Bischoff Black And The Ghost Of Skull Island

Author : M. A. Parker
Publisher : M. A. Parker
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9798989664702

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Bischoff Black and the Ghost of Skull Island by M. A. Parker Pdf

For 15 years, Bischoff Black's life in a quiet town in the Nataturi Realm remained uneventful. When a series of unlucky events shatters his tranquil existence, he's hurled into a perilous world of piracy, mixed with a bit of magic. Captured by the very pirates responsible for his father's death, he's compelled to join their quest for a fabled, but cursed treasure. Amidst treacherous sea battles and haunting spirits, Bischoff must adapt swiftly to survive. Yet, as he spends more time in this pirating world, his principles waver. Will he succumb to the allure of the pirate's life and the promise of untold riches? Or will he risk it all to uncover the truth behind his father's murder? In this high-stakes, swashbuckling adventure full of mystery and adventure, one decision will determine Bischoff's destiny.

Author : Michiel Dehaene,Lieven De Cauter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134100132

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Heterotopia and the City by Michiel Dehaene,Lieven De Cauter Pdf

Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucault’s influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect the debate on the privatization of public space. Wastelands and terrains vagues are studied in detail in a section on urban activism and transgression and the reader gets a glimpse of the extremes of our dualized, postcivil condition through case studies on Jakarta, Dubai, and Kinshasa. Heterotopia and the City provides a collective effort to reposition heterotopia as a crucial concept for contemporary urban theory. The book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the city in the emerging postcivil society and post-historical era. Planners, architects, cultural theorists, urbanists and academics will find this a valuable contribution to current critical argument.

Author : Béla Balázs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780691162331

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The Cloak of Dreams by Béla Balázs Pdf

Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife's soul or body. And two deaf mutes transcend their physical existence in the garden of dreams. Strange and fantastical, these fairy tales of Béla Balázs (1884-1949), Hungarian writer, film critic, and famous librettist of Bluebeard's Castle, reflect his profound interest in friendship, alienation, and Taoist philosophy. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, The Cloak of Dreams brings together sixteen of Balázs's unique and haunting stories. Written in 1921, these fairy tales were originally published with twenty images drawn in the Chinese style by painter Mariette Lydis, and this new edition includes a selection of Lydis's brilliant illustrations. Together, the tales and pictures accentuate the motifs and themes that run throughout Balázs's work: wandering protagonists, mysterious woods and mountains, solitude, and magical transformation. His fairy tales express our deepest desires and the hope that, even in the midst of tragedy, we can transcend our difficulties and forge our own destinies. Unusual, wondrous fairy tales that examine the world's cruelties and twists of fate, The Cloak of Dreams will entertain, startle, and intrigue.

Author : Terry Ramsaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UCAL:$B428584

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International Motion Picture Almanac by Terry Ramsaye Pdf

Author : Erle Loran
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520248457

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Cézanne's Composition by Erle Loran Pdf

Praise for the first edition: "I have learned a great deal from his book about modern painting in general. [Loran] devotes his attention mainly to Cezanne's concrete means and methods, and he arrives thereby at an understanding of Cezanne's art more essential than any other I have seen in print."--Clement Greenberg, Nation

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Television broadcasting
ISBN : UCAL:B3868311

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International Television Almanac by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gunnel Ekroth
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Liège
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9782821829008

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The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period by Gunnel Ekroth Pdf

This study questions the traditional view of sacrifices in hero-cults during the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. The analysis of the epigraphical and literary evidence for sacrifices to heroes in these periods shows, contrary to the traditional notion, that the main ritual in hero-cults was a thysia at which the worshippers consumed the meat from the animal victim. A particular handling of the animal’s blood or a holocaust, rituals previously taken to be typical for heroes, can rarely be documented and must be considered as marginal features in hero-cults. The terms eschara, escharon, bothros, enagizein, enagisma, enagismos and enagisterion, believed to be characteristic for hero-cults, are seldom used in hero-contexts before the Roman period and occur mainly in the Byzantine lexicographers and in the scholia. Since the main kind of sacrifice in hero-cults was a thysia, a ritual intimately connected with the social structure of society, the heroes must have fulfilled the same role as the gods within the Greek religious system. The fact that the heroes were dead seems to have been of little significance for the sacrificial rituals and it is questionable whether the rituals of hero-cults are to be considered as originating in the cult of the dead.

Author : Friedrich A. Kittler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804732337

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Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler Pdf

On history of communication

Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362042

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Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal by Thomas Kren Pdf

Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.

Author : Thomas M. Disch
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375705465

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The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch Pdf

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells In this harrowing novel, the world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth. The plants, able to grow the size of maples in only a month and eventually reach six hundred feet, have commandeered the world's soil and are sucking even the Great Lakes dry. In northern Minnesota, Anderson, an aging farmer armed with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, desperately leads the reduced citizenry of a small town in a daily struggle for meager existence. Throw into this fray Jeremiah Orville, a marauding outsider bent on a bizarre and private revenge, and the fight to live becomes a daunting task.

Author : Miles Franklin
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742699448

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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin Pdf

'This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarn - a real yarn. Oh!' First published in 1901, this Australian classic is the candid tale of the aspirations and frustrations of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. She longs for a more refined lifestyle - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed when she is whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property. There Sybylla falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. Soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.

Author : William Jacob Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : RUTGERS:390300037544720

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The Butterfly Book by William Jacob Holland Pdf

Author : Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 087286412X

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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) by Raymond Borde,Etienne Chaumeton Pdf

This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028975519

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Halliwell's Who's who in the Movies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Punnadhammo Mahathero
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1791731945

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The Buddhist Cosmos: A Comprehensive Survey of the Early Buddhist Worldview; According to Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda Sources by Punnadhammo Mahathero Pdf

An encyclopedic survey of Buddhist cosmology and mythology according to the Pali canon and commentaries. Covers the nature of the universe, of time and of the various classes of beings inhabiting the various realms and levels of the cosmos.