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The Brief History of the Dead

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375424237
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Brief History of the Dead written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

The Romance of Antar

Author : Terrick Hamilton
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484918562
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Antar written by Terrick Hamilton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is generally believed that this celebrated Arabian Romance was composed, in the eighth century, from traditionary tales which had been long current in the East, by El-Asma'ee, a famous philologist and poet at the court of Haroon Er-Rasheed. Other authors and sources (for instance, Johainah and Abu Obeidah) are mentioned in the work, but these, according to Von Hammer, have been inserted by story-tellers in the coffeehouses. Lane, in his admirable work on the Modern Egyptians, remarks that the 'Ulama (learned men) 'in general despise the romance, and ridicule the assertion that El-Asma'ee was its author': their opinion, however, on a question of this kind, is of little value. The complete work is usually bound up in forty-five volumes of various sizes-presenting a mass sufficient to appal the most indefatigable of translators; not to speak of the impossibility of finding European readers who would wade through the translation, if published. An abridged copy of this voluminous work, done by some learned Syrians (and hence called the Shamiyeh, or Syrian Antar, to distinguish it from the original, which was known as the Hijaziyeh, or Arabian Antar), having been obtained by Mr Terrick Hamilton, during his residence at Constantinople, in his capacity of Oriental Secretary to the British Embassy there, he was induced by its comparative brevity to undertake the task of translating it into English.

Bedoueen Legends, and Other Poems

Author : Welbore St. Clair Baddeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bedoueen Legends, and Other Poems written by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Mythology A to Z

Author : Patricia Ann Lynch
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119887
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book African Mythology A to Z written by Patricia Ann Lynch and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed specifically for young readers, the Mythology A to Z series explores the world's most important myths and legends in an accessible and entertaining manner. Each volume includes vividly written entries on the major figures, places, stories, objects, and themes of a given mythology. A vast continent, Africa is the home of the first humans and the birthplace of many cultures, ranging from nomadic bands to farmers to sophisticated civilizations. With four major language families and myriad peoples, Africa is also the source of a diverse and engaging body of myth. African Mythology A to Z is a clearly written reference guide to this lore. Containing 42 illustrations, two maps, a time line, a bibliography, an index, and extensive cross-references, African Mythology A to Z is a comprehensive and accessible reference guide for anyone interested in learning more about various African myths, traditions, and beliefs.

The Mythology of Horses

Author : Gerald Hausman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307824756
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of Horses written by Gerald Hausman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of myths and facts about horses, their honored place in human history, and the mystique that has surrounded them in cultures around the globe. Horses have always held a mystical sway over the human imagination; no other creature has inspired the same reverence or cross-cultural fascination. The Mythology of Horses offers a comprehensive look at horse breeds around the world, exploring their heritage, physical attributes, and place in human society, as well as the folklore, popular mythology, and true stories surrounding each breed. In this evocative, one-of-a-kind reference, folklorists Gerald and Loretta Hausman present stories from breeders, Olympic equestrians, and cowboys, along with tales about famous horse owners from Buffalo Bill to Roy Rogers, Genghis Khan to Napoleon. Vividly capturing the aura that has surrounded horses throughout time, this collection will fascinate horse lovers of all kinds.

Antarctica in British Children’s Literature

Author : Sinead Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100026257X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica in British Children’s Literature written by Sinead Moriarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children. The text is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on the stories of early-twentieth-century explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature highlights the impact of children’s literature on the expedition writings of Robert Scott, including the influence of Scott’s close friend, author J.M. Barrie. The text also reveals the important role of children’s literature in the contemporary resurgence of interest in Scott’s long-term rival Ernest Shackleton. Part II focuses on fictional narratives set in the Antarctic, including early-twentieth-century whaling literature, adventure and fantasy texts, contemporary animal stories and environmental texts for children. Together these two sections provide an insight into how depictions of this unique continent have changed over the past century, reflecting transformations in attitudes towards wilderness and wild landscapes.

The Athenaeum

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antarctica in Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020824
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica in Fiction written by Elizabeth Leane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.

E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam

Author : E. J. Brill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004097933
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam written by E. J. Brill and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Athenæum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athenæum written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black World/Negro Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black World/Negro Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.

Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme

Author : Marilyn Landis
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 156976591X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica: Exploring the Extreme written by Marilyn Landis and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The danger and excitement of Antarctic exploration from the earliest sea voyages through the 20th-century overland expeditions racing to the South Pole.

Muslim Studies

Author : George McCue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351504045
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Studies written by George McCue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of Goldziher's Muslim Studies, which ranks highly among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam. Indeed, the two volumes, originally published in German in 1889-1890, can justly be counted among those that laid the foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion and a civilization. The first study deals with the reaction of Islam to the ideals of Arab tribal society, to the attitudes of early Islam to the various nationalities and more especially the Persians, and culminates in the chapter on the Shu'ubiya movement which represents the reaction of the newly converted peoples, and again more especially the Persians, to the idea of Arab superiority. The second essay is the famous study on the development of the Hadith, the -Traditions- ascribed to Muhammed, in which the Hadith is shown to reflect the various trends of early Islam: Goldziher's name is mainly associated with the critical study of the Hadith, of which this essay is the chief monument. The third essay is about the cult of saints, which, though contrary to the spirit and letter of the earliest Islam, played such an important part in its subsequent development. These essays, with the author's marvelous richness of information, profound historical sense, and sympathetic insight into the motive forces of religion and civilization, are today as fresh as at the time of their original publication and their reissue is indispensable for the growing number of students of Islam. Hamid Dabashi contributes a major eighty-five-page study of Goldziher's life and scholarship, situating both in the intellectual and political currents of his own time while evaluating his work in the context of the current debate over Orientalism.

THE CAVES OF ANTARCTICA

Author : Raymundo Teles
Publisher : Editora Novo Século
ISBN 13 : 6555613386
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book THE CAVES OF ANTARCTICA written by Raymundo Teles and published by Editora Novo Século. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A subglacial and highly technological world, almost a complete unknown, reigns under millions of tons of ice. A small, prosperous kingdom in a desert region of Africa occupied by a myriad of peoples and ethnicities, whose legends are _ lled with magic and mystery. A majestic ancient cave in Ethiopia, atop steep and abrupt mountains, where a strange community lives, preserving its myths, knowledge, and a gnosis that sets it apart from the civilized world. At the Australian Embassy in Antarctica, in the Nevada Crater, a sailor comes across a series of enigmatic events such as the unsolved kidnapping and murder of athletes by an Ice wizard in the unique and strange African kingdom, linking obscure worlds in a plot that will involve queens, princesses, detectives, sorceres, giants, and monsters. In this work, the author takes us into a world of fantasy and science fiction, through an original plot that involves jealousy, passion, struggle, and power, creating a gripping story and maintaining suspense from beginning to end.

The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia

Author : Malcolm D. Allen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271073268
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia written by Malcolm D. Allen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991-04-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. D. Allen's study deals with T. E. Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theater of war, and hence his own literary production. The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia investigates the influence Lawrence's interest in medieval life and literature had on his attitudes toward life in general and—in content, theme, and diction—on his masterpiece, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in particular. Allen begins with a brief biography of Lawrence—his early interest in things medieval and his somewhat controversial BA thesis on crusader castles. Allen then reveals the extent to which Lawrence's ideas about honor, warfare, and chivalry in the Arab war against the Turks were shaped by his reading in medieval writings such as Malory's Morte d'Arthur. (Both, as he makes clear, were warrior societies dominated by horses.) Lawrence's reading in the nineteenth-century medievalism is also explored, as in Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and Ruskin's writing on art, where the parallel between Ruskin's ideas on ornament and Lawrence's ideas about the dignity of war is demonstrated. Allen then identifies the medieval and neomedieval texts of Seven Pillars of Wisdom and shows why and to what effect Lawrence borrowed from chivalric, neochivalric, and pseudochivalric works, and sometimes transmogrified them, revealing Lawrence's greatest inspiration to be an English translation of the Moallakat (which is, so to speak, the Arabic Beowulf). Allen sheds new light on many aspects of the influence of medievalism on Lawrence's thought and writing.

Cultures in Contact in Medieval Spain

Author : David Hook
Publisher : King's College London Clams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cultures in Contact in Medieval Spain written by David Hook and published by King's College London Clams. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors: Samuel G. Armistead, Roger Boase, Charles Burnett, Alan Deyermond, John Edwards, Brenda Fish, T.J. Gorton, Richard Hitchcock, David Hook, Francisco Marcos Marín, Ralph Penny, Barry Taylor, Roger M. Walker, Milija Pavlovic

The Very True Legend of the Mongolian Death Worms

Author : Sandra Fay
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250862108
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Very True Legend of the Mongolian Death Worms written by Sandra Fay and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2024 Washington Children's Choice Award Nominee A funny picture book celebrating the universal truth about wanting to be loved just as you are, fangs and all, inspired by the real-life legend of Mongolian Death Worms. Like the ongoing search for Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster, scientists have searched the Gobi Desert for these giant worms. Reported sightings claim that their skin is blood red; their fangs razor sharp. The worms are supposedly poisonous and electrifying . . . or are they? In this funny story, we meet the Mongolian Death Worm family: Beverly, Trevor, Neville and Kevin. In spite of their deadly reputation, they’re determined to make nice and win over the other animals. Their overtures of friendship are . . . not reciprocated. But when disaster strikes, it’s the Mongolian Death Worm family to the rescue! With additional information about the legend, this book is perfect for storytime and discussions of legends and science. Perfect for fans of Ben Clanton, Sandra Fay's The Very True Legend of the Mongolian Death Worms will leave readers of all ages laughing and heartwarmed! Godwin Books