The Devil's Signature

The Devil's Signature

Author: Jane Elend

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-02-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Not your typical urban fantasy story! Prepare to dive into a new book series that will devour you to the depth of steamy romance, heart trembling drama and breathtaking action! Sophie, a young artist from London is stuck in a daily routine. She works at her mother's coffee shop and tries her best to pay off all the family debts after her father's mysterious death and his company bankruptcy. Sophie suffers from anxiety and has trouble finding her purpose in life, constantly being a subject to attacks and kidnapping attempts. Arranged marriage, haters to lovers story, strong character development and consistent plot cliffhangers are to be expected! A puzzling story is revealed when her life turned upside down in an instant and fate threw a heavy burden on Sophie's shoulders. Unveiled her family secrets, open new doors to her father's murder, befriend a real witch who struggles through depression and self-esteem and meet the most cunning, self-centred, evil man that the world has ever known - the Devil himself, the Fallen Angel with a painful and tragic past. Why is this book different from others? - Urban Fantasy that takes place in modern London - Variety of characters including different racial backgrounds and members of LGBT+ community - Old familiar stories are reviewed from a new angle - Demons? Angels? Witches? Devil? Yes. they are all here! - Mystery, comedy, romance, action, thriller - dive into the mixture of chaos and enjoy it! Warning: this book is intended for adults and contains sexual scenes, violence, strong language, contains elements of racism and homophobia.


Signing the Body

Signing the Body

Author: Katherine Dauge-Roth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0429880413

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The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal inscription and impression in France and the French Atlantic from the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries. Placing into dialogue a broad range of textual and visual sources drawn from areas as diverse as demonology, jurisprudence, mysticism, medicine, pilgrimage, commerce, travel, and colonial conquest that have formerly been examined largely in isolation, Katherine Dauge-Roth demonstrates that emerging theories and practices of signing the body must be understood in relationship to each other and to the development of other material marking practices that rose to prominence in the early modern period. While each chapter brings to light the particular histories and meanings of a distinct set of cutaneous marks—devil’s marks on witches, demon’s marks upon the possessed, devotional wounds, Amerindian and Holy Land pilgrim tattoos, and criminal brands—each also reveals connections between these various types of stigmata, links that were obvious to the early modern thinkers who theorized and deployed them. Moreover, the five chapters bring to the fore ways in which corporeal marking of all kinds interacted dynamically with practices of writing on, imprinting, and engraving paper, parchment, fabric, and metal that flourished in the period, together signaling important changes taking place in early modern society. Examining the marked body as a material object replete with varied meanings and uses, Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France shows how the skin itself became the register of the profound cultural and social transformations that characterized this era.


Bargaining with the Devil

Bargaining with the Devil

Author: Robert Mnookin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1416583645

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The art of negotiation—from one of the country’s most eminent practitioners and the Chair of the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. One of the country’s most eminent practitioners of the art and science of negotiation offers practical advice for the most challenging conflicts—when you are facing an adversary you don’t trust, who may harm you, or who you may even feel is evil. This lively, informative, emotionally compelling book identifies the tools one needs to make wise decisions about life’s most challenging conflicts.


The Devil's Hand

The Devil's Hand

Author: Jack Carr

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 1982123753

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"It's been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient--learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He's a young, popular, self-made visionary...but he's also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the United States and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth. Meanwhile, a young PhD student has gained access to a bioweapon thought to be confined to a classified military laboratory known only to a select number of officials. A second-generation agent, he has been assigned a mission that will bring his adopted homeland to its knees."--Back cover.


The Devil's Wine

The Devil's Wine

Author: Tom Piccirilli

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781587670701

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Nineteen masters (and mistresses) of contemporary horror fiction reveal themselves in a gentler, poetic mood in this anthology of mostly previously unpublished verse.


The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Author: Stephen Vincent Benet

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1943-10

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780822203032

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THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.


The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology

The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology

Author: Rosemary Guiley

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1438131917

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Explores this dark aspect of folklore and religion and the role that demons play in the modern world. Includes numerous entries documenting beliefs about demons and demonology from ancient history to the present.


The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics

Author: C. S. Lewis

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2002-10-22

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780060506087

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For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century.


The History of the Devil

The History of the Devil

Author: Paul Carus

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1513223828

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The History of the Devil (1900) is a philosophical study by Paul Carus. A lifelong Monist, Carus sought to apply a scientific analysis to the principles of humanity’s religions. Credited with bridging the gap between Eastern and Western beliefs, Carus believed that the dualism rampant in the West could be replaced in order to establish a more equitable world where difference and diversity would be accepted and nurtured, rather than suppressed. “This world of ours is a world of opposites. There is light and shade, there is heat and cold, there is good and evil, there is God and the Devil. The dualistic conception of nature has been a necessary phase in the evolution in human thought.” Recognizing the need for dualism in the history of humanity, Carus sought to promote the principles of Monism in the West, believing it could lead to a universal worldview capable of uniting East and West. A positivist and pantheist, Carus believed that by pursuing “in religion the same path that science travels, [...] the narrowness of sectarianism [would] develop into a broad cosmical religion which shall be as wide and truly catholic as is science itself.” To lay the groundwork for this “cosmical religion,” he investigates the figure of the Devil and the historical evolution of the concept of evil, which he saw as predating belief in goodness and God. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil is a classic of philosophy reimagined for modern readers.