A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February–July, 1912. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Barsoom series inspired a number of well-known 20th-century science fiction writers, including Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and John Norman. The series was also inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when he was a child. John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure. He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of Green Martians, or Tharks, as the planet's warlike, six-limbed, green-skinned inhabitants are known. Thanks to his strength and martial prowess, Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs.
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A very full and comprehensive text-book of Divine Science, which is prefaced by the author's personal experience as a student of the Science, and as a worker or demonstrator of its doctrines. This is followed by twenty-three lessons covering all the important divisions of the study. The work has been revised and is now presented to the public in very complete form.
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Titre: Robotics Through Science Fiction. Contributeur: Robin R. Murphy (Introduction by), Robin R. Murphy (Edited by). Auteur: Robin R. Murphy. Sujet: Fiction, Science Fiction, Technology & Engineering.
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Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know, of the philosophic system which is taught in the institution. All its mysteries and its dogmas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communication to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The Freemason has no way of reaching any of the esoteric teachings of the Order except through the medium of a legend or a symbol. Contents: Preface. I. Preliminary. II. The Noachidæ. III. The Primitive Freemasonry of Antiquity. IV. The Spurious Freemasonry of Antiquity. V. The Ancient Mysteries. VI. The Dionysiac Artificers. VII. The Union of Speculative and Operative Masonry at the Temple of Solomon. VIII. The Travelling Freemasons of the Middle Ages. IX. Disseverance of the Operative Element. X. The System of Symbolic Instuction. XI. The Speculative Science and the Operative Art. XII. He Symbolism of Solomon'S Temple. XIII. The Form of the Lodge. XIV. The Officers of a Lodge. XV. The Point Within a Circle. XVI. The Covering of the Lodge. XVII. Ritualistic Symbolism. XVIII. The Rite of Discalceation. XIX. The Rite of Investiture. XX. The Symbolism of the Gloves. XXI. The Rite of Circumambulation. XXII. The Rite of Intrusting, and the Symbolism of Light. XXIII. Symbolism of the Corner-Stone. XXIV. The Ineffable Name. XXV. The Legends of Freemasonry. XXVI. The Legend of the Winding Stairs. XXVII. The Legend of the Third Degree. XXVIII. The Sprig of Acacia. XXIX. The Symbolism of Labor. XXX. The Stone of Foundation.216 XXXI.
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"Science And Health" is the foundational textbook on the system of physically, emotionally or mentally healing your mind and body. It is based on Mary Baker Eddys discoveries and what she afterwards named Christian Science. The book offers new spiritual insights on the scriptures and briefs the reader with regard to his relationship with God.
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<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Powieść uważana przez wielu czytelników za horror wszech czasów – tym razem w formie słuchowiska z udziałem największych gwiazd współczesnego polskiego kina.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Jack Torrance, były nauczyciel, a obecnie poszukujący weny pisarz, otrzymuje pracę dozorcy w opuszczonym na okres zimowy górskim hotelu Panorama. Kiedy burze śnieżne odcinają od świata rodzinę Torrance’ów, obdarzony telepatycznymi zdolnościami Danny, pięcioletni syn Jacka, odkrywa, że hotel jest nawiedzony, a duchy powoli doprowadzają jego ojca do obłędu. Sytuacja staje się coraz bardziej napięta, aż pewnego dnia mężczyzna przestaje nad sobą panować...</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> W 1980 roku Stanley Kubrick podjął się ekranizacji „Lśnienia”, główną rolę w filmie zagrał demoniczny Jack Nicholson. W 1997 roku Stephen King, który zarzucał Kubrickowi ominięcie wielu istotnych faktów z książki, zrealizował miniserial telewizyjny na podstawie własnej powieści i scenariusza.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Stephen King</strong> (ur. 1947 w Portland) napisał ponad pięćdziesiąt książek i wszystkie zyskały status światowych bestsellerów. Znajdują się między nimi: „Carrie”, „Miasteczko Salem”, „Misery”, „Pod kopułą”, Dallas `63” czy „Lśnienie”, którego kontynuacją jest „Doktor Sen”. King zręcznie wiąże w swoich historiach elementy grozy, literatury science fiction, baśni i sensacji. Jego powieści doczekały się wielomilionowych nakładów, tłumaczeń na przeszło 30 języków, prawie każda z nich została zekranizowana. Autor uchodzi dziś za niekoronowanego króla literatury z gatunku horroru. Mieszka w Bangor w stanie Maine z żoną, powieściopisarką Tabithą King.</p> <p> Scenariusz i reżyseria: Janusz Kukuła, Polskie Radio S.A.</p> <p> W rolach głównych:</p> <p> Jack Torrance – Adam Woronowicz</p> <p> Wendy Torrance – Agata Kulesza</p> <p> Danny Torrance – Bernard Lewandowski</p> <p> Dick Hallorann – Mariusz Bonaszewski</p> <p> Stuart Ullman – Marian Opania</p> <p> Narrator – Krzysztof Gosztyła</p> <p> W pozostałych rolach:</p> <p> Krzysztof Banaszyk, Marek Barbasiewicz, Adam Bauman, Anna Bojara, Tomasz Borkowski, Izabella Bukowska-Chądzyńska, Paweł Ciołkosz, Damian Damięcki, Marta Dudź, Marta Dylewska, Elżbieta Gaertner, Jakub Jankiewicz, Barbara Kałużna, Ewa Kania, Elżbieta Kępińska, Elżbieta Kijowska, Mikołaj Klimek, Julia Kołakowska-Bytner, Miłosz Konkel, Maciej Kowalik, Jan Kulczycki, Wojciech Machnicki, Olaf Marchwicki, Andrzej Mastalerz, Aleksander Mikołajczak, Janusz Rafał Nowicki, Tomasz Olejnik, Jan Pęczek, Krzysztof Plewako-Szczerbiński, Marcin Przybylski, Aleksandra Radwan, Ewa Serwa, Zbigniew Suszyński, Paweł Szczesny, Sebastian Świerszcz, Kinga Tabor, Marcin Troński, Anna Wodzyńska, Przemysław Wyszyński, Diana Zamojska, Wojciech Żołądkowicz.</p> <p> Producent wykonawczy: Audioteka Poland Sp. z o.o.</p> <p> Realizacja nagrań: Tomasz Marek</p> <p> Kompozycja muzyki i wykonanie, g...
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Mark Twain wrote this book about Christian Science in 1907, three years before his death. Although he was most interested in spirituality and the basics of mental healing, he was a fierce enemy of Mrs. Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science movement. The essays in this book highlight what Twain really thought about this religious movement.
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This is the annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, as well as an introductory to the book written by George Parsons Lathrop. This book, which the author himself preferred to his previous novel, is of quieter tone than "The Scarlet Letter." It is more minutely elaborated, and its pathos depends more on the peculiar temperaments of its characters. The scene is laid in Salem, and the house, which much efiort has been made to identify, corresponds in many points to an old dwelling formerly standing there, known as the Curwen House, and sometimes called "the old witch-house." Engravings from a picture of it are used as illustrations of the book. Some points in the story corresponding to the history of the Hawthornes were noted in the beginning of this sketch. The character of Clifford and the problem of his strange destiny, the mockery of fate, which, having adapted him so delicately to an existence of sensuous refinement, stripped him in his youth, at one brutal stroke, of everything fair in life, and threw him among the lowest and coarsest surroundings, is the great study of the book. Its pervading thought is the theory of inheritance, the repetition of an original type now and then down a family line, and the curse of wrong-doing, blasting innocent lives when wronger and wronged are dust. The characters of Hepzibah and Phoebe are beautiful types, strongly contrasted on the surface, but having at bottom an intimate kinship in moral uprightness and capacity for devotion. That of Judge Pyncheon also is exquisitely worked out in the subtle self-deception of the hypocrite,—no character being so great a favorite in fiction, and none so often badly drawn, as that of the hypocrite, because it looks so much more easy and uncomplicated than it is.
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The study of archaeological subjects is increasing in interest. Recent disclosures concerning the early condition and history of the human race have directed much attention to these subjects. Man's oral history crystallized in myths and superstitions reflects much light into a past which written history has not penetrated. Mythology is, therefore, a very important branch of anthropological science. Mythology in its broadest definition includes all pagan religious beliefs, commonly called superstitions, and cannot be confined to collections of fables and traditions, which are the folk-lore of peoples. It is the aim of this book to contribute facts to show the homogeneity of man's religious beliefs. Although the New World is the field of research in the present volume, the rudimentary forms of belief are shown to be the same there as elsewhere, and their systematic development is also the same.
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