Authors: Robin Hobb

Description: Dans le Désert des Pluies, les serpents géants se sont enfermés dans leurs cocons, sous la supervision de la dragonne Tintaglia, pour en émerger, transformés à leur tour en dragons, et assurer la pérennité de leur race. Mais, trop vieux, trop affaiblis, ils ne donnent que des créatures difformes, inachevées, incapables de survivre seules sans l’aide des humains, qu’ils mettent tant à contribution pour les nourrir que les Marchands du Désert des Pluies décident de s’en débarrasser... Autour d’eux gravitent Thymara, jeune fi lle aux mains et aux pieds griffus et palmés, que ses parents n’auraient jamais dû laisser vivre ; Alise, prise entre un époux, riche Marchand qui la délaisse et la méprise, et sa passion des dragons ; et Leftrin, capitaine de vivenef à l’honnêteté élastique qui tombe sur une bille de bois-sorcier et choisit de la vendre au plus offrant malgré l’interdiction formelle qui pèse sur ce genre de commerce. En plongeant à nouveau dans un univers qu’elle connaît bien, Robin Hobb enrichit la galerie de ses personnages si attachants par d’inoubliables héros, en butte à des situations qui révèlent leurs forces autant que leurs faiblesses. À travers des aventures où se côtoient êtres humains et créatures fantastiques, tels les dragons, nul écrivain ne maîtrise comme elle, aujourd’hui, une palette aussi large et dense d’émotions.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Pygmalion

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Yrjö Wichmann

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Langue: de

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Categories: Komi language

Authors: Khuong Nguyen ,David Hunt

Description: The volume deals with morphology, taxonomy and systematics of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) in the families Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae and bacteria associated with these nematodes. In the first part, history, taxonomic status, family and genus definitions of EPN are mentioned. In the second part, all useful aspects of morphology and methodology of EPN are mentioned with illustrations and SEM photographs and instructions on how to make the measurements, and how to use them in taxonomic work. A polychotomous key with SEM photographs and illustrations is provided. In the third part, full descriptions of all species are presented with latest information about each species. In the fourth part, molecular and phylogenetic methods for working with EPN are presented, including the latest information and instructions on how to use molecular data in taxonomic work. In the last part, bacteria associated with this group of nematodes are discussed in the context of the latest information about methodology, biology and taxon.

Langue: en

Publisher: BRILL

Categories: Science

Authors: Helena Blavatsky

Description: The Secret Doctrine is one of the most influential esoteric and occult books of all time. In the first part of the book the author explains the origin and evolution of the universe itself, in terms derived from the Hindu concept of cyclical development. While in the second part she describes the origins of humanity through an account of "Root Races" said to date back millions of years.

Langue: en

Publisher: e-artnow

Categories: Religion

Authors: Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universita t Berlin. Seminar fu r Orientalische Sprachen

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Langue: de

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Categories: African philology

Authors: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Ausland-Hochschule

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Langue: de

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Categories: Oriental philology

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Langue: de

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Categories: African philology

Authors: Robin Hobb

Description: ‘Fantasy as it ought to be written’ George R.R. Martin Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in this fantastic adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.

Langue: en

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Categories: Fiction

Authors: James Fergusson

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Langue: en

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Categories: Amrāvati (India)

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Langue: en

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Categories: Islam

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Langue: en

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Categories: Sacred books

Authors: Sara Kuehn

Description: This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.

Langue: en

Publisher: BRILL

Categories: Art

Authors: Thomas Kelly Cheyne ,John Sutherland Black

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Langue: en

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Categories: Bible

Authors: Stopford A. Brooke

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Langue: en

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Categories: English poetry

Authors: George Carter Stent

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Langue: en

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Categories: Chinese language

Authors: William Gregory Wood-Martin

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Langue: en

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Categories: Sligo (Ireland : County)

Authors: Lynn Holden

Description: A vigorous imagination is the principal source for many of the abnormalities of fictional characters. Many of the motifs also bear some relation to the rituals and religious symbols embraced by the people among whom they are or were at one time, current. Another important source can be found in symbolism of a religious or social kind. This motif-index is the first to present and analyse this material in biblical narrative and post-biblical literature down to the twelfth century CE; it lists all possible abnormalities, deformities and disabilities, arranged according to the parts of the body affected and the type of deformity, sums up the narrative and gives the explicit or implicit reason for its appearance.

Langue: en

Publisher: A&C Black

Categories: Religion

Authors: Eliakim Littell ,Robert S. Littell

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Langue: en

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Langue: en

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Categories: American periodicals

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Langue: de

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Categories: Art, Asian