A Magical Crisis
A Magical Crisis

Author: Nicole Beyer

Publisher: Nicole Zoltack

Published:

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13:

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Fans of Brandon Mull, Rick Riordan, and James Riley will love this middle grade fantasy series by Nicole Beyer and Nathan Ryan about three kids who go on an adventure to save their friend from a magical sickness. The crazed Queen of the Grand Kingdom wishes to rule all of Magicae. Her biggest obstacle? Gavin, Millie, and Ethan, of course. The kids have rounded up their allies from their magical adventures, but that might not be enough. The queen has an army. She has magic users fighting alongside her. Worse, the rumors about her having a dragon are true. Even if Gavin finds a way to become a dragon, they might not win. Do they even have a chance of surviving? Or will this magical crisis doom them all? KEYWORDS: middle grade fantasy adventure, MG fantasy adventure, fantasy adventure, middle grade fantasy, MG fantasy, children's book, children's fantasy, middle grade, MG, coming of age, kids, action, adventure, swords, sorcery, magic, fantasy, dragon, wyvern

Magic
Magic

Author: Ernesto De Martino

Publisher: Hau

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780990505099

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Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is testament to de Martino's innovation and engagement with Hegelian historicism and phenomenology--a work of ethnographic theory way ahead of its time. This new translation of Sud e Magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcraft in southern Italy, shows how De Martino is not interested in the question of whether magic is rational or irrational but rather in why it came to be perceived as a problem of knowledge in the first place. Setting his exploration within his wider, pathbreaking theorization of ritual, as well as in the context of his politically sensitive analysis of the global south's historical encounters with Western science, he presents the development of magic and ritual in Enlightenment Naples as a paradigmatic example of the complex dynamics between dominant and subaltern cultures. Far ahead of its time, Magic is still relevant as anthropologists continue to wrestle with modernity's relationship with magical thinking.

Climate and Crises
Climate and Crises

Author: Ben Holgate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-31

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1351372939

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Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature. The book argues that, in the era of climate change when humans are facing the prospect of species extinction, new ideas and new forms of expression are required to address what the novelist Amitav Gosh calls a "crisis of imagination." Magical realism enables writers to portray alternative intellectual paradigms, ontologies and epistemologies that typically contest the scientific rationalism derived from the European Enlightenment, and the exploitation of natural resources associated with both capitalism and imperialism. Climate and Crises explores the overlaps between magical realism and environmental literature, including their respective transgressive natures that dismantle binaries (such as human and non-human), a shared biocentric perspective that focuses on the inter-connectedness of all things in the universe, and, frequently, a critique of postcolonial legacies in formerly colonised territories. The book also challenges conventional conceptions of magical realism, arguing they are often influenced by a geographic bias in the construction of the orthodox global canon, and instead examines contemporary fiction from Asia (including China) and Australasia, two regions that have been largely neglected by scholarship of the narrative mode. As a result, the monograph modifies and expands our ideas of what magical realist fiction is.

Crisis Zone
Crisis Zone

Author: Simon Hanselmann

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1683964446

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In March 2020, as the planet began to enter lockdown, acclaimed cartoonist Simon Hanselmann decided that what the world needed most was free, easily accessible entertainment, so he set out to make the greatest webcomic ever created! The result is also certain to be one of the most acclaimed and eagerly anticipated graphic novels of 2021. As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate far beyond any reasonable expectations, Crisis Zone escalated right alongside, in real time, with daily posts on Instagram. Crisis Zone's battle mission was to amuse the masses: no matter how horrible and bleak everything seemed, at least Werewolf Jones wasn’t in your house! Over the course of 2020, Crisis Zone has amassed unprecedented amounts of new fans to the Megg and Mogg universe and is presented here, unabridged and uncensored, with a slew of added pages and scenes deleted from the webcomic, as well as an extensive “Director’s Commentary” from Hanselmann himself.

The Comfort Crisis
The Comfort Crisis

Author: Michael Easter

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0593138775

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“If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself.

Crisis
Crisis

Author: Hamilton Jordan

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780399127380

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Describes his role as White House Chief of Staff during the last year of the Carter presidency.

Magical Midlife Meeting
Magical Midlife Meeting

Author: K. F. Breene

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781734624694

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A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!It's time for a magical battle Jessie isn't sure she's prepared for.Elliot Graves has been a thorn in Jessie's side since before she agreed to take the house magic. He has constantly brought the fight to her doorstep.Not this time.With the help of Austin's shifters, the Ivy house crew will meet Elliot Graves in one of the most dangerous places imaginable - his home turf.But not before another creature joins the circle.

A Magical Adventure
A Magical Adventure

Author: Nicole Beyer

Publisher: Nicole Beyer

Published:

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13:

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Fans of Brandon Mull, Rick Riordan, and James Riley will love this middle grade fantasy series by Nicole Beyer and Nathan Ryan about three kids who go on an adventure to save their friend from a magical sickness. When Rafe contracts a magical sickness, what else can his friends do but go on a quest to find magic and heal him? Gavin the leader, Millie the fighter, and Ethan the bookworm set out to leave their town. Rumors of magic lead them to Lost Man's Grove. All too quickly, they become lost themselves, lost in the past, in the Age of Magic. Their main goal has shifted. They still need to save their friend, but first, they need to stay safe. When magic ruled, wyverns and dragons existed too. The trio must survive and return home hopefully with magic. That's not too much to ask, is it? KEYWORDS: middle grade fantasy adventure, MG fantasy adventure, fantasy adventure, middle grade fantasy, MG fantasy, children's book, children's fantasy, middle grade, MG, coming of age, kids, action, adventure, swords, sorcery, magic, fantasy, dragon, wyvern, free MG fantasy, free books, free fantasy books, free full length fantasy, free

Tragic Magic
Tragic Magic

Author: Wesley Brown

Publisher: Random House (NY)

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellington's first day on the outside. Although hungry for freedom and desperate for female companionship, Ellington is haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of those choices leading up to this day. Through a filmic series of flashbacks the novel revisits Ellington's prison experiences, where he is forced to play the unwilling patsy to the predatorial Chilly and the callow pupil of the not-so-predatorial Hardknocks; then dips further back to Ellington's college days where again he takes second stage to the hypnotic militarism of the Black Pantheresque Theo, whose antiwar politics incite the impressionable narrator to oppose his parents and to choose imprisonment over conscription; and finally back to his earliest high school days where we meet in Otis the presumed archetype of Ellington's "tragic magic" relationships with magnetic but dangerous avatars of black masculinity in crisis. --biography.jrank.org.