This is a story of what I've gone through in my life. From Birth to foster care, to living and surviving my step mother trying to do me in to the U.S. Navy, world travel and back again. This book will help you come to the conclusion that your life could be much worse.
Wallace explores in exciting detail the rivalry between the paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Onthniel Charles Marsh--19th-century America's major scientific feud. Cope and Marsh independently discovered hundreds of dinosaur fossils on the high plains when the Indian wars were in full swing.
In a fantastical world of horses, swords, and treasure, young Hesta lives a normal life, along with her brother Thane. One day, though, she makes an incredible discovery. She comes upon a creature the size of a fawn with two tiny wings folded against its back and a long pointed tail. In its talons, it holds a green jewel that sparkles in the darkness of a ravine. Hesta has found a baby wyvern – a poisonous dragon with two legs and giant wings. The discovery is indeed amazing, but it soon turns dangerous when Thane ends up poisoned after the parent wyvern finds and attacks them. Desperate to save her brother, Hesta takes on several risky missions to find the cure for Thane’s illness. Everyone now seeks the wyvern’s green jewel, including a treasure hunter named Nordore. Along with their faithful horses, a mysterious man, and a clever cat, this brother and sister race to save not only themselves but also the magic of the wyvern.
In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.