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Book Ambrosial Flesh

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  • Author : Mary Ann Mitchell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780843949025
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Ambrosial Flesh written by Mary Ann Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beverly and Carl find love together, until she realizes that he is slowly turning her into a living corpse, trapped and powerless, only able to pray that Carl's next victim, Megan, can stop the cycle and save her life. Original.

Book Westover s Ward

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  • Author : Anna Cogswell Wood
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Westover s Ward written by Anna Cogswell Wood and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Marriage with Space

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  • Author : Mark Turbyfill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book A Marriage with Space written by Mark Turbyfill and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tacolicious

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  • Author : Sara Deseran
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2014-09-02
  • ISBN : 1607745631
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Tacolicious written by Sara Deseran and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of recipes for fun, accessible taqueria fare—including colorful salsas, tasty snacks, irresistible cocktails, and of course tacos galore—from the wildly popular San Francisco restaurants and acclaimed Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market food stand, Tacolicious. Tacos may be the most universally loved, happy-making food on earth. After all, who can say no to a juicy, spicy Chile verde taco; a decadently deep-fried Baja-style fish taco; or a gloriously porky Carnitas taco? At Tacolicious, the San Francisco Bay Area’s most popular Mexican restaurant, tacos are a way of life. And now, in this hotly anticipated cookbook, co-owner Sara Deseran shares all of the restaurant’s tortilla-wrapped secrets. Whether you’re seeking quick and easy weeknight meals or inspiration for a fabulous fiesta, Tacolicious has you covered. With recipes for showstopping salsas, crave-worthy snacks, cocktails and mocktails, and, of course, tacos galore, this festive collection is chock-full of real Mexican flavor—with a delicious California twist.

Book Revealing Masks

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  • Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2001-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780520924741
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Revealing Masks written by W. Anthony Sheppard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the "exotic" in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval Christian drama, and ancient Greek theater as the most prominent exotic models for the creation of "total theater." Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse—and in some instances, little-known—range of music theater pieces, Sheppard cites the work of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Honegger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harry Partch, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Madonna. Artists in literature, theater, and dance—such as William Butler Yeats, Paul Claudel, Bertolt Brecht, Isadora Duncan, Ida Rubenstein, and Edward Gordon Craig--also play a significant role in this study. Sheppard poses challenging questions that will interest readers beyond those in the field of music scholarship. For example, what is the effect on the audience and the performers of depersonalizing ritual elements? Does borrowing from foreign cultures inevitably amount to a kind of predatory appropriation? Revealing Masks shows that compositional concerns and cultural themes manifested in music theater are central to the history of twentieth-century Euro-American music, drama, and dance.

Book Mortals and Immortals

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  • Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1991-01-21
  • ISBN : 9780691019314
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Mortals and Immortals written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."

Book The Invention of the Inspired Text

Download or read book The Invention of the Inspired Text written by John C. Poirier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Poirier examines the “theopneustic” nature of the Scripture, as a response to the view that “inspiration” lies at the heart of most contemporary Christian theology. In contrast to the traditional rendering of the Greek word theopneustos as “God-inspired” in 2 Tim 3:16, Poirier argues that a close look at first- and second-century uses of theopneustos reveals that the traditional inspirationist understanding of the term did not arise until the time of Origen in the early third century CE, and that in every pre-Origen use of theopneustos the word instead means “life-giving.” Poirier thus conducts a detailed investigation of theopneustos as it appears in the fifth Sibylline Oracle, the Testament of Abraham, Vettius Valens, Pseudo-Plutarch (Placita Philosophorum), and Pseudo-Phocylides, all of whom understand the word to mean “life-giving.” He also studies the use of the cognate term theopnous in Numenius, the Corpus Hermeticum, on an inscription at the Great Sphinx of Giza, and on an inscription at a nymphaeum at Laodicea on the Lycus. Poirier argues that a rendering of “life-giving” also fits better within the context of 2 Tim 3:16, and that this meaning survived late enough to figure in a fifth-century work by Nonnus of Panopolis. He further traces the pre-Origen use of theopneustos among the Church Fathers. Poirier concludes by addressing the implication of rethinking the traditional understanding of Scripture, stressing that the lack of “God-inspired” scripture ultimately does not affect the truth status of the gospel as preached by the apostles.

Book Poetry

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  • Author : Harriet Monroe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Poetry written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity

Download or read book Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity written by D. Endsjø and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between the growth of Christianity in Greece and the belief in resurrection from the dead. It gives a clear presentation of various generally unknown aspects about traditional Greek religion, such as stories about people being made physically immortal and the Greek fascination with the flesh.

Book Dramatic Works

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  • Author : Franklin Pierce Norton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Dramatic Works written by Franklin Pierce Norton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Orpheus

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  • Author : Owen Barfield
  • Publisher : SteinerBooks
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780940262010
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Orpheus written by Owen Barfield and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sweetlings

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  • Author : Lucy Taylor
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2017-05-03
  • ISBN : 0765396521
  • Pages : 37 pages

Download or read book Sweetlings written by Lucy Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sweetlings" by Lucy Taylor is about a small enclave of people living on the shrunken east coast of the United States, surviving and evolving as Earth’s seas rise. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Siva s Warriors

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-14
  • ISBN : 1400860903
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Siva s Warriors written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first translation into English of the Basava Purana, a fascinating collection of tales that sums up and characterizes one of the most important and most radical religious groups of South India. The ideas of the Virasaivas, or militant Saivas, are represented in those tales by an intriguing mix of outrageous excess and traditional conservatism. Written in Telugu in the thirteenth century, the Basava Purana is an anthology of legends of Virasaivas saints and a hagiography of Basavesvara, the twelfth-century Virasaiva leader. This translation makes accessible a completely new perspective on this significant religious group. Although Telugu is one of the major cultural traditions of India, with a classical literature reaching back to the eleventh century, until now there has been no translation or exposition of any of the Telugu Virasaiva works in English. The introduction orients the reader to the text and helps in an understanding of the poet's point of view. The author of the Basava Purana, Palkuriki Somanatha, is revered as a saint by Virasaivas in Andhra and Karnataka. His books are regarded as sacred texts, and he is also considered to be a major poet in Telugu and Kannada. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book The Etched City

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  • Author : K.J. Bishop
  • Publisher : Spectra
  • Release : 2004-11-23
  • ISBN : 0553900838
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Etched City written by K.J. Bishop and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Combine equal parts of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and Chine Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you’ll get some idea of this disturbing, decadent first novel.”—Publishers Weekly Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just—and lost—causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselves immersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles begin to bloom . . . “The plot, with its stories-within-stories and its offhand descriptions of wonders and prodigies, brings to mind the works of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.”—Locus

Book Evaporation

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  • Author : Mark Turbyfill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book Evaporation written by Mark Turbyfill and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number 13 - lucky for horror fans! This award-winning anthology series has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Steve Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of the horror genre. Contributors to this volume include: Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, Conrad Williams. Also featuring the most comprehensive overview of the year, a fascinating necrology and a list of useful contacts, this is the one book that all lovers of the supernatural and psychological terror will want on their shelves.

Book Fruitflesh

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  • Author : Gayle Brandeis
  • Publisher : Zondervan
  • Release : 2009-03-17
  • ISBN : 0061737119
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Fruitflesh written by Gayle Brandeis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fruitflesh calls for some very juicy feasting!” — Sark, author of Succulent Wild Woman “Anyone immersing herself in Fruitflesh is sure to find her writing liberated, and enriched by the many stimulating exercises.” — Susan Perry, Ph.D., author of Writing in Flow "Gayle Brandeis shows us how to write sense-soaked prose and poetry that celebrates the embodiment of the life!" — Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation and The Dance “Beautifully written, with gorgeous usage of language and metaphor.” — Publishers Weekly “Lyrical, imaginative, beautifully crafted, and deeply intelligent. Before anything else, its characters take you by the heart.” — --Barbara Kingsolver on The Book of Dead Birds “[It] has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents.” — --Toni Morrison on The Book of Dead Birds “THE BOOK OF DEAD BIRDS is a story of healing--a skillful, textured weaving of dark and light.” — --Donna M. Gershten, author of Kissing the Virgin's Mouth, on The Book of Dead Birds “A moving and perceptive first novel.” — -- O magazine on The Book of Dead Birds