In The Shadow Of Olympus

Author : Eugene N. Borza
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215944
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Olympus written by Eugene N. Borza and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history. He draws from recent archaeological discoveries and an enhanced understanding of historical geography to form a narrative that provides a material-culture setting for political events. Examining the dynamics of Macedonian relations with the Greek city-states, he suggests that the Macedonians, although they gradually incorporated aspects of Greek culture into their own society, maintained a distinct ethnicity as a Balkan people. "Borza has taken the trouble to know Macedonia: the land, its prehistory, its position in the Balkans, and its turbulent modern history. All contribute...to our understanding of the emergence of Macedon.... Borza has employed two of the historian's most valuable tools, autopsy and common sense, to produce a well-balanced introduction to the state that altered the course of Greek and Near Eastern history."--Waldemar Heckel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author : Christian Kallias
Publisher : Universe in Flames
ISBN 13 : 9781717934697
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Olympus written by Christian Kallias and published by Universe in Flames. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the arrival of a powerful new threat in orbit around Earth, the Alliance is forced to vacate Earth space while a small group stays behind to ensure humanity isn't enslaved or worse, wiped out. ____________________________________________________________________ REVIEWS By Bobbi Amann on December 25, 2016 Reinventing the whole meaning to good sci-fi! I was truly taken by the book! Not have read previous books to understand who all of the characters in the story were it took some time to get into it! But I overlooked that and just read it! Amazing story! Enough so that purchased first two in series to understand who all the people are and why they are! Looking forward to #7 but in the mean time will devour all previous books by Chris! BTW, if you haven't read "Rewind 717" do yourself a favor and read it! Different than this series but very very good! That's how I got introduced to Chris! ____________________________________________________________________ BOOK DESCRIPTION: With the arrival of a powerful new threat in orbit around Earth, the Alliance is forced to vacate Earth space while a small group stays behind to ensure humanity isn't enslaved or worse, wiped out. Meanwhile, the rest of the fleet splits into separate missions, each of them vital in rebuilding the Earth Alliance forces and strengthening what's left of the fleet. Sarah, Chris and Daniel follow a lead to a remote part of space in the hope of establishing a dialogue with the Asgardians, unaware of the dangers that await them upon arrival. Chase's visit to Olympus to meet with Zeus doesn't go as planned but he learns crucial information that could turn the tides of the Fury war. Chase soon realizes that to achieve a permanent alliance with Olympus; he will have to deal with a deadly new foe, one powerful enough to cancel out his Ultra Fury powers. ____________________________________________________________________ As a matter of principle: this book is DRM free.

Author : Kate O'Hearn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442497157
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Olympus written by Kate O'Hearn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Hodder Children's Books"

Author : Katherine Goodman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407431
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Olympus written by Katherine Goodman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology represents the first sustained feminist examination of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century German women writers in English. These essays highlight the literature produced by German women in the period 1790-1810, framing the discussions with a comparative orientation. The book analyzes in culturally specific detail how these authors came to constitute the first generation of writing women in Germany at a time when Goethe set the standard for literary production. Each essay focuses on the ambivalence of the author(s) toward literary and social models. The authors treated include Rahel Varnhagen, Charlotte von Stein, Friederike Helene Unger, Bettine von Arnim, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Sophie Albrecht, Therese Huber, Sophie Mereau, Sophie von La Roche, Henriette Frolich, and Benedikte Naubert.

Author : Kate O'Hearn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148144719X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Olympus written by Kate O'Hearn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily and Pegasus face their greatest challenge yet when they venture back to Earth to save a friend in this sixth and final book of an exciting series that puts a modern thrill into ancient mythology. After the events in Hawaii, Emily is contending with diminished powers, a new body, and the fact that she has to teach the Titan Lorin how to use her own powers. To make matters worse, Joel has been acting strangely towards her ever since she changed, and it’s all become too much. However, Emily has one last promise to fulfill, one she made a long time ago: to save Agent B from the secret government agency called the CRU. But when Emily, Pegasus, Joel, and Paelen arrive in London, they discover that Agent B has been captured by the CRU and the only way to free him is for Emily and Lorin to surrender. As Emily and her friends delve deeper into the CRU’s history, horrible discoveries are made. Not only about the victims the powerful agency has been trapping and abusing for centuries, but about the very origins of the secret agency itself. Origins that lead directly back to...Emily.

Author : Kate O'Hearn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442444126
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olympus at War written by Kate O'Hearn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily and her friends are determined to save her father back in New York. It turns out it is harder to sneak away from Olympus from what they thought it would be.

Author : Kate O'Hearn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144244410X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flame of Olympus written by Kate O'Hearn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reborn as the Flame, thirteen-year-old Emily has saved Olympus from destruction but when the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in the conflict as old grudges are unearthed and new enemies are discovered.

Author : Roy Sorensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886792
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Dark Things written by Roy Sorensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)? Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see things that do not reflect light. Shadows and holes are anomalies for the causal theory of perception, which states that anything we see must be a cause of what we see. This requirement neatly explains why you see the front of a book's jacket and not its rear when you look at it face-on. However, the causal theory has trouble explaining how you manage to see the black letters on its surface. The letters are made visible by the light they fail to reflect rather than by the light they reflect. Nevertheless, Roy Sorensen defends the causal theory of perception by treating absences as causes. His fourteen chapters draw heavily on common sense and psychology to vindicate the assumption that we perceive absences. Seeing Dark Things is philosophy for the eye. It contains fifty-nine figures designed to prompt visual judgment. Sorensen proceeds bottom-up from observation rather than top-down from theory. He regards detailed analysis of absences as premature; he hopes a future theory will refine the pictorial thinking stimulated by the book's riddles. Just as the biologist pursues genetics with fruit flies, the metaphysician can study absences by means of shadows. Shadows are metaphysical amphibians with one foot on the terra firma of common sense and the other in the murky waters of nonbeing. Sorensen portrays the causal theory of perception's confrontation with the shadows as a triumph against alien attack - a victory that deepens a theory that resonates profoundly with common sense and science. In sum, Seeing Dark Things is an unorthodox defense of an orthodox theory. "Seeing Dark Things is an adventurous philosophical exercise in the ontology and epistemology of the commonsense world. Its treatment of the many puzzles that surround such putative 'negative' entities as shadows and holes will make it a classic on the literature on privations for many yeas to come. The book is also a wonderful example of how philosophy can be done without falling into the traps of the academic rigmarole. Sorensen is truly unique in his capacity to bring together classic philosophers, contemporary authors, and ticklish anecdotes." - Achille Varzi, Columbia University "This is a wonderful book, full of a profound, unsettling cleverness and weirdly satisfying counter-intuitiveness that the subject requires...a great book." - Richard Marshall, Bookforum "Sorensen is an extraordinarily fertile and imaginative philosopher, drawing widely on philosophy, physics, biology and vision science to mine his chosen quarry. His arguments, anecdotes and examples are always engaging. Add them to his effortless style and you have a rare commodity - a book of serious philosophy that many non-professionals will enjoy." - Ian Phillips, Times Literary Supplement "Sorensen's book is certainly fascinating and richly thought-provoking... he argues carefully and clearly in favour of his key claims, all of which merit very serious consideration, even if they sometimes provoke one to construct and defend alternative views. That, however, is surely the hallmark of the very best kind of philosophy writing. Seeing Dark Things is a model of this kind." - E.J. Lowe, Philosophy

Author : E.M. Smith
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478741775
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of Olympus written by E.M. Smith and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Edwards and his coworker/ lover, Sophia Sandra Collins, were fossil hunting in an ancient creek bank and were thrilled to find the first crustacean ever discovered on Mars. They did not know that they would soon be receiving a radio call from the little outpost settlement of Trailertown that would change the course of human history! A water prospecting friend there had made a puzzling discovery of an item that did not appear natural and wanted them to see it. This event, plus troubling events on Earth and Luna would soon tax the ingenuity of the settlers on Mars and if they did not innovate quickly, their village of Lowellsville could soon become as extinct as the fossil they found! "Reading the Shadow of Olympus by Emmett Smith is like taking a space ship ticket to an amazing, exciting and very instructive voyage toward our mysterious red neighbor and its satellites. come along with us and have a good time reading it. Bon voyage to all." "This is a high class first effort from a new author that I have no hesitation in giving 5 stars and highly recommending that you put it on your must read list! This is book #1 in Emmett M Smith's series the Lowellsville Chronicles and I for one can't wait for #2! #1 moves along at a good pace and keeps an excellent storyline running through the whole novel so treat yourself and join me in becoming a new and talented sci-fi author's fan!"

Author : Richard A. Billows
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004101777
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kings and Colonists written by Richard A. Billows and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Macedonian imperialism in the 4th-2nd centuries BCE looks at the nature and origin of that imperialism, and for the first time examines closely the personnel of imperial control to see what the empire meant to them.