Steven R. Fischer Knihy

The book delves into Steven Roger Fischer's groundbreaking achievements in deciphering two significant ancient scripts: the Rongorongo of Easter Island and the Phaistos Disk from Crete. Fischer's work revealed that the Rongorongo was not just a mnemonic tool but was used for creative writing, while his decipherment of the Phaistos Disk unlocked the ancient Minoan language's connection to Mycenaean Greek. This narrative highlights Fischer's exceptional contributions to the field of epigraphy and his status as a leading figure among glyphbreakers.

Our planet hosts over a million islands. From Britain to Japan, Mauritius to Manhattan, they are small living geological, biological and cultural laboratories. This title reveals how since time began islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals and proto-humans.

Delve in to the Scholastica Psykana in this great novel from Black Library Suffer not the witch to live, unless by their service they might earn redemption. This is the creed of the scholastica psykana, a brutal foundry in which those with psychic power might be taught to serve. On the eve of her sanctioning as a primaris psyker within these very halls, Glavia Aerand, former captain of the Cadian 900th Regiment, receives a startling premonition – one concerning her old unit and a dangerous psychic artefact hidden on the planet where they are deployed. After a reunion she never expected – or wanted – Aerand finds herself mired in a vicious campaign on the psychically active world of Visage, where the shallow seas and endless fogs are rumoured to swallow the souls of the dead. Haunted by growing suspicions of her new commander and the manifestations of the sinister relic, Aerand must trust in her new-found abilities to keep her former comrades alive, and confront an ancient threat that could consume Visage entirely.

EINE PSIONIKERIN ZWISCHEN LOYALITÄT UND ÜBERLEBEN Dulde nicht die Existenz der Hexe, es sei denn ihre Dienste bringen dir die Erlösung. Dies ist das Credo der Scholastica Psikana, eine brutale Seelenschmiede, in der Menschen mit psionischen Fähigkeiten auf einen Dienst im Imperium vorbereitet werden. Am Vorabend ihrer Sanktionierung als Primaris-Psionikerin hat Glavia Aerand, ehemals Hauptmann des 900. Regiments von Cadia, eine überraschende Vorahnung – eine, die ihre ehemalige Einheit und ein gefährliches psionisches Artefakt auf dem Planeten betrifft, wo das Regiment derzeit stationiert ist. Nach einem Wiedersehen, das Aerand weder erwartete noch wollte, findet sie sich in einem brutalen Feldzug auf der psionisch aktiven Welt Visus wieder, wo man sich sagt, dass die seichten Meere und endlosen Nebelbänke die Seelen der Toten verschlängen. Heimgesucht von einem wachsenden Misstrauen gegenüber ihrem neuen Kommandeur und den Manifestationen eines unheimlichen Relikts, muss Aerand sich auf ihre neuen Fähigkeiten verlassen, um ihre ehemaligen Kameraden am Leben zu halten und sich einer uralten Bedrohung zu stellen, die Visus komplett zu verschlingen droht. Ein ASTRA MILITARUM Roman

Das Somniarium, eine vergessene Quelle der mittelalterlichen Bildersprache, stellt zum ersten Mal eine ins moderne Deutsche übersetzte Zusammenfassung zahlreicher Traumbücher der Art «Somnia Danielis» aus dem 10.-16. Jahrhundert zur Verfügung. Die über 400 alphabetisch geordneten Traumbilder - Adler, Beischlaf, Feuer, Geist, Schlange usw. -, samt über 100 Abbildungen, veranschaulichen das mittelalterliche Traumerlebnis und geben Einblick in die faszinierende Welt der mittelalterlichen Psychologie.

Crete's celebrated Phaistos Disk, discovered in 1908 and dated to ca. 1600 B.C., will seemingly forever be that «permanent thorn in the flesh of Minoan epigraphists.» Yet a comprehensive internal analysis of its 241 pictographic characters in the 61 inward-spiraling «fields» or sign groupings reveals an unmistakable and describable linguistic structure, which, in conjunction with cognate script comparisons, prevails a retrieval of the pictograms' underlying sound values. The present study concentrates on this intricate step-by-step process of internal analysis and phonetic retrieval.

„Oceanic Voices - European Quills“ celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui but also into the very discipline of linguistic historiography in one of Earth's humanly richest and most fascinating regions.

A comprehensive investigation into the nature, source, function and meaning of the dream passages to be found in the Middle High German epics up to, and including, those by Gottfried von Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach, is undertaken here for the first time. By applying to the literary dream both the dream classifications of Macrobius - undisputed authority on dreams and dreaming for the Middle Ages - and the dream divinations catalogued in the highly popular dreambook genre known as the «Somnia Danielis», the author permits new insights into the poetic exploitation of the dream as a literary device and into the medieval attitude toward the experience with its very real significance in everday life. Textual passages are annotated exhaustively with respect to literary precedents and contemporary source material; a general summary of the dream's poetic functions and salient characteristics within each given genre concludes the study.

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history.

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a format that everyone can follow. Steven Roger Fischer also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a useful reference for students and specialists as well as a delightful read for lovers of the written word everywhere.