Author: Elliott O'Donnell
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446358526
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A classic collection filled with tales of the paranormal past—illustrations included. Travel back into supernatural history with the early twentieth-century ghost hunter and author Elliott O’Donnell as he recounts the frightening stories of: · The Erskines of Mar · The Lambton Worm · The Peasant Boy’s Curse · The Screaming Skulls of Calgarth · Corfe Castle and the Curse of St. Dunstan · Dread Coruisk · The Curse of Rudesheim and more Famous Curses is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.
Famous Curses
Author: Elliott O'Donnell
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446358526
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A classic collection filled with tales of the paranormal past—illustrations included. Travel back into supernatural history with the early twentieth-century ghost hunter and author Elliott O’Donnell as he recounts the frightening stories of: · The Erskines of Mar · The Lambton Worm · The Peasant Boy’s Curse · The Screaming Skulls of Calgarth · Corfe Castle and the Curse of St. Dunstan · Dread Coruisk · The Curse of Rudesheim and more Famous Curses is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 1446358526
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A classic collection filled with tales of the paranormal past—illustrations included. Travel back into supernatural history with the early twentieth-century ghost hunter and author Elliott O’Donnell as he recounts the frightening stories of: · The Erskines of Mar · The Lambton Worm · The Peasant Boy’s Curse · The Screaming Skulls of Calgarth · Corfe Castle and the Curse of St. Dunstan · Dread Coruisk · The Curse of Rudesheim and more Famous Curses is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.
Famous Curses
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN: 9780396077121
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Presents the stories behind and discusses the validity of such famous curses as those associated with King Tut's tomb and the Hope diamond.
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN: 9780396077121
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Presents the stories behind and discusses the validity of such famous curses as those associated with King Tut's tomb and the Hope diamond.
Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545509947
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto? TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545509947
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto? TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?
Anathema!
Author: Marc Drogin
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Allanheld, Osmun ; Montclair, N.J. : A. Schram
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Allanheld, Osmun ; Montclair, N.J. : A. Schram
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes
Author: Leonard R. N. Ashley
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616080981
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Everything you need to know about casting spells, mixing up elixirs, andmaking...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616080981
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Everything you need to know about casting spells, mixing up elixirs, andmaking...
Curses
Author: Rachel Lynette
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0737759178
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Readers will learn the history of curses and their power. Author Rachel Lynette describes well-known curses, and examines cursed places and objects.
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0737759178
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Readers will learn the history of curses and their power. Author Rachel Lynette describes well-known curses, and examines cursed places and objects.
Byron
Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444799878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444799878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
She's Got Game
Author: Melissa Malamut
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312598963
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
The ultimate guide to enjoying yourself (and looking smart) at any sporting event, this book is packed with all the rules and history of the games, personal anecdotes, and do's and don'ts. You'll find everything you need to feel at ease and fall in love with sports.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312598963
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
The ultimate guide to enjoying yourself (and looking smart) at any sporting event, this book is packed with all the rules and history of the games, personal anecdotes, and do's and don'ts. You'll find everything you need to feel at ease and fall in love with sports.
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922081
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century, the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the call for justice; there remained the question of who the “criminal” was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and modern criminal justice. Published here for the first time, the 1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922081
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century, the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the call for justice; there remained the question of who the “criminal” was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and modern criminal justice. Published here for the first time, the 1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.
The Hero and the City
Author: Joseph P. Wilson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472086887
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Without resorting to the jargon often employed by contemporary critics, this book covers all major aspects and questions raised by the play. The text contains a thorough examination of the contrast between Athens and its dramatic opposite, Thebes, a contrast best represented by the comparison between each city's primary representative, Theseus or Creon. Wilson offers a radical rereading of the Oedipus riddle and concludes with a substantial discussion of the play's (and playwright's) role in providing a political and moral education for the troubled Athenian polis in the last decade of the tumultuous fifth century. Joseph P. Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Scranton.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472086887
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Without resorting to the jargon often employed by contemporary critics, this book covers all major aspects and questions raised by the play. The text contains a thorough examination of the contrast between Athens and its dramatic opposite, Thebes, a contrast best represented by the comparison between each city's primary representative, Theseus or Creon. Wilson offers a radical rereading of the Oedipus riddle and concludes with a substantial discussion of the play's (and playwright's) role in providing a political and moral education for the troubled Athenian polis in the last decade of the tumultuous fifth century. Joseph P. Wilson is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Scranton.