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Demeter
The BookTok beloved Taking of Persephone series continues in Demeter, with more romance and myth from the point of view of the goddess of the harvest. Demeter's life is a delicate balance, tending to her crops while raising her spirited and curious child Kore. She yearns for Kore to tread the path she has carefully laid, but fate and Kore herself have different plans, and mother and daughter soon find themselves at the cruel mercy of Zeus. Just as Demeter is poised to reveal a life-shattering secret to Kore, she awakens to find that her beloved daughter has vanished. Gripped by sorrow and anguish, Demeter embarks on her own quest to find Kore. For so long, the goddess of the harvest has kept to her tasks in the mortal world, kept her divine head down, and sheltered her daughter from the storms of Olympus. Can she face the past, disrupt her meticulously crafted existence, and venture into the chaos that threatens to consume the world? Myth made her into a villain, but Demeter has her own story to tell.
Hades
The BookTok beloved Taking of Persephone series continues in Hades , the epic love story of the king and queen of the underworld. "Careful what you say, Goddess," he breathed, "I may not let you leave." A wicked smile spread her lips once more, "Perhaps it is you who should be careful, my king." Heavy is the head who wears the crown of the underworld. The gods of Olympus deride him even as they fear him, leaving him to rule the colorless dark in the lands of the dead. But when Thanatos disappears and Elysium begins to crumble, Hades is must leave his realm for the land of mortals to retrieve the soul of Icarus. He thinks there is nothing for him in the living world until, in a field of wildflowers, he stumbles upon a goddess who knows no fear. Her delicate grace conceals an unwavering spirit, one that may someday outgrow the lies of the gods. As their paths further intertwine, he finds the Goddess of Spring has far more to offer than dainty petals, and that her thirst for vengeance is just as insatiable as his. With more gods, shades, magic and romance, Hades delves deeper into the unforgettable love story begun in Kore from Hades' point of view.
Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation
The discipline of rehabilitation engineering draws on a wide range of specialist knowledge, from the biomedical sciences to materials technology. Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation provides broad background and motivational material to ease readers' introduction to the subject. The book begins with a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the legislative, technological, testing, and design basis of rehabilitation engineering, followed by the fundamentals of design and materials and a full account of the biomechanics of rehabilitation. Major sections of the book are devoted to various aspects of mobility, including detailed discussion of wheelchair design. Valuable additional material deals with seating, prosthetic devices, robotics, and the often-neglected subject of recreational devices and vehicles. More than a thousand references to the research and review literature put readers in touch with the leading edge of a rapidly growing field.
The Taking of Persephone Series
Three Years with Ares is a novella branch off from The Taking of Persephone Series. Kore and her mother, Demeter, have volunteered to help aid bring vegetation back to Greece after the war of Troy had laid waste to the harvest and vegetation. Upon arriving they were soon joined by none other than Ares, The God of War, sent to protect them and according to him, keep an eye on their work by order of his father, Zeus. A chilling piece missing from the timeline and the biggest question asked. Why did Kore go from being terrified of Ares, to also hating him with such a passion? In this short novella, we will find out the answer to that question and see how the two connected over the three years.
The Taking of Persephone Series
A side most often told is the side of one who is blamed for the worst. A story twisted to create the narrative of an evil, overbearing mother. But the truth is far more sinister. Being the Goddess of Harvest is no easy task, especially with a young Divine in tow. Demeter worked diligently at keeping her crops and harvest afloat while raising a rambunctious and curious child.Hoping Kore would soon follow in the solid path Demeter laid out for her, the goddess suddenly finds herself at the mercy of Zeus' order.Marry off Kore to Ares - no threats needed. Before the news could be presented to young Kore, Demeter wakes to find her child vanished in the night.Heartbroken, Demeter sets out in search of young Kore, but what finds her instead sets way to the terror that laid waste to mortal life. What really happened to Demeter after Kore's disappearance?
The Taking of Persephone Series: Kore
WHO WAS PERSEPHONE before she was the Queen of the Underworld?She was merely A CHILD NAMED KORE.KORE, THE GODDESS OF SPIRING and youngest daughter to Demeter, had kept few secrets from her mother.One was the true extent of her divinity.The other, was her number of encounters with the King of the Dead since she was but a child.It was upon one of these secret meetings, on her seventeenth year that the God of the underworld gifted Kore a simple crystal from his realm.While saving what she hoped would be enough to pay the ferrymen, Kore overhears her mother speak of an arrangement that had been made between herself and Zeus. One that involved Kore's future being torn from beneath her. One she could not stay to be a part of.Kore finds herself fleeing to the underworld in hopes of finding sanctuary with the King. What seemed like a simple journey at first, quickly turns into a fight for her immortal life. Facing cyclopes, monstrous shades, and vengeful Gods of the realm, Kore soon realizes the journey through the Underworld is not the safest for one such as the Goddess of spring.OR IS IT?
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction
Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth. Through the identification of mythic themes ('mythemes') and patterns within these novels, González shows that these works evoke the female life cycle and develop current perceptions of the female maturational experience. As a result, Salcedo González makes an important contribution in establishing the cultural significance of young adult literature in the world of classical reception. These novels, all written by women, also inflect or interpret the myth...
Electrophysiological Kinesiology
SILENT PERIOD ELICITED BY TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION
ISB '93
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