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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007494211
This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power.
Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Economic history
ISBN : 9780942299113
Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The "Accursed Share "provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on notions of scarcity, Bataille's theory develops the concept of excess: a civilization, he argues, reveals its order most clearly in the treatment of its surplus energy. The result is a brilliant blend of ethics, aesthetics, and cultural anthropology that challenges both mainstream economics and ethnology. The three volumes of "The Accursed Share" address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. The first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in economic terms, showing that "it is not necessity but its contrary, luxury, that presents living matter and mankind with their fundamental problems." In the second and third volumes, "The History of Eroticism" and "Sovereignty", Bataille explores the same paradox of utility from an anthropological and an ethical perspective, respectively. "The History of Eroticism" analyzes the fears and fascination, the prohibitions and transgressions attached to the realm of eroticism as so many expressions of the "uselessness" of erotic life. In the third volume, Bataille raises the ethical problems of sovereignty, of "the independence of man relative to useful ends."
Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0300248857
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.The ‘Accursed Tower’ was the focal point of this siege. As the last garrison of the Crusader defences, it came to symbolise the disintegration of the old world and the rise of a new era of Islamic jihad. Crowley’s narrative is based on forensic research, drawing heavily on little known first hand sources, both Christian and Arabic. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of a pivotal moment in world history.
Author : Madeline McGrane
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062954369
*Named a Rainbow Book List Title* A spooky and funny graphic novel perfect for fans of The Witch Boy and Real Friends Dragoslava is a vampire kid. It has its perks, but sometimes being stuck as a kid forever can be a pain in the neck. And that’s not even the worst part. A few centuries ago, Drago was cursed by a witch. If they don’t complete every task she sets, they will be turned into worms. When the witch wants a spellbook from Baneberry Falls, Drago sets off with their immortal friends. But mysteries await in this sleepy Midwestern town, and Drago must figure out if the keepers of the spellbook have a hidden agenda, like everyone else they’ve ever known. One thing’s for sure: after this accursed mission, Drago’s immortal life will never be the same again!
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008117551
“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. A collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon’s epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings.
Author : Terence Finnegan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0813933846
From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during "the age of lynching," Terence Finnegan explains lynching as a consequence of the revolution in social relations--assertiveness, competition, and tension--that resulted from emancipation. A comprehensive study of lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, A Deed So Accursed reveals the economic and social circumstances that spawned lynching and explores the interplay between extralegal violence and political and civil rights. Finnegan's research shows that lynching rates depended on factors other than caste conflict and the interaction of race and southern notions of honor. Although lynching supported the ends of white supremacy, many mobs lynched more for private retaliation than for communal motives, which explains why mobs varied greatly in size, organization, behavior, and purpose. The resistance of African Americans was vigorous and sustained and took on a variety of forms, but depending on the circumstances, black resistance could sometimes provoke rather than deter lynching. Ultimately, Finnegan shows how out of the tragedy of lynching came the triumph of the civil rights movement, which was built upon the organizational efforts of African American anti-lynching campaigns.
Author : Austin Harper
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2019-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781070208916
After sacrificing her humanity to survive a devious assassination, Princess Esteri of Kalest learns that the masterminds that sought her death were none other than her own father and stepmother. Fleeing into the night, she finds allies among the Accursed - those reviled by the world, who share her new affliction. Together, they must struggle to stop the continent from being consumed by an unjust war or the machinations of an ancient conspiracy in a contest of kings and outcasts, of gods and monsters.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007492227
“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : Voyager
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 9780007491254
This was the original game of thrones' George R.R. Martin From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work. "Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!" The Iron King - Philip the Fair - is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty...
Author : Jameel Kermalli
Publisher : Jameel Kermalli
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The Religion al-Islam emphasizes all Muslims, men and women, to learn about Shaytan (Satan) as much as one can, and in the process, to increase faith about the Unity, Power and Dominance of The One Allah. There are many views on The Satan and and this course will take you through almost everything that is out there, and many texts have been translated from Arabic.