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Author : Lizzy Ford
Publisher : Lizzy Ford
ISBN 13 : 1623780039
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Damian's Oracle written by Lizzy Ford and published by Lizzy Ford. This book was released on 2011 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Kuklick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691133875
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Blind Oracles written by Bruce Kuklick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow. Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy--Kissinger, for example--clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affects policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives' influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking.
Author : David Hair
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 178863280X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Oracle's War written by David Hair and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odysseus must fight for the honor of his family, the survival of his people, and the glory of his goddess—from the author of Athena’s Champion. When Prince Odysseus is sent on a quest to recover his family honor, he’s led to Delos where a mysterious new prophecy has captivated the gods. Caught in a tangled web of intrigue, he discovers that this prophecy is tied to his own destiny and the fate of his patron goddess, Athena. With the future of his people hanging by a thread, Odysseus, the daemon Bria, the hero Diomedes and a small band of loyal Ithacans, must unveil the truth before it’s too late. But opposing them is Tiresias, the greatest seer of the age, who will do anything to burn his own vision onto the face of history. Caught between the prophecy, the gods and his mortal enemies, Odysseus must start a war: one that may be impossible to win . . . Oracle’s War, second in the epic Olympus Series, is perfect for fans of David Gemmell and Madeline Miller. Praise for Athena’s Champion “If you like magic and mayhem wrapped around ancient historical legends, this cup of nectar has your name on it. Recommended.” —Historical Novel Society “A refreshing, modern take of Odysseus’ story. It has humor and exciting action.” —Book Rambler
Author : Caleb Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674075862
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Oracle and the Curse written by Caleb Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.
Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317148967
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Omens and Oracles written by Matthew Dillon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addition, there were written collections of oracles in circulation. Many books were available on how to interpret dreams, the birds and entrails, and divination as a religious phenomenon attracted the attention of many writers. Expert diviners were at the heart of Greek prophecy, whether these were Apollo’s priestesses delivering prose or verse answers to questions put to them by consultants, diviners known as manteis, who interpreted entrails and omens, the chresmologoi, who sang the many oracles circulating orally or in writing, or dream interpreters. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the future but also to ensure that the individual or state employing divination acted in accordance with that divinely prescribed future; it was employed by all and had a crucial role to play in what courses of action both states and individuals undertook. Specific attention is paid in this volume not only to the ancient written evidence, but to that of inscriptions and papyri, with emphasis placed on the iconography of Greek divination.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521225014
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Amos's Oracles Against the Nations written by John Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first two chapters of the book of Amos, the prophet denounces a number of neighbouring nations for committing atrocities in war and then declares Israel to be equally blameworthy in view of the social injustices prevailing in his time. The essential contribution of Amos to Old Testament theology is to be found in his radical criticism of Israel.
Author : Richard Waterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982607275
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Oracle written by Richard Waterman and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What price would you be willing to pay for an instrument of absolute power? Would you be willing to betray your friends and family, to even kill your own father? Or would you be willing to commit even more heinous acts of mass murder, including genocide? Guided by the spirit of a dark and powerful villain, the demented Count Belicki, various vibrantly articulated characters discover that they must sacrifice something they treasure more than life itself in order to acquire the transcendent power of the mysterious Oracle. Driven by an insatiable ambition, these individuals seek unlimited power, for if they are strong enough to bend the Oracle to their own will; it is capable of translating mere thoughts into stark reality. But these mere humans are not the only ones who seek to control the Oracle. For the battle for omnipotence also occurs within the Oracle itself.
Author : Sampson Low
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books ... written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author : George William Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book from the earliest period to the end of the Persian War written by George William Cox and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George William Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book From the earliest period to the end of the Persian war. v. 2 From the formation of the confederacy of Delos to the close of the Peloponnesian war written by George William Cox and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521374514
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Athletes and Oracles written by Catherine Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the origins and development of cult practice at Olympia and Delphi. It traces changing patterns of activity through the material record, and challenges many assumptions about the nature and role of the archaeological data. Dr Morgan considers the economics of dedication, technology and the organization of craft production, which provide insights into the behaviour of producers and purchasers of material dedicated at sanctuaries. Her study is exceptional for the emphasis placed upon the two sites in their contemporary local contexts and their changing roles in society. The progression of state formation is discussed through the relationship between changes in dedicatory practice during the eighth century and the changing needs of communities. The book concludes with a detailed study of the wider roles of Olympia and Delphi as two major sanctuaries in Archaic Greece, considering their relationships with other sites and their place in the Greek festival calendar.
Author : Lori L. Rowlett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567383164
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)
Download or read book Joshua and the Rhetoric of Violence written by Lori L. Rowlett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Joshua and the Rhetoric of Violence' examines the book of Joshua as a construction of national identity. This pioneering New Historicist analysis shows how the Deuteronomist used war oracle language and epic historical lore to negotiate sociopolitical boundaries. It asserts that text and context interacted in a programme consolidating King Josiah's authority in the wake of Assyrian imperial collapse. The book argues that the conquest narrative is not simple 'us against them' propaganda but a complex web of negotiations defining identity and otherness. The analysis draws on Foucault's principle that power is something exercised rather than merely possessed.
Author : James Rollins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061792888
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Last Oracle written by James Rollins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this superb thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind. Salvation . . . or annihilation? What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet—the next Buddha, Mohammed, or even Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? Formed during the Cold War, a think tank of world scientists known as the JASONS have discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents—mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists. Yet among their young patients a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully, a rogue group of the JASONS begins their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. Their goal, to create a world prophet for the new millennium, one who can be manipulated to create a new era of global peace . . . a peace on their own terms, that is. But such manipulation has grim consequences as a biological meltdown among the children begins to occur—turning the innocent into something far more frightening. To stop the JASONS before they engineer the extinction of mankind, Commander Gray Pierce of SIGMA Force races against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history—the Greek Oracle of Delphi. But can the past save the future?
Author : Jerome F.D. Creach
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664231454
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Violence in Scripture written by Jerome F.D. Creach and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible frequently depicts God as angry and violent, and sometimes depicts human violence as positive or even as commanded by God. This forms one of the most vexing problems in approaching Scripture and interpreting the Bible for preaching and teaching today. In this volume, Creach first examines the theological problems of violence and categorizes the types of violence that appear in scripture. He then wrestles with the most important biblical texts on violence to work through specific interpretational issues. This new volume in the Interpretation: Resources for Use of Scripture in the Church series will help preachers and pastors interpret those difficult texts, encouraging them to face violence in the Bible with honesty.
Author : Tom Gelinske
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1583483977
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Why Oracles Are Silent written by Tom Gelinske and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the belief in oracles back to Orpheus, the legendary poet-prince, who travelled with Jason, charmed the sirens, and descended into Hades trying to save his Eurydice. Orpheus is one of those figures like Theseus, somewhat historical, fascinating, the subject of 27 operas. Orpheus may be the first Kristos, 'anointed one,' said to be a pioneer, a preacher (of apparently very persuasive talents), who preached a belief in metempsychosis, forbade sacrifice, murder, or the eating of meat - went against the mainline of belief and was said to have been assassinated during a Dionysian ceremony. Orphic writings, while mentioned by Plato and others, are lost, but his ideas have come down to us through a succession of Christos -Zoroaster, Krishna, Gautama, Jesus, Mani, Muhammad - not all of whom found martyrdom to be sure: Zoroaster was said to have been consumed by a flash of lighting, and there is Muhammad, suspended between heaven and earth. The lost poems of Orpheus are said to be oracular in nature and Bakkids and Sybils roamed the byways reciting them. This was before temple building, and on of the earliest of these was the shrine at Delphi. Of course belief in oracles goes hand in hand with a belief in any immaterial and parallel world inhabited by spirits or 'souls' where the future is as clearly perceived as the past. The priest of the shrine - or the shrine itself - provided mortals some access to that other world and its foreknowledge - the ancient Greeks believed. The author wants to demonstrate, not the truth (necessarily) of oracles but the power of belief in them, and in the attempt to show the influence of Orpheus on oracular belief we must also acknowledge his influence on spiritual or "Orphic religions," and how we have traded an entire world of the spirit for something more efficient but far less 'soul-satisfying.' Nostradamus emerges somewhere out of the Middle Ages to show that belief in oracles had not yet died. After all, the spirit was still with us in almost universal belief. The author interprets one of Nostradamus' quatrains that seems to presage the Gulf War and Norman Schwartzkopf.
Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567044610
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Isaiah 40-55 Vol 1 (ICC) written by John Goldingay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the meaning of the books of the Old and New Testaments. The new commentaries continue this tradition. All new evidence now available is incorporated and new methods of study are applied. The authors are of the highest international standing. No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
