Death Masks

• Author : Jim Butcher
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 04 March 2010

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Harry Dresden should be happy that business is good - makes a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for: a duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards;

• Author : Jim Butcher
• Publisher : ROC Hardcover
• Release : 30 July 2021

Professional wizard Harry Dresden finds himself dueling a lethal champion of the Red Court, being used for target practice by hit men and identifying a handless and headless corpse, while his girlfriend struggles with her semi-vampiric nature.

• Author : Kim Richards
• Publisher : Eternal Press
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Ed Greenwood
• Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
• Release : 07 June 2016

The creator of the Forgotten Realms leads readers through a rollicking fantasy adventure and murder mystery set in the city of Waterdeep Revealed in death to have been Masked Lords, three more citizens had been murdered over the preceding day and night: the Sembian wine-seller and collector Oszbur Malankar; the half-elf sorceress and artisan Dathanscza Meiril; and the moneylender, landlord, and investor Ammasker Gwelt. All of Waterdeep now knew someone was killing the Lords of Waterdeep, one by one. Yet

• Author : Yesenia Barragan
• Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
• Release : 12 December 2014

A radical historical ethnography on the meaning of a fundamentally new physical landscape of our age of austerity: cash-for-gold shops that numerically exploded in the wake of the worst economic crisis of our times.

• Author : Robin Cormack
• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• Release : 01 June 2013

Painting the Soul is a beautifully illustrated study of the creation and development of the icon. "This book is a firework display. It sets off scores of explosions which light up the sky over-arching our field, terrain that is normally traversed nose down and too mindful of the footsteps of our predecessors."—Burlington Magazine

• Author : Christine Quigley
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 01 January 2005

Focuses on the treatment by the living of the dead, over time and across cultures. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are covered.

• Author : Jennifer Givhan
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release : 17 March 2018

Love, tequila, sex, first periods, late nights, abuse, and heartache. The journey from girl to womanhood is brimming with transformative magic that heals even as it shatters. These are the memories that haunt the dreams of what was and what could have been in Girl with Death Mask. In four rich and imaginative movements of poems, Jennifer Givhan profiles the suffering and the love of a Latina girl and then mother coming to terms with sexual trauma. Her daughter is

• Author : Ellis Peters
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release : 01 March 2016

A troubled English boy sets out to uncover the truth about his father’s death, from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. Following the death of his father at an archaeological dig in Greece, young Crispin Almond returned to England and the mother he barely knew. Now a difficult, morose, and unreachable teenager, he has been expelled from every school he’s attended. At her wits’ end, his mother decides Crispin needs a positive male

• Author : Joseph Parker Norris
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1884

• Author : Mark B. Sandberg
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 30 July 2021

Sandberg examines the practice of effigy at the wax and folk museums of the late 19th century. This study of modern visual culture on the periphery of Europe presents a context in which the idea of material mobility dominated more familiar forms of simulative media.

• Author : Clifton D. Bryant,Dennis L. Peck
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Ernst Benkard
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 2021

• Author : Scotland's Cultural Heritage
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 30 July 1988

• Author : Peter T. Markman,Roberta H. Markman
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 01 January 1989

Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (