Download or read book The Rainbow Abyss written by Barbara Hambly and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVAn aging wizard and his apprentice venture into a world where magic has died, hoping to save it before the same fate befalls their own/divDIV /divDIVJaldis does not believe it at first. When the old wizard—blind, tongueless, able to see and speak through magic alone—peers into the Void between dimensions, he sees something terrible: a world where magic is dead, and whose inhabitants scream for someone to rescue them. Such a place must be studied, for if it is possible to kill magic, then that terrible fate could threaten his own world, too./divDIV /divDIVWith the help of his apprentice, Rhion, the wizard prepares for the treacherous crossing. To make the journey, they must withstand the hatred that their own world has for magic—a powerful force that the ignorant would wipe out if they could./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div /div

Download or read book Wonder the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences written by Philip Fisher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why pause and study this particular painting among so many others ranged on a gallery wall? Wonder, which Descartes called the first of the passions, is at play; it couples surprise with a wish to know more, the pleasurable promise that what is novel or rare may become familiar. This is a book about the aesthetics of wonder, about wonder as it figures in our relation to the visual world and to rare or new experiences. In three instructive instances--a pair of paintings by Cy Twombly, the famous problem of doubling the area of a square, and the history of attempts to explain rainbows--Philip Fisher examines the experience of wonder as it draws together pleasure, thinking, and the aesthetic features of thought. Through these examples he places wonder in relation to the ordinary and the everyday as well as to its opposite, fear. The remarkable story of how rainbows came to be explained, fraught with errors, half-knowledge, and incomplete understanding, suggests that certain knowledge cannot be what we expect when wonder engages us. Instead, Fisher argues, a detailed familiarity, similar to knowing our way around a building or a painting, is the ultimate meeting point for aesthetic and scientific encounters with novelty, rare experiences, and the genuinely new.

Download or read book The Rainbow a magazine of Christian literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Rainbow written by Prabhakar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Rainbow by Prabhakar is a work of fiction. Each story is a poetic experience, aesthetic as well as elevating. The story connotes as a whole without any annotation. The moral and aesthetic coalesce. The stories are a portrayal of simple characters that come and go as silently as the day or the night. The stories approximate to an Indian macrocosm of vision and variety without any prejudice to their universal extent and intent. A pervasive sense of irony is ever there to chasten any romantic pigmentation. The book serves a sumptuous cocktail of romance and symbolism, humour and irony, realism and religion with a sympathetic human concern. It betrays a simple soul's predicament and pride. Going through the book the reader would hear the echoes of the past, the present, and the future of humanity. A journey from The Champion' to The Mahakumbha' is a pilgrimage through India.

Download or read book Dragonsbane written by Barbara Hambly and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVAn idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdom/divDIV /divDIVAs a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, the ruler of a mud-village who admits that he killed the dragon not with a lance, but with ignoble poison. Still, he’ll have to do./divDIV /divDIVGareth and Aversin set off in company with Jenny Waynest, a witch with great ambitions but disappointingly puny powers—a ragtag crew destined to become legendary, or die in the attempt./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div /div

Download or read book Dragonshadow written by Barbara Hambly and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord John Aversin—with the help of his mageborn wife, Jenny Waynest—has fought and defeated two dragons, earning the title of Dragonsbane. But there are creatures more terrifying than dragons. Demonspawn from a dark dimension have learned to drink the magic—and the souls—of mages and dragons alike, turning their victims into empty vessels. And now they've stolen John and Jenny's mageborn son, twelve-year-old Ian. In desperation, John seeks the help of the eldest and strongest dragon: Morkeleb the Black. But the demons have allies, too: a vast army poised to plunge the Realm into civil war. In the coming struggle, Morkeleb will sacrifice what he values most. Jenny will question everything she trusts and believes in. And John will embark on a perilous quest for the only things capable of defeating such powerful demons—even more powerful demons . . .

Download or read book Imagining the Unimaginable written by Glyn Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre's major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies. The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable. The Holocaust has been compared to an earthquake, another planet, another universe, a void. It has been said to be beyond language, or else have its own incomprehensible language, beyond art, and beyond thought. The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction, the dystopia and the alternate history, while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust.

Download or read book Through Hell to Heaven Back written by Michael Cassidyne and published by Michael Cassidyne-Hook. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Hell, To Heaven, And Back! is that rare book that captivates the imagination, AND offers profound spiritual insights into the nature of life, death, and the human spirit. First published in 2003 in Kelowna, B.C. Canada, this true-life chronicle is based on a hitherto lost Russian-language manuscript written by Russian man who recounts in detail his experiences leading up, during, and after the time when he was persecuted, tortured, and left to die by Soviet authorities in a frigid prison cellar for three day and three nights in Stalinist Russia in 1931. The poignant and compelling afterlife experiences and insights expressed by the author and translated into English in the early 2000's by a linguist selected by the original author's son, offer spiritual insights that are totally unique and deeply thought-provoking. They are insights that challenge the reader to venture beyond conventional wisdom and the mostly unquestioned reference points from which most people view life and “the world.” Rather than suggesting like many self-help books do that the ‘truth’ is ‘out there’ somewhere, this book encourages us to look inside ourselves for the true causal factors that give rise to our experiences and the world around us. Consistent with the defining principles of quantum physics leading to the as-yet unproven notion that the fundamental constituents of the 'material world' may not exist independently of human observation, it boldly suggests that the causal determinants of what we experience are to be found within the inner-most psyche of each individual. Indeed, while encouraging intimate self-reflection, the account guides us to nurture the bond between our minds and our hearts, and to understand that, "all that we see, and all that we ever will see -- with all our senses and through all our experiences -- is all ours, is all of us, is all for us, is all through us, and is all to us", and that "there is no death." In the writing of his story, this author offers humanity profound answers and inspiration. His exceptionally descriptive, simple, and cogent narration can't help but both transport the reader into those realms of heavenly experience, and speak to the inner spirit of every human being. A truly life-changing read!

Download or read book Places Lost and Found written by Ronald Koury and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and a spirit of adventure. Places Lost and Found is a treasury of distinctive and compelling essays selected from six decades of the Hudson Review. From a description of the gardens of Kyoto and a portrait of Syria just before its civil war to reflections on Veblen and the Mall of America, these essays explore an array of places that are deeply layered with history and meaning. The stunning cover photo of the Semper Opera House in Dresden encapsulates many of the themes of the book: war and its aftermath, the importance of the built environment in any discussion of "place," the endurance of civilization and resilience, and of course the romance of travel.

Download or read book Best Sermons written by Joseph Fort Newton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geocache of the Rainbow Bull written by Ozmioz Mak and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow Bull reminds me of the management scoundrels of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. I love how Eve matures and finally confronts him. --- Mother Jones Eve is a new age hero in the tradition of the old west. ---Shane When I started this geocache, I never expected to get a college degree. Listening to faculty argue amongst themselves sure beats getting an online degree with the University of Phoenix. ---Eve Tillman Eve is a new age feminist, who is respectful, and just gets things done. However, what was with all of H.L. Mencken's adolescent rantings? Any man who lives his entire life in his parent's house has no right spouting off like that. ---Susan B. Anthony It's about time someone reinvented fascism for the 21st century. Move over Mussolini, move over Archie Bunker, the Rainbow Bull is a character we can all relate to. ---Tokyo Rose When is someone going to write a story where I'm the main character? And Susan B, you know you love me. --- H.L. Mencken It's refreshing to find a young lady succeed by listening to the advice of her elders, although I found the part about end of the world cults a bit disturbing. --- Reverend John Nelson Darby Oh grow-up, most people are losers. All great leaders know nothing would get accomplished without a little bull sprinkled in here and there. --- Rainbow Bull What's more American than rebelling against bull? Just like the Wizard of Oz was the master of humbug of the 20th century, the Rainbow Bull is the master of bull in the 21st, and strangely enough, both characters were outwitted by a young lady. ----Mark Twain

Download or read book To Be Continued written by Hope Apple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.

Download or read book Watchers of the Rainbow Covenant written by Derrick G. Lindsey and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1: Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2: that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3: And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." 4: There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6: 1-4 NKJV) 13: "I saw in the visions of my head while on my bed, and there was a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven." (Daniel 4:13 NKJV) 17: "This decision is by the decree of the watchers, And the sentence by the word of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men."(Daniel 4:17 NKJV) What are we to believe when we discover that what we've always thought and believed is so extraordinarily different, it's beyond our wildest imagination? Three unlikely partners become unlikely heroes; Robert, Joshua and Timothy find themselves in just such a plight. In 23rd century Los Angeles, the line that separates science from religion is about to be shattered beyond all time. Join us on a thrill ride solving one mystery after the next, each discovery more astonishing than the previous, when by the power of one courageous young couple's love, mankind's greatest discovery is revealed.

Download or read book The Temple of High Magic written by Ina Cüsters-van Bergen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to pathworking and other esoteric techniques from the ancient mystery schools predating Christianity • Explains the dynamics of both group ritual and solo practice • Shows that temples of high magic are not mere physical structures but inner edifices created by sustained meditative practice • Explains why this practice is sometimes called the Yoga of the West Before the advent of Christianity, early civilizations had, at the heart of their spiritual traditions, mystery schools that offered a corpus of training methods in what is now called magic. The persecution of heresies that followed the establishment of Christianity as Rome’s state religion, a persecution that reached its high point during the Middle Ages, forced the degradation and disappearance of this training system. While the knowledge of these mystery traditions--jealously guarded by secret societies--has begun to emerge, the actual techniques and practices of spiritual magic have remained hidden. The Temple of High Magic provides the practical knowledge of these techniques for modern spiritual seekers who wish to incorporate the proven esoteric techniques of the magi into their lives. This book explains the dynamics of group ritual and solo practice as well as the critical role played by the kabbalistic tree of life--the key to inner knowledge. Ina Cüsters-van Bergen shows that temples of high magic are not mere physical structures but are the inner edifices willed into being by a sustained meditative practice and pathworking, using key symbols from ancient Hebraic and Egyptian traditions. Sometimes called the Yoga of the West, this spiritual magic is a system of esoteric development that seeks to create full union between the magician and the divine.

Download or read book Writing Worlds written by Trevor J. Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Worlds represents the first systematic attempt to apply poststructuralist ideas to landscape representation. Landscape - city, countryside and wilderness - is explored through the discourse of economics, geopolitics and urban planning, travellers descriptions, propaganda maps, cartography and geometry, poetry and painting. The book aims to deconstruct geographical representation in order to explore the dynamics of power in the way we see the world.

Download or read book The metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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