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Download or read book Deadly Powers written by Paul A. Trout and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating and evocative exploration of the origin and function of storytelling, the author goes beyond the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell, arguing that mythmaking evolved as a cultural survival strategy for coping with the constant fear of being killed and eaten by predators. Beginning nearly two million years ago in the Pleistocene era, the first stories, Trout argues, functioned as alarm calls, warning fellow group members about the carnivores lurking in the surroundings. At the earliest period, before the development of language, these rudimentary "stories" would have been acted out. When language appeared with the evolution of the ancestral human brain, stories were recited, memorized, and much later written down as the often bone-chilling myths that have survived to this day. This book takes the reader through the landscape of world mythology to show how our more recent ancestors created myths that portrayed animal predators in four basic ways: as monsters, as gods, as benefactors, and as role models. Each incarnation is a variation of the fear-management technique that enabled early humans not only to survive but to overcome their potentially incapacitating fear of predators. In the final chapter, Trout explores the ways in which our visceral fear of predators is played out in the movies, where both animal and human predators serve to probe and revitalize our capacity to detect and survive danger. Anyone with an interest in mythology, archaeology, folk tales, and the origins of contemporary storytelling will find this book an exciting and provocative exploration into the natural and psychological forces that shaped human culture and gave rise to storytelling and mythmaking.
Book Synopsis Escaping the Deadly Embrace by : Andrea Bartoletti
Download or read book Escaping the Deadly Embrace written by Andrea Bartoletti and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encirclement, Andrea Bartoletti argues, is an essential strategic possibility of the international system and a key trigger of major war. Using historical case studies, Escaping the Deadly Embrace examines how great powers try to escape the two-front war problem and seek to preserve their security. Encirclement is a geographic variable that occurs in the presence of one or two great powers on two different borders of the surrounded great power. The surrounding great powers may not have the capacity to initiate a joint invasion. Yet their threatening presence triggers a double security dilemma for the encircled great power, which has to disperse its army to secure its borders. When the surrounding great powers become capable of launching a two-front attack, the encircled great power initiates war. This situation, disastrous in itself, can also lead to war contagion when other great powers intervene in the new conflict owing to the rival-based network of alliances. Combining archival work and historiographical analysis, Escaping the Deadly Embrace demonstrates the efficacy of this by assessing three major wars: the Italian Wars, the Thirty Years' War, and World War I. These findings, Bartoletti shows, have important implications for future major wars. Challenging the current focus on the US-China rivalry, he argues that the most concerning strategic scenario is the encirclement of China by India and Russia.
Book Synopsis Command the Night with 370 Prayers against Deadly Arrows that Bury Destiny by : Tella Olayeri
Download or read book Command the Night with 370 Prayers against Deadly Arrows that Bury Destiny written by Tella Olayeri and published by GOD'S LINK VENTURES. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a destiny repairer book. A book that will let you alight from vehicle of stagnancy and failure, and occupy coast of breakthrough. Powers of darkness are furious and wicked. They prolong the stay of many in the wilderness and are ready to do more. Since victims of these deadly criminals refuse to pray violent prayers, they remain captives. You don’t romance with enemy, it kills. To avoid this, the book in your hand is written to stop their boast, threat and wickedness. You can perfectly go to war if you are well-equipped and brave enough to face the enemy. Learn the act to command the night with missile prayers against deadly arrows of the enemy breathing wickedly to destroy you. It is for this purpose, the prayer book in your hand is written. You are welcome on board of liberation. This book shall silence every miracle diverting agent assign against you. Every inherited darkness in your life shall disappear while every strongman and woman in the corridor of your life shall be defeated. Your fear shall fall upon your enemies and they shall eventually surrender. Today is the day, obtain your copy.
Download or read book Deadly Plans written by Rob Davis and published by Evershine Press Inc. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple day at work becomes a race for his life as loyal and patriotic Max discovers sensitive information that’s he not supposed to find. Thinking his friend and boss Mark is working with terrorists developing a new form of chemical weapons for mass destruction, Max enlists the help of his best friend Sam to foil the plans he discovered. Quickly Max is hiding out in FT Lauderdale before he and Sam fly to Jamaica where he discovers the truth. The US Government working with Mark has set a trap to stop a major terrorist group working in Afghanistan. Things don’t go quite as planned and Max and Sam learn their good life living in sunny Ft Lauderdale takes some serious turns as they become the hunted by both Jake a deranged psycho and the terrorists whose weapons supply they intended to stop.
Book Synopsis The Church in the Power of the Spirit by : Jürgen Moltmann
Download or read book The Church in the Power of the Spirit written by Jürgen Moltmann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, which in my opinion is Moltmann's best, can be recommended on the basis that it contains challenging and creative insights that can be used by the discriminating reader in the service of church renewal Moltmann represents the theology of liberation at its best, and those who wish to know more about this theology would do well to study this creative and searching theologian." --Donald G. Bloesch Christianity Today "Moltmann is perhaps unsurpassed among his contemporaries in keenness of insight and rhetorical power." --Daniel L. Migliore, Theology Today "Moltmann presents a stirring vision which every Christian community could well ponder With a missionary emphasis, he seeks to help the reader face the question of the church's identity in the light of the contemporary political, economic, and social scene." --Religious Education
Download or read book Deadly Imposter written by Bob Arnone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seeds of a killer are sown as Billy Bonner suffers torture at the hands of his father and two older brothers on the family farm in Iowa. He commits his first two acts of murder when he is just twelve years old, and he spends the rest of his life avenging the abuse his family perpetrated on him. Forty-two-year-old Nick Powers, a seventeen-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, is assigned to investigate a special case. A serial killer is on the loose in New York City. Targeting victims over the age of sixty, this murderer disguises himself as a charming deliveryman, policeman, or priest. After gaining entrance to the victims’ homes, he hangs the women by their ankles while they bleed to death, and then he removes their eyes. The notes left at the scenes read: “She should have seen.” Powers vows to catch this diabolical killer who has successfully eluded twenty police departments for twenty years. But the chase becomes personal when the killer contacts Powers and threatens to harm his family
Book Synopsis Deadly Imbalances by : Randall L. Schweller
Download or read book Deadly Imbalances written by Randall L. Schweller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars frequently portray the Second World War as an epic morality play driven by a villain (Hitler) and a sinner (Chamberlain). Deadly Imbalances offers a new approach, combining both the attributes of states and the structure of the international system to explain the origins and causes of the war. Central to Schweller's analysis is the argument that the structure of the international system was tripolar--with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States as the three central powers--and that this needs to be considered in any examination of the antecedent causes and crucial events of the war.
Book Synopsis The Review of Reviews by : Albert Shaw
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life and Mortality in Ugaritic by : Matthew McAffee
Download or read book Life and Mortality in Ugaritic written by Matthew McAffee and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy (“to live”). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli. McAffee’s study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.
Book Synopsis Harvard Studies in Classical Philology by : Harvard University
Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harvard Studies in Classical Philology by : Department of Classics Harvard University
Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by Department of Classics Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Polynesian Society by :
Download or read book Memoirs of the Polynesian Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club by : Quekett Microscopical Club (London, England)
Download or read book The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club written by Quekett Microscopical Club (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 by : Thomas Erskine May
Download or read book The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 written by Thomas Erskine May and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cahokia in Context by : Charles H. McNutt
Download or read book Cahokia in Context written by Charles H. McNutt and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive. Provides perspective on the interconnectedness of Cahokia with regional cultures, the evidence for (or against) this connection in specific areas, and the hows and whys of Cahokian influence on shaping regional cultures. There is no other comparable work.”—Lynne P. Sullivan, coeditor of Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective “This volume synthesizes information regarding possible contacts—direct or indirect—with Cahokia and offers several hypotheses about how those contacts may have occurred and what evidence the archaeological record offers.”—Mary Vermilion, Saint Louis University At its height between AD 1050 and 1275, the city of Cahokia was the largest settlement of the Mississippian culture, acting as an important trade center and pilgrimage site. While the influence of Cahokian culture on the development of monumental architecture, maize-based subsistence practices, and economic complexity throughout North America is undisputed, new research in this volume reveals a landscape of influence of the regions that had and may not have had a relationship with Cahokia. Contributors find evidence for Cahokia’s hegemony—its social, cultural, ideological, and economic influence—in artifacts, burial practices, and religious iconography uncovered at far-flung sites across the Eastern Woodlands. Case studies include Kinkaid in the Ohio River Valley, Schild in the Illinois River Valley, Shiloh in Tennessee, and Aztalan in Wisconsin. These essays also show how, with Cahokia’s abandonment, the diaspora occurred via the Mississippi River and extended the culture’s impact southward. Cahokia in Context demonstrates that the city’s cultural developments during its heyday and the impact of its demise produced profound and lasting effects on many regional cultures. This close look at Cahokia’s influence offers new insights into the movement of people and ideas in prehistoric America, and it honors the final contributions of Charles McNutt, one of the most respected scholars in southeastern archaeology. Charles H. McNutt (1928‒2017) was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Memphis and the editor of Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley. Ryan M. Parish is assistant professor of archaeology at the University of Memphis. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
