The Bestiarum Vocabulum

Author : Dean M. Drinkel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1494375222

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The Bestiarum Vocabulum by Dean M. Drinkel Pdf

A catalog of mythic beasts and demons that were summoned by esoteric means. Once owned by Count Allesandro Di Cagliostro, it was thought forever lost in a fire at the Chateau de Versailles. Two hundred years later, twenty-six modern day masters of the macabre bring The Bestiarum Vocabulum back from the ashes.Authors include:Emile-Louis Tomas Jouvet, Jan Edwards, Martin Roberts, Lisa Jenkins, Peter Mark May, Raven Dane, Joe Mynhardt, Rakie Keig, D.T. Griffith, Mark West, John Palisano, Amelia Mangan, Robert Walker, Christine Dougherty, Tim Dry, Nerine Dorman, Dean M. Drinkel, Christine Morgan, Tej Turner, D.M. Youngquist, Jason D. Brawn, Lily Childs, Andy Taylor, Sandra Norval, Adrian Chamberlin, and Barbie Wilde.

Author : Willene B. Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0851156827

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A Medieval Book of Beasts by Willene B. Clark Pdf

'The Bestiary' is a book of animals. The 'Second-family' bestiary is the most important version. This study addresses the work's purpose and audience. It includes a critical edition and new English translation, and a catalogue raisonne of the manuscripts.

Author : Laren Stover
Publisher : Bulfinch
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821228900

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Bohemian Manifesto by Laren Stover Pdf

Bohemianism is a way of life, a state of mind, an atmosphere. It is not a trend, its a timeless movement. It is about living beyond convention. BOHEMIAN MANIFESTO explores and joyfully celebrates the creativity, the originality, and the splendor of a lifestyle and spirit shared by free-thinking, free-living artists, poets, writers, sculptors, musicians, and intellectuals. This is the first book to distill and categorize all the ingredients of Bohemian life. In a witty and engaging style, Laren Stover examines the contents of a Bohemians closet, bathroom, and bookshelf. She explains the allure of absinthe, why it isnt wise to leave a Bohemian unattended in your home--you could return to find nude nymphs painted on your lamp shades--and how to identify what type of Bohemian you might be.

Author : Bruce E. Arrington
Publisher : Pipe Dream Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780985388966

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The Seventh Birthday Wish by Bruce E. Arrington Pdf

The Seventh Birthday Wish is a fun, magical story of how Wesley, on his seventh birthday, chooses to make a positive difference in the lives of others. Wesley turns seven, and in his world, you can have anything you want for your birthday. He is off to new places and discovers new friends and adventures. Read the story to see what gift he picks! This second edition adds new pictures and beauty to a charming tale.

Author : Leigh Claire La Berge
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781478023883

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Marx for Cats by Leigh Claire La Berge Pdf

At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and “sabo-tabbies,” La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.

Author : Katherine Harbour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781547613755

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The Dark Fable by Katherine Harbour Pdf

Magical heists. Deadly secrets. Come along for the ride . . . if you dare. This heart-stopping, seductive fantasy is perfect for fans of Six of Crows. Evie Wilder is an orphan who has gone through most of her life unnoticed . . . until she's caught up in a dramatic heist and captures the attention of the Dark Fable. They have chosen her for a reason: she can turn invisible. This skill would make Evie a treasured asset to the legendary group of thieves known for spiriting away obscure and occult artifacts. Evie cannot resist their allure and is eager to join this newfound family. But she discovers there are more skeletons in the Dark Fable's past than she could have ever imagined. And these secrets might be the answer to her own tragic past. No one is who they seem to be and the price of uncovering the Dark Fable's cryptic history just might be fatal . . .

Author : T. Lewis,R. Kahn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230117358

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Education Out of Bounds by T. Lewis,R. Kahn Pdf

Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral children, alien reptoids, and faery faiths in order to understand how social movements are renegotiating the boundaries of community.

Author : Peter Mark May
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Forky's House by Peter Mark May Pdf

When Nick is asked to investigate an abandoned supposedly haunted London house, he did not know it would bring up awful memories of the past and his greatest loss. For deep inside the bowels of Forky's House, is a door accessible only by four keys only at certain phases of the moon. Nick must unravel his past and those of the house to find the key to the mystery of Forky's House. For what lies in the room, even God doesn't know.

Author : John Gribbin,Rhys Hughes,Christopher G. Nuttall,Douglas Thompson,J.A. Christy,Peter R. Ellis,Steve Harrison,Edwin Hayward,Stefan Jackson,Andy McKell,Siobhan McVeigh,Robin Moran,Ira Nayman,Susan Oke,Sanem Ozdural,Tanya Reimer,Chloe Skye,Tej Turner,Dave Weaver,Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Elsewhen Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908168955

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Existence is Elsewhen by John Gribbin,Rhys Hughes,Christopher G. Nuttall,Douglas Thompson,J.A. Christy,Peter R. Ellis,Steve Harrison,Edwin Hayward,Stefan Jackson,Andy McKell,Siobhan McVeigh,Robin Moran,Ira Nayman,Susan Oke,Sanem Ozdural,Tanya Reimer,Chloe Skye,Tej Turner,Dave Weaver,Peter Wolfe Pdf

The title, Existence is Elsewhen, paraphrases the last sentence of André Breton’s 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, perfectly summing up the intent behind this anthology of stories from a wonderful collection of authors. Different worlds… different times. It’s what Elsewhen Press has been about since we launched our first title in 2011. Here, we present twenty science fiction stories for you to enjoy. We are delighted that headlining this collection is the fantastic John Gribbin, with a worrying vision of medical research in the near future. Future global healthcare is the theme of J A Christy’s story; while the ultimate in spare part surgery is where Dave Weaver takes us. Edwin Hayward’s search for a renewable protein source turns out to be digital; and Tanya Reimer’s story with characters we think we know, gives us pause for thought about another food we take for granted. Evolution is examined too, with Andy McKell’s chilling tale of what states could become if genetics are used to drive policy. Similarly, Robin Moran’s story explores the societal impact of an undesirable evolutionary trend; while Douglas Thompson provides a truly surreal warning of an impending disaster that will reverse evolution, with dire consequences. On a lighter note, we have satire from Steve Harrison discovering who really owns the Earth (and why); and Ira Nayman, who uses the surreal alternative realities of his Transdimensional Authority series as the setting for a detective story mash-up of Agatha Christie and Dashiel Hammett. Pursuing the crime-solving theme, Peter Wolfe explores life, and death, on a space station; while Stefan Jackson follows a police investigation into some bizarre cold-blooded murders in a cyberpunk future. Going into the past, albeit an 1831 set in the alternate Britain of his Royal Sorceress series, Christopher G. Nuttall reports on an investigation into a girl with strange powers. Strange powers in the present-day is the theme for Tej Turner, who tells a poignant tale of how extra-sensory perception makes it easier for a husband to bear his dying wife’s last few days. Difficult decisions are the theme of Chloe Skye’s heart-rending story exploring personal sacrifice. Relationships aren’t always so close, as Susan Oke’s tale demonstrates, when sibling rivalry is taken to the limit. Relationships are the backdrop to Peter R. Ellis’s story where a spectacular mid-winter event on a newly-colonised distant planet involves a Madonna and Child. Coming right back to Earth and in what feels like an almost imminent future, Siobhan McVeigh tells a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of using technology to deflect the blame for their actions. Building on the remarkable setting of Pera from her LiGa series, and developing Pera’s legendary Book of Shadow, Sanem Ozdural spins the creation myth of the first light tree in a lyrical and poetic song. Also exploring language, the master of fantastika and absurdism, Rhys Hughes, extrapolates the way in which language changes over time, with an entertaining result.

Author : Peter Mark May
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hedge End by Peter Mark May Pdf

Creatures trapped for centuries, free at last…to kill! The forest has always been there, and the high hedge around it has stood since Roman times. No one remembers anymore why the hedge was built, and bit by bit, as houses and modern life advance, the ancient barrier is being torn down. Slowly, creatures that have been trapped within for centuries are creeping through the gaps in the wall, hungry for revenge for their long imprisonment. As murder and horror spread through the nearby town of Hedge End, a stranger arrives, eager to give the residents a May Day celebration they will never forget.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412233972

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An Introduction to the Symbolic Literature of the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Mark Chemers,Mike Sell
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809338320

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Systemic Dramaturgy by Michael Mark Chemers,Mike Sell Pdf

Working theatrically with technology Systemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance. Authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell reject the incompatibility of theatre with robots, digital media, or video games. Instead, they argue that technology is the original problem of theatre: How can we tell this story and move this audience with these tools? And if we have different tools, how can that change the stories we tell? This volume attunes readers to “systemic dramaturgy”—the recursive elements of signification, innovation, and history that underlie all performance—arguing that theatre must be understood as a system of systems, a concatenation of people, places, things, politics, feelings, and interpretations, ideally working together to entertain and edify an audience. The authors discuss in-depth the application of time-tested dramaturgical skills to extra-theatrical endeavors, including multi-platform performance, installations, and videogames. And they identify the unique interventions that dramaturgs can and must make into these art forms. More than any other book that has been published in the field, Systemic Dramaturgy places historical dramaturgy in conversation with technologies as old as the deus ex machina and as new as artificial intelligence. Spirited and playful in its approach, this volume collates histories, transcripts, and case studies and applies the concepts of systemic dramaturgy to works both old and avant-garde. Between chapters, Chemers and Sell talk with with some of the most forward-thinking, innovative, and creative people working in live media as they share their diverse approaches to the challenges of making performances, games, and digital media that move both heart and mind. This volume is nothing less than a guide for thinking about the future evolution of performance.

Author : Peter Mark May
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Pastor's Chair by Peter Mark May Pdf

Jeb Merryweather has one last chance to get his life back on track after his NFL career was cut short by injury and his life spiralled out of control. Divorced, nearly broke, and just out of rehab, he returns home after seven years to renovate the old church, school and house up Boucher Hill on the outskirts of town. In the school, he finds an ugly old wooden chair. Back in the day, they called it the Pastor’s Chair. It once sat in the corner of the old church school on the hill in Babylon Georgia. A place where naughty children were forced to sit. But no child wanted to sit in it more than once, as it whispered dark evil thoughts into their minds. They did not know the true origins of the chair, or what secret it held. He hadn’t forgotten how small towns like this were built like Venice in Italy, on canals of hidden secrets.

Author : Peter Mark May
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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AZ: Anno Zombie by Peter Mark May Pdf

First fire rained from the sky. Then came the dust storms, covering the Tucson and other parts of the world. And out of this dust, the dead rose from their graves to consume the living and increased its undead army. Through this maelstrom of terror, ex-soldier Tom Hollinger races across town to save his son, and then with the help of friends old and new must battle for their lives to escape the horror that has befallen his hometown. He thought he had left behind death and killing when he left the army, he was wrong. His world no longer belongs to the living. A new era has dawned...Anno Zombie

Author : Tej Turner
Publisher : Elsewhen Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908168566

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The Janus Cycle by Tej Turner Pdf

The Janus Cycle can best be described as gritty, sexy, surreal, urban fantasy. Janus is a nightclub. But it’s not merely a location, it’s virtually a character in its own right. On the surface it appears to be a subcultural hub where the strange and disillusioned, who feel alienated and oppressed by society, can escape to be free from convention. Underneath that façade is a surreal space in time where the very foundations of reality can be twisted and distorted. But the special, unique, vibe of Janus is hijacked by a bandwagon of people who choose to conform to alternative lifestyles simply because it has become fashionable to be ‘different’ and this causes many of its original occupants to feel lost and disenchanted. The story unfolds through the eyes of eight narrators, each with their own perspective and their own personal journey. A story in which the nightclub itself goes on a journey. But throughout, one strange girl, briefly appears and reappears, warning the narrators that their individual journeys are going to collide in a cataclysmic event. Is she just another one of the nightclub’s denizens, a cynical mischief-maker out to create havoc or a time-traveller trying to prevent an impending disaster?