Children of Daedala

Children of Daedala
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781630790868
ISBN-13 : 1630790869
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Children of Daedala by : Caighlan Smith

Six months alone in the labyrinth has made her strong. But the search for the exit means gambling on an old 'friend' and going against everything she's been taught to survive. You know the labyrinth will have yet more horrors lurking in its depths. You've learned few people can be trusted. But freedom is tantalizingly close. Are you ready to take the risk?

Children of Icarus

Children of Icarus
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781630790585
ISBN-13 : 1630790583
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Children of Icarus by : Caighlan Smith

It�s Clara who�s desperate to enter the labyrinth and it�s Clara who�s bright, strong, and fearless enough to take on any challenge. It�s no surprise when she�s chosen. But so is the girl who has always lived in her shadow. Together they enter. Within minutes, they are torn apart forever. Now the girl who has never left the city walls must fight to survive in a living nightmare, where one false turn with who to trust means a certain dead end.

Aladore

Aladore
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112052946073
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Aladore by : Sir Henry John Newbolt

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change)

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change)
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Publisher : Open Humanitites Press
Total Pages : 152
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1607853299
ISBN-13 : 9781607853299
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change) by : Joanna Zylinska

"Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking about life (instead of just continuing to live it) when being confronted with the prospect of death: be it the death of individuals due to illness, accident or old age; the death of whole ethnic or national groups in wars and other forms of armed conflict; but also of whole populations, be they human or nonhuman. Even though Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene is first and foremost concerned with life--understood as both a biological and social phenomenon--it is the narrative about the impending death of the human population (i.e., about the extinction of the human species), that provides a context for its argument. "Anthropocene" names a geo-historical period in which humans are said to have become the biggest threat to life on earth. However, rather than as a scientific descriptor, the term serves here primarily as an ethical injunction to think critically about human and nonhuman agency in the universe. Restrained in tone yet ambitious in scope, the book takes some steps towards outlining a minimal ethics thought on a universal scale. The task of such minimal ethics is to consider how humans can assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe, across different scales, and how they can respond to the tangled mesh of connections and relations unfolding in it. Its goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink "life" and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist's method; it also includes a photographic project by the author."--Publisher's description.

Greek Religion

Greek Religion
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 0674362810
ISBN-13 : 9780674362819
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Greek Religion by : Walter Burkert

A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.

The Legend of Jack Riddle

The Legend of Jack Riddle
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781496554093
ISBN-13 : 1496554094
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Legend of Jack Riddle by : H. Easson

So what if 12-year-old Jack's great-great-great-great-great aunt has oddly youthful looks? (Probably cosmetic surgery.) Or a hat she never removes? (Fashion victim.) Or goes out into the creepy forest at midnight to play bingo? (Must be what people do in the country.) Who cares about that when her cottage doesn't even have Wi-Fi?! Forced to visit his distant relative with the unusual name of Gretel, Jack is about to find out that fairy tales aren't sparkly, cheesy love stories. They're dark. They have claws. They're a warning. And when you're the unwilling hero of your own fairy tale, you might be the one who's taught a nasty lesson.

Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z

Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9781134547029
ISBN-13 : 1134547021
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z by : John Younger

Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A to Z examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity to pederasty and prostitution.

The Birth of Biopolitics

The Birth of Biopolitics
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Publisher : Picador
Total Pages : 365
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ISBN-10 : 9780312203412
ISBN-13 : 0312203411
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Birth of Biopolitics by : Michel Foucault

The sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.

Three Philosophical Poets

Three Philosophical Poets
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Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3565097
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Three Philosophical Poets by : George Santayana

Virgil, Aeneid 8

Virgil, Aeneid 8
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 811
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ISBN-10 : 9789004367388
ISBN-13 : 9004367381
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Virgil, Aeneid 8 by : Lee M. Fratantuono

This volume provides the first full-scale commentary on the eighth book of Virgil’s Aeneid, the book in which the poet presents the unforgettable tour of the site of the future Rome that the Arcadian Evander provides for his Trojan guest Aeneas, as well as the glorious apparition and bestowal of the mystical, magical shield of Vulcan on which the great events of the future Roman history are presented – culminating in the Battle of Actium and the victory of Octavian over the forces of Antony and Cleopatra. A critical text based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition is accompanied by a prose translation.