Some Whims of Fate
Author: Ménie Muriel Dowie
Publisher:
Published: 1896
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13:
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Child of Darkness
Author: Jennifer Armintrout
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1426842473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a Lightworld royal gala, Queene Ayla announces the betrothal of her daughter, Cerridwen, to a high-ranking councilor. Though strategically brilliant, the engagement comes as a shock—to Cerridwen especially. Infuriated by her mother's high-handedness, ignorant of her own true origins, she flees the court—leaving herself vulnerable to those who would see the Lightworld destroyed. Amid burgeoning unrest, desperate desires become divided loyalties and terrifying mercenaries lurk in the shadowy space between rebellion and anarchy.
Mebet
Author: Alexander Grigorenko
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Published: 2020-11-16
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1912894920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMebet concerns a man of the taiga, a hunter, in a moving narrative that blends ethnographic detail, indigenous mythology, and the snowy landscapes of the Arctic. The protagonist is a Nenets, a member of one of the peoples who call far northern Russia home. Dubbed “The Gods’ Favorite” for his seeming imperviousness to harm or grief, Mebet earns the envy and derision of his fellow tribesmen. He lives that carefree and blessed life until his old age, when one day a supernatural messenger arrives to lead him to where the realms of the living and the dead meet. Now the God’s Favorite must confront the price to be paid for his elevated position, and a series of dread trials that lie in store. Called a dark and terrifying fantasy and the Nenets Lord of the Rings by Russian writer and journalist Sergey Kuznetsov, Grigorenko’s Mebet is a powerful story about humanity, personal fate, and responsibility. Leading Russian literary critic Galina Yuzefovich welcomed Mebet as a true epic for the Nenets, a book that is profound, thrilling and vibrant. Whether the book will earn that lofty place within Nenets culture remains to be seen, but the very publication of the book marks a watershed event. Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 4
Author: Fuurou
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-07-26
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 171833138X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Dias comes down with a fever, the twins nurse him back to health with a mysterious herb... Could it be that Dias really did receive the legendary sanjivani herb from that weird talking baar? Before he can think too much about it, however, Dias learns from Eldan that he’s officially a duke! The title comes with a whole host of new and complicated responsibilities, but what has Dias most worried is simply deciding on a new family name! Can Dias learn and remember all the new and confusing laws and rules while Iluk Village prepares for the freezing winter ahead?
Knowledge and Religious Authority in the Pseudo-Clementines
Author: Nicole Kelley
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9783161490361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pseudo-Clementines are best known for preserving early Jewish Christian traditions, but have not been appreciated as a resource for understanding the struggles over identity and orthodoxy among fourth-century Christians, Jews, and pagans. Using the work of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Nicole Kelley analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Recognitions . These strategies discredit the knowledge of philosophers and astrologers, and establish Peter and Clement as the exclusive stewards of prophetic knowledge, which has been handed down to them by Jesus. This analysis reveals that the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions is not a jumbled collection of earlier source materials, as previous interpreters have thought, but a coherent narrative concerned primarily with epistemological issues. The author understands the Recognitions as a reflection of complex rivalries between several types of Christian and non-Christian groups such as that found in fourth-century Antioch or Edessa.
The Ascent of Humanity
Author: Charles Eisenstein
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1583945350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse. Fortunately, an Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation hasn't been a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an adventure in self-discovery. Even in our darkest hour, Eisenstein sees the possibility of a more beautiful world—not through the extension of millennia-old methods of management and control but by fundamentally reimagining ourselves and our systems. We must shift away from our Babelian efforts to build ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out attention to creating a new kind of civilization—one designed for beauty rather than height.
I Am Lazarus
Author: James Davison
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1666725110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe sometimes wonder what God's plan is for our short time on Earth. In this story, three people resurrected by the Son of God--Lazarus of Bethany, the daughter of Jarius, and the son of the widow from Nain--are stunned when the apostle Paul reveals that they are now immortal. Together they travel across the centuries, collecting and preserving the words of Jesus Christ. But it soon becomes clear that they must also become warriors for Christ as they elude a persistent group of zealots who are determined to permanently return them to the grave.
The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative
Author: Robert Bracht Branham
Publisher: Barkhuis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9077922008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) has become a name to conjure with. We know this because he is now one of those thinkers everyone already knows-without necessarily having to read much of him! Doesn't everyone now know how polyphony functions, what carnival means, why language is dialogic but the novel more so, how chronotopes make possible any concrete artistic cognition and that utterances give rise to genres that last thousands of years, always the same but not the same? Like Marx and Freud in the twentieth century, or Plotinus and Plato in the fourth, a familiarity with Bakhtin's thinking is so commonly assumed, at least in the Humanities, as to be taken for granted. He is no longer an author but a field of study in his own right. As Craig Brandist (of the Bakhtin Centre at Sheffield University) reports: the works of the [Bakhtin] Circle are still appearing in Russian and English, and are already large in number...There are now several thousand works about the Bakhtin Circle.The freedom given to contributors to address any text or topic under the general rubric of The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative has produced a remarkable variety of essays ranging widely over different periods, genres, and cultures. While most of the contributors chose to explore Bakhtin's theory of genre or to take issue with his account of one genre, Greek romance, the remaining contributions defy such convenient categories. What all the essays share with one another (and those collected in Bakhtin and the Classics) is the attempt to engage Bakhtin as a reader and thinker.
Ptah's Travels
Author: Kathryn DeMeritt
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0741427281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsama ibn Munqidh
Author: Paul M. Cobb
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1780741979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsama Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188) was a Syrian poet and warrior whose life coincided with some of the most dramatic moments in Islamic history: the invasion of the Turks into the Middle East, the collapse of the Shi'ite political power, and above all, the coming of the Crusades. Often at the frontline of such events whilst on military service representing one of his many Lords, including on occasion the legendary Saladin, Usama was nonethless best-known to his contemporaries as a poet. Covering his exquisite anthologies of Arabic poetry, his witty and well- loved memoirs, and his political adventures, this comprehensive biography examines both the literary works of the famous "Arab- Syrian Gentleman" and the tumultuous life which inspired them. With a guide to further reading, a dynastic family tree and a glossary of the principal characters encountered in the book, it offers an indispensable window into Usmama's life, times and world of thought.
