Light of the Darkness
Light of the Darkness

Author: Jasmine Bea

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1525509918

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Light of the Darkness is the remarkable, adventure-packed story of a woman on a journey dimmed by shadows at every step. Already a survivor of a great deal when we meet her at the novel’s launch, Lux is a Lorean of mixed origins who is also a successful entrepreneur (with her sister, Noire). She is, too, a unique beauty who distinguishes herself from her remarkable peers through the legacy of unimaginable torture she’s endured at the hands of many, including the two men closest to her. A fierce combatant, Lux joins up with family and friends in pursuit of personal enlightenment, and comes to understand some painful truths about her past along the way. One of them is that strength comes in many forms. Sometimes, the waves of darkness that so regularly threaten to engulf Lux require unimaginable draws on courage; other times, it’s only a matter of her lobbing a show of her characteristic sass in their direction.

First Lessons
First Lessons

Author: Christine Richardson-Hay

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9783039109852

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This book provides a detailed commentary on Book 1 (epistulae 1-12) of Seneca's Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, written in the last years (62-65 AD) of the philosopher's life. The importance of the Epistulae Morales as an example, possibly the consummation, of Seneca's writings and a discussion of Roman (Stoic) moral philosophy, is universally acknowledged. The purpose in focusing upon these first twelve epistles, which establish the principle and intention of this large collection of twenty extant Books, is to interpret and annotate the letters and add insight to the understanding of the Epistulae Morales overall. Every letter in Book 1 is discussed in the form of a commentary. Areas of comment include vocabulary and style, personal allusions to Seneca, relevant issues of history and social environment and, inevitably, the moral and philosophical concepts which form the substance of Seneca's argument throughout the Epistulae Morales. Two further issues, the Structure and Style of Book 1, are discussed in separate chapters.

Witch Ways
Witch Ways

Author: Christine Pope

Publisher: Dark Valentine Press

Published: 2020-10-02

Total Pages: 3287

ISBN-13:

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It’s time to get your witch on…. More than one million words of witchy goodness! Get ready to be transported with this magical boxed set of stories from NY Times, USA Today, and national bestselling authors! In this collection, you’ll find witches, wizards, and warlocks, along with vampires, shifters, and other creatures of the night. The Witch Ways boxed set includes these first-in-series paranormal romance and urban fantasy stories: STORM BORN - Christine Pope STICKS AND STONES - Meredith Medina DEUS EX MAGICAL - Kat Parrish THE COVEN PRINCESS - Lily Luchesi SHADES OF MAGICK - Julia Crane CALLED - J.A. Belfield GRAVE MISTAKE - Christine Pope DEATH’S HAND - SM Reine A QUESTION OF FAITH - Nicole Zoltack BEWARE THE VIOLET - Maria Vermisoglou BURIED MAGIC - TJ Green LUNA - Stella Fitzsimons GHOST OF A CHANCE - Cherie Claire HOW TO SNAG A SHIFTER - Karin de Havin THE PERFECT BREW - Jo-Ann Carson PROPHECY OF THREE - Ashley McLeo VANILLA BEAN VAMPIRE - Selina J. Eckert A WITCHY MISTAKE - Rhonda Hopkins WHAT THE CAT KNEW - P.D. Workman ELEMENTAL ARCANE - Phaedra Weldon FOUND OBJECTS - Christine Pope

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women
Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women

Author: Timothy Burke

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780822317623

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How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigenous Zimbabweans of the 1940s begin to believe that they required Lifebuoy soap? Offering a glimpse into the intimate workings of modern colonialism and global capitalism, Timothy Burke takes up these questions in Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women, a study of post-World War II commodity culture in Zimbabwe. With particular attention to cosmetic products and the contrast between colonial and pre-colonial ideas of cleanliness, Burke examines the role played by commodity culture, changing patterns of consumption, and the spread of advertising in the making of modern Zimbabwe. His work combines history, anthropology, and political economy to show how the development of commodification in the region relates to the social history of hygiene. Within this framework, and drawing on a wide variety of historical sources, Burke explores dense interactions between commodity culture and embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, domesticity, health, and aesthetics in a colonial society. Rather than viewing the production of needs simply as an imposition from above, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women shows what heterogeneous and complex processes, involving the aims and histories of both colonizers and colonized, produced these changes in Zimbabwean society. Integrating political economy, cultural studies, and a wide range of the social sciences, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women will find readers among scholars of colonialism, African history, and ethnography as well those for whom the problem of commodification is a significant theoretical issue.