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Author : Victor J. Willi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830645
A history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt based on first-person interviews with Brotherhood rank-and-file members.
Author : Henry Charles Lea
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512817492
Henry Charles Lea was one of the first American historians to use what would later be termed comparative and anthropological approaches to history. Under his pen, the study of the medieval ordeal becomes a study in cultural history. Reprinted here from the fourth revised edition of 1892, the book begins by tracing the role of the ordeal in non-Western and ancient societies, showing the mental world to which it belongs: a limited trust in the public order and purely human methods of inquiry, and a larger faith in divine intervention and immanent justice. The work then describes the uses of the institution through the European Middle Ages to its final abolition, and in the process offers a rich typology of ordeals. Additional documents included in this edition present formulas and descriptions of some of the ordeals most frequently used: the ordeal by boiling water, by hot water, by cold water, by hot iron and water, by glowing plowshares, by fire, and the ordeal of the cross.
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667623757
A successful, middle-aged novelist with a case of 'bad nerves,' Gilbert Pinfold embarks on a recuperative trip to Ceylon. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, loud revival meetings. He can only infer that somewhere concealed in his room an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship. And then, instead of just sounds, he hears voices. But they are not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frightening intimate way, about him!
Author : Daniel K. Richter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807867914
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Militia movements
ISBN : 0786005548
William W. Johnstone is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of over 300 books, including Preacher, The Last Mountain Man, Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter, Flintlock, Savage Texas, Matt Jensen, The Last Mountain Man; The Family Jensen, Sidewinders, and Shawn O'Brien Town Tamer . His thrillers include Phoenix Rising, Home Invasion, The Blood of Patriots, The Bleeding Edge, and Suicide Mission.
Author : Jorn Lier Horst
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250111371
Tense and suspenseful, the only reason to stop racing through the pages of Jorn Lier Horst's Ordeal will be to pause for a quick glance over your shoulder... "The best Scandinavian crime fiction available." - Yrsa Sigurdardottir Frank Mandt died after a fall down his basement steps, the same basement that holds a locked safe bolted to the floor. His granddaughter, Sofie Lund, inherits the house but wants nothing to do with his money. She believes the old man let her mother die in jail and is bitterly resentful. Line Wisting’s journalist instincts lead her into friendship with Sofie, and Line is with her when the safe is opened. What they discover unlocks another case and leads Chief Inspector William Wisting on a trial of murder to an ordeal that will eventually separate the innocent from the damned.
Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040072194
In this provocative new book, sociologist Orlando Patterson takes on the intractable dilemma of race in late 20th-century America. Using current demographic research, Patterson exposes common misperceptions about the lives and experiences of black and white Americans, misperceptions that are hampering the success of integration.
Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190291709
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
Author : David Lindauer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481749619
In the near future, when burgeoning populations will make competition for scarce resources a matter of national interest, what measures might governments take to assure fair distribution? What rules could they enact to balance population and resources? To what extremes might people and organizations go to claim their personal share of resources? But, more importantly, will YOU be prepared for your Ordeal?
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674641612
The paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.
Author : R. Scott Bakker
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468313512
An empress seeks her lost son as rival factions prepare for war in the long-awaited third novel of this acclaimed fantasy epic. As Fanim war-drums beat just outside the city, the Empress Anasurimbor Esmenet searches frantically throughout the palace for her missing son Kelmomas. Many miles away, Esmenet's husband's Great Ordeal continues its epic march further north. But in light of dwindling supplies, the Aspect-Emperor's decision to allow his men to consume the flesh of fallen Sranc could have consequences even He couldn't have foreseen. And, deep in Ishuäl, the wizard Achamian grapples with his fear that his unspeakably long journey might be ending in emptiness, no closer to the truth than when he set out.
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:983472556
Author : Linda Lovelace,Mike McGrady
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806539058
The former good girl who became the star of Deep Throat tells the horrifying true story of her life on and off camera in this shocking tell-all memoir. Linda Boreman was just twenty-one when she met Chuck Traynor, the man who would change her life. Less than two years later, the girl who wouldn’t let her high school dates get past first base was catapulted to fame as an adult film superstar. Linda Boreman of Yonkers, New York, had become Linda Lovelace. The unprecedented success of Deep Throat made pornography popular with mainstream audiences and made Lovelace a household name. But nobody, from the A-list celebrities who touted the movie to the audiences that lined up to see it, knew the truth about what went on behind the scenes. Taken prisoner by her sado-masochistic manager, Linda was forced into a marriage of savage beatings, hypnotism, and rape. She was terrorized into prostitution at gunpoint and forced to perform unspeakable perversions on film. Years later, when Linda came out of hiding to tell her story, the revelations rocked the porn industry in ways that made her fear for her life.
Author : Julius Jolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Inheritance and succession (Hindu law)
ISBN : BSB:BSB11637156
Author : William Thomas Brande,George William Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Art
ISBN : OXFORD:590302009