Silver State Monsters
Author : David Weatherly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781945950100
Author : David Weatherly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781945950100
Author : David Weatherly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2019-04-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781945950124
Author : David Weatherly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781945950186
Author : David Weatherly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2020-01-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781945950155
Author : Joe Oesterle
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402739408
A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.
Author : Visionary Living, Inc.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0811745775
Find out about the bizarre creatures that live in West Virginia.
Author : David D. Gilmore
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812203224
The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores what human traits monsters represent and why they are so ubiquitous in people's imaginations and share so many features across different cultures. Using colorful and absorbing evidence from virtually all times and places, Monsters is the first attempt by an anthropologist to delve into the mysterious, frightful abyss of mythical beasts and to interpret their role in the psyche and in society. After many hair-raising descriptions of monstrous beings in art, folktales, fantasy, literature, and community ritual, including such avatars as Dracula and Frankenstein, Hollywood ghouls, and extraterrestrials, Gilmore identifies many common denominators and proposes some novel interpretations. Monsters, according to Gilmore, are always enormous, man-eating, gratuitously violent, aggressive, sexually sadistic, and superhuman in power, combining our worst nightmares and our most urgent fantasies. We both abhor and worship our monsters: they are our gods as well as our demons. Gilmore argues that the immortal monster of the mind is a complex creation embodying virtually all of the inner conflicts that make us human. Far from being something alien, nonhuman, and outside us, our monsters are our deepest selves.
Author : Eric Kurlander
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0300190379
“A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. “[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.”—The Washington Post “Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish.”—The Spectator “A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject.”—The Times “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits.”—National Review
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Monica Rodden
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0593125886
Fans of Sadie and You will be riveted by this compulsively readable new thriller about a survivor of dating violence who uses her newfound awareness of everyday evil to hunt for a killer. When Catherine Ellers returns home after her first semester at college, she is seeking refuge from a night she can barely piece together, dreads remembering, and refuses to talk about. She tries to get back to normal, but just days later the murder of someone close to her tears away any illusion of safety. Catherine feels driven to face both violent events head on in hopes of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice with the help of her childhood friend, Henry. Then a stranger from college arrives with her lost coat, missing driver's license--and details to help fill in the gaps in her memory that could be the key to solving both mysteries. But who is Andrew Worthington and why is he offering to help her? And what other dangerous obsessions is her sleepy town hiding? Surrounded by secrets and lies, Catherine must unravel the truth--before this wolf in sheep's clothing strikes again.