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Author : Fedor Jagor
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Travels in the Philippines written by Fedor Jagor and published by London : Chapman and Hall. This book was released on 1875 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans G. Hoffmann
Publisher : Hueber Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3198086000
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Großer Lernwortschatz Englisch aktuell written by Hans G. Hoffmann and published by Hueber Verlag. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niveau A1 bis C1 Wer in Englisch auf mittlerem und gehobenem Sprachniveau mitreden möchte, benötigt dafür den entsprechenden aktuellen Wortschatz. Der Große Lernwortschatz Englisch aktuell bietet rund 15.000 Wörter in 20 Haupt- und ca. 150 Unterkapiteln. Der Gebrauch der Wörter wird mittels häufig auftretender Wortverbindungen und Beispielsätzen verdeutlicht. Dazu gibt es zahlreiche Extras, die das Lernen und Nachschlagen erleichtern, wie z. B. ein zweifaches Register (Englisch und Deutsch), eine Kurzgrammatik, Hinweise zur Aussprache und vieles mehr.
Author : Michael Gaudio
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816648468
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Engraving the Savage written by Michael Gaudio and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1585, the British painter and explorer John White created images of Carolina Algonquian Indians. These images were collected and engraved in 1590 by the Flemish publisher and printmaker Theodor de Bry and were reproduced widely, establishing the visual prototype of North American Indians for European and Euro-American readers. In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western civilization by producing an image of its “savage other.” Going beyond the notion of the “savage” as an intellectual and ideological construct, Gaudio examines how the tools, materials, and techniques of copperplate engraving shaped Western responses to indigenous peoples. Engraving the Savage demonstrates that the early visual critics of the engravings attempted-without complete success-to open a comfortable space between their own “civil” image-making practices and the “savage” practices of Native Americans-such as tattooing, bodily ornamentation, picture-writing, and idol worship. The real significance of these ethnographic engravings, he contends, lies in the traces they leave of a struggle to create meaning from the image of the American Indian. The visual culture of engraving and what it shows, Gaudio reasons, is critical to grasping how America was first understood in the European imagination. His interpretations of de Bry’s engravings describe a deeply ambivalent pictorial space in between civil and savage-a space in which these two organizing concepts of Western culture are revealed in their making. Michael Gaudio is assistant professor of art history at the University of Minnesota.
Author : Knut Lundby
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433105623
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Mediatization written by Knut Lundby and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media are ubiquitous and constantly changing, causing social and cultural shifts. This book examines how processes of mediatization affect almost all areas of contemporary social and cultural life, and takes the theoretical debate on mediatization in communication studies and media sociology to a critical edge.
Author : Ruth Werner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sonya's Report written by Ruth Werner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapman Pincher called Sonya the most successful agent-runner of all time, but this daring, courageous woman has remained an enigma, hunted and maligned by the spy-writers of the West. In this book, she tells her own story.
Author : Subhash Nautiyal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Non-timber Forest Products of India written by Subhash Nautiyal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245527
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town written by Helmut Walser Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written. In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder—the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an absorbing narrative, Helmut Walser Smith reconstructs the murder and the ensuing storm of anti-Semitism that engulfed this otherwise peaceful town. Offering an instructive examination of hatred, bigotry, and mass hysteria, The Butcher's Tale is a modern parable that will be a classic for years to come. Winner of the Fraenkel Award and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002.
Author : Philip Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gardeners Dictionary written by Philip Miller and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780856675522
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (755 download)
Download or read book In and Out of Focus written by Christraud M. Geary and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, on the role of photography in Central Africa. This is the first book to link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to the peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project images of themselves by becoming familiar with photographic technology. Broad in thematic and temporal scope, the book focuses on several time periods, especially on the years before and between the two world wars. This is also the first publication devoted to the important holdings of the Eliot Elisofen Photographic Archives, a department of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and a unique repository with more than 200,000 historical and contemporary images from all over Africa. This book raises important issues associated with photographic practice in Africa, the distribution of images, the circulation of ideas in Europe and the US, and African responses to photography through several poignant case studies. This book also advances the scholarly discourse on colonial/anthropological photography, and contributes to a better understanding of African responses to photography.
Author : Carole Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521029945
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Defending the Rights of Others written by Carole Fink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the period from 1878 to 1938 explores international minority protections.
Author : Lydia Maria Child
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Brief History of the Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations written by Lydia Maria Child and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ion Stanciu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Jews in the Romanian History written by Ion Stanciu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bjorn Larsson
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910376566
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book From Cape Wrath to Finisterre written by Bjorn Larsson and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cape Wrath to Finisterre is a travelogue and an homage to Celtic lands and waters, from their northern to their south western landfalls. Cape Wrath points towards the Arctic Circle at Scotland's furthest northerly limit. "Perhaps I was looking for a homeland, perhaps not, or at any rate a place where it would be worth trying to live for a while as well as one can for as long as it lasts." Finisterre, the furthest point in Galicia in northern Spain, was so named for being "The End of the Earth," Larsson's contemplative musings on life as seen from the cockpit and deck of his yacht enliven this journey from Denmark around Scotland, through the Irish Sea and onwards to Brittany and Spain. "Yes, I admit to rootlessness and impermanence," he admits. "But restlessness, on the other hand, is a scourge. It and its modern variant, stress, the futility of running round in circles, are to be avoided at all costs. It is far from certain, of course, that this way of life would suit everybody, but if it instils in someone the desire to experiment with alternatives. I shall be happy."
Author : Maja Haderlap
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0914671464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Angel of Oblivion written by Maja Haderlap and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haderlap is an accomplished poet, and that lyricism leaves clear traces on this ravishing debut, which won the prestigious Bachmann Prize in 2011. The descriptions are sensual, and the unusual similes and metaphors occasionally change perspective unexpectedly. Angel of Oblivion deals with harrowing subjects - murder, torture, persecution and discrimination of an ethnic minority - in intricate and lyrical prose. The novel tells the story of a family from the Slovenian minority in Austria. The first-person narrator starts off with her childhood memories of rural life, in a community anchored in the past. Yet behind this rural idyll, an unresolved conflict is smouldering. At first, the child wonders about the border to Yugoslavia, which runs not far away from her home. Then gradually the stories that the adults tell at every opportunity start to make sense. All the locals are scarred by the war. Her grandfather, we find out, was a partisan fighting the Nazis from forest hideouts. Her grandmother was arrested and survived Ravensbrück. As the narrator grows older, she finds out more. Through conversations at family gatherings and long nights talking to her grandmother, she learns that her father was arrested by the Austrian police and tortured - at the age of ten - to extract information on the whereabouts of his father. Her grandmother lost her foster-daughter and many friends and relatives in Ravensbrück and only escaped the gas chamber by hiding inside the camp itself. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenians are treated by the majority of German-speaking Austrians. As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. In the closing section, she visits Ravensbrück and finds it strangely lifeless - realising that her personal memories of her grandmother are stronger. Illuminating an almost forgotten chapter of European history and the European present, the book deals with family dynamics scarred by war and torture - a dominant grandmother, a long-suffering mother, a violent father who loves his children but is impossible to live with. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling: the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.
Author : Leland Ossian Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Smyrna Fig Culture in the United States written by Leland Ossian Howard and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefano Tani
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Doomed Detective written by Stefano Tani and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tani's dissertation is the most stunningly original and intelligent I have encountered in 25years of teaching," wrote the late novelist John Gardner. Tani's argument says that the "mystery story as written by Hammett and others and touted by the French existentialists led to a new kind of novel and the old-style mystery, as written by, for example, Agatha Christie, seemed a literary dead end--a conservative if not reactionary game. In recent years, Tani shows, the seeming dead end has led to the most important literary movement now visible: the ironic intellectual fiction of people ranging from Borges and Barth to Calvino, and he proves that the spearhead of this movement is Italian fiction as influenced by American mystery fiction. At first glance, the argument seems outrageous. The brilliance of Tani's thesis--besides the original outrageous idea--is that he solidly and systematically makes his case."
Author : Peters Arno
Publisher : H.F. Ullmann
ISBN 13 : 9780841671560
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Peters World Atlas written by Peters Arno and published by H.F. Ullmann. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides physical, political, and human and economic geography maps of the world in currect surface area proportion, and includes maps covering such subjects as nutrition, demography, energy use, and health.
