The Sacred Vault

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553593648

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A DARING HEIST. A PRICELESS ARTIFACT. A SECRET LOCKED SAFELY AWAY—UNTIL NOW. When Michelangelo’s David is stolen from its museum in Florence, it’s only the latest in a series of audacious raids on the world’s greatest treasures. But American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie Chase, discover the raiders’ ultimate target when the Talonor Codex—a cryptic travel journal that Nina found in Atlantis—is snatched from a well-guarded exhibition right in front of their eyes. The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its mythical contents: the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction himself. From a deadly shootout in San Francisco to a hidden valley in the snowbound Himalayas, Nina and Eddie must run a labyrinthine gauntlet of ruthless killers, corrupted faiths, and twisted ambitions to reach the sacred vault ahead of a cunning billionaire with a plot to remake the world—after he brings this one crashing down.

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Archaeological site location
ISBN : 0755354664

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The sixth brilliant book from Andy McDermott - Clive Cussler's heir apparent. The world is in shock when Michelangelo's David is stolen from a museum in Florence, Italy. The latest in a series of audacious thefts of historical treasures, it's only a matter of time before another priceless artefact is targeted. When the Talonor Codex - a great Atlantean explorer's account of his travels - is stolen, it becomes clear that the thefts form only part of the raiders' ultimate plan. The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its fabled contents - the legendary Shiva-Vedas, the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction. Witnesses to the latest daring robbery, archaeologist Nina Wilde and former SAS soldier Eddie Chase are forced into a treacherous hunt across the world to discover the vault before its secrets fall into dangerous hands. The vault's prize is a treasure beyond price, but it may also be the catalyst for global annihilation...

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553908145

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A DARING HEIST. A PRICELESS ARTIFACT. A SECRET LOCKED SAFELY AWAY—UNTIL NOW. When Michelangelo’s David is stolen from its museum in Florence, it’s only the latest in a series of audacious raids on the world’s greatest treasures. But American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie Chase, discover the raiders’ ultimate target when the Talonor Codex—a cryptic travel journal that Nina found in Atlantis—is snatched from a well-guarded exhibition right in front of their eyes. The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its mythical contents: the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction himself. From a deadly shootout in San Francisco to a hidden valley in the snowbound Himalayas, Nina and Eddie must run a labyrinthine gauntlet of ruthless killers, corrupted faiths, and twisted ambitions to reach the sacred vault ahead of a cunning billionaire with a plot to remake the world—after he brings this one crashing down.

Author : Ashwin Sanghi
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356292543

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The Vault of Vishnu by Ashwin Sanghi Pdf

A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later. A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful. A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border. Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move. Caught in the storm is a young investigator with a complex past of her own, who must race against time to maintain the balance of power in the new world. Welcome back to the exciting and shadowy world of Ashwin Sanghi, where myth and history blend into edge-of-the-seat action.

Author : William Morgan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547722823

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The Mysteries and Secrets of Freemasons Revealed by William Morgan Pdf

The Mysteries and Secrets of Freemasons Revealed is a book about this infamous secret society, written by the New York businessman William Morgan, who was a mason himself, but turned against them. Morgan claimed to have been made a Master Mason while he was living in Canada, and he appears to have briefly attended a lodge in Rochester. After he was denied participation by members in Batavia, New York, he decided to publically expose secrets of Freemasonry. The book reveals and explains all the degrees conferred in the Royal Arch Chapter and Grand Encampment of Knights Templars—Knights of the Red Cross—of the Christian Mark—and of the Holy Sepulchre.

Author : William Morgan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547386377

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The Mysteries of Free Masons and Freemasonry by William Morgan Pdf

The Mysteries of Free Masonry is a book about this infamous secret society, written by the New York businessman William Morgan, who was a mason himself, but turned against them. Morgan claimed to have been made a Master Mason while he was living in Canada, and he appears to have briefly attended a lodge in Rochester. After he was denied participation by members in Batavia, New York, he decided to publically expose secrets of Freemasonry. The book reveals and explains all the degrees conferred in the Royal Arch Chapter and Grand Encampment of Knights Templars—Knights of the Red Cross—of the Christian Mark—and of the Holy Sepulchre.

Author : William Morgan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547720331

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The Mysteries of Free Masonry by William Morgan Pdf

The Mysteries of Free Masonry is a book about this infamous secret society, written by the New York businessman William Morgan, who was a mason himself, but turned against them. Morgan claimed to have been made a Master Mason while he was living in Canada, and he appears to have briefly attended a lodge in Rochester. After he was denied participation by members in Batavia, New York, he decided to publically expose secrets of Freemasonry. The book reveals and explains all the degrees conferred in the Royal Arch Chapter and Grand Encampment of Knights Templars—Knights of the Red Cross—of the Christian Mark—and of the Holy Sepulchre.

Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226789996

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What Color Is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig Pdf

Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig’s remarkable intellectual path. Following his interest in magic and surrealism, his earlier work on mimesis, and his recent discussion of heat, gold, and cocaine in My Cocaine Museum,this book uses color to explore further dimensions of what Taussig calls “the bodily unconscious” in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, color has a history—a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West’s discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations with the so-called primitive. He begins by noting Goethe’s belief that Europeans are physically averse to vivid color while the uncivilized revel in it, which prompts Taussig to reconsider colonialism as a tension between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich. Nietzsche once wrote, “So far, all that has given colour to existence still lacks a history.” With What Color Is the Sacred? Taussig has taken up that challenge with all the radiant intelligence and inspiration we’ve come to expect from him.

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Headline
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755385935

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Temple of the Gods (Wilde/Chase 8) by Andy McDermott Pdf

Another brilliant Wilde/Chase thriller from one of the best in the business - Andy McDermott. Archaeologist Nina Wilde's life has fallen apart. Her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase is on the run, falsely accused of murder, and her only distraction has been investigating the origin of three strange statues stolen from her just before Eddie's disappearance. When Nina discovers they may be relics from the lost civilisation of Atlantis, it's clear that she has to get her head back in the game, and fast. Eddie, meanwhile, tries to stay ahead of the authorities as he hunts the man responsible for his fugitive status across the globe. A mysterious benefactor offers the information he needs - but the price will put him in direct conflict with his wife. When Nina learns that a Japanese industrialist has obtained the statues on the black market she immediately heads to Tokyo meet him, unaware that Eddie is already on his way. Their arrival unleashes a chain of events that could have devastating consequences for the world, setting Nina and Eddie on their most dangerous quest ever - with the future of humanity itself at stake...

Author : Lynne C. Lancaster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107059351

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Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire by Lynne C. Lancaster Pdf

This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques and explores why each is confined to a particular area of the Empire. It is written to be accessible to advanced students as well as experts in the field.

Author : Scott Chapman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291596199

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The Templar Vault by Scott Chapman Pdf

The last surviving Templar outpost must protect their Order's greatest secret. As their world is torn apart by the jealous fury of kings, their only duty is to a sacred oath of allegiance to the Order and to each other. Step-by-step they eradicate their footsteps, knowing that only their own obliteration will guarantee that their duty will be fulfilled. Eight hundred years later and an international expert in disaster management sets out to prove that the Templars had a last ditch Doomsday plan. Peter Sparke aims at nothing less than to uncover the last refuge of the Order and the secrets they took to their graves.

Author : William Morgan
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 186?
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783849688240

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The Mysteries of Freemasonry by William Morgan Pdf

Containing all the degrees of the Order conferred in a Master’s Lodge, as written by Captain William Morgan. All the degrees conferred in the Royal Arch, Chapter, and Grand Encampment of Knights Tcmplars, Knights of the Red Cross, of the Christian Mark, and of the Holy Sepulchre. Also, the eleven ineffable degrees conferred in the Lodge of Perfection; and the still higher degrees of Prince of Jerusalem, Knights of the East and West, Venerable Grand Masters of Symbolic Lodges, Knights and Adepts of the Eagle or Sun, Princes of the Royal Secret, Sovereign Inspector-General, etc. Revised and corrected to correspond with the most approved forms and ceremonies in the various Lodges of Freemasons throughout the United States.

Author : Charles T. McClenachan
Publisher : MASONICA
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788417732899

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Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Scottish rite manual Charles T. McClenachan   The Book Of The Ancient And Accepted Scottish Rite by Charles T. McClenachan Pdf

A Monitor or Guide to the rituals, ceremonies, instructions, and symbolism of all the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite written by Charles T. McClenachan, 33°, Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Supreme Council for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This work offers an unprecedented level of detail concerning the rituals associated with each degree. McClenachan, contemporary of Albert Pike, provides here a valuable glimpse into some of the elements of Scottish Rite ritual that predate Pike’s revisions and expansions, as various ceremonies such as the Lodge of Sorrow, Ceremony of Baptism in the AASR, Installation of Officers as well as a Masonic Glossary, the Grand Constitutions of 1786, Forms of the Scottish Rite, and much more.

Author : ALBERT G. MACKEY, M.D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY AND ITS KINDRED SCIENCES by ALBERT G. MACKEY, M.D. Pdf

Author : Harry Sidney Smith,Sue Davies,Kenneth J. Frazer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064116059

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The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara by Harry Sidney Smith,Sue Davies,Kenneth J. Frazer Pdf

The Falcon Complex and Catacomb of the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara were discovered in 1969 and excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society expedition directed by W B Emery until his death in Cairo in March 1971. Fieldwork continued under the directorship of H S Smith (Field Director) and G T Martin (Site Director) and was completed by 1976. This volume documents the main temple complex.