Author: Alicia Morley Dodson
Publisher: Grendelmen Publishing
ISBN: 1948451948
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
After a werewolf neighbor infects Baxter family with the werewolf’s curse, daughter, Paige’s dreams of being a normal teenager in high school are ruined when creepy, black entities begin to follow her everywhere. To cope, she turns to food. Bullying from the cheer squad captain only increases her stress which cycles back to her binge-eating. Son, Jake, turns into a short-fused rage monster. When a football rival takes mocking too far, Jake ultimately loses his temper and flips into a frenzied assault. Due to his actions, Jake suffers from severe PTSD and shell shock on top of a gruesome crime coverup. Father, Sam, copes with the loss of his wife through alcohol. His drinking turns into alcoholism and spirals out of control when he gets infected with the werewolf’s curse and family drama rises to new levels. Son, Link, who avoided the werewolf attack, tries to hold the family together. He sneaks around his family’s back to find his biological mother. The family learns that werewolves aren’t the only actual monsters in the world. As the threat from a mob of darkness looms over them, the Baxters must band together and overcome their weaknesses or become a part of hell’s army.
Hidden Syzygy
Author: Alicia Morley Dodson
Publisher: Grendelmen Publishing
ISBN: 1948451948
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
After a werewolf neighbor infects Baxter family with the werewolf’s curse, daughter, Paige’s dreams of being a normal teenager in high school are ruined when creepy, black entities begin to follow her everywhere. To cope, she turns to food. Bullying from the cheer squad captain only increases her stress which cycles back to her binge-eating. Son, Jake, turns into a short-fused rage monster. When a football rival takes mocking too far, Jake ultimately loses his temper and flips into a frenzied assault. Due to his actions, Jake suffers from severe PTSD and shell shock on top of a gruesome crime coverup. Father, Sam, copes with the loss of his wife through alcohol. His drinking turns into alcoholism and spirals out of control when he gets infected with the werewolf’s curse and family drama rises to new levels. Son, Link, who avoided the werewolf attack, tries to hold the family together. He sneaks around his family’s back to find his biological mother. The family learns that werewolves aren’t the only actual monsters in the world. As the threat from a mob of darkness looms over them, the Baxters must band together and overcome their weaknesses or become a part of hell’s army.
Publisher: Grendelmen Publishing
ISBN: 1948451948
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
After a werewolf neighbor infects Baxter family with the werewolf’s curse, daughter, Paige’s dreams of being a normal teenager in high school are ruined when creepy, black entities begin to follow her everywhere. To cope, she turns to food. Bullying from the cheer squad captain only increases her stress which cycles back to her binge-eating. Son, Jake, turns into a short-fused rage monster. When a football rival takes mocking too far, Jake ultimately loses his temper and flips into a frenzied assault. Due to his actions, Jake suffers from severe PTSD and shell shock on top of a gruesome crime coverup. Father, Sam, copes with the loss of his wife through alcohol. His drinking turns into alcoholism and spirals out of control when he gets infected with the werewolf’s curse and family drama rises to new levels. Son, Link, who avoided the werewolf attack, tries to hold the family together. He sneaks around his family’s back to find his biological mother. The family learns that werewolves aren’t the only actual monsters in the world. As the threat from a mob of darkness looms over them, the Baxters must band together and overcome their weaknesses or become a part of hell’s army.
Hidden Buddhas
Author: Liza Dalby
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1933330856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
According to Buddhist theology, the world is suffering through a final corrupt era called mappo. As mappo continues, chaos will increase until the center can no longer hold. Then the world will end. Hundreds of temples in Japan are known to keep mysterious "hidden buddhas" secreted away except on rare designated viewing days. These statues are not hidden because they are powerful - their power lies in their being hidden. Are they being protected, or are they protecting the world? In this novel, one Buddhist priest struggles with the dictates of his inherited orthodoxy, while another rebels. An American graduate student begins to suspect the mysterious purpose of the hidden buddhas, just as he falls in love with a beautiful Japanese artist who is haunted by an aborted child. The weaving of karma that brings these two together results in a tech-savvy half-Western, half-Japanese child who text-messages her way through the profane world to enlightenment. Tracing the lives of its characters through the late twentieth century to the present, from Paris to Kyoto to California, Hidden Buddhas turns a cosmopolitan eye on discipline and decadence in religion, fashion, politics, and modern life.
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1933330856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
According to Buddhist theology, the world is suffering through a final corrupt era called mappo. As mappo continues, chaos will increase until the center can no longer hold. Then the world will end. Hundreds of temples in Japan are known to keep mysterious "hidden buddhas" secreted away except on rare designated viewing days. These statues are not hidden because they are powerful - their power lies in their being hidden. Are they being protected, or are they protecting the world? In this novel, one Buddhist priest struggles with the dictates of his inherited orthodoxy, while another rebels. An American graduate student begins to suspect the mysterious purpose of the hidden buddhas, just as he falls in love with a beautiful Japanese artist who is haunted by an aborted child. The weaving of karma that brings these two together results in a tech-savvy half-Western, half-Japanese child who text-messages her way through the profane world to enlightenment. Tracing the lives of its characters through the late twentieth century to the present, from Paris to Kyoto to California, Hidden Buddhas turns a cosmopolitan eye on discipline and decadence in religion, fashion, politics, and modern life.
Classic Shell Scripting
Author: Arnold Robbins
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 0596555261
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shell that unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting is essential for Unix users and system administrators-a way to quickly harness and customize the full power of any Unix system. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamental Unix text and file processing commands to crunch data and automate repetitive tasks. But beneath this simple promise lies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands and standards. Classic Shell Scripting is written to help you reliably navigate these tricky waters.Writing shell scripts requires more than just a knowledge of the shell language, it also requires familiarity with the individual Unix programs: why each one is there, how to use them by themselves, and in combination with the other programs. The authors are intimately familiar with the tips and tricks that can be used to create excellent scripts, as well as the traps that can make your best effort a bad shell script. With Classic Shell Scripting you'll avoid hours of wasted effort. You'll learn not only write useful shell scripts, but how to do it properly and portably.The ability to program and customize the shell quickly, reliably, and portably to get the best out of any individual system is an important skill for anyone operating and maintaining Unix or Linux systems. Classic Shell Scripting gives you everything you need to master these essential skills.
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 0596555261
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shell that unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting is essential for Unix users and system administrators-a way to quickly harness and customize the full power of any Unix system. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamental Unix text and file processing commands to crunch data and automate repetitive tasks. But beneath this simple promise lies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands and standards. Classic Shell Scripting is written to help you reliably navigate these tricky waters.Writing shell scripts requires more than just a knowledge of the shell language, it also requires familiarity with the individual Unix programs: why each one is there, how to use them by themselves, and in combination with the other programs. The authors are intimately familiar with the tips and tricks that can be used to create excellent scripts, as well as the traps that can make your best effort a bad shell script. With Classic Shell Scripting you'll avoid hours of wasted effort. You'll learn not only write useful shell scripts, but how to do it properly and portably.The ability to program and customize the shell quickly, reliably, and portably to get the best out of any individual system is an important skill for anyone operating and maintaining Unix or Linux systems. Classic Shell Scripting gives you everything you need to master these essential skills.
The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals
Author: Charles Webster Leadbeater
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Using Algebraic Geometry
Author: David A. Cox
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475769113
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
An illustration of the many uses of algebraic geometry, highlighting the more recent applications of Groebner bases and resultants. Along the way, the authors provide an introduction to some algebraic objects and techniques more advanced than typically encountered in a first course. The book is accessible to non-specialists and to readers with a diverse range of backgrounds, assuming readers know the material covered in standard undergraduate courses, including abstract algebra. But because the text is intended for beginning graduate students, it does not require graduate algebra, and in particular, does not assume that the reader is familiar with modules.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475769113
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
An illustration of the many uses of algebraic geometry, highlighting the more recent applications of Groebner bases and resultants. Along the way, the authors provide an introduction to some algebraic objects and techniques more advanced than typically encountered in a first course. The book is accessible to non-specialists and to readers with a diverse range of backgrounds, assuming readers know the material covered in standard undergraduate courses, including abstract algebra. But because the text is intended for beginning graduate students, it does not require graduate algebra, and in particular, does not assume that the reader is familiar with modules.
’Pataphysics Unrolled
Author: Katie L. Price
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271091851
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry “made the gesture of dying,” Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor argue that it is time to take the comedic intervention of pataphysics seriously. ’Pataphysics Unrolled collects critical and creative essays to create an unauthorized account of pataphysical experimentation from its origins in the late nineteenth century through the contemporary moment. Reaching beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries normally associated with pataphysics, this volume presents rich readings of pataphysical syzygy, traces the influence of pataphysics across disciplines and outside of coteries such as the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and asks fundamental questions about the field of modern and contemporary studies that challenge distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, high and low culture, the serious and the comic. Touching on disciplines such as literature, art, architecture, education, music, and technology, this book reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Charles Bernstein, Marc Décimo, Adam Dickinson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Catherine Hansen, James Hendler, John Heon, Ted Hiebert, Andrew Hugill, Steve McCaffery, Seth McDowell, Jerome McGann, Anne M. Mulhall, Marcus O’Dair, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Orchid Tierney, and Brandon Walsh.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271091851
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry “made the gesture of dying,” Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor argue that it is time to take the comedic intervention of pataphysics seriously. ’Pataphysics Unrolled collects critical and creative essays to create an unauthorized account of pataphysical experimentation from its origins in the late nineteenth century through the contemporary moment. Reaching beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries normally associated with pataphysics, this volume presents rich readings of pataphysical syzygy, traces the influence of pataphysics across disciplines and outside of coteries such as the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and asks fundamental questions about the field of modern and contemporary studies that challenge distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, high and low culture, the serious and the comic. Touching on disciplines such as literature, art, architecture, education, music, and technology, this book reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Charles Bernstein, Marc Décimo, Adam Dickinson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Catherine Hansen, James Hendler, John Heon, Ted Hiebert, Andrew Hugill, Steve McCaffery, Seth McDowell, Jerome McGann, Anne M. Mulhall, Marcus O’Dair, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Orchid Tierney, and Brandon Walsh.
THE CAVES OF ANTARCTICA
Author: Raymundo Teles
Publisher: Editora Novo Século
ISBN: 6555613386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A subglacial and highly technological world, almost a complete unknown, reigns under millions of tons of ice. A small, prosperous kingdom in a desert region of Africa occupied by a myriad of peoples and ethnicities, whose legends are _ lled with magic and mystery. A majestic ancient cave in Ethiopia, atop steep and abrupt mountains, where a strange community lives, preserving its myths, knowledge, and a gnosis that sets it apart from the civilized world. At the Australian Embassy in Antarctica, in the Nevada Crater, a sailor comes across a series of enigmatic events such as the unsolved kidnapping and murder of athletes by an Ice wizard in the unique and strange African kingdom, linking obscure worlds in a plot that will involve queens, princesses, detectives, sorceres, giants, and monsters. In this work, the author takes us into a world of fantasy and science fiction, through an original plot that involves jealousy, passion, struggle, and power, creating a gripping story and maintaining suspense from beginning to end.
Publisher: Editora Novo Século
ISBN: 6555613386
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A subglacial and highly technological world, almost a complete unknown, reigns under millions of tons of ice. A small, prosperous kingdom in a desert region of Africa occupied by a myriad of peoples and ethnicities, whose legends are _ lled with magic and mystery. A majestic ancient cave in Ethiopia, atop steep and abrupt mountains, where a strange community lives, preserving its myths, knowledge, and a gnosis that sets it apart from the civilized world. At the Australian Embassy in Antarctica, in the Nevada Crater, a sailor comes across a series of enigmatic events such as the unsolved kidnapping and murder of athletes by an Ice wizard in the unique and strange African kingdom, linking obscure worlds in a plot that will involve queens, princesses, detectives, sorceres, giants, and monsters. In this work, the author takes us into a world of fantasy and science fiction, through an original plot that involves jealousy, passion, struggle, and power, creating a gripping story and maintaining suspense from beginning to end.
Destiny Grimoire, Volume I
Author: Bungie Inc.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1957721049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Until now, the myths, mysteries, and machinations of the Destiny universe were found hidden throughout the worlds – enticing threads that hinted at a greater tapestry. The Destiny Grimoire Anthology weaves tales from multiple sources together for the first time, casting new light on Destiny’s most legendary heroes, infamous villains, and their greatest moments of triumph and tragedy. Each unique volume intends to illuminate a facet of the world, and the complete anthology will confirm and challenge players’ thoughts and assumptions on what it means to be a Guardian, offering new and differing perspectives on the cosmic war that rages between the Traveler and its ancient enemies.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1957721049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Until now, the myths, mysteries, and machinations of the Destiny universe were found hidden throughout the worlds – enticing threads that hinted at a greater tapestry. The Destiny Grimoire Anthology weaves tales from multiple sources together for the first time, casting new light on Destiny’s most legendary heroes, infamous villains, and their greatest moments of triumph and tragedy. Each unique volume intends to illuminate a facet of the world, and the complete anthology will confirm and challenge players’ thoughts and assumptions on what it means to be a Guardian, offering new and differing perspectives on the cosmic war that rages between the Traveler and its ancient enemies.
Bulletin
Jesus and the Lost Goddess
Author: Timothy Freke
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307565866
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Why Were the Teachings of the Original Christians Brutally Suppressed by the Roman Church? • Because they portray Jesus and Mary Magdalene as mythic figures based on the Pagan Godman and Goddess • Because they show that the gospel story is a spiritual allegory encapsulating a profound philosophy that leads to mythical enlightenment • Because they have the power to turn the world inside out and transform life into an exploration of consciousness Drawing on modern scholarship, the authors of the international bestseller The Jesus Mysteries decode the secret teachings of the original Christians for the first time in almost two millennia and theorize about who the original Christians really were and what they actually taught. In addition, the book explores the many myths of Jesus and the Goddess and unlocks the lost secret teachings of Christian mysticism, which promise happiness and immortality to those who attain the state of Gnosis, or enlightenment. This daring and controversial book recovers the ancient wisdom of the original Christians and demonstrates its relevance to us today.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307565866
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Why Were the Teachings of the Original Christians Brutally Suppressed by the Roman Church? • Because they portray Jesus and Mary Magdalene as mythic figures based on the Pagan Godman and Goddess • Because they show that the gospel story is a spiritual allegory encapsulating a profound philosophy that leads to mythical enlightenment • Because they have the power to turn the world inside out and transform life into an exploration of consciousness Drawing on modern scholarship, the authors of the international bestseller The Jesus Mysteries decode the secret teachings of the original Christians for the first time in almost two millennia and theorize about who the original Christians really were and what they actually taught. In addition, the book explores the many myths of Jesus and the Goddess and unlocks the lost secret teachings of Christian mysticism, which promise happiness and immortality to those who attain the state of Gnosis, or enlightenment. This daring and controversial book recovers the ancient wisdom of the original Christians and demonstrates its relevance to us today.