Zoning: The Laws, Administration, and Court Decisions During the First Twenty Years, Bassett Edward Murray

Автор: Bassett James C.
Название: Clockwork Fables: A Collection of Steampunk Fairy Tales
ISBN: 045146494X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451464941
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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Описание: Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersens The Red Shoes, New York Times bestselling author K. W.

Jeters La Valse forges a fable about love, the decadence of technology, and a gala dance that becomes the obsession of a young engineerand the doom of those who partake in it.

In You Will Attend Until Beauty Awakens, national bestselling author and John W. Campbell Award winner Jay Lake tells the story of Sleeping Beautyand how the princess was conceived in deception, raised in danger, and rescued by a prince who may be less than valiant.

The tale of The Tinderbox takes a turn into the surreal when a damaged young soldier comes into possession of an intricate, treacherous treasure and is drawn into a mission of mercy in national bestselling author Kat Richardsons The Hollow Hounds.

In The Kings of Mount Golden, Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Paul Di Filippo tells the story of a young mans search for his heritage and a mechanical marvel that lies at the heart of a sinister pact in this fascinating take on The King of the Golden Mountain.


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Автор: Bassett, Molly H.
Название: Fate of earthly things
ISBN: 1477309861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477309865
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a “god” (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world.

In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ritual studies to explore what ritual practices such as human sacrifice and the manufacture of deity embodiments (including humans who became gods), material effigies, and sacred bundles meant to the Aztecs. She analyzes the Aztec belief that wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim during a sacred rite could transform a priest into an embodiment of a god or goddess, as well as how figurines and sacred bundles could become localized embodiments of gods. Without arguing for unbroken continuity between the Aztecs and modern speakers of Nahuatl, Bassett also describes contemporary rituals in which indigenous Mexicans who preserve costumbres (traditions) incorporate totiotzin (gods) made from paper into their daily lives. This research allows us to understand a religious imagination that found life in death and believed that deity embodiments became animate through the ritual binding of blood, skin, and bone.