Tag: Nights

Dog Days, Raven Nights


Free Download Colleen Marzluff, Evon Zerbetz, Bernd Heinrich, "Dog Days, Raven Nights"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0300167113, 0300192479 | PDF | pages: 348 | 6.3 mb
The coauthor of the award-winning In the Company of Crows and Ravens and his wife, an animal-behavior expert, offer an engaging account of their days as young field biologists in Maine

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HOTTER NIGHTS, DEEPER CONNECTIONS A Couple’s Guide to Intimacy


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English | April 17, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D2386D18 | 24 pages | EPUB | 1.25 Mb
In the journey of love and companionship, few things are as vital as intimacy. Yet, despite its importance, intimacy can often feel elusive or misunderstood. This book is designed to be your companion on the path to deeper connection with your partner. Whether you’re just beginning your journey together or seeking to reignite the spark in a long-term relationship, our aim is to provide you with insights, tools, and techniques to enhance both the physical and emotional aspects of your intimacy.

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Aulus Gellius Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae Praefatio et Libri I-X)


Free Download Leofranc Holford-Strevens, "Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X) "
English | ISBN: 0199695016 | 2020 | 464 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall’s own later discoveries as well as by other scholarship. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, of the indirect tradition, and of both the Latin and the Greek text, this new edition utilizes manuscript evidence unknown to previous editors, refines the standard account of relations between the earlier manuscripts, and distinguishes between readings in the later manuscripts derived from an older lost witness and those resulting from error or interpolation. All known witnesses to the indirect tradition as preserved in four florilegia have been examined, at times enabling readings less well supported by the manuscripts of the direct tradition to be restored. Above all, the approach to the transmitted text evinces a more sceptical, less trusting view than that of many recent editors: the apparatus criticus contains numerous emendations and suggestions, and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars’ conjectures, yet remains more generous than Marshall’s and avoids trivial details.

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Aulus Gellius Attic Nights, Books 11-20 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae Libri XI-XX)


Free Download Leofranc Holford-Strevens, "Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Books 11-20 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Libri XI-XX) "
English | ISBN: 0199695024 | 2020 | 384 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall, published in 1968 but soon superseded by Marshall’s own later discoveries as well as by other scholarship. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, of the indirect tradition, and of both the Latin and the Greek text, this new edition utilizes manuscript evidence unknown to previous editors, refines the standard account of relations between the earlier manuscripts, and distinguishes between readings in the later manuscripts derived from an older lost witness and those resulting from error or interpolation. All known witnesses to the indirect tradition as preserved in four florilegia have been examined, at times enabling readings less well supported by the manuscripts of the direct tradition to be restored. Above all, the approach to the transmitted text evinces a more sceptical, less trusting view than that of many recent editors: the apparatus criticus contains numerous emendations and suggestions, and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars’ conjectures, yet remains more generous than Marshall’s and avoids trivial details.

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Nine Nights of the Goddess The Navarātri Festival in South Asia


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English | ISBN: 143847069X | 2018 | 359 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Nine Nights of the Goddess explores the festival of Navarātri-alternatively called Navarātra, Mahānavamī, Durgā Pūjā, Dasarā, and/or Dassain-which lasts for nine nights and ends with a celebration called Vijayadaśamī, or "the tenth (day) of victory." Celebrated in both massive public venues and in small, private domestic spaces, Navarātri is one of the most important and ubiquitous festivals in South Asia and wherever South Asians have settled. These festivals share many elements, including the goddess, royal power, the killing of demons, and the worship of young girls and married women, but their interpretation and performance vary widely. This interdisciplinary collection of essays investigates Navarātri in its many manifestations and across historical periods, including celebrations in West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal. Collectively, the essays consider the role of the festival’s contextual specificity and continental ubiquity as a central component for understanding South Asian religious life, as well as how it shapes and is shaped by political patronage, economic development, and social status.

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The Pleasant Nights – Volume 1


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English | 2012 | pages: 672 | ISBN: 1442644273, 1442644265 | EPUB | 9,4 mb
Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature readers’ and seventeen proto-fairy tales. Nearly all of these stories, including classics such as ‘Puss in Boots,’ made their first ever appearance in this collection; together, the tales comprise one of the most varied and engaging Renaissance miscellanies ever produced. Its appeal sustained it through twenty-six editions in the first sixty years.

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