Author: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500279816
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Alchemy and the quest for the Philosopher's Stone have been a strand in the development of European culture from antiquity onwards. With the spread of printing, the whole fantastic iconography flowered as never before. This fascinating book presents a selection of the finest alchemical engravings, brought together for the first time, and describes their origins and meanings. 533 illustrations.
The Golden Game
Author: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500279816
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Alchemy and the quest for the Philosopher's Stone have been a strand in the development of European culture from antiquity onwards. With the spread of printing, the whole fantastic iconography flowered as never before. This fascinating book presents a selection of the finest alchemical engravings, brought together for the first time, and describes their origins and meanings. 533 illustrations.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500279816
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Alchemy and the quest for the Philosopher's Stone have been a strand in the development of European culture from antiquity onwards. With the spread of printing, the whole fantastic iconography flowered as never before. This fascinating book presents a selection of the finest alchemical engravings, brought together for the first time, and describes their origins and meanings. 533 illustrations.
The Golden Game
Author: Kevin Nelson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803283954
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
"Originally published by the California Historical Society Press and Heyday Books"--T.p. verso.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803283954
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
"Originally published by the California Historical Society Press and Heyday Books"--T.p. verso.
Alchemy
Author: Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500810552
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. In this title, the author elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental and historical and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500810552
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. In this title, the author elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental and historical and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner.
The Golden Game
Author: Kevin Nelson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080328425X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Golden Game presents in words and pictures 150 years of baseball history, from sandlot ball in the 1850s and the Pacific Coast League to the western arrival of the Dodgers, Giants, Angels, Athletics, and Padres. Here is a stirring, colorfully written narrative about the state that has been the birthplace and proving ground for more Major Leaguers than any other, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson. Blending U.S. and California history as a backdrop to a narrative rich with anecdotes, The Golden Game reveals the significant impact that California has had on baseball history. Written not just for Californians but for all baseball fans, The Golden Game goes beyond its geographic boundaries to tell the fascinating saga of California baseball and how it has indelibly shaped the national pastime.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080328425X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Golden Game presents in words and pictures 150 years of baseball history, from sandlot ball in the 1850s and the Pacific Coast League to the western arrival of the Dodgers, Giants, Angels, Athletics, and Padres. Here is a stirring, colorfully written narrative about the state that has been the birthplace and proving ground for more Major Leaguers than any other, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson. Blending U.S. and California history as a backdrop to a narrative rich with anecdotes, The Golden Game reveals the significant impact that California has had on baseball history. Written not just for Californians but for all baseball fans, The Golden Game goes beyond its geographic boundaries to tell the fascinating saga of California baseball and how it has indelibly shaped the national pastime.
Golden Game
Author: David Starr
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459412311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Abbas is a Syrian refugee and a striker on a junior high soccer team of refugee and immigrant players. He is excited when his team is sponsored to play a big tournament, where he can reconnect with a friend from Syria. But a traffic accident triggers Abbas to experience anxiety and flashbacks to the violence in Syria. He finds ways to conquer his flashbacks and anxiety before the big tournament and also helps his whole team deal with the pressure of the competition. Golden Game is one of four books that offer readers insight into the experiences of refugee youth as they adjust to life in North America.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1459412311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Abbas is a Syrian refugee and a striker on a junior high soccer team of refugee and immigrant players. He is excited when his team is sponsored to play a big tournament, where he can reconnect with a friend from Syria. But a traffic accident triggers Abbas to experience anxiety and flashbacks to the violence in Syria. He finds ways to conquer his flashbacks and anxiety before the big tournament and also helps his whole team deal with the pressure of the competition. Golden Game is one of four books that offer readers insight into the experiences of refugee youth as they adjust to life in North America.
The Golden Game Box Set Books #1-3
Author: Lexy Timms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Grab the first three books in the Golden Game Series all this fantastic box set! USA Today Bestselling author, Lexy Timms, delivers a football (soccer) romance that will have you falling in love with the sport! Book 1 Our Goal is Stopping Yours… A new season, a new start, and a new way to turn my life upside down. It was never meant to be this way. When I met Amelia, the new press girl for our club, I knew there was something different about her. But, given that I'm involved with one of the biggest up-and-coming influencers in the country, it's not like I could do anything about it. Yet I can't deny how intriguing I find her, and it doesn't take long till I'm drawn closer than I ever should have been - and find out more about her mysterious past than I think she thought she'd ever share... Like a moth drawn to a flame… Book 2 It's Good to Have Goals… My ex is out to ruin everything - but that doesn't mean that I'm going to let her take the best thing that's ever happened to me out of my life. Amelia and I make perfect sense together. It's just everything around us that doesn't. Poppy is doing everything she can to screw up my reputation and my life, and Amelia feels like the only good thing I have left. But it doesn't take long for things to get messy, and soon, Amelia's job is on the line - and I don't want her to lose everything she's worked for because of me. I need to make things right - and make sure the world knows the person that I really am, not the person that my ex is trying to make me out to be... Book 3 The Passion of a Champion… One night. One night together, and everything is falling apart again. I can't stay away from Amelia. Everything in me is screaming that I need to be close to her again, and we gave in. But it doesn't take long for us to pay the price, and soon, we're plagued by photographers and my stalker ex who can't let go of me for good. But how far is she willing to go to stop me from pursuing the life I want and the woman that I need? As the stress starts to leak into my football career, I know that I have to expose the truth - or risk being drowned by the lies, instead... The Golden Game Book 1 – On The Pitch Book 2 – Respect the Game Book 3 – All Game Book 4 – Sweat and Tears Book 5 – The Final Score
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Grab the first three books in the Golden Game Series all this fantastic box set! USA Today Bestselling author, Lexy Timms, delivers a football (soccer) romance that will have you falling in love with the sport! Book 1 Our Goal is Stopping Yours… A new season, a new start, and a new way to turn my life upside down. It was never meant to be this way. When I met Amelia, the new press girl for our club, I knew there was something different about her. But, given that I'm involved with one of the biggest up-and-coming influencers in the country, it's not like I could do anything about it. Yet I can't deny how intriguing I find her, and it doesn't take long till I'm drawn closer than I ever should have been - and find out more about her mysterious past than I think she thought she'd ever share... Like a moth drawn to a flame… Book 2 It's Good to Have Goals… My ex is out to ruin everything - but that doesn't mean that I'm going to let her take the best thing that's ever happened to me out of my life. Amelia and I make perfect sense together. It's just everything around us that doesn't. Poppy is doing everything she can to screw up my reputation and my life, and Amelia feels like the only good thing I have left. But it doesn't take long for things to get messy, and soon, Amelia's job is on the line - and I don't want her to lose everything she's worked for because of me. I need to make things right - and make sure the world knows the person that I really am, not the person that my ex is trying to make me out to be... Book 3 The Passion of a Champion… One night. One night together, and everything is falling apart again. I can't stay away from Amelia. Everything in me is screaming that I need to be close to her again, and we gave in. But it doesn't take long for us to pay the price, and soon, we're plagued by photographers and my stalker ex who can't let go of me for good. But how far is she willing to go to stop me from pursuing the life I want and the woman that I need? As the stress starts to leak into my football career, I know that I have to expose the truth - or risk being drowned by the lies, instead... The Golden Game Book 1 – On The Pitch Book 2 – Respect the Game Book 3 – All Game Book 4 – Sweat and Tears Book 5 – The Final Score
The Golden Age of Video Games
Author: Roberto Dillon
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439873232
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439873232
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene.
Michael's Golden Rules
Author: Deloris Jordan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689870167
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"I've learned it takes heart to come out a winner every time, whether you win or lose." -- Michael Jordan Jonathan wants to win more than anything. But the Badgers haven't seen much of that lately. For Jonathan, the only good thing about the baseball season is being on the same team as his best friend, Michael. Jonathan wants to believe in himself and his team, but it's getting harder to do. Then when Michael's uncle Jack tells the boys about his golden rules of baseball, Jonathan is confused. What could Uncle Jack mean -- there is more to a good game than winning or losing? Deloris and Roslyn M. Jordan, mother and sister of basketball superstar Michael Jordan, tell a family story of personal best, friendship, and teamwork that will inspire. Kadir Nelson's radiant illustrations illuminate this story of what it really means to be a champion.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689870167
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"I've learned it takes heart to come out a winner every time, whether you win or lose." -- Michael Jordan Jonathan wants to win more than anything. But the Badgers haven't seen much of that lately. For Jonathan, the only good thing about the baseball season is being on the same team as his best friend, Michael. Jonathan wants to believe in himself and his team, but it's getting harder to do. Then when Michael's uncle Jack tells the boys about his golden rules of baseball, Jonathan is confused. What could Uncle Jack mean -- there is more to a good game than winning or losing? Deloris and Roslyn M. Jordan, mother and sister of basketball superstar Michael Jordan, tell a family story of personal best, friendship, and teamwork that will inspire. Kadir Nelson's radiant illustrations illuminate this story of what it really means to be a champion.
Golden Sky Stories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989904308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Golden Sky Stories is a heartwarming, non-violent role-playing game from Japan, by Ryo Kamiya. In this game, players take on the role of henge, animals that have just a little bit of magical power, including the ability to temporarily take on human form. You can be a fox, raccoon dog, cat, dog, rabbit, or bird, and each kind has their own special magical powers. Players will then attempt to solve problems around a small enchanted town with ingenuity, co-operation and friendship.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989904308
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Golden Sky Stories is a heartwarming, non-violent role-playing game from Japan, by Ryo Kamiya. In this game, players take on the role of henge, animals that have just a little bit of magical power, including the ability to temporarily take on human form. You can be a fox, raccoon dog, cat, dog, rabbit, or bird, and each kind has their own special magical powers. Players will then attempt to solve problems around a small enchanted town with ingenuity, co-operation and friendship.
The Golden Dynasty
Author: Kristen Ashley
Publisher: Kristen Ashley
ISBN: 1466023686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Circe Quinn, the office manager of a moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire—and she’s one of them. She figures this is not good and soon finds she’s not having a wild dream; she’s living a frightening nightmare. She’s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people, where she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their queen. Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, the Horde of the nation of Korwahk. With one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start the Golden Dynasty of legend. Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture, and the small fact she’s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there. Or, more importantly, how to get home. Facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King. Then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.
Publisher: Kristen Ashley
ISBN: 1466023686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Circe Quinn, the office manager of a moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire—and she’s one of them. She figures this is not good and soon finds she’s not having a wild dream; she’s living a frightening nightmare. She’s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people, where she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their queen. Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, the Horde of the nation of Korwahk. With one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start the Golden Dynasty of legend. Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture, and the small fact she’s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there. Or, more importantly, how to get home. Facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King. Then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.