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In the space of a single day, everything Fortuna thought she knew was exposed as lies and illusion. Alliances have shifted and roles are forever changed. And she now finds herself a prisoner in the Seelie Court.
It is here that Fortuna learns the board for this game is even bigger than she believed. New players emerge from the shadows and the stakes are higher than ever before. There’s no time for pain or healing—just survival.
At least, that’s what Fortuna thinks. Then the game leads her to an opponent who doesn't fight with magic or swords. An opponent that not even she can beat.
It turns out she didn’t even know the meaning of fear... until now.
TRIGGER WARNING: This novel contains scenes or themes of torture, slavery, and PTSD.
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin
Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization
in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of
the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, an aesthetic
he dubs occult: a secret and esoteric effect that can dissipate in
the face of an awareness of its existence. Drawing upon theories of
sound from Sergei Eisenstein to Pierre Schaeffer to Michel Chion,
the book investigates points of synchronization as something like
repose, providing moments of comfort in a potentially threatening
environment that can be fraught with sound and image stimuli.
Correspondingly, lack of synchrony between sound and images is
characterized as potentially disturbing for the viewer, a
discomfort that signals moments of danger. From this perspective,
the interplay between the two becomes the central dynamic of
audio-visual culture more generally, which, as Donnelly argues,
provides a starting point for a new understanding of audio/visual
interactions. This fresh approach to the topic is discussed in
theoretical and historical terms as well as elaborated through
analysis of and reference to a broad selection of films and their
soundtracks including, among others, Singin' in the Rain, Saw,
Shanghai Express, and Assault on Precinct 13.
Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on
its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one
of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its
author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the
pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury
in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography -
ruthlessly candid in retracing the full range of the author's
experiences, both private and public, and unflinching in its
attempt to analyse the entanglements between the life of the mind
and the life of the body. Dover's distinguished career involved not
only an influential series of writings about the ancient Greeks but
also a number of prominent positions of leadership, including the
presidencies of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the British
Academy. It was in those positions that he became involved in
several high-profile controversies, including the blocking of an
honorary degree for Margaret Thatcher from Oxford University, and a
bitter debate in the British Academy over the fellowship of Anthony
Blunt after his exposure as a former Soviet spy. This edition of
Marginal Comment is much more than a reissue: it includes an
introduction which frames the book in relation to its author's life
and work, as well as annotations based in part on materials
originally excluded by Dover but left in his personal papers on
this death. Now newly available, the memoir provides not only the
self-portrait of an exceptional individual but a rich case-study in
the intersections between an intellectual life and its social
contexts.
Clean Energy and Resource Recovery: Wastewater Treatment Plants as
Bio-refineries, Volume 2, summarizes the fundamentals of various
treatment modes applied to the recovery of energy and value-added
products from wastewater treatment plants. The book addresses the
production of biofuel, heat, and electricity, chemicals, feed, and
other products from municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater,
and sludge. It intends to provide the readers an account of
up-to-date information on the recovery of biofuels and other
value-added products using conventional and advanced technological
developments. The book starts with identifying the key problems of
the sectors and then provides solutions to them with step-by-step
guidance on the implementation of processes and procedures. Titles
compiled in this book further explore related issues like the safe
disposal of leftovers, from a local to global scale. Finally, the
book sheds light on how wastewater treatment facilities reduce
stress on energy systems, decrease air and water pollution, build
resiliency, and drive local economic activity. As a compliment to
Volume 1: Biomass Waste Based Biorefineries, Clean Energy and
Resource Recovery, Volume 2: Wastewater Treatment Plants as
Bio-refineries is a comprehensive reference on all aspects of
energy and resource recovery from wastewater. The book is going to
be a handy reference tool for energy researchers, environmental
scientists, and civil, chemical, and municipal engineers interested
in waste-to-energy.
The extra Calvinisticum, the doctrine that the eternal Son
maintains his existence beyond the flesh both during his earthly
ministry and perpetually, divided the Lutheran and Reformed
traditions during the Reformation. This book explores the emergence
and development of the extra Calvinisticum in the Reformed
tradition by tracing its first exposition from Ulrich Zwingli to
early Reformed orthodoxy. Rather than being an ancillary issue, the
questions surrounding the extra Calvinisticum were a determinative
factor in the differentiation of Magisterial Protestantism into
rival confessions. Reformed theologians maintained this doctrine in
order to preserve the integrity of both Christ's divine and human
natures as the mediator between God and humanity. This rationale
remained consistent across this period with increasing elaboration
and sophistication to meet the challenges leveled against the
doctrine in Lutheran polemics. The study begins with Zwingli's
early use of the extra Calvinisticum in the Eucharistic controversy
with Martin Luther and especially as the alternative to Luther's
doctrine of the ubiquity of Christ's human body. Over time,
Reformed theologians, such as Peter Martyr Vermigli and Antione de
Chandieu, articulated the extra Calvinisticum with increasing rigor
by incorporating conciliar christology, the church fathers, and
scholastic methodology to address the polemical needs of engagement
with Lutheranism. The Flesh of the Word illustrates the development
of christological doctrine by Reformed theologians offering a
coherent historical narrative of Reformed christology from its
emergence into the period of confessionalization. The extra
Calvinisticum was interconnected to broader concerns affecting
concepts of the union of Christ's natures, the communication of
attributes, and the understanding of heaven.
Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel,
where she remains imprisoned to this day. That's the legend,
anyway. A clerical student who's racked up gambling debts to a
local gangster is given an ultimatum - deliver the angel his
grandfather kidnapped, or forfeit various body parts in payment.
And so begins a whirlwind theological paradox - with the student at
its center - in which the stakes are the necessity of God, the
existence of destiny - and the nature of angels.
When Katy's pony, Amber, is diagnosed with a fractured splint bone
and a cracked cannon bone, Katy feels as though the worst has
happened. In reality the worst is yet to come. A decline in
condition along with being attacked by several life threatening
illnesses leads to Amber's future hanging in the balance. Katy is
faced with a decision to either let her go or fight for her. "Why
has this happened to you?" I asked her desperate for some sort of
answer. Her small head was bowed low and her bottom lip trembled.
This wasn't her; it didn't feel as though she was still alive. Her
body was here but her mind and spirit were gone. How could I
possibly make this decision? The facts and my head said to put her
down, but right now the facts weren't good enough and my heart felt
that she deserved more. Katy has the best possible support team
behind her to fight for Amber's life. This then begs the question
can they do it? Will Amber live?
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