Usurper And The Heir

Author : Russell Walterhouse
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479748749
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Usurper and the Heir written by Russell Walterhouse and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usurper and the Heir is an epic fantasy novel set in a medieval era where betrayal and vile deeds flourish among the courage and integrity of a few who seek to restore the rightful king to the throne of Ukorstria. Yet, shifting allegiances and human weakness complicate the journey. Meanwhile enemies see opportunity amid the chaos and confusion. The result is an immensely rich tale where characters come to life in a land that comes to life as the story unfolds.

Author : Mario Liverani
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443336
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography written by Mario Liverani and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts from various regions of the Ancient Near East. The distinguished Italian historian Mario Liverani suggests that these historiographical texts were of a "true" historical nature and that their literary forms achieved their intended results. Liverani focuses on two central themes in these texts: myth and politics. There is a close connection, Liverani finds, between the writing of history and the validation of political order and political action. History defines the correct role and behavior of political leaders, especially when they do not possess the validation provided by tradition. Historical texts, he discovers, are more often the tools for supporting change than for supporting stability. Liverani demonstrates that history writing in the Ancient Near East made frequent use of mythical patterns, wisdom motifs, and literary themes in order to fulfill its audience's cultural expectations. The resulting nonhistorical literary forms can mislead interpretation, but an analysis of these forms allows the texts' sociopolitical and communicative frameworks to emerge.

Author : Sarah Zettel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440543755
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Usurper's Crown written by Sarah Zettel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Lotfield was a good woman, doing right by her parents, protecting her sensitive sister, and reliably completing her fair share of the chores necessary for life in their fishing village in 1872, on the cold shore of Lake Superior. Then Avan came. He said he was Norwegian, as many of the fisherman were. He was different—kind and quiet and strong—and one day he somehow miraculously helped to save her sister form a terrible fate in a watery grave. She knew Avan was from a far land, knew he loved her. They would be married, have children . . . be fisherfolk as had generations before them. But before they could wed, he was called back to the land of his birth, a land beyond the shore of Superior, beyond Earth, a magical land where he was more than a fisherman. He had to go. He wouldn’t see her hurt, and there were untold forces in his homeland, Isavalta, that could harm her beyond her wildest imaginings. But her love was too strong for him to resist. She would go with him, no matter the risks. So brave, so dear. Together they would face danger and excitement: to save an empire and its empress, and find their own fate, no matter what peril, mo matter how strange.

Author : Nathan Tarcov
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739100851
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locke's Education for Liberty written by Nathan Tarcov and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locke's Education for Liberty presents an analysis of the crucial but often underestimated place of education and the family within Lockean liberalism. Nathan Tarcov shows that Locke's neglected work Some Thoughts Concerning Education compares with Plato's Republic and Rousseau's Emile as a treatise on education embodying a comprehensive vision of moral and social life. Locke believed that the family can be the agency, not the enemy, of individual liberty and equality. Tarcov's superb reevaluation reveals to the modern reader a breadth and unity heretofore unrecognized in Locke's thought.

Author : Richard Tuck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521285094
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Rights Theories written by Richard Tuck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.

Author : Douglas Milewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Usurper written by Douglas Milewski and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth is a faithful general of the King's army, putting down rebellions and defending the throne, but when the King selects his own son as heir to the throne. After being cursed by witches at a crossroad, Macbeth betrays his sovereign. Seizing the throne, MacBeth's begins a cascades of tragedies that plunges Scotland into civil war.

Author : Alan Rudrum
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487115
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Prose written by Alan Rudrum and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years. The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton’s epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.) The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.

Author : Sarah Allan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438462263
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heir and the Sage, Revised and Expanded Edition written by Sarah Allan and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the accounts of change of rule in Chinese texts from 600 to 100 BC, including the core philosophical works of the Chinese tradition attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Hanfeizi, and Zhuangzi. Drawing from the early structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Sarah Allan demonstrates that similar motifs repeat in every period, and argues that they serve, like myth, to mediate the inherent social conflict between kinship relations and that of the larger community. This conflict is embodied in the idea of a dynastic cycle, founded by a virtuous sage king and passed down hereditarily until a last evil ruler is again replaced, and played out at regular intervals in legends of kings and ministers, heirs and sages, ministers and recluses, regents and rebels. Each philosophical text transforms the legends in a systematic manner to reflect its own understanding of the patterns of history that inform the present. In this revised and expanded edition, Allan has added translations and original Chinese texts, as well as a new introduction further analyzing structuralism and discussing how the book remains relevant to ongoing sinological arguments. An earlier article by Allan, with supporting evidence for this book’s thesis, is included as an appendix. Sarah Allan is Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in Honor of Richard M. Bressler at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts; The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue; and The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China, all published by SUNY Press.

Author : John Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hobbes written by John Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Glass Bertram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of Real Life as Seen in the Theatrical World and in Bohemia written by James Glass Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: