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Death's mistress : sister of darkness / by Goodkind, Terry.;
"Onetime lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as "Death's Mistress" and the "Slave Queen," the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl in order to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good. But it was Richard who converted Nicci instead, and for years thereafter she served Richard and Kahlan as one of their closest friends-- and one of their most lethal defenders. Now, with the reign of Richard and Kahlan finally stablized, Nicci has set out on her own for new adventures. Her first job being to keep the unworldly prophet Nathan out of trouble ..."--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Prophets;
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Autism's false prophets : bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure / by Offit, Paul A.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-284) and index.
Subjects: Autism; Vaccination of children; Medical misconceptions.; Autism;
© c2008., Columbia University Press,
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Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom / by Blight, David W.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.First things -- A childhood of extremes -- The silver trump of knowledge -- Baltimore dreams -- Now for mischief! -- Living a new life -- This Douglass! -- Garrisonian in mind and body -- The thought of writing for a book! -- Send back the money! -- Demagogue in black -- My faithful friend Julia -- By the rivers of Babylon -- My voice, my pen, or my vote -- John Brown could die for the slave -- Secession : taught by events -- The kindling spirit of his battle cry -- The anthem of the redeemed -- Men of color to arms! -- Abolition war, abolition peace -- Sacred efforts -- Othello's occupation was gone -- All the leeches that feed on you -- Ventures -- What will peace among the whites bring? -- An important and lucrative office -- Joys and sorrows at Cedar Hill -- Watchman, what of the night? -- Born traveler -- Haiti : servant between two masters -- If American conscience were only half-alive -- Epilogue: Then Douglass passed."The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a youngman Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, often to large crowds, using his own story to condemn slavery. He broke with Garrison to become a political abolitionist, a Republican, and eventually a Lincoln supporter. By the Civil War and during Reconstruction, Douglassbecame the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. He denounced the premature end of Reconstruction and the emerging Jim Crow era. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. He sometimes argued politically with younger African-Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass's two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. David Blight's Frederick Douglass affords this important American the distinguished biography he deserves"--
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.; Abolitionists; African American abolitionists; Slaves; Antislavery movements;
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Muhammad : his life based on the earliest sources / by Lings, Martin.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An objective biography of the Prophet, drawn from primary Arabic sources of the 8th and 9th centuries, including passages never before translated. It owes its freshness and directness of approach to the words of the men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life.--From publisher description.A note on the pronunciation of Arabic names -- Map of Arabia -- Quraysh of the Hollow (genealogical tree) -- Key to references -- The house of God -- A great loss -- Quraysh of the Hollow -- The recovery of a loss -- The vow to sacrifice a son -- The need for a prophet -- The year of the elephant -- The desert -- Two bereavements -- Baḥīrà the monk -- A pact of chivalry -- Questions of marriage -- The household -- The rebuilding of the Ka'bah -- The first Revelations -- Worship -- "Warn Thy Family" -- Quraysh take action -- Aws and Khazraj -- Abū Jahl and Ḥamzah -- Quraysh make offers and demands -- Leaders of Quraysh --Wonderment and hope -- Family divisions -- The hour -- Three questions -- Abyssinia -- 'Umar -- The ban and its annulment -- Paradise and eternity -- The year of sadness -- "The light of thy countenance" -- After the year of sadness -- Yathrib responsive -- Many emigrations -- A conspiracy -- The Hijrah -- The entry into Medina -- Harmony and discord -- The new household -- The threshold of war -- The march to Badr -- The battle of Badr -- The return of the vanquished -- The captives -- Bani Qaynuqā' -- Deaths and marriages -- The people of the Bench -- Desultory warfare -- Preparations for battle -- The march to Uḥud -- The battle of Uḥud -- Revenge -- The burial of the martyrs -- After Uḥud -- Victims of revenge -- Bani Naḍīr -- Peace and war -- The trench -- The siege -- Bani Qurayẓah -- After the siege -- The hypocrites -- The necklace -- The lie -- The dilemma of Quraysh -- "A clear victory" -- After Ḥudaybiyah -- Khaybar -- "Whom Lovest Thou Most?" -- After Khaybar -- The lesser pilgrimage and its aftermath -- Syria -- A breach of the armistice -- The conquest of Mecca -- The battle of Ḥunayn and the siege of Ṭā'if -- Reconciliations -- After the victory -- Tabūk -- After Tabūk -- The degrees -- The future -- The farewell pilgrimage -- The choice -- The succession and the burial.
Subjects: Muḥammad, Prophet, -632;
© c2006., Inner Traditions,
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Bruce Springsteen : American poet and prophet / by Deardorff, Donald L.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162), discography (pages 163-169), and index.Since releasing his first record in 1973, Springsteen has become one of the few twentieth-century singer-songwriters to serve as the voice of his generation, a defining artist whose works reflect the values, dreams, and concerns of many Americans. Deardorff explores the works of "The Boss," defining the nature of Springsteen's cultural influence. He considers the trenchant commentary Springsteen's albums make on the mythology of the American Dream, working-class concerns, the importance of social justice, and the evocation of an American spirit.Adam raised a Cain : musical and biographical Influences -- Those romantic young boys : reviving the quest in the 1970s -- Streets of fire : working class heroes -- Boys try to look so hard : reinventing masculinity -- I had a brother at Khe Sahn : redefining patriotism in an age of war -- It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive : social justice -- Deliver me from nowhere : redemptive myth -- The ministry of rock 'n roll.
Subjects: Springsteen, Bruce; Springsteen, Bruce;
© 2014., The Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
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The lives of Erich Fromm : love's prophet / by Friedman, Lawrence Jacob,1940-; Schreiber, Anke M.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments -- Prologue: writing lives -- Germany -- The unsteady apprentice -- Frankfurt scholar -- The Americas -- The Americanization of a European intellectual -- Escape from freedom -- Clinician and ethicist -- To love and to mentor -- Politics and prose -- Global citizenship -- Prophecies for a troubled world -- A third way -- "Life is extravagance" : almost -- Hope and stasis -- Love and death -- A bibliographical note -- Notes -- Index.
Subjects: Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980.; Psychoanalysts; Psychoanalysts;
© c2013., Columbia University Press,
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The complete prophecies of Nostradamus. by Nostradamus,1503-1566.;
"Nostradamus began to write his prophetic verses in the city of Salon, in 1554. They are divided into ten sections called Centuries (which refers to the number of verses in each section, not to a unit of 100 years). The Centuries were published in 1555 and 1558, and have been in print continuously ever since. Nostradamus had the visions which he later recorded in verse while staring into water or flame late at night, sometimes aided by herbal stimulants, while sitting on a brass tripod. The resulting quatrains (four line verses) are oblique and elliptical, and use puns, anagrams and allegorical imagery. Most of the quatrains are open to multiple interpretations, and some make no sense whatsoever. Some of them are chilling, literal descriptions of events, giving specific or near- specific names, geographic locations, astrological configurations, and sometimes actual dates. It is this quality of both vagueness and specificity which allows each new generation to reinterpret Nostradamus."-- Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Nostradamus, 1503-1566; Prophets--France--Biography; Prophecies (Occultism);
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C.S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet / by McGrath, Alister E.,1953-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-401) and index.A definitive portrait of the life of C.S. Lewis.
Subjects: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.; Authors, English; Lewis, C. S., 1898-1963.;
© c2013., Tyndale House Publishers,
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Age of myth / by Sullivan, Michael J.,1961-;
"A new series set in the world of the Riyria Chronicles. In the land of the Rhune, trees can tell the future and the gods are beyond reproach. But when Raithe's father is slain, he does the unthinkable--he kills a god. From this act, rises the legend of the God Killer, the seeds of a rebellion, and the question of whether the gods are really immortal after all"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Epic fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Gods; Prophets; Imaginary wars and battles; Revolutions;
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El Greco : Domenikos Theotokopoulos 1541-1614 : a prophet of modernism / by Scholz-Hänsel, Michael.; Greco,1541?-1614,artist.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 94)From icon painter to "disciple of Titian" -- In search of work in Rome and Spain -- Under the sway of Michelangelo -- Censorship and Inquisition -- Toledo, the artist's new home -- The Greek heritage in the conflict of confessions -- Posthumous fame in Spain -- The first "homeless man of art" and the avant-garde.El Greco (1541-1614) was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete in 1541. He arrived in Venice in 1566, where his work was greatly influenced by Titian and Tintoretto. Later he made an offer to the Pope to paint over Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" in the spirit of the Counter Reformation, which so incurred the wrath of Roman artists that a career in Italy was no longer conceivable. El Greco then settled in Spain, in Toledo, where he received numerous commissions from the Church and the nobility. Between 1586 and 1588 he created a major work of European painting, the monumental "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" for a chapel altar in the parish church of Santo Tome in Toledo. El Greco confined his range of colours to a small number of very expressively used shades, with an evident preference for pale purple, pink, and yellow and greyish tones. He located the iconographical events in a space that he dramatized by means of light and atmospheric phenomena. His oeuvre had a wide-ranging impact on art up to and including modern 20th century painting. Paul Cezanne and later Picasso and the Expressionists regarded El Greco as a prophet of modernism.
Subjects: Greco, 1541?-1614.;
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