Download or read book The Realm of Akra written by Luis Antonio Guardiola Alcalá and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The armies of the realm of Balh cross the Tirsic Ocean with the intention of driving the war away from its population. Kurt and his friends will enter the dangerous and inhospitable realm of Akra, where an ancient evil resides that remains vigilant and will not hesitate to destroy those who dare to step on his domain. Kroun, the Soul Bender, has directed the fates of the inhabitants of Akra since time immemorial. His most deadly weapon is not the huge number of troops or his colossal monsters, but the enchantress Silerva, whose dark powers know no limits. Kurt must unite the divided human peoples of Akra. But the true fight of the light bearer will be fought within. Love and hate will meet in a fiercer and more merciless battle than any other. Will those subjugated by the Soul Bender be able to regain control over their fates? The adventure continues...
Download or read book The Realm of Balh written by Luis Antonio Guardiola Alcalá and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Realms * Volume I * The Realm of Balh The world of Arah is divided into four great realms, all of them under the dominion of the immortal Kleos, supreme god of the world. Lord Deko has held the government of Balh since time immemorial. He commands the dronk army, made up of terrible beasts whose sole mission is to exercise tight control over humans. However, Laros, the capital of Balh, is one of the few cities that remains undiminished in the face of dronk rule. The human race fears for its extinction after centuries of submission to the fearsome generals of Kleos. Kurt Brent is a young man who dreams of one day becoming a Knight of Laros. One night, while sleeping, he meets a mysterious man who inexplicably shares his dreams. He will become his teacher and will teach him not only the art of the sword, but also to control the power that is hidden inside his mind. Lansa Sarin, a beautiful young woman with long blonde hair and skilled in the handling of the bow, has captivated Kurt’s heart, but the events rush when Siniste, the drake, is sent to Balh by Kleos. Kurt and Lansa will be forced to start a dangerous flight to the capital to escape the ruthless dronks. From then on, they will have to save countless dangers and survive horrible creatures from times long forgotten, but this will only be the beginning of their adventure. A bloody war will soon follow; that in which the fate of the human race will be decided.
Download or read book The Fall of Nystol and Other Tales written by H. G. Potter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six epic stories from the lands of Whitehawk: THE NOMADS OF SARDU: a monk dares travel across forbidden lands to obtain a forbidden book...but will he dare to read it? 2) THE DEMON PROOF: a retired philosopher receives an unexpected guest, one who is being hunted by the mind of darkness...3) DIALOGUE WITH A STRANGER: two would-be-hell-raiders get themselves involved in a secret society that is far deeper than they can fathom...4) THE TOWER WYRDD: a company of soldiers is led by a mad dwarf into the underworld with the promise of sacking Nystol, the wizardic academy of many towers...5) THE LAST DAYS OF THE MAGI: a condemned prisoner recounts how the most powerful academy of magic was compromised and finally betrayed by insane ideologies. 6) THE FALL OF NYSTOL: an eyewitness account of the barbarian sack of Nystol...
Download or read book The Deeptracker s Guide written by H. G. Potter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries ago, at the close of the last age, a 900 year old gnome catalogued the various trials, perils, and creatures encountered in the vast hollow earth, thereby providing a handbook to aid humans on their own expeditions for lost knowledge. The Enchiridion de Rebus Subterraneis was masterfully translated into English word for word by the famous archivist Thanato Excorpus and titled "The Deeptracker's Guide to Thaumaturgy and Netherbeasts." Imported from the shores of Whitehawk six centuries ago, no other translations exist. The London fire of 1666 consumed the only manuscript known of the original Latin. The gnome treats on the various environments of the intermudane caverns and subterraneous worlds, providing eyewitness testimony, ancient manuscripts, Church-like admonitions, and rebuke against unbelievers. Includes many "short story" pieces of the gnome's encounters as well.
Download or read book Frontiers in Question written by Daniel Power and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.
Download or read book Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies written by Benjamin Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns in history, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book asks how we might ensure the latter while avoiding the former. Looking past the usual arguments for the regulation or abolition of derivative finance, it asks a more probing question: what kinds of social institutions and policies would we need to put in place to both avail ourselves of the derivative’s wealth production and make sure that production benefits all of us? To answer that question, the contributors to this book draw upon their deep backgrounds in finance, social science, art, and the humanities to create a new way of understanding derivative finance that does justice to its social and cultural dimensions. They offer a two-pronged analysis. First, they develop a social understanding of the derivative that casts it in the light of anthropological concepts such as the gift, ritual, play, dividuality, and performativity. Second, they develop a derivative understanding of the social, using financial concepts such as risk, hedging, optionality, and arbitrage to uncover new dimensions of contemporary social reality. In doing so, they construct a necessary, renewed vision of derivative finance as a deeply embedded aspect not just of our economics but our culture.
Download or read book Through David s Realm written by Edward Staats de Grote Tompkins and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jerusalem s Temple Mount written by Mike M. Joseph and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author purports to show that the place originally believed to be the site of the Holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem is not the site at all. He raises other questions and concerns about theology and beliefs among the three major religions that play out in this debate: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Download or read book The History of the Buddha s Relic Shrine written by Stephen C. Berkwitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist chronicles have long been had a central place in the study of Buddhism. Scholars, however, have relied almost exclusively on Pali works that were composed by elites for learned audiences, to the neglect of a large number of Buddhist histories written in local languages for popular consumption. The Sinhala Thūpavamsa, composed by Parakama Pandita in thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, is an important example of a Buddhist chronicle written in the vernacular Sinhala language. Furthermore, it is among those works that inform public discussion and debate over the place of Buddhism in the Sri Lankan nation state and the role of Buddhist monks in contemporary politics. In this book Stephen Berkwitz offers the first complete English translation of the Sinhala Thūpavamsa. Composed in a literary dialect of Sinhala, it contains a richly descriptive account of how Buddhism spread outside of India, replete with poetic embellishments and interpolations not found in other accounts of those events. Aside from being an important literary work, the Sinhala Thūpavamsa. is a text of considerable historical and religious significance. It comprises several narrative strands that relate the life story of the Buddha and the manner in which Buddhist teachings and institutions were established on the island of Sri Lanka in ancient times. The central focus of this work concerns the variety of relics associated with the historical Buddha, particularly how the relics were acquired and the presumed benefits of venerating them. The text also relates the mythological history of the Buddha's previous lives as a bodhisattva and concludes with a prediction about the future Buddha Maitreya. Reflection on Buddhist ethics and instruction on the Dharma, or the Buddha's teaching, are found throughout the work, indicating that this historical narrative was meant both to recall the past and give rise to religious practice among contemporary readers and listeners. This new translation makes a significant work more widely accessible in the West and adds to our knowledge of how local Buddhist communities imagined and represented their religious and cultural heritages in written works.
Download or read book Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond written by Steven E. Lindquist and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India. An exceptionally prolific scholar, Olivelle's best-known works include 'Manu's Code of Law' (2005), 'The Early Upaniṣads' (1998) and 'The Āśrama System' (1993). Over the last four decades, the focus of his scholarship has been on the ascetic and legal traditions of India, but his work as both a researcher and a teacher extends beyond early Indian religion and literature. 'Religion and Identity and South Asia and Beyond' is a testament to that influence. The contributions in this volume, many by former students of Olivelle, are committed to linguistic and historical rigor, combined with sensitivity to how the study of Asia has been changing over the last several decades. Several of the essays examine the construction of religious and cultural identity (whether among Brahmins, Buddhists, Dalits or Muslims), while others are concerned particularly with problems of historical reconstruction and textual interpretation.
Download or read book The Forty Days of Musa Dagh written by Franz Werfel and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh—Mount Moses—and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while holding out hope for the warships of the Allies to save them. The original English translation by Geoffrey Dunlop has been revised and expanded by translator James Reidel and scholar Violet Lutz. The Dunlop translation, had excised approximately 25% of the original two-volume text to accommodate the Book-of-the-Month club and to streamline the novel for film adaptation. The restoration of these passages and their new translation gives a fuller picture of the extensive inner lives of the characters, especially the hero Gabriel Bagradian, his wife Juliette, their son Stephan—and Iskuhi Tomasian, the damaged, nineteen-year-old Armenian woman whom the older Bagradian loves. What is more apparent now is the personal story that Werfel tells, informed by events and people in his own life, a device he often used in his other novels as well, in which the author, his wife Alma, his stepdaughter Manon Gropius, and others in his circle are reinvented. Reidel has also revised the existing translation to free Werfel's stronger usages from Dunlop's softening of meaning, his effective censoring of the novel in order to fit the mores and commercial contingencies of the mid-1930s.
Download or read book Heritage and Hellenism written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic culture, the culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near East, held widespread attraction and appeal. Jews were certainly not immune. In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work, Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables—not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights into Jewish self-perception in that era.
Download or read book Journal of Asian Civilisations written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judaism Before Jesus written by Anthony J. Tomasino and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the ideas, subplots and characters that shaped the world of Jesus and the first Christians, Anthony J. Tomasino skillfully retells the story of Judaism before Jesus, from the time of Ezra and Nehemiah to the Herods, and even up to Masada.
Download or read book The Way to Buddhahood written by Yin-shun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way to Buddhahood is a compendium of two thousand years of Chinese practice in assimilating and understanding the Buddhist experience of enlightenment. It is the first in-depth explanation of Chinese Buddhism by Yin-shun, the greatest living master of the Chinese scholar-monk tradition. The master's broad scope not only includes the traditional Chinese experience but also ideas from the Tibetan monastic tradition. This is one of those rare classic books that authentically captures an entire Buddhist tradition between its covers.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
