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In the desert of North Africa a herdboy, Tariq, is born to a brave woman who passes on her conviction that he will be a great man. Convinced by the words of a soothsayer, uttered before he was born, Tariq is conscious that he is to be a man of destiny. He trains hard as a warrior and proves himself at an early age.
A Time of Myth and Legend... The epic saga of Jason and the Argonauts has endured for thousands of years. United under Jason's command, the Quest for the Golden Fleece brought together many of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology, including Atalanta, the ancient world's finest female athlete, and Hercules, the legendary son of Zeus. Tragedy strikes the Argonauts when Jason himself is slain by treacherous pirates. Blaming himself for his friend's death, Hercules embarks on a perilous quest to rescue Jason's soul from the underworld. But the realm of the dead holds may challenges for Hercules and his companions as they dare to brave... THE GATES OF HADES At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including the Paris manuscript T.
Twenty-four action-packed scenes, accompanied by an easy-to-follow narrative, chronicle the astonishing feats of the legendary Greek strongman as he confronts one awesome challenge after another.
The Human Genome Project has spawned a Renaissance of research faced with the daunting expectation of personalized medicine for individuals with sickle cell disease in the Genome Era. This book offers a comprehensive and timeless account of emerging concepts in clinical and basic science research, and community concerns of health disparity to educate professionals, students and the general public about meeting this challenging expectation. Contributions from physicians, research scientists, scientific administrators and community workers make Renaissance of Sickle Cell Disease Research in the Genome Era unique among the catalogue of books on this genetic disorder.Part 1 offers detailed revie...
Hercules Half man, half god, Hercules is the most famous hero of ancient Greece. Possessed of enormous strength, the son of Zeus roams the world in search of adventure, sharing the glories of a bygone age with such legendary comrades as Jason of the Argonauts and the proud warrior woman, Atalanta. Prepare yourself for the wonders, O mortal, as the Quest for the Golden Fleece sets sail one more.... The Vengeance of Hera The Isle of Thorna is plagued by a man-eating cyclops who demands a terrible tribute from the terrorized citizens: six of their sons and six of their daughters must be sacrificed each year to appease the giant's hunger. Hercules dares to challenge the cyclops, but their epic battle is only the beginning of his troubles, for Hera, the vengeful Queen of the Gods, has her own plot to destroy Hercules! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
"400 United Irishmen and fellow-rebels brought the spirit of Irish rebellion "down under" in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - and changed Australia forever. At Castle Hill in 1804, this "army of shadows" carried on where they left off but during Bligh's overthrow in 1808, they stood back from a fight that was not theirs. The "political Irish" played a central role in the developing colony. Their professions, trades and skills made them useful as clerks, storekeepers and teachers, and fitted them to be overseers and constables, and helped bring self-sufficiency to the still-fragile colonial economy. They remained revolutionaries; only they negotiated change rather than raised warlike rebellion. Through their open defiance and quiet manipulation of authority, the harp "new strung" resonates to this day in the Australian ethos that United Irishmen helped to create." -- book cover.
During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, they wove a tapestry of correspondence that has become a cherished part of American history and literature. With Abigail and John Adams, historian G. J. Barker-Benfield mines those familiar letters to a new purpose: teasing out the ways in which they reflected—and helped transform—a language of sensibility, inherited from Britain but, amid the revolutionary fervor, becoming Americanized. Sensibility—a heightened moral consciousness of feeling...
Harold W. Attridge has engaged in the interpretation of two of the most intriguing literary products of early Christianity, the Gospel according to John and the Epistle to the Hebrews. His essays explore the literary and cultural traditions at work in the text and its imaginative rhetoric aiming to deepen faith in Christ by giving new meaning to his death and exaltation. His essays on John focus on the literary artistry of the final version of the gospel, its playful approach to literary genres, its engaging rhetoric, its delight in visual imagery. He situates that literary analysis of both works within the context of the history of religion and culture in the first century, with careful attention to both Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds. Several essays, focusing on the phenomena connected with Gnosticism, extend that religio-historical horizon into the life of the early Church and contribute to the understanding of the reception of these two early Christian masterpieces.