Symbols And Warriors

Author : Richard John Harrison
Publisher : Western Academic and Specialist Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbols and Warriors written by Richard John Harrison and published by Western Academic and Specialist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bronze Age Europe a lifestyle emerged, expressed in stone images, that exalted men. In this work, images from over 100 engraved stelai are used to show how Mediterranean and European elements fused into a common social code, becoming a dominant warrior ideology, spreading amid the Bronze Age societies.

Author : Melba Beals
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416948821
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors Don't Cry written by Melba Beals and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307759334
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With this book, the acclaimed author created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. “A classic, for a reason” – Celeste Ng via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.

Author : Craig M. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maze and the Warrior written by Craig M. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tourist visiting the famous cathedral at Chartres might be surprised to discover an enormous labyrinth embedded in the thirteenth-century floor. Why is it there? In this fascinating book Craig Wright explores the complex symbolism of the labyrinth in architecture, religious thought, music, and dance from the Middle Ages to the present. The mazes incorporated into church floors and illustrating religious books were symbolic of an epic journey through this sinful world to salvation. A savior figure typically led the way along this harrowing spiritual path. Wright looks at other meanings of the maze as well, from religious dancing on church labyrinths to pagan maze rituals outside the church. He demonstrates that the theme inherent in spiritual mazes is also present in medieval song, in the Armed Man Masses of the Renaissance, and in compositions of the Enlightenment, including the works of J. S. Bach. But the thread that binds the maze to the church, to music, and to dance also ties it to the therapeutic labyrinth that proliferates today. For as this richly interdisciplinary history reveals, the maze of the "new age" spiritualists also traces its lineage to the ancient myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. While the hero of the maze may change from one culture to the next, the symbol endures.

Author : Peter Haldén
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317244850
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Warriors written by Peter Haldén and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their differences, all societies grapple with the same question: how much of the individual’s peace-self should be and can be retained in the state of war? The book explores cases such as the Nordic berserkers, the Japanese samurai, and European knights, as well as modern soldiers in Germany, Liberia, and Sweden. It shows that archaic and modern societies are more similar than we usually think: both kinds of societies use myths, symbols, and rituals to create warriors. Thus, this volume seeks to redefine theories of modernization and secularization. It shows that military organizations need to take myths, symbols, and rituals seriously in order to create effective units. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war studies, sociology, religion, and international relations in general.

Author : Sol Yurick
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848893
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Warriors written by Sol Yurick and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang’s nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s. “Warriors, come out to play-yay!” Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed and chaos prevails over the attempt at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators making their way back to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers, left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their “family,” The Warriors “goes to the core of the heart of darkness” as it weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale (Flyer). This edition includes a new introduction by the author. “It seems to me the best novel of its kind I’ve ever read, an altogether perfect achievement. I’m sure that to many it will sound like sacrilege but I have to say that I think it a better novel than Lord of the Flies.” —Warren Miller, author of The Cool World

Author : Steven McFadden
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469785854
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legend of the Rainbow Warriors written by Steven McFadden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend of the Rainbow Warriors is a journalist's account of one of the core myths of America, and an electrifying exploration of how that myth is playing out in real time. One dominant myth is formed by advertising images of vast, luxurious wealth-the myth of materialism. Another myth is conjured in the bloody, sorrowful images that pervade movies, music and computer games-the myth that the world is hate-filled and chaotic beyond redemption. The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors offers a spiritual alternative of hope and real possibility based upon respect, freedom and responsibility. As drawn from dozens of historical accounts, the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors relates that "when the Earth becomes desperately sick, people of all colors and faiths will unite, and rise to face the overwhelming challenges with insight, honesty, caring, sharing, and respect." Veteran writer Steven McFadden weaves the myths and the headlines together seamlessly in a rich work of literary journalism that is adroitly crafted, eye-opening, and soul-inspiring.

Author : Lissa Gromley
Publisher : Lissa Gromley
ISBN 13 : 1546920455
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Warriors written by Lissa Gromley and published by Lissa Gromley. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight teenagers with powerful, supernatural abilities must undergo training by the eccentric mystic Chinook to wage war against Tutock, the god of evil before San Francisco falls into his hands permanently. But Flash Michaels, Thunder Copiel, Shades Thopho, Scorpio Lapine, T-boz Rabbiel, Snow and Ice Thornton, and Chilie Davids are inexperienced and uncooperative. They have only less than one year to prepare for their first battle, except Tutock's power is increasing, and their fears and distrust may allow the god to get what he desires. They must find a way to overcome their fears and defeat the god by participating in the dangerous training whether they want to or not.

Author : Tim Hogan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387278037
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors of Spain written by Tim Hogan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Hudson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082035290X
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun written by Charles Hudson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th anniversary edition of the study that first revealed De Soto’s path across the 16th century American South includes a forward by Robbie Ethridge Between 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto’s path had been one of history’s most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. Using a new route reconstruction, anthropologist Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites. De Soto’s journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto’s one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South. But in 1542, he died a broken man on the banks of the Mississippi River. In this classic text, Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Soto’s expedition and the native societies he visited. The narrative unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape. A blending of archaeology, history, and historical geography, this is a monumental study of the sixteenth-century Southeast.