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Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
ISBN 13 : 9780988192522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Author : Stella Duffy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101603739
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Purple Shroud written by Stella Duffy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore, Stella Duffy's chronicle of this amazing woman's early years, delighted readers with its exquisite blend of historical detail and vivid storytelling. Now, The Purple Shroud chronicles Theodora at the height of her power, bringing the ancient world alive in another unforgettable, epic saga. Theodora and Justinian have been crowned Emperor and Empress, but ruling an empire is no easy task. The two factions of Christianity are still battling for dogmatic supremacy, the Empire's borders are not secure, and Theodora worries about the ambitions of Justinian's two best generals. But the most pressing concern is close to home: Constantinople's two factions, the Blues and the Greens, are beginning to unite in their unhappiness with rising taxes. When that unhappiness spills over into all-out violence, thousands are killed (including someone very close to Theodora) and many of the City's landmarks are destroyed, including Theodora's beloved Hagia Sophia. In the aftermath of the riots, Theodora guides Justinian in gaining back the love and trust of the people, her unerring instinct for what the people want proving invaluable. Justinian promises to rebuild the Hagia Sophia to be even more spectacular than before. Theodora comes to realize that being the Augusta is simply another role she must play, though the stakes are much higher and there is no offstage. It's a role she was born to play.
Author : Hent de Vries
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804734974
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Religion and Media written by Hent de Vries and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counter The twenty-five contributors to this volume - who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel - confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media. The book's introductory section offers a prolegomenon to the multiple problems raised by an interdisciplinary approach to these multifaceted phenomena. The essays in the following part provide exemplary approaches to the historical and systematic background to the study of religion and media. The third part presents case studies by anthropologists and scholars of comparative religion. The book concludes with two remarkable documents: a chapter from Theodor W. Adorno's study of the relationship between religion and media in the context of political agitation (The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas's Radio Addresses) and a section from Niklas Luhmann's monumental Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (Society as a Social System).
Author : Christopher Kerr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 052554285X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Death Is But a Dream written by Christopher Kerr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery.
Author : Adelbert Davids
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524674
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book The Empress Theophano written by Adelbert Davids and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian Empire in Nijmegen in 991. In commemoration of this event a group of distinguished scholars met in 1991 at the castle of Hernen in the Netherlands with the aim of discussing various issues and aspects of Theophano's background in Byzantium, her life in the West, and her impact on society at the turn of the first millennium. This volume brings together in carefully edited form a group of the papers and proceedings from 1991. Each contribution helps to place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described, and there are essays on her education, her surroundings, and on the image of noble women in the middle ages.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Periodical written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390502
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Shroud at Court written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy lineage, the Shroud (of which the Savoy dynasty came into possession in 1453, keeping it first in Chambéry and then from 1578 in Turin) was central to their propagandistic strategies. The court – its spaces, protagonists, and rituals – became the natural setting for a relationship reinforced over time through customs, ceremonies, and images intended to celebrate the excellence of the Savoy, both within their own state and in Europe’s “society of princes”. Contributors are Paola Caretta, Paolo Cornaglia, Paolo Cozzo, Davide De Franco, Bernard Dompnier, Laura Gaffuri, Pierangelo Gentile, Luisella Giachino, Andrea Merlotti, Frédéric Meyer, Andrea Nicolotti, Almudena Pérez de Tudela, Laurent Ripart, Alessandro Serra and Franca Varallo.
Author : Steven Van Metteren
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606936492
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Raiephin's Tear written by Steven Van Metteren and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past the sparkling blue sea and inside the solid walls of the white marble city of Darenjar, an unseen venom spreads, bringing all under the control of a dark power. But still the people speak of the wars of a thousand years ago, of the days before the Lost God was banished, of the days when dragons flew the skies, of the Prophecies. The young thief Berran knew nothing much of lost gods or prophecies when he unintentionally stole Raiephin's Tear, a creation of the Dark God that has all the magic of the world imbued in its core. It is a daring act that attracts the eyes of those with evil intent. The theft sparks off a chain reaction of events with Berran in the middle. The authorities have never been fond of him, but now someone very high up wants him dead. Since stealing the Tear, he finds he has an inexplicable command over the highest levels of magic. His mystery-shrouded past isn't coughing up any answers, but it is doing a good job creating more questions. Enduring pain and hardship, Berran realizes that friendship is only one part of the key to unlocking the riddles of his life. He knows he's not a brave hero like those in the stories of old. However, at times fear proves to be a good thing as Berran is swept up in the inextricable grasp of a powerful prophecy, trying to resurrect the Lost God and restore the magic that is slipping away from the world.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Aviation Week & Space Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D.J. Niko
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
ISBN 13 : 1605426407
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Oracle written by D.J. Niko and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book of the Sarah Weston Chronicles In Delphi, the mountain city deemed by the Greek gods to be the center of the Earth, a cult of neo-pagans re-create with painstaking authenticity ancient rituals to glorify the god Apollo and deliver oracles to seekers from around the world. When antiquities are stolen from a museum in nearby Thebes, British archaeologist Sarah Weston and her American partner, Daniel Madigan, are drawn into a plot that goes beyond harmless role-playing: someone’s using the Delphian oracle as a smoke screen for an information exchange, with devastating consequences for the Western world. Pitted against each other by the cult’s mastermind, Sarah and Daniel race against time and their own personal demons to uncover clues left behind by the ancients. Their mission: to find the original navel stone marked with a lost Pythagorean formula detailing the natural events that led to the collapse of the Minoan Empire. But will they find it in time to stop the ultimate terrorist act?
Author : Aja Cintron
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Destined To Save Each Other written by Aja Cintron and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world, at a time when supernatural beings were misunderstood and hunted, the Gods and Mother Nature began to mix mates of all different kinds. This gave birth to the most powerful being ever to walk the planet! Then they gave him the tools and the people he would need to bring about a better world for humans and Supernatural beings alike. In this chaos, most have done some bad things leaving many to believe they would never be blessed with a mate, love, and family. The Gods have other plans! An ancient prophecy promises the Trinity will overcome their challenges, saving each other in many ways. They will stop at nothing to protect their loved ones and fulfill this prophecy!
Author : David Dryden
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491877804
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Taurids of Encke written by David Dryden and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You wake up to a strange, eerie morning, and the day seems out of kilter with all your clocks. You see your friends trapped behind an invisible barrier that seems impenetrable, and they cannot see you, hear you or be heard. The story is about the rescue of just a few of the many ensnared in the grip of a different time. It relives he catastrophic consequences of the event while the world watches. Victor, a Spitfire pilot, encountered this phenomenon during a dogfight during World War II. Both the British and the Third Reich are fanatical to possess its potentiality. Because of this, Victor's fiancee inevitably becomes embroiled in espionage and murder and mysteriously disappears from his life. The chronicles of the story adventure through the bowels of the earth and the depths of outer space."
Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479407828
Total Pages : 1157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Second Murray Leinster MEGAPACK® written by Murray Leinster and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray Leinster (1896-1975) enjoyed a reputation as a top pulp fiction writer from the 1920s through the 1960s, publishing dozens of novels and more than a thousand short stories -- and not just in the science fiction field, as this collection shows. However, his greatest fame came from SF, and the Sidewise Award (for best alternate history work) is named after his story, "Sidewise in Time." Included in this volume are: PLANET OF DREAD THE WAILING ASTEROID THE FORGOTTEN PLANET ATTENTION SAINT PATRICK NIGHTMARE PLANET CREATURES OF THE ABYSS A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE THE PIRATES OF ERSATZ MORALE MURDER MADNESS THE RUNAWAY SKYSCRAPER THE GALLERY GODS THE STREET OF MAGNIFICENT DREAMS NERVE STORIES OF THE HUNGRY COUNTRY GROOVES FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW EVIDENCE And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 260+ entries in the MEGAPACK® series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, author collections...and much, much more!
Author : Lai Guolong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341643
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Phoenix Kingdoms written by Lai Guolong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring about 150 loans from China's Hubei Provincial Museum, this exhibition, set to open at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco under the name Lost Kingdoms of Ancient China, examines the new finds of Zeng and Chu tombs together to explore the cultural landscape of the southern borderland of the Zhou dynasty. It also reveals the legendary rising story of the phoenix kingdom erased by the Qin, highlighting the importance of the middle Yangtze River region in forming a southern style in Chinese art. For a better understanding of the Zeng and Chu material, the exhibition catalogue consists of seven essays to elaborate the introduction to the remarkable art and culture of this region, with entries of about 150 works in six categories (jade, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony, funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and artefacts with designs). Seven contributors have written for this catalogue, including five outside scholars with expertise on different subjects"--
Author : Linda Phillips Teitel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599904934
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Angus MacMouse Brings Down the House written by Linda Phillips Teitel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus MacMouse's dreams of escaping his dreary life of hunger and cold on the streets of New York come true when he happens into the Brooklyn Opera House, creates a sensation, and makes a new friend, Rosemary.
Author : Deanna Raybourn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593545974
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book A Grave Robbery written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why? Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. From the underground laboratories of scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction, the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this investigation into the unknown. Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one step behind the latest villain—a man who has killed once and will stop at nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. Will they unmask him in time to save his next victim? Or will they become the latest figures to be immortalized in his collection of horrors?
