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Danger Boy: Ancient Fire Episode 1 5 reviews
Mark London Williams
Candlewick, 2004
A 9- year- old's review:
This book is absolutely great! It captured my attention and I was so excited that I demanded my Mom go online and buy # 2 in the series because the library didn't have it. I usually like to read only science books, but this is one fiction book I really enjoyed. I want everyone in America to read it so they will be able to talk about the book with me! The only flaw I found was that the book was so ...
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The One Who Knows God5 reviews
Clement of Alexandria
Scroll Publishing Company, 1990
Required reading for all Christians
First of all, I love the last section of the Introduction by the Translator--"Neither Catholic nor Protestant." As an Orthodox Christian, it made complete sense to me, but I had to laugh at the translator's ignorance of the Orthodox fairh, ro which Clement subscribed to. This book is very helpful to those who wish to lead a Christian life the way our Lord mapped it out for us. It is full of ...
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The Lizard King Was Here: The Life and Times of Jim Morrison in Alexandria, Virginia10 reviews
Mark Opsasnick
Xlibris Corporation, 2006
An exceptional book that is not just for Doors fans
Many of Jim Morrison's influences have been well documented: the French symbolists, James Joyce, the Beat writers, and the 1960s Los Angeles scene. Still, there are gaps in understanding his terrifying genius and talented rage.
Mark Opsasnick highlights the influences of one of the most misunderstood periods in Morrison's brief life, his high school years in the once-sleepy town of Alexandria, ...
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Balthasar (Alexandria Quartet)8 reviews
Lawrence Durrell
Penguin, 1991
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Like "Justine", written in a hauntingly sensual style, but far more readable. Took me a much shorter time to read it. There are so many memorable passages of beauty and wisdom in both, one could fill a small notebook - on love and the human condition, and the beauty of nature. Durrell certainly had an alert and unusually articulate mind, writing both with poetry and precision. Published in ...
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Alexandria 5: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions6 reviews
Phanes Press, 2000
Western Esotericism
Essential contributions to the study of Western Esotericism. Alexandria issue #5 covers: Dante and the Comic Way -- Joseph Meeker An Ecology of Mind -- Doug Man Science's Missing Half: Epistemological Pluralism and the Search for an Inclusive Cosmology -- David Fideler Negotiating the Highwire of Heaven: The Milky Way and the Itinerary of the Soul -- E. C. Krupp Nature and Nature's God: Modern ...
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The Medallion of Solaus8 reviews
Kimberly Adkins
Black Lyon Publishing, 2007
A very enjoyable read!
I was pleasantly surprised at the way Medallion of Solaus carried me along. I would not ordinarily pick up a book with an occult theme, and tend more to gothic and mystery, but found that the Medallion of Solaus includes plenty of both to not only hold my interest, but make this book hard to put down. I highly recommend it as a wonderful read to transport you from your daily commonplace to ...
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Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)8 reviews
Lawrence Durrell, 1991
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This series so far - - "The Alexandria Quartet" - - has been one of the most interesting and wonderful things I have ever read. Memorable in every way. To be savored and remembered. Just simply a dazzling accomplishment by Durrell. "Mountolive" is written in 3rd person, unlike the first two, and it explores more of the motives and facts of the same people in the same time period - yet ...
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Postal Blues14 reviews
Vincent R. Alexandria
Shankrys Publishing, 2001
Postal Blues - WOW
I just finished reading Postal Blues. Vincent Alexandria did it again. His descriptive phrases are exceptional and his surprise ending was a surprise! I am anxious to read the third book of the trilogy.
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Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity)7 reviews
Maria Dzielska
Harvard University Press, 1996
Female Socrates
Socrates was executed by the state of Athens as a scapegoat for its defeat by the Spartans. His crime was being a free thinker in a short age of turmoil. He was however fondly remembered and documented. Hypatia was first brought to my attention by Carl Sagan in his television series Cosmos. She has often been represented as a pillar of wisdom in an age of growing dogma. Unlike with Socrates ...
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Alexandria: City of Memory5 reviews
Michael Haag
Yale University Press, 2004
The Compleat History of the Mysterious City of Alexandria
Michael Haag has taken on a challenge few historians would accept: he has recreated a solid history of a city shrouded in mystery since its inception or formation by Alexander the Great. And while much is known about Alexandria through novels and movies and war ruminations and social epithets and other sources that border on mythology, this amazingly fascinating city has undergone so many ...
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The Referee's Survival Guide5 reviews
Jeffrey Caminsky
New Alexandria Press, 2007
Superb guide!
As a first year referee, this book has been invaluable to me. I have been able to apply many of Jeffrey Caminsky's tips. If you are a new referee, or wish to enhance your current skills, read this book!
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St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy : Its History, Theology, and Texts5 reviews
John Anthony McGuckin
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004
Expert Cyril Scholar
One of McGuckin's goals in his scholarship has been to rehabilitate Cyril in contemporary scholarship. Many people (especially in Western Europe and America) have demonized Cyril and have overemphasized the role of power politics in the Council of Ephesus. McGuckin portrays Cyril much more sympathetically. As an Easterner, he looks at Cyril much more highly than those of the West and he is ...
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Riddle of Alexandria3 reviews
Peter Bowman
1st Books Library, 2003
Exciting time travel adventure.
This book is an exciting Sci-Fi adventure involving both time travel and the lore of Atlantis. After reading this book it is easy to see how the author can take sequels in many different directions. This author shows great imagination and the novel was flawlessly edited by an expert.
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Alexandria and the Sea: Maritime Origins & Underwater Explorations4 reviews
Kimberly Williams
Authorhouse, 2003
Alexandria: A Crossroads City of Mystery & Culture
Alexandria is one of those cities that has always attracted a diversity of people fascinated with its long history and role at the crossroads of trade between Africa, Asia, and Europe. The English author Lawrence Durrell treasured the multi-cultural blend of a more recent Alexandria. Historian and diver Kimberly Williams is captivated by the Alexandria of the past - much of it being revealed by ...
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The Agpeya, being the Coptic Orthodox book of hours according to the present-day usage in the Church of ...4 reviews
Coptic Church
Sts. Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria Orthodox Publications, 1982
Praying with the Ancient Orthodox Church
Agpeya: The Coptic Horologion: This is the survived version of the 4th century Cenobitic office of Pachomian Koenonia, fellowship of prayer in time. This hourly prayer book (horologion) of the Church of Alexandria developed from the twelve psalms that the novice monks trained in to the life of prayer, and was alleged to an angelic advice according to the Lausiac history. Basilica Horologion: When ...
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Alexandria3 reviews
Michael Haag
American University in Cairo Press, 1994
Atmospheric journey through a magical city
Michael Haag's book of photographs and text on Alexandria, Egypt, is an atmospheric journey through a city that he has sensitively brought to life and made magical. Through his eyes you taste something of the old cosmopolitan city as it was in the the 1920s, 30s and 40s -- the city described in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. If you have ever wondered about that evocative city, this ...
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Mission Possible Volume 13 reviews
David Wright, Alexandria Altman
Insight Publishing Company, 2002
A great second book for author Alexandria Altman
I really liked reading this book. I have read Alexandria Altman's first book "John Carpenter Speaks Out", also a very good book. Easy to read and to the point. I look forward to reading "Mission Possible" #2 and on. Also I look froward to any other of Ms. Altman's books. I feel we will be seeing her as a bestseller in the near future.
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Bio-control by neural networks: Summary of a workshop supported by the National Science Foundation, ...3 reviews
George A Bekey
National Science Foundation, 1991
Great stories by a master writer
This is an impressive collection of short stories that covers a twenty-year period of Achebe's writing. They also cover a period of history in his native Nigeria that spans from the late colonial period to the Biafran war. In them Achebe explores various aspects of a predominant theme in his work, i.e. tradition vs. modernism in his country (as introduced by British colonial administration). The ...
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My Life with Pablo Neruda4 reviews
Matilde Urrutia
Stanford General Books, 2004
A lyrical, if understandably biased, tribute to a great poet
This translation of Matilde Urruita's memoir adds so much to the the canon of English language material about Pablo Neruda. Opening with the assassination of President Allende and Neruda's death, Urrutia in a series of flashbacks reveals her life with Neruda and his poetry. Indeed, there is a sense that the poetry had a life of its own; it certainly becomes a third "character" in this memoir.
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Fodor's Washington, D.C. 2008: with Mount Vernon, Old Town Alexandria & Annapolis (Fodor's Gold Guides)4 reviews
Fodor's
Fodor's, 2007
Very helpful
We carried this book all over DC. The information was accurate and up-to- date. The recommendations were helpful. The book was well organized, and the information was easy to access. The map is OK, but we also purchased another map to have with us. I would recommend this book over the Unofficial Guide to Washington DC.
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