Saturday, January 31, 2004

The Magicians Guild (Black Magician, #1)

The Magicians  Guild (Black Magician, #1)

The Magicians Guild (Black Magician, #1)

"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician."

This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work-—until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders...and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield.

What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control.

ISBN: 1841493139
Author: Trudi Canavan
Publisher: Orbit
Rating: 3.95

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Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Inward Journey: From Pythagoras To Freud To Gurdjieff

Inward Journey: From Pythagoras To Freud To Gurdjieff

Inward Journey: From Pythagoras To Freud To Gurdjieff

After 30 years of research, Dr. Marc J. Seifer presents a comprehensive model of mind that spans over 2,000 years of thought. From Pythagorous, Aristotle, Descartes and Leibniz, to Freud, Jung, Gurdjieff, Tony Robbins, Rudolf Steiner and the Dalai Lama, comes a treatise that presents an in-depth study of the many realms of the unconscious as well as dreams and ESP, group fantasy, defense mechanisms, creativity, self-actualization, will psychology and the highest states of consciousness. Come take the journey inward.

ISBN: 1931261040
Author: Marc Seifer
Publisher: Doorway Press
Rating: 5.00

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Tuesday, December 2, 2003

Deep Fire Rising (Philip Mercer, #6)

Deep Fire Rising (Philip Mercer, #6)

Deep Fire Rising (Philip Mercer, #6)

Geologist-adventurer Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy when a reclusive order of Himalayan monks predicts the end of the world-and sets a thermonuclear bomb in an underwater volcano to ensure that it comes to pass...

ISBN: 0451411188
Author: Jack Du Brul
Publisher: NAL
Rating: 4.12

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Monday, September 1, 2003

Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2003

Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2003

Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2003

ISBN: 3110178958
Author: Niels Jørgen Cappelørn
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Rating: 0.00

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Sunday, March 23, 2003

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train. In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances.

Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists. What results is an insightful mediation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people.

In a new postscript, Theroux recounts the dramatic events of a return to Africa to visit Zimbabwe.

ISBN: 0618134247
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Rating: 3.95

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Tuesday, December 3, 2002

River Of Ruin (Philip Mercer, #5)

River Of Ruin (Philip Mercer, #5)

River Of Ruin (Philip Mercer, #5)

In the heart of Panama, a volcanic lake feeds a serpentine river—its stone banks laid by the Inca, who took back the gold and jewels plundered from them by the conquistadors. Legend has it that the Twice-Stolen Treasure has been buried for centuries in the Panamanian jungle. Discovering it means surviving the unpredictable black waters of the River of Ruin….

It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip Mercer: the opportunity to buy a rare diary written during the French attempt at digging the Panama Canal. But Mercer isn’t the only one who wants it. Three Chinese assassins have been dispatched to get it, forcing Mercer into a subterranean game of cat and mouse that takes him from the hellish maze of l’empire de la mort and through the sewers of Paris.

Mercer realizes he has uncovered an intricate Chinese plot to trigger a deadly shift in the world’s balance of power. At stake is control of the canal, recently handed over to the government of Panama by the United States. Only Philip Mercer—with help from beautiful U.S. Army officer Lauren Vanik, a cell of tough French Foreign Legion commandos, and a crusty eighty-year-old retired sea captain named Harry White—can stop them.

ISBN: 0451410548
Author: Jack Du Brul
Publisher: NAL
Rating: 4.13

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Thursday, August 1, 2002

Waiting for Foucault, Still

Waiting for Foucault, Still

Waiting for Foucault, Still

First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pear Press in 1993, this expanded edition of Waiting for Foucault represents some of the brightest anthropological satire—mixed in with some of the most serious intellectual issues in the human sciences. Whether he's summing up the state of the discipline ("Some things are better left un-Said") or ruminating on the ancients, Sahlins delivers a strong mixture of wit and wisdom.

ISBN: 097175750X
Author: Marshall Sahlins
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Rating: 3.87

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