Download or read book Stefan and the Celestial Sword written by Frank L. Amoroso and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stefan and the Celestial Sword" is an historical fantasy set in 15th century Moldova chronicling the rise of Stefan the Great. After his father was assassinated, the young prince escapes and stumbles upon the sacred mountain of Dacia. There, he finds Aparator, the broken celestial sword of the origin myth. Stefan must unravel the mysteries in the map of Zalmoxis to survive the many hazards on his journey to the Forges of Ezrok where only the cosmic blacksmith can restore the sword. While on this perilous quest, he encounters magical creatures, a mysterious Lady in White, Vlad Tepes, a.k.a., Dracula, and a telepathic land octopus. To restore peace and prosperity to his beloved country, the fugitive prince must devise an ingenious strategy to slay the dragon Ismeju and evade the murderous mercenaries hunting him. Surrounded by treachery and danger, who can Stefan trust to help him rescue his family and save his country from a reign of terror? Can he defeat the assassin know as Bloody Scourge? Stefan will have to enter the Neck of Hell to find out.

Download or read book Swordslinger written by Stefan Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure. Edge of your seat suspense. An undying love. Join Samuel Donachee as he journeys into the future to regain what he's lost in the past. "For The Glory Of Love" Samuel hunts a killer through a portal to present day Charlotte, North Carolina. His world of the 1300's in the highlands is disrupted when a mysterious stone falls from the sky. Its metallic properties when forged in blades creates a spirited weapon with a lust for blood, rewarding its owner with magicial abilities each time its desire is squinched. To achieve Samuel's greatest hope he fears his sword may lead him to become the monster he pursues.

Download or read book Aikido written by Stefan Stenudd and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aikido is the peaceful martial art. There are no attacks in aikido, only defense, and this defense should be so gentle that even the attacker is delighted by it. It is an art that takes a lifetime to learn, and it gets increasingly fascinating by each year. This book presents the principles and fundamental concepts of aikido - deeply rooted in Eastern philosophy and the refined ideals of the samurai. The first part of the book examines the aikido principles of how to find the peaceful solution, and how to enjoy aikido practice to the fullest. The second part explains the Japanese concepts used in aikido, such as ki, life energy, tanden, the center, and many more. There is also a chapter about kototama, the spiritual cosmology that was central to the founder of aikido. The third part includes an aikido glossary. A revised edition of this book is published with the title "Aikido Principles: Basic Concepts of the Peaceful Martial Art." Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish aikido instructor, 7 dan Aikikai shihan, member of the Swedish Grading Committee, President of the Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation, and former Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation. He has practiced aikido since 1972. He is also a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Download or read book Cage of Souls written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

Download or read book SURSORSAR Secret Pure Wisdom On Things QUALB the Giver the Supreme Being Whispers to a Human Being written by V. Alexander Stefan and published by Stefan University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Things QUALB the Giver, the Supreme Being, Whispers to a Human Being

Download or read book Liberty and the Search for Identity written by Iv n Zolt n D‚nes and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology, it was also the first secular movement to have an international presence. The scholarly articles in this collection, skillfully edited by Ivan Z. Denes, examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and analyze various relationships between liberalisms and nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts, nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities, traditions and modernities, images of the self and the others, modernization strategies and identity creations. This volume provides an important historical analysis that is essential toward understanding the questions and motivations of liberalism in the European Union today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to both historiography and contemporary politics. From these studies we gain a number of important insights not only into the variety of liberal nationalisms, but also into the unity and diversity of European history.

Download or read book Ashes and Blood written by Terry C. Simpson and published by Terry C Simpson. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Open World MANIFESTO written by V. Alexander STEFAN and published by Stefan University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. Alexander STEFAN The Open World MANIFESTO Novus Ordo Scientifico-Technologicus. QUALB Coeptis New Order Scientific-Technological. QUALB Cooperates CONTENTS BOOK 1 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: A New Earth and a New Atlantis Universe: Our Very Own 393 BOOK 2 HUMAN BEINGS; OUR ID-NUMBERS; OUR CONSCIOUSNESS of TIME 558 BOOK 3 FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, and PLURALISM: The Dawning of the Terrestrial Civilization 618 BOOK 4 THE AGE OF EDUCATION: CREATIVE EDUCATION versus DRILL EDUCATION 699 BOOK 5 HUMAN BEING and QUALB the GIVER, the SUPREME BEING: Science/Technology and Religion 754

Download or read book Meanings and Functions of the Ruler s Image in the Mediterranean World 11th 15th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers’ bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetković, Sofia Fernández Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.

Download or read book The Poetic Edda written by Edward Pettit and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr. Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition’s emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible. As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.

Download or read book Blood Prophecy written by Stefan Petrucha and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man and monster are in his blood. . . His name is Jeremiah Fall. A soldier of fortune, he has been fighting his own war for 150 years--ever since the beast in him was born. Desperate to restore his lost humanity, Fall crosses the sands of Egypt, discovers a lost city off the coast of France, and finally arrives at the birthplace of all mankind. Shunning daylight and feeding only when he must, he battles the monster who transformed him forever. He can share his deepest secret with no one . . . not even the beautiful woman he starts to love, the only human who grasps the mysteries of an ebony stone as old as creation itself. Across the world, across time, Fall seeks the stone's secret. But has he found a cure for himself or unleashed a final curse on all mankind?

Download or read book Space Weapons Earth Wars written by Robert Preston and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2002-02-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview aims to inform the public discussion of space-based weapons by examining their characteristics, potential attributes, limitations, legality, and utility. The authors do not argue for or against space weapons, nor do they estimate the potential costs and performance of specific programs, but instead sort through the realities and myths surrounding space weapons in order to ensure that debates and discussions are based on fact.

Download or read book The Dragon Star The Dragon Star Saga Book 1 written by G. L. Breedon and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One avenging goddess. Five shattered realms. Seven extraordinary heroes. A blood-red star blazes to life in a crow-black sky... Sha-Kutan looks up at a new star shinning beside the twin moons. He has spent years hiding from the past on his small farm, but now he senses a woman and a girl approaching -- and the men who pursue them. When they arrive, the woman claims the soldiers will kill the six-year-old princess for her strange powers if they find her. Torn between his new oaths and his old ways, he decides to protect them, even though it will alert the one who still hunts him. Now they flee for their lives together, following a star that heralds the birth of a goddess who promises to conquer the world. Soon, their fates are intertwined with six other exceptional people whose lives are thrust into turmoil by the new goddess -- a reluctant prophetess, a prince-turned-priest, a powerful sorcerer, a brilliant philosopher, a desperate noblewoman, and an immortal old man. They must all fight to protect those they love in a realm reeling from the chaos of an ancient and harrowing power. Will the new goddess's arrival fracture the world? And can Sha-Kutan and the other champions come together to save the realms when the old gods awaken to challenge her? Perfect for fans of The Wheel of Time and The Stormlight Archive series. "The character and world building are exceptional...Definitely recommended if you want a brilliant epic fantasy." -- Archaeolibrarian: I Dig Good Books! "The writing is beautiful...This is a well-crafted book and one I will not easily forget." -- Air Global Radio Network Book Reviews The Dragon Star Saga is a continuous novel spread over several books. The story so far: The Dragon Star (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 1: Episodes 1-3) The Shattered Realms (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 2: Episodes 4-7) The Lost Temple (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 3: Episodes 8-10) The Crimson Goddess (The Dragon Star Saga - Book 4: Episodes 11-14)

Download or read book Magical Objects written by Elmar Schenkel and published by Galda & Wilch. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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