The Human Disguise

Author : James O'Neal
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954068

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The Human Disguise by James O'Neal Pdf

The world has been shattered. Disease and war have ravaged the Earth. A resurgent Germany once again threatens Europe, and the United States is engaged in the Middle-East while New York sits, an empty, radioactive ruin. The city of Miami has become a virtual prison, home to the worst life has to offer. Tom Wilner lives on the outskirts of this foresaken realm. He's what this future passes off as a police officer. With his family shattered, Wilner is just a pale version of the police hero he once was. When a chance encounter in a rundown roadhouse erupts in violence, Wilner is forced to step in. His exploration into the violence of that evening leads him onto the path of two ancient warring races. They have been manipulating power and control on Earth for centuries, and are about to enter into a battle for ultimate supremacy. Unless Tom Wilner puts an end to their fury. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Dylan Tallman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781475965698

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A Blessing in Disguise by Dylan Tallman Pdf

A young individual named Dylan was robbed of his youth losing everything every average young man should obtain. He was brought up having nothing having to earn everything on his own. At sixteen he was forced to live on his own holding no work experience. His only talent was music. He was introduced to the drug dealing lifestyle becoming successful. As he grew so did his money, clientele, and eventually enemies. He outsmarts the police and accumulates every young mans dream, money, women, and respect. He ends up in the worst situation of his life receiving a lengthy prison sentence. Now knowing only the criminal lifestyle, how will he evolve? This action packed story involves deep struggles, violence, sex, and illegal distribution resulting in remedy. Suitable for teens and adults.

Author : Sheila Murnaghan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461734024

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Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey by Sheila Murnaghan Pdf

Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of honor, privilege, status, and fame. Odysseus' identity is seen to be rooted in his family relations, geographical origins, control of property, participation in the social institutions of hospitality and marriage, past actions, and ongoing reputation. At the same time, Odysseus' dependence on the acknowledgement of others ensures attention to multiple viewpoints, which makes the Odyssey more than a simple celebration of one man's preeminence and accounts in part for the poem's vigorous afterlife. The theme of disguise, which relies on plausible lies, highlights the nature of belief and the power of falsehood and creates the mixture of realism and fantasy that gives the Odyssey its distinctive texture. The book contains a pioneering analysis of the role of Penelope and the questions of female agency and human limitation raised by the critical debate about when exactly she recognizes that Odysseus has come home.

Author : Marie Louise von Glinski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760966

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Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Marie Louise von Glinski Pdf

The first monograph on Ovid's epic simile, offering fresh perspectives on central episodes of this important work.

Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400836543

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Playing Gods by Andrew Feldherr Pdf

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

Author : Clete Barrett Smith
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423180968

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Aliens in Disguise by Clete Barrett Smith Pdf

When David's grandma wins a hotelier award and goes to accept it on another planet, security officer Tate assumes full control of the Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast. His decision to put the alien tourists on total lockdown doesn't go over well, however, and most of the guests vacate. Tate decides to retrieve Grandma, leaving David and his friend Amy home alone. Running the B&B when there are only a few guests should be a breeze, especially for two kids who saved the universe just a few weeks ago. But David and Amy (and alien pooch, Snarffle) have a big problem on their hands: A pair of UFO-watchers disguised as aliens is desperate to get inside the inn and broadcast their findings to their friends. Will David and Amy be able to keep the imposters at bay when there are no adults around to help them? This eBook now includes a preview for Clete Barrett Smith's new book, Magic Delivery!

Author : Vivian Sobchack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691213279

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The Address of the Eye by Vivian Sobchack Pdf

Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. Thus argues Vivian Sobchack as she challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Maintaining that these premises ignore the material and cultural-historical situations of both the spectator and the film, the author makes the radical proposal that the cinematic experience depends on two "viewers" viewing: the spectator and the film, each existing as both subject and object of vision. Drawing on existential and semiotic phenomenology, and particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Sobchack shows how the film experience provides empirical insight into the reversible, dialectical, and signifying nature of that embodied vision we each live daily as both "mine" and "another's." In this attempt to account for cinematic intelligibility and signification, the author explores the possibility of human choice and expressive freedom within the bounds of history and culture.

Author : James W. Greenhalge
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798823002691

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The First Jewel of Earth by James W. Greenhalge Pdf

"He's waiting for you!" With this enigmatic invitation, the Traveler finds himself swept into a world that is completely alien, yet strangely familiar. He is told that he will be returning home, yet this new world is inhabited by elves, trolls, and centaurs. Everything has changed! Magic, mysticism, and superstition seem to hold more power here than logic and rationality. And a disturbing truth emerges; human history is being deliberately rewritten to disguise an invasion by rebels from another dimension intent upon harnessing humanity to their will. Opposing them is the sovereign government from this same dimension, whose leadership will not become directly involved in the struggle on Earth. Humans must be recruited, then trained to resist this ominous distortion of history. Given the assistance of two extraordinary companions and a magical pendant, the Traveler is told to recover an item lost in the conflict since antiquity, an integral part of a much more powerful mechanism, the First Jewel of Earth. You will find yourself challenged to place this book within conventional categories. Is this fiction, fantasy, or prophecy? Is this story set in the distant past or the emerging future? Is it possible that two alien forces have been struggling for control of human history since the beginning of time? Join the Traveler in pursuing this quest. Like him, your reality will be forever changed!

Author : Pat Moore,Charles Paul Conn
Publisher : W Publishing Group
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015011787283

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Disguised! by Pat Moore,Charles Paul Conn Pdf

A 26-year old gerontologist disguises herself as an 85-year old woman.

Author : Matt Haig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451610338

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The Radleys by Matt Haig Pdf

Includes a "Reading group guide" ([12] p.).

Author : Gina Kolata
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781250123992

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Mercies in Disguise by Gina Kolata Pdf

"[Kolata] is a gifted storyteller. Her account of the Baxleys... is both engrossing and distressing... Kolata's book raises crucial questions about knowledge that can be both vital and fatal, both pallative and dangerous." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Review of Books New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw. The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. “Are you ready Amanda?” The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested—at least, not now. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you’d inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution—not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma—fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. A work of narrative nonfiction, Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them. It’s a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young woman—Amanda Baxley—who faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her family’s destiny.

Author : Moncure Daniel Conway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Transcendentalism (New England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020254710

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Emerson at Home and Abroad by Moncure Daniel Conway Pdf

Author : Clete Barrett Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423180968

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Aliens in Disguise by Clete Barrett Smith Pdf

Book 3 in the warm-hearted, hilarious Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast series. When David's grandma wins a hotelier award and goes to accept it on another planet, security officer Tate assumes full control of the Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast. His decision to put the alien tourists on total lockdown doesn't go over well, however, and most of the guests vacate. Tate decides to retrieve Grandma, leaving David and his friend Amy home alone. Running the B& B when there are only a few guests should be a breeze, especially for two kids who saved the universe just a few weeks ago. But soon David and Amy (and alien pooch, Snarflle) are faced with such problems as a lost alien, a pair of gate-crashers, and a potential horde of UFO-watchers descending on the inn. Middle grade readers will be over the moon about this third kooky comedy featuring an assortment of hapless humans and admirable aliens.

Author : Christopher Guerin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532366930

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My Human Disguise by Christopher Guerin Pdf

Author : Franco Ferrucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015008226444

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The Poetics of Disguise by Franco Ferrucci Pdf