Neversuch House Mask Of The Evergones

Author : Elliot Skell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781847389978

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Neversuch House: Mask of the Evergones by Elliot Skell Pdf

All in Neversuch House is not well. The Evergones are trying once more to take control of the House and the treasure that lies within. With servant rebellions, freakish "accidents" befalling the UnderButlers' and the Captain and Butler being forced into hiding, the House is in chaos and someone needs to take control, before the Evergones finally succeed in their plot. Twelve-year-old Omnia Halibut finds herself again in the middle of the extraordinary events occurring in the House. Along with her ever faithful cousin, Evergrow, and her friend Basilica, it's up to her to uncover the truth about the Evergones and try to rally the Halibuts to her cause, or the consequences could prove deadly…

Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763662462

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Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz Pdf

Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller — an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud. The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants. Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are dazzled by the Wintermute home. Clara seems to have everything they lack — adoring parents, warmth, and plenty to eat. In fact, Clara’s life is shadowed by grief, guilt, and secrets. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall. As they seek to puzzle out Clara’s whereabouts, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisini’s criminal past and wake up to his evil intentions. Fleeing London, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late. Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz’s Victorian gothic is a rich banquet of dark comedy, scorching magic, and the brilliant and bewitching storytelling that is her trademark.

Author : Elliot Skell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Children's UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1847387438

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Neversuch House by Elliot Skell Pdf

Neversuch House is home to the veryunusual Halibut family. Spanning generations, the Halibuts all live together totally isolated from the outside world, never needing - or wanting - to step outside the walls of Neversuch, with every whim being catered for by a mass of servants. But when twelve-year-old Omnia Halibut sees a hooded figure emerging from the woods by the Wall, she can't help but wonder who the man is and why he is skulking around the House. And as Omnia sets out to discover the truth she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy Neversuch House forever. For the House is steeped in secrets, secrets that some people want to remain hidden, and, as Omnia tries to unravel the mysteries of Neversuch House, someone is watching her, and they will do anythingto stop her from revealing the truth…

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307575852

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Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Pdf

The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Author : Nellie Letitia McClung
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338043276

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Clearing in the West. My Own Story by Nellie Letitia McClung Pdf

"Clearing in the West. My Own Story" by Nellie Letitia McClung. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Michel Pecheux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349068111

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Language, Semantics and Ideology by Michel Pecheux Pdf

Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198020028

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The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn Pdf

The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies. This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Covering the full range of revolutionary and anarchic sects and movements in medieval Europe, Cohn demonstrates how prophecies of a final struggle between the hosts of Christ and Antichrist melded with the rootless poor's desire to improve their own material conditions, resulting in a flourishing of millenarian fantasies. The only overall study of medieval millenarian movements, The Pursuit of the Millennium offers an excellent interpretation of how, again and again, in situations of anxiety and unrest, traditional beliefs come to serve as vehicles for social aspirations and animosities.

Author : Dean A. Kowalski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780742547872

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Moral Theory at the Movies by Dean A. Kowalski Pdf

Moral Theory at the Movies provides students with a wonderfully approachable introduction to ethics. The book incorporates film summaries and study questions to draw students into ethical theory and then pairs them with classical philosophical texts. The students see how moral theories, dilemmas, and questions are represented in the given films and learn to apply these theories to the world they live in. There are 36 films and a dozen readings including: Thank you for Smoking, Plato's Gorgias, John Start Mill's Utilitarianism, Hotel Rwanda, Plato's Republic, and Horton Hears a Who. Topics cover a wide variety of ethical theories including, ethical subjectivism, moral relativism, ethical theory, and virtue ethics. Moral Theory at the Movies will appeal to students and help them think about how philosophy is relevant today.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015035341034

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The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.

Author : Eric Wollencott Barnes
Publisher : London : Secker & Warburg
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Actors
ISBN : UCAL:B3327161

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Anna Cora by Eric Wollencott Barnes Pdf

Author : Nik Perring
Publisher : Educational Printing Services
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1905637039

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I Met a Roman Last Night, What Did You Do? by Nik Perring Pdf

Jack doesn't like going to bed, he'd rather stay up, playing on his computer, watching television and discovering things! Nothing exciting could possibly happen once you're in bed could it? But, whenever Jack goes to sleep, something extraordinary happens, he travels back in time.

Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019735228

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Illustrations And Meditations by Charles Haddon Spurgeon Pdf

In "Illustrations and Meditations or Flowers from a Puritan's Garden", legendary preacher and theologian Charles Haddon Spurgeon provides a collection of beautiful and inspiring meditations on biblical passages, illustrated with stunning botanical prints. A must-read for anyone seeking spiritual guidance and a deeper connection with the natural world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Pierre Clastres
Publisher : Semiotext(e)
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1584350938

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Archeology of Violence, new edition by Pierre Clastres Pdf

Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in “primitive societies.” The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.—from the Archeology of Violence Anthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publication in French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres's final groundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begun before his death in 1977 at the age of 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions of such earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques his former mentor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy of Marxist anthropology and other Western interpretive models of “primitive societies.” Discarding the traditional anthropological understanding of war among South American Indians as arising from a scarcity of resources, Clastres instead identifies violence among these peoples as a deliberate means to territorial segmentation and the avoidance of a State formation. In their refusal to separate the political from the social, and in their careful control of their tribal chiefs—who are rendered weak so as to remain dependent on the communities they represent—the “savages” Clastres presents prove to be shrewd political minds who resist in advance any attempt at “globalization.”The essays in this, Clastres's final book, cover subjects ranging from ethnocide and shamanism to “primitive” power and economy, and are as vibrant and engaging as they were thirty years ago. This new edition—which includes an introduction by Eduardo Viverios de Castro—holds even more relevance for readers in today's an era of malaise and globalization.

Author : Jane Desmarais,David Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108592406

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Decadence and Literature by Jane Desmarais,David Weir Pdf

Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor's indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine's rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy's simultaneous delight and distaste with modern urban life, decadence has emerged as a way of taking cultural stock of major social changes. These changes include the role of women in forms of artistic expression and social participation formerly reserved for men, as well as the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ relationships, a development with a direct relationship to decadence. Today, decadence seems more important than ever to an informed understanding of contemporary anxieties and uncertainties.

Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : HAU
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0990505081

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Classic Concepts in Anthropology by Valerio Valeri Pdf

The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship, mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism, Classic Concepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical foreword by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col, will be an eye-opening, essential resource for students and researchers not only in anthropology but throughout the humanities.