This book offers a re-evaluation of Ismene in Sophocles' Antigone, challenging the traditional view of her as merely a foil to her sister, Antigone. Through a close analysis of key passages, it argues for a more nuanced understanding of Ismene's character, emotions and motivations, asserting that she is as compelling and fully realised as Antigone. This work contributes to ongoing debates about classical texts and their reception, highlighting the need to re-exami...

For as long as anyone can remember, those cursed with ebb-magic have been marked for death by the gods. Sayer has always known his fate: he was given seventy-two years of life before he must become a sacrifice.His sister was only promised ten.Now the***Blood Hours*** are set to begin-twenty-eight nights of slaughter, where priests on the hunt compete with the brutal elements to claim the life of each ebber mage slated to die. Sayer is determined to...

She's about to lose her kingdom--but she may have just found her Prince.Princess Natalie Anastasia Hofstetter is a woman without a future. Unable to inherit the throne, she arrives at a climate change conference to be shopped around as a potential bride as her father searches for a match that will benefit her family--without love getting in the way. She's looking for a way out, but can't find one.Ian Moss is rebuilding his life, starting with being hired at Kiski's Kafe. Wh...

How To Promote That Book You Wrote: A Self-Publishing Guide is an inspirational, yet detailed manual for all non-professional writers towards becoming self-published authors. Have you always dreamed of one day having your beloved manuscript transformed into a real hand-held masterpiece? Follow the steps from the very beginning, modifying your thoughts onto paper/screen. Remain consistently motivated along the way, while always believing in the story. you have to tell.How To Promote...

This is the true story of a young, native Irish woman who embarked on a path of "most resistance" and danced/survived her way around seven different countries. Her very descriptive, dramatic, and often humorous Celtic Road Home takes you on a journey of constant life adventures. Despite her many up and down struggles along the way, she never gives up hope on the very next outcome becoming more successful than the one before. Inspirational and captivating throughout, Ann always str...

Sam Keen, best selling author of Fire in the Belly and Anne Valley-Fox combine their talents to help today's men and women rediscover the mythic dimension in their own daily lives.A Better Listen audio production.

Between 1850 and 1912, Territorial New Mexico was home to a diverse mix of peoples. Contesting with those who had lived in the region for thousands of years, an array of newcomers arrived: Hispanic settlers, Anglo homesteaders, ranchers, cowboys, sheepherders, merchants, railroad men and-perhaps its chief adventurers-treasure hunters and prospectors. "Lost Treasures & Old Mines" brims with stories of gold fever, copper ore and SILVER mining in the American Southwest. In 1541 when Coronado'...

Was life on the range in the 1880s and 1890s anything like the hard riding, hard working, hard drinking shoot 'em up images that moviegoers saw in old Westerns? Yes-and then some, the authentic documents in this collection tell us. Cowboys, sheepherders, ranchers and all those around them in Territorial New Mexico were engaged in constant life-and-death struggles. They battled with each other and with Indians. They endured blizzards, fires, drought, floods, disease and stampeding cattle. I...

Mags: Peace. After spending a half a lifetime in hell and the other half in a warzone, peace was all I wanted. Over a decade ago, I came to Hallow Ranch after leaving the Marines, thinking that's what I would find. Peace. Solitude. Maybe even a shred of happiness. When Denver Langston hired me, gave me a cot to sleep in, food to eat, and a horse to ride, I made the decision to stay. Forever. Hallow Ranch wanted—no, needed—me, and it felt good. I'd only gotten a ta...

"Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain's work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker." — BooklistFor François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost Secret is considered by many to be the best book on the ...

A heartwarming romance about how Mr Right might be all wrong and love may be found in surprising places. Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Tessa Bailey and Sophie Kinsella. Christel has escaped her ambitious parents in Denmark to go study in Cambridge and begin a promising career. However, strictly against company policy, she has begun a relationship with her charming manager. This impulsive decision leads to disastrous consequences. Can Christel find her way through love's twists and turns ...

"Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist" is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide unique insight on such enduring—and pressing—issues as the lived experiences of physicians and patients, including patients who are physically challenged, elderly, mortally ill or beyond the reach of medical care; the origins and consequences of epidemic outbreaks of old an...