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This is the story of two men born six hundred years apart who
experience a deep-rooted connection that they use to solve a
six-hundred year old mystery.
When 25-year-old Pandora Duncan leaves her Progressive family in
Baltimore and moves to North Carolina to pursue a career in
journalism at a small town newspaper, little does she know that her
life has just shifted onto a four-year fast track to adulthood.
Elizabeth James' novel offers a refreshing use of fiction to
forward a condemnation of the Bush Administration. At the same
time, the deeply moving characters in this coming-of-age piece
transcend current politics, making the story timeless. Pandora's
journey from indifference to committed activism reveals her to be a
sexy, quirky, feisty, conflicted, and finally courageous young
woman who is both compelling and unforgettable. The cloying smell
of Magnolia on steamy summer nights, the texture of red clay, the
lacey fragility of blooming Crape Myrtle, and the rich, often
brooding atmosphere elevate the setting to the status of a major
character. While the book is built on the skeleton of contemporary
politics, the heart, soul, and flesh of the novel are an
old-fashioned, well-told story with all the elements of an enduring
classic
This story is set in the late seventh and early eighth centuries
and focuses on the life of a young Saxon, Alric, born in the year
775 at Wearmouth in Northumbria. He has a twin sister, Hilda. His
parents plan for them to take vows. Alric will enter the monastery
at Wearmouth, while Hilda will enter the convent to the south, at
Whitby. All is well until Wearmouth is the focus of an attack by
sea raiders (now known as Vikings) from Scandinavia who appeared
out of the morning mists, killing and pillaging without remorse. In
Alric's sixteenth year they return to Wearmouth, and Alric is
captured. He is taken from his home as a captive bound for a fjord
in what is now modern Norway. A severe storm causes the ship to be
beached, and the raiders suffer the same fate as their victims, but
at the hands of a party of Mesopotamian soldiers. Through the
courtesy of the commander, Alric eventually ends up in Baghdad,
where Harun al-Rashid (Aaron the Just) is the Caliph and at the
time the tales of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights were being told
by the Caliph's wife, Scheherazade. Alric is apprenticed to an
alchemist with medical knowledge, where his role is to pursue
science and develop drugs and other chemicals that help the
Caliph's cause. During this time, Alric becomes a valuable member
of the Caliph's inner circle and becomes familiar with the inner
workings of the House of Light, comprising the royal palace and the
Great Library. As a result of his work, he is able to rise from the
position of captive to apprentice to a status in which he is able
to make contributions to science and medicine. However, he becomes
embroiled in the politics of the palace and a plot to assassinate
the Caliph. Coupled with this, he discovers a cuneiform tablet that
had once been the prized possession of King Nebuchadnezzar and
gives him an insight into chemical and medical science. This tablet
also contains a prophecy that Alric must fulfill.
A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the
world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The
Victoria and Albert Museum, or South Kensington Museum as it used
to be known, was founded by the British Government in 1852, out of
the proceeds from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Like the
Exhibition, it aimed to improve the expertise of designers, and the
taste of the public, by exposing them to examples of good design
from all countries and periods.
2,500 publications have to date been produced by, for, or in
association with the V&A. The National Art Library, which is
part of the Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue,
supplemented by a secondary list of 500 other books closely related
to the V&A. The 1,500 exhibitions and displays recorded include
those held in the main Museum and at its branches, the Bethnal
Green Museum (now the National Museum of Childhood) and the Theatre
Museum, Covent Garden, and additionally those it has organized at
external venues, in Great Britain and abroad. The exhibitions and
publications are fully cross-referenced, and there are name, title
and subject indexes to the whole work, as well as an explanatory
introduction.
Sea of Troubles has been designed for classroom teachers struggling
to address the overwhelming issues facing our world today. By
embracing the Common Core's emphasis on the inclusion of more
nonfiction, informational texts, the authors have demonstrated how
to incorporate meaningful informational texts into their favorite
units of literature. Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature
and informational texts can work together, to enhance each other,
and, by extension, enhance student's abilities to critically think
and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.
For the first time, the collected papers in this volume present an
introduction to the history of women, of men, and eunuchs--or the
third sex--in Byzantium, and to the various theoretical and
methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined.
The contributors use evidence from both written documents and
various artwork to offer a broad picture of the place of women and
Byzantine society and the perceptions of women held by that
society.
"Women, Men and Eunuchs" offers a unique and valuable exploration
of the issue of gender in Byzantium, which will fascinate anyone
interested in ancient and medieval history and gender studies.
The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions of women held by that society. Women, Men and Eunuchs offers a unique and valuable exploration of the issue of gender in Byzantium, which will fascinate anyone interested in ancient and medieval history and gender studies.
This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular
objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature,
prints, drawings and photographs. Housed within the V&A, the
library was, from the beginning, an integral part of the Museum,
formed by, and for, artists and designers as an essential element
of the educational and museological project of Prince Albert and
Henry Cole after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Word & Image
shows how the distinct character of the NAL was formed, and how its
collections created a new kind of bibliographical resource. From a
fifteenth-century book of hours to William Morris's specimen pages
for Jean Froissart's The Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and Other
Places Adjoynynge; from George Cruikshank's studies of Fagin for
Oliver Twist to an Yves Saint Laurent design for the House of Dior;
and from Bill Brandt's photographs to the Book of Nails by Floating
Concrete Octopus, Word & Image explores some of the finest
examples of 'book art' in existence.
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