Notorious Sorcerer


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"Vibrant, explosive, deliciously dangerous, and impossibly fun." —Tasha Suri "A brilliant alchemical recipe!" —Olivia Atwater "I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut." —Shannon Chakraborty A wickedly entertaining fantasy debut bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist. Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night, and where rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the four planes of reality. Siyon Velo, Dockside brat turned petty alchemist, scrapes a living hopping between the planes to harvest ingredients for the city’s alchemists. But when Siyon accidentally commits an act of impossible magic, he’s catapulted into the limelight—which is a bad place to be when the planes start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send the city into the sea. It will take a miracle to save Bezim. Good thing Siyon has pulled off the impossible before. Now he just has to master it. The Burnished City Notorious Sorcerer




Hakluytus Posthumus


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Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes


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A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.




Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective


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This book explores choice behavior as constrained by culture, biology, and psychoanalytic processes in a variety of ethnographic contexts in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa--the arena in which the controversy between Derek Freeman and anthropologist Margaret Mead's ideas of culture first developed. It also examines the interface between a nomothetic anthropology and a hermeneutic, idiographic anthropology, raising the critical question as to how ethnographic "knowledge" of another culture is achieved and transmitted to others. Freeman rejects an exclusive reliance on either culture or biology as key to explaining human behavior, proposing instead an interactionist paradigm. Fundamental to this paradigm is choice behavior, which is intrinsic to our biology and basic to the formation of culture: for cultures are the accumulation of socially sanctioned past choices. However, the greater the freedom to choose, the greater the scope for good or bad, and the greater the need for ethics, rules, and laws for defining prohibited alternatives. Choice and Morality investigates these themes. Its authors examine the emergent nature of social reality as a result of choice behavior and illustrate the complexity of Freeman's theoretical position.




Fruit of the Motherland


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An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.




The Other World


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"The Other World" in 2 volumes features about fifty examples of the Supernatural collected by Frederick George Lee. The facts and records set forth have been gathered from time to time in the period of twenty years, as well from ordinary historical narrations as from the personal information of several Lee's friends and acquaintances interested in the subject-matter of the book. Many examples of the Supernatural were published here for the first time, in an authoritative and complete form. Table of Contents. Volume 1: Introductory – Materialism of the present age The Miraculous in Church History Spiritual Powers and Properties of the Church – Sacraments – Sacramentals – Exorcism Witchcraft and Necromancy Dreams, Omens, Warnings, Presentiments, and Second Sight Volume 2: Spectral Appearances of Persons at the Point of Death and Perturbed Spirits Haunted Houses and Localities Modern Spiritualism Summary and Conclusion




The Other World: Glimpses of the Supernatural


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"The Other World" in 2 volumes features about fifty examples of the Supernatural collected by Frederick George Lee. The facts and records set forth have been gathered from time to time in the period of twenty years, as well from ordinary historical narrations as from the personal information of several Lee's friends and acquaintances interested in the subject-matter of the book. Many examples of the Supernatural were published here for the first time, in an authoritative and complete form. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Introductory – Materialism of the present age_x000D_ The Miraculous in Church History_x000D_ Spiritual Powers and Properties of the Church – Sacraments – Sacramentals – Exorcism_x000D_ Witchcraft and Necromancy_x000D_ Dreams, Omens, Warnings, Presentiments, and Second Sight_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Spectral Appearances of Persons at the Point of Death and Perturbed Spirits_x000D_ Haunted Houses and Localities_x000D_ Modern Spiritualism_x000D_ Summary and Conclusion




WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC - Ultimate Collection


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"WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC" is a carefully assembled collection of books on witchery, witch trials, demonology and spiritualism. The book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: The Superstitions of Witchcraft The Devil in Britain and America Witchcraft in Europe: History of Magic and Witchcraft: Magic and Witchcraft Lives of the Necromancers Witch, Warlock, and Magician Irish Witchcraft and Demonology Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch Sidonia, the Sorceress La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Tales & Legends: Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Witch Stories Studies: The Witch Mania The Witch-cult in Western Europe Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland Modern Magic Witchcraft in America: Salem Trials: The Wonders of the Invisible World Salem Witchcraft Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682 House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 Studies: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism On Witchcraft: Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft