Roam Resonance Of Ancient Myth The Locksmith S Daughter

Author : Priscilla Keeler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105834967

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ROAM Resonance of Ancient Myth: The Locksmith's Daughter by Priscilla Keeler Pdf

Resonance of Ancient Myth or as it is more commonly called ROAM, is the most popular multiplayer online role-playing game in the world. It is a game that brings the heroes and gods of the ancient world to life. Sage Monroe is a quiet, anti-social, gamer girl. She spends more time online in the world of ROAM than she did in the real world. She even met her boyfriend Morgan in ROAM. She is a simple and practical girl. She likes ROAM, she likes her cat, she likes her online boyfriend--until he came to visit. It was the first time they had met in the real world. Then she learned ROAM wasn't all it seemed and neither was her boyfriend, or even her cat. And then she died. She was surprised to learn that some people don't go to heaven or hell, they go to MMORPGs. Now the fate of her friends, boyfriend, and even her cat are all depending on her.

Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786455225

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When Scotland Was Jewish by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman,Donald N. Yates Pdf

The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Verso
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0860914194

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The Absence of Myth by Georges Bataille Pdf

For Bataille, 'the absence of myth' had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had 'lost the secret of its cohesion', Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be. Introduced and translated by Michael Richardson.

Author : Martha Ostenso
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667622583

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Wild Geese by Martha Ostenso Pdf

Archer, a teacher from the city, has come to the Gare farm to stay while she teaches in the nearby school. As she continues to learn about life in the country, she begins to realize the plight of the family she is staying with. The strict Caleb Gare uses blackmail and punishment to get what he wants, but how secure is his position? When the young Mark Jordan, the son of his wife with another man, arrives, he tries even harder to retain control over the family. With all of his machinations failing around him, Caleb is quickly losing control over his family and consequently, over his farm.

This book was the author’s first novel for which she won the Dodd Mead First Novel Award in 1925.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367856

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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by Marina Belozerskaya Pdf

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783083213

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Magda Romanska Pdf

Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.

Author : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892363339

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Hendrik Petrus Berlage by Hendrik Petrus Berlage Pdf

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.

Author : Catherynne Valente
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553906295

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Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente Pdf

In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.… Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November; Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named Sei. They’ve each lost something important—a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life—and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.

Author : Peter Newmark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Translating and interpreting
ISBN : OCLC:779169232

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A Textbook of Translation by Peter Newmark Pdf

Author : Vera Proskurina
Publisher : Ars Rossica
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1618118056

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Creating the Empress by Vera Proskurina Pdf

In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing a detailed analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from this period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine (Amazon, Astraea, Pallas Athena, Felicitas, Fortune, etc.), as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power. Each chapter of the book revolves around the major events of Catherine's reign (and some major literary works) that give a broad framework to discuss the evolution of important recurring motifs and images.

Author : David McNally
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004201576

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Monsters of the Market by David McNally Pdf

"Monsters of the Market" investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining "Frankenstein," Marx s "Capital" and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195050004

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Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

Author : James Jespersen,Jane Fitz-Randolph
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486409139

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From Sundials to Atomic Clocks by James Jespersen,Jane Fitz-Randolph Pdf

Clear and accessible introduction to the concept of time examines measurement, historic timekeeping methods, uses of time information, role of time in science and technology, and much more. Over 300 illustrations.

Author : Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400858408

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Road to Revolution by Avrahm Yarmolinsky Pdf

This book traces the history of revolutionary movements in nineteenth- century Russia, ending with the great famine of 1891-92, by which time Marxism was already in the ascendant. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Irwin Chusid
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781556523724

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Songs in the Key of Z by Irwin Chusid Pdf

Irwin Chusid profiles a number of "outsider" musicians - those who started as "outside" and eventually came "in" when the listening public caught up with their radical ideas. Included are The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Wilis, and others.