Shapeshifters

Author: John B. Kachuba
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
There is something about a shapeshifter—a person who can transform into an animal—that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other weird creatures appeal to our animal nature, our “dark side,” our desire to break free of the bonds of society and proper behavior. Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable cultural icons. The myths, magic, and meaning surrounding shapeshifters are brought vividly to life in John B. Kachuba’s compelling and original cultural history. Rituals in early cultures worldwide seemingly allowed shamans, sorcerers, witches, and wizards to transform at will into animals and back again. Today, there are millions of people who believe that shapeshifters walk among us and may even be world leaders. Featuring a fantastic and ghoulish array of examples from history, literature, film, TV, and computer games, Shapeshifters explores our secret desire to become something other than human.

Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture

Author: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492503
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. This has followed the increased use of such characters as metaphors, with novelists and critics identifying specific meanings and topics behind them. This book aims to unravel the shapeshifting trope. Rather than pursue a case-based study, the works are grouped around specific themes--adolescence, gender, sexuality, race, disability, addiction, and spirituality--that are explored through the metaphor of shapeshifting. Because of the transformative possibilities of this metaphor and its flexibility, the shapeshifter has the potential to change how we see our world. With coverage of iconic fantasy texts and a focus on current works, the book engages with the shapeshifting figure in popular culture from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Shapeshifters

Author: Stefan Spjut
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054408408X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 595

Book Description
Far off the grid in northern Sweden, a small network of people have been tasked with hiding the last remaining trolls from the public eye, and one young woman will do whatever it takes to bring the truth to light, in this literary thriller that is "intensely riveting and constantly surprising" (Karl-Ove Knausgard).

Viral Shapeshifters

Author: Gerard KM Goh
Publisher: Simplicity Research Institute
ISBN: 9811147140
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
Despite billions of dollars spent on decades of research, no vaccine has been found for the deadly HIV. Why has it been so difficult to find an effective vaccine for HIV, or the herpes simplex virus-2, while we have managed to find those for rabies, polio and smallpox? After years stalking the HIV and other viruses with a computer, the author detected something very strange in the outer shell protein of HIV-1. He believes that the virus is literally acting as a shapeshifter in evading the host immune system. This book is about a scientific adventure that covers the HIV, SARS, Yellow Fever, Ebola and other viruses. As this book explains, each virus has its own story in terms of evolution and its interactions with humans. It also argues that early vaccine successes with the smallpox, rabies and polio viruses were due to the hard shells of those viruses. The concept of viral shapeshifting also opens up a new world of possibilities in improved treatments for cancers and infectious diseases. The presentation in this book is aimed both at the curious layman and researchers.

Shapeshifter (witch urban fantasy)

Author: David Neth
Publisher: DN Publishing
ISBN: 1945336137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Monsters can hide in plain sight. Samantha and Kathy’s personal lives have been keeping them busy. Samantha’s been planning her wedding, despite the frustrations of Steven’s mother and the ensuing tension it creates between the bride and groom. Kathy is struggling with the coursework of her first college classes and spending enough time with Milo, the guy she’s been dating. Meanwhile, their new neighbors have invited them to a Halloween party. But the days leading up to the party reveal oddities and unusual behavior from the people in their lives, culminating in the witches’ discovery at the party that a shapeshifter’s been lurking among them all week. With no idea who to trust, Samantha and Kathy have only a few hours to find out who the shapeshifter is and how to stop them before they can hurt anyone else—and the party just happens to be full of potential victims. Shapeshifter is the fourth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel series to the Under the Moon series. Keywords: urban fantasy demon, urban fantasy witch, urban fantasy wizard, urban fantasy mysteries, female urban fantasy, urban fantasy sword, urban fantasy action, urban fantasy demons, urban fantasy mage, urban fantasy sorcerer, urban fantasy angel, urban fantasy angels, fantasy books, urban fantasy series, complete urban fantasy series, paranormal books, supernatural books, fun urban fantasy, full length urban fantasy, humorous urban fantasy books, fantasy, female protagonist fantasy, supernatural thrillers books, witch fantasy, supernatural powers, come into powers, ghosts, angels, fae, wizard, demons, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, complete series, fantasy book, urban fantasy, books with magic, completed series, fantasy series, urban fantasy series for adults, supernatural mystery, supernatural thriller, supernatural suspense, ghost stories, paranormal mystery, contemporary fantasy, paranormal suspense, witches, witch, mage, vampires, magical worlds, alternate history, modern fantasy, dark fantasy, gargoyles

Shapeshifter’S Mark

Author: Taylor Clavette
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469792656
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Emily Prince has just moved to Windsor, Ontario. As if trying to make friends in a new school is not stressful enough, Emilys abusive mother does not care if she ever fits in. Emily is her victim. With a vanished father and a mother who hates her, it seems there is no one who can rescue Emily from her fateuntil she meets her neighbor across the street. Dean Bouche is drop-dead gorgeous and blessed with an intoxicating laugh. Better yet, he attends St. Gervases Catholic High School, just like her. As Emily and Dean begin a complicated relationship, her secret life is exposed and she discovers that Dean is not who he appears to be. But when all her new friends suddenly become obsessed with the bird-like birthmark she sports on her shoulder and Dean goes missing, Emily suddenly realizes that something is wrongvery wrong. Shapeshifters Mark is the gripping story of one girls struggle to overcome abuse as she is unwittingly immersed into a strange new world where she soon discovers the truth about her destiny.

Isle of the shapeshifters

Author: Otto Coontz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
ISBN: 9780395345528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
When she arrives for a brief stay, twelve-year-old Theo has no idea how tied she is to Nantucket's past and how instrumental she will soon be in shaping the island's future.

Shape Shifters

Author: Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496216989
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static "either/or" categories of racial identification found within typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable. This volume expands our understandings of how individuals and ethnic groups identify themselves within their own sociohistorical contexts. The essays in Shape Shifters explore different historical eras and reach across the globe, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of classical antiquity to medieval Eurasian shape shifters, the Native peoples of the missions of Spanish California, and racial shape shifting among African Americans in the post-civil rights era. At different times in their lives or over generations in their families, racial shape shifters have moved from one social context to another. And as new social contexts were imposed on them, identities have even changed from one group to another. This is not racial, ethnic, or religious imposture. It is simply the way that people's lives unfold in fluid sociohistorical circumstances. With contributions by Ryan Abrecht, George J. Sánchez, Laura Moore, and Margaret Hunter, among others, Shape Shifters explores the forces of migration, borderlands, trade, warfare, occupation, colonial imposition, and the creation and dissolution of states and empires to highlight the historically contingent basis of identification among mixed-race peoples across time and space.

The Shapeshifter's Lair

Author: Peter Tremayne
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448304547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Sister Fidelma returns in the thirty-first Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne. Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess Gelgeis, has disappeared, Fidelma with her trusted companions, Eadulf and Enda, enter the hostile Kingdom of Laigin in search of the truth. But one death is quickly followed by another and warnings of demonic shapeshifters and evil lurking in the mountains must be taken seriously. Are there really brigands stealing gold and silver from the ancient mines? And are rumours of a war between the Kingdoms of Laigin and Muman to be believed? As Fidelma searches for answers, she must do everything in her power to avoid danger and death in a land where no one is to be trusted . . .

Sold to a Shapeshifter

Author: Clara Artemis
Publisher: Clara Artemis
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
An abandoned shapeshifter by his family. A shapeshifter president of a motorcycle club. An auction that will change their lives. Darian spent his life trapped in a beautiful golden cage, yielding to every whim of a man he calls Master. Max is a respected president of a shapeshifter motorcycle club and has been given an unusual mission. What neither of them expected was that their lives would collide in an avalanche of desire and possessiveness.