Author: Jim Henry
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304552810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 591
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Antiquity Calais is the Creator's Liberator, sworn to search out, battle and vanquish Satan's most prolific Destroyer, Leviathan Avalon. Join Antiquity and his friends Gillian, Sherman and the Mighty Mundoo as they battle Avalon and the Prince of Darkness himself in this three-volume set.
Author: Jim Henry
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ISBN: 9781493536917
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Antiquity Calais is the Creator's Liberator, sworn to search out, battle and vanquish Satan's most prolific Destroyer, Leviathan Avalon. Join Antiquity and his friends as they traverse multiple universes, explore the 11 known dimensions, and descend to the lowest depths of Hell, until they are all Standing at Armageddon! Antiquity Calais, Gillian Usha, Sherman Yazu and the Mighty Mundoo Asquith have battled Leviathan Avalon, Satan's Destroyer, in the climactic scene in the first book in this series, Antiquity Calais: Standing at Armageddon. Satan does not take losing well, and the prince of darkness has special plans for his destroyer. The result creates a rift that will make matters rather complicated, as Antiquity must decide who the main target should be. Meanwhile, Antiquity is introduced to the Council of the gods and learns there are some powerful allies who would like to join his cause. But are their motivations pure? Find out in the second book of the Universal Life Force Series, as Antiquity and his friends are Ascending Olympus! Antiquity & Gillian Calais were in love, but because they had already died, both thought the opportunity to become parents had passed them by. At the end of the second book in the Universal Life Force Series, Antiquity Calais Ascending Olympus, Antiquity & Gillian discovered there are perks working for the Creator. In Antiquity Calais & the Children of Light, Antiquity & Gillian discover that parenthood is not everything they expected, especially with Satan and Leviathan Avalon both trying to capture The Children of Light!
Author: Gareth Dale
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745640710
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century ‘market fundamentalism’ it reads as a warning to our own neoliberal age, and is widely touted as a prophetic guidebook for those who aspire to understand the causes and dynamics of global economic turbulence at the end of the 2000s. Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market is the first comprehensive introduction to Polanyi’s ideas and legacy. It assesses not only the texts for which he is famous – prepared during his spells in American academia – but also his journalistic articles written in his first exile in Vienna, and lectures and pamphlets from his second exile, in Britain. It provides a detailed critical analysis of The Great Transformation, but also surveys Polanyi’s seminal writings in economic anthropology, the economic history of ancient and archaic societies, and political and economic theory. Its primary source base includes interviews with Polanyi’s daughter, Kari Polanyi-Levitt, as well as the entire compass of his own published and unpublished writings in English and German. This engaging and accessible introduction to Polanyi’s thinking will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences, providing a refreshing perspective on the roots of our current economic crisis.
Author: Conor Gearty
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745669980
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls our 'neo-democratic' world, the proclamation of universal liberty and security is mocked by facts on the ground: the vast inequalities in supposedly free societies, the authoritarian regimes with regular elections, and the terrible socio-economic deprivation camouflaged by cynically proclaimed commitments to human rights. Gearty's book offers an explanation of how this has come about, providing also a criticism of the present age which tolerates it. He then goes on to set out a manifesto for a better future, a place where liberty and security can be rich platforms for everyone's life. The book identifies neo-democracies as those places which play at democracy so as to disguise the injustice at their core. But it is not just the new 'democracies' that have turned 'neo', the so-called established democracies are also hurtling in the same direction, as is the United Nations. A new vision of universal freedom is urgently required. Drawing on scholarship in law, human rights and political science this book argues for just such a vision, one in which the great achievements of our democratic past are not jettisoned as easily as were the socialist ideals of the original democracy-makers.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Author: Encyclopaedia Perthensis
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Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Author: Joseph Haydn
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Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Author: Jan Bremmer
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745618807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past. This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages - from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early modern Europe, from practical jokes in Renaissance Italy to comic painting during the Dutch Golden Age, from Bakhtin's conception of laughter to the joking relationships of anthropologists. These innovative accounts move humour into the centre of social and cultural history and throw an unexpected light on life and manners through the ages.
