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Book Synopsis Dawn of the Disciples - Part One of the Arlanian Trilogy by : Mark O'Doherty
Download or read book Dawn of the Disciples - Part One of the Arlanian Trilogy written by Mark O'Doherty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sorcerer Aurelon trains his disciples at the High Temple of Braed, forming his mismatched group of learners into a dynamic force, in the hope that this soul-group will bring peace to the war-torn and racially divided world of Era. But the Law of Segregation Ð that no Humans are permitted to live in the Arlanian Empire Ð causes confusion and strife among the disciples. It is Velvet, the Arlanian Renegade Priestess, who commits the ultimate crime, by giving her sexual love to invading human soldiers, in the hope of bringing fusion between the two races, causing a revival of the ancient Fusion Cult. Anise, neophyte at the High Temple and disciple of Aurelon, joins the movement; which causes her expulsion from the Temple. Travelling to the war-torn city of Aldorone, Anise attempts to spread the call of reconciliation by herself. She receives unexpected help from the mysterious prostitute, Crystal. And then she also meets Cearnis, the Zimraque High Priestess, and sworn enemy of the Arlanian Empire...
Book Synopsis Descent into Doracheon - Part Two of the Arlanian Trilogy by : Mark O'Doherty
Download or read book Descent into Doracheon - Part Two of the Arlanian Trilogy written by Mark O'Doherty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Led by their visionary strength, the disciples are on the quest of finding the legendary Cosmic Jewel, which is believed to bring peace between the Zimraque and the Arlanian people. Their journey leads them into Doracheon, a sister city of the Arlanian Empire, ruled by the immortal Matriarch, Queen Caetherra, who is believed to use dark necromancy to uphold the might of their subterranean kingdom. Alastryr, Eulalayio and Wempos are resolved to end the rule of Caetherra, but Uranity opposes them, and a bitter battle for the control of Doracheon begins... Anise and Sirina, the other other disciples, decide to join forces with the Arlanian High Priestesses, Thephar-Ka and Hecate, resuming their quest for the Cosmic Jewel. But to find it, they must get to the Ether; the only way for them to get there being the Aquatix Vortex in the Sitarrean Sea, a maelstrom of death, from which nobody has been known to return...
Book Synopsis Death of the Disciples - Part Three of the Arlanian Trilogy by : Mark O'Doherty
Download or read book Death of the Disciples - Part Three of the Arlanian Trilogy written by Mark O'Doherty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the nations of Era have been in turmoil, but the conflict escalates to new heights when the greatest Zimraque army in history invades Braed, bringing genocide to the Arlanian people. The remaining eight disciples have seperated. Nylith, Alastryr, Uranity and Eulalylio are trapped in Doracheon, a kingdom ruled by omnipotent dark magics, from which death may be the only escape. Zlatco and Sirina attempt to rally the pirate nation of Gothane, while Anise and the Sorcerer Beaver enter the nightmarish Forest of Vallone, to recruit Warlord Gaulen, the mad genius, who had turned againts his own people. Tied to the Arlanian Empire by bonds of passion and destiny, the disciples begin to see that all its problems originate from a single source - Cearnis, who is backed by a network of evil that stretches across the sea to the far reaches of Doracheon. With this realization, the disciples understand they too, are being lured by Cearnis into a subtle and deadly trap...
Book Synopsis Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival by : Martin Seth Kramer
Download or read book Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival written by Martin Seth Kramer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the political ground beneath the Middle East has shifted. Arab nationalism the political orthodoxy for most of this century has lost its grip on the imagination and allegiance of a new generation. At the same time, Islam as an ideology has spread across the region, and "Islamists" bid to capture the center of politics. Most Western scholars and experts once hailed the redemptive power of Arabism. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival is a critical assessment of the contradictions of Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism, and the misrepresentation of both in the West. The first part of the book argues that Arab nationalism--the so-called Arab awakening--bore within it the seeds of its own failure. Arabism as an idea drew upon foreign sources and resources. Even as it claimed to liberate the Arabs from imperialism it deepened intellectual dependence upon the West's own romanticism and radicalism. Ultimately, Arab nationalism became a force of oppression rather than liberation, and a mirror image of the imperialism it defied. Kramer's essays together form the only chronological telling and the at fully documented postmortem of Arabism. The second part of the book examines the similar failings of Islamism, whose ideas are Islamic reworkings of Western ideological radicalism. Its effect has been to give new life to old rationales for oppression, authoritarianism, and sectarian division. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival provides an alternative view of a century of Middle Eastern history. As the region moves fitfully past ideology, Kramer's perspective is more compelling than at any time in the past-in Western academe no less than among many in the Middle. This book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, economists, and Middle East specialists.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars by : David Kohut
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars written by David Kohut and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of 'The Dirty Wars' focuses on the period 1954-1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries; guerrilla and political movements; prominent guerrilla, human-rights, military, and political figures; local, regional, and international human-rights organizations; and artistic figures (filmmakers, novelists, and playwrights) whose works attempt to represent or resist the period of repression.
Download or read book Timeless Cities written by David Mayernik and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In this masterful blend of art and cultural history, architect David Mayernik reveals how the very different cities of Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza were all literally designed to be both models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on a journey into the past in Timeless Cities, but he also explains why these city-building ideas remain relevant today. For those travelling on vacation or appreciating the art and architecture of Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the Renaissance mind a little closer.
Book Synopsis The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture by : Professor David Mayernik
Download or read book The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture written by Professor David Mayernik and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.
Download or read book Desert Mojito written by Nazli Ghassemi and published by Nazli Ghassemi. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Bibinaz Rostampisheh-Williams leads a life almost as complicated as her name in flamboyant desert city Dubai, where East and West collide at top speed. We cross cultural boundaries on a humorous journey with Maya and her odd circle of international friends as they stumble into social, sexual, and romantic challenges posed by religion, tradition, and politics in the modern Middle East. -- back cover.
Book Synopsis Seventy Scottish Songs by : Helen Hopekirk
Download or read book Seventy Scottish Songs written by Helen Hopekirk and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Paths to the Middle East by : Thomas Naff
Download or read book Paths to the Middle East written by Thomas Naff and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Middle East studies is undergoing a generational change in academia, government, and the corporate community. The men and women who trained the present generation of scholars and who shaped government and corporate policies toward the Middle East after World War II have begun to retire, and unfortunately some have recently died. To preserve their insights into the past and their visions of the future, Thomas Naff asked a number of major Islamic and Middle East scholars to provide their perspectives and views in a short, personal summation of their careers. This book is a compilation of their responses. It provides a unique evaluation of the last 30 or 40 years by ten of the most distinguished pioneers representing key branches of the field. Pierre Cachia, Albert Hourani, J.C. Hurewitz, Halil Inalcik, Charles Issawi, Ernest McCarus, George Makdisi, Don Peretz, Dankwart A. Rustow, and Farhat J. Ziadeh have provided their perspectives on the past and present, their visions of future paths to be explored, and their wisdom drawn from decades of experience and scholarship. Whatever didacticism is offered in this book is not formal. Lessons, insights, wisdom, and inspiration are almost invisibly woven into the fabric of fascinating biographical narrative told with wit, style, self-effacement, and candor.
Book Synopsis The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 by : Jaroslav Folda
Download or read book The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 written by Jaroslav Folda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 examines the art and architecture produced for the Crusaders in Syria-Palestine during the first century of their quest to recapture Jerusalem. Commissioned by kings and queens, patriarchs and bishops, knights and merchants, who came as pilgrims or settlers to the Holy Land, it is an art of manuscript illumination, fresco painting, mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, ivory carving, coins and seals by artists trained in the Latin West, and the Byzantine and Islamic East. Combining the stylistic and iconographic traditions of these regions, Crusader art defies easy categorization: indeed, it is a unique phenomenon within the spectrum of medieval art.
Book Synopsis St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by : Thomas Riggs
Download or read book St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition. It includes 3,036 signed essays (300 of them new), alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance). The entries analyze each topic or person's significance in and relevance to American popular culture; in addition to basic factual information, readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance.
Book Synopsis Kumba Africa by : Sampson Ejike Odum
Download or read book Kumba Africa written by Sampson Ejike Odum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘KUMBA AFRICA’, is a compilation of African Short Stories written as fiction by Sampson Ejike Odum, nostalgically taking our memory back several thousands of years ago in Africa, reminding us about our past heritage. It digs deep into the traditional life style of the Africans of old, their beliefs, their leadership, their courage, their culture, their wars, their defeat and their victories long before the emergence of the white man on the soil of Africa. As a talented writer of rich resource and superior creativity, armed with in-depth knowledge of different cultures and traditions in Africa, the Author throws light on the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa when civilization was yet unknown to the people. The book reminds the readers that the Africans of old kept their pride and still enjoyed their own lives. They celebrated victories when wars were won, enjoyed their New yam festivals and villages engaged themselves in seasonal wrestling contest etc; Early morning during harmattan season, they gathered firewood and made fire inside their small huts to hit up their bodies from the chilling cold of the harmattan. That was the Africa of old we will always remember. In Africa today, the story have changed. The people now enjoy civilized cultures made possible by the influence of the white man through his scientific and technological process. Yet there are some uncivilized places in Africa whose people haven’t tested or felt the impact of civilization. These people still maintain their ancient traditions and culture. In everything, we believe that days when people paraded barefooted in Africa to the swarmp to tap palm wine and fetch firewood from there farms are almost fading away. The huts are now gradually been replaced with houses built of blocks and beautiful roofs. Thanks to modern civilization. Donkeys and camels are no longer used for carrying heavy loads for merchants. They are now been replaced by heavy trucks and lorries. African traditional methods of healing are now been substituted by hospitals. In all these, I will always love and remember Africa, the home of my birth and must respect her cultures and traditions as an AFRICAN AUTHOR.
Book Synopsis The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World by : Uriel Dann
Download or read book The Hashemites in the Modern Arab World written by Uriel Dann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the crucial role of the Hashemites in Arab nationalism throughout the 20th century, from the 1916 Arab Revolt through the creation of Arab states after World War I, the attempts at Arab unity, and the establishment of two kingdoms, to the current Palestinian debate.
Book Synopsis Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World by : Mark Juergensmeyer
Download or read book Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts of the day: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel, and Muslim movements from the Middle East to Indonesia. In addition to providing valuable insights into these important incidents, the authors – social scientists and historians of comparative religion – are responding to the theoretical issues articulated by René Girard in Violence and the Sacred (1977). The present volume is the first book of essays to test Girard’s theories about the social significance of religious symbols of violence against real, rather than symbolic, acts. In some cases his theories are found to be applicable; in other cases, the authors provide alternative theories of their own. In a concluding essay, co-authored by Mark Anspach, Girard provides a response.
Book Synopsis The Sex-Starved Marriage by : Michele Weiner Davis
Download or read book The Sex-Starved Marriage written by Michele Weiner Davis and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring the spark back into your bedroom and your marriage with gutsy and effective advice from bestselling author Michele Weiner-Davis. It is estimated that one of every three married couples struggles with problems associated with mismatched sexual desire. Do you? If you want to stop fighting about sex and revitalize your intimate connection with your spouse, then you need this book. In The Sex-Starved Marriage, bestselling author Michele Weiner Davis will help you understand why being complacent or bitter about ho-hum sex might cost you your relationship. Full of moving firsthand accounts from couples who have struggled with the erosion of sexual desire and rebuilt their passionate connection, The Sex-Starved Marriage addresses every aspect of the sexual libido problem: If you're the more highly sexed partner, you'll breathe a sigh of relief. At last someone understands your feelings about the void in your marriage. Discover why your pleas for touch have fallen upon deaf ears and why your approach to the lull in your sexual relationship could be a sexual turnoff. Most important, learn new ways to motivate your spouse to take your needs for more physical closeness to heart. If you're the spouse with a lagging libido, you're far from alone. You'll learn about the physiological and psychological factors, including unresolved relationship issues, that may contribute to the chill in your bedroom and what you can do to melt the ice. And if you're a man, you'll be surprised to learn that staggering numbers of men, even men whose sexual machinery works just fine, "get headaches" too! The Sex-Starved Marriage will give you and your spouse the inspiration, encouragement, and answers you need.
