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Author: Marc Silvestri
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 2015-01-21
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first arc comes to a conclusion and Asa Stone's future is in question! While fighting for his life, Asa learns the terrible lesson that when pitted against the overpowering strength of chaos, order has little or no chance of victory.
Author: Marc Silvestri
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 2014-06-04
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A small black sphere contains all the magic that exists past, present, and future. Without it, two worlds would not survive. The sphere has been protected for centuries by a spell that was believed unbreakable. Asa Stonethrow, a common man in the world of magic, discovers the spell has been breached and a small chip of the black sphere has been stolen!
Author: Marc Silvestri
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-23
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781632152619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A small black sphere contains all the magic that exists - past, present, and future. Without it, two worlds would not survive: a world of enchantment called Rune, and ours. The sphere has been protected for centuries by a spell that was believed unbreakable. Asa Stone, an unremarkable young man in a place of magic, discovers that the spell has been breached and a small chip of the black sphere has been stolen. Now an unspeakable evil threatens to use the stolen magic to destroy literally all of existence. With nowhere else to turn and the fate of two worlds in his hands, Asa must put his trust in a band of outlaw magicians, conniving thieves, renegade sorcerers, and heartless killers. Asa Stone's dreams of a life less mundane come abruptly and horribly true as he finds himself in possession of incalculable power and trapped in a strange and terrifying place called Earth. Marc Silvestri, the co-creator of The Darkness and Witchblade and the creator of Cyber Force, presents an epic adventure that follows a common young man on a journey that turns the ideas of fantasy and reality upside down!
Author: Marc Silvestri
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 2014-08-13
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The wall between the world of man and the world of magic has cracked. Two realities never meant to coexist are bleeding into each other with terrifying results. Unimaginable horrors that belong there have come here. But as Asa and his gang of thieves and murderers have discovered, horrors from the world of men have entered the realm of magic. And that may prove to be far, far worse.
Author: Randy Blackwell
Publisher: Evergreen Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781581694307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An epic battle looms as Omar, Myles, and Kasey raise up a new breed of Magi for war! Omar Metzger, earth's most brilliant scientist, is in a race against time to find his sister in another dimension before she dies in a coma. He has one week before his funding is cut, so without hesitation he enters a portal to an unknown world to prove his findings and hopefully save his sister. Myles Callaghan, an illusionist and con artist, has bitten off more than he can chew, swindling a Mafia don out of several million dollars. On the run, Myles goes much further than he could have imagined. He encounters Omar on the world of Musterion, and they form the Order of the Magi. Kasey is a hired assassin with orders to kill the Israeli Prime Minister. Betrayed, Kasey must escape before she is captured. As she crosses an archway in the Prime Minister's basement, she realizes she has crossed much more than the threshold of a door-it's a portal to another dimension. As these three unlikely companions join forces on Musterion, they must find their way through an ever changing maze, fight their inner demons, and then escape to a new world before the forces of evil close in on them. There Kasey is given a sword they must take to a carpenter, but the Great Red Dragon stands in the way. Rise of the Magi is filled with battle action, steampunk fantasy, and a touch of romance. It's Book One in an epic trilogy of the search for truth and redemption. "Great story, great characters, great universe!" -Jamie Wiggs, game designer, Middle Earth 1 and 2, Shadows of Mordor Randy Blackwell used to run role-playing games before coming to faith in Christ. Now he spends his time spinning tales for Christ, running his media business, and loving on his wife, Vanessa, and their four kids. He lives and works in Knoxville, TN.
Author: Valerie Irene Jane Flint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0691210020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes." So writes Valerie Flint in this powerful work on magic in early medieval Europe. Flint shows how many of the more discerning leaders of the early medieval Church decided to promote non-Christian practices originally condemned as magical--rather than repressing them or leaving them to waste away or "growl." These wise leaders actively and enthusiastically incorporated specific kinds of "magic" into the dominant culture not only to appease the contemporary non-Christian opposition but also to enhance Christianity itself.
Author: Yuval Harari
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017-04-01
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 0814336310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts?” Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three major topics: Jewish magic inventiveness, the conflict with the culture it reflects, and the scientific study of both. The first part of the book analyzes the essence of magic in general and Jewish magic in particular. The book begins with theories addressing the relationship of magic and religion in fields like comparative study of religion, sociology of religion, history, and cultural anthropology, and considers the implications of the paradigm shift in the interdisciplinary understanding of magic for the study of Jewish magic. The second part of the book focuses on Jewish magic culture in late antiquity and in the early Islamic period. This section highlights the artifacts left behind by the magic practitioners—amulets, bowls, precious stones, and human skulls—as well as manuals that include hundreds of recipes. Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah also reports on the culture that is reflected in the magic evidence from the perspective of external non-magic contemporary Jewish sources. Issues of magic and religion, magical mysticism, and magic and social power are dealt with in length in this thorough investigation. Scholars interested in early Jewish history and comparative religions will find great value in this text.
Author: Marc Silvestri
Publisher: Image Comics
Published: 2014-09-17
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Asa Stonethrow's uneasy alliance of magic wielding criminals is beginning to unravel and trust becomes harder and harder to come by as the line between reality and illusion blurs. Asa is determined to fight the good fight, but is he really fighting the war he sees? Back in his home world of Rune, magic has laws and codes of honor; on Earth no such guides exist. While fighting for his life, Asa learns the terrible lesson that when pitted against the overpowering strength of chaos, order has little or no chance of victory.
Author: James D. Livingston
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-05-30
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0674055357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exploration of levitation that discusses the use of magnetic forces to overcome gravity and friction, examines its applications, and explains the science behind maglev transportation systems.
Author: Ronald D. Witherup
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2012-05-03
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0814635318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! A decade after the untimely death of renowned Scripture scholar Father Raymond E. Brown, SS, he continues to inspire and inform scholars and preachers, students and pastoral ministers, lay and ordained. It was only days after Father Brown's death that his final book was published by Liturgical Press. That book, Christ in the Gospels of the Ordinary Sundays, completed his six-volume series on preaching the Scriptures, a series that had begun in the mid-1970s with the publication of his popular An Adult Christ at Christmas. Those six volumes are collected here in one convenient commemorative edition to mark the tenth anniversary of Brown's death. Brown's work is left largely untouched, and readers will find that his wisdom is lasting. Yet Brown, being a scholar's scholar, would recognize the need for some enhancement in a work being republished some thirty years after the first volume appeared. Appropriately, then, this edition contains introductory essays by Brown's colleagues and friends John R. Donahue, SJ, and Ronald D. Witherup, SS, as well as useful indexes and a bibliography of resources for preaching the word of God in the context of the lectionary. As Witherup notes in his preface, Brown had the rare capacity to simplify complex biblical studies in a manner that did not 'dumb down ' the material but allowed it to be understood by a wide audience. . . . He did this in a fashion that was both inspiring and educational. That very broad audience 'those who grew up with Brown, so to speak, as well as a whole new generation of readers and preachers of the word 'will find this book to be a source of inspiration and knowledge that they will turn to again and again. Raymond E.Brown, S.S., (1928 -1998) was the Auburn Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was author of some forty books on the Bible and past president of three of the most important biblical societies in the world. By appointment of two popes (Pal VI in 1972, John Paul II in 1996) Brown was a member of the Roman Pontifical Biblical Commission. Time magazine called him probably the premier Catholic Scripture scholar of the U.S.
