![]() In doing so he considered himself to be a polytheist and a pantheist, in the manner of Goethe. Otto embarked upon his scientific path by pursuing Latin studies and linguistics previously, he studied Roman and, subsequently, Greek religions, perceiving the latter as a supreme achievement of religious thought, and claiming that the foundation of Greek polytheism was a religious attitude toward Being (das Sein), which he contrasted with Christianity. His theoretical interests in religious beliefs were enrooted in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and close to Martin Heidegger. Moreover, he played a prominent part in entire German culture of the period as an impressive humanist deeply convinced about the significance of Greek culture for modern European culture as a whole and, in particular, for German humanism. ![]() ![]() Summary/Abstract: Walter Friedrich Otto (1874–1958) was one of the most outstanding representatives of German twentieth-century Altertumswissenschaft. Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk Keywords: Walter Otto Eleusis Greece ![]() Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion Otto, the Greek Gods and Eleusis Author(s): Włodzimierz Lengauer ![]()
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![]() ![]() The family eventually moved to Duarte, California, where he attended Duarte High School and worked on a ranch. During his early life, Shepard went by the nickname Steve. His mother was Jane Elaine Rogers (née Schook), a schoolteacher. Sam Shepard was born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and named after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr., who was a teacher, a farmer, and, during World War II, a bomber pilot for the US Air Force. Other award-winning plays include Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, True West and Buried Child, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. Notable Quote: “When you hit a wall-of your own imagined limitations-just kick it in.” Eleven of Sam’s plays won Obie Awards, including Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, and Curse of the Starving Class.Selected Awards and Honors: Obie Awards (10 awards total between 19), Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination (1983), Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (1986), American Theater Hall of Fame (1994), PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award (2009).Selected Works: Curse of the Starving Class (1978), Buried Child (1978), True West (1980), Fool for Love (1983), A Lie of the Mind (1985).Known For: American playwright, actor, and director. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Russian submarine carrying the son of the station's former commander also approaches, ostensibly to retrieve the bodies found by the Americans. Ice Hunt summary: After an Alaskan game warden rescues a man from a crashed plane and saves him from subsequent attack by foreign soldiers, his ex-wife's piloting skills take them all to the man's intended destination, a US research base on the Arctic ice, set up following the discovery by advanced ice-penetrating sonar of a derelict Russian scientific base buried within a massive iceberg, Ice Station Grendel, where the personnel all died decades earlier. ![]() Under the pen name James Clemens, he has also published fantasy novels, such as Wit'ch Fire, Wit'ch Storm, Wit'ch War, Wit'ch Gate, Wit'ch Star, Shadowfall (2005) and Hinterland (2006). Rollins' experiences and expertise as an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver have provided content for some of his novels, which are often set in underground or underwater locations. James Rollins is a pen name of James Paul Czajkowski (born Augin Chicago, IL), an American veterinarian and writer of action-adventure/thriller, mystery, and techno-thriller novels who gave up his veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to be a full-time author. Excerpt from the novel Sandstorm at pages 511-521. ![]() ![]() ![]() But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. ![]() Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. ![]() As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The New Forest is the perfect backdrop for the families who people this epic story. The mighty oaks of the forest were used to build the ships for Admiral Nelson’s navy, and the fishermen who lived in Christchurch and Lymington helped Sir Francis Drake fight off the Spanish Armada. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the Conqueror’s son Rufus was mysteriously killed. “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” ( The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarumįrom the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reason you write a title is because you want a reader to click on it. ![]() The fact is that every single title is clickbait. It’s a little unfair that clickbait is a pejorative. Every title is bait to get readers to click Therefore, writers face a constant challenge of writing titles that are as close as possible to clickbait without going over the line. If you drop an article with a clickbait title into a quality traffic funnel, you’ll get a ton of views. However, we also have to recognize that clickbait does work. If you use clickbait, you’ll ruin your own reputation. The problem with clickbait is that it has the effect of driving away readers. We use the word “clickbait” to describe titles that lack dignity. Nope! You want your lemonade stand in a high traffic area, preferably with parking and a stop sign. If you set up a lemonade stand, you don’t want to put it on some dusty road that only one car uses per year. The reason writers place their work on certain platforms is to get the advantage of a traffic funnel. Those are like the buttons in the elevator that take the reader to your floor. That’s why we place such a huge emphasis on the title and the featured image. ![]() However, if a reader doesn’t pick up your book, open the cover, and start reading, the brilliance of your hook is rendered useless. We spend a lot of time talking about the “hook” in the first paragraph. Getting your work seen is a huge challenge for any writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Troy Barrett has suddenly gone from playing for the best hockey team in the NHL – the Toronto Guardians – to the worst – the Ottawa Centaurs – after a trade following a very public argument on the ice with his former best friend, Dallas Kent. It’s a lovely grumpy/sunshine romance combined with a wonderfully well-written redemption story that takes a really hard, unflattering look at the misogyny and homophobia that continue to exist in some professional sports – and potential listeners should be aware that the book includes a storyline surrounding sexual assault (none of it is on the page) in which victims are not believed and their experiences are trivialised. I loved Rachel Reid’s Role Model (book five in her Game Changers series) when I read it a few months back, and I loved it just as much in audio. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'A fully imagined world and mythos, and crackling romance. On the journey, she will transform into the being she was always destined to become. Hassan, Lily departs on her final voyage through the cosmos and across the plains of Egypt. And if that isn't bad enough, she must harness this power of three and become Wasret: a goddess destined to defeat the evil god Seth once and for all. The library doesnt have this title in their digital collection. Her body is now part human, part lion, and part fairy. She has no memory of her sun prince, her travels to Egypt, and her journey to the Afterlife.īut Lily is not the girl she once was. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Curse, comes the third and final book in the Reawakened series.Īfter surviving her otherworldly adventure, Lily wakes up on her nana's farm - and she's forgotten everything. ![]() ![]() The camp itinerary is designed for kids Danny's age, but the dinosaur finds ways to amuse himself, and helps the other campers have a better time than they could without him. ![]() We skip the formality of Danny's invitation to the dinosaur this time, cutting right to their jubilant exit from the museum. How can you not have a blast when your camp roommate is a friendly behemoth straight out of the Jurassic period? Danny's dinosaur was never his to keep, having to return to the museum's prehistoric animals exhibit between outings with Danny and his friends, but Danny invites him along whenever he's about to have an especially fun experience, and summer at sleep-away camp is no exception. ![]() It seems as though Danny and his dinosaur's joint birthday wish in Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur! that "we can all be together again next year" was granted: that book came out in 1995, and 1996 saw the release of Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp, the finale of Syd Hoff's easy reader trilogy about a boy who gains a dinosaur for a playmate. ![]() ![]() Alicia is closing an embarrassing and humiliating chapter in her life: her first husband Phillip, a preacher, divorced Alicia when her affair with Levi, a drug dealer, became public knowledge. Curtis Black, from Casting the First Stone, marries and begins a new life with the Rev. As far as the novel goes, I’m afraid the bad outweigh the good by a couple of pounds.Īlicia Black, the daughter of Rev. Be Careful What You Pray For deals with a preacher’s ambition, his weaknesses and whether his wife can take the abuse. The new novel picks up with the same type of characters. The last novel I read by Roby was Casting the First Stone. Upon reading the first few pages, I immediately got a sense of Déjà vu. ![]() I decided to break that trend and read her latest novel, Be Careful What You Pray For. ![]() It has been a few years since I have read a book by Kimberla Lawson Roby. ![]() |