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Author : Margrét Helgadóttir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910462317
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Eurasian Monsters written by Margrét Helgadóttir and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Courtney Nimura
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253977
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Art in the Eurasian Iron Age written by Courtney Nimura and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition, which emerged in Europe around 500 BC. Classical influence has often been cited as the main impetus for this new and distinctive way of decorating, but although Classical and Celtic Art share certain motifs, many of the design principles behind the two styles differ fundamentally. Instead, the idea that Celtic Art shares its essential forms and themes of transformation and animism with Iron Age art from across northern Eurasia has recently gained currency, partly thanks to a move away from the study of motifs in prehistoric art and towards considerations of the contexts in which they appear. This volume explores Iron Age art at different scales and specifically considers the long-distance connections, mutual influences and shared ‘ways of seeing’ that link Celtic Art to other art traditions across northern Eurasia. It brings together 13 papers on varied subjects such as animal and human imagery, technologies of production and the design theory behind Iron Age art, balancing pan-Eurasian scale commentary with regional and site scale studies and detailed analyses of individual objects, as well as introductory and summary papers. This multi-scalar approach allows connections to be made across wide geographical areas, whilst maintaining the detail required to carry out sensitive studies of objects.
Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Night Shade Books
ISBN 13 : 1597806641
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The Best Horror of the Year written by Ellen Datlow and published by Night Shade Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the thirteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.
Author : C.L. Clark
Publisher : Uncanny Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue 46 written by C.L. Clark and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The May/June 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by C.L. Clark, Fonda Lee, Haralambi Markov, Eugenia Triantafyllou, John Wiswell, Maurice Broaddus and Rianna Butcher, and S.B. Divya. Reprint fiction byAliette de Bodard. Essays by Francesca Tacchi, Marissa Lingen, Héctor González, and Tessa Fisher, poetry by Beth Cato,Terese Mason Pierre, Anjali Patel, and Abu Bakr Sadiq, interviews with Haralambi Markov and S.B. Divya by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Elaine Ho, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, and Chimedum Ohaegbu, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
Author : Nelson Yomtov
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429648171
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Tracking Sea Monsters, Bigfoot, and Other Legendary Beasts written by Nelson Yomtov and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers the search for animals that may or may not exist, including evidence for and against the existence of cryptids"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Matt Kaplan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145166799X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Science of Monsters written by Matt Kaplan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published as Medusa's gaze and vampire's bite by Scribner"--Title page verso.
Author : Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303011872X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Eurasian Business Perspectives written by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference in Rome. It presents original empirical research from several countries and regions including many developing economies such as Poland, Russia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Belarus, and Lithuania. Both the theoretical and empirical papers in this volume cover diverse areas of business and management from various regions. The main focus is on sharing the latest research results on evolving approaches to entrepreneurship research, behavioral aspects of entrepreneurship and SME development, and policy development. The volume also includes related studies that analyze international business cooperation, performance assessment, and a range of other current topics.
Author : Françoise Vergès
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322948
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Monsters and Revolutionaries written by Françoise Vergès and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a study of Reunion, this volume shows how family narrative and discourses around miscegenation are central to colonial history.
Author : Susan M. Walcott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135078750
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection written by Susan M. Walcott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connectivity, as well as conflict, characterizes Eurasia. This edited volume explores dynamic geopolitical and geo-economic links reconfiguring spaces from the eastern edge of Europe through the western edge of Asia, seeking explanation beyond description. The ancient Silk Road tied together space, much as pipelines, railroads, telecommunications infrastructure, and similar cultural and constructed links ease the mobility of people and products in modern Eurasia. This book considers Eurasia along an interlinked corridor, with chapters illustrating the connections as a discussion foundation focusing on the shared interactions of a set of nation states through time and across space, generating more positive considerations of the resurgently important region of Eurasia. China’s interests fall into three chapters: the southeastern border with Vietnam, the southwestern Himalayan edge, and the western Muslim regions. Russia’s recovery relates events to a larger landmass context and focuses on the importance of historic mobility. A geo-history of the Caspian considers this petroleum-rich area as a zone of cultural and economic interconnection. The final focus on Central Asia treats the traditional heart of “Eurasia”. The concluding chapter pulls together strands linking subregions for a new concept of “Eurasia” as an area linked by vital interests and overlapping histories.
Author : Caspar Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019968233X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia written by Caspar Meyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
Author : Dmitry Shlapentokh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004154159
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Russia Between East and West written by Dmitry Shlapentokh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of Russian history, two views of who the Russians are have dominated the minds of Russian intellectuals. Westerners assumed that Russia was part of the West, whilst Slavophiles saw Russia as part of a Slavic civilization. At present, it is Eurasianism that has emerged as the paradigm that has made attempts to place Russia in a broad civilizational context and it has recently become the only viable doctrine that is able to provide the very ideological justification for Russia's existence as a multiethnic state. Eurasians assert that Russia is a civilization in its own right, a unique blend of Slavic and non-Slavic, mostly Turkic, people. While it is one of the important ideological trends in present-day Russia, Eurasianism, with its origins among Russian emigrants in the 1920s, has a long history. Placing Eurasianism in a broad context, this book covers the origins of Eurasianism, dwells on Eurasianism's major philosophical paradigms, and places Eurasianism in the context of the development of Polish and Turkish thought. The final part deals with the modern modification of Eurasianism. The book is of great relevance to those who are interested in Russian/European and Asian history area studies.
Author : Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 : 0399165541
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book American Monsters written by Linda S. Godfrey and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surrounding the most mysterious monsters in America—including Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and more. Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and thunderbirds aren’t just figments of our overactive imaginations—according to thousands of eyewitnesses, they exist, in every corner of the United States. Throughout America’s history, shocked onlookers have seen unbelievable creatures of every stripe—from sea serpents to apelike beings, giant bats to monkeymen—in every region. Author, investigator, and creature expert Linda S. Godfrey brings the same fearless reporting she lent to Real Wolfmen to this essential guide, using historical record, present-day news reports, and eyewitness interviews to examine this hidden menagerie of America’s homegrown beasts.
Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199745777
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (457 download)
Download or read book On Monsters written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Beginning at the time of Alexander the Great, the monsters come fast and furious--Behemoth and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, Satan and his demons, Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of today and the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought. Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises, scientific notebooks, and novels, Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and defeated.
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Author : George M. Eberhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576077640
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Mysterious Creatures [2 volumes] written by George M. Eberhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to cryptozoology—the quest to identify animals that have not been officially catalogued by science and to place these unknown animals into their proper zoological categories. In this fascinating two-volume encyclopedia, author George M. Eberhart provides a comprehensive catalog of nearly 1,000 cryptids—unknown animals usually reported through eyewitness accounts and not yet described by science. Cryptids are the stuff of folklore, hoaxes, and genuine scientific breakthroughs. There are 400 now-classified cryptids once considered either extinct or pure fantasy. The cryptozoologist's job is to strip away the myth, misidentification, and mystery—and separate fact from fiction. Mysterious Creatures covers everything from dinosaurs and the emala-ntouka, an elephant-killing dinosaur-like animal of central Africa, to searches for the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, and other cryptozoological hoaxes. Entries about specific animals include the derivation or meaning of each cryptid's name, its scientific name, variant names, a physical description, behavior, description of tracks, habitat, significant sightings, present status, and possible explanations. Illustrations and photographs accompany many entries. The book also includes resources and references for further information.
Author : Darren Naish
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784281913
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Hunting Monsters written by Darren Naish and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Loch Ness Monster. The Yeti. Bigfoot. These are just some of the iconic mythical creatures studied by the discipline of 'cryptozoology'. The idea of mysterious and terrifying creatures goes back centuries. They are known by the experts as cryptids. Today, these legendary beings continue to capture our imaginations. Discover the fascinating and often bizarre stories of real life monsters and the scientists who strove to separate the fact from fiction. In Hunting Monsters, Palaeozoological researcher Professor Darren Naish explores the fascinating science behind these elusive monsters - a science known as 'cryptozoology'. Bizarre stories of ancient sea-monsters and resurgent dinosaurs are explored in this concise book, taking into account the theories of Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, the man responsible for coining the term 'cryptozoology', as well as modern day zoologists like John MacKinnon whose research sheds light into this novel field of work. Whether it is the monsters or the humans behind the story, this is a gripping tale of mystery and legend sure to enlighten you in the strange realms of cryptozoology.
Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440877262
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Bigfoot to Mothman written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids-those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society-including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mothman. Comprehensive in its scope, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to know more about well-known creatures of myth and legend, such as the Chupacabra and the Jersey Devil, and discover lesser-known animals, such as the Bunyip of Australia and the Mamlambo of South Africa. Rather than purport to prove or deny the existence of these creatures, however, this volume classifies them within their respective cultural, historical, and social contexts, allowing readers to appreciate cryptids as cultural artifacts important to societies around the globe. Finally, this book goes beyond the study of the unknown to investigate who believes in cryptids, why they do, and why the study of cryptozoology is as much about understanding cryptids as it is about understanding ourselves.
Author : Matthew P. Canepa
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606068423
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the AfroEurasian World written by Matthew P. Canepa and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever-wider swath of Afro-Eurasia over the next two millennia, exerting influence at key historical junctures. This book provides the first critical exploration of the role Persian cultures played in articulating the myriad ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the sixth century BCE and the nineteenth century CE. Exploring topics such as royal cosmologies, fashion, banqueting, manuscript cultures, sacred landscapes, and inscriptions, the volume’s essays analyze the intellectual and political exchanges of art, architecture, ritual, and luxury material within and beyond the Persian world. They show how Perso-Iranian cultures offered neighbors and competitors raw material with which to formulate their own imperial aspirations. Unique among studies of Persia and Iran, this volume explores issues of change, renovation, and interconnectivity in these cultures over the longue durée.
