Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist. Other titles in the series include Assassin's Creed: Forsaken, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade, and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Fans of the game will love these stories. Bitter blood-feuds rage between the warring political families of Italy.įollowing the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key to a conspiracy that goes back to the centuries-old conflict between the shadowy Templar Knights and the elite Order of Assassins.Įzio must avenge the deaths of his kinsmen and in doing so fulfil his destiny, and live by the laws of the Assassin's Creed.Īssassin's Creed: Renaissance is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. The Year of Our Lord 1476 - the Renaissance: culture and art flourish alongside the bloodiest corruption and violence. 'I will seek Vengeance upon those who betrayed my family. However, his profession and location are accurate. Oliver Bowden is a pen-name (a pseudonym adopted by the author) in order to hide his true identity. Bowden has written novelizations of several of the Assassin's Creed console games. Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. He is an acclaimed novelist and Renaissance historian currently living in Paris, France.
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The condition was diagnosed as Bartholin’s gland cyst for which we decided to perform surgical neostomy and cystectomy. Ultrasonography showed a cystic mass (measuring approximately 5.6 × 3.6 cm) in the subcutaneous area of the vulva with poor ultrasonic echo. Serologic tests for syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus were both negative. Cervical secretions tested negative for human papillomavirus (HPV). The pH of leucorrhea was elevated (pH, 4.8) and the amine test was positive. Laboratory findings suggested inflammation (C-reactive protein, 38.90 mg/L) and hyperleukocytosis (14.1 × 10 9/L). On admission, the patient’s blood pressure was 118/68 mmHg heart rate, 95 beats/min and body temperature, 38℃. The patient had not received any treatment before visiting the doctor. The mass, which was located on the left labia majora, was red, warm, and tender. A 27-year-old, previously healthy female was hospitalized because of swelling and pain in her vulva. But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and caught in the clutches of another. When Victor arrives at the compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only opportunity for escape. Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known only death and violence since he was a young boy. Over time she forgot what it was like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the compound where she has been held for the past nine years. Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Redmerskiįrom the author of the New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling novel, THE EDGE OF NEVER, comes a story of passion and survival… Killing Sarai (In the Company of Killers #1) by J.A. But then in fairness, I was probably influenced by the extended use, particularly in evolutionary biology, of the term ‘just-so story’ to describe a hypothesis which purports to explain – without evidence – how a particular cultural or biological trait came into being. I may have been in the minority in making this mistake. So at last they came to be like charms, all three of them – the whale tale, the camel tale, and the rhinoceros tale.’ They had to be told just so or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence. As Kipling later wrote of them, ‘in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. But no: it’s only now I realise that they’re ‘just so’ stories because Kipling’s daughter Josephine (known as ‘Effie’), to whom he told many of these tales as bedtime stories, insisted that her father tell the stories to her ‘just so’, or in exactly the words she was used to. Until now, I’d always laboured under the belief that these tales were called Just So Stories because they’re about things being the way they are: it’s ‘just so’ that leopards have spots, camels have humps, and so on. Sandoz's later The House Without Windows ( 1950) is a philosophical novel which features a house with such "futuristic" innovations as an elevator, diffuse lighting, and hidden heating in pre-World War One Switzerland. It was filmed by William Cameron Menzies as The Maze ( 1953). The novel, set in the fictitious Craven's Castle, is superficially a Gothic SF mystery, and posits the hidden heir as a 175-year-old Mutant whose embryonic development was arrested at the amphibian stage. Of primary interest is his novel The Maze ( 1945), evidently based on the legend of a monstrous heir of Scotland's Bowes-Lyon family kept hidden in a secret room in Glamis Castle. His fiction often included elements of Horror and sometimes bordered on the fantastic and surreal (see Fantastika). (1892-1958) Swiss author and composer who earned a PhD in chemistry but devoted himself to the arts. Seit 1965 veröffentlicht sie vorwiegend Romane, die das Schicksal verschiedener Protagonisten in wechselnden Perspektiven von erzählerischer Nähe bis hin zu psychologisierendem Fernblick thematisieren. Leben und Werk: Tyler wuchs in North Carolina auf und studierte an der Duke und der Columbia University Slawistik. Oktober 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Wäre für ihn ein Leben mit ihr denkbar? Oder sollte es doch wieder Sarah sein? - Anne Tyler (* 25. Muriel, eine junge, chaotische Frau, die eigentlich seinen Hund erziehen soll, interessiert sich mehr und mehr für Mr Leary selbst. Ein Problem wird auch sein schlecht erzogener Hund, um den er sich nicht ununterbrochen kümmern kann. Als seine Frau Sarah beschließt, ihn nach zwanzig Jahren Ehe zu verlassen, gerät sein höchst organisiertes Leben ins Wanken. Der etwas seltsame, aber durchaus charmante Mr Leary schreibt Reiseführer für Leute, die geschäftlich unterwegs sein müssen, das Reisen aber hassen - ganz wie er selbst! Sein höchstes Ziel ist es, Tipps zu geben, dank denen man sich möglichst wie zu Hause fühlt. Umschlaggestaltung: Buchholz / Hinsch / Hensinger. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication. Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires-sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control-with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaĮvery schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. These chapters provide Dawkins's detailed and powerful response to two issues raised by critics of The Selfish Gene: the accusations of genetic determinism (the idea that our behaviour is entirely determined by our genes), and of "adaptationism" (that all traits are indiscriminately perceived to be adaptations resulting from natural selection). The book provoked widespread and heated debate, which in part led Dawkins to write The Extended Phenotype, in which he gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection, as well as contributing his own development of this insight.įor the first time, The Extended Selfish Gene brings these two books together, by including two key chapters from The Extended Phenotype. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for the replication of genes. The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. As the devil's bride she is tormented and defiled, and- with the return of the missionaries and the word that Zevi, presumed Messiah, has taken the fez, the townspeople seize her, and the story ends with the ritual of exorcism- and her death. Reb Gedalyia, who had brought news of the new Messiah, sends her husband and another on a mission he moves in with Rechele, and so opens the door for Satan, who possesses her as a fiend, a dybbuk. She has wed one man, but he has failed her. And, central to this, is the story of Rechele, crippled, epileptic, but still desired of men. When the Messiah does not come, they turn to religious hysteria and license. The townspeople approach the High Holidays with asceticism, in expectation. A strange story for modern readers of a tiny town on 17th century Poland, where first the Jewish population is decimated by the marauding Cossacks- then, as they creep back to reestablish their homes and businesses, comes the news of a Messiah, in the person of Sabbatai Zevi. A facsimile of his portrait watched us from the wall in the bedroom in that eerie way that old portraits do, the original is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery and is impossibly romantic in that wild haired piratic way that a young Shakespeare and Marlowe are depicted… Christopher Marlowe, son of a Canterbury shoemaker, is probably one of the most lauded connections and the cottage was a minute away from the stupendous Marlowe Theatre. Like Shakespeare, he spent most of his life in London, presumably retiring to Canterbury, although details are scant, apparently he was forced to quit the stage after a scandal. He may well have replaced Shakespeare when he joined the King’s Men in 1616. His name appears as one of the actors in the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays. Apparently Nat was a bit of a ladies man who led a wild life and may have fathered a child with the Duchess of Argyll. His father, John Field, was a puritan who disapproved of all the entertainments his son was involved in. One of the previous owners of the property was Nat Field, an actor and dramatist who would have been a contemporary of Marlowe and Shakespeare. In November I had a big birthday to celebrate and did so in style staying in a quirky 15 th century cottage right in the middle of Canterbury. |