The Jewel and Crystal Chronicles
Author: Jewel Holloway
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-08-08
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 1462865542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jewel Holloway
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-08-08
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 1462865542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jewel Holloway
Publisher:
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781462865536
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kerryn Offord
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1625795165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sparkling addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist of the 17th century confronts modern science with often amusing results. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist and a great-grandson of Paracelsus—and a Bombast on his mother's side—was a man history had forgotten. But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early seventeenth century, he got a second chance at fame and fortune. The world's greatest alchemist does not make household goods. But with suitable enticements Gribbleflotz is persuaded to make baking soda and then baking powder so that the time-displaced Americans can continue to enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits and gravy. Applying his superb grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled and confused notions the Americans have concerning what they call “chemistry,” Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind. In his relentless search for a way to invigorate the quinta essential of the human humors, Gribbleflotz plays a central role in jump-starting the seventeenth century’s new chemical and marital aids industries—and pioneering such critical fields of human knowledge as pyramidology and aura imaging. These are his chronicles. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series: “This alternate history series is … a landmark…”—Booklist “[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist “…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”—Publishers Weekly
Author: Vijaya Schartz
Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing In
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1936000741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In charge of the fortress of Kassouk in the King's absence, what is Terek to do when a Goddian spacecraft lands in his medieval backyard, and the striking woman leading the galactic party insists on colonization? Galya, the Goddian Princess commanding the geological vessel, is bent on finding a crystal with unusual hyper-conductor properties. And the futile resistance of the local population isn't going to stop her. Not even that defiant tribal chief nicknamed Red Leopard, like the infernal feline that follows him everywhere. Terek and his band of swordsmen and felines must defend their people's freedom, no matter the cost. But with this unexpected arrival, an old prophecy surfaces, taking new meaning and carrying a new threat... When political intrigues, greed, murder and betrayal tip the scales, whom can Galya really trust? Her fellow Goddians? -- the Mutants bred to serve her race? -- or her primitive Human enemy?
Author: Genevra Kornbluth
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780271042886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval Europe offers a pageant of almost incredible richness: King Arthur and his round table, demons and cathedrals, Charlemagne and his paladins. The Carolingian culture of the late eighth to late tenth centuries (in what is now France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and northern Italy) offers more than its fair share of achievements. This heavily illustrated study examines one revealing legacy of Charlemagne's heirs and his people--the Carolingian gems of rock crystal, jet, and agate engraved with complex figural scenes, which have never before been studied as a group. These objects have been largely ignored in the scholarship of medieval art, partly because of the difficulty of access. Genevra Kornbluth assembles for the first time all twenty surviving gems, from small seal matrices to the forty-one-figure "Susanna crystal" in London, along with information about lost works. The unique features of each gem are made visible in over 200 detailed black-and-white photographs, often highly magnified and produced using new techniques developed to record transparent engraving. Kornbluth fully analyzes the techniques of manufacture, style, chronology, iconography, and patronage of each gem and examines their social functions, the organization and status of the artisans who created them, and relations between media. The gems are presented as evidence of the rich diversity of the Carolingian culture, rather than as reflections of an artistic program dictated by the imperial courts; they are also seen to be essentially new creations, drawing on earlier visual traditions but adapting their sources to address contemporary concerns.
Author: Chyna Dixon-Kennedy
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1491768576
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the acclaimed author of “Ice Palace, Crystal Dreams” comes a new exciting thriller. Everyone’s favorite couple is back to solve another baffling mystery- their best one yet! A wealthy heiress is discovered in a pristine park in sunny Los Angeles. Their brand new detective agency is hired to solve this peculiar crime. While investigating the rich socialite, they’re thrust into a whirlwind of strange happenings and demonic secret societies that will stop at nothing to preserve a lucrative empire. The more they uncover, the more they’re sucked into a swirling vortex of deception, high tech conspiracy theories, and lies. Appearing at the center of this complex controversy is a promising teen whose social media platform goes viral, plus the narcissistic front-runner in a contentious presidential election; his true agenda remaining undisclosed. As the nation is ravished by a fast-spreading and highly contagious mutating virus, key evidence is stumbled upon to unlock the case. Now Detective Don Dellevega and Dr. Crystal Knight-Davenport must even up the odds by battling against Russian covert operatives. It’s a race against time to reveal the apocalyptic plan to the masses. Before it’s too late! The stakes are high- as the fate of an entire country hangs in the balance, including the lavish lifestyle of one young rising rock star...
Author: John Yonge Akerman
Publisher:
Published: 1843
Total Pages: 536
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