Download or read book Deadly Gifts written by Naomi Aoki and published by NaomiAoki. This book was released on with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing comes for free. Not love. Not life. It’s the price that matters, what one is willing to give up to secure happiness... how far into the darkness one is willing to fall. And Hisato is ready to take the plunge. No more trying to balance his role as a Shinjuku detective with that of a yakuza's lover. But his price is yet to be determined and it’s not just his life on the line. The bodies will pile up. The tears will fall. And those who rule the city will be ousted. But once the blood dries on his hands, will Hisato have secured his happy-ever-after? Deadly Gifts is the final book in the Tokyo Nights Trilogy that features an undercover cop whose assignment went wrong in all the best ways, a genderqueer host who will do whatever it takes to protect his lovers, a yakuza ward boss with his eyes on the top prize and his best friend who finally learns to trust the new member of their relationship. A gang conflict will come to its stunning conclusion in a bloody and explosive fashion with the winner taking it all.
Download or read book Dangerous Gifts written by Deborah Lyons and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus’s wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always involve a certain risk in any culture, but in the ancient Greek imagination, women and gifts appear to be a particularly deadly combination. This book explores the role of gender in exchange as represented in ancient Greek culture, including Homeric epic and tragedy, non-literary texts, and iconographic and historical evidence of various kinds. Using extensive insights from anthropological work on marriage, kinship, and exchange, as well as ethnographic parallels from other traditional societies, Deborah Lyons probes the gendered division of labor among both gods and mortals, the role of marriage (and its failure) in transforming women from objects to agents of exchange, the equivocal nature of women as exchange-partners, and the importance of the sister-brother bond in understanding the economic and social place of women in ancient Greece. Her findings not only enlarge our understanding of social attitudes and practices in Greek antiquity but also demonstrate the applicability of ethnographic techniques and anthropological theory to the study of ancient societies.
Download or read book Deadly Gift written by Heather Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outsider in a world of extraordinary wealth, Caer Donahue must learn who can be trusted…and who should be feared Caer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who run the house. When O'Riley's business partner goes missing, family friend Zach Flynn arrives. Determined to help him solve the case, Caer becomes enmeshed in a mystery that weaves together the sins of the past with one family's destiny…and a spirit that watches the mansion, possessing a deadly gift.
Download or read book The Dangerous Gift Wings of Fire 14 written by Tui T. Sutherland and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Snowfall didn't expect to be queen of the IceWings at such a young age, but now that she is, she's going to be the best queen ever. All she has to do is keep her tribe within IceWing territory, where it's safe -- while keeping every other tribe out, where they belong.It's a perfect and simple plan, backed up by all the IceWing magic Snowfall can find. That is, until a storm of unidentified dragons arrives on her shore, looking for asylum.The foreigners are completely strange and, Snowfall is certain, utterly untrustworthy. But as she escorts the miserable new tribes out of her kingdom, Snowfall is forced to reconsider her plan. Maybe she can only keep her tribe safe . . . if she's willing to risk everything.
Download or read book Kirushima written by Naomi Aoki and published by NaomiAoki. This book was released on with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirushima joined the Tokyo Metro Police Force twelve years ago with a purpose, and it wasn’t cleaning the city’s streets of organised crime. Would’ve been a little hypocritical when he was in line to take over the leadership of the Yoong—the Korean group that controlled the port at Odaiba—one day. In the far future, once his current assignment was finished: rooting out the traitor within their organisation. He knew it was never going to be that easy. One assignment for the Metro and Kirushima’s world tilted as Sagaki Jin strode into his life, dragging him back into the shadows and putting his job at the Metro at risk. Put their fledgling relationship at risk too… Sagaki didn’t know Kirushima wasn’t an ordinary corrupt cop. But now his secrets out. A target is on his back and Sagaki’s as tensions within Tokyo grow. Kirushima needs to uncover who the traitor is before time runs out.
Download or read book Largesse written by Jean Starobinski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibitions based on the department's collection. Within its first several years, this novel collaboration produced exhibitions curated by philosopher Jacques Derrida and filmmaker Peter Greenaway. Jean Starobinski, noted literary critic and intellectual historian from the University of Geneva, was selected as the third curator in the program. In his exhibition and accompanying essay, Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense. Arguing that gift giving and receiving are fundamental human gestures, he examines graphic and textual representations from the offering of the apple to Eve to Salome's gift of the head of John the Baptist, from the giving of laws to the gift of death. Charity, the poetic gift, and the benefits of Fortune all play a role in Starobinski's extended meditation on the act of donation. Lavishly illustrated and dazzling in its scope and imagination, Largesse is an exemplar of the rich intellectual work that can result from crossing disciplinary boundaries and considering history as a dense network of themes and allusions.
Download or read book Recent Essays written by William Arthur Jobson Archbold and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Gifts written by Deborah Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by anthropological writing on reciprocity and kinship, this book applies the idea of gendered wealth to ancient Greek myth for the first time, and also highlights the importance of the sister-brother bond in the Classical world.
Download or read book World Drama Volume 1 written by Barrett H. Clark and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of this two-volume set contains 26 plays including Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound"; Sophocles "Antigone"; Seneca "Medea"; Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus"; Heywood, "A Woman Killed with Kindness"; Johnson, "Every Man in His Humour"; Beaumont and Fletcher "The Maid's Tragedy"; Sheridan "The School for Scandal"; plus plays from the Orient, medieval plays and more.
Download or read book A Deadly Edition written by Victoria Gilbert and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Til death do us part" could be closer than the bride realizes in Victoria Gilbert's tantalizing fifth Blue Ridge Library mystery. The pursuit to acquire a rare illustrated book turns deadly, and on the eve of her upcoming wedding, library director Amy Webber is drawn into a web of treachery and betrayal that could derail her happy day--and maybe just claim her life. Planning a wedding can be murder--sometimes literally. At a party celebrating their upcoming nuptials, Taylorsford, Virginia library director Amy Webber and her fiancé Richard Muir discover the body of art dealer Oscar Selvaggio--a bitter rival of their host, Kurt Kendrick. Both had been in a heated battle to purchase a rare illustrated volume created by William Morris's Kelmscott Press, so suspicion immediately falls upon Kurt. Amy knows that Kurt has a closet-full of skeletons from his past--but she can't believe he's guilty of murder. Amidst an avalanche of wedding preparations, Amy begins an investigation with the help of her aunt Lydia Talbot and the new mayor of Taylorsford, Sunshine "Sunny" Fields. Much to Lydia's dismay, her boyfriend, art expert Hugh Chen, becomes convinced of Kurt's guilt and launches an investigation of his own. As the case hits painfully close to home, the stakes become impossibly high--and the danger all too real.
Download or read book Nineteen Modern Essays written by William Arthur Jobson Archbold and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the elevator goes up, a Sesame Street character gets on at each of 10 floors and off again when the elevator descends.
Download or read book Shandra s Song written by K.L. Stubbs and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is three hundred years in the future. Technology has progressed so far that every facet of life is dependent on it. Even menial tasks like acquiring food is only a button press away. Life is perfect. Until one day everything just stops. In the aftermath of a worldwide terrorist attack wiping out every form of technology, Joseth, Jazriel, and Shazra find themselves separately fighting for their lives in a world plunged back into the dark ages. What had once been a peaceful, easy existence has become a waking nightmare. More than half of the world's population is wiped out in the first six months. Any survivors are immediately taken under the control of the sadistic warlord, Jerrick, the cause of all the chaos. No one is safe. Alashandra is a normal girl living a normal life except she's got wings and astounding mental abilities and lives on a planet called Hyethria. Her life is turned upside down as she gets premonitions and dreams about a people far away and suffering, almost as if she is channeling one of them. As the pleas for help grow stronger, she says goodbye to her life and her planet and mind-travels to Earth. And then simply put, all hell breaks loose.
Download or read book The Salvaging of Civilization written by Herbert George Wells and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Salvaging of Civilization written by H. G. Wells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called "H. G. Wells - A Major Prophet Of His Time". The Probable Future of Mankind is the subtitle of this book, and sums up very definitely what it is about. In his early days Mr. Wells was very preoccupied with a possible future where the world was overrun by monsters from Mars, and really those flights of fancy of his are rather more intriguing than his present notions of the world over-run by committees. However for those whose present allows them enough leisure to toy with the potential Utopias the book is fluent and glib enough of course, although it does lead to those terrible discussions of the Five-Foot-Book-Shelf genre, which are apt to be fluent also, but illustrative of how futile is the mere idea of Utopia.
Download or read book Deadly Game written by Naomi Aoki and published by NaomiAoki. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get in. Get proof. Get out alive. Easy, right? All Hisato Shibata had ever wanted was to be a police officer, to work his way through the ranks like his father had. Wanted to be known as an officer who upheld the oaths he’d sworn and keep the streets of Tokyo free of men like Tatsuo Ogawa—Shinjuku Ward Boss for the Yamashita Organisation. Going undercover had never been a part of his plans, but when his superiors put the assignment in front of him, he dutifully agreed. But in getting close to Ogawa, Hisato learns some uncomfortable truths about himself. Add in his growing attraction to Ogawa and the two men close to him, getting out alive is the least of his worries. Deadly Game is the first book in the Tokyo Nights Trilogy that features an undercover cop whose assignment goes wrong in all the best ways, a genderqueer host who will do whatever is needed to protect his lovers, a yakuza ward boss with his eyes on the top prize and his best friend who is hesitant trust the new member of their relationship. Add in a gang conflict and things are bound to get a little...bloody.
Download or read book The Greek Anthology written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trachiniae of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
