Автор: Brown Dan Название: Origin (Robert Langdon)(HB) ISBN: 0593078756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593078754 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7410.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Sunday Times #1 BestsellerNew York Times #1 BestellerThe spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried - until now.
Автор: Langdon Stephen Название: The Epic of Gilgamesh ISBN: 1647981875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781647981877 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8270.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian epic poem, regarded as one of the first surviving great works of literature, and the second oldest of religious texts. It recounts the saga of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk and his contest of strength against Enkidu- created by the gods to end Gelgameshs' oppression of the people of Uruk. Gilgamesh and Uruk proceed to become friends, and the epic tale tells of their adventures together, and ultimately, Gilgameshs' quest for the secret of eternal life.
The story of Gilgamesh has been featured in many works of popular fiction, a testament to it's fascinating relatability and captivating story. In this version, Stephen Langon recounts and presents transliteration for the complex, ancient story with many versions for us to enjoy.
Автор: Jonathan Langdon Название: African Social Movement Learning: The Case of the Ada Songor Salt Movement ISBN: 9004422064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004422063 Издательство: Brill Цена: 59770.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: How social movements learn in struggle, produce knowledge, and provoke public paradigm shifts have become an important focus of critical adult education in our contemporary turbulent times. And yet, African social movements, and their learning are largely absent from this literature. This work, therefore, provides a rare and much needed African contribution to this field.
African Social Movement Learning: The Case of the Ada Songor Salt Movement speaks to this gap in the literature, laying out an entry-point to an African-centered account of learning in struggle on the continent. However, this entry-point quickly turns to an in-depth sharing of one particular case of African social movement learning. Based on 9 years of research with the Ada Songor salt movement in Ghana, the book provides a detailed account of learning through defending communal access to West Africa’s largest salt yielding lagoon in the face of local, national and global efforts to expropriate this resource. The book shares the knowledge production of the movement, as well as the ways in which the movement has restoried its struggle to meet new challenges. Songs, tapestries, demonstrations, manifestoes, popular education approaches, and book production all feature in these efforts.
Автор: Smith Julie Название: Jazz Funeral: A Skip Langdon Mystery ISBN: 099981317X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780999813171 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Everybody loved easygoing Ham Brocato, producer of the famed New Orleans JazzFest. So how did he end up stabbed to death on his kitchen floor?
New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon just happens to be on hand when Ham's body is discovered in the middle of his own party the evening before the Fest. To complicate the already murky case, the victim's sixteen-year-old blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. So Task One is finding Melody, ambitious, unhappy at home, and determined to break from her family.
As she probes the victim's tangled relationships, Skip finds a Southern family to rival any in Tennessee Williams, including Ham's live-in lover, feisty and swiftly rising star Ti-Belle Thiebaud; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's lucrative Po' Boy chain; and Patty, his distraught stepmother.
In this tale of southern kinships gone awry, she's assisted by her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her gay landlord, Jimmy Dee. Meanwhile, Melody's dangerous yet exhilarating journey tugs at the heart and raises the pulse rate.
Автор: Smith Julie Название: The Big Crazy: A Skip Langdon Mystery ISBN: 0999813161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780999813164 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
August 29, 2005 - Doomsday: New Orleans is eighty per cent underwater, with no electricity, no phones, no 911 service, no rules. Facing the complete breakdown of systems and normality, New Orleans homicide Detective Skip Langdon is on her own to interpret and execute the only direction she's given: Get out there and keep the peace.
With communications down and all emergency services on search and rescue, all Skip can hope to accomplish is helping the person right in front of her. More than once that person turns out to be Billy, a gutsy 15-year-old from Treme who's in greater danger of being swamped by his chaotic home life than the Cat 5 hurricane Skip shelters him from.
When she escorts him home and discovers the scene of a possible homicide, homicide detecting must take a back seat to maintaining order--if not peace. Outrageous rumors are swirling, stirring up unrest, but what really bothers her is the one about a police department order to use the chaos as a cover for "cleaning up" by rounding up criminals and assassinating them. Now that just can't be true. Can it?
But after she hears it for the third time, Skip teams up with the only cop in the city she's positive she can trust, her former partner, movie-star handsome, kickass, praline-sweet Adam Abasolo. They may not be able to fix everything, but, as the bodies pile up, they are damn sure going to hit back at the guys who're giving their department a black eye.
On any regular weekday, New Orleans lives up to its billing as The Big Crazy. In post-Katrina New Orleans, where the dirty cops and lunatics are running the asylum, author Julie Smith also takes us inside the actual asylum, Charity Hospital emergency psych unit, an unexpected oasis of comfort in stark contrast to endless amounts of ever-present filthy water and hordes of half-drowned people.
Smith strikes just the right note, capturing the massive tragedy of the events and the inevitable comedy as the survivors struggle to make sense of the closest thing to hell squared that any of them has ever seen.
Mystery fans who love hard-boiled women sleuths, lots of action and adventure, and offbeat police procedurals will love Detective Skip Langdon.
Автор: Williams Harriet Langdon Название: Memory Pictures ISBN: 1010336118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781010336112 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 36720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Yee Roger Название: Langdon: 50 Years of Design Excellence ISBN: 1733064826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733064828 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 52630.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Consider the impressive 50 years of Langan, an American engineering firm based in Parsippany, NJ, that provides geotechnical, environmental and site/civil engineering and consulting services, "from the ground down," to clients worldwide. Langan has a distinctive corporate culture that other businesses might admire. The Langan way has enabled the firm to thrive, expanding clientele, services and markets since its founding in 1970 by Bernard F. Langan, PE. More than 1,100 employees in 33 offices overseeing projects in 80 countries. What are the key elements of Langan's culture? As insiders and outsiders would concur, they incude the "Special Sauce" of entrepreneurship and collaboration that forms the foundation of the firm's culture: The "Three Pillars" that shape Langan's practice, comprising Technical Excellence, Practical Experience and Client Responsiveness: Social Responsibility to Citizenship, Sustainability, and Health and Safety; and of course, Langan's award-winning work. Partial list of projects: MetLife Stadium, Hard Rock Stadium, Prudential, The Shops at Atlas Park, Blue Back Square, American Dream, CareOne Facilities, FBI-GSA, FDR Four Freedoms Park, Fontainbleau Miami, Great Kills Park, Hackensack University Medical Center, New York Batanical Garden, NYPD Police Academy, St. Patrick's Cathedral Project, United Nation Masater Plan, and US Embassy.
Автор: Corp Carey, Langdon Lorie Название: Doon ISBN: 0310742390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780310742395 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 10290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In book one of the Doon Novel series, Veronica and Mackenna travel to Scotland for the summer in hopes of finding peace. But the Scottish countryside holds secrets---including a passageway to a living fairy tale. In Doon, the girls could have everything they`ve ever longed for ... or end up breaking an enchantment and become trapped in a nightmare.
Автор: Langdon Stephen Название: Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms ISBN: 1081020199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781081020194 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: From the INTRODUCTION. The material collected and edited in this book comprehends nearly all the temple liturgy of the official Babylonian and Assyrian religion yet published. By temple liturgy I mean services of public praise and penance. A sharp division must be made between public services and private services, a distinction which was observed by the Babylonians themselves. Religious literature in Babylonia originated from two distinct sources; on the one hand the priest of incantation exercised the mystic rites of magic over afflicted persons in huts in the fields; on the other hand the psalmists had charge of the public services of the temples. In the earliest period the Sumerians who created the entire form of Babylonian religious literature, had only these two classes of sacred literature. The temple services were called er-sem-mas or psalms to the flute'; the incantations, mystic sacramental formulae and prayers of the private rituals bore the title en. The priests or temple singers were named lagar, labar. As early as the period of Gudea distinct reference is made to the lagaru or kalu priests who play the balaggu or harp(?), and if the word lagal in another passage be really its earliest form, then Gudea himself tells us explicitly that he appointed these priests for the temple services'. Mention is made of a temple psalmist on a tablet at least pre-Sargonic 3ooo BC] Urukagina circa 3200 BC] made provisions to regulate the salary of his temple singers. In a psalm 1 for the temple service the kalu's instrument is called the mesa, which with the halhallatu and the balaggu formed the principal instruments for temple music" Other instruments employed in temple music are the uppu and the lilissu. Of these five instruments the names of four are Sumerian loan-words; halhallatu whose meaning Prof. Meissner has shown to be reed flute, is Semitic. In Babyloniaca III I-3o, I attempted to prove that the asipu priests who had control of the rituals of magic of the fire and water cults had no part in the public services of the temples. Their sphere of activity seems to have been confined to the mysteries performed in huts in the fields. Yet we know that in every great religion the priests who con- trol the sacraments, who are directly commissioned with divine power over the unseen spirits, become the central factor, and it could not have been otherwise in Babylonia. Gudea says that he installed the high priest in the temple along with the psalmist, and direct evidence exists to prove that this high priest was the asipu, called en in Sumerian. Countless documents boar the dale, year when the high priest was elected. There can be, then, no possible doubt but that the asipu priests held the highest position of influence in the Sumerian and Babylonian religion. That they performed mysteries, attended at least by incense, is evident from the fact that the niknakku, or incense stand, was placed before the statues of the gods. While it is impossible to define the spheres of activity of the asipu and kalu priests, yet one fact remains clear, viz. that the psalmists (kalu) had full charge of the public services in so far as they were not connected with magic....
