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Book Synopsis Histories are Mirrors by : John F. Burns
Download or read book Histories are Mirrors written by John F. Burns and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning images of the conflict-filled regions that have come to define our national policy today.
Book Synopsis The Mirror by : Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet
Download or read book The Mirror written by Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.
Download or read book Mirrors written by Eduardo Galeano and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unofficial history of the world seen--and mirrored to us--through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten, over 5000 years of history.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Herodotus by : François Hartog
Download or read book The Mirror of Herodotus written by François Hartog and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book to come out on Herodotus in years."—G. E. R. Lloyd, King's College Cambridge
Download or read book Mirror Mirror written by Mark Pendergrast and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the mirror¿s invention, refinement, and use in a range of human activities -- from the bloodthirsty smoking gods of the Aztecs to the fantastic mirrored rooms wealthy Romans created for their orgies, to the mirror¿s role in gathering light from the far reaches of the universe. Tells of the 2,500-year mystery of whether Archimedes and his ¿burning mirror¿ really set fire to Roman ships; Isaac Newton¿s intense experiments with sunlight on mirrors that left him blind for 3 days; Renaissance artists who used mirrors to revolutionize realistic representations of the world; and George Hale and George Ritchey who joined forces to produce ever-larger telescope mirrors. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories by : Eugenie Hamerton
Download or read book The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories written by Eugenie Hamerton and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Book Synopsis The Book of the Mirror by : Miranda Anderson
Download or read book The Book of the Mirror written by Miranda Anderson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book are gathered together from the realms of art, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy and science. Together they weave a picture that gives us new insights into the mirror as a material object and as an image in art and texts. This interdisciplinary and innovative book raises important issues about the material life of an object and its intimate interrelations with socio-cultural imagery. Perceptions of the workings of our cognitive processes and of our subjectivity are shown to be dynamically interwoven with the technological and socio-cultural matrices of particular periods, whilst longer term continuities in the understanding and employment of the mirror reflect underlying continuities in the capacities and constraints of mirrors and of human subjects. This book demonstrates the active role imagery and technologies have always played in our thoughts, lives and worlds.
Download or read book The Full-Length Mirror written by Wu Hung and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture—and the full-length mirror. This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans, and commoners. The other story explores the connections among objects, painting, and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artifacts and their images in art and visual culture. The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which “global” is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia, and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century.
Book Synopsis A Mirror for History by : Marc Egnal
Download or read book A Mirror for History written by Marc Egnal and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Marc Egnal argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the economy from the near-subsistence agriculture of the 1750s to the extraordinarily unequal society of the twenty-first century. By using literature and art to explain the shifts in values over this lengthy span and highlighting class conflict within the American economy over time, Egnal offers particularly unique insights into the development of middle-class America. By delving into a myriad of fictional characters and their complex worlds, Egnal sheds light on an array of issues including the shifting roles of women in society, the resulting changes in masculinity, waning religious beliefs through the centuries, and a broad exploration of African American characters"--
Download or read book Mirrors written by Frannie Watson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIRRORS explores the life stories of three real people. The author weaves together the individual stories and invites the reader to identify with these tales. The reader is offered the opportunity to use the actions and feelings of the characters to help examine his or her own emotions and choices. The character, Jacob, enjoys his job and he has great friends, but everyday he comes home to turmoil and dark thoughts. Like Jacob, we ask ourselves, "Does the average person obtain peace in life?" HOW CAN PEACE COME OUT OF CHAOS? In Mirrors the reader is challenged by questions and observations of the characters' lives. Emotional issues such as codependency and addiction are recognized as unhealthy behaviors. Basic emotional concepts revealed through the characters may help mirror aspects in your own life. As the reader identifies with the characters they will have the opportunity to reflect on issues in their own experiences. Identification with these reflections make Mirrors a different kind of self-improvement book. Through self-examination hopefully the reader can catch a glimpse in the mirror and see a healthier future of greater peace and joy in life.
Book Synopsis Mirrors Without Memories: Truth History and the Thin Blue Line by : Linda Williams
Download or read book Mirrors Without Memories: Truth History and the Thin Blue Line written by Linda Williams and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Key Metaphors for History by : Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Download or read book Key Metaphors for History written by Javier Fernández-Sebastián and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decline, or transition. The analysis of these and other pillars on which modern history has been built, whether as a philosophy of history, as an academic discipline, or as a set of events, will interest graduates and scholars dealing with the historical and social sciences and the humanities in general. Key Metaphors for History offers a broad overview of historiography and historiosophy, from an unfrequented point of view, halfway between conceptual history, theory of history and metaphorology. Moreover, it constitutes a form of self-reflection of the historian on his or her own positionality when researching and writing history.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories by : Eugénie Hamerton
Download or read book The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories written by Eugénie Hamerton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror by : John Keep
Download or read book Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror written by John Keep and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror (1964) is devoted to a critical examination of Soviet writings on contemporary history. The demands of the Communist Party, striving following the death of Stalin to replace the old myths with new ones, encountered the opposition of individual historians. The needs of the ‘ideological front’ clashed with their professional conscience about historical facts. Yet the Party’s claim to be the infallible interpreter of historical truth would be undermined if its authority about the past could be challenged; now, as before, ‘he who controls the past controls the present.’ In Krushchev’s Russia, however, it was not only the image of the past, but the degree of control over it which was modified.
Book Synopsis The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by : Nancy M. Frelick
Download or read book The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture written by Nancy M. Frelick and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrors have always fascinated humankind. They collapse ordinary distinctions, making visible what is normally invisible, and promising access to hidden realities. Yet, these liminal objects also point to the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom. In this interdisciplinary volume, specialists in medieval and early modern science, cultural and political history, as well as art history, philosophy, and literature come together to explore the intersections between material and metaphysical mirrors in Europe and the Islamic world. During the time periods studied here, various technologies were transforming the looking glass as an optical device, scientific instrument, and aesthetic object, making it clearer and more readily available, though it remained a rare and precious commodity. While technical innovations spawned new discoveries and ways of seeing, belief systems were slower to change, as expressed in the natural sciences, mystical writings, literature, and visual culture. Mirror metaphors based on analogies established in the ancient world still retained significant power and authority, perhaps especially when related to Aristotelian science, the medieval speculum tradition, religious iconography, secular imagery, Renaissance Neoplatonism, or spectacular Baroque engineering, artistry, and self-fashioning. Mirror effects created through myths, metaphors, rhetorical strategies, or other devices could invite self-contemplation and evoke abstract or paradoxical concepts. Whether faithful or deforming, specular reflections often turn out to be ambivalent and contradictory: sometimes sources of illusion, sometimes reflections of divine truth, mirrors compel us to question the very nature of representation.
Book Synopsis Mirror of Intemperance and History of the Temperance Reform by : Marcus E. Cross
Download or read book Mirror of Intemperance and History of the Temperance Reform written by Marcus E. Cross and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mirror of Intemperance and History of the Temperance Reform by : Marcus E. Cross
Download or read book The Mirror of Intemperance and History of the Temperance Reform written by Marcus E. Cross and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
