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Author: Daniel J. Hogan Publisher: ISBN: 9780615145280 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Imagination. Creativity. Art. All of these were alien concepts to science-minded thirteen-year-old Steve. So his parents sent Steve away from his boring suburban home of Beacon Pines to spend a fun-filled summer in the mid-Michigan town of River City with his Uncle Shameless. It would be a summer neither of them would ever forget.#xD;#xD;On what should have been a normal canoe trip down the Grand River, Steve and Uncle Shameless are instead whisked away to the magical -and wacky- fantasy world of Eyri. There, Steve discovers he is part of a prophecy to defeat the wicked Hawk-King and is destined to bring peace back to the zany world filled with humans, animal-people, and other fantastic creatures.#xD;#xD;Can a skinny kid from the suburbs make it in the rough and tumble fantasy world? Will Steve learn the importance of imagination? Why IS his uncle called Shameless?#xD;#xD;Find out in this madcap fantasy satire that blends thrilling action, comedy, and more oddball characters than your last family reunion.
Author: Daniel J. Hogan Publisher: ISBN: 9780615145280 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagination. Creativity. Art. All of these were alien concepts to science-minded thirteen-year-old Steve. So his parents sent Steve away from his boring suburban home of Beacon Pines to spend a fun-filled summer in the mid-Michigan town of River City with his Uncle Shameless. It would be a summer neither of them would ever forget.#xD;#xD;On what should have been a normal canoe trip down the Grand River, Steve and Uncle Shameless are instead whisked away to the magical -and wacky- fantasy world of Eyri. There, Steve discovers he is part of a prophecy to defeat the wicked Hawk-King and is destined to bring peace back to the zany world filled with humans, animal-people, and other fantastic creatures.#xD;#xD;Can a skinny kid from the suburbs make it in the rough and tumble fantasy world? Will Steve learn the importance of imagination? Why IS his uncle called Shameless?#xD;#xD;Find out in this madcap fantasy satire that blends thrilling action, comedy, and more oddball characters than your last family reunion.
Author: Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141941898 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
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These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen the new social order. Taken together these sagas reveal the richness and variety of the saga tradition.
Author: Greg Hamerton Publisher: Eternity Press ISBN: 0958511861 Category : Fantasy fiction Languages : en Pages : 655
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In a time when the world was ravaged by chaos, one kingdom remains; ordered, isolated, protected. Then Tabitha Serannon awakens an ancient power of the Lifesong and the world begins to change. The path she must follow leads into Darkness; into terror, treachery and desire.
Author: Sarah Tolmie Publisher: Tordotcom ISBN: 1250807948 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 112
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A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author of The Fourth Island. Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story. Sarah Tolmie’s All the Horses of Iceland weaves their mystical origin into a saga for the modern age. Filled with the magic and darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, All the Horses of Iceland tells the tale of a Norse trader, his travels through Central Asia, and the ghostly magic that followed him home to the land of fire, stone, and ice. His search for riches will take him from Helmgard, through Khazaria, to the steppes of Mongolia, where he will barter for horses and return with much, much more. All the Horses of Iceland is a delve into the secret, imagined history of Iceland's unusual horses, brought to life by an expert storyteller. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 1588368823 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 353
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“These words are razors to my wounded heart.” —Titus Andronicus “We have seen better days.” —Timon of Athens Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of the two great tragedies: Titus Adronicus, a graphic story of revenge, and Timon of Athens, a cautionary tale about false friends and unearned loyalty. THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED PAGES OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: • original Introductions to Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens • incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work • commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers • photographs of key RSC productions • an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
Author: David Theo Goldberg Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 144435664X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 399
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Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today’s world. A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar of critical race theory Explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated - if often denied - in today’s world Argues that it is the neoliberal society that fuels new forms of racism Surveys race dynamics throughout various regions of the world - from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America, and from Israel and Palestine to the United States
Author: Chris Callow Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004331603 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland’s socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
Author: Amitav Ghosh Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307792269 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 400
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Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.
Author: Vilhelm Gronbech Publisher: ISBN: 9781956887921 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Vilhelm Grønbech was a preeminent professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen in the early twentieth century. His vast breadth of knowledge of world cultures and religions had profound effect on Danish academic thought, and in The Culture of the Teutons, Grønbech turns his keen analysis toward his own culture, that of Germanic Europe. Grønbech draws upon a rich panoply of sources in the Norse sagas, legal rulings, and historical figures both living and mythological to deliver for us a compelling thesis of the tribes that harried Rome, of the Viking Age, of pagan rituals and later widespread adoption of Christianity as much more than the sum of bloodthirsty plundering, as less charitable historians have condemned them. Instead, we delve into a culture alien to that of Tacitus or the Greeks, misunderstood for hundreds if not thousands of years. In seeming contradiction, the pagan worldview is foreign compared to our own today, or to the culturally imperialistic Romans who documented their "barbarian" foes, yet one cannot be truly estranged from his own ancestors. The genius of The Culture of the Teutons lies in Grønbech's ability to weave together what at first glance appear polar opposites, but in reality are inexorably linked. The various Germanic tribes of Europe, the Teutons, place unshakeable value on honor, family, and religion to create a society perplexingly carnal yet sophisticated, advanced yet close to nature. And nowhere is this clearer than in their settlement of inhospitable lands such as Iceland or the Faroe Islands, in which they brought order to a seemingly untamable environment. The impact of the peoples of Northern Europe on world history today is so vast no amount of spilled ink can pay it justice. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to bring this expansive tome back into the limelight for a modern English-speaking audience, now complete with a substantial glossary, index, and hundreds of footnotes to confer important cultural context that would have been assumed common knowledge to its intended Danish audience. This complete edition includes volumes I and II, published in 1909 and 1912, respectively.