Authors:Betty Bernice Faust, The Plumed Serpent, Rural Devel
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: serpent, plumed, development, rural, mexican
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-08-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0897896998
ISBN-13: 9780897896993
This is the first ethnography to be written about a Campeche Maya community. It examines the surviving Maya traditional technologies and sacred cosmologies and discusses the potential for combining these with modern knowledge and technologies to form an efficient new system that will not only provide for ecologically responsible development but will also make possible the cultural survival of this threatened indigenous population.
Author: M.T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: gloucester, serpent
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0763620386
ISBN-13: 9780763620387
Drawing on a true story, an award-winning author and illustrator present a picture-book tribute to the beauty and mystery of the ocean, and to the mesmerizing creatures that may frolic there.It came from the sea, from the lonely sea,It came from the glittering sea.In a small Massachusetts fishing village in August of 1817, dozens of citizens claimed to have seen an enormous sea serpent swimming off the coast. Terrified at first, the people of Gloucester eventually became quite accustomed to their new neighbor. Adventure seekers came from miles around to study the serpent and aggressively hunt
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: serpent, plumed
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1992-06-02
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0679734937
ISBN-13: 9780679734932
The story of a European woman’s self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence’s mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.
Author: Xu Xiaobin
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: novel, serpent, feathered
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1416583807
ISBN-13: 9781416583806
In this epic family history, Xiaobin portrays women across five generations with Yu (feather) as the central character whose life story is weaved through the lives of her grandmother, mother, sisters and niece. After committing two unforgivable sins, Yu is sent away from her parents to live with a woman named Jinwu but is soon abandoned by her as well. Yu hopes to redeem herself from her "original sins" and gain forgiveness from her mother. Her life is a quest for love, fragile but resilient, lonely but determined. One of the foremost works of Chinese fiction literature of the 20th century, F
Author: Clive Cussler
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: serpent
Published: 2001-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0743423070
ISBN-13: 9780743423076
Author: T. K. Reed
Publisher: iUniverse.com
Keywords: serpent, eye, quasar
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1440127530
ISBN-13: 9781440127533
It is a dark day in the forest when teenagers Matthew and Sue Robert discover unfamiliar surroundings while playing in the woodlands where they live with their father. As they spot a bright light they move towards it, hoping it would help guide them. But fear washes over them when they meet a stranger in the woods. The man said the teens were expected, according to an ancient text. Although alarmed they follow him deeper into the forest, where they are introduced to a great wolf named Quasar. Quasar asks Matthew and Sue to find six magical objects, which will remove an evil spell placed up
Author: Inquire Within
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: serpent, trail
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0766186962
ISBN-13: 9780766186965
1936. An account of investigations into various individual secret societies, their occult practices, pseudo-religious and political activities with the intent of proving that the aim of the higher grades of these varied mysteries and cults is to awaken the serpent, the sex-force or God within. Contents: Sabeism. Eleusis and Mithras; Cabalists, Gnostics, and Secret Syrian Sects; Rosicrucians and Illumines; Weishaupt_s Illuminati and the French Revolution; Carbonari, Mazzini, l_Alliance-israelite-universelle and Karl Marx; The Jewish Question; Continental Freemasonry; Theosophy and India. Co-mas
