Something mysterious and scary is loose in the British Museum, and a rapid solution is needed. Something connects the events to malevolent forces that menaces realm beyond our own... and all mankind. Only one man has the power to defeat this fearsome threat, so the Ministry of Defence engages psychic investigatorJake Conley to solve the mystery. Soon after, he discovers disturbing connections to the case, including murder. Can Jake overcome his diabolical adversary and save the day? This is the large print edition of The Snape Ring, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
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Why Half-blood prince is the best Harry Potter novel / John Granger -- The curse of the Black family tree / Wendy B. Harte -- How Dumbledore and Slughorn used magic--and stage magic--and fooled us all / Sally M. Gallo -- The locket, the cup, Nagini, Harry, and the Mirror of Erised / Daniela Teo -- Mourning for her own true love / Swythyv (a LiveJournal experience) -- Welcome to my murder : act 1 / Joyce Odell -- Brandy and revelations in the library / The Usual Suspects.
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This text aims to provide positive and practical guidance at every stage of the mooting exercise with hints and tips on how to research legal points, marshal arguments and present them clearly and confidently. Short chapters deal with each of the 100 questions students are most likely to ask.
As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical and institutional ways. Like ancient Sophists, modern Machiavellians, and postmodern Nietzscheans, the Potter books treat politics as dark arts and our defenses against them. The Potter saga overflows with drama, humor, and insight into ours as dark times of terrible troubles. These reach from racism, sexism, and specism to fascism, terrorism, autocracy, and worse. Harry and his friends respond with detailed, entertaining takes on many ideologies, movements, and styles of current politics.Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that Potter performances of magic show us how and why to leap into political action. This includes the high politics of governments and elections, and especially the everyday politics of families, schools, businesses, media, and popular cultures. It explores Potter versions of idealism, realism, feminism, and environmentalism. It clarifies Potter accounts of bureaucracy, nationalism, and patronage. And it analyzes Potter resistance through existentialism and anarchism. The emphasis is on learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.
Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of all ages but in its connection to the greater world of classic literature. Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures explores the literary landscape of themes and genres J.K. Rowling artfully wove throughout her novels-and the influential authors and stories that inspired her. From Jane Austen's Emma and Charles Dickens's class struggles, through the gothic romances of Dracula and Frankenstein and the detective mysteries of Dorothy L. Sayers, to the dramatic alchemy of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and William Shakespeare, Rowling cast a powerful spell with the great books of English literature that transformed the story of a young wizard into a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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