Book Description
Ancient Roots and Ruins helps teachers of English and gifted students explore the world of the ancient Romans, focusing on their important role in shaping modern language, history, and culture.
Author : Ariel Baska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Latin language
ISBN : 9781618210913
Ancient Roots and Ruins helps teachers of English and gifted students explore the world of the ancient Romans, focusing on their important role in shaping modern language, history, and culture.
Author : James J. O'Donnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0060787376
Recounts the sixth-century events and circumstances that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : Richard Thornton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1430318287
"The study area included the Appalachian Summit-west of Craggy Knob, NC; the Appalachian Ridge & Valley Province-southof the Holston River; and the upper Piedmont of the Carolinas and Georgia. Whenever possible, the author used Native American names for ethnic groups, cultural pahses and settlement sites." - abstract.
Author : Scott Smith
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307266044
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today
Author : Erin A. Craig
Publisher : Ember
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0593815386
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically-acclaimed author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes a mesmerizing and chilling fairy-talesque novel about Ellerie Downing, a young woman in a small town with monsters lurking in the trees and dark desires hidden in the shadows—in Amity Falls, nothing is more dangerous than a wish come true. Ellerie Downing is waiting for something to happen. Life in isolated Amity Falls, surrounded by an impenetrable forest, has a predictable sameness. Her days are filled with tending to her family's beehives, chasing after her sisters, and dreaming of bigger things while her twin, Samuel, is free to roam as he wishes. Early town settlers fought off monstrous creatures in the woods, and whispers that the creatures still exist keep the Downings and their neighbors from venturing too far. When some townsfolk go missing on a trip to fetch supplies, a heavy unease settles over the Falls. Strange activities begin to plague the town, and as the seasons change, it's clear that something is terribly wrong. The creatures are real, and they're offering to fulfill the residents' deepest desires, however grand, for just a small favor. These seemingly trifling demands, however, hide sinister intentions. Soon Ellerie finds herself in a race against time to stop Amity Falls, her family, and the boy she loves from going up in flames. "Unique, enchanting, and haunting."—Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of the Cursebreaker series “Sweet, dark, and complex as wildflower honey.”—Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf “Small Favors is an eerie fairytale that I couldn’t put down.”—Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching
Author : Benjamin Medrano
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2017-03-26
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Sistina awakened after millennia of dormancy, her memories in tatters and born anew. Residing in the ruins of an ancient city, she finds herself drawn into a war between two elven nations and the slaver kingdom of Kelvanis when she rescues a princess from slavery. With her domain containing hints of forgotten knowledge, Sistina becomes a dungeon, stronghold, and source of hope all at once. And perhaps, just perhaps, she could finally find love in her new life. This is a dark fantasy lesbian romance, with a focus on the dark fantasy.
Author : Seth Graebner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739155970
History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its dominant effect. The North African city became a privileged place in the relationship between literacy and historical discourses in the colony. Graebner analyzes the importance of architecture and urbanism as markers of historical development, as the urban fabric and descriptions of it became signs of difference between metropole and colony. Discussing writers as diverse as Bertrand, Randau, and Kateb, this book examines how the changing Algerian city has remained the locus of a debate colored by various sorts of nostalgia. Graebner demonstrates that nostalgia was symptomatic of historical anxiety generated by colonial conditions, but with literary consequences for mainland France as well. History's Place is a comprehensive and valuable addition to the study of French literature and cultural studies.
Author : Jeffrey W. Cody
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606060546
Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.
Author : John Levi Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0190663596
Introduction: Black classicism in the American empire -- Phillis Wheatley and the affairs of state -- In plain sight: slavery and the architecture of democracy -- Ancient history, American time: Charles Chesnutt and the sites of memory -- Crumbling into dust: conjure and the ruins of empire -- National monuments and the residue of history
Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534453563
"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--