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| Author | : N. R. Hairston |
| Publisher | : N. R. Hairston |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2022-07-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
I went up against a few mobsters and won. Now their friends want me dead. They attack my clothing store, destroying twenty thousand dollars in merchandise. The Gentleman are a bloodthirsty sadistic, organization. If you cross them, you die. No questions asked. If they want you, there’s nowhere you can hide. I understand all that, but they violated. Twenty thousand dollars is a lot to someone like me. I can’t let them get away with it. I want my money back. So, I grab my boyfriend Kemp and we face off against some of the most vicious killers in the underworld. The Gentleman never fight fair. This time, neither will we.
| Author | : Rachel O. Moore |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780822323884 |
An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.
| Author | : Lloyd Shepherd |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 478 |
| Release | : 2014-08-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1471136094 |
From the author of The English Monster comes Savage Magic, a brilliant new historical thriller, a riveting tale of villainy, madness and murder. Covent Garden, 1814: the winding city streets are a centre of vice, to which rich and poor alike are drawn by the promise of gin, ale and other carnal diversions. In opulent private rooms, several fashionable young men have been found murdered, each wearing a satyr's mask, each behind a locked door. Constable Charles Horton of the River Police Office is called in to investigate, using his startling new detection methods, and soon finds himself at Thorpe Lee House in Surrey, where accusations of witchcraft have swept through the village. What connects these London aristocrats, turned savage in the pursuit of pleasure, and a country backwater suddenly awash with folklore and talk of burning witches? In this strange and captivating world, it is a savage magic indeed that holds its victims in its thrall. 'Wonderful … clever, lyrical, atmospheric and tells a damn fine story' Joanne Harris 'A superbly creepy supernatural thriller. Shepherd has a talent for creating atmospheres that chill the spine. Perfect reading for a cold night' The Times 'Splendid entertainment, delivered, despite the echoes of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, with a crisp, modern flourish' Independent on Sunday
| Author | : Christopher Bracken |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2008-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226069923 |
During the Enlightenment, Western scholars racialized ideas, deeming knowledge based on reality superior to that based on ideality. Scholars labeled inquiries into ideality, such as animism and soul-migration, “savage philosophy,” a clear indicator of the racism motivating the distinction between the real and the ideal. In their view, the savage philosopher mistakes connections between signs for connections between real objects and believes that discourse can have physical effects—in other words, they believe in magic. Christopher Bracken’s Magical Criticism brings the unacknowledged history of this racialization to light and shows how, even as we have rejected ethnocentric notions of “the savage,” they remain active today in everything from attacks on postmodernism to Native American land disputes. Here Bracken reveals that many of the most influential Western thinkers dabbled in savage philosophy, from Marx, Nietzsche, and Proust, to Freud, C. S. Peirce, and Walter Benjamin. For Bracken, this recourse to savage philosophy presents an opportunity to reclaim a magical criticism that can explain the very real effects created by the discourse of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, the media, and governments.
| Author | : Shannon Mayer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2020-09-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781987933611 |
As the boogeyman to the underworld, Nix isn't afraid of dying.Yet this time, it's not about dying. It's about escaping with her mind intact. I thought I'd finally stepped away from the madness of the underworld, away from the Abnormals, away from all those who would do me and those I love harm.The world though had different plans.And now I'm trapped, not only physically, but inside my head. Those who have me caged say none of it was real.That I'm not a highly trained assassin of Abnormals. That I have no family. My children do not exist.That there is nothing supernatural about this world.If they are right, then I've been crazy all along. I've been stuck inside of my head all these years, living a fantasy.If they are right I am not the legendary Phoenix.If they are wrong . . .then that means there is a new game afoot. Then there will be hell to pay and the fires that burn within me will consume them all. If you like KF Breene, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Faith Hunter, Jaymin Eve, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison, or Shayne Silvers, you won't want to miss Mayer's books and her kick butt heroines!
| Author | : Berel Dov Lerner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1136404929 |
This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch's writings on the philosophy of the social sciences. The author points to Winch's tendency to over-emphasize the importance of language and communication, and his insufficient attention to the role of practical, technological activites in human life and society. It also offers an appendix devoted to the controversy between the anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere regarding Captain James Cook's Hawaiian adventures. Essential reading for those studying the development of philosophy in the twentieth century, this book will also be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of religion, and all those with an interest in the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences.
| Author | : Randall Styers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2004-01-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0198037899 |
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous. In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that this persistence can best be explained in light of the Western drive to establish and secure distinctive norms for modern identity, norms based on narrow forms of instrumental rationality, industrious labor, rigidly defined sexual roles, and the containment of wayward forms of desire. Magic has served to designate a form of alterity or deviance against which dominant Western notions of appropriate religious piety, legitimate scientific rationality, and orderly social relations are brought into relief. Scholars have found magic an invaluable tool in their efforts to define the appropriate boundaries of religion and science. On a broader level, says Styers, magical thinking has served as an important foil for modernity itself. Debates over the nature of magic have offered a particularly rich site at which scholars have worked to define and to contest the nature of modernity and norms for life in the modern world.
| Author | : N. R. Hairston |
| Publisher | : N. R. Hairston |
| Total Pages | : 58 |
| Release | : 2022-07-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Hero once peeled the skin from an entire family and hung their bodies in the front yard of their house for days. He once burned a man alive, then cut off his head while his family watched. I’m used to fighting the local mobsters where I live, but this Hero’s another league of depraved. I’ve caused him millions by taking out the local drug runners, now he wants me dead. Hero’s organization reaches across the globe. His people are everywhere. I’ve been warned this isn’t a fight I can win. It’s not one I’m willing to back down from either. My hair holds the strength of all my ancestors. It can freeze a man to death or burn him alive. My boyfriend Kemp has superspeed. I bet on us, always. If this Hero wants a fight, then I say bring it. He may take my life, but I don’t plan on going down alone.
| Author | : N. R. Hairston |
| Publisher | : N. R. Hairston |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2022-07-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Five stories of supernatural carnage. Including five kick-ass women. With five unique powers. On five different worlds. Rye Unchained: Agent Rye has always been able to depend on her skunk DNA in a fight, but when a vicious man with fly DNA kidnaps someone close to her, it sends her into a tailspin with consequence so severe she may never be able to claw her way free. Delia Uncaged: Elementer Delia is in the fight of her life when something ancient and feral stalks her with one goal in mind, killing her for horrific, hideous crimes it claims she will one day commit. Leah Untamed: Telekinetic Leah exists in the rough world of gambling, so she’s used to a challenge. But when a ruthless man with superspeed comes after her for a debt, it leads to a showdown so bloody and brutal few will be left standing when it’s over. Kerry Unrestrained: To stop the reign of terror of a man named Zeke, Coalition Agent Kerry will have to push her powers to their peak. Her team is brawling, casualties are falling, to liberate this rhyming world, they’ll have to put their all in. Then a distraction, the unthinkable happens, Kerry can’t control her reaction, there’s no coming back from this infraction. Kia Unleashed: Succubus Kia’s wrath is uncontrollable, as she hunts down those responsible for hurting her lover and makes them pay. Take the title literally, there will be carnage here, and lots of it. Just a warning! This book contains side characters who identify as LGBTQ. This book has a few strong words.
| Author | : Melissa Grey |
| Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385391013 |
The series that began with the book Danielle Paige, author of Dorothy Must Die, called “inventive, gorgeous, and epic” comes to its thrilling conclusion. “Catnip for fans of Cassandra Clare.” —BookPage.com on The Girl at Midnight The sides have been chosen and the battle lines drawn. Echo awakened the Firebird. Now she is the only one with the power to face the darkness she unwittingly unleashed . . . right into the waiting hands of Tanith, the new Dragon Prince. Tanith has one goal in mind: destroy her enemies, raze their lands, and reign supreme in a new era where the Drakharin are almighty and the Avicen are nothing but a memory. The war that has been brewing for centuries is finally imminent. But the scales are tipped. Echo might hold the power to face the darkness within the Dragon Prince, but she has far to go to master its overwhelming force. And now she’s plagued by uncertainty. With Caius no longer by her side, she doesn’t know if she can do it alone. Is she strong enough to save her home and the people she loves? Whether Echo is ready to face this evil is not the question. The war has begun, and there is no looking back. There are only two outcomes possible: triumph or death. Praise for the Girl at Midnight series: “Enthralling and pure magic!” —Romantic Times “A must-read.” —Paste magazine “You are going to love Echo.” —Bustle.com “Fast-paced, action-packed, and full of laughs.” —Nerdist.com ★ “Sparks fly. . . . Will please fans of Cassandra Clare and Game of Thrones watchers with its remarkable world building; richly developed characters; and themes of family, power, loyalty, and romance.” —Booklist, Starred Review “An action- and angst-packed installment reminiscent of Buffy and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.” —Kirkus Reviews
