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Dragons are everywhere, seemingly hidden in plain sight. These mythological reptilian monsters date far into known human history in nearly every part of the world and are still prevalent in today's media and entertainment. The wide cultural, geographical, and linguistic diffusion of dragons or dragon-like creatures shows how modern humans have influenced each other through shared tales of monsters while simultaneously hinting at a shared genesis. This book introduces dragon myths and legends from around the world by following human culture's shared evolutionary past via language, folklore, the arts, and commerce. Dragons in folklore, literature, and pop culture are analyzed from Eastern and Western perspectives, leading to a dual analysis of dragons in today's popular culture and media. While other books on the topic have focused primarily on classical sources, or on cataloging various dragon tales in general, this work identifies the subtle yet profound ways in which the dragon figure or related motifs have slyly entered into our collective psyche as participants in the modern, interconnected world.
A Promised Land illuminates the key role that Jewish Americans and Judaism played in the country's founding, engaging the larger question of guaranteeing religious freedom at a critical juncture in American history.
While the Civil War raged in the east, the Platte River Raids would begin an entirely new battle for the American West. In July of 1864, Northern Plains Indians in Idaho Territory (Wyoming) appeared to be on a warpath to cease all emigrant travel on the Bozeman, Oregon, and Overland Trails by any means. On a signal, hundreds of warriors launched a series of attacks and robberies on unsuspecting emigrants through the winding “Black Hills.” Shots rang out and arrows whizzed as miners, doctors, farmers, families, and war widows rallied their covered wagons together. Some fought to defend their stock and protect their families. Others helped bury the bodies of those who did not survive. Read the eyewitness testimonies of nearly 70 survivors, vetted by living descendants, mapped out, annotated, and presented in one accord for the first time in literary history.
Kylie Pendragon has accepted her life in Thaydon, serving as a medicine woman and witch. Her new life is shattered when she attends King Matthew Sheridans Christmas wake, for the wizard Lignoss crashes the wake and kidnaps Kelly. Twisting Kellys religion, Lignoss creates a dangerous cult, promising the enslaved white men of Bromfryel freedom if they slaughter the black aristocrats and declare Lignoss King. Suddenly, the book of Revelations comes true as people disappear. Desperate, Kylie resurrects Sheridan, knowing the superheroes will renounce her. Sheridans magic alone can help Kylie save Kelly, and Bromfryel. But can Kylie stop the apocalypse?
This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulating new discussions at the interface between Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is a collection of substantive, sophisticated and variegated essays, combining case studies with theoretical reflections, organized into three sections: race and blood, metropoles and colonies, and history and memory. Twelve chapters treat converso slave traders, race and early Afro-Portuguese relations in West Africa, Sephardim and people of color in nineteenth-century Curaçao, Portuguese converso/Sephardic imperialist behavior, Caspar Barlaeus’ attitude toward Jews in the Sephardic Atlantic, Jewish-Cr...
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"A truly wonderful and captivating series." By USA Today Bestselling Author, Elena Aitken! ***Contains books 7-9 plus a bonus story in The Springs Series*** Summit of Desire—Kylie & Malcolm had their happy ever after. Or did they? When insecurity and doubt begin the threaten their relationship, will Kylie be able to overcome her self sabotage in time to discover who she is and what she really wants—before she loses everything? Summit of Seduction—With her life and responsibilities already threatening to overwhelm her, the last thing Cynthia needs in her life is a man. Despite her determination to keep him at arms length, there’s something about Seth that keeps her coming back. But how will they navigate their new future when Cynthia discovers a truth that will rock both of their worlds? Summit of Passion—Deanna has a crazy plan to get out of town for good. A plan that requires Marcus to pretend to be in love with her. The only problem is the history the two of them share and the passion that still smolders between them. Now they both must decide if the lives they thought they wanted is worth sacrificing a second chance at love.
Just what makes a locale one of the world's most mysterious places is a subject open to debate. But if Bigfoot, UFOs, and chain-rattling ghosts all appear in one particular location, time and again, along with a fantastic range of other bizarre phenomena, then this is highly suggestive that the place is truly weird and mysterious in the extreme. Readers will learn startling truths of these amazing, paranormal locations and uncanny hot spots. Included are eerie haunts scattered across the United States, Russia, Canada, and just about everywhere in between, including such infamous locales as Death Valley, the Bermuda Triangle, Loch Ness, and even the New York City subway. Also addressed are the various theories that have been posited to explain why such places have become so infinitely weird in the first place. This is a wild tour of the world and its many rich cultures and folklore that reveals the top twenty-five places on Earth that are...well...incredibly weird and mysterious.
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