The Thieves Of Legend

Author : Richard Doetsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416598995
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thieves of Legend written by Richard Doetsch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krimi. Reformed thief Michael St. Pierre and his crew travel to China on behalf of the U.S. government to obtain a legendary diary that holds the clue to a long-forgotten mystery

Author : Richard Doetsch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439103289
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thieves of Darkness written by Richard Doetsch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irresistible treasure, two master thieves, and a secret as old as mankind . . . Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked up and sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael is stunned to discover that his new girlfriend, KC, is connected to Simon’s case. With a madman on their heels, the three adventurers make their way to Istanbul in search of the mysterious artifact that landed Simon behind bars in the first place: a map containing the location of a holy place lost to the mists of time, a repository of knowledge and treasure predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Testing their courage and wits, Michael and his team are forced to plot a series of daring thefts that take them inside some of the city’s most celebrated (and heavily guarded) sanctums, from the imperial harem of Topkapi Palace to the tombs of the Hagia Sophia itself. More than priceless artifacts are at stake—the lives of loved ones and perhaps the fate of humanity itself hang in the balance. A globe-trotting adventure that wings from the glittering banks of the Bosporus to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, The Thieves of Darkness confirms Richard Doetsch’s place as the modern-day master of pulse-pounding suspense.

Author : Mitchell B. Merback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226520155
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel written by Mitchell B. Merback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western visual culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked in this symbolic language is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital punishment. In The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel, Mitchell Merback reconstructs the religious, legal, and historical context of the Crucifixion and of other images of public torture. The result is an account of a time when criminal justice and religion were entirely interrelated and punishment was a visual spectacle devoured by a popular audience.

Author : A. Gabriel Meléndez
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826352405
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Ponciano Gutiérrez and the Mountain Thieves written by A. Gabriel Meléndez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in the Mora Valley of northern New Mexico there lived a farmer named Ponciano Gutiérrez. On a trip through the mountains he was taken captive by Vicente Silva and his gang of bank robbers. This tale of Ponciano’s quick-witted escape has been a bedtime story for generations in the Paiz family. New Mexico authors at the turn of the last century published many accounts of the crimes of Vicente Silva. This book is the first to present a Silva legend that has been kept alive by families in Mora since the 1890s. The Paiz family version is presented in English with a Spanish translation by A. Gabriel Meléndez.

Author : Xu Ze gang
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
ISBN 13 : 1304428494
Total Pages : 1514 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The legend of heaven and earth written by Xu Ze gang and published by Publicationsbooks. This book was released on with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether he is still alive or not, he reached the late Du Jie at the age of 20. He is a rare pure yang body in a hundred years, and his qualifications are transcendent. He was discovered by a mysterious old man in his childhood and will be

Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Legend, Or, Lives of the Saints written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Zwicker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192890972
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kabuki's Nineteenth Century written by Jonathan Zwicker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabuki's Nineteenth Century examines the theater culture of nineteenth-century Japan from the perspective of the history and materiality of the book, the nature of reception, and the making and making use of images. The aim of this book is to rediscover the kabuki theater of nineteenth-century Japan by shifting our critical focus from performance to print and the public sphere, and thus embedding theater history within the larger world of printed matter by means of which theatricality circulated beyond the stage and through which performance was most often consumed. Fundamental to Kabuki's Nineteenth Century is a reconsideration of the nature of the printed archive itself. The book argues that the archive of printed material related to the theater in nineteenth-century Japan (playbills, actor critiques, theater guides, maps, actor prints, calendars, and broadsheets) is something more than—and more complicated than—a set of materials out of which we might reconstitute the always transient event of performance. Rather, the archive constitutes an object of inquiry unto itself, an object that reveals as much about the interrelations between and among various printed media and genres circulating beyond the confines of the theater as it does about what happened on stage. Even as we use these materials to examine the history of performance, a series of different questions might be asked: what can the production, consumption, and collecting of this enormous body of printed matter tell us about such problems as the role of print in everyday life, the construction of specialized knowledges, and the manner in which a culture archives itself?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Tangherlini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317550641
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore) written by Timothy Tangherlini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synthetic methodologies, enhance greatly our understanding of the world of the legend, and especially the basic question of ‘Who tells what to whom in the form of a legend and why?’ This work is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides us with an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers.