Torchbearers
Author | : A. B. Majmudar |
Publisher | : India Puffin |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780143448273 |
Like any bored eleven-year-old with an imagination, Prem makes fantastic wishes. So when his father drags him to a monsoon-lashed Mumbai, Prem know it's futile to dream of home. Instead, he wishes for a genie, a dragon and some superpowers. What he certainly doesn't wish for is a quest to save some gods who are at the brink of extinction. He finds that the gods' last hope lies in the hands of those who channel the mysterious power of the Vedas. Caught in a cosmic crossfire, with a talking fish, some inventive monkeys and a few unexpected allies, Prem learns of his true identity-as a Torchbearer. Can the Torchbearers stop bloodthirsty demons from getting their hands on the Nectar of Immortality and bring the gods back to power?
The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws
Author | : Peter Goodrich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1000396908 |
Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the non-laws or imaginary legislations of a realm yet to come. The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws is a collection of fictive contributions to the theme of conceiving imaginary laws in the vivid vein of jurisliterary invention. Disparate in style and diverse in genres of writing and performative expression, the celebrated and unknown, venerable and youthful authors write new laws. Thirty-five dissolute scholars, impecunious authors and dyspeptic artists from a variety of fields including law, film, science, history, philosophy, political science, aesthetics, architecture and the classics become, for a brief and inspiring instance, legislators of impossible norms. The collection provides an extra-ordinary range of inspired imaginings of other laws. This momentary community of radial thought conceives of a wild variety of novel critical perspectives. The contributions aim to inspire reflection on the role of imagination in the study and writing of law. Verse, collage, artworks, short stories, harangues, lists, and other pleas, reports and pronouncements revivify the sense of law as the vehicle of poetic justice and as an art that instructs and constructs life. Aimed at an intellectual audience disgruntled with the negativity of critique and the narrowness of the disciplines, this book will appeal especially to theorists, lawyers, scholars and a general public concerned with the future of decaying laws and an increasingly derelict legal system.
The Torch Bearer
Author | : Reina Melcher Marquis |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"The Torch Bearer" is Reina Melcher Marquis's first and only book, published in 1914. This insightful work explores the question of how a woman can be a wife and mother and simultaneously be faithful to her art.
Earth Under Fire
Author | : Paul A. LaViolette |
Publisher | : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2005-10-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781591430520 |
In "Earth Under Fire, " Paul LaViolette investigates the connection between ancient world catastrophe myths and modern scientific evidence of a galactic destruction cycle, demonstrating how past civilizations accurately recorded the causes of these cataclysmic events, knowledge of which may be crucial for the human race to survive the next catastrophic superwave cycle.