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Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812553093
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Mask of the Sun written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1937422666
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Mask of the Sun written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finding of a valuable ancient Aztec mask off the coast of Key West leads the Gabrieli brothers on a harrowing adventure. Mysteriously transported to the 16th century Inca empire where the fate of an alternate timeline lies in the balance, Mike Gabrieli finds himself pitted against a most formidable Conquistador. Will it pay to have reached too fast for gold? Some additional time travel novels by Saberhagen: A Century of Progress After the Fact Pyramids Merlin’s Bones
Author : John Dvorak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681773856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine. Eclipses—one of the rarest and most stunning celestial events we can witness here on Earth—have shaped the course of human history and thought since humans first turned their eyes to the sky. What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein’s General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan “Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to predict a pope’s death. In Mask of the Sun, acclaimed writer John Dvorak the importance of the number 177 and why the ancient Romans thought it was bad to have sexual intercourse during an eclipse (whereas other cultures thought it would be good luck). Even today, pregnant women in Mexico wear safety pins on their underwear during an eclipse. Eclipses are an amazing phenomena—unique to Earth—that have provided the key to much of what we now know and understand about the sun, our moon, gravity, and the workings of the universe. Both entertaining and authoritative, Mask of the Sun reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar eclipses. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, Dvorak provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur—as well as insight into the forthcoming eclipse of 2017 that will be visible across North America.
Author : Philip Thatcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780968668726
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (687 download)
Download or read book Mask of the Sun written by Philip Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521498890
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Enlightenment written by Stanley Rosen and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to become the definitive study of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351564137
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus written by Jonathan Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly, it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War, a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music, song, drama, myth, mime and electronics, it has become a beacon for many younger composers, and the object of wide critical attention. Jonathan Cross begins his detailed study of this 'lyric tragedy' by placing it in the wider context of the reception of the Orpheus myth. In particular, the significance of Orpheus for the twentieth century is discussed, and this provides the backdrop for an examination of Birtwistle's preoccupation with the story in a variety of works across his creative life. The sources and genesis of The Mask of Orpheus are explored. This is followed by a close reading of the work's three acts, analysing their structure and meaning, investigating the relationship between music, text and drama, drawing on Zinovieff's textual drafts and Birtwistle's compositional sketches. The book concludes by suggesting a range of contexts within which The Mask of Orpheus might be understood. Its central themes of time, memory and identity, loss, mourning and melancholy, touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture. Interviews with the librettist and composer round off this important study.
Author : Peter T. Markman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520064188
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Masks of the Spirit written by Peter T. Markman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (III) the metaphor of the mask after the conquest: syncretism; the Pre-Columbian survivals; the syncretic compromise; and today's masks. Over 100 color and black-&-white photos.
Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 147940182X
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Mask of the Sorcerer written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If ever your heart has said, 'The great days are no more. The golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, and I came late, born out of time, to warm my hands at the embers that flicker and fade hour by hour' -- read this. . . Here are ghosts grim and gentle, red gold of Ophir, and fell weavings. Here is a tale to keep Scheherazade talking a hundred years." -- Gene Wolfe "Darrell Schweitzer is a fine writer . . . Not only is he skilled in the exotic use of the best trappings of Fantasy, he employs a disquieting awareness of the dark nooks of the mind and soul. . . .Best of all, Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound." -- Tanith Lee "Superlative." --Interzone Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella "To Become a Sorcerer," which forms the first four chapters of this book. He is also the author of "The White Isle," "The Shattered Goddess," and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are collected in such volumes as "The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack." An expert on fantastic fiction, who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he also co-edited the legendary "Weird Tales" magazine.
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543521
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Masks of Menander written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Annual Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse Walter Fewkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626814031
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Circe written by Henry Kuttner and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist travels to a world of magic and gods in this take on “Jason and the Argonauts” from the Hugo Award–nominated author of Earth’s Last Citadel. Jay Seward remembers a former life in a land of magic, gods, and goddesses—a time when he was Jason of Iolcus, sailing in the enchanted ship Argo to steal the Golden Fleece from the serpent-temples of Apollo. But one night the memories become startlingly real, as the Argo itself sails out of the spectral mists and a hauntingly beautiful voice calls: “Jason . . . come to me!” And suddenly he’s on the deck of the Argo, sailing into danger and magic . . . “A fantasy in the grand tradition of Merritt and the other giants.” —Arthur Leo Zagat, author of the Tomorrow series Praise for Henry Kuttner “One of the all-time major names in science fiction.” —The New York Times “A neglected master.” —Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 “Kuttner is magic.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Thicket
Author : Laura Diaz De Arce
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Mask Of The Nobleman written by Laura Diaz De Arce and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peytra Sike is a gifted, but frustrated sculptor. After the masked duke, Jors Ameros, is taken with her and her artwork, he commissions Peytra to carve the mantels in his castle. There, Peytra discovers a world of artistry and friendship that cloaks the secrets of the Duke. Despite his unwillingness to be seen, their difference in status, and some castle meddling, their love for each other grows each passing day. But can their love overcome her dangerous curiosity? In the vein of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Mask Of The Nobleman is a story of fiery passion and long-kept secrets.
Author : Margaret Seguin
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774804738
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Tsimshian written by Margaret Seguin and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.
