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Prophecy of the Swan

Author : J. Scott Hamilton
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077484258X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Prophecy of the Swan written by J. Scott Hamilton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophecy of the Swan covers twenty-nine years in the history of the Peace River valley in northeastern British Columbia. A vivid portrayal of life in some of the most isolated fur trade posts, it describes the intense competition between the North West and the Hudson's Bay companies, the individuals who were involved in exploration and commerce, and, finally, the shocking 'massacre of St. Johns.' It is unique in its integration of historic information and archaeological discovery, as it combines information recovered from many years of archaeological excavation with first-hand impressions of day-to-day life drawn from the few existing journals kept by company clerks.

The Original Prophecy

Author : Mathew James
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608444635
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Original Prophecy written by Mathew James and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an amazing story being told by the stars every night. They began telling it a long time ago. The story was carried down through many generations but it eventually became lost. The story that the stars tell has not been told for thousands of years until now. The names of the stars in each of the original forty eight constellations all have very special meanings to their names. When the original names of the stars are combined together into sentences they begin telling their story. Each constellation tells a short story. And when all of the constellations are combined together they tell the story written in our night sky. This story has not been told for many generations and it is far from any thing most people have ever heard.

The Cassowary's Revenge

Author : Donald Tuzin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226819518
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Cassowary's Revenge written by Donald Tuzin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village’s men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate women for generations. The cult’s collapse indicated nothing less than the death of masculinity, and Tuzin examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, self-devastating act. The villagers' mythic tradition provided a basis for this revenge of Woman upon the dominion of Man, and, remarkably, Tuzin himself became a principal figure in its narratives. The return of the magic-bearing "youngest brother" from America had been prophesied, and the villagers believed that Tuzin’s return "from the dead" signified a further need to destroy masculine traditions. The Cassowary's Revenge is an intimate account of how Ilahita’s men and women think, emote, dream, and explain themselves. Tuzin also explores how the death of masculinity in a remote society raises disturbing implications for gender relations in our own society. In this light Tuzin's book is about men and women in search of how to value one another, and in today's world there is no theme more universal or timely.

Introducing the Medieval Swan

Author : Natalie Jayne Goodison
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786838419
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Introducing the Medieval Swan written by Natalie Jayne Goodison and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds have always been a popular and accessible subject, but most books about medieval birds are an overview of their symbolism generally: owl for ill-omen, the pelican as a Eucharistic image and the like. The unique selling point of this book is to focus on one bird and explore it in detail from medieval reality to artistic concept. This book also traces how and why the medieval perception of the swan shifted from hypocritical to courtly within the medieval period. With special attention to ‘The Knight of the Swan’, the book traces the rise and popularity of the medieval swan through literature, history, courtly practices, and art. The book uses thoroughly readable language to appeal to a wide audience and explains some of the reasons why the swan holds such resonance today by covering views of the swan from classic to early modern times.

Lies and Prophecy - Illustrated Edition

Author : Marie Brennan
Publisher : Book View Cafe
ISBN 13 : 161138575X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Lies and Prophecy - Illustrated Edition written by Marie Brennan and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy. Kim never had to wonder what to major in at college. Her talent for divination made her future clear in more ways than one. But there are limits to what even a gifted seer can predict, and no card reading or prophetic dream can prepare Kim for what's to come during her junior year at Welton. Something has taken an interest in her friend Julian -- an unseen force neither of them can identify. What starts as a dark omen quickly turns dangerous, as Julian finds himself under attack. To defend him, Kim will need more than her strengths; she will have to call on a form of magic she has never been able to master. If she can't learn fast enough, she may lose her friend forever. Kim knows she isn't ready for this. But if she wants to save Julian -- and herself -- she'll have to prove her own prophecies wrong. This edition contains six illustrations by the artist Avery Liell-Kok.

William Blake's Jerusalem

Author : Minna Doskow
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838630907
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book William Blake's Jerusalem written by Minna Doskow and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerusalem represents the culmination of Blake's artistic endeavor in poetry and picture. The author approaches Blake's masterpiece from within rather that without, in an attempt to find a clue to the poem's structure in the poetry itself.

Delayed Frontier

Author : David Leonard
Publisher : Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781550592108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Delayed Frontier written by David Leonard and published by Calgary : Detselig Enterprises. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cygnus Mystery

Author : Andrew Collines
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780282230
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Cygnus Mystery written by Andrew Collines and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cygnus Constellation holds the key to proving that life originated in the heavens—and will ultimately return there. Best-selling author Andrew Collins has uncovered an astronomy that is about 17,000 years old, with standing stones, temples, and monuments across the globe oriented towards Cygnus’s stars. He also found that the use of deep caves by Palaeolithic man led to the rise of religious thought and the belief in life’s stellar origins. Now modern-day technology has confirmed that high-energy particles come from a binary star known as Cygnus X3. Ancient people knew what science is finally verifying: that the DNA of life came originally from deep space.

Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages

Author : Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages written by Hélène Adeline Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Education at the Edge of Experience

Author : Marla Morris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040032249
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Education at the Edge of Experience written by Marla Morris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a unique exploration of education at “the edge of experience,” this book investigates how unassimilable concepts can reconceptualize education in order to grapple with what is beyond understanding. Working at the intersection of curriculum theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Morris examines how each of these “unassimilable” concepts such as lament, disavowal, breathlessness, and the Kafkaesque point toward currere as the edge of experience. It addresses what Lee Braver calls “the groundless grounds” and what Avital Ronell calls “the quicksand that is philosophy” to approach slippage and breaking points through an interdisciplinary lens. Pointing to an understanding of our largely social ills and extending William F. Pinar’s early work on currere in new and innovative directions, this book will appeal to curriculum theorists, education philosophers, psychoanalysts, and those with interests in the philosophy and theory of education.

Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID

Author : James J. O'Hara
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860873
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID written by James J. O'Hara and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the prophecies. O'Hara finds in these prophecies a persistent subtext that both stresses the human cost of Aeneas' mission and casts doubt on Jupiter's promise to Venus of an "endless empire" for the Romans. O'Hara considers the major prophecies that look confidently toward Augustus' Rome from the standpoint of Vergil's readers, who, like the characters within the poem, must struggle with the possibility that the optimism of the prophecies of Rome is undercut by darker material partially suppressed. The study shows that Vergil links the deception of his characters to the deceptiveness of Roman oratory, politics, and religion, and to the artifice of poetry itself. In response to recent debates about whether the Aeneid is optimistic or pessimistic, O'Hara argues that Vergil expresses both the Romans' hope for the peace of a Golden Age under Augustus and their fear that this hope might be illusory. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages

Author : H. A. Guerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages written by H. A. Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Daykeeper's Grimoire

Author : Christy Raedeke
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738725897
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Daykeeper's Grimoire written by Christy Raedeke and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her safe-cracker mom and code-breaker dad inherit a Scottish castle, sixteen-year-old Caity MacFireland is less than thrilled. When she stumbles across a hidden room in the castle, she’s suddenly center stage in an international conspiracy. Can she decipher the code and reveal its message to the world in time?

Wagner's Parsifal

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190623543
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Parsifal written by William Kinderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of Parsifal, shedding new light on the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The compositional genesis is traced through many unfamiliar manuscript sources, revealing unsuspected models and veiled connections to Wagner's earlier works. Fresh analytic perspectives are revealed, casting the dramatic meaning of Parsifal in a new light. Much debated aspects of the work, such as Kundry's death at the conclusion, are discussed in the context of its stage history. Path-breaking as well is Kinderman's analysis of the religious and ideological context of Parsifal. During the half-century after the composer's death, the Wagner family and the so-called Bayreuth circle sought to exploit Wagner's work for political purposes, thereby promoting racial nationalism and anti-Semitism. Hitherto unnoticed connections between Hitler and Wagner's legacy at Bayreuth are explored here, while differences between the composer's politics as an 1849 revolutionary and the later response of his family to National Socialism are weighed in a nuanced account. Kinderman combines new historical research, sensitive aesthetic criticism, and probing philosophical reflection in this most intensive examination of Wagner's culminating music drama.

Child of the Prophecy

Author : Juliet Marillier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781417826032
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Child of the Prophecy written by Juliet Marillier and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the triumphant conclusion to the Sevenwaters Trilogy, an epic battle between the forces of good and evil decides the fate of the Old Ones.

Luther

Author : J. Verres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Luther written by J. Verres and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Patterned Aimlessness

Author : Barbara Stevens Heusel
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820317076
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Patterned Aimlessness written by Barbara Stevens Heusel and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Iris Murdoch are lively journeys across landscapes teeming with ideas. Such texts as An Accidental Man, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Black Prince, and The Sea, The Sea blend art and philosophy in tales that have intrigued and puzzled readers like few other contemporary novels. In Patterned Aimlessness Barbara Stevens Heusel brings an order and a clarity to the mystery of Murdoch's narrative form. She shows how this writer of many genres came to integrate philosophy, morality, psychology, language, and aesthetics in order to call into question the conventions of the English novel. Following Wittgenstein's lead Murdoch makes palpable the complexities of human experience, the "accidental, idiosyncratic happenings of life." Her fiction and her individual voice, Heusel says, reflect the chaos of existence with all of its contradictions, its paradoxes, its jarring rhythms. Heusel turns to literary theory to point out Murdoch's compatibility with Mikhail Bakhtin's views on the narrative voice in the novel. For both, morality is an utmost concern, and language is inherently a social, historical, and ideological creation: words resonate with centuries of meanings and uses. Answering some common criticisms of Murdoch's novels, Heusel also points out that Murdoch's presentation of female characters critiques societal expectations of women. The study culminates with thoughtful analyses of Murdoch's characters in A Word Child, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea, Nuns and Soldiers, and The Message to the Planet in light of the patterns she has introduced.