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Author: Emanuel Green
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 570
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Author: Emanuel Green
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 570
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebekah Turner
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1760374431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to the Helios Academy: evolve or die It's the year 2050 and life is increasingly hard for 'non–citizens'. A slowly emerging young minority has been exposed as 'talents'; they harbour mutations that give them special gifts – super strength, regenerative powers, psychic gifts or the ability to sink through shadows and travel through time and space. As governments unite to form a global talent registry and powerful corporations step in to take control, a 'talent' can be a passport to citizenship and a better life, but there is a cost as Josie Ryder is about to discover. Orphaned at six, Josie Ryder has been raised by her uncle. Her talent is an unusual one: she is a threader, able to weave a combination of psychic talents around others to manipulate their powers. Working in her uncle's antique store and dreaming of a better life, Josie has done everything to keep a promise to her late father: stay off the global talent registry and keep her talents hidden. But as Josie tries to make ends meet with the occasional illegal act, she risks a third strike with local law enforcement and, desperate for a better life, Josie finally breaks her promise to her father's memory and sends an enquiry to the prestigious Helios Academy, a training facility in a distant country for talents. When the Helios Academy respond by sending mysterious slider, Blake Galloway to extract Josie, then offer her a position at their select and highly competitive institution, things begin to get really interesting, and more than a little dangerous...
Author: Anne Stott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780199245321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first substantial biography of More for 50 years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence.
Author: H. C. Erik Midelfort
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0300130139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic. In this book H.C. Erik Midelfort delves deeply into records of the time to explore Gassner's remarkable exorcising campaign, chronicle the official efforts to curb him, and reconstruct the sufferings of the afflicted. Gassner's activities triggered a Catholic religious revival as well as a noisy skeptical reaction. In response to those who doubted that he was really casting out demons, Gassner marshaled hundreds of eyewitness reports that seemed to prove his exorcisms really worked. Midelfort describes the enormous public controversy that resulted, and he demonstrates that the Gassner episode yields important insights into the German Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, the limitations of eighteenth-century debate, and the ongoing role of magic and belief in an age of scientific enlightenment.
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521530613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself.