The Postmodern Sacred

The Postmodern Sacred
Author: Emily McAvan
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786492821

From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and produce a sense of the religious. This work examines this pop-culture spirituality, or "postmodern sacred," showing how consumers use the symbols contained in explicitly "unreal" texts to gain a secondhand experience of transcendence and belief. Topics include how media technologies like CGI have blurred the lines between real and unreal, the polytheisms of Buffy and Xena, the New Age Gnosticism of The DaVinci Code, the Islamic "Other" and science fiction's response to 9/11, and the Christian Right and popular culture. Today's pervasive, saturated media culture, this work shows, has utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary, so that popular culture is not only powerfully shaped by the discourses of religion, but also shapes how the religious appears and is experienced in the contemporary world.

Gold Warriors

Gold Warriors
Author: Peggy Seagrave
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789605237

In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This 'Black Gold' gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.

Tower of the Last Baron

Tower of the Last Baron
Author: Paizo Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9781601251022

The crumbling ruins of the Tower of the Last Baron stand at the edge of civilized lands, lost and forgotten. But now, an evil stirs from within its depths that threatens all of the surrounding countryside. Tower of the Last Baron is a dungeon adventure set in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, and is suitable for low-level characters.

A Red & Pleasant Land

A Red & Pleasant Land
Author: Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Publisher: Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-07
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9789525904604

A terrible Red King wars with an awful Queen, and together they battle into being a rigid, wrong world... and this book has everything you need to run it. (And any other place in your first, second, third, fourth or fifth edition game that might require intrigue, hidden gardens, inside-out-rooms, scheming monarchs, puzzles or beasts, liquid floors, labyrinths, growing, shrinking, duelling, broken time, Mome Raths, blasphemy, croquet, explanations for where players who missed sessions were, or the rotting arcades and parlors of a palace that was once the size of a nation.)

Crown of the Kobold King

Crown of the Kobold King
Author: Nicolas Logue
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781601250483

Deep inside his deadly dungeon, the Kobold King laughs maliciously. His monstrous followers raided the nearby village and set his plan for regional conquest in motion. Crown of the Kobold King is a low-level dungeon adventure written by Nicolas Logue that pits the players against a mischievous King of the Kobolds and his noisome minions. A raid on a local village leads to a crumbling monastery riddled with cunning traps and deadly beasts. Will the heroes be the first to survive the Kobold King's dungeon and lay claim to his crown?

Some Basic Theory for Statistical Inference

Some Basic Theory for Statistical Inference
Author: E.J.G. Pitman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351093673

In this book the author presents with elegance and precision some of the basic mathematical theory required for statistical inference at a level which will make it readable by most students of statistics.

Treasure of Chimera Cove

Treasure of Chimera Cove
Author: Paizo Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Adventure games
ISBN: 9781601251190

An ancient map points to a legendary treasure hidden in the mythical Chimera Cove, a long forgotten pirate port. A host of deadly traps and lingering guardians await the plunderers, but an even greater evil has its sight set upon the powerful relic. Treasure of Chimera Cove is a wilderness adventure set in the Pathfinder Chronicles setting, and is suitable for low-level characters.

Howl of the Carrion King

Howl of the Carrion King
Author: James Jacobs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9781601251596

The Legacy of Fire Adventure Path begins in the desert nation of Katapesh, where the heroes must attempt to retake a conquered town from a pack of fearsome gnolls. From there, the trail leads to the fortress known as the House of the Beast, an ancient map-world created by one of the most powerful wizards in history, and even the legendary City of Brass on the Plane of Fire.