Seven-year-old Clovis, son of a humble blacksmith, comes of age when Athena requests his services as her paladin. Ten years later, he finds himself neck deep in his first epic quest. Legend tells of a cursed keep, lost in the mist of time, in a long forgotten northern realm. Combine a drunken, boastful king with his daughter, and add in a vain, evil goddess. The resulting curse tells of a centennial reappearance of the keep, and imprisoned princess. Clovis must avoid the traps, vanquish the minions, and rescue the princess within a twenty-four hour period, or find himself the newest prisoner of the keep.
This volume is the publication and analysis of the tomb of pharaoh Seneb-Kay (ca. 1650-1600 BCE), and a cemetery of associated tombs at Abydos, all attributable to a group of kings of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. The tomb of Seneb-Kay has provided the first known king's tomb of pharaonic Egypt that included decorated imagery in the burial chamber. That evidence, presented in full-color and discussed in detail in the volume, allows us to identify this previously unknown ruler along with a group of seven similar tombs that can be attributed to an Upper Egyptian Dynasty that survived for approximately half a century during a period of pronounced territorial fragmentation in the Nile Valley. The book examines the architecture and artifacts associated with these tombs as well as presents an osteological analysis of the bodies of Seneb-Kay and the other anonymous individuals buried at South Abydos. Seneb-Kay's skeletonized mummy was recovered inside his tomb and provides a rare opportunity to examine the body of a king of this era. He is the earliest substantially preserved body of an Egyptian king to survive in the archaeological record, and the first known Egyptian pharaoh whose skeletal remains show that he died in battle. The analysis of his death in a military encounter, along with insights from the other skeletal remains indicates a line of kings whose rise to power was associated with their social background as members of the military elite. The book examines the wider implications of these bodies in terms of the pronounced militarization of society in the Second Intermediate Period. Seneb-Kay's tomb has also provided extensive evidence, through its use of reused blocks bearing decoration, of earlier elite and royal monuments at Abydos. The combination of evidence provides a new archaeological and historical window into the political situation that defined Egypt's Second Intermediate Period.
Pretty Good House provides a framework and set of guidelines for building or renovating a high-performance home that focus on its inhabitants and the environment--but keeps in mind that few people have pockets deep enough to achieve a "perfect" solution. The essential idea is for homeowners to work within their financial and practical constraints both to meet their own needs and do as much for the planet as possible. A Pretty Good House is: * A house that's as small as possible * Simple and durable, but also well designed * Insulated and air-sealed * Above all, it is affordable, healthy, responsible, and resilient.
Over the concluding decades of the twentieth century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its attention to modern buildings, including bungalows from the 1930s, gas stations and diners from the 1940s, and office buildings and architectural homes from the 1950s. Conservation efforts, however, were often hampered by a lack of technical information about the products used in these structures, and to fill this gap Twentieth-Century Building Materials was developed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and first published in 1995. Now, this invaluable guide is being reissued—with a new preface by the book’s original editor. With more than 250 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, the volume remains an indispensable reference on the history and conservation of modern building materials. Thirty-seven essays written by leading experts offer insights into the history, manufacturing processes, and uses of a wide range of materials, including glass block, aluminum, plywood, linoleum, and gypsum board. Readers will also learn about how these materials perform over time and discover valuable conservation and repair techniques. Bibliographies and sources for further research complete the volume. The book is intended for a wide range of conservation professionals including architects, engineers, conservators, and material scientists engaged in the conservation of modern buildings, as well as scholars in related disciplines.
An excellent book, blending the familiar with the fantastical, neatly tied together by characters with true heart and soul. Highly recommended! -- Nene Thomas and Steven Plagman, artist and authors of The Zarryiostrom. Clovis, a young paladin, is getting some well-earned rest after his first major quest, when tragic news turns his entire world upside down. Suddenly he is thrust into a frenzied world of new responsibilities, tough choices and tremendous sacrifice. As doors are shut behind him, new ones appear in some highly unexpected places and our young paladin learns more about himself and the gods of Olympus than he ever felt possible. The weight of his world bears down on his shoulders as he approaches the Styx, River of the Dead. His choices will either doom all around him or thrust him into legend "We are shackled to this Earth and existence by our bodies, but our minds and imaginations, unencumbered by the laws of reality and the infirmities of age, are free to break these bonds and soar free to travel through time, dimensions, and enjoy a reality of our own choosing."- Charles Embrey, Jr. Let Clovis and his companions immerse you into a time of magic and wonder. A time when good and evil openly battled and justice was dispensed with the tip of a sharp sword. Explore a world of dragons and winged horses with the ever present dangers of orcs and the undead. Fight the good fight alongside the heroes, rejoicing your victories and mourning your fallen.
Recent decades have seen a fertile period of theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has had a dramatic impact on how epistemology is done. Investigations into contextualist and pragmatic dimensions of knowledge suggest radically new ways of meeting skeptical challenges and of understanding the relation between the epistemological and practical environment. New insights from social epistemology and formal epistemology about defeat, testimony, a priority, probability, and the nature of evidence all have a potentially revolutionary effect on how we understand our epistemological place in the world. Religion is the place where such rethinking can potentially have its deepest impact and importance. Yet there has been surprisingly little infiltration of these new ideas into philosophy of religion and the epistemology of religious belief. Knowledge, Belief, and God incorporates these myriad new developments in mainstream epistemology, and extends these developments to questions and arguments in religious epistemology. The investigations proposed in this volume offer substantial new life, breadth, and sophistication to issues in the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. They pose original questions and shed new light on long-standing issues in religious epistemology; and these developments will in turn generate contributions to epistemology itself, since religious belief provides a vital testing ground for recent epistemological ideas.
All Moshi love dressing up and Moshi Town is full of different Moshi in different costumes. Strawberry Moshi wants to go to the ball but she needs to find the right costume to dress up as Princess Strawberry Moshi. She'll need some help from you in finding the right costume to wear, getting there, and finding her Prince Moshi.
