A Surplus Of Sirens

Author : Amanda Creiglow
Publisher : Waldron Lake Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781955407052

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A Surplus of Sirens by Amanda Creiglow Pdf

Whoever takes the blame, humanity will pay the price. Elizabeth is adjusting to her new role as designated human arbiter for the supernatural community. Petty magical arguments? Now officially her jam. But when the Nymph of the North Wind is murdered and Elizabeth is tasked with deciding which siren tribe should pay for the crime, she’s out of her depth—by a few thousand feet or so. Either way Elizabeth rules will devastate the planet. But it’s hard to focus on finding a solution when her mother has been kidnapped and her boyfriend has decided that he won’t let her keep secrets from him anymore. Elizabeth will need all her allies to get her through this one. But every ally comes with a cost—and the cause of this murder halfway around the world may be closer to home than she’d like to admit.

Author : Jessie Clever
Publisher : Someday Lady Publishing, LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781736290316

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The Duke and the Siren by Jessie Clever Pdf

Lady Vivianna Darby was considered a smashing success by society’s standards. After all, she landed Ryder Maxen, the coveted Duke of Margate, in her first season out. Wildly in love, Viv believed herself lucky to have escaped the cold marriages common amongst the ton. Until she found her husband in bed with an opera singer. Now four years later, Viv is determined to save her sisters from the same fate until Viv’s phaeton-racing husband suffers a deadly accident, and she’s forced by duty to go to his deathbed. Preparing herself for widowhood, she realizes she’ll soon be free of the empty marriage she’s been trapped in. But what will she do if he lives? The Duke and the Siren is the third book in the steamy, heart-stopping historical romance series, The Unwanted Dukes. If you love sexy, spellbinding romance and heartwarming humor, don’t miss this captivating series from bestselling author Jessie Clever. Discover adventure and romance when you download The Duke and the Siren today.

Author : Mary Ann Smart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400866717

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Siren Songs by Mary Ann Smart Pdf

It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. The collection opens with Mary Ann Smart's introduction, which provides an engaging reflection on the state of gender topics in operatic criticism and musicology. It then moves on to a foundational essay on the complex relationships between opera and history by the renowned philosopher and novelist Catherine Clément, a pioneer of feminist opera criticism. Other articles examine the evolution of the "trouser role" as it evolved in the lesbian subculture of fin-de-siècle Paris, the phenomenon of opera seria's "absent mother" as a manifestation of attitudes to the family under absolutism, the invention of a "hystericized voice" in Verdi's Don Carlos, and a collaborative discussion of the staging problems posed by the gender politics of Mozart's operas. The contributors are Wye Jamison Allanboork, Joseph Auner, Katherine Bergeron, Philip Brett, Peter Brooks, Catherine Clement, Martha Feldman, Heather Hadlock, Mary Hunter, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D., Lawrence Kramer, Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart, and Gretchen Wheelock.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Parks
ISBN : UIUC:30112101032131

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Park Practice Grist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Dalby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134969852

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Siren Feasts by Andrew Dalby Pdf

Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighbouring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.

Author : Bill Nash
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469109732

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Oil, Orchards and Flames by Bill Nash Pdf

Bill Nash is a newspaper columnist, freelance writer and photographer based in Southern California. He writes a weekly column for the Ventura County Star and occasional feature stories. He also both writes and takes photographs to illustrate travel articles. He has published nearly 50 travel destination pieces on locations including California, Florida, New York, Hawaii, Tennessee, Arizona, Oregon and international destinations in Mexico, Canada, Chile, Italy, Korea and Australia. Also a non-fiction author, Bill wrote Oil, Orchards and Flames, a history of the fire department in Santa Paula, California. He has a background in journalism, public relations and advertising.

Author : Carl J. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136527746

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Siren Song by Carl J. Bauer Pdf

Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches. Boldly introduced in 1981, the Chilean model is the worlds leading example of a free market approach to water law, water rights, and water resource management. Despite more than a decade of international debate, however, a comprehensive, balanced account of the Chilean experience has been unavailable. Siren Song is an interdisciplinary analysis combining law, political economy, and geography. Carl Bauer places the Chilean model of water law in international context by reviewing the contemporary debate about water economics and policy reform. He follows with an account of the Chilean experience, drawing on primary and secondary sources in Spanish and English, including interviews with key people in Chile. He presents the debate about reforming the law after Chile‘s 1990 return to democratic government, as well as emerging views about how water markets have worked in practice. The resulting book provides insights about law, economics, and public policy within Chile and lessons for the countries around the world that are wrestling with the challenges of water policy reform.

Author : Domenica Martinello
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770565890

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All Day I Dream About Sirens by Domenica Martinello Pdf

What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All Day I Dream About Sirens is both an ancient reverie and a screen-induced stupor as these poems reckon with the enduring cultural fascination with siren and mermaid narratives as they span geographies, economies, and generations, chronicling and reconfiguring the male-centered epic and women’s bodies and subjectivities.

Author : Demelza Carlton
Publisher : Lost Plot Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Siren of Secrets Box Set by Demelza Carlton Pdf

Three bargain-priced bestsellers in one box!

This Siren of Secrets box set includes books 1-3 from the Siren of Secrets series - Ocean's Secret, Ocean's Gift and Ocean's Infiltrator.

Ocean's Secret (#1):

Working as a student midwife in an Australian country hospital is never easy, but Belinda finds more trouble than most.

There's the intern doctor who follows her around like an overgrown puppy, the dangerous local wildlife and her own secrets she must keep.

When she finds herself without a place to live, what else can possibly go wrong?

Or is it time for something to go right?

Ocean's Gift (#2):

Electrician Joe Fisher is used to doing any job, no matter how hard, as long as the money's good. So when he takes a job as a deckhand on a fishing boat, he figures it's all smooth sailing.

If the early mornings and vicious lobsters weren't bad enough, his boss warns him to watch out for the neighbours.

But when he meets Sirena, his mysterious neighbour with her all-female crew, Joe just can't stay away. Even if it could cost him his life.

You'll never look at mermaids the same way again.

Ocean's Infiltrator (#3):

Most mermaids jump at the chance to live on land. Except Laila. Terrified of humans after the attack on her mother, Laila joins a diplomatic mission to the siren community in the Atlantic Ocean to stay beneath the surface.

But when the welcome she receives is colder than the surrounding seas, Laila learns that her own kind can be far more frightening than any man.

As secrets are revealed and sirens infiltrate the human population, will anyone be safe on land or sea?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031877053

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Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii, the Diposal and Reuse of Land and Facilities by Anonim Pdf

Author : B. Trigo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403983381

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Remembering Maternal Bodies by B. Trigo Pdf

Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. The authors showcased in this book make visible this fantasy and change it in their works in an effort to bring us out of our depression and melancholy.

Author : Norvin Pallas
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479425273

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The Singing Trees Mystery (Ted Wilford #4) by Norvin Pallas Pdf

Ted thinks teenagers are getting a bad rap when they are blamed for vandalism. But when summer comes and the local Y camp for disadvantaged boys is vandalized, it looks bad for the kids! As Ted investigates with his friend Nelson, things take a strange turn when they see things happen that apparently couldn't. A serach for a Native American treaty in the Singing Trees Valley is mysteriously linked to the vandalism. Who are the real culprits? And can Ted unmask them in time to save the summer camp? Fourth in the Ted Wilford series! "A smoothly written story." -- Kirkus

Author : Renata Salecl
Publisher : Verso
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859842364

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(Per)Versions of Love and Hate by Renata Salecl Pdf

Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to keep desire alive, we need to prevent its fulfillment? Renata Salecl explores the distributing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through an investigation of phenomenon as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens’ song, Ceaușescu's Rumania and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. (Per)Versions of Love and Hate presents a unique and timely intervention in contemporary debates by questioning the legitimacy of the calls for tolerance and respect by multiculturalism and exploring practices such as body-mutilation as symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : UVA:35007002322869

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The Siren by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006343722

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Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 10929 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf