Download or read book Lion and Kitsune written by Miki Michelle and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is exploring Space a choice we make, or something we are driven to do? Is it human nature to stretch our minds, hearts, and for some of us ? bodies ? over the trees, mountains, rainbows, and clouds into the distant world of constellations?Almost every child has spent time lying on his or her back in the hours of darkness, contemplating the appeal of the jewels glittering above in our nighttime sky. In those precious moments, every sparkle feels like a miracle. Lion and Kitsune, integrates those experiences into a creative and educational literary tool that will elicit wonder from its readers, while it teaches the specifics of space and star systems.Rocket through this book with Lion and Kitsune, a space exploration team, on a megastar tour of shapes, colors, and other celestial phenomena. Become a Space Imagineer. Fly straight into the shining spectacle of the sky. It's easy and fun... and you don't even need a spacecraft!
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the Paranormal written by Nathan Robert Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An otherworldly examination of the unknown that will keep fright fans reading all night From any strange experience that can't be defined by science to psychic phenomena to monsters and weird creatures, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Paranormal focuses on the most interesting and bone-chilling aspects of the paranormal the supernatural including: • Ghosts and spirits • Angels, demons, and spellcasters • Unexplained phenomena
Download or read book The Hedgehog and the Fox written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
Download or read book The Yanagita Kunio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale written by Fanny Hagin Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irezumi written by Willem R. van Gulik and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1982 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Kitsune Vol 6 written by Brandon Varnell and published by Kitsune Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Exactly a Triumphant Return Home. Kevin and Lilian, along with their family and friends, return home after their disastrous spring break vacation. Kevin tries to come to terms with the not-so-shocking knowledge that the yōkai world isn’t all humor and tropes. While Kevin is dealing with this newfound knowledge and the loss of his innocence, life returns to normal—what passes for normality when living with a family of kitsune. But when lightning strikes, it likes to strike twice. Too bad for Kevin, the world of yōkai is the same way. He and Lilian will soon learn that the yōkai world isn’t prepared to let them go just because they want to live the life of normal high school students.
Download or read book FF Communications written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WitchBane written by Lissa Kasey and published by Lissa Kasey. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A power awakening within is tearing him apart. Can Liam's love save him? All Sebastian ever wanted was a place to call home. Bound to Liam, his fated mate, and nestled in the center of a werewolf pack, he’s found one. However, opening portals filled with monsters in his sleep, Sebastian’s power is a wild thing he’s unable to control. And it’s slowly destroying him. He never asked to be part fae, or for any of their magic. Now something dark is creeping through the pack bonds, bringing unrest and chaos. Desperate to find a safe way to release the churning well of power inside Seb, the pair venture into Underhill, the abandoned land of the fae. Only Underhill is on the verge of collapsing. It’s a race against time to harness the power of the kitsune and find a way home, or risk being devoured by a dying world. Tags: About a contrary kitsune fox who happens to be mated to the most patient werewolf in the world while battling real demons and emotional ones at the same time. Lots of tea, pastries, gardening, wolf taming, sweet and spicy romance, and a dark backstory driving fated mates together. Our haphazard duo of werewolf and kitsune are a back for a wild ride of portals to Underhill, fae manipulation, ghouls, giant fae monsters, and magical child creation.
Download or read book Sacred and Mythological Animals written by Yowann Byghan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the household cat to horses that can fly, a surprisingly wide range of animals feature in religions and mythologies all across the world. The same animal can take on different roles: the raven can be a symbol of evil, a harbinger of death, a wise messenger or a shape-changing trickster. In Norse mythology, Odin's magical ravens perch on his shoulders and bring him news. This compendium draws upon religious texts and myths to explore the ways sacred traditions use animal images, themes and associations in rituals, ceremonies, texts, myths, literature and folklore across the world. Sections are organized by the main animal classifications such as mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians and insects. Each chapter covers one significant grouping (such as dogs, cats or horses), first describing an animal scientifically and then detailing the mythological attributes. Numerous examples cite texts or myths. A final section covers animal hybrids, animal monsters and mythical animals as well as stars, constellations and Zodiac symbols. An appendix describes basic details of the religions and mythologies covered. A glossary defines uncommon religious terms and explains scientific animal names.
Download or read book The Final Cut written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Catherine Coulter, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the FBI Thriller series, and J.T. Ellison, bestselling author and ITW Award winner, comes the first book in a brilliant new international thriller series featuring a new hero: American-born, UK-raised Nicholas Drummond. Scotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the “minder” of the Crown Jewels for the “Jewel of the Lion” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother’s crown. Drummond, American-born but raised in the UK, is a dark, dangerous, fast-rising star in the Yard who never backs down. And this case is no exception. Special Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich from Coulter’s bestselling FBI series don’t hesitate to help Drummond find the cunning international thief known as the Fox. Nonstop action and high stakes intensify as the chase gets deadly. The Fox will stop at nothing to deliver the Koh-i-Noor to the man who believes in its deadly prophecy. Nicholas Drummond, along with his partner, FBI Special Agent Mike Caine, lay it on the line to retrieve the diamond for Queen and country.
Download or read book The Fox and the Jewel written by Karen Ann Smyers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Ninety Years written by Lluís Feliu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Miguel Civil in celebration of his 90th birthday. Civil has been one of the most influential scholars in the field of Sumerian studies over the course of his long career. This anniversary presents a welcome occasion to reflect on some aspects of the field in which he has been such a driving force.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth Legend and Folklore written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
Download or read book The Beastly Bride written by Ellen Datlow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In The Beastly Bride, acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen, Lucius Shepard, and Tanith Lee, as well as many new, diverse voices. Terri Windling provides a scholarly, yet accessible introduction, and Charles Vess?s decorations open each story. From Finland to India, the Pacific Northwest to the Hamptons, shapechangers are part of our magical landscape?and The Beastly Bride is sure to be one of the most acclaimed anthologies of the year.
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Download or read book Creatures Real and Imaginary in Chinese and Japanese Art written by Walther G. von Krenner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to identifying lions, unicorns and other creatures real and fanciful in Chinese and Japanese artwork explains how these and other animal depictions were introduced to the East, and how their portrayals changed over time. Tracing the lion's early use in Mesopotamian art and its cultural symbolism in Greece and Rome, this study includes stylized foxes, tigers, badgers and cats, as well as fanciful creatures like dragons, humanoid birds, water imps, demons and other chimerical beasts. Stories and descriptions are provided along with numerous photographs and drawings, making this work an invaluable resource for art collectors and anyone interested in East Asian culture and history.
