Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 112, Publishers: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, ISBN-13: 9798308440987, Date of issue: 2025
In Uruk, im alten Mesopotamien, lebt der Tyrann Gilgamesch, der die schönsten Frauen des Landes entführt und in seinem Palast einsperrt. Der Herrscher ist von göttlichem Blut und schier unbezwingbar, und so beschließen die Götter, seinen Exzessen Einhalt zu gebieten: Sie erschaffen den menschenähnlichen Enkidu, der es an Kraft und Mut mit Gilgamesch aufnehmen kann. Und obwohl eine Konfrontation der beiden unvermeidlich scheint, werden sie schließlich enge Freunde und Waffenbrüder. Ihr gemeinsames Ziel, das sie durch Heldenmut und große Taten zu vollbringen trachten, ist nichts Geringeres als die Unsterblichkeit.Die »Mythen der Antike« verlassen das griechische Pantheon und tauchen mit dem Epos des Gilgamesch in eine der ältesten Erzählungen der Sumerer und der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte ein.Große Epen, mächtige Götter, phantastische Ungeheuer, außergewöhnliche Helden - die Mythologie ist ein unerschöpflicher Quell wundervoller und aufregender Abenteuer. Auch heute können wir aus ihr lernen, und darum bildet sie immer noch ein Herzstück der humanistischen Bildung auf der ganzen Welt. »Mythen der Antike« lässt uns eine Reihe der wichtigsten Sagen als Comics neu entdecken. Unter der Leitung von Luc Ferry, dem ehemaligen französischen Bildungsminister, wurden die Originaltexte mit größter Sorgfalt adaptiert und graphisch brillant umgesetzt. Jeder Band präsentiert einen kompletten Mythos, dessen philosophisches und kulturelles Erbe in einem umfassenden Ergänzungsteil erläutert wird.
Tauche ein in die kraftvolle Welt der Drachen und lasse dich von ihren inspirierenden Botschaften leitenDas Drachenorakel-Kartenset von Autorin Michaela Haendly eröffnet dir einen Weg, den Drachen so zu begegnen, wie sie wirklich sind: machtvolle, unendlich weise und schützende Begleiter auf deinem Lebensweg. Sie stehen als mächtige Gefährten an deiner Seite und unterstützen dich dabei, die Ängste und Sehnsüchte deines Herzens zu ergründen. Die lichtvollen Illustrationen der Künstlerin Jena DellaGrottaglia lassen ihre kraftvolle Energie in den Orakelkarten aufleben und zeigen dir mit ihrer spirituellen Strahlkraft den Weg für deine Seele.Indem du eine Karte ziehst, zeigt sich dir eine Drachenenergie, verbunden mit einer Botschaft, welche deiner Aufmerksamkeit bedarf. Sie zeigt dir etwas in deinem Inneren, das gesehen, angenommen und geheilt werden möchte. Nutze ihre Botschaften als Inspiration und Wegweiser und spüre durch sie die Kraft des Universums. Kraftvolle Begleiter: Weise Drachenbotschaften stärken dein Selbstvertrauen und setzen tiefgründige Impulse für deine ReflexionLichtvolle Energiebilder: 40 strahlende Drachenmotive mit mystischen IllustrationenMit umfassenden Begleitbuch: Lasse dich von der Bedeutung der Drachenbotschaften leiten und integriere ihre Energie mit Übungen in deinen AlltagBist du bereit, dich mit der universellen Macht der Drachen zu verbinden? Finde die passende Drachenenergie für deine Lebensfragen und lasse dich von ihrer grenzenlosen Weisheit und Liebe zu deiner Erfüllung leiten.
A visually stunning, comprehensive resource on North America's birds of prey Always a popular group of birds, raptors symbolize freedom and fierceness, and in Pete Dunne's definitive guide, these traits are portrayed in hundreds of stunn
10 lectures, various cities, Jan.-Dec. 1913 (CW 150)"By cultivating spiritual thoughts here on Earth we can provide nourishment for the dead.... When fields lie fallow, they produce no crops to feed humanity, and people may
'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort.' Bruised by tragedy, Philippa Talbot leaves behind a successful career with the civil service for a new calling: to join an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. In this small community of fewer than one hundred women, she soon discovers all the human frailties: jealousy, love, despair. But each crisis of heart and conscience is guided by the compassion and intelligence of the Abbess and by the Sisters' shared bond of faith and ritual. Away from the world, and yet at one with it, Philippa must learn to forgive and forget her past ...
New edition of this classic lesbian novel, which was banned on its original publication in 1928, before becoming a bestseller. With a new introduction by Diana Souhami, it celebrates its 80th anniversary.
The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than a sole focus on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interact
Libro de ortografía con el espańol que se habla hoy en Espańa y en América Latina que contiene:- Reglas explicadas y comentadas.- Cuadros con los errores más frecuentes.- Más de 45 páginas de ejercicios con sus soluciones.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.A poisoned mouse. No witnesses. No weapon. No footprints. With the evidence pointing to one suspect, Sly is eager to solve her first case and make an arrest before time runs out for poor Molly. But for Detective Snooper something doesn't quite add up ...Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
A proper lovely romance, and a fabulous spirit-lifter Ruth Jones Heart-warming and believable. This is Miranda Dickinson at her very best Sarah Morgan The Start of Something is a wonderfully romantic story about the healing powers of love. Gentle and romantic, a wonderful salve for the soul, it is a charming joy of a read Milly Johnson Miranda is such a big-hearted, generous writer, full of warmth and love Jenny Colgan * * * Two lonely people. One note in the window. And what happens when they reach out Lachlan Wallace is stuck at home after a car accident stalled his army career. With months of physiotherapy still to endure and only his rescue dog and cat for company, hes taken to gazing out of the window, watching the world spin on without him. And then he notices a vase of flowers on the windowsill of the apartment opposite his. Drawn to their hope and colour, he decides to reach out and sticks a message in his window Bethan Gwynne is a stranger in a new town. Bringing up her son Noah by herself, she is slowly rebuilding her life, but loneliness is one obstacle she has yet to overcome. Shes intrigued by a glimpse of her neighbour in the apartment across from hers and then, one evening, she sees a message in his window just for her: WHAT ARE THOSE FLOWERS CALLED? And so begins a love story of two people reaching out, daring to trust a stranger * * * Authors and reviewers have fallen in love with The Start of Something: Charming, quirky and properly romantic Mike Gayle, bestselling author of All the Lonely People A truly heart-warming novel about hope, loneliness and the power of reaching out. Bethan and Lachlan's story will move anyone who's ever taken a chance on love. A magical read Holly Miller, bestselling author of The Sight of You A story about love, fear, trust; this is a big warmhearted hug of a book Nina Pottell, Prima
Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: ChemistryFirst Teaching: 2018, First Exam: 2019The Higher Chemistry Student Book helps teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme, providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: ChemistryFirst Teaching: 2018, First Exam: 2019The Higher Chemistry Student Book helps teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme, providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. Full coverage of the new Higher course specifications with list of learning intentions Attractive layout with clear text features Key questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning intention What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students feel secure End of unit material unit assessment, exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners commentary, self-assessmentStudent Books give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Verity has lost her mother, and is gradually losing the woodland they both loved, too. So when she meets a lone wolf in the forest and the two become unlikely friends, shes determined to save her, no matter the cost Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. A reader response page provides lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and scaffolding writing. Text type: A contemporary story Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Bali Rai has been fascinated by the natural world since his childhood. He has always had a particular interest in wolves, after learning all about them at primary school many years ago. Wolf Girl was inspired by that experience, and by a growing frustration and sadness at the continued destruction of beautiful natural habitats across the planet. This book protests humankind's seemingly relentless selfishness, and our disregard for the existence of other species on Earth.
Mary Lavelle, a beautiful young Irish woman, travels to Spain to see some of the world before marrying her steadfast fiance John. But despite the enchanting surroundings and her three charming charges, life as governess to the wealthy Areavaga family is lonely and she is homesick. Then comes the arrival of the family's handsome, passionate - and married - son Juanito and Mary's loyalties and beliefs are challenged. Falling in love with Juanito and with Spain, Mary finds herself at the heart of a family and a nation divided. Mary Lavelle, a beautiful young Irish woman, travels to Spain to see some of the world before marrying her steadfast fiance John. But despite the enchanting surroundings and her three charming charges, life as governess to the wealthy Areavaga family is lonely and she is homesick. Then comes the arrival of the family's handsome, passionate - and married - son Juanito and Mary's loyalties and beliefs are challenged. Falling in love with Juanito and with Spain, Mary finds herself at the heart of a family and a nation divided.
Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he understands power. But this is Leningrad in 1933 and Stalin is about to turn against their city. When the life of his beloved daughter Natasha is threatened and his old friend Anton saves a skinny little orphan he finds on a Moscow train, Boris' faith in his ideals are put to the test. While Irina, watching it all, must learn the power of loyalty and love. 'Powerful and moving, Ice Road is a novel whose epic scope never obscures the individual lives that are lived in the shadow of great events. I shall never forget Natasha and Kolya's love story . . . or Irina, whose sturdy self respect and determination to survive, seems, at times, to speak for an entire people. Gillian Slovo excels in depicting complex human beings, full of passion, love, ambition, self-interest, who are caught up in their country's history and swept along by it.' Pat Barker
Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonora, who escaped eight years earlier. But there are surprises in store for conventional Elsie as her sister has a rather bohemian lifestyle: not only does Leo live in a houseboat on the Thames where she writes Westerns for a living, she shares her boat - and her bed - with Helen. When Peter pays a visit, turning his attention from one 'friendly young lady' to the next, he disturbs the calm for each of them - with results unforeseen by all . . . Mary Renault wrote this delightfully provocative novel in 1943 partly in answer to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. The result is this witty and stylish social comedy.
'The Dutroux Affair' shook the whole of Europe. In the middle of the immense machinery of investigation and justice there was the author herself, Dutroux's last victim. She was held captive for eighty days - and survived. "The Dutroux Affair" shook the whole of Europe. Marc Detroux had been convicted of rape, but was released early from prison for good behavior. He went on to kidnap several youg girls, torture them in his basement dungeon, and leave some to die. There were many apparent missteps in the case, and there was a huge public outcry against Belgium's judicial system. In the middle of the immense machinery of investigation and justice, there was Sabine Dardenne herself, Dutroux's last victim. She was held captive for 80 days and survived. Far from sensationalizing the horror, her story, dignified and restrained, is ultimately uplifting.
Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anaïs Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again.' As the first wife Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, it is perhaps surprising that she is an unknown entity, a constant presence in the biographies of Durrell and others in the Bloomsbury set, yet always a shadowy figure, beautiful and enigmatic. But who was the woman who was with Durrell during the most important years of his development as a writer? Joanna Hodgkin decides to retrace her mother's fascinating story: the escape from her toxic and mysterious family; the years in bohemian literary London and Paris in the 1930s; marriage to Durrell and their discovery of the 'Eden' of pre-war Corfu and her desperate struggle to survive in Palestine alone with a small child as the British Mandate collapsed. Amateurs in Eden is a fascinating biography of a literary marriage and of an unusual woman struggling to live an independent life.
Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning of her life had changed fundamentally with the loss of a parent; the way that the reassuringly familiar often became somehow completely new and strange. The Long Goodbye interleaves personal recollections of her much-loved mother with an examination of what it means to grieve in a society which no longer has the rituals - or even, most of the time, the desire - to engage with grief, to understand it, and to let it do both its worst - and its best.
In a captivating comic novel from Angela Thirkell's much-loved 1930s Barsetshire series, trainee barrister Colin Keith makes an ill-advised foray into teaching at Southbridge School To his parents' deep dismay, Colin Keithout of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduateschooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching job at Southbridge School. Little does Colin imagine that he will count among his pupils the demon in human form known as Tony Morland, or that the master's ravishing, feather-brained daughter Rose will, with her flights of fancy and many admirers, spread chaos throughout school and village. Humorous, high-spirited, and cleverly observed, Summer Half is a comic delight.
As soon as they'd saved up for the three 'S's' - shoes, suitcase and a suit - they left rural Ireland. It might have been the London of the 1950s where 'No Blacks, No Irish No Dogs' was the welcome put out for immigrants, but for the big family that was Anna May Mangan's, it was still better than the poverty they'd hailed from; 'Don't waste today worrying because tomorrow will be even worse' was their motto. But Ireland came with them in the dance halls, holy water and gossip and there was always the warmth of the Irish crowd, in and out of one another's houses 'as if there was no front door'.
From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it. But with Vivien's arrival, dark, unspoken secrets surface. Told in Ginny's unforgettable voice, this debut novel tells a disquieting story of two sisters and the ties that bind - sometimes a little too tightly.
The 'People in Glass Houses' work for an American-based concern devoted to 'inflicting improvement' the world over. Amongst them are sloppy but erudite Algie Wyatt, Swoboda, a Slav DP, who finally rebels against a daily inflow of documentation; modest Ashmole-Brown, whose surprise best-seller unseats Sadie Graine, the all-time corridor fixer; Jaspersen, who falls in and out of love with the Organization; and Clelia Kinslake, who meets the most critical non-crisis of her career in Crete. Shirley Hazzard's eight dazzling stories are linked by a scorching contempt for the Organization.
INTRODUCED BY CHARLOTTE MENDELSON 'It is time that justice was done to Elizabeth Taylor... All her writings could be described as coming into the category of comedy. Comedy is the best vehicle for truths that are too fierce to be borne' ANITA BROOKNER '"You know,'"Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. "Perhaps there's nothing so dangerous as having led a sheltered life."' Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her eccentric, artist grandfather Harry Bretton. Rebelling against the wholesome, organic values of her home life, Cressy decides to leave home in search of more ephemeral pleasures. Taking a job in an antiques shop, she meets David, a self-satisfied journalist, also looking for means of fleeing the family nest. But as Cressy cannot fend for herself and David is securely tied to his mother's apron strings, this act of escape for both of them proves a powerful form of bondage. 'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it ' SARAH WATERS
