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Author : Robert Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fantastica written by Robert Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brett P. S.
Publisher : Brett P. S.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Grimoire Fantastica written by Brett P. S. and published by Brett P. S.. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a stone labyrinth, in an underground crypt, Hector pursues a book of legendary power. Maddened monsters strive to strike down the lone wizard. Can the Grimoire grant Hector's wish?
Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063318520
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book America Fantastica written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel’s ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp.” —HARUKI MURAKAMI An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks “a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit” (Kirkus, starred review) Named one of Fall 2023's most anticipated books: New York Times, Associated Press, Kirkus, Goodreads, LitHub, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. “I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.” So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police. In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.
Author : Lazaro Agostino COTTA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book La Pirlonea. Commedia fantastica, faceta, e ridicola written by Lazaro Agostino COTTA and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. A. Levenston
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438410573
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Stuff of Literature written by E. A. Levenston and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The total meaning of a work of literature derives not only from what the words mean, but from what the text looks like. This stuff of literature, graphic substance or the physical raw material, is explored here in Levenston's comprehensive survey. Levenston discusses the main literary genres of poetry, drama, and fiction, and the extent to which they may be said to exist primarily in written or spoken form, or both. He then examines spelling, punctuation, typography, and layout, the four graphic aspects of a text which an author can manipulate for additional meanings. Also explored are the problems raised for translators by graphically unusual texts—and by the possibility of producing graphically unusual translations—and some of the solutions that have been found. A wealth of examples and analysis is offered, including poetry from Chaucer to Robert Graves and e. e. cummings; fiction such as Tristram Shandy, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake; works from Samuel Richardson to Ronald Sukenik; drama from Aristophanes to Bernard Shaw, and Shakespeare. Attention is also paid to graphic contributions in other literary traditions, from the Hebrew of the book of Psalms to Guillaume Apollinaires's "Calligrammes".
Author : Joseph Laycock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520284917
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Games written by Joseph Laycock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.
Author : Michael Ende
Publisher : hockebooks
ISBN 13 : 3957513847
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (575 download)
Download or read book The Neverending Story written by Michael Ende and published by hockebooks. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, The Neverending Story inspires readers around the world and awakens in them a longing to travel into the realm of fantasy themselves. But how can one find one’s way in a land without borders? Can its secrets be fathomed? Patrick Hocke and Roman Hocke open the door to Fantastica with this encyclopedia. The authors have researched Michael Ende’s world, scoured archives, and collected original quotations. They invite the reader on a journey to visit beloved and unknown creatures, to beautiful and eerie places in Fantastica.
Author : Sandra L. Beckett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461656796
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Beyond Babar written by Sandra L. Beckett and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-08-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often, attention is paid only to those children's novels that were written in English, with non-English-language works being passed over and neglected. Beyond Babar: The European Tradition in Children's Literature examines eleven of the most celebrated European children's novels in substantial, critical essays written by well-known international scholars. This approach provides a comprehensive discussion of the selected works from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Each essay offers a critical introduction to the text that can serve as a point of departure for literary scholars, professors of children's literature, primary and secondary school teachers, and librarians who are interested in texts that cross languages and cultures. Beyond Babar is especially meant to assist instructors of children's literature who would like to use these texts in the classroom, in order to begin to redress the English-language dominance of many children's literature courses. This volume will also be of interest to the general public, as its ultimate aim is to bring to the attention of all English-speaking readers the literature from other parts of the world, in this case from Europe. Beyond Babar helps to facilitate the border crossings of these European masterpieces of children's literature into the English-speaking world.
Author : Marc D. Feldman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000957802
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Playing Sick? written by Marc D. Feldman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 2004, Dr. Marc Feldman explores the bizarre cases of real patients who feign or even self-induce illness. Playing Sick? chronicles the devastating impact of illness hoaxes, including factitious disorders, Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen by proxy, and malingering. Based on years of research and clinical practice, Playing Sick? provides the clues that can help professionals, family members, friends, and patients themselves to recognize these diagnoses, avoid invasive procedures, and understand elusive motives. Dr. Feldman offers practical advice to get emotionally ill patients the help they need. This classic edition is essential reading for physicians, social workers, and anyone interested in why and how individuals fabricate illness.
Author : Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030043789
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence written by Friedrich Stadler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach. It explores his life, work, and legacy. Readers will gain a better understanding of this natural scientist and scholar who made major contributions to physics, the philosophy of science, and physiological psychology. The essays offer a critical inventory of Mach’s lifework in line with state-of-the-art research and historiography. It begins with physics, where he paved the way for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The account continues with Mach's contributions in biology, psychology, and physiology pioneering with an empiricist and gestalthaft Analysis of Sensations. Readers will also discover how in the philosophy of science he served as a model for the Vienna Circle with the Ernst Mach Society as well as paved the way for an integrated history and theory of science. Indeed, his influence extends far beyond the natural sciences -- to the Vienna Medical School and psychoanalysis (R. Bárány, J. Breuer, S. Freud), to literature (Jung Wien, R. Musil), to politics (F. Adler, Austro-Marxism and the Viennese adult education), to arts between Futurism and Minimal Art as well as to social sciences between the liberal school (J. Schumpeter, F. A. von Hayek) and empirical social research (P. Lazarsfeld und M. Jahoda).
Author : Joanna F. Fountain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610692314
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries written by Joanna F. Fountain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For public and school libraries, this resource reflects recent changes in Library of Congress subject headings and authority files, and provides bilingual information essential to reference librarians and catalogers serving Spanish speakers. Libraries must provide better access to their collections for all users, including Spanish-language materials. The American Library Association has recognized this increasing need. Subject Headings for School and Public Libraries: Bilingual Fourth Edition is the only resource available that provides both authorized and reference entries in English and Spanish. A first-check source for the most frequently used headings needed in school and public libraries, this book incorporates thousands of new and revised entries to assist in applying LCSH and CSH headings. Of the approximately 30,000 headings listed, most include cross-references, and all of the cross-reference terms are translated. MARC21 tags are included for all authorized entries to simplify entering them into computerized catalogs, while indexes to all headings and free-floating subdivisions are provided in translation from Spanish to English. This book gives librarians access to accurate translations of the subject terms printed in books published and cataloged in English-speaking countriesinvaluable information in settings with Spanish-speaking patrons.
Author : Mat Auryn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738768413
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Psychic Art of Tarot written by Mat Auryn and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2024-09-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Level Up Your Tarot Readings with Your Own Psychic Abilities Drawing on decades of experience as a professional reader, bestselling author Mat Auryn presents a comprehensive guide to unlocking your psychic potential. He shows you how to unite traditional tarot techniques and your own intuition, enhancing your readings with astounding levels of accuracy and insight. With 78 exercises, meditations, and rituals accessible for all practitioners, The Psychic Art of Tarot provides step-by-step instructions for understanding your unique psychic style and mastering an array of skills. Explore the arts of mediumship, soul alignment, auras, energy work, scrying, and more. Praised by Tarot: No Questions Asked author Theresa Reed as "an instant classic for tarot and psychic development," this book will unveil new dimensions of your practice. Includes a foreword by Rachel True, actress and author of True Heart Intuitive Tarot
Author : Amie A. Doughty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786449829
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book "Throw the book away" written by Amie A. Doughty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself. A major aspect of children's literature is the importance of books and reading. Books represent adult authority. This book examines the role that books, reading and writing play in children's fantasy fiction, from books that act as artifacts of power (The Abhorsen Trilogy, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Harry Potter) to interactive books (The Neverending Story, Malice, Inkheart) to books with character-writers (Percy Jackson, Captain Underpants). The author finds that although books and reading often play a prominent role in fantasy for children, the majority of young protagonists gain self-sufficiency not by reading but specifically by moving beyond books and reading.
Author : Stefan Ekman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573248
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Here Be Dragons written by Stefan Ekman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016) Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama—interacting with the characters, offering assistance or hindrance, and making ethical demands. In Here Be Dragons, Stefan Ekman provides a wide-ranging survey of the ubiquitous fantasy map as the point of departure for an in-depth discussion of what such maps can tell us about what is important in the fictional worlds and the stories that take place there. With particular focus on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ekman shows how fantasy settings deserve serious attention from both readers and critics. Includes insightful readings of works by Steven Brust, Garth Nix, Robert Holdstock, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, China Miéville, Patricia McKillip, Tim Powers, Lisa Goldstein, Steven R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, and Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.
Author : David Farnell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880057
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Perceiving Evil: Evil Women and the Feminine written by David Farnell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonella Lipscomb
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152750509X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Myth and Emotions written by Antonella Lipscomb and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emotive nature of myth lays the foundation of the research proposed for this trilingual volume. The book provides a thorough and multifaceted study that offers guidelines and models capable of interpreting mythical-emotional phenomena. It represents a major contribution to a more informed understanding of an important part of the writing and art of modernity and post-modernity, as well as cultures and thought of contemporary society.
Author : Danielle E. Hipkins
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1905981090
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic written by Danielle E. Hipkins and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary fantastic fiction, particularly that written by women, often challenges traditional literary practice. At the same time the predominantly male-authored canon of fantastic literature offers a problematic range of gender stereotypes for female authors to 're-write'.
