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Bright of the Sky

Author : Kay Kenyon
Publisher : Winterset Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Bright of the Sky written by Kay Kenyon and published by Winterset Books. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete four-book series! Enter the world of the Entire in this first book of the celebrated four-volume epic. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire gathers both human and alien beings under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and a never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme. Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead by everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallel universe—one where he himself may have been imprisoned—he returns to the Entire to free them. Thus begins a tale of high adventure and vast concept, replete with alien cultures, an exotic bureaucracy, and a man with nothing left to lose. He may not find what he seeks, but he’ll be offered a view of the multiverse, the power of princes, an unthinkable revenge—and unexpectedly, love. "A riveting launch." ––Publisher's Weekly starred review [A] fascinating and gratifying feat of world building. . . . promises to be a grand epic, indeed.”—Booklist “[A] star-maker, a magnificent book that should establish its author's reputation as among the very best in the field today.”—SFSite.com

Yaxchilan

Author : Carolyn E. Tate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739125
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Yaxchilan written by Carolyn E. Tate and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's comprehensive catalog and analysis of all the city's extant buildings and sculptures. During a year of field work, Tate fully documented the appearance of the site as of 1987. For each sculpture and building, she records its discovery, present location, condition, measurements, and astronomical orientation and reconstructs its Long Counts and Julian dates from Calendar Rounds. Line drawings and photographs provide a visual document of the art and architecture of Yaxchilan. More than mere documentation, however, the book explores the phenomenon of art within Maya society. Tate establishes a general framework of cultural practices, spiritual beliefs, and knowledge likely to have been shared by eighth-century Maya people. The process of making public art is considered in relation to other modes of aesthetic expression, such as oral tradition and ritual. This kind of analysis is new in Maya studies and offers fresh insight into the function of these magnificent cities and the powerful role public art and architecture play in establishing cultural norms, in education in a semiliterate society, and in developing the personal and community identities of individuals. Several chapters cover the specifics of art and iconography at Yaxchilan as a basis for examining the creation of the city in the Late Classic period. Individual sculptures are attributed to the hands of single artists and workshops, thus aiding in dating several of the monuments. The significance of headdresses, backracks, and other costume elements seen on monuments is tied to specific rituals and fashions, and influence from other sites is traced. These analyses lead to a history of the design of the city under the reigns of Shield Jaguar (A.D. 681-741) and Bird Jaguar IV (A.D. 752-772). In Tate's view, Yaxchilan and other Maya cities were designed as both a theater for ritual activities and a nexus of public art and social structures that were crucial in defining the self within Maya society.

Under a War-Torn Sky

Author : L.M. Elliot
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1409591344
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Under a War-Torn Sky written by L.M. Elliot and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shot down on a mission, 19-year-old bomber pilot Henry is alone in a treacherous land. Desperate to get back to his family and the girl he loves, he is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers and the cunning of the French Resistance. But in his battle to survive the deadly journey across Nazi-occupied Europe, he must face a terrible choice: can he take someone's life to save his own?

Toward 2012

Author : Daniel Pinchbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781585427000
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Toward 2012 written by Daniel Pinchbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and thought-provoking anthology draws together some of today's most celebrated visionaries, thinkers, and pioneers in the field of evolving consciousness--exploring topics from shamanism to Mayan predictions of the year 2012.

The Sky People

Author : S.M. Stirling
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429987472
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Sky People written by S.M. Stirling and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life—even human life. At that point, the "Space Race" became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world. Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers. But there are flies in this ointment – and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus's life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm. Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge... and AK47's. Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. As if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board the airship... Extravagant and effervescent, The Sky People is alternate-history SF adventure at its best. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Tourist Season

Author : Deven Balsam
Publisher : Beaten Track Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786452499
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Tourist Season written by Deven Balsam and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the darkness becomes too familiar. Sometimes, love lights the way out. One of Zeus's own children has a favorite office, hidden deep beneath the streets of Asheville, NC. Hades' existence, while satisfying, is due for a surprise when his path converges with that of Korey, a gifted art student. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.

The Breaking Light

Author : Heather Hansen
Publisher : Skyscape
ISBN 13 : 9781503942684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Breaking Light written by Heather Hansen and published by Skyscape. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stratified society where contact with the sun is a luxury reserved for the elite, those kept prisoner in the darkness will do anything to find the light. Arden--beautiful, street-smart, and cynical--is one of the citizens of the lowest Level, known as Undercity, of an off-world colony. A blackout band traps Arden in her district, but as sister to the leader of the most powerful gang in Undercity, she has access to Above. There she meets Dade, one of the few lucky enough to be born into the sun-kissed families who reside in the Towers soaring above the rest of the city. But life isn't perfect in the sky. Dade, desperate to escape his upcoming arranged marriage, has a secret of his own, and he's willing to risk everything for it. An unlikely romance develops between the two teens--but their love faces opposition from above and below. When her gang pressures Arden to help break the grip of the elite and end Dade's interference with their drug trade, she is forced to make a deadly choice between love and family loyalty. But will the brewing class war destroy the world around them first?

Early Islam

Author : Guillaume Dye
Publisher : Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles
ISBN 13 : 280041815X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Early Islam written by Guillaume Dye and published by Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, new paradigms have radically altered the historical understanding of the Qur'ān and Early Islam, causing much debate and controversy. This volume gathers select proceedings from the first conference of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. These studies explore the history of the Qur'ān and of formative Islam, with the methodological tools set forth in Biblical, New Testament and Apocryphal studies, as well as the approaches used in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian and Rabbinic origins. It thereby contributes to the interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.

A Searing Wind

Author : W. Michael Gear
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153906
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book A Searing Wind written by W. Michael Gear and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Shell, an exile banished by his people for cowardice, prepares to lead a small band of warriors to kill the Kristianos, while explorer Hernando de Soto tricks the ancient Nations into slavery through his lies and ambition for gold.

An Inconstant Landscape

Author : Thomas G. Garrison
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327643
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book An Inconstant Landscape written by Thomas G. Garrison and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in Guatemala. Located between the renowned sites of Tikal and El Perú-Waka’, it existed as a small kingdom with powerful neighbors and serves today as a test-case of political debility and strength during the height of dynastic struggles among the Classic Maya. In this volume, contributors address the challenges faced by smaller polities on the peripheries of powerful kingdoms and ask how subordination was experienced and independent policy asserted. Leading experts provide cutting-edge analysis in varied topics and detailed discussion of the development of this major site and the region more broadly. The first half of the volume contains a historical narrative of the cultural sequence of El Zotz, tracing the changes in occupation and landscape use across time; the second half provides deep technical analyses of material evidence, including soils, ceramics, stone tools, and bone. The ever-changing, inconstant landscapes of peripheral kingdoms like El Zotz reveal much about their more dominant—and better known—neighbors. An Inconstant Landscape offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of this important but under-studied site, an essential context for the study of the Classic Maya in Guatemala, and a premier reference on the subject of peripheral kingdoms at the height of Maya civilization. Contributors: Timothy Beach, Nicholas Carter, Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Alyce de Carteret, William Delgado, Colin Doyle, James Doyle, Laura Gámez, Jose Luis Garrido López, Yeny Myshell Gutiérrez Castillo, Zachary Hruby, Melanie Kingsley, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Cassandra Mesick Braun, Sarah Newman, Rony Piedrasanta, Edwin Román, and Andrew K. Scherer

CTL Director's Supplement 2009

Author :
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1568546939
Total Pages : 869 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book CTL Director's Supplement 2009 written by and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God With Us - CTL - 2009

Author :
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1568546947
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book God With Us - CTL - 2009 written by and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death and Night

Author : Roshani Chokshi
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250119731
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Death and Night written by Roshani Chokshi and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exclusive Star-Touched novella from bestselling author Roshani Chokshi, over 100 pages long! Before The Star-Touched Queen there was only Death and Night. He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a chance meeting, they wonder if, perhaps, they could be meant for more. But danger crouches in their paths, and the choices they make will set them on a journey that will span lifetimes. Discover how Maya and Amar first met and fell in love, and don't forget the next Star-Touched novel, A Crown of Wishes.

Margaret Postgate's Poems

Author : Margaret Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Postgate's Poems written by Margaret Cole and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Woman Who Married the Bear

Author : Barbara Alice Mann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197655424
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Married the Bear written by Barbara Alice Mann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine these Woman-Bear stories, their common elements, and their meanings in the context of matriarchal culture. The authors reach back 35,000 years to tease out different threads of Indigenous Woman-Bear traditions, using the lens of bear spirituality to uncover the ancient matriarchies found in rock art, caves, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions. Across cultures, in the earliest known traditions, women and bears are shown to collaborate through star configurations and winter cave-dwelling, symbolized by the spring awakening from hibernation followed by the birth of "cubs." By the Bronze Age, however, the story of the Woman-Bear marriage had changed: it had become a hunting tale, refocused on the male hunter. Throughout the book, Mann and Kailo offer interpretations of this earliest known Bear religion in both its original and its later forms. Together, they uncover the maternal cultural symbolism behind the bear marriage and the Original Instructions given by Bear to Woman on sustainable ecology and lifeways free of patriarchy and social stratification.

Polishing the Petoskey Stone

Author : Luci Shaw
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573832434
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Polishing the Petoskey Stone written by Luci Shaw and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Luci Shaw is someone who knows the world-the oldest definition of a poet. Her animating intelligence descends into the concrete facts of our existence to discover the divine force that shapes the world and maintains its being. Her poetry recapitulates that intimate naming by which man defines himself-the first role God assigned to the human creature."Harold Fickett, author of The Holy Fool"Longtime readers of these poems will renew old acquaintances and pick up a sheaf of new friends besides. New readers will welcome her gifts of Word-crafted icons by which we behold the Glory, see the Holy."Eugene H. Peterson"Polishing the Petoskey Stone is a wonderful compilation of many of the richest of Luci Shaw's poems, both old and new. It's wonderful to see growth in her understanding of the joys and tragedies of life as they can be expressed in poetry. I sense a new, and perhaps harsher, view of reality which is always redeemed by the never failing love of God."Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in TimeLuci Shaw is the author of many books, including God in the Dark, Listen to the Green, and Writing the River. A speaker, teacher, poet, editor, and writer, she lives in Bellingham, Washington.

People of the Weeping Eye

Author : W. Michael Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076531438X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book People of the Weeping Eye written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic tale of survival set in Paleolithic America, the authors of "People of the Nightland" bring readers to the banks of the great Mississippi River more than one thousand years ago.