At the age of 26, Luisa Santiago has reached the top of her profession. She is the prima ballerina for a major American ballet company. Her first ballet, The Offering, is a huge success. A native of El Salvador, she was orphaned by the Salvadoran Civil War and raised in the United States by her aunt.Luisa is devastated when her aunt is gunned down in a turf battle involving two rival gangs and becomes obsessed with avenging her murder. Luisa meets a wealthy stranger who offers her the chance to destroy her aunt's killers. There's just one catch--she must become a vampire.
At the age of 26, Luisa Santiago has reached the top of her profession. She is the prima ballerina for a major American ballet company. Her first ball...
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets.
The cultural study of smell has largely focused on...
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic has played a pivot...
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets.
The cultural study of smell has largely focused on...
From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic has played a pivot...
Documents the remarkable rise of the Iranian church, despite fierce persecution, as Iranians grow disillusioned with Islam
In 1979, there were fewer than 500 known Christians from a Muslim background in Iran. Today there are at least 100,000 new believers. Church leaders believe that millions can be added to the church in the next few years--such is the spiritual hunger that exists. The religious violence that accompanied the reign of President Ahmadinejad drained its perpetrators of political and religious legitimacy, and has opened the door to other...
Documents the remarkable rise of the Iranian church, despite fierce persecution, as Iranians grow disillusioned with Islam
