Author: Nick Alimonos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578611129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Princess of Aenya is a fantasy adventure tale blending elements of Sci-Fi and fairytales. The heroine, Princess Radia, is forced to flee from her home when her step-brother seizes the throne of the fabled city of Tyrnael. Her only protector is Demacharon, a war-torn soldier from a distant land. As they seek sanctuary in foreign lands, Radia discovers that she is unlike other people, that she is able to feel the pain and emotions of every creature around her, especially those she left at the hands of her cruel step-brother. Thematically, The Princess of Aenya deals with issues of environmentalism, religion and redemption, and the dichotomy between compassion and cruelty. It is reminiscent/inspired by The Last Unicorn and The NeverEnding Story.
The Princess of Aenya
Author: Nick Alimonos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578611129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Princess of Aenya is a fantasy adventure tale blending elements of Sci-Fi and fairytales. The heroine, Princess Radia, is forced to flee from her home when her step-brother seizes the throne of the fabled city of Tyrnael. Her only protector is Demacharon, a war-torn soldier from a distant land. As they seek sanctuary in foreign lands, Radia discovers that she is unlike other people, that she is able to feel the pain and emotions of every creature around her, especially those she left at the hands of her cruel step-brother. Thematically, The Princess of Aenya deals with issues of environmentalism, religion and redemption, and the dichotomy between compassion and cruelty. It is reminiscent/inspired by The Last Unicorn and The NeverEnding Story.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578611129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Princess of Aenya is a fantasy adventure tale blending elements of Sci-Fi and fairytales. The heroine, Princess Radia, is forced to flee from her home when her step-brother seizes the throne of the fabled city of Tyrnael. Her only protector is Demacharon, a war-torn soldier from a distant land. As they seek sanctuary in foreign lands, Radia discovers that she is unlike other people, that she is able to feel the pain and emotions of every creature around her, especially those she left at the hands of her cruel step-brother. Thematically, The Princess of Aenya deals with issues of environmentalism, religion and redemption, and the dichotomy between compassion and cruelty. It is reminiscent/inspired by The Last Unicorn and The NeverEnding Story.
Ages of Aenya
Author: Nick Alimonos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692957004
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hunger drove her from home. Invasion from his. They are the last Ilmar, naked savages . . . Heroes. Discover a world with two moons and one Sea, where night and day can last forever and magic is inseparable from science. Journey to a place where cities wage wars for eons, religions are founded by time traveling historians, and heroes wear nothing but sky. Xandr is a recluse and a wanderer. Thelana, having lost her family to famine, survives in the slums as a thief. They are the last of the Ilmar, primitives shunned by society. But when a star falls from the heavens, only the secrets guarded by their people can save civilization from ruin. With the aid of Grimosse, an over-protective golem, and Emma, a young witch who talks to ravens, Xandr and Thelana must race to the frozen peaks of the Pewter Mountains before a second cataclysm reshapes their world. Nick Alimonos has been writing fantasy since he was six. He earned his English degree at the University of South Florida, where he minored in ancient history. Ages of Aenya is the first novel set in the world of Aenya. To learn more, please visit nickalimonos.com.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692957004
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hunger drove her from home. Invasion from his. They are the last Ilmar, naked savages . . . Heroes. Discover a world with two moons and one Sea, where night and day can last forever and magic is inseparable from science. Journey to a place where cities wage wars for eons, religions are founded by time traveling historians, and heroes wear nothing but sky. Xandr is a recluse and a wanderer. Thelana, having lost her family to famine, survives in the slums as a thief. They are the last of the Ilmar, primitives shunned by society. But when a star falls from the heavens, only the secrets guarded by their people can save civilization from ruin. With the aid of Grimosse, an over-protective golem, and Emma, a young witch who talks to ravens, Xandr and Thelana must race to the frozen peaks of the Pewter Mountains before a second cataclysm reshapes their world. Nick Alimonos has been writing fantasy since he was six. He earned his English degree at the University of South Florida, where he minored in ancient history. Ages of Aenya is the first novel set in the world of Aenya. To learn more, please visit nickalimonos.com.
The Dark Age of Enya
Author: Alimonos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781413443653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Naked and alone Xandr roams war ravaged Enya, championing the downtrodden by his skull-faced sword, while fleeing a bloody past and a burdensome fate. But in a city under siege, he meets the lithe and statuesque Thelana, a woman, as himself, of the rarely-clothed and nature-worshipping Ilmar, a people on the tail end of genocide. Allied with Emmalina, a raven-eyed sorceress; and Grimosse, a faithful, hammer-wielding monster, they journey from oceans turned desert to pewter carved citadels, from an undiscovered isle to a fabled utopia; in search of an answer to the ancient mystery of their forlorn and divided planet. "This is no derivative imitation . . .; Alimonos delivers a tale that is well constructed and moves along at a fair pace . . . an accomplished first novel." Tim Forcer of H&E Naturist MagazineMagazine ". . . an exotic treat." Mark Storey of N GET THIS BOOK DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR AT HALF THE PRICE ($14.99)! PLEASE VISIT WWW.EMMAXIS.COM! IT´S THE OFFICIAL SITE FOR THE DARK AGE OF ENYA
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781413443653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Naked and alone Xandr roams war ravaged Enya, championing the downtrodden by his skull-faced sword, while fleeing a bloody past and a burdensome fate. But in a city under siege, he meets the lithe and statuesque Thelana, a woman, as himself, of the rarely-clothed and nature-worshipping Ilmar, a people on the tail end of genocide. Allied with Emmalina, a raven-eyed sorceress; and Grimosse, a faithful, hammer-wielding monster, they journey from oceans turned desert to pewter carved citadels, from an undiscovered isle to a fabled utopia; in search of an answer to the ancient mystery of their forlorn and divided planet. "This is no derivative imitation . . .; Alimonos delivers a tale that is well constructed and moves along at a fair pace . . . an accomplished first novel." Tim Forcer of H&E Naturist MagazineMagazine ". . . an exotic treat." Mark Storey of N GET THIS BOOK DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR AT HALF THE PRICE ($14.99)! PLEASE VISIT WWW.EMMAXIS.COM! IT´S THE OFFICIAL SITE FOR THE DARK AGE OF ENYA
A Japanese and English Dictionary
Author: James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : id
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : id
Pages : 712
Book Description
The Land of Naked People
Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Table of contents
Making the White Man's Indian
Author: Angela Aleiss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313025754
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian adventures. Decades later, the stereotype became even more complicated, as films depicted the savagery of whites (The Searchers) in contrast to the more peaceful Indian (Broken Arrow). By 1990 the release of Dances with Wolves appeared to have recycled the romantic and savage portrayals embedded in early cinema. In this new study, author Angela Aleiss traces the history of Native Americans on the silver screen, and breaks new ground by drawing on primary sources such as studio correspondence, script treatments, trade newspapers, industry censorship files, and filmmakers' interviews to reveal how and why Hollywood created its Indian characters. Behind-the-scenes anecdotes of filmmakers and Native Americans, as well as rare archival photographs, supplement the discussion, which often shows a stark contrast between depiction and reality. The book traces chronologically the development of the Native American's screen image while also examining many forgotten or lost Western films. Each chapter will feature black and white stills from the films discussed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313025754
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian adventures. Decades later, the stereotype became even more complicated, as films depicted the savagery of whites (The Searchers) in contrast to the more peaceful Indian (Broken Arrow). By 1990 the release of Dances with Wolves appeared to have recycled the romantic and savage portrayals embedded in early cinema. In this new study, author Angela Aleiss traces the history of Native Americans on the silver screen, and breaks new ground by drawing on primary sources such as studio correspondence, script treatments, trade newspapers, industry censorship files, and filmmakers' interviews to reveal how and why Hollywood created its Indian characters. Behind-the-scenes anecdotes of filmmakers and Native Americans, as well as rare archival photographs, supplement the discussion, which often shows a stark contrast between depiction and reality. The book traces chronologically the development of the Native American's screen image while also examining many forgotten or lost Western films. Each chapter will feature black and white stills from the films discussed.
Don't Mind If I Do
Author: George Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416594507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The witty and entertaining New York Times bestselling memoir from the urbane and ultra-tanned icon himself—George Hamilton. Don't let that tanned, handsome, charming surface fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton doesn't miss a thing. With a front row seat for classic Hollywood's biggest secrets and scandals, George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown's heyday, with great good humor and delicious candor—as only he can. From Where the Boys Are to Dancing with the Stars; from Mary Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor; from smalltown Arkansas to the capitals of Europe—it's all here, and George has lived to tell and to laugh about it. As the child of a Dartmouth-educated bandleader father and a glamorous Southern debutante mother whose marriage crumbled early on, George had a childhood filled with misadventures and challenges that his mother always seemed able to turn from tragedy to comedy. Her idea of changing the family's fortunes involved a trip cross-country with three sons and a poodle in a Lincoln Continental, making stops along the way to search for husband/father number three. And she was quick to recognize that George's potential success lay in Hollywood. George starved nobly for his art in the late 1950s, but was soon starring in major motion pictures directed by the likes of Vincente Minnelli and Louis Malle. He has forgotten more about Hollywood than most movie experts will ever know and shares intimate and hugely entertaining stories of his friendships with Cary Grant; Brigitte Bardot; Robert Mitchum; Merle Oberon; Mae West; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Judy Garland—not to mention Lyndon B. Johnson and Elvis's Colonel Tom Parker as well as the King himself—among others. The world is Hamilton's oyster, and this ultimate insider is ready to share it with us. So fasten your seat belt. We'll tell you when it's safe to move about the cabin again.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416594507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The witty and entertaining New York Times bestselling memoir from the urbane and ultra-tanned icon himself—George Hamilton. Don't let that tanned, handsome, charming surface fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton doesn't miss a thing. With a front row seat for classic Hollywood's biggest secrets and scandals, George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown's heyday, with great good humor and delicious candor—as only he can. From Where the Boys Are to Dancing with the Stars; from Mary Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor; from smalltown Arkansas to the capitals of Europe—it's all here, and George has lived to tell and to laugh about it. As the child of a Dartmouth-educated bandleader father and a glamorous Southern debutante mother whose marriage crumbled early on, George had a childhood filled with misadventures and challenges that his mother always seemed able to turn from tragedy to comedy. Her idea of changing the family's fortunes involved a trip cross-country with three sons and a poodle in a Lincoln Continental, making stops along the way to search for husband/father number three. And she was quick to recognize that George's potential success lay in Hollywood. George starved nobly for his art in the late 1950s, but was soon starring in major motion pictures directed by the likes of Vincente Minnelli and Louis Malle. He has forgotten more about Hollywood than most movie experts will ever know and shares intimate and hugely entertaining stories of his friendships with Cary Grant; Brigitte Bardot; Robert Mitchum; Merle Oberon; Mae West; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Judy Garland—not to mention Lyndon B. Johnson and Elvis's Colonel Tom Parker as well as the King himself—among others. The world is Hamilton's oyster, and this ultimate insider is ready to share it with us. So fasten your seat belt. We'll tell you when it's safe to move about the cabin again.
Shaking Hands With Death
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473540461
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for ‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’ When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it. In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimblebly Lecture 2010 and previously only available as part of A Slip of the Keyboard, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473540461
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for ‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’ When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it. In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimblebly Lecture 2010 and previously only available as part of A Slip of the Keyboard, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too.
Visions of the Past
Author: Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674940987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674940987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.
Fire & Blood
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 1524796301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon “The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin’s fantasy work: familiar myths debunked, the whole trope table flipped.”—Entertainment Weekly Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart. What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty-five black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley—including five illustrations exclusive to the trade paperback edition. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed. With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros. Praise for Fire & Blood “A masterpiece of popular historical fiction.”—The Sunday Times “The saga is a rich and dark one, full of both the title’s promised elements. . . . It’s hard not to thrill to the descriptions of dragons engaging in airborne combat, or the dilemma of whether defeated rulers should ‘bend the knee,’ ‘take the black’ and join the Night’s Watch, or simply meet an inventive and horrible end.”—The Guardian
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 1524796301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon “The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin’s fantasy work: familiar myths debunked, the whole trope table flipped.”—Entertainment Weekly Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart. What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty-five black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley—including five illustrations exclusive to the trade paperback edition. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed. With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros. Praise for Fire & Blood “A masterpiece of popular historical fiction.”—The Sunday Times “The saga is a rich and dark one, full of both the title’s promised elements. . . . It’s hard not to thrill to the descriptions of dragons engaging in airborne combat, or the dilemma of whether defeated rulers should ‘bend the knee,’ ‘take the black’ and join the Night’s Watch, or simply meet an inventive and horrible end.”—The Guardian