Author: Felice Arena
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741695502
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
More hilarious tales from the Stick Dudes! Fresh from their encore appearance in the second Farticus Maximus book-Stink-Off Battle of the Century, the Stick Dudes are back out on their own in a series focusing on their humorous antics during the average day in the life of an under-10 year old boy. In The Secret Four-ce, Ben and his friends uncover a thief in their very own school-but who could it be? There is only one thing the Stick Dudes can do-form the ace spy team 'The Secret Four-ce' and attempt to uncover the culprit!
The Secret Four-Ce
Author: Felice Arena
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741695502
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
More hilarious tales from the Stick Dudes! Fresh from their encore appearance in the second Farticus Maximus book-Stink-Off Battle of the Century, the Stick Dudes are back out on their own in a series focusing on their humorous antics during the average day in the life of an under-10 year old boy. In The Secret Four-ce, Ben and his friends uncover a thief in their very own school-but who could it be? There is only one thing the Stick Dudes can do-form the ace spy team 'The Secret Four-ce' and attempt to uncover the culprit!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741695502
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
More hilarious tales from the Stick Dudes! Fresh from their encore appearance in the second Farticus Maximus book-Stink-Off Battle of the Century, the Stick Dudes are back out on their own in a series focusing on their humorous antics during the average day in the life of an under-10 year old boy. In The Secret Four-ce, Ben and his friends uncover a thief in their very own school-but who could it be? There is only one thing the Stick Dudes can do-form the ace spy team 'The Secret Four-ce' and attempt to uncover the culprit!
The Secret Teachings of Jesus
Author:
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church. In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756645
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings of a mystical religious movement we call Gnosticism (from the Greek word gnosis, "knowledge"). The texts are also, with few exceptions, Christian documents, and thus they provide us with valuable new information about the character of the early church, and about the Gnostic Christians within the church. In this volume, Marvin W. Meyer has produced a new English translation for general readers of four of the most important and revealing of these early Christian texts -- the Secret Book of James, the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas, and the Secret Book of John.
A Fourth-Century Daoist Family
Author: Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520356268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This volume is the first in a series of full-length English translations from one of the foremost classics in Daoist religious literature, the Zhen gao or Declarations of the Perfected. The Declarations is a collection of poems, accounts of the dead, instructions, and meditation methods received by the Daoist Yang Xi (330–ca. 386 BCE) from celestial beings and shared by him with his patrons and students. These fragments of revealed material were collected and annotated by the eminent scholar and Daoist Tao Hongjing (456–536), allowing us access to these distant worlds and unfamiliar strategies of self-perfection. Bokenkamp's full translation highlights the literary nature of Daoist revelation and the place of the Declarations in the development of Chinese letters. It further details interactions with the Chinese throne and the aristocracy and demonstrates ways that Buddhist borrowings helped shape Daoism much earlier than has been assumed. This first volume also contains heretofore unrecognized reconfigurations of Buddhist myth and practice that Yang Xi introduced to his Daoist audience.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520356268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This volume is the first in a series of full-length English translations from one of the foremost classics in Daoist religious literature, the Zhen gao or Declarations of the Perfected. The Declarations is a collection of poems, accounts of the dead, instructions, and meditation methods received by the Daoist Yang Xi (330–ca. 386 BCE) from celestial beings and shared by him with his patrons and students. These fragments of revealed material were collected and annotated by the eminent scholar and Daoist Tao Hongjing (456–536), allowing us access to these distant worlds and unfamiliar strategies of self-perfection. Bokenkamp's full translation highlights the literary nature of Daoist revelation and the place of the Declarations in the development of Chinese letters. It further details interactions with the Chinese throne and the aristocracy and demonstrates ways that Buddhist borrowings helped shape Daoism much earlier than has been assumed. This first volume also contains heretofore unrecognized reconfigurations of Buddhist myth and practice that Yang Xi introduced to his Daoist audience.
Popular Government : Four Essays
Author: Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Author: Annalee Newitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039365267X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039365267X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
A Review of Ecclesiastical History, So Far as it Concerns the Progress, Declensions and Revivals of Evangelical Doctrine and Practice
Author: John Newton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Poems, Viz
Author: John Dyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Secret Poisoner
Author: Linda Stratmann
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300219547
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
“This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK). Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with scientific and legal authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. Separating fact from Hollywood fiction, Stratmann corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons and their deadly effects. She also documents how the motives for poisoning—which often involved domestic unhappiness—evolved as marriage and child protection laws began to change. Combining archival research with vivid storytelling, Stratmann charts the era’s inexorable rise of poison cases.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300219547
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
“This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK). Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with scientific and legal authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. Separating fact from Hollywood fiction, Stratmann corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons and their deadly effects. She also documents how the motives for poisoning—which often involved domestic unhappiness—evolved as marriage and child protection laws began to change. Combining archival research with vivid storytelling, Stratmann charts the era’s inexorable rise of poison cases.
Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. Volume the First [-the Second!. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Kabbalah's Secret Circles
Author: Robert E. Zucker
Publisher: BZB Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1939050146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Discover the many lost and forgotten secrets of the Kabbalah through the words of famous rabbis and authors throughout history. Follow a historical time line of Judaic mysticism and learn the basic principles of the Kabbalah. Devise your own Kabbalah Wheel to spin the legendary 231 Holy Gates of combinations and permutations, as described in the ancient book on Jewish mysticism– the Sepher Yetzirah (also known as The Book of Formation or Book of Creation).
Publisher: BZB Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1939050146
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Discover the many lost and forgotten secrets of the Kabbalah through the words of famous rabbis and authors throughout history. Follow a historical time line of Judaic mysticism and learn the basic principles of the Kabbalah. Devise your own Kabbalah Wheel to spin the legendary 231 Holy Gates of combinations and permutations, as described in the ancient book on Jewish mysticism– the Sepher Yetzirah (also known as The Book of Formation or Book of Creation).