[PDF] The Eye Of The Serpent eBook

Author : S. Theodore Baskaran
Publisher : Tranquebar
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789383260744

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This is a quintessential book for Cinema buffs and particularly those who are passionate about Tamil cinema, which has the distinction of having played a significant role in history of films in India. Tracing the evolution of Tamil films from the time of pre-independence, when it was anathema for local Congress leaders to be associated with the celluloid, to the arrival of an American, Ellis Dungan, who made masterpieces like Meera, the book showcases vignettes about every important milestone in the vast canvas of Tamil films. In the almost ten decades of its evolution, Tamil cinema has grown to exert a dominant influence on the social and political life of Tamil Nadu in a manner that is unparalleled elsewhere in the world. This seminal volume is an analytical study of Tamil cinema both as an art form and as a socio-political force. Theodore Baskaran traces its history, and presents the achievements of many filmmakers with colourful insights. For the film buff as well as the serious student of film studies, The Eye of the Serpent is a handy reference book on several aspects of Tamil cinema - its character and evolution, the songs and songwriters, filmmakers and script writers, the beginnings of the unique nexus between cinema and politics in Tamil Nadu and much more.

Author : Philip Caveney
Publisher : Random House
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407047604

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Egypt 1923. Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings. Accompanied by his faithful valet, Coates, Alec is to spend his summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archaeological dig. It's not the first time he's spent his summer this way . . . but this year things are different. Uncle Will and his young assistant, Tom Hinton, have recently made an amazing discovery - an ancient tomb hidden deep below the earth. But only hours after opening its doors, Uncle Will falls mysteriously ill and Tom seems to have disappeared without trace. Together with Ethan Wade, the young American soldier of fortune who is managing the dig in Uncle Will's absence, and a pretty French woman called Madeleine Duval, Alec sets about unravelling the tomb's mysteries. Seemingly harmless animals have turned into rabid killers . . . long dead mummies are rising from their tombs . . . the spirit of a powerful High Priest is claiming the bodies of the living as his living hosts . . . Together Alec and Ethan must confront a terror that has waited three thousand years to be reborn.

Author : Simon Cheshire
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1848123175

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Crack three more puzzling crimes with Saxby Smart: a valuable work of art vanishes into thin air, a notorious crook returns from the dead, and there’s an eerie case of stolen identity.Saxby Smart – schoolboy detective – returns to unravel three more devious case files, and gives you clues which solve the mystery. Are you ‘smart’ enough to work out the answers?

Author : Robert N. Charrette
Publisher : HarperPrism
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061054990

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The second in the new Aelwyn trilogy. Simce the Timespell set them free, Yan Tanafres and Teletha have wandered far, seeking the lost city and secrets of the Dark Ones. But now Yan's quest is interrupted by war, for the land of Kolvin is besieged. In the slaughter that sweeps across the land, Teletha must prove herself a warrior, and Yan will face the greatest test of any mage.

Author : Philip Caveney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories
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Egypt 1923. Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings. Accompanied by his faithful valet, Coates, Alec is to spend his summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archaeological dig. It's not the first time he's spent his summer this way . . . but this year things are different.

Author : Lin Carter
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2002-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1587156474

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On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, appearing in the body of a fabled hero, he is to experience all that his heroid fantasies had yearned for. A princess to be saved . . . an invader to be thwarted . . . and otherworldly monsters to be faced! A thrilling adventure in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, as only Lin Carter can tell it! This edition includes an afterword by Lin Carter.

Author : Robin Burcell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2025-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1405951540

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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new exciting adventure, continuing the bestselling series from UK No. 1 Bestseller Clive Cussler, the Grand Master of Adventure. The latest action-packed thriller featuring treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. Praise for Clive Cussler: 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Author : Lynne A. Isbell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0674033019

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The global prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection to them—but why, when few of us have firsthand experience? The answer, Isbell suggests, lies in snakes’ singular impact on primate evolution; predation pressure from snakes is ultimately responsible for the superior vision and large brains of primates.

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1451628366

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A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.

Author : Joseph W. Colomban
Publisher : Eye of the Serpent
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781734144703

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Beneath the bloodstained moon, the only thing more insane than the people are the cosmic horrors they call gods. Modernization is fast approaching. The only escape is a desert where sword & sorcery reign supreme, locked in an age of antiquity by its eldritch serpentine overlords. But, the outside world does not intend for it to stay that way. A disillusioned legionnaire and a bloodthirsty barbarian travel east. One to escape the life he knew, the other for revenge. Rebels struggle with their hard-won freedom while a half-breed fights to quell them before his masters do. A pirate takes a job beyond her depth in the hopes of undermining the serpent-men's power. And a sorceress drives herself to the brink of madness in a bid for it. By fate or happenstance, they converge on something far greater than any of them. Their fates hopelessly intertwined, they march forward. Yet no matter how lightly they tread, the chaos each leaves in their wake threatens to swallow the others in this tale of blood, bronze, sorcery, and gunpowder.