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Publisher : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book All the Heroes are Dead written by and published by Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.
Author : Apoorva Bharadwaj
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443855952
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Narcissism Conundrum written by Apoorva Bharadwaj and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a psycho-biographic analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s works so as to map the complex mindscape of the author in order to unearth those thought processes that culminated in the character architecture of his protagonists inaugurating a tradition of a narcissistic self-fictionalization. His epistolary literature has been primarily used as an opulent source of biographic information for profiling the real Hemingway, de-skinning the photogenic cosmetic layers of glamour that this hunter-fisherman-soldier-author had a fetish to don flamboyantly. This methodical, meticulous book dissecting the character anatomies of Hemingway’s protagonists using the tool of biographic chronicle will enable Hemingway aficionados to decipher the narcissism conundrum that haloes this author’s mystic persona.
Author : Esther Eidinow
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199642036
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion written by Esther Eidinow and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial research and orientation tool for students of the ancient world, and also makes a vital contribution to the key debates surrounding the conceptualization of ancient Greek religion. The handbook's initial chapters lay out the key dimensions of ancient Greek religion, approaches to evidence, and the representations of myths. The following chapters discuss the continuities and differences between religious practices in different cultures, including Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. The range of contributions emphasizes the diversity of relationships between mortals and the supernatural - in all their manifestations, across, between, and beyond ancient Greek cultures - and draws attention to religious activities as dynamic, highlighting how they changed over time, place, and context.
Author : Bernhard Giesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317250079
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Triumph and Trauma written by Bernhard Giesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism-for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people-are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery and expulsion. The first part of the book deals with the heroes and victims and explores the social construction of charisma and its inevitable decay. Part 2 focuses on a paradigm case of the collective trauma of perpetrators: German national identity between 1945 and 2000. After a time of latency, the legacy of nationalistic trauma was addressed in a public conflict between generations. The conflict took center stage in vivid public debates and became a core element of Germany's official political culture. Today public confessions of the guilt of the past have spread beyond the German case. They are part of a new post-utopian pattern of collective identity in a globalised setting.
Author : Peter Gent
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453220704
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Franchise written by Peter Gent and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA corrupt football team fights to become the sport’s dominant franchise/divDIV/divDIVThe Texas Pistols never should have been. The league had no business awarding a team to dying Park City, but it only took a little pressure—financial and otherwise—to bring the expansion franchise to town. At first, they’re worthless, playing in an empty stadium for slack-jawed fans, but the owners have a plan. Five years to financial security. Five years to complete domination of the sport. Five years to the Super Bowl. And it starts with Taylor Rusk./divDIV /divDIVBut Rusk, the finest college quarterback of his generation, is no fool, and he realizes quickly that all is not honest in Park City. He doesn’t want to stop the corruption; he wants a piece of it, and for a price he will lead his new team to glory. In Texas, football is life. But in Park City, it can mean death, too./div
Author : Doug Woolsey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1442105933
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Battleaxe Rpg written by Doug Woolsey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2004-09-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the war-ravaged world of Mordredica, ancient battlefield of the Gods and prison of the Forty Sorcerers, the BattleAxe RPG takes players to a deep fantasy world steeped in mystery and lore.Fully revised and reformatted in a 6"x9", printer-friendly pdf.Includes the complete supplement, The Creeping Dead, and both versions of the hero record sheets.
Author : Peter Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195364139
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Along with Youth written by Peter Griffin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling biography, Peter Griffin draws on a wealth of previously unpublished material--including numerous letters and five of Hemingway's early short stories that appear in their entirety--to trace the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors. Along with Youth examines in richer detail than any previous account Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his relations with his parents, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I. It sheds new light on his wartime romance with Agnes von Kurowsky, his first love (and a model for the character of Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms), as well as on the circumstances surrounding his wounding and convalescence. It closes with Hemingway on the brink of the literary career that would bring him worldwide fame. The five short stories--"The Mercenaries," "Crossroads," "Portrait of an Idealist in Love," "The Ash Heel's Tendon," and "The Current"--reveal that the Hemingway vision and style preceded the 1920s, his Paris years with Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. The book also contains many other newly uncovered documents--including letters written by Ernest to his closest friend, Bill Horne, before and after the Kurowsky love affair--which provide a rich new perspective on Hemingway's emotional development and his beginnings as a writer. Jack Hemingway, Ernest's son by his first wife, Hadley Richardson, made his mother's complete correspondence available to Griffin and also contributed a foreword in which he writes, "[Griffin] has shown me insights into my own father's character and behavior I would not have thought possible in view of the time lapse between Hemingway's death and the research he accomplished." This is the first installment of a projected three-volume life which promises to be the definitive Hemingway biography for this generation.
Author : Zachary VanRensselaer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304642321
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dead Star: The Future of Heroes written by Zachary VanRensselaer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last hero passed away long ago and a period of peace has been in heavy supply. That means nothing to the mighty Queen Jappina, who wants to take the Earth as her own once again. Carlos Zane Manuel doesn't know it but he is going to be the one to stop her, wielding the ancient source of power known as Energy.
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624666779
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)
Download or read book The Nibelungenlied written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage, its consistent companion text in the manuscript tradition, continues the story, detailing the devastating aftermath of the Burgundians' bloody slaughter. William Whobrey's new volume offers both—together for the first time in English—in a prose version informed by recent scholarship that brilliantly conveys to modern readers not only the sense but also the tenor of the originals.
Author : Ryan Aslesen
Publisher : War's Edge
ISBN 13 : 9781098308155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (81 download)
Download or read book War's Edge written by Ryan Aslesen and published by War's Edge. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 35th Century, mankind has colonized vast reaches of space, yet war remains constant as galactic governments and interstellar corporations fight for control of resource-rich planets and lucrative interstellar trade routes. And if centuries of war has taught man one thing, it's that planets are valuable and lives are cheap. In a desperate attempt to escape his current life, Mark Rizer drops out of his prestigious university and enlists in the elite Marines of the United Systems Alliance defense forces. It's a decision that will take him across the galaxy, first to endure a sadistic boot camp designed to transform him into a ruthless killing machine, and then to join the ranks of the hardened Marines of Murder Company.Deployed to Verdant, a remote jungle moon at the edge of Alliance space, Mark finds himself fighting a ghostly enemy in an unending conflict where victories are measured in body counts and death is the only ticket home. The daily grind of combat patrols transforms good men into cold-blooded killers and weak ones into bitter memories. At the bleeding edge of space, Mark learns the true cost of war as he fights for his life, his platoon mates, and his humanity. In the 35th Century, war has evolved.Man hasn't.
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847686711
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Cowboy Metaphysics written by Peter A. French and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. In that world he finds alternatives to Judeo-Christian traditions that dominate our ethical theories, alternatives that also attack the views of the most prominent ethicists of the past three centuries.
Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317252608
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites written by Marcel Mauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture, religion, and symbolism. The central thrust in this new interpretive effort uses the Durkheimian theory of the sacred to understand the symbolism and meanings of cultural structures and narratives more generally. This book is vital to any contemporary collection emphasizing social theory.
Author : Roger Kuin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802041883
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Chamber Music written by Roger Kuin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Kuin's Chamber Music is a playfully written, imaginative, and ultimately demanding book, with a critical approach characterized by an unusual and indiosynchratic post-modern critical style that will challenge the reader's perceptions of what a book of criticism should and can do. Analysing the sonnet sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare both from an interpretive angle and from the perspective of a post-modern re-evaluation of the Renaissance sonnets, Roger Kuin's discussion is influenced by many modern literary critics, including Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco. Kuin focuses on the problems inherent in the form of the sonnet sequence, emphasizing the various forms of indeterminacy central to their meaning. His sense of the intertextual relationship among the major English sequences is subtle, and in places, strikingly original, in combination with a highly sophisticated understanding of theory. Chamber Music is a book that will infuriate many, but ultimately reward those who flow with its idiosyncratic style towards Roger Kuin's admirable and expert conclusions.
Author : Nikki Sixx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847396143
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Heroin Diaries written by Nikki Sixx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Motley Crue were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with others addicts, friends and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze. THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy, Vince and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family and finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived. Brutally honest, utterly riveting and shockingly moving, THE HEROIN DIARIES follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.
Author : Clark Howard
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504062078
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Challenge the Widow-Maker written by Clark Howard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive. A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife’s cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends with criminals in the midst of the famous Dakar Rally. Challenge the Widow-Maker is a collection of short stories about ordinary people facing extraordinary problems—and fighting back even when life has beaten them down. The title story took second place at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s annual Readers Awards (another story by author Clark Howard won the top spot that year), and was nominated for an Edgar Award. Featuring characters who experience “one more chance at the brass ring: the gift of surviving another day,” this absorbing collection comes from an author whose work has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories and other anthologies, and earned numerous honors from crime fiction critics and fans (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Oleg Seriy
Publisher : PROJECT - EDEN, Ent.
ISBN 13 : 9662511008
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The World of Unicellular written by Oleg Seriy and published by PROJECT - EDEN, Ent.. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critique: It is about the connection of Anunaki and the Earth for the first time. By the way, by this fact “The World of Unicellular” reminds very much of scandalous books of Zecharia Sitchin, such as “The 12th Planet” (1978), “When Time Began” (1993), “Jorneys to the Mythical Past” (2008) in which the origin of our planet and mankind as result of attack Anunaki from a planet of Nibiru reveals. Sales of these books were enormous and they have caused huge interest in the people. Zecharia Sitchin, the expert on history and culture of the Near East, ancient languages and Sumer writing, on the basis of system researches of Sumer, Assyrian, Babylon and Hebrew texts has come to the conclusions shaking bases both a modern science, and religions concerning a mankind origin. Oleg Seriy not only became on protection of the theory of Sitchin, but also has developed it in a new radical way, having added his own vision of the world creation. A task of Seriy, as he puts it to himself is “that we have think of and change our life”, hence, the author is not able to manage it without the sermon turned to grass-roots. There are so many talks about a doomsday and attack of aliens, but everybody thinks that aliens will capture people from space. There is no one thinking that it can be in another way. The author was the first expressing the ideas about those aliens are got into people!!! Also he was the first who has developed this idea. Oleg Seriy hasn’t laid aside the problems of economic and political character also. George Orwell in his “1984”, John Perkins in “Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man” tried to reach the judiciousness of people. But it was only the iceberg top. Oleg Seriy’s work is more deeply developed, rather than Perkins managed to do it. Oleg Seriy’ deeper and radical thoughts admire with the completeness and innovation. This book is really stunning from the point of view of sense and the maintenance. The idea, that people are morons, is very courageous statement. Even Zion wise men that have described “Akumas” (people-slaves) in their reports, have not dare to do it. The idea about the deepest global problem of a society (mankind moronity) is a basis for thinking about meaning of the life. And it is necessary so few to reach the idyll, so desired by a society. The only thing needs is to resolve this problem (to get rid of mankind moronity). But are people capable to understand it? This question is bringing up through the whole book of the author. Conclusion The author has mentioned ideas, which only great writers, as H.G. Wells in his “War of the Worlds”, or Ursula K. Le Guin in her “Rocannon’s World” have dared to mention. The Same ideas have been filmed in such films as “2012” directed by Roland Emmerich and “Mars attacks!” directed by Tim Burton, who has collected 2 awards and 13 nominations. It is just surprisingly how well Oleg Seriy has managed to display all problems exciting mankind in his book. Authors and directors even earlier have tried to state urgent problems in their works, but Oleg Seriy managed to collect all facts in one book and to state them from a position of the modern world, to introduce the opinion of theory of a mankind origin from deeper point of view. So favourite and popular among readers book of known writers even were filmed by successful directors: «1984» directed by Michael Radford (on George Orwell’s novel of the same name), “War of the worlds” directed by Stephen Spielberg (on Herbert Wells’ novel of the same name), “War of the worlds of Herbert Wells” by Timothy Hines (as a the filmed version of the novel of Herbert Wells “War of the worlds”). Who is this AntiChrist?!? What are signs of a doomsday?!? What measures will be undertaken by aliens against the fallen mankind?!? In this book you will find answers to these and many other questions. Good Luck GSS, Ltd.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585106267
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book The Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology includes English translations of three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous, and Oidipous at Colonus. The trilogy includes an introductory essay on Sophocles life, ancient theatre, and the mythic and religious background of the plays. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a single play edition. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
