There's a new King in town, his name is Hank--and nobody knew he existed until now. Leaving the Washington children to reluctantly band together in an attempt to stop World War XXX. This climactic dissolution of societal order and the very fabric of life itself hurdles the American Royalty into an uncharted abyss of double crossings, unlikely alliances, and a New World Order for us all. The Royal Dream is Book #6 from American Royalty, an EPIC Press series.

The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton Dyer is a handbook describing the lives and functions of various plants. Excerpt: "I. PLANT LIFE II. PRIMITIVE AND SAVAGE NOTIONS RESPECTING PLANTS III. PLANT WORSHIP IV. LIGHTNING PLANTS V. PLANTS IN WITCHCRAFT VI. PLANTS IN DEMONOLOGY VII. PLANTS IN FAIRY-LORE VIII. LOVE-CHARMS IX. DREAM-PLANTS X. PLANTS AND THE WEATHER XI. PLANT PROVERBS XII. PLANTS AND THEIR CEREMONIAL USE XIII. PLANT NAMES XIV. PLANT LANGUAGE XV. FABULOUS PLANTS XVI. DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES XVII. PLANTS AND THE CALENDAR XVIII. CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND GAMES."

Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author’s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology.

In All the King’s Women Jan Rüdiger investigates medieval elite polygyny and its ‘uses’ in Northern Europe with a comparative perspective on England and France as well as Iberia.

Dreams and nightmares have long puzzled and fascinated, yet this is the first book to explore such visions in the Ancient Egyptian world. The author traces the evidence from the first half of Egypt's long history, the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom, a time-span of over 1,000 years. The book is arranged thematically, with chapters devoted to the literary use of dreams, to the political use of divine visions, to the technology used to ward away terrorizing nightmares. It also explores the Ramesside Dream Book, a unique text that reveals the desires and anxieties that could inspire an Egyptian's dreams, with images of sex and power, of gods and the dead. All the relevant passages are conveniently translated in an appendix.