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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-09-01
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Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus' kleos, or epic renown. Arete's interrogation of Odysseus...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book shows that many characters in the Sanskrit epics - men and women of all varnas and mixed-varna - discuss and criticize discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and disability. On the basis of philosophy, logic and devotion, these characters argue...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-12-31
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'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire Post'Marvellous...Finkel is an expert in Mesopotamian cultures at the British...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2021-11-11
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Amanda Hart was rescued by guardian angels as a child and from thence on they became a beacon of hope throughout her turbulent journey into womanhood. The illuminating conversations she has with her angels remain an important aspect of her everyday life, bringing her...
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Orion Spring
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2021-01-07
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In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon the clothes to recover his human shape, and so he magically turns them to stone, but his secret is revealed when, back in...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-07
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In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon the clothes to recover his human shape, and so he magically turns them to stone, but his secret is revealed when, back in...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-01-07
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'I stayed up late, gripped. An unusual, moving read. I LOVED it!' Marian Keyes'Haunting, tender and true - this story cast a spell on me' Kirsty Logan'This haunting story about the power of love will give you the shivers' Best 'Wonderfully written and evocative' Woman...
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Orion
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2020-07-09
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Gordon Smith is the medium's medium who outstanding gifts are recognised by prominent sceptics and which have been tested in laboratory conditions at Glasgow University, with astonishing results.But usually when we try to assess the claims of psychics and mediums or...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-05-17
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New mysteries, as well as variations on recurring ones, continue to surface on a weekly basis around the globe, from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines everything from the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2013-01-17
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Mammoth Books
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Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration, corpse dumping and live burial. In 1998, something new and inexplicable...
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Mainstream Digital
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2012-02-24
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Yvette Fielding and Ciarn OKeeffe, star presenters of Living TVs Most Haunted, are on a mission - to uncover the truth behind paranormal sightings in the UK and abroad. Exclusively done for this book, their search takes them to some of Britains most frightening...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-12-22
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This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Tintagel in Cornwall...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2011-09-01
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Mammoth Books
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WHERE SPIRITS DWELL unearths the creaking, spine-chilling moments when ghosts appear in suburbia.
Alongside infamous Australian haunted homes, like Junee’s Monte Cristo Homestead and Annandale’s haunted Abbey,WHERE SPIRITS DWELL also takes readers inside other haunted...
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Hachette Australia
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2011-08-29
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Being turned into a vampire is the easy part. Actually becoming a vampire is far more difficult.What to look for in a coffin?How to lure the tastiest prey?How to stay on trend over the centuries?Garlic and sunlight - as dangerous as they'd have us believe?In today's...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-04-13
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This anthology details encounters with ghosts, evil spirits, dark entities, malicious beings, and demonic encounters that’ll send a chill of terror tickling up your spine. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. There’s almost certainly a ghost or two reading over your...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2025-08-01
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Nestled along the rugged coastline of Newfoundland and Labrador are old buildings with histories shrouded in a veil of mystery and intrigue. With their peeling paint and weathered clapboard, these are the province’s historic homes and dwelling places haunted by spectral...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2024-09-20
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Ghost stories are found in every corner of Newfoundland and Labrador, and no one knows them better than storyteller and folklorist Dale Jarvis. In this collection of ghostly tales, Jarvis introduces you to old legends, including spectral Viking longships, encounters...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-09-18
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Ghost stories are found in every corner of Newfoundland and Labrador, and no one knows them better than storyteller and folklorist Dale Jarvis. In this collection of ghostly tales, Jarvis introduces you to old legends, including spectral Viking longships, encounters...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2017-09-18
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More frightening and scary tales from Newfoundland and Labrador.
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2010-07-05
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