Death Masks

• Author : Kim Richards
• Publisher : Eternal Press
• Release : 04 July 2022

• 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 : 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 : Christine Quigley
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 17 September 2015

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased’s position in life, such as a pharaoh’s mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms

• Author : Harriet I. Flower
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 04 July 1996

Harriet Flower explores the nature and function of wax masks used in the commemoration of politically prominent family members by the elite society of Rome from the third century BC to the sixth century AD.It is by putting these masks, which were worn by actors at the funerals of the deceased, into their legal, social, and political context that Flower is able to elucidate their special meaning as symbols of power and prestige.

• Author : Thomas McFarland,Murray Professor of English Literature Emeritus Thomas McFarland
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 04 July 2022

This book surveys the poetic endeavour of John Keats and urges that his true poetry is uniquely constituted by being uttered through three artificial masks, rather than through the natural voice of his quotidian self. The first mask is formed by the attitudes and reality that ensue from a conscious commitment to the identity of poet as such. The second, called here the Mask of Camelot, takes shape from Keats's acceptance and compelling use of the vogue for medievalimaginings that

• Author : Alex Archer
• Publisher : Harlequin
• Release : 01 January 2015

The face of evil. And the face of greed… The video showed a nearly naked man bloodied and beaten. Even as archaeologist and TV presenter Annja Creed watched, the clock on his suicide vest ticked down, and precious seconds were lost. But this was no stranger. Garin was her friend. Their fates had been bound by the secrets of Joan of Arc's sword. And Annja had less than twenty-four hours to save his life…. The price for Garin's life was

• Author : Murdoch Hughes
• Publisher : Hard Shell Word Factory
• Release : 01 December 2004

A Rick Sage Mystery: Harley-riding PI, Rick Sage, follows his heart into darkness once again when he meets up with ten-year-old Pedro, a Mexican-American kid lost on the streets of Tijuana. Pedro hires Rick, with the two dollars and thirty-five cents he has left in his pocket, to find the gang of antiquities thieves who murdered his parents. Shadowed by a jaguar spirit Rick begins to believe is real, his promise to help the boy takes them on a trail

• Author : Ralph E. Giesey
• Publisher : Librairie Droz
• Release : 04 July 1960

• Author : Mark B. Sandberg
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 04 July 2022

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 Publications
• Release : 15 July 2009

Death and dying and death-related behavior involve the causes of death and the nature of the actions and emotions surrounding death among the living. Interest in the varied dimensions of death and dying has led to the development of death studies that move beyond medical research to include behavioral science disciplines and practitioner-oriented fields. As a result of this interdisciplinary interest, the literature in the field has proliferated. This two-volume resource addresses the traditional death and dying–related topics but

• 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 (

• Author : Lewis R. Aiken
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 04 July 2022

This book is a brief but comprehensive survey of research, writings, and professional practices concerned with death and dying. It is interdisciplinary and eclectic--medical, psychological, religious, philosophical, artistic, demographics, bereavement, and widowhood are all considered--but with an emphasis on psychological aspects. A variety of viewpoints and research findings on topics subsumed under "thanatology" receive thorough consideration. Questions, activities, and projects at the end of each chapter enhance reflection and personalize the material. This fourth edition features material on: * moral issues

• Author : Joseph Parker Norris
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 July 1884