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This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right? Wrong. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage) Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job) His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims. It’s time to hear their stories.Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth. Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Joanne M. Harris 'It.

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''With its sharply witty prose, Aphrodite perfectly captures the charm and chaos of the Greek gods''Rosie HewlettFrom the author of Herc, a Waterstones Best Book of the Year''A joyful exploration of one woman''s quest for home, power, identity and ultimately, freedom from fate. A genuine pleasure to read!'' Clare North, author of Ithaca''With sharp dialogue and dynamic scenes, it plays like a divine reality show'' Woman&home''This is a stunningly witty tale'' Daily Express''Welcome the Real Housewives of Olympus. Stunning, brilliant, witty, so delicious it could only be divine'' Reader review ********************************************************''I’m a liar, to begin with.'' I wasn’t always a goddess, you see. My only real power was my beauty – you’ll have heard. It’s legendary. But that was never going to be enough for me.It took a web of lies to convince the gods of Olympus I was one of them. But I did. I was that good. Zeus gave me a title and riches and loved me. And all he wanted in return was for me to love him back.But of course, Zeus was a tyrant. (Not entirely surprising when you’re ninety per cent insecurities and ten per cent raw power.) I couldn’t live at someone’s mercy. Really, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

Objev podobné jako Aphrodite - Phoenicia Rogerson

Ignorance about Islam runs deep in the West – ignorance of its rites, its beliefs, and above all its prophet. Who was Muhammad, the founder of Islam, and the man Muslims believe was God’s last prophet on earth? In this concise and colourful account, the acclaimed writer and broadcaster Barnaby Rogerson tells the story of the illiterate orphan who was raised in the desert and trained as a merchant on the camel trade routes that criss-crossed Arabia, before defying his tribe to found a new religion, establish a world language, and create an almost unstoppable force that only 100 years after his death has conquered an empire stretching from the Pyrenees to the Hindu Kush. It was when he was 40 that Muhammad experienced his first revelation on a mountainside outside Mecca, hearing the divine order: "Recite!" From then until his flight from Mecca his tale is one of rejection and persecution, but it is also one of puzzling contradictions: why did he order the murder of a Jewish tribe? And why did he marry 10 times himself while restricting Muslims to four wives? Barnaby Rogerson examines his puzzling life, and how it has laid the foundation for a “clash ... Unknown localization key: "more"

Objev podobné jako The Prophet Muhammad - Barnaby Rogerson

Druhé vydanie publikácie s inovovanou obsahovou a grafickou štruktúrou ponúka obraz Banskej Štiavnice v prvej polovici 20. storočia, tak ako ho zachytili početní fotografi a vydavatelia pohľadníc. Nadväzuje na nové skutočnosti a historické informácie, ktoré sa v prípade tohto mesta neustále objavujú. Podobne ako sa vynárajú neznáme informácie z jej minulosti objavujú sa aj nepoznané historické pohľadnice. Autorom doplňujúcich textov je opäť Ivan Herčko, vynikajúci odborník a lokálpatriot s citovým vzťahom k mestu a starým pohľadniciam. Jeho inovované texty sa snažia pútavou formou priblížiť život v meste v prvej polovici 20. storočia a zachytiť najvýznamnejšie dominanty tohto obdobia.

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The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha.

Objev podobné jako The Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad - Barnaby Rogerson