The Progeny

Author : Tosca Lee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476798707

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The Progeny by Tosca Lee Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee brings a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding Elizabeth Bathory, the most notorious female serial killer of all time. Emily Jacobs is the descendant of a serial killer. Now, she’s become the hunted. She’s on a quest that will take her to the secret underground of Europe and the inner circles of three ancient orders—one determined to kill her, one devoted to keeping her alive, and one she must ultimately save. Filled with adrenaline, romance, and reversals, The Progeny is the present-day saga of a 400-year-old war between the uncanny descendants of “Blood Countess” Elizabeth Bathory, the most prolific female serial killer of all time, and a secret society dedicated to erasing every one of her descendants. It is a story about the search for self filled with centuries-old intrigues against the backdrop of atrocity and hope.

Author : Tosca Lee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501125942

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The Progeny by Tosca Lee Pdf

Emily Jacobs, descendant of history's most notorious woman serial killer, Elizabeth Bathory, finds herself hunted by one secret society, and protected by another, as she takes on a quest through the secret underworlds of Europe.

Author : Angela Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231527859

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Hideous Progeny by Angela Smith Pdf

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of sexual repression or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, yet Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. She finds instead a fascination with eugenics and physical and cognitive debility in the narrative and spectacle of classic 1930s horror, heightened by the viewer's desire for visions of vulnerability and transformation. Reading such films as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Freaks (1932), and Mad Love (1935) against early-twentieth-century disability discourse and propaganda on racial and biological purity, Smith showcases classic horror's dependence on the narratives of eugenics and physiognomics. She also notes the genre's conflicted and often contradictory visualizations. Smith ultimately locates an indictment of biological determinism in filmmakers' visceral treatments, which take the impossibility of racial improvement and bodily perfection to sensationalistic heights. Playing up the artifice and conventions of disabled monsters, filmmakers exploited the fears and yearnings of their audience, accentuating both the perversity of the medical and scientific gaze and the debilitating experience of watching horror. Classic horror films therefore encourage empathy with the disabled monster, offering captive viewers an unsettling encounter with their own impairment. Smith's work profoundly advances cinema and disability studies, in addition to general histories concerning the construction of social and political attitudes toward the Other.

Author : Lee Levine,Stephen Wermiel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Freedom of the press
ISBN : 1627224491

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The Progeny by Lee Levine,Stephen Wermiel Pdf

This compelling work of historical non-fiction focuses on the progeny of the famous New York Times v. Sullivan Supreme Court Decision. It examines how Justice Brennan nurtured and developed the constitutional law of defamation and related claims. It provides the authoritative historical account of how an important body of constitutional law came to be. The Progeny offers fresh insights with respect to both what the law means and the process by which it was formulated.

Author : Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813573700

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Monstrous Progeny by Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey Pdf

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley’s novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book’s figures and themes into modern productions that range from children’s cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley’s tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon.

Author : Becky Meadows
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595176205

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Progeny by Becky Meadows Pdf

Deceit. Treachery. A life-altering secret comes to life. And a mind struggles against bonds promised by the heart long ago.... Nineteen-year-old Christian de Chagny knows where he gets some of his physical characteristics--from his mother, Christine Daae de Chagny. But where does his musical genius come from, when his father, Count Raoul de Chagny, can barely hum a tune? From the moment Christian questions his mother and she nearly faints to the novel's heartrending conclusion, Progeny is a breathless winding trek through the lives of Christian, Christine, Raoul, and the masked Master of Music--the man at the center of all of their lives--Erik, the Phantom of the Opera.

Author : Sayyid Ali Al-Hakeem
Publisher : Mainstay Foundation
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943393842

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The Progeny by Sayyid Ali Al-Hakeem Pdf

This book, The Progeny: the Prophet and His Household, is a compilation of inspirational lessons and parables taken from the lives of the Grand Prophet Muhammad (s) and His Pure Progeny (a). Greater focus is given to the first five of the Immaculate Leaders - The Grand Prophet (s), Imam Ali (a), Lady Fatima (a), Imam Hassan (a), and Imam Hussain (a). Those chapters are followed by shorter chapters and lessons from the lives of the remainder of our Immaculate Imams, from Imam Ali Zayn Al-Abideen (a) to the Awaited Imam Al-Mahdi (a).

Author : Harold B. Segel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801852625

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Pinocchio's Progeny by Harold B. Segel Pdf

While Carlo Collodi's internationally revered Pinocchio may not have been the single source of the modernist fascination with puppets and marionettes, the book's appearance on the threshold of the modernist movement heralded a new artistic interest in the making of human likenesses. And the puppets, marionettes, and other forms that figure so vividly and provocatively in modernist and avant-garde drama can, according to Harold Segel, be regarded as Pinocchio's progeny. Segel argues that the philosophical, social, and artistic proclivities of the modernist movement converged in the discovery of an exciting new relevance in the puppet and marionette. Previously viewed as entertainment for children and fairground audiences, puppets emerged as an integral component of the modernist vision. They became metaphors for human helplessness in the face of powerful forces -- from Eros and the supernatural to history, industrial society, and national myth. Dramatists used them to satirize the tyranny of bourgeois custom and convention, to deflate the arrogance of the powerful, and to breathe new life into a theater that had become tradition-bound and commercialized. Pinocchio's Progeny offers a broad overview of the uses of these figures in European drama from 1890 to 1935. It considers developments in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In his introduction, Segel reviews the premodernist literary and dramatic treatment of the puppet and marionette from Cervantes' Don Quixote to the turn-of-the- century European cabaret. His epilogue considers the appearance of puppets and marionettes in postmodern European and American drama by examining worksby such dramatists as Jean-Claude Van Itallie, Heiner MA1/4ller, and Tadeusz Kantor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434919670

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The Progeny of Misinterpretation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ron Marz,Tim Seeley,David Hine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 160706748X

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Progeny by Ron Marz,Tim Seeley,David Hine Pdf

Can a mother's love save the universe? In the aftermath of Artifacts, Darkness bearer Jackie Estacado reconstructed the fabric of the universe to save his daughter Hope and resurrect his previously murdered lover, Jenny Romano. What seemed like an innocent transgression to set things right for himself has created cracks that have allowed older, greater evils to enter our world. Rapture bearer and defrocked priest Tom Judge knows what Jackie has done and is assembling an army of Artifacts bearers to stop him and set things right... but will the Witchblade bearer Sara Pezzini be willing to help him?

Author : Tana Johnson
Publisher : Transformations in Governance
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198717799

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Organizational Progeny by Tana Johnson Pdf

While most studies focus on states as principals and international bureaucrats as agents, [the author] demonstrates that many international bureaucrats have mastered the art of insulating themselves from state control.

Author : Melissa Lane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472502292

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Plato's Progeny by Melissa Lane Pdf

Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual. And visions of Plato have proliferated at the heart of postmodern critiques of the very idea of metaphysics and politics. Plato's Progeny begins with an account of modern responses to the trial of Socrates and the controversial question of Socrates' relation to Plato. At its centre are two chapters exploring the idea of Platonic origins in and for philosophy, and of Platonic foundations for philosophical politics. Exploring unfamiliar as well as familiar invocations of Plato, Melissa Lane argues that twentieth-century ideological battles have obscured the importance of Socratic individualism, the nature of Platonic ethics, and the value of Platonic politics. Succinct and clearly written, this is an ideal guide for everyone interested in the way philosophers are still writing footnotes to Plato.

Author : Holly Black,Stephen King,Joe Lansdale,Michael Marshall Smith,Peter Straub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1607013932

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Bad Seeds by Holly Black,Stephen King,Joe Lansdale,Michael Marshall Smith,Peter Straub Pdf

"Holly Black, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Marshall Smith, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Lisa Tuttle, and many more"--Cover.

Author : Sarah Hannan,Samantha Brennan,Richard Vernon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190463700

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Permissible Progeny? by Sarah Hannan,Samantha Brennan,Richard Vernon Pdf

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between the problem of evil and the morality of procreation? Could there be a duty to procreate? How do the environmental harms imposed by procreation affect its moral status? Given these costs, is the value of establishing genetic ties ever significant enough to render procreation morally permissible? And how should government respond to peoples' motives for procreating? The other half of the volume considers moral and political questions about adoption and parenting. One chapter considers whether the choice to become a parent can be rational. The two following chapters take up the regulation of adoption, focusing on whether the special burdens placed on adoptive parents, as compared to biological parents, can be morally justified. The book concludes by considering how we should conceive of adequacy standards in parenting and what resources we owe to children. This collection builds on existing literature by advancing new arguments and novel perspectives on existing debates. It also raises new issues deserving of our attention. As a whole it is sure to generate further philosophical debate on pressing and rich questions surrounding the bearing and rearing of children.

Author : United States. Bureau of Chemistry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Agricultural chemistry
ISBN : UOM:39015067045669

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Bulletin - Bureau of Chemistry by United States. Bureau of Chemistry Pdf