The Gifted Passage
Title | The Gifted Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Houston |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2018-02-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0300230176 |
In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers of hieroglyphics, painted ceramics, and murals, in works that helped to shape and reflect masculinity in Maya civilization. The political volatility of the Classic Maya period gave male adolescents valuable status as potential heirs, and many of the most precious surviving ceramics likely celebrated their coming-of-age rituals. The ardent hope was that youths would grow into effective kings and noblemen, capable of leadership in battle and service in royal courts. Aiming to shift mainstream conceptions of the Maya, Houston argues that adolescent men were not simply present in images and texts, but central to both.
Bright's Passage
Title | Bright's Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Ritter |
Publisher | Dial Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0679604251 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Griefstruck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he’s ever known. His hopes for safety rest with the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son. Haunted by the abiding nightmare of his experiences in the war and shadowed by his dead wife’s father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons, Bright—along with his newborn—makes his way through a ravaged landscape toward an uncertain salvation. DON’T MISS THE EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSH RITTER AND NEIL GAIMAN IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK.
The Comprehension Book
Title | The Comprehension Book PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Dillon |
Publisher | Nelson Thornes |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1997-07 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 0748734546 |
These worksheets draw on material from a variety of genres including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism, advertising and public information. The varied topics and material are ideal for reinforcing understanding across the curriculum.
Northwest Passage
Title | Northwest Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Roberts |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 816 |
Release | 2016-12-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 147334719X |
An exciting and fast paced adventure story based in colonial America. Written from the viewpoint of a fictional friend of the Historic Robert Rodgers, famed in America as the leader of 'Rodgers' Rangers' a guerrilla squadron harassing the English forces throughout the American War of Independence. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
A Passage North
Title | A Passage North PDF eBook |
Author | Anuk Arudpragasam |
Publisher | Hogarth |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-07-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 059323071X |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. “A novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty.”—Anthony Marra “One of the most individual minds of their generation.”—Financial Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances—found at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an impassioned yet aloof activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani’s funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country. At once a powerful meditation on absence and longing, as well as an unsparing account of the legacy of Sri Lanka’s thirty-year civil war, this procession to a pyre “at the end of the earth” lays bare the imprints of an island’s past, the unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek. Written with precision and grace, Anuk Arudpragasam’s masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of devastation, and a poignant memorial for those lost and those still living.
Outside Passage
Title | Outside Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Scully |
Publisher | University of Alaska Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2011-02-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 160223129X |
A memoir in which Julia Scully recalls the time she spent living in an orphanage with her sister following her father's suicide, and discusses how her life changed when her mother leased a roadhouse and moved them to the tiny settlement of Taylor, Alaska, which quickly became a boomtown when thousands of American troops were sent there following the outbreak of World War II.
Birds of Passage
Title | Birds of Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Mathilde Blind |
Publisher | |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | English poetry |
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