Medusas Head

Author : Paul D. Storrie
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
ISBN 13 : 0761339957
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perseus written by Paul D. Storrie and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in graphic novel format, is the retelling of King Polydectes hatching a plan to send Perseus, son of Zeus, after the head of the gorgon, Medusa.

Author : Rand Mirante
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480810711
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Head written by Rand Mirante and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minister of Police Joseph Fouché was universally distrusted, feared, and hated in his time, but was nevertheless considered indispensable. In Medusa's Head, Rand Mirante recounts the chameleonic and astonishing career of Napoleon's security chief, who created the modern police state and wielded immense power that threatened the other main organs of government. Fouché was one of the most important, fascinating, and controversial figures of the French Revolution, the First Empire, and the Bourbon Restoration, and this biography captures and unravels the highlights of Fouché's life, including his infamous roles as: A priest-in-training who became a radical Jacobin and de-Christianizer A regicide who cast a dramatic swing vote for Louis XVI's immediate execution The grim and remorseless "Butcher of Lyon" Mastermind of the conspiracy that sent Robespierre to the guillotine The head of Napoleon's police - privy to everyone's secrets, shaping the media, deploying 10,000 informants in Paris alone, and securing funding from the Empire's casinos and brothels Cunning enabler of Napoleon's 1799 coup, and subsequent repeated betrayer of the Emperor Acting president after Waterloo and traitor to France Louis XVIII's Minister of Police, in spite of his responsibility for the death of the King's brother A wealthy but disgraced exile who met an unusual end in Trieste on the Adriatic Medusa's Head provides fresh insights and perspectives on this enormously influential and fearsome individual.

Author : Connor Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949717150
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Head written by Connor Hoover and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are the guardian of Medusa's head. Can you get rid of it before it turns you to stone?

Author : Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520088405
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off with Her Head! written by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-11-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the theme that women are objectified as sexual and reproductive bodies by symbolic beheading in myths and by such practices as veiling, head coverings, and cosmetic highlighting. Shows how women's heads link them to speech, identity, and mind, all characteristics classically reserved for men, and how beheading women reduces them to mute and anonymous flesh. Most of the examples are drawn from Oriental, classical Greek and Roman, and early Christian contexts, but some modern cases are also examined. The seven essays were presented at a panel of the American Academy of Religion, date and place not noted. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sarah Wallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913211301
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa Retold written by Sarah Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wild and writhing reimagination of the Medusa myth for the modern age. Mesmerising. Compelling." - Tanya Shadrick, editor of Wild Woman Swimming.

Author : Josephine Daskam Bacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Head written by Josephine Daskam Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618921X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Hair written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying. The increasing popularity of these ecstatics poses a challenge not only to orthodox Sinhala Buddhism (the official religion of Sri Lanka) but also, as Gananath Obeyesekere shows, to the traditional anthropological and psychoanalytic theories of symbolism. Focusing initially on one symbol, matted hair, Obeyesekere demonstrates that the conventional distinction between personal and cultural symbols is inadequate and naive. His detailed case studies of ecstatics show that there is always a reciprocity between the personal-psychological dimension of the symbol and its public, culturally sanctioned role. Medusa's Hair thus makes an important theoretical contribution both to the anthropology of individual experience and to the psychoanalytic understanding of culture. In its analyses of the symbolism of guilt, the adaptational and integrative significance of belief in spirits, and a host of related issues concerning possession states and religiosity, this book marks a provocative advance in psychological anthropology.

Author : Jennifer Buchet
Publisher : Spork
ISBN 13 : 9781950169474
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Medusa's Hair Do-Lemma written by Jennifer Buchet and published by Spork. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Medusa comes from a long line of snake-loving, serpentine-wearing Gorgons. When she receives her very first snake, Little Medusa discovers that having a snake slither and slide through her hair isn't so great after all. And to make matters more difficult, she begins questioning if she really wants to scare her friends to stone with her new forever friend. Using her imagination and heart, Little Medusa tries her best to please her family, her best-pet snake, and herself. Based on Greek Mythology, Little Medusa features Common Core Connections and explores the universal themes of following family tradition and staying true to oneself.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.QK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Greek Stories written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404878203
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Stony Stare written by Jessica Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa, once a bewitching beauty, has become a hideous monster with snakes for hair. When men look at her, they turn to stone. Whe King Polydectes sends Perseus for Medusas head, he thinks Perseus will soon be another one of Medusas stone men. Or will he?