The Sports Gene: Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success
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In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning writer David...
Fertility Friday Radio | Fertility Awareness for Pregnancy and Hormone-free birth control
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Fertility Friday Radio is your source for information about the Fertility Awareness Method and all...
Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind
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This book begins with an exploration of the relationship between mind and brain. It then examines...
Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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Undead in the West is a collection of essays that explore the many tropes and themes through which...
Mind = Blown: Amazing Facts About This Weird, Hilarious, Insane World
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WARNING: This book will blow your mind. Matthew Santoro is a fact-filled YouTube sensation. Now...
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall: A Novel
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A beautiful and compulsively readable literary debut that introduces Owen Burr-an Olympian whose...
Circus Bulgaria
Kapka Kassabova and Deyan Enev
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A boxer-turned-hitman faces an impossible mission to kill his brother; an old lady sets up a gang of...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures in Books
Jun 24, 2020
I say 'more or less' as the setting of these tales are in constant flux, with characters popping up all over the place long before (or after) they otherwise should! That's not a criticism of the retelling: just a statement of fact.
This volume thus covers the likes of Bellerephon and Pegasus, Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus!), Heracles - who the Romans renamed Hercules - and his Twelve Labours, Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur and many (many) others!
Worth it for the educational value alone!
Now, hurry up and release part 3 (Troy) ...
George Raft: The Films
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In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a...