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Author : Gordon Phillips
Publisher : Granta Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781857570649
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Seven Centuries of Light written by Gordon Phillips and published by Granta Editions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Harvey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780236271
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Smuggling written by Simon Harvey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cellar door creaked open in the middle of the night, or a hand slipping quickly into a trenchcoat—the most compelling transactions are surely those we never see. Smuggling can conjure images of adventure and rebellion in popular culture—Han Solo knew all about it, as did Al Capone—but as Simon Harvey shows in this fascinating book, smuggling has had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the world. Shining a light onto seven centuries of dark history, he illuminates a world of intrigue and fortunes, hinged on outlaw desires and those who have been willing to fulfill them. Harvey tells this story by focusing on the most coveted contrabands of their time. In the Age of Discovery, these were silk, spices, and silver. During the days of western empires, they were gold, opium, tea, and rubber. And in modern times it has been, of course, drugs. To the side of these major commodities, he looks at a wide array of things that have always been in smugglers’ trunks, from guns to art to—the most dangerous of all—ideas. Central to this story are the (not always) legitimate forces of the Dutch and British East India Companies, the luminaries of the Spanish Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Nazis, Soviet trophy brigades, and the CIA, all of whom have made smuggling, at one point or another, part of their modus operandi. Beneath this, Harvey traces out the smaller-time smugglers, the micro-economies of everyday goods, precious objects, and people, drawing the whole story together into a map of a subterranean world crisscrossed by smugglers’ paths. All told, this is the story of the unrelenting drive of markets to subvert the law, of the invisible seams that have sewn the globe together.
Author : Guy Laking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries written by Guy Laking and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willard A. Palmer
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457418259
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 7 (Spanning Seven Centuries) written by Willard A. Palmer and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of 84 early-intermediate selections compiled and edited by Willard Palmer offers the piano student an introduction to the easiest keyboard music of various composers spanning seven centuries and embracing the following periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern.
Author : Edwin L. Wade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615639826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Canvas of Clay written by Edwin L. Wade and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The vessels in the pages that follow open to us a world flickering with the light of a people's collective character and shared philosophy. These vessels have bodies of clay, but they float before us in the zero gravity of wisdom and belief."-- Edwin L. Wade Canvas of Clay tells the story of Hopi ceramics from the 14th century to recent times, offering a particularly close look at the art and life of the master potter Nampeyo (1860-1942). It analyzes the specific dynamics of nearly 100 jars and bowls, all richly illustrated, weaving in many insights into Hopi history, aesthetics, and symbolism. Included are original schematic drawings that will help readers understand how pottery decoration is built from ingeniously combined design elements. This book is a glorious testament to a brilliant art form and its practitioners, presented with passion, knowledge, and respect.
Author : Roger Fouquet
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782542520
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Heat, Power and Light written by Roger Fouquet and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Roger Fouquet investigates the impacts of technological innovations and economic development over the last thousand years on our ability to provide heat, power, transport and light. Using a unique data set, collected over a decade, the analysis identifies the forces driving revolutions in energy services. The framework, analysis and insights in this book offer an original perspective on future energy markets, transitions to low-carbon economies and strategies for addressing climate change."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Andrew Ollett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296222
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Language of the Snakes written by Andrew Ollett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.
Author : J.B. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319511556
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Electric Century written by J.B. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next and their subsequent impact on society. Topics include electric supply, lighting through X-rays, and all those appliances that make our homes so comfortable. Most homes at the end of the twentieth century were full of electrical equipment, much of which was regarded as essential. It ran from lights, washing machines, fridges, freezers, kettles, telephones and so on, to the more subtle things such as wipers and starter motors on cars. In 1900, in all but a tiny minority of houses, there were none of these things. It is very difficult for us now to imagine a world without electrical equipment everywhere, and yet it has only taken a century. The Electric Century examines how we got from then to now. The nineteenth is often described as the century of steam from the impact it had on employment and transport, and The Electric Century makes a similar claim as the description of the twentieth. Electricity and the equipment using it are so pervasive that they have affected every corner of modern life.
Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Classical Philology from the Seventh Century, B.C. to the Twentieth Century, A.D. written by Harry Thurston Peck and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Varda Sussman
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784915718
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Late Roman to Late Byzantine/Early Islamic Period Lamps in the Holy Land written by Varda Sussman and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates lamps from the Byzantine period excavated in the Holy Land and demonstrates the extent of their development since the first enclosing/capturing of light (fire) within a portable man-made vessel.
Author : D. Elliott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230378382
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Energy written by D. Elliott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, leading authors explore the technologies that might help us to develop a sustainable energy future, emphasising renewable energy and the political and economic context needed for them to prosper. This collection makes hard-headed assessments of what is possible and what is not.
Author : Abigail Harrison Moore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007569
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book In a New Light written by Abigail Harrison Moore and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive histories of the unprecedented energy transitions that powered industrialization, women have remained notably absent from these accounts. In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. From their labour in the home, where they managed the adoption of new energy sources, to their work as educators in electrical housecraft and their protests against the effects of industrialization, women took on active roles to influence energy decisions. Together these essays deepen our understanding of the significance of gender in the history of energy, and of energy transitions in the history of women and gender. By foregrounding women's energetic labours and concerns, the authors shed new light on energy use in the past and provide important insights as societies move towards a carbon-neutral future.
Author : Karen Fredette
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504036611
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Clare: Her Light and Her Song written by Karen Fredette and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clare: Her Light and Her Song is a vivid portrait of a strong woman who scandalizes family and friends to follow her beloved mentor, Francis of Assisi, in a life of joyous poverty. Thoroughly researched, this biography faithfully depicts Clare as seen by her contemporaries, including cardinals and popes. Her story is enriched by accounts of the wars, political intrigues, and towering figures of the tumultuous thirteenth century in which she played a significant role. The first woman to receive Papal approval for her own Rule of Life, Clare continues as a model for women of the twenty-first century.
Author : Frederick William Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel written by Frederick William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick William Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton written by Frederick William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Bellwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100094008X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Southeast Asia written by Peter Bellwood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300. Southeast Asia has recently attracted archaeological attention as the locus for the first recorded sea crossings; as the region of origin for the Austronesian population dispersal across the Pacific from Neolithic times; as an arena for the development of archaeologically-rich Neolithic, and metal using communities, especially in Thailand and Vietnam, and as the backdrop for several unique and strikingly monumental Indic civilizations, such as the Khmer civilization centred around Angkor. Southeast Asia is invaluable to anyone interested in the full history of the region.
Author : Philip Grierson
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884020455
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 3: Leo III to Nicephorus III, 717-1081 written by Philip Grierson and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1973 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume three of this series, Part I covers the period between Leo III to Michale III (867-1081), while Part II covers Bail I to Nicephorus III (867-1081).
