Author: Sharon Kendrick
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373130880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"Few dare to defy global hotel magnate Zac Constantinides--he's the boss and everyone knows it! So when his London interior designer turns out to have dug her gold-digging claws into his brother, Zac's solution is to transfer her ... to New York! Emma may have more skeletons in her closet than most, but Zac's brother isn't one of them. The temptation to take her impossibly arrogant boss down a peg or three is too much to resist. So while with him in New York, she'll play the role he's given her and be every bit as bad as he thinks she is."--P. [4] of cover.
Playing the Greek's Game
Author: Sharon Kendrick
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373130880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"Few dare to defy global hotel magnate Zac Constantinides--he's the boss and everyone knows it! So when his London interior designer turns out to have dug her gold-digging claws into his brother, Zac's solution is to transfer her ... to New York! Emma may have more skeletons in her closet than most, but Zac's brother isn't one of them. The temptation to take her impossibly arrogant boss down a peg or three is too much to resist. So while with him in New York, she'll play the role he's given her and be every bit as bad as he thinks she is."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373130880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"Few dare to defy global hotel magnate Zac Constantinides--he's the boss and everyone knows it! So when his London interior designer turns out to have dug her gold-digging claws into his brother, Zac's solution is to transfer her ... to New York! Emma may have more skeletons in her closet than most, but Zac's brother isn't one of them. The temptation to take her impossibly arrogant boss down a peg or three is too much to resist. So while with him in New York, she'll play the role he's given her and be every bit as bad as he thinks she is."--P. [4] of cover.
The Crown Games of Ancient Greece
Author: David Lunt
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682262014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Introduction -- Athletes, Festivals, and The Crown Games -- Olympia and the Olympian Games -- Nemea and the Nemean Games -- Isthmia and the Isthmian Games -- Delphi and the Pythian Games -- Crowned Champions -- Conclusions.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1682262014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Introduction -- Athletes, Festivals, and The Crown Games -- Olympia and the Olympian Games -- Nemea and the Nemean Games -- Isthmia and the Isthmian Games -- Delphi and the Pythian Games -- Crowned Champions -- Conclusions.
Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407129511
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Apparently the Greeks (we are talking about the Ancient variety) were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn't start school until they were seven, and girls didn't have to go at all. Greek children invented all manner of cool games just for something to do, and the grown-ups invented the Olympic Games and made the men run naked. But as this Horrible History shows you, things were not always quite so jolly... and some of the things the Groovy Greeks did were actually, well, quite horrible! So read on to see... * Why groovy Greek girls ran about naked pretending to be bears * Who had the world's first flushing toilet * Why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax! Ugh! ... plus many more yucky facts about the Groovy Greeks!
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407129511
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Apparently the Greeks (we are talking about the Ancient variety) were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn't start school until they were seven, and girls didn't have to go at all. Greek children invented all manner of cool games just for something to do, and the grown-ups invented the Olympic Games and made the men run naked. But as this Horrible History shows you, things were not always quite so jolly... and some of the things the Groovy Greeks did were actually, well, quite horrible! So read on to see... * Why groovy Greek girls ran about naked pretending to be bears * Who had the world's first flushing toilet * Why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax! Ugh! ... plus many more yucky facts about the Groovy Greeks!
Playing by the Greek's Rules
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488095485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
“Morgan’s powerful page turner is a tale of two opposites. Her narrative is richly entertaining and informative.” —RT Book Reviews (Top Pick, 4 1⁄2 stars) RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award Nominee Love Story Award Nominee—Best Short Romance Rules are made to be broken . . . Idealistic archaeologist Lily Rose craves a fairy-tale love, but in her experience it always ends in heartbreak. So now Lily’s trying a different approach—a fling with her boss, infamous Greek playboy Nik Zervakis! Anti-love and anti-family, Nik lives by his own set of rules. There’s no one better to teach Lily how to separate sizzling sex from deep emotions. But while Nik has the world at his feet, he also has dark shadows in his heart . . . It starts as a sensual game, but can Lily stick to Nik’s rules? And what’s more, can he? Praise for Sarah Morgan “A masterful storyteller.” —Booklist “Jane Green meets Sophie Kinsella.” —Jill Shalvis, New York Times–bestselling author “Escapist fiction at its absolute best, full of warmth, humour and heart.” —Katie Marsh, author of Unbreak Your Heart
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488095485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
“Morgan’s powerful page turner is a tale of two opposites. Her narrative is richly entertaining and informative.” —RT Book Reviews (Top Pick, 4 1⁄2 stars) RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award Nominee Love Story Award Nominee—Best Short Romance Rules are made to be broken . . . Idealistic archaeologist Lily Rose craves a fairy-tale love, but in her experience it always ends in heartbreak. So now Lily’s trying a different approach—a fling with her boss, infamous Greek playboy Nik Zervakis! Anti-love and anti-family, Nik lives by his own set of rules. There’s no one better to teach Lily how to separate sizzling sex from deep emotions. But while Nik has the world at his feet, he also has dark shadows in his heart . . . It starts as a sensual game, but can Lily stick to Nik’s rules? And what’s more, can he? Praise for Sarah Morgan “A masterful storyteller.” —Booklist “Jane Green meets Sophie Kinsella.” —Jill Shalvis, New York Times–bestselling author “Escapist fiction at its absolute best, full of warmth, humour and heart.” —Katie Marsh, author of Unbreak Your Heart
Ecstasy and Terror
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374099
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374099
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Ye Gods!
Author: Tom Holt
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316233404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Being a hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mom's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to tidy your room before you can watch Star Trek. But it's not the relentless tedium of imperishable glory that finally brings Jason to the end of his rope; it's something so funny that it's got to be taken seriously. Deadly seriously.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316233404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Being a hero bothers Jason Derry. It's easy to get maladjusted when your mom's a suburban housewife and your dad's the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to tidy your room before you can watch Star Trek. But it's not the relentless tedium of imperishable glory that finally brings Jason to the end of his rope; it's something so funny that it's got to be taken seriously. Deadly seriously.
Lords of Olympus
Author: The Rpgpundit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938270079
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Color version. Portray gods and demigods -- children of Olympian Gods, Titans, or Primordials in this diceless roleplaying game of multi-dimensional mythology Fantasy. Explore new realms or the classic worlds of Earth and Mythological Greece. Visit Zeus' Olympus, Poseidon's Seas, or Hades' Underworld. Mix politics with intrigue, alliances with wars as power-struggles and vengeance drive stories. Or, go the route of lesser power with mortals and heroes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938270079
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Color version. Portray gods and demigods -- children of Olympian Gods, Titans, or Primordials in this diceless roleplaying game of multi-dimensional mythology Fantasy. Explore new realms or the classic worlds of Earth and Mythological Greece. Visit Zeus' Olympus, Poseidon's Seas, or Hades' Underworld. Mix politics with intrigue, alliances with wars as power-struggles and vengeance drive stories. Or, go the route of lesser power with mortals and heroes.
Games Ancient and Oriental, and how to Play Them
Author: Edward Falkener
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Backgammon
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Backgammon
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Adventures in Ancient Greece
Author: Linda Bailey
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781550745368
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781550745368
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Man, Play, and Games
Author: Roger Caillois
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070334
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070334
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.