Dragonlinks

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459669277
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragonlinks written by Paul Collins and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2013 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-powerful, enchanted mailshirt from the stars. Six links are missing. An orphan, a streetwise urchin and a swordsman must find the links before the greatest evil known descends upon Q zar. Jelindel dek Mediesar led a charmed life until lindrak assassins murdered her family. Fleeing to the markets Jelindel dresses as a boy to avoid detection. Here she teams up with Zimak, a street-wise urchin, and Daretor, a warrior on a quest to destroy an alien artifact. Murder, betrayal and deceit are just some of the hurdles they must face in order to find the missing links from a star-dwellers' mailshirt six powerful links, whose individual powers are nothing compared with that of the complete mailshirt.

Author : Dmitry Nazarov
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5044607118
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faculty of Dragon Riders written by Dmitry Nazarov and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I tamed the Black Dragon!So I thought until I found myself in the clutches of this very dragon, very disgruntled and dangerous...This girl dared to “tame” me!Me, Lord of the Dark Lands!She “only” confused the connection between true and “tamed”, mistaking me for a wild one.He chuckled. It will be fun.For me.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Ford Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921665912
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dyson's Drop written by Paul Collins and published by Ford Street Publishing. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a galaxy of cutthroat companies, shadowy clans and a million agendas, spy agency RIM barely wields enough control to keep order. Maximus Black is RIM's star cadet. But he has a problem. One of RIM's best agents, Anneke Longshadow, knows there's a mole in the organisation. And Maximus has a lot to hide.

Author : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482227
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flood Myths of Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481–221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC–AD 220) China. In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire.

Author : Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317169662
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England written by Jennifer C. Vaught and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used-and misused-by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.

Author : Yong Zhao
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118487133
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? written by Yong Zhao and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets behind China's extraordinary educational system – good, bad, and ugly Chinese students' consistently stunning performance on the international PISA exams— where they outscore students of all other nations in math, reading, and science—have positioned China as a world education leader. American educators and pundits have declared this a "Sputnik Moment," saying that we must learn from China's education system in order to maintain our status as an education leader and global superpower. Indeed, many of the reforms taking hold in United States schools, such as a greater emphasis on standardized testing and the increasing importance of core subjects like reading and math, echo the Chinese system. We're following in China's footsteps—but is this the direction we should take? Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? by award-winning writer Yong Zhao offers an entertaining, provocative insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both "the best and worst" in the world. Born and raised in China's Sichuan province and a teacher in China for many years, Zhao has a unique perspective on Chinese culture and education. He explains in vivid detail how China turns out the world's highest-achieving students in reading, math, and science—yet by all accounts Chinese educators, parents, and political leaders hate the system and long to send their kids to western schools. Filled with fascinating stories and compelling data, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? offers a nuanced and sobering tour of education in China. Learn how China is able to turn out the world's highest achieving students in math, science, and reading Discover why, despite these amazing test scores, Chinese parents, teachers, and political leaders are desperate to leave behind their educational system Discover how current reforms in the U.S. parallel the classic Chinese system, and how this could help (or hurt) our students' prospects

Author : Donald A. Mackenzie
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs" by Donald A. Mackenzie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Hui-Lin Hsu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888842773
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Yellow River Floods written by Hui-Lin Hsu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Yellow River Floods explores the relationship between environmental degradation, hydraulic engineering, and nation-building in the context of Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can. This book contributes to the field by providing a unique perspective on modern Chinese literary history that goes beyond conventional narratives that focus solely on political and cultural factors. The main areas covered include the role of water management in literary nation-building and the connections between the novel’s various themes, such as river engineering, medical and political discourses, national sentiment, and landscape description. The book is targeted toward scholars and students of Chinese literature, history, and environmental studies, as well as those interested in the intersections between literature, nation-building, and environmental challenges. By offering a comprehensive and material-based analysis of The Travels of Lao Can, this book broadens the understanding of nation-building in early twentieth-century China, highlighting the impact of environmental crises and hydraulics on the formation of national literature and consciousness. The book provides a new perspective on the environmental roots of modern Chinese literature, making it an essential read for those seeking to understand the complex interplay between literature, the environment, and national identity in China.

Author : Darrelyn Gunzburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350079901
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space, Place and Religious Landscapes written by Darrelyn Gunzburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia and South America, and embrace the union of sky, landscape and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point the fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, recognising that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. The book fuses ideas of space, place and material religion with cultural environmentalism and takes an interconnected approach to material religio-landscapes. In this way it fills the gap between lived religious traditions, personal reflection, phenomenology, historical context, environmental philosophy, myths and performativity. In defining material religion as active engagement with mountain-forming and humanshaping landscapes, the research and ideas presented here provide theories that are widely applicable to other forms of material religion.

Author : Lucinda Hare
Publisher : Thistleburr Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0957471815
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stealth Dragon Services written by Lucinda Hare and published by Thistleburr Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The SDS must change if we are to survive. We have to become one people again, as we once were, who live and train and fight together. You have both demonstrated your ability to do this, young though you both are. You come from different peoples; one noble born, the other the son of a scout. One desiring to fly dragons when tradition allows only men to do so; the other proving in the best tradition of his people that you do not need to wield a sword in your hand to protect those you love.'