Winds of Crete


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A Fair Wind for Troy


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Retells the events leading up to the Trojan War including Helen's capture by Paris and the sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis.




The Winds of Greece


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A 21 year old boy is carried through a portal into Ancient Greece. When he gets there, he must overcome three dangerous challenges. Will he survive? Only time will tell.....










Tower Legends


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The Bible tells of a remote time when men journeyed from the East and found a plain in the land of Shinar. . . . "And they said to one another, 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach heaven.'" Centuries after the building of the Tower of Babel, an Arab poet, El Deraoui, wrote of another tower, the Pharos, the great lighthouse off the northern coast of Egypt, "On its height a dome enshadowed me and thence I saw my friends the stars. I thought the sea below me was a cloud and that I had set up my tent in the midst of the heavens." Since ancient times towers have made a poetic appeal. Towers of many kinds, in all ages and in all countries, have met varying needs. There have been watchtowers, cathedral towers, clock towers, bell towers, towers to commemorate victories, towers to honour the living and towers to celebrate the dead. Around many of the towers, legends have clung - some of these legends are very well known. Towers will always stand midway between fact and poetry, the legends relating to them, more often than not, look in these two directions. This book has brought together 11 such legends with a desire to record some of the characteristic tales that blend with a few of the noble towers of the earth. A percentage of the net sale from this book will be donated to charities which sponsor educational scholarships. Abela Publishing - Republishing Yesterday's Books for Tomorrow's Educations




On Weather Signs


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This text and commentary is the first to take account of all the manuscripts and to place the work in its historical and scientific context, as well as the first to describe its manuscript tradition.




Greece


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For many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of the ancients in the first place and then define an identity for itself that is at once Greek and modern? This book reveals the remarkable achievement, during the last three hundred years, of building a modern nation on the ruins of a vanished civilization—sometimes literally so. This is the story of the Greek nation-state but also, and more fundamentally, of the collective identity that goes with it. It is not only a history of events and high politics; it is also a history of culture, of the arts, of people, and of ideas. Opening with the birth of the Greek nation-state, which emerged from encounters between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, Roderick Beaton carries his story into the present moment and Greece’s contentious post-recession relationship with the rest of the European Union. Through close examination of how Greeks have understood their shared identity, Beaton reveals a centuries-old tension over the Greek sense of self. How does Greece illuminate the difference between a geographically bounded state and the shared history and culture that make up a nation? A magisterial look at the development of a national identity through history, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation is singular in its approach. By treating modern Greece as a biographical subject, a living entity in its own right, Beaton encourages us to take a fresh look at a people and culture long celebrated for their past, even as they strive to build a future as part of the modern West.




AEOLUS AND THE TOWER OF THE WINDS - An Ancient Greek Legend


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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 428 In this 428th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Greek Legend of "AEOLUS AND THE TOWER OF WINDS?. In this book you will be told about the story of the Tower of Winds, which is on Aeolus Street, not far the Athens? Parthenon. The tower had its origin in a daydream of Andronicus, lover of winds and stars. In plain sight of the Athenians, he turned his dream into a reality. The Tower of Winds would tell passersby which wind that was blowing that day. But if Andronicus built the tower, what has Aeolus got to do with it?; and just how many winds are there that a tower was needed to tell the people which wind was blowing? Also, do the winds have names? If so, what are they? Well, to find the answers to these questions, and any others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out! Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. It is our hope that in looking up these place names using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see the images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this, it is also our hope that young people will not only increase their understanding of world geography, but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and their cultures. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES VIEW ANY of the BABA INDABA CHILDREN?S STORIES here on GOOGLE PLAY or at https://goo.gl/65LXNM 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children?s stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, Aeolus and the Tower of Winds, Andronicus, Odysseus, ship, Boreas, water, west, Aeolia, Zephyrus, Zephyr, blowing, blow, Athens, clepsydra, centuries, bronze, figure, island, Greece, Greeks, Eurus, Notus, gods, God, sack, cave, old, Athenians, Apeliotes, Acropolis, comrades, sailors, King, sea, market-place, lament, overboard, feast, dwell, daydream, mountain, mortals, Triton, Athene, voyage, silver, gold, Ithaca, Ilium, waves, stars, lover, wings, blew, blow, sun, entrance, gate, inscription, journeys, divinities, project, Poseidon, Telemachus, southeast, sculptors, northeast, porticoes, Charybdis, northwest, daughters, Parthenon, Hymettus, Achaeans, sundial, Betray, Kaikias, sun-god, Olympus, cistern, Cyrrhus, ox-skin, Phidias, Aquilo, Apollo, Delphi, Scylla, Skiron, Argive, Sicily, herald, Roman, Homer




The Age of Wind Energy


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This unique volume on wind energy features contributions from the world’s leading research and development pioneers in the field of renewable energy. It discusses advances in offshore wind technology, grid-connected systems, grid stabilization and wind turbine design and highlights. Written from an international perspective, chapters focus on the status of wind energy in various regions and countries across the globe, outlining the positive impact its implementation has had on delaying the catastrophic effects of climate change.