When three children, Joe, Sally and Amy visit their grandmothers home in the quiet village of Hilldale they witness a nearby forest undergoing deforestation to allow for development. As they venture inside for a last look they discover that there is more to it than just plants and trees. Somethings amiss or so claim some of the village folk. Just who or what is responsible for the disappearances of all the fruits and animals from the strange forest? Are the culprits a band of midget people...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 29 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Leigh Brackett, Margaret...

Ein Hand- und Lesebuch mit kommentierten Originaltexten bedeutender Regisseure. Der Band versammelt Grundlagentexte, die nachvollziehbar machen, wie sich Regie in den vergangenen gut 250 Jahren von einer handwerklichen Tätigkeit zu einer künstlerischen Praxis entwickelt hat. Die ausgewählten Texte stammen von namhaften Theatermachern, die selbst als Regisseure gearbeitet haben und ihr Praxiswissen reflektieren. Sie forschen nach den Regeln und Gesetzmäßigkeiten ihrer eigenen Praxis. Mit Te...

Unlock the secrets of the Eleusinian Mysteries: A deep exploration of secret rites, psychedelic sacraments, and spiritual revelations that captivated ancient Greek society for nearly two millennia.Uncover the evocative history of The Road to Eleusis. Once held in hushed whispers, the Eleusinian Mysteries were a series of secret rituals and initiations in honor of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. They stood as an enigmatic cornerstone ...

«Das Mysterium von Eleusis war das bestgehütete Geheimnis der Antike. Jedes Jahr, fast zwei Jahrtausende lang, zogen Wallfahrer auf der Heiligen Straße von Athen nach Eleusis, fasteten und umtanzten den der Göttin Demeter geweihten Brunnen im Vorhof des Heiligtums. Die Nacht verbrachten sie in der Mysterienhalle, einem großen fensterlosen Saal. Priester bereiteten einen 'heiligen Trank', den die Teilnehmer gemeinsam zu sich nahmen — und dann geschah es. Eine so unmittelbare und unaussprech...

I misteriosi culti celebrati per quasi due millenni a Eleusi, in Grecia, hanno appassionato per secoli studiosi, intellettuali e ricercatori: le testimonianze degli iniziati raccontavano di impressionanti rivelazioni sul significato della vita e della morte, di visioni sconvolgenti, di indicibili esperienze di unione con la natura, di estatici viaggi capaci di trasformare profondamente la vita di chi, durante il rituale, assumeva una sacra bevanda. "La strada per Eleusi" è il libro in cui ...

The world's human population now constitutes the largest driving force of changes to the biosphere. Emerging water challenges require new ideas for governance and management of water resources in the context of rapid global change. This book presents a new approach to water resources, addressing global sustainability and focusing on socio-ecological resilience to changes. Topics covered include the risks of unexpected change, human impacts and dependence on global water, the prospects for ...

The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist. Jewish religious communities today share a number of challenges, from the increase in secular or unaffiliated Jews to emerging Jewish spiritual communities forming outside the synagogue. There has never been a more ...

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community”—or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race”—cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal—its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the networks of power and thought—is the essential context of the present volume, whose basic premis...

Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II.On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World War II.This definitive history explores each of the major battl...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...