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Book Synopsis The Poison That Fascinates by : Jennifer Clements
Download or read book The Poison That Fascinates written by Jennifer Clements and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by her mother as a baby, Emily now lives with her father in Mexico City. She works in the local Catholic orphanage. Life is simple. But when an enigmatic cousin, Santi, appears on the doorstep he brings family secrets, and soon Emily finds desire and temptation have overturned her straightforward life forever.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works by : Geoff Hamilton
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works written by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the best writers and works of the current English-speaking literary world.
Book Synopsis The Crime of Poison in the Middle Ages by : Franck Collard
Download or read book The Crime of Poison in the Middle Ages written by Franck Collard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will lead readers into a medieval culture of ambition, greed, and jealousy that motivated men and women to take the lives of individuals who trusted them. Collard examines the perception of the crime of poisoning in the West in medieval times, from about 500 to 1500 AD, exploring the ways the alleged crime was perceived in contemporary minds. His primary sources are chronicles that cover the entire medieval period and legal texts that are limited to the late medieval centuries. In order to portray the culture of murder by poisoning in the West, it was necessary to take into account Byzantine and Islamic documents as well as ancient texts such as the Scriptures and the writings of Roman historians, both of which were widely known in the Middle Ages. This book will lead readers into a medieval culture of ambition, greed, and jealousy that motivated men and women to take the lives of individuals who trusted them. In these pages, French medievalist Franck Collard examines the perception of the crime of poisoning in the West from about 500 to 1500. His primary sources of information are chronicles that cover the entire medieval period and legal texts that are limited to the late medieval centuries. In order to portray the culture of murder by poisoning in the West, he takes into account Byzantine and Islamic documents, as well as ancient texts such as the Scriptures and the writings of Roman historians, both of which were widely known in the Middle Ages. The resulting volume is concerned with the criminal actions that involve poison and not poison as such. Poisonous substances as such are described only when necessary for an understanding of a crime. What is important here is an examination of the ways the alleged crime was perceived in contemporary minds. Poisoning avoids the use of violence. It was committed without a drawn weapon or bloodshed in a world in which wounds, swords, knives, and clubs represented aggression and in which the flow of blood determined the gravity of the crime. Necessarily involving preparation and secrecy, it was often perpetrated treacherously during a meal, a particularly heinous act in a universe that was united by the companionship of a meal and the sociability of drinking. The special horror associated with poisoning resulted from the treachery of those close to the victim-and a sudden death that prevented a final confession of sins.
Book Synopsis The American Medical Lexicon by : John Quincy
Download or read book The American Medical Lexicon written by John Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint by : Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Download or read book Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint written by Shirley Sharon-Zisser and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of readings of Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint, particularly engaging with issues of psychoanalysis and gender, this volume cumulatively builds a detailed picture of the poem, its reception, and its critical neglect. The collection by leading Shakespeareans brings to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty, its aesthetic, psychological and conceptual complexity, and its representation of its cultural moment.
Book Synopsis Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by : Charles John Samuel Thompson
Download or read book Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries written by Charles John Samuel Thompson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bushmen of the South African district "Kalahari," use the juice of the leaf beetle "diamphidia" and its larva for poisoning their arrow-heads. Lewin, who calls the beetle Diamphidia simplex, found in its body, besides inert fatty acids, a toxalbumin which causes paralysis, and finally death. According to Boehm, the poison from the larva also belongs to the toxalbumins, and Starke states, that it causes the dissolution of the colouring matter of the blood and produces inflammation. A halo of mystery, sometimes intermixed with romance, has hung about the dread word poison from very early times. In the dark days of mythology, allusions to mysterious poisons were made in legend and saga. Thus a country in the Far North was supposed to be ruled and dominated by sorcerers and kindred beings, all of whom were said to be children of the Sun. Here dwelt Æëtes, Perses, Hecate, Medea, and Circe. Hecate was the daughter of Perses and married to Æëtes, and their daughters were Medea and Circe. Æëtes and Perses were said to be brothers, and their country was afterwards supposed to be Colchis. To Hecate is ascribed the foundation of sorcery and the discovery of poisonous herbs. Her knowledge of magic and spells was supposed to be unequalled. She transmitted her power to Medea, whose wonderful exploits have been frequently described and depicted, and who by her magic arts subdued the dragon that guarded the golden fleece, and assisted Jason to perform his famous deeds. Hecate's garden is described by the poets as being enclosed in lofty walls with thrice-folding doors of ebony, which were guarded by terrible forms, and only those who bore the leavened rod of expiation and the concealed conciliatory offering could enter. Towering above was the temple of the dread sorceress, where the ghastly sacrifices were offered and all kinds of horrible spells worked. Medea was also learned in sorcery and an accomplished magician. It is related that, after her adventures with Jason, she returned with him to Thessaly. On their arrival they found Æson, the father of Jason, and Pelias, his uncle, who had usurped the throne, both old and decrepit. Medea was requested to exert her magical powers to make the old man young again, an operation she is said to have speedily performed by infusing the juice of certain potent plants into his veins.
Book Synopsis The Strand Magazine by : George Newnes
Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by George Newnes and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Face Value by : Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
Download or read book Face Value written by Autumn Whitefield-Madrano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating look” (The Boston Globe) at how we think and talk about beauty in the twenty-first century—and the unexpected and often positive way that beauty shapes our lives. For decades, we’ve thought of beauty as a negative influence in our lives. We feel insecure in the face of retouched, impossibly-perfect images. We worry primping and preening are a distraction and a trap. But in Face Value, journalist Autumn Whitefield-Modrano dispels this one-sided beauty myth and examines the relationship between appearance and science, social media, sex, friendship, language, and advertising to show how beauty actually affects us day to day. Through meticulous research and interviews with dozens of women across all walks of life, she reveals surprising findings, like wearing makeup can actually relax you, you can convince people you’re better looking just by tweaking your personality, and the ways beauty can be a powerful tool of connection among women. Provocative and empowering, it celebrates a relaxed brand of feminism, one in which it’s equally okay to feel fierce in your fake eyelashes and confident when going makeup-free. Face Value is “an immensely valuable work, one that seamlessly—and impressively—combines the tropes of the academic lit review and the memoir and the work of cultural criticism into an engaging, and timely, follow-up to The Beauty Myth” (The Atlantic).
Download or read book Revelation written by Marc Rodric and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 2016 and amidst the destruction of the Third World War two men, Chris and Kaser, stand in what remains of the Vatican. As Kaser reveals more about himself their conversation soon turns into a discussion on some of the most revered religious figures in history and, more importantly, the consequences humankind will face if they do not heed the warnings from the past. Revelation: Omega is a modern take on the Bibles Book of Revelation providing readers with evidence that whether we are aware or not, all things find their way to God.
Download or read book The Man Who Laughs written by Victor Hugo and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1930 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Man Who Laughs” (“L’Homme qui Rit”) was called by its author “A Romance of English History,” and was written during the period Hugo spent in exile in Guernsey. Like “The Toilers of the Sea,” its immediate predecessor, the main theme of the story is human heroism, confronted with the superhuman tyranny of blind chance. As a passionate cry on behalf of the tortured and deformed, and the despised and oppressed of the world, “The Man Who Laughs” is irresistible. Of it Hugo himself says in the preface: “The true title of this book should be “Aristocracy’”—inasmuch as it was intended as an arraignment of the nobility for their vices, crimes, and selfishness. “The Man Who Laughs” was first published in 1869.
Book Synopsis Classics Authors Super Set Serie 2 (Shandon Press) by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book Classics Authors Super Set Serie 2 (Shandon Press) written by Oscar Wilde and published by Oregan Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 23108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories - H. P. Lovecraft : The complete Collection - Edgar Allan Poe : The Complete Tales And Poems - Mary Shelley : The Complete Novels - H. G. Wells : The Classics Novels and Short Stories - Oscar Wilde : The Complete Collection Also available : Classics Authors Super Set Serie 1 (Shandon Press) 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 Shandon Press 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 Shandon Press 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 3 Shandon Press
Book Synopsis From Bow Street to Baker Street by : Martin A Kayman
Download or read book From Bow Street to Baker Street written by Martin A Kayman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-12-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated by : Mary MacLane
Download or read book I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated written by Mary MacLane and published by Petrarca Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. She is before her time ... Moving.” - London Times With her first book - written in 1901 in Butte, Montana at age nineteen - she was hailed as a marvel by the likes of H.L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and Harriet Monroe. She went on to become a pioneering newswoman, gambler extraordinaire, bon vivant, and a star of the silent screen. She influenced Gertrude Stein, inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald, and upon her death in 1929 was eulogized as “an errant daughter of literature ... the first of the self-expressionists, and also the first of the Flappers,” as the creator of “that revolution in manners, that transvaluation of values in the female code of behavior known as the Roaring Twenties.” Too radical in style for 1902, its original publisher made countless changes to the author’s far-superior original - the same pacification reprinted by all other publishers. This annotated, unexpurgated affordable edition makes Mary Mac-Lane’s striking teenage debut - “the first of the blogs” - available in its unalterd, uncompromised form. “Mary MacLane’s first book was the first of the confessional diaries ever written in this nation, and it was a sensation.” - N.Y. Times editoral “Anyone who reads her will never forget her voice.” - Biographile “She reminds us of the power of personal narrative, honestly told.” - The Atlantic “In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence.” - The Awl “She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous.” - The New Yorker “One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century.” - The Age “A girl wonder.” - Harper’s “Confessional journalists have people like Mary MacLane to thank.” - Flavorwire “Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women’s voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure opened a door to what was possible for women.” - The Atlantic “Fiery frankness made her a pioneer.” - Time Out Chicago “Her poetry is one of extremes: lust for happiness, despair for life.” - Hairy Dog Review “Riveting.” - N.H. Public Radio “I Await The Devil’s Coming is a small masterpiece, full of camp and swagger.” - Parul Sehgal, NPR “Pioneering newswoman, later silent-screen star, considered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties.” - Boston Globe “A pioneering feminist - a sensation.” - Feminist Bookstore News “First of the self-expressionists, and the first of the Flappers.” - Chicagoan Check www.marymaclane.com for exclusive content, news, and previews.
Book Synopsis The Story of Mary MacLane by : Mary MacLane
Download or read book The Story of Mary MacLane written by Mary MacLane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
Book Synopsis The Imperial Dictionary by : John Ogilvie
Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific by : John Ogilvie
Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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