The book opens with a history of the guide itself, before devoting sections to the universe, Oblivion, Aetherius, birthsigns and History. It was a rewritten version of the Pocket Guide to the Empire: 1st Edition that had shipped eight years earlier with TESA: Redguard, but while the old version had been stridently pro-Imperial in its tone, the new version was much more even-handed and less propagandist. A Pocket Guide to The Empire and its Environs (Being a Description of the Lands and the Chief Features of their Histories) (commonly shortened to Pocket Guide to the Empire: 3rd Edition or PGE3) was part of the Collector's Edition package for TES IV: Oblivion.
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This is a very tough read, the language is graphic as are the unflinching descriptions of debauchery, degradation, bestiality ,appalling sexual abuse, femicide, it's all there in a brutal, relentless outpouring. It tells the story of the" Witch" and her influence over the inhabitants of the village ,first by inheriting her mother's role as wise woman to the women of the village and then by becoming the subject of many rumours including, treasure in her house ,graduating to the wholesale corruption of the teenagers of the village with depraved orgies ,over which she presides.īut the book begins with the Witch is dead, dead in a ditch outside the village with her throat cut, horribly beaten so you know the ending and the perpetrators, but there is a very long way to go in between. In recounting the events in a small Mexican village early one summer, the author shares with the reader not just the what, but the heart-breaking whys of all the protagonists. This book is a narrative that rages hurricane-like ,fists raised and railing at the gods ,through its pages, a furious paced dialogue ,ranting at the reader. Lori really shows you how he’s just a little boy inside with no one to love him. He’s cold and brutal but somehow so, so soft around Gianna. I wish I could be friends with her.Īnd don’t even get me started on Christian. But she’s also really caring, despite her wildly traumatizing past. She’s SUPER strong which I always love in a heroine and is definitely not a damsel in distress. By the end of the novel, I could see just how feisty, witty, and yet soft-hearted Gianna is. And props to Danielle Lori for managing to reveal why she’s like that and make her one of my favorite heroines of all time. She came off as kind of petty, like a vapid sugar baby who also has some drug/alcohol issues. Gianna, the heroine, is not someone I wanted to read about when she appeared in the first installment. It’s so strong it physically hurts me in the best way. Yet every time I re-read it, I love it more and more, and now I’m pretty convinced this is my favorite installment in the series. Book 2, The Maddest Obsession, touches on some darker stuff. I was so hung up on Elena and Nico and the…prettier? aspects of mafia life. Being totally honest, when I first read The Maddest Obsession I didn’t love it as much as the first book in the Made Men series. The reason each villain is included varies, of course. In The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains, author Jim Morris explores more than a hundred of the goofiest bad guys ever to make their way onto paneled pages. You know, the criminals, troublemakers, and evil freaks with strange powers that were too ridiculous, too absurd, or just too damn stupid that they’ve since been relegated to comic book oblivion, never to be heard from again. Just like its superhero counterpart, the 256-page book covers the worst of the bad guys in comic book history. If enjoying that left you asking for the supervillain version, well, your wish has been granted in the form of The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains. Remember that book that compiled the goofiest superheroes in comic book history? Yeah, that was hilarious. It nosed through the cloud banks on a trip that took it twelve hours where five might have sufficed with a rocket-powered supersonic. It was an old plane, a four-engine plasma jet that had been retired from active service, and it came in along a route that was neither economical nor particularly safe. And finally, Isaac Asimov, who lent his pen and great talent to give form and reality to this phantasmagoria of facts and fancy. Bixby and I wrote our original story, little did we know where it would lead or what would become of it in the hands of men of great imagination and superb artistrySaul David, the film's producer Richard Fleischer, the director and inspired conjurer of fancy Harry Kleiner, who wrote the screenplay Dale Hennesy, the art director and an artist in his own right and the doctors and scientists who gave us so much of their time and their thinking. For all of us, it was a long and arduous task and a great challenge, but also one of deep satisfaction and, I may say, of great delight. This story, which has grown into both a book and film, has several authors, all of whom have contributed to its present form in many different ways. 10 HEART 11 CAPILLARY 12 LUNG 13 PLEURA 14 LYMPHATIC 15 EAR 16 BRAIN 17 CLOT 18 EYE Fascinated by the Surma and Mursi tribes’ painting practices and astounded by the beauty of their ephemeral art, Silvester captures the diverse and extraordinary effects that they achieve through their ancient tradition. The tribes’ daily paintings are an essential expression of their lives – more elemental to them than music or dance. White, yellow, orange and ochre the natural pigments that they use are derived from the soil and rocks of their surroundings. Their paintings range from abstract designs of circles, lines, dots and swirls, sometimes focused on specific body parts, to all-over patterns of flowers, zig-zags and fingerprints that form a dazzling array on the entire body. The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes live in the Omo Valley of Southern Ethiopia are body painters: they paint their bodies with pigments made from the earth as an immemorial and quotidian practice – mothers paint babies, children and adults paint themselves and each other in a tradition that seems unchanged for thousands of years. Hans Silvester, born in 1938 in Lorrach, Germany is an acclaimed award winning photographer who has published numerous photography books, including Les Peuples de l’Omo, Abrams’ Horses of the Camargue, Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise, and H2O: The Beauty & Mystery of Water. Hans Silvester-This is Africa through my Lens It's not the strongest or (at about £7 a bottle) the cheapest. But the alcohol content isn't the problem. Also known as "Wreck the Hoose Juice" and "Commotion Lotion", Buckie is only about 15% alcohol. Their recipe is secret but basically it's wine jacked up with chemicals and some of the condensed rage from 28 Days Later. I grew up in one of those houses on one of those streets – not even the worst house, not even the worst street.īuckie is a dark brown "tonic wine" brewed by Benedictine monks in Devon. "My officers are tasked on a daily basis with targeting the most violent offenders and problem locations." "It is a well-established fact that a substantial amount of offences are committed by persons under the influence of alcohol, whether that be in houses or on the street," said Chief Superintendent Nelson Telfer, police commander for Lanarkshire. A handsome copy of an extremely scarce and impressive work. A stunning pairing of the arts of literature and illustration. His work is compared to Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielson and Edmund Dulac. Clarke's illustrations perfectly capture the macabre and the beautiful in the text. Poe inspired modern mystery, science fiction and horror. Text block is very clean and tight throughout. Vellum is wrinkled on spine and lower front joint. Twenty-nine tales including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morge," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Gold Bug." Boards are slightly bowed, extremities lightly scuffed, head of spine bumped, and some soil spots on front. Title page vignette and head and tail pieces throughout by Clarke. Frontispiece and 23 full-page black and white, half-tone illustrations by Clarke, all with tissue guards. Full vellum with gilt design and rules on front, gilt lettering on spine. Number 32 of 170 deluxe limited edition signed by illustrator Harry Clarke on limitations page. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of The Iliad is gripping and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. The Iliad is a timeless poem that still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship-and a cheeky sense of humor-he just might triumph in the end. To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples, and a wickedly foolish queen. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she’s right. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. " In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. New York Times Bestselling author Liesl Shurtliff "spins words into gold. Genre: Action and adventure, Children Books, Children books Age 9-12, Fairytale, Fantasy,ĭescription: This funny fractured fairy tale goes behind the scenes of Rumpelstiltskin. |