![]() However, these are mere accidents and he is actually a good man. He accidentally ends up offending some priests, and gets into other such scrapes. Passepartout seems to make mistakes, even though he tries to do the right thing. This story isn’t really about morals, but there are times when people aren’t acting in fitting ways. This is a race for £20,000 and there will only be one winner. Boats and trains are daily business for them, they meet new people everyday, dangers are waiting, and there are people who would do anything to stop their journey. ![]() Passepartout, they set out for a journey they never could have imagined. His friends don’t believe so, but Phileas is sure that it is possible. Nobody expects anything big from him, but one evening they discuss a news article and whether it’s possible to go around the world in just 80 days. ![]() ![]() Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman and a proud member of the Reform Club, has always been the mysterious man, following his routines strictly and playing whist with the club members. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneĪ classic and exiting story with some doubtful spiritual and alcohol/drug content. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Picture of dust jacket where original $24 price is found for Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Picture of the first edition copyright page for Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Picture of the 1999 first edition dust jacket for Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Back of dust jacket has four reviews - by New York Times Book Review, Voice Literary Supplement, San Francisco Chronicle, and New York Times. ![]() Boards are black paper with white lettering on the spine. First edition criteria are: FIRST EDITION is stated on the copyright page with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. It was 273 pages long, and the original retail price was $24. Pages: 273 The first edition of this great book was published by Little, Brown and Company in 1999. First Edition Points and Criteria for Brief Interviews With Hideous Men ![]() ![]() ![]() Through familiar cinematic examples, it emphasizes the myth-making nature of modern-day film and argues that semiotics can be used as a theoretical tool for reading film. Part I introduces film semiotics with plain definitions of terminology. ![]() Japanese Mythology in Film takes a semiotic approach to uncovering such religious and folkloric tropes and subtexts embedded in popular Japanese movies and anime. ![]() They are pop culture’s representations of sacred subtexts in Japan. The narratives of courageous heroes and heroines and the myths and legends of deities and their abodes are not just recurring motifs of the cinematic fantasy world. These are scenes from the visually enticing, spiritually eclectic media of Japanese movies and anime. ![]() A teenage girl drinks a cup of life-giving sake, not knowing its irreversible transformative power. A young mortician carefully prepares bodies for their journey to the afterlife. A Heian-era Taoist slays evil spirits with magic spells from yin-yang philosophy. Book excerpt: A cyborg detective hunts for a malfunctioning sex doll that turns itself into a killing machine. This book was released on with total page 263 pages. Book Synopsis Japanese Mythology in Film by : Yoshiko Okuyamaĭownload or read book Japanese Mythology in Film written by Yoshiko Okuyama and published by Lexington Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She described the majority of her work as having been telepathically dictated to her by a Master of Wisdom, initially referred to only as "the Tibetan" or by the initials "D.K.", later identified as Djwal Khul. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.īailey's works, written between 19, describe a wide-ranging neo-Theosophical system of esoteric thought covering such topics as how spirituality relates to the Solar System, meditation, healing, spiritual psychology, the destiny of nations, and prescriptions for society in general. Bailey was born as Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England. Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880 – December 15, 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prom was just a few weeks away but Quentin wasn't really looking for it. When they were in high school Margo had a boyfriend, and Quentin met two great new friends. He didn't really know what it was though. Soon he had a very weird feeling for Margo. Nine years later, they were in high school, but the two friends were no longer together. She got a few infomation and went to talk to her friend about the who the man was, how was he killed and why. ![]() When Quentin was told to go to bed by his mom, Margo went and asked other who the bloody guy was and who knows him? She also wanted to know why he killed himself in the first place. When they told their parents about the problem they called 911 and told them everywhere. Margo was really curious when she was small, and Quentin was very overprotected over her sometimes. They had been great friends when they were young, when they saw a dead and bloody man at a park. ![]() The book I had read so far on Paper Towns are about the two adventurous friends, Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of his diminished mental capacity, he acts in a childlike manner and believes that he is the Angel Gabriel, waiting for St. He suffered a traumatic head injury in World War II that left a metal plate in his head. Rose is the mother of Corey, Troy's youngest son. ![]() Troy maintains an affectionate patriarchal relationship with Rose, demanding respect from her as the head of the household and primary bread winner, though he is greatly influenced by her realistic take on the changing world. Rose is Troy's second wife, who he married after being released from prison. ![]() His past mistakes and failures greatly influence his outlook on life and his relationship with his sons. He was once a great baseball player in the Negro Leagues, but he was too old to join the Major Leagues when they were integrated. Troy is a tragic-hero he is dedicated to a fault to providing for his family and to making sure his sons have better lives than he has had. He works for the Sanitation Department as a garbage collector. He is a working class African American man who lives with his wife, Rose, and son, Corey, in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 'Gaza Blues', Keret and El-youssef have created a collection of darkly humorous tales that reflect the dreams and nightmares of living in Israel today, and in Lebanon during the first Intifada. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Inspired by the belief that their fiction can coexist even if their nations appear unable to do the same, Israeli Etgar Keret and Palestinian Samir El-youssef have engaged in a provocative artistic collaboration. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. ![]() *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Macmillan, Australia, 2006. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leo doesn’t know what’s going on either, but with strange, aggressive wind and rain, it seems best they stick together. After a few days, she finds one other person: Leo Sterling, a musician she’s seen around school but rarely talked to. ![]() When she wakes up one day to a completely empty city, she doesn’t know what to do. She doesn’t have time for the world to end. Hannah Ashton has a ballet audition to prepare for. Because nothing is quite as it seems, and if Hannah and Leo don't figure out what's going on, they might just be torn apart forever. But while their empty world may appear harmless. Together, they search for answers amid crushing isolation. Leo is a burst of honesty and fun that draws Hannah out, and Hannah's got Leo thinking about someone other than himself for the first time. Hannah doesn't have to be just an overachieving, music-box-perfect ballerina, and Leo can be more than a slacker, 80s-glam-metal-obsessed guitarist. Stuck with only each other, they explore a world with no parents, no friends, and no school and realize that they can be themselves instead of playing the parts everyone expects of them. ![]() Leo might be the hottest boy ever (and not just because he's the only one left), but he's also too charming, too selfish, and too much of a disaster for his own good, let alone Hannah's. The entire city around her is empty, except for one other person: Leo Sterling. ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Odds are they won’t survive the week anyway. After Mal accepts, he discovers the real catch: an ancient secret that will change his and Bryce’s life forever.Īh, what the hells. Until a mysterious stranger offers a drunken Mal the chance to gain back all he’s lost-for a price. ![]() Then he’s magically shackled to the man and expected to instruct him in Supernatural 101.Īll right, now things couldn’t possibly get worse. And when he discovers that the tree hugger is really a druid, he’s certain the gods have it in for him-after all, there’s always a catch with druids. When he’s not dodging random fae assassins in the Outer World, he’s going toe-to-toe with his tree-hugging neighbor. But how effective can he be in saving the planet when he can’t even get his surly neighbor to separate his recycling?įormer Queen’s Enforcer Mal Kendrick doesn’t think his life could get any worse: he’s been exiled from Faerie with a cursed and useless right hand. ![]() ![]() Professor Bryce MacLeod has devoted his entire life to environmentalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he spends time alone in the woods, clues about his past and destiny begin to fall into place with the aid of another silver-eyed creature. ![]() He saves the creature's life but incurs his father's wrath, and Allakau is given one last chance to prove himself a productive part of the tribe or be left behind to die. ![]() As another season reaches its end and winter approaches, Allakau encounters a narwhal with silver eyes similar to his own. His people survive by hunting, but Allakau is unable to kill or eat flesh. After so long as an outcast, can Quay help, does he hold any power at all?Shifting Silver-The year is 1618, and Allakau is different from the other members of the Alaskan Yupik tribe. When a series of strange deaths point to danger broiling within the fairy kingdom, Quay is torn. Even as memories of the torture and betrayals of the past haunt him, Quay begins to fall in love-an act that should be so simple, but is illegal for such as he. But emotions and longings he believed dead stir once more as he watches his beloved brother emerge from his chrysalis to take his place as the prince. Emerging Rebellion-Having lost his birthright as heir to the throne, Quay made peace with his lot as an outcast of fairy society years ago. The Men of Myth Companion Stories contains two stand-alone novellas. |