Author: Paul Park
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466861592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Paul Park's Nebula Award finalist is an extraordinary, challenging, and disturbing novel about a human colony on a distant alien world, the planet Celestis. The native humanoid population is subjugated by the human colonists, but many of the Aboriginals undergo medical procedures involving surgery and drugs to make them look and think more like humans. As support from home wanes, the "improved" Aboriginals launch a rebellion against the colonists. Simon, a political functionary from Earth, and Katharine, the altered daughter of a successful native merchant, are taken hostage by the rebels. Simon falls in love with Katharine, but, cut off from a supply of the medication she needs to maintain her humanlike state, her suppressed alien nature begins to reemerge. As she discovers her true self, hidden vistas of expanded alien perception are revealed in a stunning exploration of the limits of humanity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Celestis
Author: Paul Park
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466861592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Paul Park's Nebula Award finalist is an extraordinary, challenging, and disturbing novel about a human colony on a distant alien world, the planet Celestis. The native humanoid population is subjugated by the human colonists, but many of the Aboriginals undergo medical procedures involving surgery and drugs to make them look and think more like humans. As support from home wanes, the "improved" Aboriginals launch a rebellion against the colonists. Simon, a political functionary from Earth, and Katharine, the altered daughter of a successful native merchant, are taken hostage by the rebels. Simon falls in love with Katharine, but, cut off from a supply of the medication she needs to maintain her humanlike state, her suppressed alien nature begins to reemerge. As she discovers her true self, hidden vistas of expanded alien perception are revealed in a stunning exploration of the limits of humanity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466861592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Paul Park's Nebula Award finalist is an extraordinary, challenging, and disturbing novel about a human colony on a distant alien world, the planet Celestis. The native humanoid population is subjugated by the human colonists, but many of the Aboriginals undergo medical procedures involving surgery and drugs to make them look and think more like humans. As support from home wanes, the "improved" Aboriginals launch a rebellion against the colonists. Simon, a political functionary from Earth, and Katharine, the altered daughter of a successful native merchant, are taken hostage by the rebels. Simon falls in love with Katharine, but, cut off from a supply of the medication she needs to maintain her humanlike state, her suppressed alien nature begins to reemerge. As she discovers her true self, hidden vistas of expanded alien perception are revealed in a stunning exploration of the limits of humanity. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The illustrated account given by Hevelius in his "Machina celestis" of the method of mounting his telescopes and erecting an observatory
Author: Johannes Hevelius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Cremation
Author: Lewis H. Mates
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143833
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143833
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.
De Mundi Celestis Terrestrisque Constitutione
Author: Charles S. F. Burnett
Publisher: Warburg Institute
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Illustrates the wide range of theories available in the early Middle Ages to explain natural phenomena, and speculations concerning the courses of the heavenly bodies and the origin of the soul, before the advent of specialized scientific and philosophical works in the 12th century.
Publisher: Warburg Institute
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Illustrates the wide range of theories available in the early Middle Ages to explain natural phenomena, and speculations concerning the courses of the heavenly bodies and the origin of the soul, before the advent of specialized scientific and philosophical works in the 12th century.
The Liber Celestis of St Bridget of Sweden
Author: Saint Bridget (of Sweden)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Lost Realm
Author: J. D. Rinehart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481424467
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
"Triplets, Tarlan, Elodie, and Gulph, are no closer to finding each other or gaining the throne. But as the threats to their existence grow, so do their powers. Can the three survive, fulfill the prophecy, and bring peace to the land? Or will they meet an untimely fate?"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481424467
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
"Triplets, Tarlan, Elodie, and Gulph, are no closer to finding each other or gaining the throne. But as the threats to their existence grow, so do their powers. Can the three survive, fulfill the prophecy, and bring peace to the land? Or will they meet an untimely fate?"--
The Book of the War
Author: Lawrence Miles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570329050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570329050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity.
Cushions, Kitchens and Christ
Author: Louise Campion
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683832X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including spiritual guidance texts, Lives of Christ and collections of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683832X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including spiritual guidance texts, Lives of Christ and collections of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.
A Kingdom Rises
Author: J. D. Rinehart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481424491
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Just when Tarlan is about to give up on the prophecy that he is one of the triplets destined to bring peace to the land, he meets his long-lost brother Gulph and sister Elodie, as well as their supporters, and they travel together to make a final stand against Lord Vicerin in an attempt to end the Thousand Year War and unite the realms.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481424491
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Just when Tarlan is about to give up on the prophecy that he is one of the triplets destined to bring peace to the land, he meets his long-lost brother Gulph and sister Elodie, as well as their supporters, and they travel together to make a final stand against Lord Vicerin in an attempt to end the Thousand Year War and unite the realms.
Invoking Angels
Author: Claire Fanger
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271051434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271051434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts"--Provided by publisher.