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Download or read book Pyromantic written by Lish McBride and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava is having a rough time. Getting rid of Venus didn't set her free—she's still Coterie. Her new boss seems like an improvement, but who knows if he'll stay that way? The Coterie life changes people. And since Ava's currently avoiding her friends after (disastrously) turning down a date with Lock, well, everything kind of sucks. And that's not even taking into account the feelings she might have for him. But when a mysterious illness starts to affect magical beings, it's up to Ava and her team to stop its spread . . . or else one of them might be next.
Book Synopsis Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China by : Rowan K. Flad
Download or read book Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China written by Rowan K. Flad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the organization of specialized salt production at Zhongba, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Three Gorges of China's Yangzi River valley. Rowan K. Flad demonstrates that salt production emerged in the second millennium BCE and developed into a large-scale, intense activity. As the intensity of this activity increased during the early Bronze Age, production became more coordinated, perhaps by an emergent elite who appear to have supported their position of authority by means of divination and the control of ritual knowledge. This study explores evidence of these changes in ceramics, the layout of space at the site and animal remains. It synthesizes the data retrieved from years of excavation, showing not only the evolution of production methods, but also the emergence of social hierarchy in the Three Gorges region over two millennia.
Download or read book The Original I Ching Oracle written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable work is the final result of 50 years of I Ching research and over 10 years of roundtables and seminars. Based on a revolutionary translation method, and inspired by Carl Jung’s insights into the psyche, The Original I Ching Oracle offers Western readers the closest possible approach to the true content of the ancient Chinese oracle. By cutting through layers of philosophical analysis and recovering the original images of the I Ching, it puts readers in contact with a deep universal dimension of the human psyche, as important today as it was for the shamans in China over 3,000 years ago.
Book Synopsis Sources of Shang History by : David N. Keightley
Download or read book Sources of Shang History written by David N. Keightley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Original I Ching Oracle or The Book of Changes by : Rudolf Ritsema
Download or read book The Original I Ching Oracle or The Book of Changes written by Rudolf Ritsema and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often referred to as the Eranos edition, this revised and updated translation offers the most substantial advance in I Ching since Richard Wilhelm introduced the oracle to the West in the 1920s. The I Ching is one of the oldest Chinese texts and the world’s oldest oracle. Accumulated from over 2,500 years of diviners, sages and shamans and born out of the oral tradition, the I Ching as we know it today is a collection of texts, imagery and advice, philosophy and poetry, divided into 64 chapters. There are 64 hexagrams, created from a collection of six lines, either broken or solid. In order to “read” from the book, you must cast a hexagram. The traditional method required yarrow sticks but nowadays is based on tossing three coins six times. The Original I Ching Oracle or Book of Changes was inspired by Carl Gustav Jung's insights into the psyche and researched for more than 60 years through the Eranos Foundation of Switzerland. It presents the oracular core of the I Ching as a psychological tool: the symbols interact with our minds in the same way dream images do.
Book Synopsis The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes by : Roderick Whitfield
Download or read book The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes written by Roderick Whitfield and published by Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China written by Robert E. Murowchick and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, and historians chronicle the evolution of Chinese culture and history from antiquity to present times
Book Synopsis A Technical Glossary of Jiaguology (oracle Bone Studies) by : Riccardo Fracasso
Download or read book A Technical Glossary of Jiaguology (oracle Bone Studies) written by Riccardo Fracasso and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Firebug written by Lish McBride and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava is a firebug—she can start fires with her mind. Which would all be well and good if she weren't caught in a deadly contract with the Coterie, a magical mafia. She's one of their main hitmen . . . and she doesn't like it one bit. Not least because her boss, Venus, killed Ava's mother. When Venus asks Ava to kill a family friend, Ava rebels. She knows very well that you can't say no to the Coterie and expect to get away with it, though, so she and her friends hit the road, trying desperately to think of a way out of the mess they find themselves in. Preferably keeping the murder to a minimum, in Lish McBride's Firebug.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Book Synopsis The Son of Nott: Eschaton Cycle by : Matt Larkin
Download or read book The Son of Nott: Eschaton Cycle written by Matt Larkin and published by Incandescent Phoenix Books. This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As flame dwindles, night rises. A pyromancer and prince, Audr fought for years against the sorcerer kingdoms. He fought to save his people. He fought to save his precious son. He fought to save the world from the grasp of Hel. He fought ... and he lost. Now, he sees one last desperate gambit before him: to journey into the lands of night and claim the most forbidden power of all. And the price may prove more than he can ever imagine. A stand-alone dark fantasy set in the Ragnarok Era, this is a gritty retelling of Norse mythology by mythic fantasy author Matt Larkin. The Legends of the Ragnarok Era series tells standalone stories set during the Ragnarok Era and can be read in any order. Keywords Norse myth, Germanic myth, dark fantasy books, epic sagas, free epic fantasy books, myths and legends, retellings, folklore, fairytales, mythology, grimdark, epic fantasy, epic free, sword and sorcery, fantasy stories, historical fantasy
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Percival Everett by : Keith B. Mitchell
Download or read book Perspectives on Percival Everett written by Keith B. Mitchell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percival Everett (b. 1956) writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet underexamined African American authors working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's book, his work has not garnered the critical attention that it deserves. Perhaps one of the most vexing problems scholars have had in trying to situate Everett's work is that they have found it difficult to place him and his work within a prescribed African American literary tradition. Because he happens to be African American, critics have expectations of so-called authentic African American fiction; however, his work often thwarts these expectations. In Perspectives on Percival Everett, scholars engage all of his creative production. On the one hand, Everett is an African American novelist. On the other hand, he pursues subject matters that seemingly have little to do with African American culture. The operative word here is “seemingly;” for as these essays demonstrate, Everett's works falls well within as well as outside of what most critics would deem the African American literary tradition. These essays examine issues of identity, authenticity, and semiotics, in addition to postmodernism and African American and American literary traditions—issues essential to understanding his aesthetic and political concerns.
Book Synopsis The Ghosts Omnibus One by : Jonathan Moeller
Download or read book The Ghosts Omnibus One written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media, LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time in one volume are the first three books of the internationally bestselling THE GHOSTS saga - CHILD OF THE GHOSTS, BLADE OF THE GHOSTS, GHOST IN THE FLAMES, and the bonus short story GHOST ARIA. When her life is torn apart by sorcery and murder, young Caina Amalas joins the Ghosts, the legendary spies and assassins of the Emperor of Nighmar. She learns the secrets of disguise and stealth, of assassination and infiltration, and grows from a frightened child to a Ghost nightfighter, a woman who can face the most terrible foes and prevail through boldness and cunning. But even that might not be enough to save her. For the evil that destroyed her family seeks to devour the entire world...
Book Synopsis These Bones Shall Rise Again by : David N. Keightley
Download or read book These Bones Shall Rise Again written by David N. Keightley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David N. Keightleys seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume. These Bones Shall Rise Again brings together in one volume many of David N. Keightleys seminal essays on the origins of early Chinese civilization. Written over a period of three decades and accessible to the non-specialist, these essays provide a wealth of information and insights on the Shang dynasty, traditionally dated 17661122 or 1056 BCE. Of all the eras of Chinese history, the Shang has been a particularly elusive one, long considered more myth than reality. A historian with a keen appreciation for anthropology and archaeology, Keightley has given us many descriptions of Shang life. Best known for his analysis of oracle bones, he has looked beyond the bones themselves and expanded his historical vision to ponder the lives of those who used them. What did the Shang diviner think he was doing? The temerity to ask such questions and the insights they have provided have been provocative and, at times, controversial. Equally intriguing have been Keightleys assertions that many of the distinctive features of Chinese civilization were already in evidence during the Shang, 3000 years ago. In this collection, readers will find not only an essential reference but also the best kind of thought-provoking scholarship.
Book Synopsis Ghost in the Vision by : Jonathan Moeller
Download or read book Ghost in the Vision written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Jonathan Moeller. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caina only intends to make a brief stop in the city of Istarinmul before taking the necromantic Sword of the Iron King to the safety of the Towers of Lore. But the Padishah of Istarinmul needs her help, and since Caina put him upon his throne, she cannot turn him away. And the enigmatic Countess Kalthane, the woman who has been financing the Empire's war against the vile sorcerers of the Umbarian Order, needs a favor from Caina. Because Countess Kalthane has a secret. And if that secret falls into the hands of the Umbarians, they will use it to destroy the world...
Book Synopsis Sources of Chinese Tradition by : Wm. Theodore De Bary
Download or read book Sources of Chinese Tradition written by Wm. Theodore De Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-27 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introduction for general readers. Here at last is a completely revised and expanded edition of this classic sourcebook, compiled by noted China scholars Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. Updated to reflect recent scholarly developments, with extensive material on popular thought and religion, social roles, and women's education, this edition features new translations of more than half the works from the first edition, as well as many new selections. Arranged chronologically, this anthology is divided into four parts, beginning at the dawn of literate Chinese civilization with the Oracle-Bone inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (1571–1045 B.C.E.) and continuing through the end of the Ming dynasty (C.E. 1644). Each chapter has an introduction that provides useful historical context and offers interpretive strategies for understanding the readings. The first part, The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity, considers the early development of Chinese civilization and includes selections from Confucius's Analects, the texts of Mencius and Laozi, as well as other key texts from the Confucian, Daoist, and Legalist schools. Part 2, The Making of a Classical Culture, focuses on Han China with readings from the Classic of Changes (I Jing), the Classic of Filiality, major Han syntheses, and the great historians of the Han dynasty. The development of Buddhism, from the earliest translations from Sanskrit to the central texts of the Chan school (which became Zen in Japan), is the subject of the third section of the book. Titled Later Daoism and Mahayana Buddhism in China, this part also covers the teachings of Wang Bi, Daoist religion, and texts of the major schools of Buddhist doctrine and practice. The final part, The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism, details the revival of Confucian thought in the Tang, Song, and Ming periods, with historical documents that link philosophical thought to political, social, and educational developments in late imperial China. With annotations, a detailed chronology, glossary, and a new introduction by the editors, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be a standard resource, guidebook, and introduction to Chinese civilization well into the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China by : Paul Nicholas Vogt
Download or read book Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.
