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Author: Andy Hsieh Publisher: eXtasy Books ISBN: 1487442408 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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Abyss and Diana continue to explore possible futures, all the while trying to avoid the plots and schemes of Melosh and the Brotherhood of Clerics. The fallen hero, Friedrich Drake, yearns for redemption, while glimpses of Diana and the Pharaoh's past show up within the boy's dreams. Endlessly strange and awkward things continue to fall upon the young hero and immortal huntress. Happy endings seem unlikely, if not impossible with Abyss' future selves seeming to either live selfishly and hedonistically or fall into rigid dogma and routine. In the meantime, the cold and beautiful Charlene of the High Tide comes to assist Abyss in his quest for power. Simon Williams, supposedly banished from the magical world after his loss in the Coliseum, has now returned to stabilize the chaos space-time is falling into. And amongst the aliens experimenting and observing, it seems difficult for the human condition to be improved, let alone redeemed. Remaining heroic and dignified in the face of the problems of mortality and odd moralities, Abyss and Diana face off against both nihilism and dogma as they continue their epic adventure.
Author: Andy Hsieh Publisher: eXtasy Books ISBN: 1487442408 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
Book Description
Abyss and Diana continue to explore possible futures, all the while trying to avoid the plots and schemes of Melosh and the Brotherhood of Clerics. The fallen hero, Friedrich Drake, yearns for redemption, while glimpses of Diana and the Pharaoh's past show up within the boy's dreams. Endlessly strange and awkward things continue to fall upon the young hero and immortal huntress. Happy endings seem unlikely, if not impossible with Abyss' future selves seeming to either live selfishly and hedonistically or fall into rigid dogma and routine. In the meantime, the cold and beautiful Charlene of the High Tide comes to assist Abyss in his quest for power. Simon Williams, supposedly banished from the magical world after his loss in the Coliseum, has now returned to stabilize the chaos space-time is falling into. And amongst the aliens experimenting and observing, it seems difficult for the human condition to be improved, let alone redeemed. Remaining heroic and dignified in the face of the problems of mortality and odd moralities, Abyss and Diana face off against both nihilism and dogma as they continue their epic adventure.
Author: Simone Pinet Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442649933 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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In The Task of the Cleric, Simone Pinet considers the composition of the Libro de Alexandre in the context of cartography, political economy, and translation.
Author: Fouad Ajami Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 080146515X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 229
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In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return. Considered an outsider when he had arrived in Lebanon in 1959 from his native Iran, he gradually assumed the role of charismatic mullah, and was instrumental in transforming the Shia, a quiescent and downtrodden Islamic minority, into committed political activists. What sort of person was Musa al Sadr? What beliefs in the Shia doctrine did his life embody? Where did he fit into the tangle of Lebanon's warring factions? What was behind his disappearance? In this fascinating and compelling narrative, Fouad Ajami resurrects the Shia's neglected history, both distant and recent, and interweaves the life and work of Musa al Sadr with the larger strands of the Shia past.
Author: Richard A. Nielsen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110827112X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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Deadly Clerics explains why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihadism while most do not. The book explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization and shows that the interplay of academic, religious, and political institutions has influenced the rise of modern jihadism through a mechanism of blocked ambition. As long as clerics' academic ambitions remain attainable, they are unlikely to espouse violent jihad. Clerics who are forced out of academia are more likely to turn to jihad for two reasons: jihadist ideas are attractive to those who see the system as turning against them, and preaching a jihad ideology can help these outsider clerics attract supporters and funds. The book draws on evidence from various sources, including large-scale statistical analysis of texts and network data obtained from the Internet, case studies of clerics' lives, and ethnographic participant observations at sites in Cairo, Egypt.
Author: H.M. Long Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA) ISBN: 1789094992 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 490
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Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne. Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne. Hessa is an Eangi: a warrior priestess of the Goddess of War, with the power to turn an enemy's bones to dust with a scream. Banished for disobeying her goddess's command to murder a traveller, she prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside. While she is gone, raiders raze her village and obliterate the Eangi priesthood. Grieving and alone, Hessa - the last Eangi - must find the traveller and atone for her weakness and secure her place with her loved ones in the High Halls. As clans from the north and legionaries from the south tear through her homeland, slaughtering everyone in their path Hessa strives to win back her goddess' favour. Beset by zealot soldiers, deceitful gods, and newly-awakened demons at every turn, Hessa burns her path towards redemption and revenge. But her journey reveals a harrowing truth: the gods are dying and the High Halls of the afterlife are fading. Soon Hessa's trust in her goddess weakens with every unheeded prayer. Thrust into a battle between the gods of the Old World and the New, Hessa realizes there is far more on the line than securing a life beyond her own death. Bigger, older powers slumber beneath the surface of her world. And they're about to wake up.
Author: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Publisher: University of Ottawa Press ISBN: 0776619748 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 244
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The articles in this collection, written by medievalists and Renaissance scholars, are part of the recent "cultural turn" in translation studies, which approaches translation as an activity that is powerfully affected by its socio-political context and the demands of the translating culture. The links made between culture, politics, and translation in these texts highlight the impact of ideological and political forces on cultural transfer in early European thought. While the personalities of powerful thinkers and translators such as Erasmus, Etienne Dolet, Montaigne, and Leo Africanus play into these texts, historical events and intellectual fashions are equally important: moments such as the Hundred Years War, whose events were partially recorded in translation by Jean Froissart; the Political tussles around the issues of lay readers and rewriters of biblical texts; the theological and philosophical shift from scholasticism to Renaissance relativism; or European relations with the Muslim world add to the interest of these articles. Throughout this volume, translation is treated as a form of writing, as the production of text and meaning, carried out in a certain cultural and political ambiance, and for identifiable - though not always stated - reasons. No translation, this collection argues, is an innocent, transparent rendering of the original.
Author: Andy Hsieh
Author: Andy Hsieh
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