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Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964839
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants written by Herodotus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much of what we know of the Ancient World comes from Herodotus (c.490 BC - c.420 BC) that he will always remain the greatest of historians. But in addition such a large part of the entertainment value of the Ancient World comes from his enormous, omnivorous, sometimes credulous appetite for stories of distant lands and strange creatures. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Monsters in Greek Literature

Author : Fiona Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000392597
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Monsters in Greek Literature written by Fiona Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth examination of the role of monstrosity in ancient Greek literature. In the past, monsters in this context have largely been treated as unimportant or analysed on an individual basis. By focusing on genres rather than single creatures, the book provides a greater understanding of how monstrosity and abnormal bodies are used in ancient sources. Very often ideas about monstrosity are used as a contrast against which to examine the nature of what it is to be human, both physically and behaviourally. This book focuses on creation narratives, ethnographic writing, and biological texts. These three genres address the origins of the human world, its spatial limits, and the nature of the human body; by examining monstrosity in these genres we can see the ways in which Greek texts construct the space and time in which people exist and the nature of our bodies. This book is aimed primarily at scholars and students undertaking research, not only those with an interest in monstrosity, but also scholars exploring cultural representations of time (especially the primordial and mythological past), ancient geography and ethnography, and ancient philosophy and science. As the representation of monsters in antiquity was strongly influential on medieval, renaissance, and early modern images and texts, this book will also be relevant to people researching these areas.

What Every American Should Know About the Middle East

Author : Melissa Rossi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452289598
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book What Every American Should Know About the Middle East written by Melissa Rossi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The What Every American Should Know series returns with a timely guide to the region Americans need to understand the most (and know the least) The latest edition of Melissa Rossi's popular What Every American Should Know series gives a crash course on one of the most complex and important regions of the world. In this comprehensive and engaging reference book, Rossi offers a clear analysis of the issues playing out in the Middle East, delving into each country's history, politics, economy, and religions. Having traveled through the area over the past year, she exposes firsthand the U.S.'s geopolitical moves and how our presence has affected the region's economic and political development. Topics include: · Why Iran is viewed as a threat by most Middle East countries · What resource is more important than petroleum in regional power plays · What's really behind the fighting between Sunni and Shia · How Saudi Arabia inadvertently feeds the violence in Iraq and beyond · How monarchies like those in Jordan and Qatar are more open and progressive than the so-called republics With answers that will surprise many Americans, and covering a vast history and cultural complexity that will fascinate any student of the world, What Every American Should Know About the Middle East is a must-read introduction to the most critical region of the twenty-first century.

Children, Morality and Society

Author : S. Frankel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137007796
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Children, Morality and Society written by S. Frankel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extent to which children engage with questions of morality, arguing that they are active members of society who have both the capacity and understanding to engage with discourses of morality.

V. Y. Mudimbe

Author : Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781385750
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book V. Y. Mudimbe written by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. This book charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture highlights Mudimbe’s trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, Panafricanism, neo-colonialism, negritude, pedagogy, Christianisation, decolonisation, anthropology, postcolonial representations, and a variety of other subjects, using these as contexts for close readings of many of Mudimbe’s texts, both influential and lesser-known. The book demonstrates that Mudimbe’s intellectual career has been informed by a series of decisive dialogues with some of the key exponents of Africanism (Herodotus, EW Blyden, Placide Tempels), continental and postcolonial thought (Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss), and African thought and philosophy from Africa and the diaspora (L.S. Senghor, Patrice Nganang, and Achille Mbembe).

Centaurs and Snake-Kings

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009459058
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Centaurs and Snake-Kings written by Jeremy McInerney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich cultural exchange experienced by Greeks across the Mediterranean. Hybrids, the author reveals, capture the anxiety of cross-cultural encounter, where similarity and incongruity were conjoined. Hybridity likewise expresses instability of identity. The ancient sea, that most changeable ancient domain, was viewed as home to monsters like Skylla; while on land the centaur might be hypersexual yet also hypercivilized, like Cheiron. Medusa may be destructive, yet also alluring. Wherever conventional values or behaviours are challenged, there the hybrid gives that threat a face. This absorbing work unveils a mercurial world of shifting categories that offer an alternative to conventional certainties. Transforming disorder into images of wonder, Greek hybrids – McInerney suggests – finally suggest other ways of being human.

The Way of Herodotus

Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786727276
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Herodotus written by Justin Marozzi and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2,500-year-old observations about the cultures and places he visited and finding echoes of his legacy reverberating to this day. The Way of Herodotus is a lively yet thought-provoking excursion into the world of Herodotus, with the man who invented history ever present, guiding the narrative with his discursive spirit.

The Congo and the Cameroons

Author : Mary Kingsley
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Congo and the Cameroons written by Mary Kingsley and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kingsley's journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world that has vanished and of a writer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny.

Sold as a Slave

Author : Olaudah Equiano
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141032054
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Sold as a Slave written by Olaudah Equiano and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano crisscrossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the U.S. to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. This account is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but also a startling, moving story of danger and betrayal.

The Spectator

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man who Invented History

Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Invented History written by Justin Marozzi and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first great prose epic and became known through the ages as "the father of history." But he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and enlightened multiculturalist. He was at once a learned professor and a tabloid journalist, a man of great wit and wisdom with an unfailing eye for fabulous material to inform and amuse, to titillate, horrify, and entertain.

Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress

Author : Indian Science Congress Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress written by Indian Science Congress Association and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peyote Dance

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374511005
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Peyote Dance written by Antonin Artaud and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Account of Egypt

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365030083
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book An Account of Egypt written by Herodotus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An Account of Egypt' is the story of Greek historian Herodotus' travels through the Ptolemaic Kingdom. It is a richly descriptive tale of ancient Egyptian customs, rituals and daily life from the legendary writer whom Cicero labeled 'The Father of History.'

The Illustrated Weekly of India

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Weekly of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-10 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blindsight

Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429955198
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Out Of Control

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078674703X
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Out Of Control written by Kevin Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.