Alice, a teenage girl initiated into an occult organization by her late grandfather, is stuck in the resort town of Hood River, Oregon, for the summer, far from her Hollywood home. Determined to summon a spirit without the help of her overbearing mentor Victor, Alice enlists the help of a group of locals to perform a magick ritual in an abandoned building. The ritual brings a mysterious, evil element to earth, a sentient oil-like substance that disguises itself in the grease trap of a dive bar on the edge of town, The Red Carpet. Soon, working through a rat, the evil element unleashes a campaign of terror that threatens the animals in the forest surrounding the bar as it plots to find a human host. The plea of a desperate squirrel summons the paranormal Ape Cat back to Earth. Crossing dimensions, the supernatural beast makes a dangerous trek through the Columbia Gorge to stop the evil element’s diabolical plan. But will the shadowy men of The Agency capture the Ape Cat before it can destroy the evil element?
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great Mathematical Problems explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context of mathematics and science as a whole. It contains solved problems - like the Poincaré Conjecture, cracked by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, who refused academic honours and a million-dollar prize for his work, and ones which, like the Riemann Hypothesis, remain baffling after centuries. Stewart is the guide to this mysterious and exciting world, showing how modern mathematicians constantly rise to the challenges set by their predecessors, as the great mathematical problems of the past succumb to the new techniques and ideas of the present.
A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum—and whether or not they still survive. While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano. Over the years he continued to record what locals had to say about these mystery hominoids while searching for ways to explain them as imaginary symbols of the wild or other cultural representations. Then along came the ‘hobbit’. In 2003, several skeletons of a small-statured early human species alongside stone tools and animal remains were excavated in a cave in western Flores. Named Homo floresiensis, this ancient hominin was initially believed to have lived until as recently as 12,000 years ago— possibly overlapping with the appearance of Homo sapiens on Flores. In view of this timing and the striking resemblance of floresiensis to the mystery creatures described by the islanders, Forth began to think about the creatures as possibly reflecting a real species, either now extinct but retained in ‘cultural memory’ or even still surviving. He began to investigate reports from the Lio region of the island where locals described 'ape-men' as still living. Dozens claimed to have even seen them. In Between Ape and Human, we follow Forth on the trail of this mystery hominoid, and the space they occupy in islanders’ culture as both natural creatures and as supernatural beings. In a narrative filled with adventure, Lio culture and language, zoology and natural history, Forth comes to a startling and controversial conclusion. Unique, important, and thought-provoking, this book will appeal to anyone interested in human evolution, the survival of species (including our own) and how humans might relate to ‘not-quite-human’ animals. Between Ape and Human is essential reading for all those interested in cryptozoology, and it is the only firsthand investigation by a leading anthropologist into the possible survival of a primitive species of human into recent times—and its coexistence with modern humans.
This volume brings together five translations of Aesopian fables that range from the beginning to the end of the English Renaissance. At the centre of the volume is an edition of the entirety of Arthur Golding’s manuscript translation of emblematic fables, A Morall Fabletalke (c. 1580s). By situating Golding’s text alongside William Caxton’s early printed translation from French (1485), Richard Smith’s English version of Robert Henryson’s Middle-Scots Moral Fabillis (1577), John Brinsley’s grammar school translation (1617), and John Ogilby’s politicized fables translated at the end of the English Civil War (1651), this book shows the wide-ranging forms and functions of the fable during this period.
This C. S. Lewis collection is formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an interactive table of contents, footnotes and other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable. Novels: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician's Nephew The Last Battle Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength The Screwtape Letters The Pilgrim's Regress The Great Divorce Till We Have Faces Short Stories: Screwtape Proposes a Toast Ministering Angels Religious Studies: The Allegory of Love The Problem of Pain A Preface to Paradise Lost The Abolition of Man Miracles Mere Christianity Reflections on the Psalms The Four Loves An Experiment in Criticism A Grief Observed Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Poetry: Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics Autobiography: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Speeches: Transposition The Weight of Glory Membership Learning in War-Time The Inner Ring De Descriptione Temporum The Literary Impact of the Authorised Version Hamlet: The Prince or The Poem? Kipling's World Sir Walter Scott Lilies that Fester Psycho-analysis and Literary Criticism The Inner Ring Is Theology Poetry? Transposition On Obstinacy in Belief The Weight of Glory Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
