Requiem for Cordoba
Requiem for Cordoba

Author: Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003-09-18

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1462832245

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The time is the tenth century. The place is glorious Crdoba, capital of Moorish Al Andaluz where plots involve a coalition to arrest the despotism of El Mansur who is systematically despoiling their tolerant and cultured society to gain power and wealth. The coalition - self-named the Seers - includes a Caliphs wife, a Muslim merchant, the palace Chief Cook, a Jewish physician-diplomat, the Mother Superior of a Christian convent, a Moorish General, a Court poet and young woman slave. Seers machinations include assassinations, sabotage, spying and - naturally - love. It could have happened, since some characters were historical.

The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)
The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)

Author: Owen Rees

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-28

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107054427

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The first substantial study of Victoria's Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.

AMERICAN REQUIEM
AMERICAN REQUIEM

Author: George Hassel

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2022-04-10

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1665554150

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American Requiem offers a penetrating expose of the corruption, lying, cheating and self-dealing that pervades our government at all levels. The text presents a collection of essays chronicling the disastrous actions of Obama, the treasonous attempts to destroy Trump and the demonstrably stupid, but intentionally destructive policies of the Biden Administration, leading to socialism and catastrophe. A must read for all concerned Americans.

Alexandria
Alexandria

Author: Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1438971281

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A Promise Kept
A Promise Kept

Author: Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz PhD

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1984542133

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A Promise Kept: Memoir of Tibetans in India is a collaborative work between Germaine Krull and her friend Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz. Although a great photographer, Germaine was European and wrote English poorly. For this reason, she entrusted her memoir manuscript to Marilyn. Germaine requested that Marilyn promise to edit and rewrite it for publication so others could share her experiences. As promised, Marilyn offers Germaine’s A Promise Kept to you. Enjoy reading about his holiness Sakya Trizin, his family, and their lives in India. Share their trials, adaptations, and amazing social and religious rebirth as refugee Tibetans.

Human Traces: Ephemeral Art
Human Traces: Ephemeral Art

Author: Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-02-07

Total Pages: 879

ISBN-13: 1796073032

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From archaic ochre marks on stones and Paleolithic cave murals of animals and hunters to modern art museums, humans have created many styles and forms of visual art. Some were created to enjoy, and others to enhance social occasions, after which they were discarded or destroyed. Ephemeral art or durable, it never mattered if it was aesthetic. This is the first comprehensive study of ephemeral visual art - an heir of the human evolutionary background that made it possible for us to create and appreciate art. Ephemeral artworks still permeate life, and this study honors their heritage.

Crazy Feasts
Crazy Feasts

Author: Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2016-12-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1456627872

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CRAZY FEASTS is a culinary history cookbook that includes descriptions of ten banquets that were quite crazy or bizarre in several senses. Each feast is preceded by a short description of the location and historical setting in order to give a background for the dishes served, as well as for the particular kind of craziness involved. The feasts vary in historical depth from the Roman Empire period to the first decades of the twenty-first century. The locations include cities from Rome to other European capitals, as well as Mexico City, when it was called Tenochtitlan as the Spanish conquistadores entered it in the early sixteenth century. Each feast described was either an actual historical incident, or is an imagined banquet that could well have occurred given the culture and habits of the time. Each feast described is followed by recipes garnered from that culture and historical period. CRAZY FEASTS is a salute to human folly and the happy circumstances of glorious banquets meant to stimulate your sense of fun and folly should you decide to create a crazy feast of your own.

Brown's Requiem
Brown's Requiem

Author: James Ellroy

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 059331221X

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Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a cash-flashing golf caddy named Freddy “Fat Dog” Baker that puts him on the trail of his client’s sister and the older gentleman she’s run off with. But more suspicious than his sister, a classy cellist, is Fat Dog himself, who has a past more sordid than he lets on. Diving into a cesspool of payoffs, incest, and arson, Brown’s California dreaming transforms into a technicolor nightmare. In his hypnotic debut, master crime writer James Ellroy takes us to the edge of an abyss, where nothing, not even Beethoven, can let in the light.

The Catholic Church and the Jews
The Catholic Church and the Jews

Author: Graciela Ben-Dror

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0803218893

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The impact of events in Nazi Germany and Europe during World War II was keenly felt in neutral Argentina among its predominantly Catholic population and its significant Jewish minority. The Catholic Church and the Jews, Argentina, 1933-1945 considers the images of Jews presented in standard Catholic teaching of that era, the attitudes of the lower clergy and faithful toward the country?s Jewish citizens, and the response of the politically influential Church hierarchy to the national debate on accepting Jewish refugees from Europe. The issue was complicated by such factors as the position taken by the Vatican, Argentina?s unstable political situation, and the sizeable number of citizens of German origin who were Nazi sympathizers eager to promote German interests. ø Argentina?s self-perception was as a ?Catholic? country. Though there were few overtly anti-Jewish acts, traditional stereotypes and prejudice were widespread and only a few voices in the Catholic community confronted the established attitudes. ø