Author: Steven Barnes
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed by those who created him, he survived a living hell to become a new kind of hero: strong enough to confront evil, yet caring enough to save a world. But now a fanatical religious leader plots to enslave the nation and tampers with the sanctity of life itself. To save America from tyranny, Aubry Knight must battle an inhuman army of super soldiers—and confront the terrors of his own past.
Gorgon Child
Author: Steven Barnes
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed by those who created him, he survived a living hell to become a new kind of hero: strong enough to confront evil, yet caring enough to save a world. But now a fanatical religious leader plots to enslave the nation and tampers with the sanctity of life itself. To save America from tyranny, Aubry Knight must battle an inhuman army of super soldiers—and confront the terrors of his own past.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed by those who created him, he survived a living hell to become a new kind of hero: strong enough to confront evil, yet caring enough to save a world. But now a fanatical religious leader plots to enslave the nation and tampers with the sanctity of life itself. To save America from tyranny, Aubry Knight must battle an inhuman army of super soldiers—and confront the terrors of his own past.
Perseus and the Gorgon Medusa
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781860395314
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A retelling of the Greek tale of how Perseus, a good and brave young man, is helped by the gods to cut off the head of the monster Gorgon Medusa. Suggested level: primary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781860395314
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A retelling of the Greek tale of how Perseus, a good and brave young man, is helped by the gods to cut off the head of the monster Gorgon Medusa. Suggested level: primary.
The Gorgon's Gaze
Author: Paul Coates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521384095
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521384095
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
The Gorgon's Gaze
Author: Julia Golding
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761453772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761453772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
The Children of Athena
Author: Nicole Loraux
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691236836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691236836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.
Daughter of Souls & Silence
Author: Annie Anderson
Publisher: Annie Anderson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A Council full of Ethereal Elders wants me dead. Yep, it's a regular Tuesday. When you kill a demon there are consequences. Centuries-old witch, tattoo artist, half-demon... none of those titles are going to save me this time. The only way I'm going to get out of my death sentence is to take down the biggest, baddest demon there is... My father. And I thought being burned at the stake was bad...
Publisher: Annie Anderson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A Council full of Ethereal Elders wants me dead. Yep, it's a regular Tuesday. When you kill a demon there are consequences. Centuries-old witch, tattoo artist, half-demon... none of those titles are going to save me this time. The only way I'm going to get out of my death sentence is to take down the biggest, baddest demon there is... My father. And I thought being burned at the stake was bad...
Death Stalks the Fire Child
Author: John D. Hartman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477275054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Death Stalks the Fire Child is the fourth and final book of the Fire Child series. In Return of the Fire Child, T.J. grudgingly accepts his destiny as the Fire Child, protector of the Inner World, a civilization located within the core of the Earth. Along with his three teen friends, Scott, Chad and Crash, he returns to the land of his birth to battle the evil that threatens not only his world, but also the surface world where he had been raised. Pursued by a Gorgon and her legion of cats, his friends soon learn that the Inner World is a land filled with strange creatures and dangerous beasts such as the boys had never imagined. In Quest of the Fire Child, T.J. seeks to establish himself as the protector of his world and faces new dangers from ruthless men and creatures that wish to destroy him. Once again he calls upon his three friends who, along with the wolf boy, Criton, risk their lives attempting to bring peace to a world in turmoil. It is during this time that T.J. learns that Scott is his half-brother and the bond between the two boys becomes stronger than ever as they see how their fates are intertwined. Fortress of the Fire Child finds T.J. and his friends facing further dangers in the form of Aquatis, a ruthless shape shifter who once battled the Fire Childs father and who seeks revenge against the son. Intrigue also continues as Mathias, T.J.s arch enemy, reappears and attempts to regain the throne of Stonemass, the chief city of the Inner World. Additional danger ensues as an army of mercenaries attempts to attack the Fortress, the home of the Fire Child. Now in Death Stalks the Fire Child, T.J. finds himself battling enemies on two separate fronts and he must rely upon the strength of his friends and their newly acquired powers to face one enemy while he faces the other. While Scott and the others hurry to protect Stonemass from a horde of mutant lizards, T.J. travels to the swampland to face the evil Slurpus who controls Liviatin, the most powerful creature the Fire Child has ever had to face.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781477275054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Death Stalks the Fire Child is the fourth and final book of the Fire Child series. In Return of the Fire Child, T.J. grudgingly accepts his destiny as the Fire Child, protector of the Inner World, a civilization located within the core of the Earth. Along with his three teen friends, Scott, Chad and Crash, he returns to the land of his birth to battle the evil that threatens not only his world, but also the surface world where he had been raised. Pursued by a Gorgon and her legion of cats, his friends soon learn that the Inner World is a land filled with strange creatures and dangerous beasts such as the boys had never imagined. In Quest of the Fire Child, T.J. seeks to establish himself as the protector of his world and faces new dangers from ruthless men and creatures that wish to destroy him. Once again he calls upon his three friends who, along with the wolf boy, Criton, risk their lives attempting to bring peace to a world in turmoil. It is during this time that T.J. learns that Scott is his half-brother and the bond between the two boys becomes stronger than ever as they see how their fates are intertwined. Fortress of the Fire Child finds T.J. and his friends facing further dangers in the form of Aquatis, a ruthless shape shifter who once battled the Fire Childs father and who seeks revenge against the son. Intrigue also continues as Mathias, T.J.s arch enemy, reappears and attempts to regain the throne of Stonemass, the chief city of the Inner World. Additional danger ensues as an army of mercenaries attempts to attack the Fortress, the home of the Fire Child. Now in Death Stalks the Fire Child, T.J. finds himself battling enemies on two separate fronts and he must rely upon the strength of his friends and their newly acquired powers to face one enemy while he faces the other. While Scott and the others hurry to protect Stonemass from a horde of mutant lizards, T.J. travels to the swampland to face the evil Slurpus who controls Liviatin, the most powerful creature the Fire Child has ever had to face.
A Child's History of Greece
Author: John Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Myths Every Child Should Know
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.
The Gorgon's Severed Head
Author: Cecelia Eaton Luschnig
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900432979X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900432979X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.