A fantasy novel about a young boy who discoves a wonderful book that fills him with the desire to grow up to be knight--and whose desire is granted in strange and unexpected ways. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The War for the Realm: Volume III of Chrysanthe, an epic fantasy in three installments. Through magic, King Edisthen has been abducted from Chrysanthe. Evered, the rebel prince, brings to bear his army against the throne; an army led by creatures out of nightmare. The land blazes with war as Evered's host heads for the seat of power. The defenders of the realm are unequal to the task, save for one who might hold the power to defeat the rebels . . . if she is willing to risk the fate of the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Rebel Prince: Volume II of Chrysanthe, an epic fantasy in three installments. Christine has reached the true realm of Chrysanthe and is reunited with the father she was taught to fear. As she struggles to fit into her new role as heir to the throne, and to understand the enchanted world into which she has been brought, the sons of the deposed king plot to regain power. Woven from treachery and elder magic, a noose is tightening around the rightful sovereign and his returned daughter. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician. In exile, supervised by her strict "uncle" (actually a wizard in disguise), she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrifying plot, but at 17 discovers it is all a lie.
The Lost Princess: Volume I of Chrysanthe, an epic fantasy in three installments. Torn from her family thirteen years ago, Christine hides within her drab existence as a refuge from the unspeakable horrors of her past--until she is found by a young knight riding a metal mount, who brings with him shattering revelations about the true nature of the world and her place within it. Now Christine must choose to remain inside the only world she can remember--a prison built of lies--or undertake a dangerous journey across reality, to a destination beyond imagining. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Lost Princess: Volume I of Chrysanthe, an epic fantasy in three installments. Torn from her family thirteen years ago, Christine hides within her drab existence as a refuge from the unspeakable horrors of her past--until she is found by a young knight riding a metal mount, who brings with him shattering revelations about the true nature of the world and her place within it. Now Christine must choose to remain inside the only world she can remember--a prison built of lies--or undertake a dangerous journey across reality, to a destination beyond imagining. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Rebel Prince: Volume II of Chrysanthe, an epic fantasy in three installments. Christine has reached the true realm of Chrysanthe and is reunited with the father she was taught to fear. As she struggles to fit into her new role as heir to the throne, and to understand the enchanted world into which she has been brought, the sons of the deposed king plot to regain power. Woven from treachery and elder magic, a noose is tightening around the rightful sovereign and his returned daughter. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The War for the Realm: Volume III of Chrysanthe, an epic fantasy in three installments. Through magic, King Edisthen has been abducted from Chrysanthe. Evered, the rebel prince, brings to bear his army against the throne; an army led by creatures out of nightmare. The land blazes with war as Evered's host heads for the seat of power. The defenders of the realm are unequal to the task, save for one who might hold the power to defeat the rebels . . . if she is willing to risk the fate of the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The work aims at bringing the Persian texts into the study of the arts and technology of the Indo-lranian world – an approach much neglected so far. Drawing upon Persian sources (both from Iran and India), viz., technical treatises, historical chronicles and poetical texts, the work deals with painting and the art of book making during twelfth to nineteenth century. The introduction presents the geographical and chronological dimensions of the study. After a brief history of Persian painting before the twelfth century, the book discusses mural painting, manuscripts, origin of paper and its fabrication, the composition of the page, colours/pigments used in the paintings, painting subjects, bookbinding, etc. The painter, man and artist, his origin, his training, his status, aesthetics and taste, his workshop and its organisation and distribution of tasks therein, modular construction of the manuscripts, library, the caligraphy surrounding the painting, its illuminations and binding are all analysed. In fact the book reconstructs the entire process of making an illustrated manuscript from its ground work to its binding. Persian text and illustrations enhance the utility of the work.
Mycorrhizal symbioses are widespread and fundamental components of terrestrial ecosystems and have shaped plant evolution. Features such topics as plant/fungal communication, the interaction of mycorrhizal fungi with other soil microorganisms, and the use of mycorrhizal fungi in plant-production systems.
The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. These initiatory steps are connected to an idea of evolutionary self-development by means of a set of virtues that are relative to the individual’s position on the path of evolution. The central thesis is that these stages were translated from the “Hindu” tradition to the “Theosophical” tradition through multifaceted “hybridization processes” in which several Indian members of the Theosophical Society partook. Starting with Annie Besant’s early Theosophy, the stages of initiation are traced through Blavatsky’s work to Manilal Dvivedi and T. Subba Row, both Indian members of the Theosophical Society, and then on to the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books. In 1898, the English Theosophist Annie Besant and the Indian Theosophist Bhagavan Das together founded the Central Hindu College, Benares, which became the nucleus around which the Benares Hindu University was instituted in 1915. In this context the Sanâtana Dharma Text Books were published. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, which she implemented in the Central Hindu College in Benares. In doing so, he succeeds in making intelligible how “esoteric” knowledge was transferred to public institutions and how a broader public could be reached as a result. The dissertation has been awarded the ESSWE PhD Thesis prize 2022 by the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician. In exile, supervised by her strict "uncle" (actually a wizard in disguise), she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrifying plot, but at 17 discovers it is all a lie.
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