Author: Colin EdmondsPublisher: Steam, Smoke & Mirrors
ISBN: 9781913200176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Magister Curiosity
Author: Colin EdmondsPublisher: Steam, Smoke & Mirrors
ISBN: 9781913200176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Lazarus Curiosity
Author: Colin EdmondsPublisher: Caffeine Nights
ISBN: 1910720844
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When not performing two sold-out shows every night, Music Hall Steampunk illusionists and consultants to Scotland Yard, slick-talking Michael Magister and the feisty Phoebe Le Breton, must solve the crime of the century, while saving the nation from a conclave of fiendish psychopaths led by the crazed renegade Jesuit known only as 'The Black Bishop'. In the sequel to their acclaimed debut in 'Steam, Smoke & Mirrors', who dare Michael and Phoebe trust in this dark Victorian world of weird science, conspiracy and the occult? PANICKED by a satanic portrait painter, determined to disgrace the Royal family... TERRORISED by a deadly gas, primed to wipe out the Government... With great reluctance, what else can Superintendent William Melville of the Special Branch do but, once again, send for ... THE MAGICIANS! Murder and malevolence, treachery and tragedy - all must surely be inevitable!
The Magister
Author: Sally Miller GearhartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"Now that the bailiwick outbreaks have been handled by Little Blue's all-woman peacekeeping force in Book I, "The Kanshou," a new threat to the planet emerges. The human species may be following in the footsteps of animal life, which deserted the planet on "Empty Monday" in the year 2021. Little Blue's children are dying--in some cases, just after birth. In other cases, the children range from several years old to teenagers and exhibit no apparent signs of illness. In fact, they greet Death as a friend and go willingly, in song, singly or in groups"--
The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Author: Jan N. BremmerPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042912274
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Deities, demons, and angels became important protagonists in the magic of the Late Antique world, and were also the main reasons for the condemnation of magic in the Christian era. Supplicatory incantations, rituals of coercion, enticing suffumigations, magical prayers and mystical songs drew spiritual powers to the humain domain. Next to the magician's desire to regulate fate and fortune, it was the communion with the spirit world that gave magic the potential to purify and even deify its practitioners. The sense of elation and the awareness of a metaphysical order caused magic to merge with philosophy (notably Neoplatonism). The heritage of Late Antique theurgy would be passed on to the Arab world, and together with classical science and learning would take root again in the Latin West in the High Middle Ages. The metamorphosis of magic laid out in this book is the transformation of ritual into occult philosophy against the background of cultural changes in Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion and Christianity. This volume, the first in the new series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at the workshop The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period held from 22 to 24 June 2000, and organised by Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra. The papers have been written by scholars from such varying disciplines as classics, theology, philosophy, cultural history, and law. Their contributions shed new light upon several old obscurities; they show magic to be a significant area of culture, and they advance the case for viewing transformations in the lore and practice of magic as a barometer with which to measure cultural change.
Story Thieves
Author: James RileyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481409190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that she's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.
Antiquitates Culinariae, Or, Curious Tracts Relating to the Culinary Affairs of the Old English, with a Preliminary Discourse, Notes, and Illustrations
Author: Richard WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Professor and His Favorites
Author: Emilie Flygare-CarlénPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
In the Kingdom of Dragons
Author: D. L. BurnettPublisher: Effertrux Publishing
ISBN: 0985842717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Professor and His Favorites. Translated from the Swedish
Author: afterwards CARLEN FLYGARE (Emilie)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Curious History of Vegetables
Author: Wolf D. StorlPublisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623170400
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Featuring gardening tips, recipes, and beautiful full-color pencil drawings of each vegetable, this book for farm-to-fork aficionados and gardeners with an esoteric bent explores the secret history of 48 well known and rare vegetables, examining their symbolism, astrological connections, healing properties, and overall character. A fascinating introduction to vegetable gardening and cooking, A Curious History of Vegetables sets horticulture in its historical, cultural, and cosmological contexts. The author offers his deep understanding of the theory of biodynamic gardening and useful tips on light and warmth, ground covers, composts, crop rotation and weeds. Woven in with folk tales and stories from history, each entry also includes delicious historical recipes for each vegetable.