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Realms of Literacy

Author : David B. Lurie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175089
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Literacy written by David B. Lurie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the world history of writing, Japan presents an unusually detailed record of transition to literacy. Extant materials attest to the social, cultural, and political contexts and consequences of the advent of writing and reading, from the earliest appearance of imported artifacts with Chinese inscriptions in the first century BCE, through the production of texts within the Japanese archipelago in the fifth century, to the widespread literacies and the simultaneous rise of a full-fledged state in the late seventh and eighth centuries. David B. Lurie explores the complex processes of adaptation and invention that defined the early Japanese transition from orality to textuality. Drawing on archaeological and archival sources varying in content, style, and medium, this book highlights the diverse modes and uses of writing that coexisted in a variety of configurations among different social groups. It offers new perspectives on the pragmatic contexts and varied natures of multiple simultaneous literacies, the relations between languages and systems of inscription, and the aesthetic dimensions of writing. Lurie’s investigation into the textual practices of early Japan illuminates not only the cultural history of East Asia but also the broader comparative history of writing and literacy in the ancient world."

Realms of Memory: Traditions

Author : Pierre Nora
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231106344
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Memory: Traditions written by Pierre Nora and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.

Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms

Author : Wizards RPG Team
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 9780786960347
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms written by Wizards RPG Team and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive description of the Forgotten Realms, one of the most well known Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.

Incomparable Realms

Author : Jeremy Robbins
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145384
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Incomparable Realms written by Jeremy Robbins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the so-called Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power. But in what ways was this a Golden Age, and for whom? The relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church shaped the period, with both constructing narratives to bind Spanish society together. Incomparable Realms unpicks the impact of these two historical forces on thought and culture and examines the people and perspectives such powerful projections sought to eradicate. The book shows that the tension between the heavenly and earthly realms, and in particular the struggle between the spiritual and the corporeal, defines Golden Age culture. In art and literature, mystical theology and moral polemic, ideology, doctrine, and everyday life, the problematic pull of the body and the material world is the unacknowledged force behind early modern Spain. Life is a dream, as the title of Calderón’s famous play of the period proclaimed, but there is always a body dreaming it.

The Realms of God

Author : Michael Livingston
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765380358
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Realms of God written by Michael Livingston and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last volume in a trilogy, following The shards of heaven, and The gates of hell.

Routes and Realms

Author : Zayde Antrim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019022715X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Routes and Realms written by Zayde Antrim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.

League of Legends: Realms of Runeterra (Official Companion)

Author : Riot Games
Publisher : Voracious
ISBN 13 : 0316430048
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book League of Legends: Realms of Runeterra (Official Companion) written by Riot Games and published by Voracious. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the mysteries and magic within League of Legends, one of the world's most popular video games, in this encyclopedic and collectible companion book that explores the game's epic lore. Embark on a journey through the realms of Runeterra in this first-ever collectible companion book, published to celebrate the game's tenth anniversary. Spanning the farthest reaches of this universe and venturing into uncharted territory, this encyclopedic compendium connects players to the rich storytelling that inspires all the action. Inside, you'll find: An expedition through eleven regions, chronicling conflicts, entrenched rivalries, and covert alliances Hundreds of illustrations, including never-before-seen maps and artwork Insights into the heroes, flora, fauna, architecture, politics, and technologies from all corners of this world Original narratives that bring the cultures of Runeterra to life League of Legends is an online game played by millions of people around the world, offering endless engagement with an expanding roster of champions, frequent updates, and a thriving esports scene. This volume is an essential reference for fans everywhere.

World of Wonder

Author : Dawood Y. Farahi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976389606
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book World of Wonder written by Dawood Y. Farahi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms

Author : F. Kent Reilly
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774400
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms written by F. Kent Reilly and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.

Realms of Memory: Conflicts and divisions

Author : Pierre Nora
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231084048
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Memory: Conflicts and divisions written by Pierre Nora and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do human societies leave their mark on the world so they are not forgotten? This is a collection of work by leading French intellectuals exploring the statutes, cathedrals, palaces, rituals, legends and events of history that form the architecture of the French collective consciousness.

Realms of Gold

Author : Michael J. Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890517236
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Gold written by Michael J. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume Realms of Gold series brings together all the shorter literary works taught in the Core Knowledge Sequence for the middle school grades. Volume Two includes those for grade seven.

The Lost Realms (Book IV)

Author : Zecharia Sitchin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439167
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Realms (Book IV) written by Zecharia Sitchin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth Chronicles series is based on the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories; that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document; and that ancient civilizations--older and greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki, "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came." The 12th Planet, the first book of the series, presents ancient evidence for the existence of an additional planet in the Solar System: the home planet of the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this evidence, recent data from unmanned spacecraft has led astronomers to actively search for what is being called "Planet X." The subsequent volume, The Stairway to Heaven, traces man's unending search for immortality to a spaceport in the Sinai Peninsula and to the Giza pyramids, which had served as landing beacons for it--refuting the notion that these pyramids were built by human pharaohs. Recently, records by an eye witness to a forgery of an inscription by the pharaoh Khufu inside the Great Pyramid corroborated the book's conclusions. The Wars of Gods and Men, recounting events closer to our times, concludes that the Sinai spaceport was destroyed 4,000 years ago with nuclear weapons. Photographs of Earth from space clearly show evidence of such an explosion. Such gratifying corroboration of audacious conclusions has been even swifter for The Lost Realms. In the relatively short interval between the completion of the manuscript and its publication, archaeologists, linguists, and other scientists have offered a "coastal theory" in lieu of the "frozen trekking" one to account for man's arrival in the Americas--in ships, as this volume has concluded. These experts have "suddenly discovered 2,000 years of missing civilization" in the words of a Yale University scholar--confirming this book's conclusion--and are now linking the beginnings of such civilizations to those of the Old World, as Sumerian texts and biblical verses. For the first time, the entire Earth Chronicles series is now available in a hardcover collector's edition.

Realms of Exile

Author : Domnica Radulescu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103333
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Exile written by Domnica Radulescu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realms of Exile brings together authors writing on diverse themes of Eastern European exile to define the experiential and linguistic peculiarities of exiled people who share similar cultural, geographical, and mythological backgrounds and who have suffered under totalitarian rule. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarship at its best, the book casts new light on the many nuances and variations of many of the cultures and ethnic groups of Eastern Europeans.

Realms of Freedom in Modern China

Author : William C. Kirby
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804752329
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Freedom in Modern China written by William C. Kirby and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth and final volume of the series The Making of Modern Freedom, this book explores a variety of issues surrounding questions of human rights and freedom in China. The chapters suggest very significant realms of freedom, with or without the protection of law, in the personal, social, and economic lives of people in China before the twentieth century. This was recognized, and partly codified, in the early twentieth century, when legal experts sought to establish a republic of laws and limits. The process of legal reform, however, would be placed firmly in the service of strengthening the post-imperial Chinese nation-state, culminating after 1949 in despotism unparalleled in Chinese history. Nevertheless, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of our own would witness a slow, steady, but unmistakable reassertion of realms of personal and communal autonomy that show, even in an era of strong states, at least the prospect of institutionalized freedoms.

Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds

Author : Jerome Clark
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593409
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds written by Jerome Clark and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of mystical and legendary places—revealed! Have you ever wondered about mythical and legendary worlds such as the lost continent of Atlantis? Have you ever heard of Mu and the Lemurians, who some say still exist among us? Respected researcher of unexplained phenomena, Jerome Clark, provides a comprehensive and trustworthy look at ancient mysteries, fictional fantasy lands, and extraterrestrial civilizations in his book, Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds. Claims of supernatural realms, parallel worlds, and legendary, lost civilizations are put to the test in this well-researched guide to the unexplained. Firsthand accounts and historical documents are explored, and in-depth coverage is provided on the mysteries of imagination, culture, perception, consciousness and more. Beliefs, doctrines, experiences, and places are described and explored in this truly comprehensive guide to the wacky, weird, and otherworldly, including: The hollow earth populated by a rich natural world and inhabited by an advanced civilization The amazing powers of psychic healer Edward Cayce, who gained healing and prophetic abilities by connecting with “The Source” Encounters with peoples of the alternate solar system, and the amazing worlds of Meton, Lanulos, Nibiru, Clarion, Maldek, and Kazik Richard S. Shaver’s personal experiences in an underground hell—replete with demons and ghouls The evil plots of the Snake people to destroy our planet Witnesses testimony of meeting fairies, goblins, and other mythical folk Ancient Celtic seers Life on Mars and encounters with Martians Alien worlds Parallel universes Mystery airships And much more! With many photos, illustrations, and other graphics, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. Highlighting news articles, historical accounts, and first-person interviews,Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds will leave you wondering what is and isn’t real!

The Shards of Heaven

Author : Michael Livingston
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466873310
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Shards of Heaven written by Michael Livingston and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Livingston's The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods-or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Realms of Valor

Author : James Lowder
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 9781560765578
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Realms of Valor written by James Lowder and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories featuring characters from the "Forgotten Realms" novels includes contributions by Douglas Niles, Troy Denning, Ed Greenwood, R.A. Salvatore, and others