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Blood Codex

Author : David Wood
Publisher : Adrenaline Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Codex written by David Wood and published by Adrenaline Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly conspiracy. A race against time. When Jake Crowley rescues Rose Black from assailants on the streets of London, the two find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could cost them their lives. People are dying, and all the victims have one thing in common with Rose: a birthmark in the shape of an eagle. From beneath the streets of London, to castle dungeons, to the heart of Christendom and beyond, Jake and Rose must race to stay alive as they seek to unlock the secrets of the Blood Codex. Praise for David Wood and Alan Baxter “Blood Codex is a genuine up all night got to see what happens next thriller that grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go until the last.” Steven Savile “Rip roaring action from start to finish. Wit and humor throughout. Just one question - how soon until the next one? Because I can't wait.” Graham Brown “A page-turning yarn. Indiana Jones better watch his back!”Jeremy Robinson “A a story that thrills and makes one think beyond the boundaries of mere fiction and enter the world of 'why not'?” David Lynn Golemon, “A twisty tale of adventure and intrigue that never lets up and never lets go!” Robert Masello “A fast-paced storyline that holds the reader right from the start,. and a no-nonsense story-telling approach that lets the unfolding action speak for itself.” Van Ikin “With mysterious rituals, macabre rites and superb supernatural action scenes, Wood and Baxter deliver a fast-paced horror thriller.” J.F.Penn “Wood and Baxter have taken on the classic black magic/cult conspiracy subgenre, chucked in a toxic mix of weirdness, creepshow chills and action, and created a tale that reads like a latter-day Hammer Horror thriller. Nice, dark fun.” Robert Hood

Res

Author : Francesco Pellizzi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0873658663
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Res written by Francesco Pellizzi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RES 65/66 includes Francesco Pellizzi, “Editorial: RES at 35”; Remo Bodei, “A constellation of words”; Mary Weismantel, “Encounters with dragons”; Z. S. Strother, “A terrifying mimesis”; Wyatt MacGaffey, “Franchising minkisi in Loango”; Karen Overbey, “Seeing through stone”; Noam Andrews, “The space of knowledge”; and other papers.

Blood and Beauty

Author : Rex Koontz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770439
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Rex Koontz and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.

The Florentine Codex

Author : Jeanette Favrot Peterson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477318429
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Florentine Codex written by Jeanette Favrot Peterson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History of the Things of New Spain, known as the Florentine Codex (1575–1577). Now housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and bound in three lavishly illustrated volumes, the codex is a remarkable product of cultural exchange in the early Americas. In this edited volume, experts from multiple disciplines analyze the manuscript’s bilingual texts and more than 2,000 painted images and offer fascinating, new insights on its twelve books. The contributors examine the “three texts” of the codex—the original Nahuatl, its translation into Spanish, and its painted images. Together, these constitute complementary, as well as conflicting, voices of an extended dialogue that occurred in and around Mexico City. The volume chapters address a range of subjects, from Nahua sacred beliefs, moral discourse, and natural history to the Florentine artists’ models and the manuscript’s reception in Europe. The Florentine Codex ultimately yields new perspectives on the Nahua world several decades after the fall of the Aztec empire.

Shadow Bites

Author : Alan Baxter
Publisher : Alan Baxter
ISBN 13 : 0645001929
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Bites written by Alan Baxter and published by Alan Baxter. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SAMPLER OF ALAN BAXTER'S DARK FICTION Horror, crime, and dark fantasy. Four complete stories and the opening chapters of six longer books from Alan Baxter's extensive back catalogue. Featuring one full novella ("Out On A Rim" from The Gulp), three entire short stories ("Crow Shine" from Crow Shine, "Simulacrum of Hope" from Served Cold, and "The Normandy Curse"), plus the opening chapters of six longer books: Devouring Dark, Hidden City, Bound, Manifest Recall, Primordial, and Blood Codex. "Alan Baxter is Australia's master of literary darkness." – This Is Horror "Alan Baxter can take horror from gonzo to heartbreaking in an instant. Good stuff… Alan Baxter can write like a m***********." – Gail Simone, best-selling author of DC's Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, and more "Alan Baxter is an accomplished storyteller who ably evokes magic and menace." – Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase "Baxter delivers the horror goods." – Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World "Alan Baxter is one of the best horror writers in the business." – Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Sour Candy "Step into the ring with Alan Baxter, I dare you. He writes with the grace, precision, and swift brutality of a prizefighter." – Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and The Pandora Room "Alan Baxter's thrillers have complete anatomy—muscles, brains, guts, and heart." – World Fantasy Award-nominated author, Anna Tambour "Alan Baxter delivers a heady mix of magic, monsters and bloody fights to the death. Nobody does kick-ass brutality like Baxter." – Greig Beck, Internationally bestselling author "Alan Baxter's fiction is dark, disturbing, hard-hitting and heart-breakingly honest. He reflects on worlds known and unknown with compassion, and demonstrates an almost second-sight into human behaviour." — Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award-winner and author of The Grief Hole "…fantastic storytelling in the vein of Neil Gaiman or Alan Moore, but with a merciless black streak…" – Spooktapes "…if Stephen King and Jim Butcher ever had a love child then it would be Alan Baxter." – Smash Dragons "Alan's work is reminiscent of that of Clive Barker and Jim C. Hines, but with a unique flavour all of its own.” – Angela Slatter, World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Aurealis Award winner “Baxter draws you along a knife’s edge of tension from the first page to the last, leaving your heart thumping and sweat on your brow.” – Midwest Book Review

Pamphlets

Author : George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pamphlets written by George Grant MacCurdy and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Descendants of Aztec Pictography

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477329358
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Descendants of Aztec Pictography written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.

The Holy Orthodox Bible, Vol. V, The Major Prophets & 4th Makkabees

Author : Peter Papoutsis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312124970
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Holy Orthodox Bible, Vol. V, The Major Prophets & 4th Makkabees written by Peter Papoutsis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ACCURACY, RELIABILITY & READABILITY. When one is looking to find, study and read the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament traditionally called the Septuagint accuracy, reliability and readability is what one is looking for. These qualities are readily present within THE HOLY ORTHODOX BIBLE. The present translation is based on the most time-honored Septuagint biblical and liturgical texts found in the Greek Orthodox Church and in the field of Septuagint & Old Greek biblical studies.

Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110714356X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies written by Colin Renfrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

Furies of Calderon

Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780441012688
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Furies of Calderon written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy—the Marat horde—return to the Valley, Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war...

The Suffering Servant

Author : Bernd Janowski
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802808455
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Suffering Servant written by Bernd Janowski and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Servant Song of Isaiah 53 has been highly significant in both Jewish and Christian thought. Rarely, however, has it been explored from the broad range of perspectives represented in this long-awaited volume. In The Suffering Servant ten talented biblical interpreters trace the influence of the Servant Song text through the centuries, unpacking the theological meanings of this rich passage of scripture and its uses in various religious contexts. Chapters examine in depth Isaiah 52:13-53:12 in the Hebrew original and in later writings, including pre-Christian Jewish literature, the New Testament, the Isaiah Targum, the early church fathers, and a sixteenth-century rabbinic document informed by Jewish-Christian dialogue. Contributors Jostein Ådna Daniel P. Bailey Gerlinde Feine Martin Hengel Hans-Jürgen Hermisson Otfried Hofius Wolfgang Hüllstrung Bernd Janowski Christoph Markschies Stefan Schreiner Hermann Spieckermann Peter Stuhlmacher

Aztec Codices

Author : Lori Boornazian Diel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440851816
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Aztec Codices written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life. This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history—the first providing a visual record of the story of the Aztec migration and search for their destined homeland of Tenochtitlan, and the second exploring how the Aztecs built their empire. Later chapters explain life in the Aztec world, focusing on Aztec conceptions of time and religion, the Aztec economy, the life cycle, and daily life. The book ends with an account of the fall of the empire, as illustrated by Aztec artists. With sections concerning a wide variety of topics—from the Aztec pantheon to war, agriculture, childhood, marriage, diet, justice, the arts, and sports, among many others—readers will gain an expansive understanding of life in the Aztec world.

Tezcatlipoca

Author : Elizabeth Baquedano
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322889
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Tezcatlipoca written by Elizabeth Baquedano and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious beliefs and practices, contributors to this volume demonstrate the diverse ways material evidence expands on these traditional sources. The interlocking complexities of Tezcatlipoca’s nature, multiple roles, and metaphorical attributes illustrate the extent to which his influence penetrated Aztec belief and social action across all levels of late Postclassic central Mexican culture. Tezcatlipoca examines the results of archaeological investigations—objects like obsidian mirrors, gold, bells, public stone monuments, and even a mosaic skull—and reveals new insights into the supreme deity of the Aztec pantheon and his role in Aztec culture.

The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire

Author : John Phillip Santos
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143118730
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire written by John Phillip Santos and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderful...a book that connects us to the global story of ourselves." -Sandra Cisneros In this beautifully written, highly original work, John Phillip Santos- the author of Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation-creates a virtuosic meditation on ancestry and origins. Weaving together a poetic mix of family remembrance, personal odyssey, conquest history, and magical realism, Santos recounts his quest to find the missing chronicle of his mother's family, who arrived in southern Texas in the 1620s. As Santos traces their roots to northern Spain, he re-imagines the way we think about identity. The result is a uniquely engaging adventure in the frontier between self and family, past and present, at a time when breakthroughs in genetics are changing our window on history.

Wonderful Blood

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812220196
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Blood written by Caroline Walker Bynum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bynum argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, and religious life. As cult object, blood provided a focus of theological debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a central symbol in popular devotion.

Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity

Author : Daniel Gurtner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300023
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Studies on the Text of the New Testament and Early Christianity written by Daniel Gurtner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of essays focuses on the twin areas of research undertaken by Prof. Michael W. Holmes. These are the sub-disciplines of textual criticism and the study of the Apostolic Fathers. The first part of the volume on textual criticism focuses on issues of method, the praxis of editing and collating texts, and discussions pertaining to individual variants. The second part of the volume assembles essays on the Apostolic Fathers. There is a particular focus on the person and writings of Polycarp, since this is the area of research where Prof. Holmes has worked most intensively.

Acts

Author : Darrell L. Bock
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801026687
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Acts written by Darrell L. Bock and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantive yet highly accessible commentary leads readers through all aspects of the book of Acts--sociological, historical, and theological.