"'Twas the night before Christmas…" ー and the magic was about to begin. The Night Before Christmas (1823), by Clement Clarke Moore, is the beloved poem that shaped how generations imagine Santa Claus and Christmas Eve. With its vivid imagery of reindeer, stockings, and St. Nicholas, the poem brings to life the joy ...

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -the basic technical terms -shot-by-shot analyses of film sequences -set design, composition, editing, camera work, post-...

Just who was Saint Patrick? Many know him as the figure behind the huge festival of fun and drinking that takes place every on March 17. But look a little more closely and see that there is more to the patron saint of Ireland than meets the eye. Inside you will read about... From Slave to Bishop The Feast at Tara I...

Understanding The Promised Land (A Bible Study On God's Design For Community Life)

Neste clássico da literatura devocional você encontrará uma série de orações para que possa encontrar a paz interior. A Oração à Cruz de Caravaca é considerada uma das mais poderosas preces para atrair milagres, afastar energias negativas, nos livrar de invejas e conseguirmos proteção divina, saúde, fortuna e prospe...

Videogames and Metareference is the first edited collection to investigate the rise of metareference in videogames from an interdisciplinary perspective. Bringing together a group of distinguished scholars from various geographic and disciplinary backgrounds, the book combines in-depth theoretical reflection with a ...

For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . . A wonderful introduction for anyone who'...

Step into the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers. "Aristotle: The Timeless Legacy of the Philosopher King" brings together his groundbreaking works in philosophy, politics, ethics, and science. From Nicomachean Ethics to Politics, this complete collection offers deep insights into human nature, logic...

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〓 Enter the Shadowy Realms of Edgar Allan Poe. Unearth the eerie genius of one of literature's darkest icons. The Edgar Allan Poe Collection brings together all of Poe's most haunting stories and lyrical poems, from "The Raven" to "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" to "The Pit and the Pendu...

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has set the benchmark for contemporary epic fantasy. Labelled by Time magazine as one of the t...

Bare Bones: This is the main documentation of the work in question, with just advertising and Collected Works formatting. You do not get the extra padding that you would get with my material that I am asking a pittance for. What’s missing? Title Page Preface Coffee Breaks with differing subject matters Breaking Brea...

Discover the wisdom of Confucius, the legendary Chinese philosopher whose teachings have guided civilizations for over two millennia. 〓 This complete collection brings together his most essential texts ー including The Analects, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean ー in a single, definitive volume. 〓 ...

Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term “cultural security” not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an ethnic group. Markers of c...

Building on the belief that the task of exegesis is to understand the divine-human intention locked within the biblical text, Gordon Fee provides a lucid step-by-step analysis of exegetical procedures that has made New Testament Exegesis a standard textbook for nearly two decades. Now more than ever, with an updated...

In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values (aesthetics) are in fact deeply informed by ethico-religious commitments, for better and for worse. The book develops...