Asta's Book
Title | Asta's Book PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Vine |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2009-05-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141040459 |
It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.
Crispin
Title | Crispin PDF eBook |
Author | Avi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9780689837777 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Accused of a crime he did not commit, Crispin has been declared a "wolf's head." That means he may be killed on sight, by anyone. If he wishes to remain alive, he must flee his tiny village.
The Map Book
Title | The Map Book PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Barber |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0802714749 |
Chronicles the historical development of maps and mapping from the Bronze Age to the present, collecting some 175 maps spanning ten millennia that represent the progress of civilization and technology, from military plans that depict enemy positions, to the famed London Underground layout, to the digitally enhanced renderings of today.
An Old Norse Biblical Compilation
Title | An Old Norse Biblical Compilation PDF eBook |
Author | Reidar Astås |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN |
One of the great achievements in the field of religious letters and literature of medieval Scandinavia was the appearance of Bible translations. The present study examines the origin and the sources of a West-Scandinavian translation of great parts of Genesis and Exodus from the first decades of the fourteenth century. It sheds light upon how the sources were drawn on and how scholastic theology may have influenced the work, and thus it offers new insights into the process of transmitting the Biblical message into European vernaculars.
Categories We Live by
Title | Categories We Live by PDF eBook |
Author | Ásta |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190256796 |
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them? Ásta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social categories centers on an answer to the question: what is it for a feature of an individual to be socially meaningful? In a careful, probing investigation, she reveals how social categories are created and sustained and demonstrates their tendency to oppress through examples from current events. To this end, she offers an account of just what social construction is and how it works in a range of examples that problematize the categories of sex, gender, and race in particular. The main idea is that social categories are conferred upon people. Ásta introduces a 'conferralist' framework in order to articulate a theory of social meaning, social construction, and most importantly, of the construction of sex, gender, race, disability, and other social categories.
The House of Stairs
Title | The House of Stairs PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Vine |
Publisher | Onyx Books |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780451402110 |
An old and quaint house is the setting for murder when it becomes populated by a number of people.
Black Clover, Vol. 5
Title | Black Clover, Vol. 5 PDF eBook |
Author | Yūki Tabata |
Publisher | VIZ Media LLC |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2017-02-07 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1421595621 |
The mysterious terrorist group calling itself the Eye of the Midnight Sun has been repelled from the Clover Kingdom, but the damage done is great. One of the Magic Knight captains has been gravely injured and Asta's been kidnapped. How will the Wizard King respond...? -- VIZ Media