The Miko

The Miko
Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 857
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1784080381

SHADOW WARRIOR. The ancient Japanese art of death is practiced by a select few. Of those young men who are chosen to train in the way of the shadow warrior, most will fail. Those who pass these trials, the Ninja, become the silent assassins, lonely guardians, and unseen watchers of legend. But rarer still are those masters of the shadow craft, the Shiro – those whose fearsome abilities are matched only by their rigid code of honour. Men like Nicholas Linnear... THE MIKO. In ancient Japan they called them the Miko – the maidens of the shrine – women revered for their almost mystical powers who were rumoured to be the servants of the gods themselves. Traditionally the Miko were a force for good, but the woman stalking the shadow warrior Nicholas Linnear seems bent on murder and revenge...

Miko Kings

Miko Kings
Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fiction. Native American Studies. MIKO KINGS: AN INDIAN BASEBALL STORY is an homage to the dusty roads and wind-blown diamonds of America's first moving picture about baseball, His Last Game. Just as Henri Day and his team, the Miko Kings, are poised to win the 1907 Twin Territories' Pennant against their archrivals, the Seventh Cavalrymen from Fort Sill, pitcher Hope Little Leader finds himself embroiled in a plot that will destroy him and the Indian team. Only the town's chimeric postal clerk, Ezol Day, understands the outcome of Hope's last game and how it will affect Indians and baseball for the next four generations. Set in Indian Territory that is about to become part of Oklahoma, MIKO KINGS tells of the turbulent days before statehood when white settlers and gamblers are swindling the Indians out of their land and what has already happened will change its course. "They're stories that travel now as captured light in someone else's telescope," Ezol Day will tell the woman who should have been her granddaughter. In MIKO KINGS, LeAnne Howe bends the pitch of time to return us to the roots of a national game.

Miko

Miko
Author: Brigitte Weninger
Publisher: Minedesign
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

When Miko learns that he and his toy animal share the same birthday, Miko gives him the perfect gift.

The General's Son

The General's Son
Author: Miko Peled
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781682570029

A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is mirrored in many ways the transformation his father, a much-decorated Israeli general, had undergone three decades earlier. Alice Walker contributed a foreword to the first edition in which she wrote, "There are few books on the Israel/Palestine issue that seem as hopeful to me as this one." In the new Epilogue he takes readers to South Africa, East Asia, several European countries, and the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself.

Miko

Miko
Author: Brigitte Weninger
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Miko the mouse tries to keep busy as he waits for his mother to wake up.

The Selby is in Your Place

The Selby is in Your Place
Author: Todd Selby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book consists of over 30 profiles: half of which are favourites from his web site, the other half are never-before-seen shots selected exclusively for the book. Australian content.

Shamanism [2 volumes]

Shamanism [2 volumes]
Author: Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 2004-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1576076466

A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.

The Strong Current

The Strong Current
Author: Robert Day
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1603060871

Otci, a rising youth in the village of Attaugee in the great Muskogee nation, knew the rites of initiation to warriorhood and manhood would demand the best of mind, body and spirit. But what he didn’t know was how quickly the tensions mounting in the nation would bring the ultimate conflict, and challenge Otci to his very core. Otci and his brother initiates are trained by a master legend-giver for the ceremony that marks their transition. He is assisted by Pakahle, a beautiful and insightful attendant. With a new name given at the Green Corn Festival from his visions, he inherits a position of power among Attaugee, and soon the nation’s warriors.