The Company Of Demons

Author : Michael Jordan
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1626344523
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Company of Demons written by Michael Jordan and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brutal murder of a friend leaves lawyer John Coleman stunned and sends shockwaves through the city of Cleveland. The technique of the killing recalls memories of the Torso Murderer, who dismembered at least twelve people decades ago and then vanished—eluding even legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness. Jennifer, the victim’s beautiful daughter, hires John to handle her father’s estate, and romantic feelings for her soon complicate his already troubled marriage. When John finds himself entangled with a cold-blooded biker gang, an ex-cop with a fuzzy past, and the drug-addicted son of the dead man, he struggles to make sense of it all. ​But he cannot shake a growing sense of dread.

Author : Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226501299
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Demons written by Armando Maggi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates.But with In the Company of Demons, the world’s leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies. Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, we find that these spirits or demons speak through their sudden and striking appearances—their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted. The form of the body, Maggi explains, relies on the spirits’ knowledge of their human interlocutors’ pasts. But their core trait is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as harbingers or warnings to protect us. It comes as no surprise then that when spiritual beings distort the natural world to communicate, it is vital that we begin to listen.

Author : Stephanie Chong
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 077831247X
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Demons Fear to Tread written by Stephanie Chong and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fledging guardian angel and yoga teacher Serena St. Clair dares to enter Devil's Paradise nightclub on a mission—to retrieve the wayward Hollywood "It Boy" she's assigned to protect. But she's ambushed by the club's owner, arch demon Julian Ascher. The most powerful demonic entity in Los Angeles, Julian is handsome as sin, a master of temptation who loves nothing more than corrupting pleasure-seeking humans. He won't release the lost soul Serena is supposed to guard. Unless she accepts his dangerous wager… After the disastrous way his human life ended, Julian vowed that no woman would get the better of him again. Yet this sexy-sweet angel, smelling of fresh ocean air and happiness, triggers centuries-old feelings. Now, their high-stakes game of seduction, where angels fall from grace and where demons fear to tread, will lead them either to an eternity in hell…or a deliciously hot heaven.

Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488948
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616143053
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and His Demons written by Michael Parenti and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted author and activist brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear in this polemic against the dark side of religion. Unlike some popular works by stridently outspoken atheists, this is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. Rather the author's focus is the heartless exploitation of faithful followers by those in power, as well as sectarian intolerance, the violence against heretics and nonbelievers, and the reactionary political and economic collusion that has often prevailed between the upper echelons of church and state. Parenti notes the deleterious effects of past theocracies and the threat to our freedoms posed by present-day fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries. He discusses how socially conscious and egalitarian minded liberal religionists have often been isolated and marginalized by their more conservative (and better financed) coreligionists. Finally, he documents the growing strength of secular freethinkers who are doing battle against the intolerant theocratic usurpers in public life. Historically anchored yet sharply focused on the contemporary scene, this eloquent indictment of religion’s dangers will be welcomed by committed secular laypersons and progressive religionists alike.

Author : Larry Selden
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781591840077
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Customers & Demon Customers written by Larry Selden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selden and Colvin show readers how to analyze customer data to understand how to get the most out of the most critical customer segments. The authors reveal how some companies (such as Best Buy and Fidelity Investments) have already moved in this direction, and what customercentric strategies are likely to become widespread in the coming years.

Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 193335447X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demons in the Spring written by Joe Meno and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of short stories about the surreal yet dark lives of individuals considered outcasts, misfits, or peculiar to loved ones or the outside world.

Author : Marvin Kaye
Publisher : Marboro Books
ISBN 13 : 9780880296625
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devils and Demons written by Marvin Kaye and published by Marboro Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Lee Martinez
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765354570
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Ogres written by A. Lee Martinez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Gil's All Fright Diner" turns fantasy into farce. As Ogre Company's newly appointed commander, immortal "Never Dead" Ned has only six months to whip these soldiers into shape or face an even more hideous assignment.

Author : Mason Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780843926873
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child of Demons written by Mason Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: