The Goddess La Deesse

Author : Christian Sumi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783037786260
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goddess--La Déesse written by Christian Sumi and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the beloved Citroën DS, icon of screen, street and style, through drawings, photos and ephemera From the moment of its debut in 1955, the Citroën DS was a sensation and a magnet for movie stars, designers, philosophers and politicians alike. No other automobile was able to combine form and technology so coherently and seemingly effortlessly. Radical in its implementation and revolutionary in terms of comfort and safety, the DS is one of the most innovative design icons of the 20th century. In collaboration with Lars Müller Publishers, the Swiss architect Christian Sumi published the new edition of AS in DS(Alison Smithson in DS) in 2001. In this new book, he examines the characteristics of this classic vehicle, such as the body, the chassis or the legendary hydraulics, which he documents in carefully arranged picture series and with drawings by Flaminio Bertoni and the Citroën design team. Using image essays from advertising campaigns for the Citroën DS, Sumi critically examines its reception and iconization, along with theories that discuss the phenomenon in both a contemporary and philosophical context.

Author : Geneviève Pettersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550654370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goddess of Fireflies written by Geneviève Pettersen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1996, and small-town life for 14-year-old Catherine is made up of punk rock, skaters, shoplifting, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Her parents are too busy divorcing to pay her headful of unspent angst much attention. But after she tries mess - a PCP variant - for the first time, her budding rebellion begins to spiral out of control. Universally acclaimed as the modern-day coming-of-age story for a generation of Québécois youth growing up in the 1990s, Géneviève Pettersen's award-winning debut novel both shocked and titillated readers in its original French, who quickly ordained it a contemporary classic and a runaway bestseller. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, the hotly tipped Québécois director behind Inch-Allah (2012), is currently adapting the story to film. Now Esplanade Books is honored to present The Goddess of Fireflies to English readers for the first time in a powerful translation from award-winning novelist Neil Smith, author of Boo and Bang Crunch.

Author : M. K. Hobson
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0345526392
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Goddess written by M. K. Hobson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies. Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought’s family and the magical elite of the nation’s wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily’s future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?

Author : Susan Tower Hollis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780937946
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Egyptian Goddesses written by Susan Tower Hollis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importance endured throughout more than three millennia of ancient Egyptian history, their origins, earliest roles, and relationships in religion, myth, and cult have never before been studied together in detail. Showcasing the latest research with carefully chosen illustrations and a full bibliography, Susan Tower Hollis suggests that the origins of the goddesses derived primarily from their functions, as, shown by their first appearances in the text and art of the Protodynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods of the late fourth and third millennia BCE. The roles of the goddess Bat are also explored where she is viewed both as an independent figure and in her specific connections to Hathor, including the background to their shared bovine iconography. Hollis provides evidence of the goddesses' close ties with royalty and, in the case of Neith, her special connections to early queens. Vital reading for all scholars of Egyptian religion and other ancient religions and mythology, this volume brings to light the earliest origins of these goddesses who would go on to play major parts in later narratives, myths, and mortuary cult.

Author : Michelle Skye
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738710806
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goddess Alive! written by Michelle Skye and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Danu, the Irish mother goddess of wisdom; Freya, the Norse goddess of love and war; and eleven other Celtic and Norse goddesses very much alive in today's world. Explore each deity's unique mythology and see how she relates to Sabbats and moon rites. Goddess Alive, also includes crafts, invocation rituals, and other magical activities to help you connect with each goddess.

Author : R. J. Cardullo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463008780
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker written by R. J. Cardullo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "André Bazin (1918–58) is credited with almost single-handedly establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of the postwar French cinema: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, and Claude Chabrol. Bazin can also be considered the principal instigator of the equally influential auteur theory: the idea that, since film is an art form, the director of a movie must be perceived as the chief creator of its unique cinematic style.André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s contains, for the first time in English in one volume, much if not all of Bazin’s writings on American cinema: on directors such as Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Erich von Stroheim, and Elia Kazan; and on films such as High Noon, Citizen Kane, Rear Window, Limelight, Scarface, Niagara, The Red Badge of Courage, Greed, and Sullivan’s Travels.André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker: American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s also features a sizable scholarly apparatus, including a contextual introduction to Bazin’s life and work, a complete bibliography of Bazin’s writings on American cinema, and credits of the films discussed. This volume thus represents a major contribution to the still growing academic discipline of cinema studies, as well as a testament to the continuing influence of one of the world’s pre-eminent critical thinkers."

Author : Lex Hixon
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835607025
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother of the Universe written by Lex Hixon and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who love poetry will appreciate the wildly metaphysical, allegorical, and yet intensely honest and personal songs of the eighteenth-century poet and saint Ramprasad. These songs vividly present the mystery of the Feminine Divine, an intimate experience of the Mother, and a vast play of energy sustained by the Goddess Kali.

Author : Aïcha Rahmouni
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004157697
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts written by Aïcha Rahmouni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the divine epithets in the Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform texts from Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani provides a new and comprehensive analysis of the epithets of the individual Ugaritic deities.

Author : Pierre Jean de Béranger
Publisher : New York : F.A. Stokes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs from Béranger written by Pierre Jean de Béranger and published by New York : F.A. Stokes. This book was released on 1888 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mariana Gabrielle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781508654360
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Déesse Noire: the Black Goddess written by Mariana Gabrielle and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sired by a British peer, born of a paramour to Indian royalty, Kali Matai has been destined from birth to enthrall England's most powerful noblemen-though she hadn't counted on becoming their pawn. Finding herself under the control of ruthless men, who will not be moved by her legendary allure, she has no choice but to use her beauty toward their malicious and clandestine ends. When those she holds most dear are placed in peril by backroom political dealings, she enlists some of the most formidable lords in England to thwart her enemies. But even with the help of the prominent gentlemen she has captivated, securing Kali's freedom, her family, and the man she loves, will require her protectors stop at nothing to fulfill her desires.