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Perseus

2009-01-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 888/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Perseus by : Paul D. Storrie

Download or read book Perseus written by Paul D. Storrie. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graphic novel format, retells the story of how King Polydectes planned to get rid of young Perseus so he could wed his mother, Danae, by tricking him into slaying Medusa--a snake-haired monster whose look turns humans into stone.

Medusa's Head

2020-06 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2020-06
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 150/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Medusa's Head by : Connor Hoover

Download or read book Medusa's Head written by Connor Hoover. This book was released on 2020-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are the guardian of Medusa's head. Can you get rid of it before it turns you to stone?

Medusa's Head

2014 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 711/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Medusa's Head by : Rand Mirante

Download or read book Medusa's Head written by Rand Mirante. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minister of Police Joseph Fouché was universally distrusted, feared, and hated in his time, but was nevertheless considered indispensable. In Medusa's Head, Rand Mirante recounts the chameleonic and astonishing career of Napoleon's security chief, who created the modern police state and wielded immense power that threatened the other main organs of government. Fouché was one of the most important, fascinating, and controversial figures of the French Revolution, the First Empire, and the Bourbon Restoration, and this biography captures and unravels the highlights of Fouché's life, including his infamous roles as: A priest-in-training who became a radical Jacobin and de-Christianizer A regicide who cast a dramatic swing vote for Louis XVI's immediate execution The grim and remorseless "Butcher of Lyon" Mastermind of the conspiracy that sent Robespierre to the guillotine The head of Napoleon's police - privy to everyone's secrets, shaping the media, deploying 10,000 informants in Paris alone, and securing funding from the Empire's casinos and brothels Cunning enabler of Napoleon's 1799 coup, and subsequent repeated betrayer of the Emperor Acting president after Waterloo and traitor to France Louis XVIII's Minister of Police, in spite of his responsibility for the death of the King's brother A wealthy but disgraced exile who met an unusual end in Trieste on the Adriatic Medusa's Head provides fresh insights and perspectives on this enormously influential and fearsome individual.

Medusa's Hair

2014-02-08 History
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Release : 2014-02-08
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 21X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Medusa's Hair by : Gananath Obeyesekere

Download or read book Medusa's Hair written by Gananath Obeyesekere. This book was released on 2014-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying. The increasing popularity of these ecstatics poses a challenge not only to orthodox Sinhala Buddhism (the official religion of Sri Lanka) but also, as Gananath Obeyesekere shows, to the traditional anthropological and psychoanalytic theories of symbolism. Focusing initially on one symbol, matted hair, Obeyesekere demonstrates that the conventional distinction between personal and cultural symbols is inadequate and naive. His detailed case studies of ecstatics show that there is always a reciprocity between the personal-psychological dimension of the symbol and its public, culturally sanctioned role. Medusa's Hair thus makes an important theoretical contribution both to the anthropology of individual experience and to the psychoanalytic understanding of culture. In its analyses of the symbolism of guilt, the adaptational and integrative significance of belief in spirits, and a host of related issues concerning possession states and religiosity, this book marks a provocative advance in psychological anthropology.

Medusa's Stony Stare

2011-07 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2011-07
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 203/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Medusa's Stony Stare by : Jessica Gunderson

Download or read book Medusa's Stony Stare written by Jessica Gunderson. This book was released on 2011-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa, once a bewitching beauty, has become a hideous monster with snakes for hair. When men look at her, they turn to stone. Whe King Polydectes sends Perseus for Medusas head, he thinks Perseus will soon be another one of Medusas stone men. Or will he?

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