Author: Anna McCluskey
Publisher: Anna McCluskey
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Enjoy this fast-paced, action-packed urban fantasy thriller with a strong female lead and a good dose of humor by fantasy author Anna McCluskey… Everyone thinks she's dead. So why are they still coming after her? Tillie's world was shattered when a dangerous secret society of mages targeted her last month. She thought she'd tricked them into believing they'd succeeded, but when one of their agents starts stalking her, she and her twin sister, Mattie are shocked and terrified -- again. It looks like taking herself out of the picture won't work. They're going to have to take down the entire organization. But how can a handful of novice mages destroy an international cabal of cunning magic-users that's been around for centuries? The Viper's Head is the second book in the fast-paced Mathilda Holiday series. Great for readers who love books with diverse casts – including lgbt+, disabled, neurodivergent, and older characters – plus plenty of intrigue and humor. If you enjoy books by Nicholas Woode-Smith, Emma Shelford, Kim Richardson, and Lisa Edmonds, you’ll love this suspenseful, supernatural series.

Author: Redi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004630368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Mariaelisa Dimino
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8869771873
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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The human-animal relationship has always been characterized by a wide net of interactions and exchanges. By providing an overview of the concept of animality – and of the several meanings attached to it – this book aims at rethinking the real nature of this notion, towards a new definition of both the human and the animal. The authors highlight the need to overcome the traditional tendency to read the animal merely as a symbol, a metaphor or an allegory, whose only purpose is that of representing and negotiating human power relations of race, class, and gender. Within this context, the edited collection Bestiarium intends to contribute to the present debate on Animal Studies, by focusing on literary texts and discursive practices, which reveal the epistemological and cultural dynamics that structure the very representation of the animal.

Author: Victoria Clark
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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"Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another -- links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth -- then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader"--Publisher description.

Author: William S. Furneaux
Publisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Author: John George Wood
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Richard Lydekker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Author: Robert Leigh
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004306900
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Robert Leigh offers a critical edition with translation into English, commentary and introduction of the pharmacological treatise On Theriac to Piso traditionally attributed to Galen. The focus of the work is on the question of authorship and Leigh seeks to show on textual, pharmacological, doctrinal and historical grounds that the attribution to Galen is at least highly problematic and probably mistaken. As well as marshalling the arguments in the introduction, Leigh seeks in the commentary not only to give a general exegesis of the text but also to identify points of agreement and points of difference between the treatise and other works which are undisputedly in the genuine Galenic corpus.

Author: Royal society of London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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