Mortal Bonds

Author : Michael Sears
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425270904
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Bonds written by Michael Sears and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hired by the family of a disgraced investment banker who died in prison amid financial scandals, Jason Stafford races against time to find a fortune in missing funds only to see the people he contacts suffer suspicious and deadly accidents.

Author : Brian Staveley
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466828455
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Mortal Bond written by Brian Staveley and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trilogy that began with The Emperor's Blades and continued in The Providence of Fire reaches its epic conclusion, as war engulfs the Annurian Empire in Brian Staveley's The Last Mortal Bond The ancient csestriim are back to finish their purge of humanity; armies march against the capital; leaches, solitary beings who draw power from the natural world to fuel their extraordinary abilities, maneuver on all sides to affect the outcome of the war; and capricious gods walk the earth in human guise with agendas of their own. But the three imperial siblings at the heart of it all--Valyn, Adare, and Kaden--come to understand that even if they survive the holocaust unleashed on their world, there may be no reconciling their conflicting visions of the future. Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne The Emperor's Blades The Providence of Fire The Last Mortal Bond Other books in the world of the Unhewn Throne Skullsworn At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Steven Luper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108983960
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Objects written by Steven Luper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226481999
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, War, and Sacrifice written by Bruce Lincoln and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them previously unpublished—fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain the best available source of data for the topics they address. In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human society into an ideologically charged correlation. Part III presents Lincoln's most controversial case against a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture. Reconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist Georges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings were informed and inflected by covert political concerns characteristic of French fascism. This collection is an invaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient societies, anthropology, and the history of religions. Bruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious studies at the University of Minnesota.

Author : Brian Staveley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765336421
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Mortal Bond written by Brian Staveley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy. War engulfs the Annurian Empire and the three imperial siblings, Valyn, Adare, and Kaden, must battle the Csestriim to save humanity, but they realize that even if they win, it will be difficult to reconcile their conflicting visions of the future

Author : Panos Dimas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192898299
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Statesman written by Panos Dimas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plato's Statesman reconsiders many questions familiar to readers of the Republic: questions in political theory - such as the qualifications for the leadership of a state and the best from of constitution (politeia) - as well as questions of philosophical methodology and epistemology. Instead of the theory of Forms that is the centrepiece of the epistemology of the Republic, the emphasis here is on the dialectical practice of collection and division (diairesis), in whose service the interlocutors also deploy the ancillary methods of myth and of models (paradeigmata). Plato here introduces the doctrine of due measure (to metrion) and a conception of statecraft (politikē) as an architectonic expertise that governs subordinate disciplines such as rhetoric and the military - doctrines later developed by Aristotle. Readers will find a sustained defence of the importance of expertise (technē or epistēmē) in the conduct of affairs of state, a robust (although not unqualified) defence of the rule of law, and an unsparing but nuanced critique of democratic government. The chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive and detailed philosophical engagement with the entirety of Plato's wide-ranging dialogue, with successive chapters devoted to the sections of the dialogue as it unfolds, and an introduction that places the dialogue in the context of Plato's philosophy as a whole. While not a commentary in the traditional sense, the volume engages with Plato's Statesman in its entirety" -- Publisher's description.

Author : Paul Elmer More
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Tradition, from the Death of Socrates to the Council of Chalcedon (399 B.C. to 451 A.D.): The religion of Plato written by Paul Elmer More and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Friedrich Holderlin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477339
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Empedocles written by Friedrich Holderlin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-07-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

Author : Friedrich Schiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Friedrich Schiller: The Piccolomini. The Death of Wallenstein. Wallenstein's Camp. Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. Tr. by S.T. Coleridge, R.D. Boylan and J. Mellish written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Sears
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698153340
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mortal Bonds Free Preview written by Michael Sears and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free preview of Mortal Bonds by Michael Sears including a special Q&A with the author. From the author of the extraordinary Edgar-nominated debut novel Black Fridays, a sensational story of murder and financial corruption—and one man’s continued search for redemption. William von Becker ran one of the largest privately held investment banks in North America, until the bottom fell out, and the whole edifice was demonstrated to be a fraud. After von Becker dies in prison, financial investigator Jason Stafford is hired by his family. There is still a lot of missing money out there, he’s told, and they want Stafford to find it before the Feds do—and certain other parties, some of whom are nowhere near as scrupulous in their methods. Bad things start happening to the people Stafford talks to. Soon bad things are happening to him as well. Making it worse, his treacherous ex-wife has come to town, ostensibly to visit their young son. Stafford suspects there’s more to it than that, but even he has no idea how much that visit is about to change all their lives—and send him off to the next chapter of his life.