Dimension Norraena: Breakthrough


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Living a solitary life in the mountains of San Bernardino, California, a young college instructor, Skylar Winter, experiences what appears to be a bizarre and frightening lucid dream. What she discovers sends shock waves through the corridors of U.S. Intelligence and criminal cartels alike. Trapped emotionally from childhood losses, Skye fears trusting her experiences with others until the danger to her life from a sociopath and another species threatens her existence. Crushed with constant indecision, she turns to the two men who try to protect her and who find themselves in competition for her affection. As her life and death battle unfolds, Skye must find the courage to survive and accept a new reality. An unpredictable adventure has just begun.




Dimension Norraena: Breakthrough


Book Description

Living a solitary life in the mountains of San Bernardino, California, a young college instructor, Skylar Winter, experiences what appears to be a bizarre and frightening lucid dream. What she discovers sends shock waves through the corridors of U.S. Intelligence and criminal cartels alike. Trapped emotionally from childhood losses, Skye fears trusting her experiences with others until the danger to her life from a sociopath and another species threatens her existence. Crushed with constant indecision, she turns to the two men who try to protect her and who find themselves in competition for her affection. As her life and death battle unfolds, Skye must find the courage to survive and accept a new reality. An unpredictable adventure has just begun. Freddi Gold has previously been published in journals, magazines and periodicals as a non-fiction author. Her short stories found their way into several anthologies. Dimension Norraena is the first novel of a trilogy. A former licensed psychotherapist, television/radio host, she also teaches family and intercultural communication. Gold holds a PhD in Human Behavior and Master's in Clinical Psychology. Fascinated with metaphysics and alien lore, Gold embraces her life as a professional writer."




Name of the Game


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Across the horizon glittering lights emerged, appearing like a vacillating, small rectangular form. Andie watched the image slowly increase in size. Gliding peacefully, the approaching cruise ship would anchor in the harbor as the sun rose, the sleepy inhabitants sure to invade land after breakfast. The sound of soft, shuffling feet through the sand came closer. A towel draped over the back of the lounge kept her presence a secret. She held her breath as her hand slipped stealthily into her straw tote and wrapped around the small-caliber weapon. Hyper-vigilant, she listened. Seconds passed as the footsteps grew fainter. Toward the sea, the inescapable darkness gave way as the ship’s lights took form. Danger averted, her cellphone light glowed and she picked up the silent device. It was Carrington, Rincon’s partner. She pressed the phone to eliminate the light just as the first flush of the impending sunrise filtered through the dried palm leaves on the palapa above her. Cabo, her fiercely guarded, unknown hideaway. She couldn’t bear to cope with the agent’s message. An intuitive-sensitive covertly assisting the CIA, the loss of her primary contact within the Company would catapult Andie into a perilous intelligence operation, unexpected romance and other-worldly danger. Game on.




DIMENSION NORRAENA


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FBI, and CIA undercover agents struggle to maintain their connection and protection of the American intra-dimensional teleporter, Skylar Winter. Her progressive infiltration into the Norraender culture and involvement with leader, Zalehr Gullkron, threatens to limit their efforts to use her intel, which previously flowed to their agencies, through her earth-bound lover, Jake Landers. Ryan Eddington, criminal psychopath, now seeks revenge and along with his deceptive ally, Alex Montoya, is determined to end Skye's freedom and harm her physically in the process. Protecting her from within the criminal band is undercover operative, Liam Wylie, who reports directly to colleague Raphael whose cover has just been blown. Within the mystery, a gigantic black panther, Kitty, reappears to lead Skye in ways beyond her imagination. While courage surfaces within, fate finds her unprepared for what evolves. Caught between the two males she loves, romantic suspense leads her to an inevitable and mystifying future. Freddi Gold has previously been published in magazines, and periodicals as a non- ction author. Her short stories found their way into several anthologies. Dimension Norraena; Vision is the third novel of a trilogy. A former licensed psychotherapist, television and radio host, she also teaches family and intercultural communication. Gold holds a PhD in Human Behavior and Master's in Clinical Psychology. Fascinated with global cultural interaction, metaphysics, myths and alien lore, Gold embraces the life of a writer. "




The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe


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This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued. Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes García-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurélien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.




The Women of Atelier 17


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This timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 focuses on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques.




Early Modern Universities


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"This book contains twenty essays by expert scholars of higher learning in the early modern period. Together they discuss topics that historians of universities have largely ignored: notably the extensive collaboration, and occasional conflicts, between university scholars, instructors, and administrators on the one hand, and students at academies, independent and dependent colleges, gymnasia, and Latin schools on the other. The contributions also cover a wide geographical range, covering universities, schools, academies, and the history of the book, in many European states, and Latin America"--




Nell Blaine


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This volume presents the art and life of Nell Blaine, a member of the second generation of the New York School. Her work represents a dialogue between abstract principles and her sensory responses to the visible world. Her oils and watercolours of gardens, landscapes and flower still lifes display her commitment to the pleasure principle, her delight in vision, combined with a gift for improvisation and rhythm learned from the jazz greats of the 1940s.




The "new Woman" Revised


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In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters--Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop--placed their images of modern "new women." Bargain stores, cheap movie theaters, pinball arcades, and radical political organizations were the backdrop for the women shoppers, office and store workers, and consumers of mass culture portrayed by these artists. Ellen Wiley Todd deftly interprets the painters' complex images as they were refracted through the gender ideology of the period. This is a work of skillful interdisciplinary scholarship, combining recent insights from feminist art history, gender studies, and social and cultural theory. Drawing on a range of visual and verbal representations as well as biographical and critical texts, Todd balances the historical context surrounding the painters with nuanced analyses of how each artist's image of womanhood contributed to the continual redefining of the "new woman's" relationships to men, family, work, feminism, and sexuality.




Arabic Studies in the Netherlands


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Arabic is the only living language to have been taught in Dutch higher education for more than four centuries. Practical usefulness, however, has been a prerequisite from the start. Knowledge of Arabic was to promote Dutch interests in the Muslim world, or to help refute Islam. As a cognate of Classical Hebrew, the study of Arabic served as an ancillary science to Biblical studies. Nevertheless, many Arabists such as Thomas Erpenius and Jacobus Golius rose to international distinction. With more than 110 colour illustrations from the Leiden Oriental collections, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands. A Short History in Portraits, 1580-1950 by Arnoud Vrolijk and Richard van Leeuwen will help the reader to gain insight into a fascinating aspect of Dutch intellectual history.