Set in Stone
Set in Stone

Author: Aurrora St. James

Publisher: Aurrora St. James

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1481830414

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Can a gargoyle convince a detective that doesn't believe in magic to break his curse? Once falsely accused of his lover’s murder, Gregore knows when he is going to die, and he has spent decades searching for a way to break the curse that hardens his body to stone. When a painful twist of fate lands the counter-curse in his hands then snatches it away just days before he turns to stone forever, Gregore’s desperation reaches newfound heights. He’ll do anything to live—even if it means kidnapping the one woman who could steal his heart. Although she comes from a long lineage of powerful women, Detective Tara O’Reilly is wonderfully content with her normal life. The remnants of her Gypsy heritage and magic are firmly locked away where they can’t hurt anyone. However, when a creature straight out of legend kidnaps her and asks for her help, she’ll have to choose between walking away from a man who stirs her soul and embracing a magic that could kill everyone she loves. Note to Readers: Set in Stone is a contemporary, paranormal romance featuring a super sexy man cursed by gypsies and a tough heroine detective who doesn't believe in magic. If you like a steamy book with a hero displaced from his own time, a kick-ass heroine, action-packed fight scenes, and funny side characters, then this book is for you! You get a happily ever after and no cliff-hangers.

Gavril of Aquina
Gavril of Aquina

Author: Aurrora St James

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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You can't hide from fate... In one brutal night, Gavril Khalon lost everything-his throne, his magic, and his freedom. He may have escaped captivity, but any hope of reclaiming his kingdom was burned out of his soul, along with his heart. Now his only goal is survival. But when he's injured escaping the palace guards, he's rescued by a strong, protective woman whose touch stirs parts of himself he thought long dead, and she refuses to let him fade back into anonymity. When the new king usurped the throne, Shyla used the chaos to escape his evil clutches. She's built a new life for herself with her own shop and avoids drawing any attention to herself, even if that makes her lonely. When a wounded stranger falls into her arms, she never expected to find the man-the king-everyone thinks is dead. Even more shocking is the scorching attraction between them. Shyla knows she must help Gavril regain his magic and his throne, even if the stubborn man fights her the whole way. Because the new king has a plan to harness the power of the goddesses, which could destroy the entire realm, and Gavril's the only man strong enough to defeat him. But just knowing Gavril is dangerous. As his enemies close in, Shyla discovers a strength she didn't know she had, and Gavril must choose between his kingdom and the woman he desires above all else. A sweet and steamy tale with a wounded king, a strong, determined woman, and the magic of true love. Contains a very happy ending with no cliff hangers.

Why We Play
Why We Play

Author: Roberte Hamayon

Publisher: Hau

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 9780986132568

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Play is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?

Subordinated Ethics
Subordinated Ethics

Author: Caitlin Smith Gilson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-08-21

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1532686390

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With Dostoyevsky’s Idiot and Aquinas’ Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical meaning is en route, pointing the way because it is within the way, as only sign, not symbol, can point to the sacramental terminus. The courtesies of dogma and tradition are the road signs and guideposts along the longior via, not themselves the termini. We seek the dialogic heart of the natural law through two seemingly contradictory voices and approaches: St. Thomas Aquinas and his famous five ways, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s holy idiot, Prince Myshkin. It is precisely the apparent miscellany of these selected voices that provide us with a connatural invitation into the natural law as subordinated, as descriptive guide, not as prescriptive leader.

Capitalism with a Human Face
Capitalism with a Human Face

Author: William Gay

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780847681365

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Combining the theoretical perspectives of a leading Russian political scientist and an American political philosopher who have collaborated for years, Capitalism with a Human Face analyzes the relation between economics and politics in Russia as it moves toward modernization. Throughout the book, the authors contrast Western media accounts of the Russian situation with less accessible but more relevant data gathered in Russia since 1991. They advocate a new notion of centrism for Russia: one that combines democratic politics and a market economy without abandoning the social guarantees on which many Russians have long relied and without which their political and economic life is likely to remain in turmoil. This will be an important work for scholars and students of social and political philosophy, international relations, comparative politics, and economics.

The Emmanuel Falque Reader
The Emmanuel Falque Reader

Author: Emmanuel Falque

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-09-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1350318949

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Emmanuel Falque is one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today. This is the first English-language anthology to bring together extracts from Falque's major works, key essays and even some previously unpublished material. Spanning his entire career to date, The Emmanuel Falque Reader is organised thematically and showcases the vast array of Falque's interests, from his early work on medieval philosophy to his methodology, anthropology and Christian phenomenology. It also includes an Editor's Introduction, which situates Falque within phenomenology's so-called 'theological turn' and provides a comprehensive overview of his philosophy. Falque's thinking urges more careful consideration of human finitude, atheism in a secular age, and the interaction between philosophy and theology. Featuring a foreword by esteemed scholar Kevin Hart, this essential collection explores the new directions in which Falque is taking continental philosophy of religion.

Nikolai of Semar
Nikolai of Semar

Author: Aurrora St. James

Publisher: Aurrora St. James

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780990465843

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Dragon King Nikolai Baudin witnessed how love destroyed his own father after the death of his mother and vows to never take a wife. Yet, when the little girl he rescued so many years ago returns as a beautiful and mysterious woman, he finds the desires of his heart overwhelming his good intentions. But when some of his people are found dead, Nikolai must face the possibility that the woman who draws him may just be the one murdering those in his care. Arianrhod Deatherage has every reason to hate the darkly handsome king who saved her from a burning pike, only to turn her over to strangers and then promptly forget about her. But when she finds him again, it's not hate she's feeling, but something far more unsettling... desire. If he discovers her secret, she could lose everything. But when people begin to die around her, Aria fears that the past is repeating itself, and that the man she's come to admire could be the next victim. Can two souls who have forsaken love join together to battle an ancient evil? Or will tragedies from the past separate them forever? Note to Readers: Nikolai of Semar is a medieval, paranormal romance featuring a super sexy dragon shifter and a woman who is far more than she seems. If you like a steamy book with a dragon shape-shifter, a mysterious heroine, the Fae, action-packed fight scenes, and funny side characters, then this book is for you! You get a happily ever after and no cliff-hangers. Bonus Content Included: The paperback also contains the special connected fairy tale, Freya and the Fae Prince. This short story is directly related to the tale of Nikolai and Arianrhod.

All the Names of the Lord
All the Names of the Lord

Author: Valentina Izmirlieva

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0226388727

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Christians face a conundrum when it comes to naming God, for if God is unnamable, as theologians maintain, he can also be called by every name. His proper name is thus an open-ended, all-encompassing list, a mystery the Church embraces in its rhetoric, but which many Christians have found difficult to accept. To explore this conflict, Valentina Izmirlieva examines two lists of God’s names: one from The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, and the other from The 72 Names of the Lord, an amulet whose history binds together Kabbalah and Christianity, Jews and Slavs, Palestine, Provence, and the Balkans. This unexpected juxtaposition of a theological treatise and a magical amulet allows Izmirlieva to reveal lists’ rhetorical potential to create order and to function as both tools of knowledge and of power. Despite the two different visions of order represented by each list, Izmirlieva finds that their uses in Christian practice point to a complementary relationship between the existential need for God’s protection and the metaphysical desire to submit to his infinite majesty—a compelling claim sure to provoke discussion among scholars in many fields.