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Taken
Matthew is like most thirteen-year-old boys who likes video games and doing homework at the last minute. He also faces lectures from his parents telling him to apply himself more in school. Every nine weeks he vows to do his homework and turn it in on time. But yet Matthew is doing an extra credit assignment for English class. A book report on The Book. A book that he finds boring but it’s too late to find another book. The night before his report is due, Matthew drifts off to sleep. When he awakens his world is turned upside down. He’s kidnapped by two men, Tweddle Dumb and Muscle. From the kidnappers he learns the truth about his father ‘s embezzlement and how he must testify in order to avoid prison. Taking Matthew was just a precaution to make sure the father recants his story and return the money he stole. Matthew has watched to many movies to know the kidnappers aren’t just going to let him go. Can he get out of this mess and save himself? Will the FBI show up in time? And what other secrets is his family keeping?
The Sibylline Oracles
This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of almost 10.000 words about the oracles in religion * an interactive table-of-contents * perfect formatting for electronic reading devices THE Sibyls occupy a conspicuous place in the traditions and history of ancient Greece and Rome. Their fame was spread abroad long before the beginning of the Christian era. Heraclitus of Ephesus, five centuries before Christ, compared himself to the Sibyl "who, speaking with inspired mouth, without a smile, without ornament, and without perfume, penetrates through centuries by the power of the gods." The ancient traditions vary in reporting the number and the names of these we...
Puck's Library
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In Sunset Land
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Jerusalem Against Rome
While conquering the world, Rome encountered a great number of peoples around the Mediterranean. We know very little about how these populations viewed their conquerors. The Jews were the only people to offer a comprehensive view of Rome over a great span of time. They expressed it in a rich corpus of Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic sources, reflecting the evolution of the relations between Jews and Romans: from alliance and friendship to tensions and revolt, culminating for the Jews in temporary compliance to foreign domination together with hopeful expectations for redemption. The image of Rome which emerges from apocryphal, Talmudic and Midrashic literature durably shaped the Jewish political, moral and eschatological vision of the world and history.
The Eleven Comedies
Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.
Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive Substances
Can drugs be used intelligently and responsibly to expand human consciousness and heighten spirituality? This two-volume work presents objective scientific information and personal stories aiming to answer the question. The first of its kind, this intriguing two-volume set objectively reports on and assesses this modern psycho-social movement in world culture: the constructive medical use of entheogens and related mind-altering substances. Covering the use of substances such as ayahuasca, cannabis, LSD, peyote, and psilocybin, the work seeks to illuminate the topic in a scholarly and scientific fashion so as to lift the typical division between those who are supporters of research and explor...
