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| Author | : Terry Brooks |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2006 |
| ISBN | : 9780739475478 |
| Pages | : 711 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (754 download) |
Download or read book The Word & the Void written by Terry Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Terry Brooks |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Release Date | : 2012-02-23 |
| ISBN | : 1405515732 |
| Pages | : 512 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (55 download) |
Download or read book Running With The Demon written by Terry Brooks and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***50 MILLION TERRY BROOKS COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD*** THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES IS NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'Terry's place is at the head of the fantasy world' Philip Pullman It is the beginning of the hottest July in decades, and two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois. One is not human, a dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to achieve a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word. While he sleeps, he lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. John Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it? At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl and the lives of the people of Hopewell. And that's just the beginning. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity itself will be decided . . . Praise for Terry Brooks: 'A master of the craft . . . required reading' Brent Weeks 'I can't even begin to count how many of Terry Brooks's books I've read (and re-read) over the years' Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind 'I would not be writing epic fantasy today if not for Shannara' Peter V. Brett, author of The Painted Man 'If you haven't read Terry Brooks, you haven't read fantasy' Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon The Word and the Void: RUNNING WITH THE DEMON A KNIGHT OF THE WORD ANGEL FIRE EAST
| Author | : Terry Brooks |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Release Date | : 1999-06-28 |
| ISBN | : 0345424646 |
| Pages | : 0 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (454 download) |
Download or read book A Knight of the Word written by Terry Brooks and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superior to anything being written in the genre . . . Terry Brooks is one of a handful of fantasy writers whose work consistently meets the highest literary standards.”—Rocky Mountain News Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross—along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity's future. Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross's weary faith. Haunted by guilt, he turns his back on his dread gift, settling down to build a normal life, untroubled by demons and nightmares. But a fallen Knight makes a tempting prize for the Void, which could bend the Knight's magic to its own evil ends. And once the demons on Ross's trail track him to Seattle, neither he nor anyone close to him will be safe. His only hope is Nest Freemark, a college student who wields an extraordinary magic all her own. Five years earlier, Ross had aided Nest when the future of humanity rested upon her choice between Word and Void. Now Nest must return the favor. She must restore Ross's faith, or his life—and hers—will be forfeit . . . “[An] urban dark fantasy . . . Sharp and satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
| Author | : Holly Blackstone |
| Publisher | : Lulu Press, Inc |
| Release Date | : 2020-09-24 |
| ISBN | : 1945666102 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (456 download) |
Download or read book The Void Wept written by Holly Blackstone and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world teeters on the edge of darkness, and only the Templars stand in the way of the Void. Will they be enough? Will the magic growing inside of Julianna coupled with VoidCleaver and her Brothers be sufficient to stop Dryx once and for all? Or will the world fall, ushering in the time of Unending Darkness? Every day her power increases but time is short and the shadows grow long, reaching their corrupt fingers into every crevice, every crack they can find. And yet, there are glimmers of hope - allies found in unlikely places, slivers of information, tools and artefacts that could damage Dryx or diminish his power. Even as things begin to look brighter for the Templars, there are setbacks. As Julianna learns more about this world and her destiny in it, she has to confront her lineage and how she came to be in Galea, and the implications send shock waves through the Templars. Can they still trust her, or is the tool of their salvation also a victim of dark corruption?
| Author | : David Biale |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Release Date | : 2015-10-27 |
| ISBN | : 0691168040 |
| Pages | : 246 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (911 download) |
Download or read book Not in the Heavens written by David Biale and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity but arose from forces long at play within Judaism itself. Biale explores how ancient Hebrew books like Job, Song of Songs, and Esther downplay or even exclude God altogether, and how Spinoza, inspired by medieval Jewish philosophy, recast the biblical God in the role of nature and stripped the Torah of its revelatory status to instead read scripture as a historical and cultural text. Biale examines the influential Jewish thinkers who followed in Spinoza's secularizing footsteps, such as Salomon Maimon, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. He tells the stories of those who also took their cues from medieval Jewish mysticism in their revolts against tradition, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Gershom Scholem, and Franz Kafka. And he looks at Zionists like David Ben-Gurion and other secular political thinkers who recast Israel and the Bible in modern terms of race, nationalism, and the state. Not in the Heavens demonstrates how these many Jewish paths to secularism were dependent, in complex and paradoxical ways, on the very religious traditions they were rejecting, and examines the legacy and meaning of Jewish secularism today.
| Author | : Arthur Broomfield |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2014-06-26 |
| ISBN | : 1443863009 |
| Pages | : 108 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (438 download) |
Download or read book The Empty Too written by Arthur Broomfield and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and often controversial study of Beckett’s works argues that, for Beckett, pure language is reality. Taking its title from a sentence in Worstward Ho, this rigorous reading of Beckett’s key texts claims that what we perceive in the existential world can never be proved to exist, while language survives scrutiny, and will ‘go on’ to become the real, once it has been divested of its connection to the corporeal. This book draws on the major philosophers to support this thesis, but in so doing argues that Beckett’s thinking surpasses all of theirs, because Beckett’s art is his philosophy and his philosophy is his art. For Beckett, pure language is beyond the text, it is the unpresentable presence, Hamm’s ‘life to come’.
| Author | : Terry Brooks |
| Publisher | : Orbit Books |
| Release Date | : 1997 |
| ISBN | : 9781841495446 |
| Pages | : 503 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (954 download) |
Download or read book Running with the Demon written by Terry Brooks and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the beginning of the hottest July in decades, and two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois. One is not human, a dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to achieve a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word. While he sleeps, he lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. John Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it? At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl and the lives of the people of Hopewell. And that's just the beginning. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity itself will be decided . . .
| Author | : Ken Helsley |
| Publisher | : Booktango |
| Release Date | : 2013-04-24 |
| ISBN | : 1468928538 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (689 download) |
Download or read book The Witness Chronicles written by Ken Helsley and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, Ken Helsley, has been called, “A Master Storyteller.” In this epic series, Ken takes known history, accepted Biblical traditions, and ancient mythology and futuristic end times scenarios to weave together the Alpha and Omega of human history. The series opens in the late 21st century with the remarkable discovery of a trove of written tablets and artifacts inscribed with the oldest writing ever discovered. As the archeologists and researchers come together to reveal to the world what they have found and reveal the story of the first few hundred tablets to be translated to the world, the discoverers of this unbelievable find are met with heavy resistance from the traditional scientific community regarding the authenticity of the find. But just as the debate regarding the find reaches a fever pitch, the audience is suddenly stunned by an event that will shake the world to its core.
| Author | : Sylvain Auroux |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Release Date | : 2000-01-01 |
| ISBN | : 3110194007 |
| Pages | : 1154 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (11 download) |
Download or read book History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 1. Teilband written by Sylvain Auroux and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in English, German, or French, more than 300 authors provide a historical description of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages within the relevant historical context. The gradually emerging institutions concerned with the study, organisation, documentation, and distribution are considered as well as those dealing with the utilisation of language related knowledge. Special emphasis has been placed on related disciplines, such as rhetoric, the philosophy of language, cognitive psychology, logic and neurological science.
| Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Release Date | : 1987-02-12 |
| ISBN | : 9780887061752 |
| Pages | : 244 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (617 download) |
Download or read book Islamic Art and Spirituality written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-02-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
| Author | : Terry Brooks |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Release Date | : 2001-01-18 |
| ISBN | : 0345444590 |
| Pages | : 416 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (454 download) |
Download or read book A Knight of the Word written by Terry Brooks and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2001-01-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superior to anything being written in the genre . . . Terry Brooks is one of a handful of fantasy writers whose work consistently meets the highest literary standards.”—Rocky Mountain News Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross—along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity's future. Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross's weary faith. Haunted by guilt, he turns his back on his dread gift, settling down to build a normal life, untroubled by demons and nightmares. But a fallen Knight makes a tempting prize for the Void, which could bend the Knight's magic to its own evil ends. And once the demons on Ross's trail track him to Seattle, neither he nor anyone close to him will be safe. His only hope is Nest Freemark, a college student who wields an extraordinary magic all her own. Five years earlier, Ross had aided Nest when the future of humanity rested upon her choice between Word and Void. Now Nest must return the favor. She must restore Ross's faith, or his life—and hers—will be forfeit . . . “[An] urban dark fantasy . . . Sharp and satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
| Author | : Matthew M. Gorey |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Release Date | : 2021 |
| ISBN | : 0197518745 |
| Pages | : 191 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (975 download) |
Download or read book Atomism in the Aeneid written by Matthew M. Gorey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the role of philosophical metaphor and allegory in the Aeneid, focusing on tendentious allusions to Lucretian atomism. It argues that Virgil, drawing upon a popular strain of anti-atomist and anti-Epicurean arguments in Greek philosophy, deploys atomic imagery as a symbol of cosmic and political disorder. The first chapter of this study investigates the development of metaphors and analogies in philosophical texts ranging from Aristotle to Cicero that equate atomism with cosmological caprice and instability. The following three chapters track how Virgil applies this interpretation of Epicurean physics to the Aeneid, in which chaotic atomic imagery is associated with various challenges to the poem's dominant narrative of divine order and Roman power. For Aeneas, the specter of atomic disorder arises at moments of distress and hesitation, while the association of various non-Trojan characters with atomism characterizes them as agents of violent disorder needing to be contained or vanquished. The final chapter summarizes findings, showing how Virgilian allusion to Lucretian physics often conflates poetic, political, and cosmological narratives, blurring the boundaries between their respective modes of discourse and revealing a general preference for hierarchical, teleological models of order"--
| Author | : David Patterson |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Release Date | : 2014-10-17 |
| ISBN | : 0813158931 |
| Pages | : 224 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (131 download) |
Download or read book Exile written by David Patterson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated? David Patterson responds to these and related questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought over the last century and a half. By "exile" he means not only a form of punishment but an existential condition. Drawing on texts by such familiar figures as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky, as well as less thoroughly examined figures, including Florensky, Shestov, Tertz, and Gendelev, Patterson moves beyond the political and geographical fact of exile to explore its spiritual, metaphysical, and linguistic aspects. Thus he pursues the connections between exile and identity, identity and meaning, meaning and language. Patterson shows that the problem of meaning in human life is a problem of homelessness, that the effort to return from exile is an effort to return meaning to the word, and that the exile of the word is an exile of the human being. By making heard voices from the Russian wilderness, Patterson makes visible the wilderness of the world.
| Author | : Theophilus Parsons |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1860 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (511 download) |
Download or read book The Law of Contracts written by Theophilus Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Thomas R. Gaulke |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Release Date | : 2021-09-21 |
| ISBN | : 1725296934 |
| Pages | : 192 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (252 download) |
Download or read book An Unpromising Hope written by Thomas R. Gaulke and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a theopoetic key, this book challenges Christian reliance on the motif of promise, especially where promise is regarded as a prerequisite for the experience of hope. It pursues instead an unpromising hope available to the agnostic or belief-fluid members and leaders of faith communities. The book rejects any theological judgement about doubt and hopelessness being sinful. It also rejects any hope which is grounded in a sense of Christian supremacy. Chapter 1 focuses on Ernst Bloch’s antifascist concept of utopian surplus, putting Bloch in conversation with queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz and womanist theologian M. Shawn Copeland. Chapter 2 explores the saudadic and theopoetic hope of Rubem Alves. Chapter 3 turns to the womanist theologies of Delores Williams, Emilie Townes, and A. Elaine Brown Crawford. Finally, chapter 4 engages the post-colonial eschatology of Vítor Westhelle, framing hope as nearby in space, rather than nearby in time. Each chapter offers an unpromising hope that may be tapped into by those who wish to affirm belief-fluidity in their own communities, and by those who wish to speak of hope honestly, whether or not, at any given moment, they believe in God or in the promises of a god.
| Author | : David Kleinberg-Levin |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2015-07-30 |
| ISBN | : 1474216889 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (742 download) |
Download or read book Beckett's Words written by David Kleinberg-Levin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At stake in this book is a struggle with language in a time when our old faith in the redeeming of the word-and the word's power to redeem-has almost been destroyed. Drawing on Benjamin's political theology, his interpretation of the German Baroque mourning play, and Adorno's critical aesthetic theory, but also on the thought of poets and many other philosophers, especially Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, Nietzsche's analysis of nihilism, and Derrida's writings on language, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, because of its communicative and revelatory powers, language bears the utopian "promise of happiness," the idea of a secular redemption of humanity, at the very heart of which must be the achievement of universal justice. In an original reading of Beckett's plays, novels and short stories, Kleinberg-Levin shows how, despite inheriting a language damaged, corrupted and commodified, Beckett redeems dead or dying words and wrests from this language new possibilities for the expression of meaning. Without denying Beckett's nihilism, his picture of a radically disenchanted world, Kleinberg-Levin calls attention to moments when his words suddenly ignite and break free of their despair and pain, taking shape in the beauty of an austere yet joyous lyricism, suggesting that, after all, meaning is still possible.
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| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1889 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (243 download) |
Download or read book The Weekly Law Bulletin and Ohio Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
