Part 2 in the fast-paced and thrilling new episodic novella series from award-winning Markus Heitz. The gods are back, the world is in uproar - and only one man will seek the truth NOVEMBER, 2019 I've never believed in any kind of god. But that's a problem when they start manifesting. It was a problem for everyone else too, especially those whose gods did not appear. We are divided, a fractured globe, because you'd question everything you'd believed, wouldn't you? Or would you fight? Because I don't think these really are the gods we've worshipped - Zeus, The Mórrígan, Thor, they can go to hell. We're in the middle of an invasion, and I'm the only one who believes in that reality. My name is Malleus Bourreau, I'm an atheist, an investigator, and I will find the answers. The second instalment in the ten-part novella serialisation 'The Return of the Ancient Gods' by award-winning author Markus Heitz.

The complete omnibus of the ten-part novella serialisation AERA: The Return of the Ancient Gods, from the internationally bestselling author of The Dwarves. The gods are back, the world is in uproar - and only one man has the strength to seek the truth. NOVEMBER, 2019 I've never believed in any kind of god. But that's a problem when they start manifesting. It was a problem for everyone else too, especially those whose gods did not appear. We are divided, a fractured globe, because you'd question everything you'd believed, wouldn't you? Or would you fight? Because I don't think these really are the gods we've worshipped. Zeus, The Mórrígan, Thor - they can go to hell. We're in the middle of an invasion, and I'm the only one who believes in that reality. My name is Malleus Bourreau. I'm an atheist, an investigator - and I will find the answers.

The five books of the Silvae bring together the occasional verses which Statius wrote in addition to his two epics. In these short descriptive poems Statius elaborates features taken from various genres into an original whole, in which description and eulogy play important roles. The main themes of the poems of his second book are consolation after bereavement and the contrast between nature and culture. The present work contains a general introduction, a text of Silvae II, a bibliography, and an index, together with a verse-by-verse commentary on the poems of this second book. This is the first commentary on a book of the Silvae since Vollmer's commentary on the whole of the Silvae of 1898. Emphasis is here placed on interpretation and moreover chiefly on the literary and stylistic aspects of the poems, which, compared with the epic poetry of Statius and his contemporaries, have hitherto received relatively little attention.

Includes Latin text of Silvae book II.

Self-Study and Diversity II is a book about the self-study of teacher education practices in a diverse world. In this volume, the authors examine the preparation of teachers through a shared orientation to diversity grounded in a commitment to addressing issues of identity, equity, diversity, social justice, inclusion, and access in their professional practice. The first chapters are autobiographical studies in which teacher educators reflect on how their personal identities as minorities within a historically oppressive culture inform their professional practice. These powerful narratives are followed by accounts of teacher educators addressing diversity issues in the United Arab Emirates, India, South Africa, and Thailand. The closing chapters attend to the challenges of preparing teacher candidates to become inclusive educators in a diverse world. Even though each chapter focusses on a particular dimension of equity and social justice or dilemma of practice, the insights in these self-studies are relevant to all teacher educators interested in improving teacher education by respecting diversity and becoming more inclusive. Particular strengths are the diversity of authors and international scope of the book.

...The Egypt of the hieroglyphic alphabets, the Babylon of the first astronomers, the Sumer of theological and algebraic revelations, the Persepolis of the prophets Zoroaster and Mani, the India of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain philosophies and theologies, the China of Taoism and Confucianism, expanding to the East and West through Zen - Buddhism and Tibet - Buddhism, the Japan of Shintoismus, the Greece of the great schools of Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophy, or through schools of Stoicism, or through schools, of Sophism, of Idealism, of Materialism, all extended through Greco - Roman Hellenism, centered by Alexandria, then, the Roman World of Forums, of Theaters of Thermae, of Appias and Jupiter Capitolinus in polytheism, then the opposite and reverse Monotheisms of Judaism, of Christianity and Islam, all with many resonances into the Pre-Columbians of Central and South America, through the civilizations and cultures of the Toltecs, Olmecs, Aztecs, Mayans and Incas, then the Austral - Pacific of the Aboriginal and Polynesian worlds, then the Afro - Continent of the cultures and civilizations of the Black Populations, all being theologized and ethnologized, all being poet-philosophized and poet-theologized, all being poet-epistemologized and poet-axiologized, in order to increase and expand the area of understanding and surprises of Sapiens, a rational Species Sapiens, both as a creative individuality and as an integrative generality, which will therefore be poetized, philosophized, theologized and videopoetized in this primarily E-book by synthesis, thesis and antithesis, just called KULTZETTEL’SAPIENS! But, we ask ourselves, can we be, or can we become through individuality and generalities, to another step up or UPSTEP, or UPSTART of triadology of Cosmological Geological, Biological and Ontological evolution and possible revolution! Evolution? But to have an evolution, one must begin with a creation (CREVO), with an primary, with a precedence, with a primordiality which can evolve, whatever in Cosmology, in Geology, in Biology or Ontology! Revolution? In principle, in theoretical redistributed by a theorist, who want to be and to become a Sapientologist, a Theologist, an Encyclopaedist, the answer is affirmative and creative, but without prejudging and prejudicing a Spirit of the world, a Spirit of Sapiens, tireless and overwhelming, which conquers and crosses from the Culture of Prund / Pebble Culture / GerollsteinKultur, since 2.5 millions of years, until the Artificial Intelligence, / Künstliche Intelligenz, of today’s computerized and virtualized and digitalized worlds, grounding the astrological and solarized Human Sapient towards the Cosmologized Galactic Hero through the envision of the Humanized Sapient-Robot crossing over Galaxies and Constellations!... It is not only by chance, that in this book, KULT ZETTEL’SAPIENS - 1, with a distinct encyclopedic dimension, in order to achieve a sense of Cult to the basic Culture of Sapiens, one must rise even the basic Word to the higher Concepts of Sapiens, as Species, Reason, Faith, Knowledge, Searching, Researching, Discovery, Invention, Society, Development, Anthropology, Sapientology, Art, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology, Theology, Industry, Technology, Internet-o-logy, Planetary Earth, Geology, Climatology, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe, all being THE CULTURE OF SAPIENS INTO ONESELF! Every basic term, or terminology, Word or Wordage, or concept or concept – o – logy, is therefore raising, is uplifting, is increasing, is augmenting, to the level, to the novum - niveau of SAPIENS–CULT & CULTURE–INTO–ONESELF! Yes, that’s our ambition within the Era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Künstlische Intelligenz (KI) – Hybrid Intelligence (HI), regarding even the over-lighted small point of Cult and Culture as ZETTEL’SAPIENS, located somewhere in Western Europe, belonging to the Planetary System, as part of Solar System, of Galaxy Milky Way System, and finally to the Universe System as the wholeness of wholeness!... But in reality, our Zettel’Sapiens has its own roots within CAFÉ GALERIE ZETTEL’S TRAUM, with the Email address at “café-zettels-traum@netcologne.de”, which is located just into the area of the published author of this Internet – Sublime – Ars – Books’ Philosophy! Through this wonderful cultic space-time location, or, better says, books-space-time collocation, upon the Alstadtstraße 20 in 51379 Leverkusen / Germany / Europe, with telephone 001-0049-90-10-10-1, any dream, any Traum / Dream is possible… In the same time, the author – publisher is trying an extension of this kind of approaching of huge diversity of Species Sapiens, as such: 1. KULTZETTEL’SAPIENS -1 2. MUSIKBÖRSESAPIENS - 1 3. HOLLY FAITH SAPIENS - 1 4. KRUPPDIGITSAPIENS - 1 5. MULTI KULTI SAPIENS - 1 6. COLOGNEARSSAPIENS - 1 7. SAPIENS ENS SAPIENS - 1 Therefore, save the dream, save the word, save the Logos, save the book, including KULTZETTEL’SAPIENS virtual book, whatever in Literary café, or in Internet KI Sapiens, located on Bahnhoffstraße 17 (with a terrible team of Halilos, Aisha, Memmeto and Alexis, or in Ars Sapiens café located on Feldstrasse 43 of the author oneself, under the direct Commander-in-chief, of my beloved wife Renate von Schattenberg! Also, once again, many thanks to the Philosophical Café of the Zettel’ Sapiens, with the best en-soul Team / Mannschaft ever, of this singular Gallery of Art / KunstGallerie, of Artothek, of Bibliothek or Intelligentsiathek, completely in its own unforgettable, under the beloving direction of the Frau Seidel… …the smallest is the biggest A point is all the Earth CultZettel! KultZettel! You Ens Of the entire Sapiens!... With these short prefacing words and ideas, let’s begin our odyssey into the mystery and poetry of our art’s endeavor… Kultzettel’Sapientologist

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece. Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar. Introducing this second volume, Of the Rights of Things, A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights—real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts—and the work of his predecessors.