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Author: John E. Stump Publisher: ISBN: 9780595431984 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Sometimes temptation is too strong to resist, even when it means doing wrong. That is the case for Democritus; a Greek spy who finds a book of magical spells as the Persians begin their second major attack on Greece in 480 BCE. Not only does he realize he can use the spells to hinder the Persian advance, Democritus learns he can use the spells to gain forbidden knowledge to satisfy his insatiable curiosity. Zarius, the Persian Magus who owned the spell book only a short time before losing it, also finds it difficult to stay on the path of righteousness. Desperate to get his book back from Democritus, Zarius pulls out all the stops in his attempts, resorting to such fiendish schemes as summoning wicked spirits from the Underworld and planting the seeds of destructive monsters. Will love break the lure of the book? Will the gods put a stop to the interlopers? Or will the book drag each of them down to their own doom?
Author: John E. Stump Publisher: ISBN: 9780595431984 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Sometimes temptation is too strong to resist, even when it means doing wrong. That is the case for Democritus; a Greek spy who finds a book of magical spells as the Persians begin their second major attack on Greece in 480 BCE. Not only does he realize he can use the spells to hinder the Persian advance, Democritus learns he can use the spells to gain forbidden knowledge to satisfy his insatiable curiosity. Zarius, the Persian Magus who owned the spell book only a short time before losing it, also finds it difficult to stay on the path of righteousness. Desperate to get his book back from Democritus, Zarius pulls out all the stops in his attempts, resorting to such fiendish schemes as summoning wicked spirits from the Underworld and planting the seeds of destructive monsters. Will love break the lure of the book? Will the gods put a stop to the interlopers? Or will the book drag each of them down to their own doom?
Author: Robert C. Ritchie Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520215958 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 339
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A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull’s cry and the cove’s splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide’s turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time, covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.
Author: Jennifer Cromwell Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198768109 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 394
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Volume is outcome of a workshop held in 2009 at the University of Oxford (Beyond free-variation: scribal repertoires in Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period).
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