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Author : Patrick Louisy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788804575511
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Negli oceani. Animali belli e brutti written by Patrick Louisy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stéphanie Ledu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788804546498
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Animali belli e brutti written by Stéphanie Ledu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giuseppe Cei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Gli animali sulle terre e negli oceani written by Giuseppe Cei and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally McKee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220381X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Uncommon Dominion written by Sally McKee and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1211 until its loss to the Ottomans in 1669, the Greek island we know as Crete was the Venetian colony of Candia. Ruled by a paid civil service fully accountable to the Venetian Senate, Candia was distinct from nearly every other colony of the medieval period for the unprecedented degree to which the colonial power was involved in its governance. Yet, for Sally McKee, the importance of the Cretan colony only begins with the anomalous manner of the Venetian state's rule. Uncommon Dominion tells the story of Venetian Crete, the home of two recognizably distinct ethnic communities, the Latins and the Greeks. The application of Venetian law to the colony made it possible for the colonial power to create and maintain a fiction of ethnic distinctness. The Greeks were subordinate to the Latins economically, politically, and juridically, yet within a century of Venetian colonization, the ethnic differences between Latin and Greek Cretans in daily material life were significantly blurred. Members of the groups intermarried, many of them learned each other's language, and some even chose to worship by the rites of the other's church. Holding up ample evidence of acculturation and miscegenation by the colony's inhabitants, McKee uncovers the colonial forces that promoted the persistence of ethnic labeling despite the lack of any clear demarcation between the two predominant communities. As McKee argues, the concept of ethnic identity was largely determined by gender, religion, and social status, especially by the Latin and Greek elites in their complex and frequently antagonistic social relationships. Drawing expertly from notarial and court records, as well as legislative and literary sources, Uncommon Dominion offers a unique study of ethnicity in the medieval and early modern periods. Students and scholars in medieval, colonial, and postcolonial studies will find much of use in studying this remarkable colonial experiment.
Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307817156
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Ratner's Star written by Don DeLillo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Author : Cesare Vecellio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500514269
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Clothing of the Renaissance World written by Cesare Vecellio and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour de force of scholarship and book production: an essential reference for anyone interested in costume history, Renaissance studies, theater, and ethnography.
Author : Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Byzantium, 330-1453 written by Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is published to accompany an exhibition devoted to the artistic and cultural riches of Byzantium. Essays trace the history and cultural development of more than 1000 years of Byzantine art, revealing the splendours of the imperial city of Constantinople. Numerous artefacts reveal the distinct style and character of Byzantine art.
Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423131
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Galatea 2.2 written by Richard Powers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521842228
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 written by Brendan Simms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 120 years (1714-1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated.
Author : Maria Georgopoulou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521782357
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Venice's Mediterranean Colonies written by Maria Georgopoulou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the architecture and urbanism in the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia (modern Herakleion) as a case study, Maria Georgopoulou exposes the dynamic relationship that existed between colonizer and colony. Georgopoulou demonstrates how the Venetian colonists manipulated Crete's past history in order to support and legitimate colonial rule, particularly through the appropriation of older Byzantine traditions in civic and religious ceremonies.
Author : Yogi Bhajan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940837437
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (374 download)
Download or read book La Mente written by Yogi Bhajan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giuseppe Quatriglio
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
ISBN 13 : 1881901785
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Sicily written by Giuseppe Quatriglio and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 2011 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883248
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Venetians in Constantinople written by Eric Dursteler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common. Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople. While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.
Author : Philip Levine
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307599604
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book News of the World written by Philip Levine and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb new collection from “a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review). In both lively prose poems and more formal verse, Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent breakfast after the late shift, and Henry Ford, “supremely bored” in his mansion, clocks in at one of his plants . . . from Spain, where a woman sings a song that rises at dawn, like the dust of ages, through an open window . . . from Andorra, where an old Communist can now supply you with anything you want—a French radio, a Cadillac, or, if you have a week, an American film star. The world of his poetry is one of questionable magic: a typist lives for her only son who will die in a war to come; three boys fish in a river while a fine industrial residue falls on their shoulders. This is a haunted world in which exotic animals travel first class, an immigrant worker in Detroit yearns for the silence of his Siberian exile, and the Western mountains “maintain that huge silence we think of as divine.” A rich, deeply felt collection from one of our master poets.
Author : Caterina Edwards
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920717677
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Lion's Mouth written by Caterina Edwards and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent novel, an Italian/Canadian woman named Bianca tells the story of her beloved cousin, Marco, whose life is disintegrating along with his city--Venice, Italy. As she tries to make sense of her cousin's breakdown, Bianca recounts her own history and reflects on her immigrant and Canadian experiences, coming to terms with her dual cultures. The novel is multifaceted as a thriller, study of social mores in Italy and Canada, portrait of Venice, and self-reflexive account.
Author : Monique O'Connell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801891450
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Men of Empire written by Monique O'Connell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative history, Monique O’Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws by which Venice maintained its vast overseas holdings. The legal, linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity within Venice’s empire made it difficult to impose any centralization or unity among its disparate territories. O’Connell has mined the vast archival resources to explain how Venice’s central government was able to administer and govern its extensive empire. O’Connell finds that successful governance depended heavily on the experience of governors, an interlocking network of noble families, who were sent overseas to negotiate the often conflicting demands of Venice’s governing council and the local populations. In this nexus of state power and personal influence, these imperial administrators played a crucial role in representing the state as a hegemonic power; creating patronage and family connections between Venetian patricians and their subjects; and using the judicial system to negotiate a balance between local and imperial interests. In explaining the institutions and individuals that permitted this type of negotiation, O’Connell offers a historical example of an early modern empire at the height of imperial expansion.
Author : Janine Boissard
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449217986
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (179 download)
Download or read book A Different Woman written by Janine Boissard and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married at seventeen, mother at twenty, Severine, at forty-four, finds herself alone, divorced from her husband who left her to marry another woman. Severine has lost confidence in herself, in life, in love. She met Vincent, and with she explores true love.
