Author: Neil Baker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546263152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
In the transition between childhood and adulthood, there is a journey that all human beings must undertake in order to discover the essence of change. The novelette Redemption explores the very shadowy region wherein one’s identity is replaced by elements unfamiliar, mysterious, and alluring to the consciousness of oneself, where the shedding of pseudo security is replaced by the perplexity of instinctual discovery. Existence begins in the middle of a great dilemma that serves as the driving force of the two-act play, Sanctus. Three castoffs fall into a verbal battle of wits as they struggle to find the purpose behind their desolation. In exchanges of dialogue that consist of absurdity and pathos, each character combats one another with unique interpretations of the crisis at hand in order to reach the sound conclusion: Does death involve rebirth?
Redemption a Novelette; Sanctus a Play in Two Acts
Author: Neil Baker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546263152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
In the transition between childhood and adulthood, there is a journey that all human beings must undertake in order to discover the essence of change. The novelette Redemption explores the very shadowy region wherein one’s identity is replaced by elements unfamiliar, mysterious, and alluring to the consciousness of oneself, where the shedding of pseudo security is replaced by the perplexity of instinctual discovery. Existence begins in the middle of a great dilemma that serves as the driving force of the two-act play, Sanctus. Three castoffs fall into a verbal battle of wits as they struggle to find the purpose behind their desolation. In exchanges of dialogue that consist of absurdity and pathos, each character combats one another with unique interpretations of the crisis at hand in order to reach the sound conclusion: Does death involve rebirth?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546263152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
In the transition between childhood and adulthood, there is a journey that all human beings must undertake in order to discover the essence of change. The novelette Redemption explores the very shadowy region wherein one’s identity is replaced by elements unfamiliar, mysterious, and alluring to the consciousness of oneself, where the shedding of pseudo security is replaced by the perplexity of instinctual discovery. Existence begins in the middle of a great dilemma that serves as the driving force of the two-act play, Sanctus. Three castoffs fall into a verbal battle of wits as they struggle to find the purpose behind their desolation. In exchanges of dialogue that consist of absurdity and pathos, each character combats one another with unique interpretations of the crisis at hand in order to reach the sound conclusion: Does death involve rebirth?
Planetfall
Author: Emma Newman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From the Hugo Award-winning author of Between Two Thorns comes the first novel in a captivating science fiction series where a secret withheld to protect humanity’s future may lead to its undoing… “Cathartic and transcendent.”—The New York Times “An exceptionally engaging novel that explores the complex relationship between mythology and science.”—The Washington Post Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown. More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret. Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi. The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From the Hugo Award-winning author of Between Two Thorns comes the first novel in a captivating science fiction series where a secret withheld to protect humanity’s future may lead to its undoing… “Cathartic and transcendent.”—The New York Times “An exceptionally engaging novel that explores the complex relationship between mythology and science.”—The Washington Post Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi into the unknown. More than twenty-two years have passed since Ren and the rest of the faithful braved the starry abyss and established a colony at the base of an enigmatic alien structure where Suh-Mi has since resided, alone. All that time, Ren has worked hard as the colony's 3-D printer engineer, creating the tools necessary for human survival in an alien environment, and harboring a devastating secret. Ren continues to perpetuate the lie forming the foundation of the colony for the good of her fellow colonists, despite the personal cost. Then a stranger appears, far too young to have been part of the first planetfall, a man who bears a remarkable resemblance to Suh-Mi. The truth Ren has concealed since planetfall can no longer be hidden. And its revelation might tear the colony apart...
Solomon Creed
Author: Simon Toyne
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007551371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
HOW CAN HE SAVE A MAN WHO IS ALREADY DEAD? ‘Compelling, vivid and profound’ PETER JAMES ‘A fast-moving thriller that makes for an exhilarating read. Perfect for any fans of Lee Child’ SUN ‘Who is Solomon Creed? He's the hero of an epic new series of thrillers. Simple as that’ MARK BILLINGHAM
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007551371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
HOW CAN HE SAVE A MAN WHO IS ALREADY DEAD? ‘Compelling, vivid and profound’ PETER JAMES ‘A fast-moving thriller that makes for an exhilarating read. Perfect for any fans of Lee Child’ SUN ‘Who is Solomon Creed? He's the hero of an epic new series of thrillers. Simple as that’ MARK BILLINGHAM
After Atlas
Author: Emma Newman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems—an Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee. Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas’s departure, it’s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room—and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There’s more to Casales’s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man’s murder is much more than it seems—an Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee. Gov-corp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos’s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas’s departure, it’s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room—and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There’s more to Casales’s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes...
Watson's Weekly Art Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Devil May Cry Volume 1
Author: Capcom
Publisher: TokyoPop
ISBN: 9781598164503
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The world of this first in a series of exciting novels connects to the thrilling smash-hit game, Devil May Cry. Rated for teens.
Publisher: TokyoPop
ISBN: 9781598164503
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The world of this first in a series of exciting novels connects to the thrilling smash-hit game, Devil May Cry. Rated for teens.
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900
Author: Lawrence Kramer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520084438
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society. In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's Faust Symphony takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520084438
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society. In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's Faust Symphony takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.
Sanctus
Author: Simon Toyne
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007426267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW WITH THIS LIMITED-TIME DISCOUNT ON BOOK ONE OF THE SERIES. The bestselling thriller debut of 2011 – the apocalyptic conspiracy thriller that has set the world alight...
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007426267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW WITH THIS LIMITED-TIME DISCOUNT ON BOOK ONE OF THE SERIES. The bestselling thriller debut of 2011 – the apocalyptic conspiracy thriller that has set the world alight...
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven (Vol. 1-3)
Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Alexander Wheelock Thayer's 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' is a monumental three-volume biography that delves deep into the personal and professional life of the legendary composer. Thayer's meticulous research and comprehensive documentation provide readers with a detailed account of Beethoven's trials and triumphs, offering insights into his revolutionary compositions and enduring legacy. Written in a scholarly but approachable style, this biography sheds light on Beethoven's complex personality and the social and cultural context in which he created his immortal music. Thayer's work is not only a biography but also a valuable historical and artistic resource for anyone interested in classical music and the life of one of its greatest composers. Alexander Wheelock Thayer, a dedicated music historian, spent years studying Beethoven's life and works, collecting extensive materials to create this definitive account. His passion for Beethoven's music and commitment to accuracy shine through in every page of this meticulously researched biography. Thayer's expertise and deep understanding of Beethoven's music and life make 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' a must-read for scholars, musicians, and music lovers alike. I highly recommend 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' to anyone seeking a comprehensive and engaging exploration of Beethoven's life, music, and lasting influence on classical music. Thayer's scholarly approach and detailed analysis provide a rich and rewarding reading experience for those interested in the life and works of one of the greatest composers in history.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Alexander Wheelock Thayer's 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' is a monumental three-volume biography that delves deep into the personal and professional life of the legendary composer. Thayer's meticulous research and comprehensive documentation provide readers with a detailed account of Beethoven's trials and triumphs, offering insights into his revolutionary compositions and enduring legacy. Written in a scholarly but approachable style, this biography sheds light on Beethoven's complex personality and the social and cultural context in which he created his immortal music. Thayer's work is not only a biography but also a valuable historical and artistic resource for anyone interested in classical music and the life of one of its greatest composers. Alexander Wheelock Thayer, a dedicated music historian, spent years studying Beethoven's life and works, collecting extensive materials to create this definitive account. His passion for Beethoven's music and commitment to accuracy shine through in every page of this meticulously researched biography. Thayer's expertise and deep understanding of Beethoven's music and life make 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' a must-read for scholars, musicians, and music lovers alike. I highly recommend 'The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven' to anyone seeking a comprehensive and engaging exploration of Beethoven's life, music, and lasting influence on classical music. Thayer's scholarly approach and detailed analysis provide a rich and rewarding reading experience for those interested in the life and works of one of the greatest composers in history.