architecture, art, literature, government, and theology.
Download or read book The Columbian Magazine written by Henry Mann and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mirror for Lovers written by William F. Zak and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare’s Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak,seeks to identify in Shake-speare’e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition born in Plato’s Symposium. Through this study, Zak traces the power of an idea to endure, re-animate, and enrich itself through time: Plato’s discrimination of the true nature of love in The Symposium. Born anew in its medieval reincarnations (The Romance of the Rose, The Vita Nuova, and The Canzoniere of Petrarch), the tradition begun in Plato’s Symposium was then resuscitated in the Elizabethan sonnet sequence revival, most notably in Shake-speare’s Sonnets. With extended examination of all the texts in the Q manuscript, A Mirror for Lovers makes a case for the mutually illuminating relationship among the sonnets to the fair young man and the dark lady, “A Lover’s Complaint,” and the mysterious dedication that until now have never received attention as an integral symbolic matrix of meaning.
