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Book Synopsis By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean by : Barry W. Cunliffe
Download or read book By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean written by Barry W. Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the peoples of Eurasia, from the birth of farming to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. An immense historical panorama set on a huge continental stage, this is also the story of how humans first started building the global system we know today.
Download or read book Out of Steppe written by Daniel Metcalfe and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Metcalfe journeys through the five 'stans, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, and brings to life the brilliant human tapestry they comprise - uniquely shaped by the immigrants, deportees and conquerors that have settled there. Revealing a Central Asia that is far removed from the home of Borat or the land of international terrorism, Metcalfe unlocks the secrets of this troubled region, glorying in its diversity and also lamenting the economic and cultural changes that threaten to eradicate some of its peoples...
Download or read book The Glass Ocean written by Lori Baker and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write in retrospect, from the vantage of a distant shore. Flame-haired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, eighteen-year-old Carlotta Dell’oro recounts the lives of her parents—solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell’oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard—and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, thecircumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. Thomas Pynchon calls debut novelist Lori Baker “a storyteller with uncanny access to the Victorians, not only to the closely woven texture of their days but also to the dangerous nocturnal fires being attended to in their hearts.” Carlotta’s story begins in 1841, when Leo and Clotilde meet aboard the Narcissus, on an expedition led by Clotilde’s magnanimous, adventuring father. Leo is commissioned to draw the creatures of the deep sea, but is bewitched instead by golden Clotilde, beginning a devotion that will prove inescapable. Clotilde meanwhile sees only her dear papa, but when he goes missing she is pushed to Leo, returning with him to the craggy English shores of Whitby, the place to which Leo vowed he would never return. There they form an uneasy coexistence, lost to one another. The events of the Narcissus haunt them, leaving Clotilde grieving for her father, while Leo becomes possessed by the work of transforming his sea sketches into glass. But in finding his art he surrenders Clotilde, and the distance between the two is only magnified by the birth of baby Carlotta. Years have passed, and Carlotta is now grown. A friend from the past comes to Whitby, and with his arrival sets into motion the Dell’oros’ inevitable disintegration. In hypnotic, inimitable prose Lori Baker’s The Glass Ocean transforms a story of family into something as otherworldly and mesmerizing as life beneath the sea itself.
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Language, Identity and Conflict by : Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
Download or read book Language, Identity and Conflict written by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the functions of language as a marker of identity in ethnic conflict, and the extent to which language may be a causal factor in ethnic conflict.
Book Synopsis Aspects of Nature by : Alexander von Humboldt
Download or read book Aspects of Nature written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aspects of Nature in Different Lands and Different Climates by : Alexander von Humboldt
Download or read book Aspects of Nature in Different Lands and Different Climates written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe by : R. Dale Guthrie
Download or read book Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe written by R. Dale Guthrie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the discovery and examination of a mummified extinct steppe bison in loess deposits of Pleistocene age in interior Alaska near Fairbanks, gives a picture of bison evolutionary history and ecology on the 'Mammoth Steppe'.
Download or read book The Routes of Man written by Ted Conover and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them. With his marvelous eye for detail and his contagious enthusiasm, Ted Conover explores six of these key byways worldwide. In Peru, he traces the journey of a load of rare mahogany over the Andes to its origin, an untracked part of the Amazon basin soon to be traversed by a new east-west route across South America. In East Africa, he visits truckers whose travels have been linked to the worldwide spread of AIDS. In the West Bank, he monitors highway checkpoints with Israeli soldiers and then passes through them with Palestinians, witnessing the injustices and danger borne by both sides. He shuffles down a frozen riverbed with teenagers escaping their Himalayan valley to see how a new road will affect the now-isolated Indian region of Ladakh. From the passenger seat of a new Hyundai piling up the miles, he describes the exuberant upsurge in car culture as highways proliferate across China. And from inside an ambulance, he offers an apocalyptic but precise vision of Lagos, Nigeria, where congestion and chaos on freeways signal the rise of the global megacity. A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected—how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.
Book Synopsis Ming China and its Allies by : David M. Robinson
Download or read book Ming China and its Allies written by David M. Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Ming Dynasty's foreign relations with neighboring sovereigns, placing China in a wider global context.
Book Synopsis The Home Friend by : SOCIETY for PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
Download or read book The Home Friend written by SOCIETY for PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction by : Society for promoting Christian knowledge
Download or read book The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction written by Society for promoting Christian knowledge and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Histories Collide by : Raymond D. Crotty
Download or read book When Histories Collide written by Raymond D. Crotty and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late economic historian, Raymond Crotty, a specialist on economic development in Ireland, left a challenging work that addresses the processes of world history from the neolithic revoution up to the end of the 20th century. On the way, Crotty tried to explain phenomena as diverse as the role of pastoral migrations, India's holy cows, the decline of the Roman empire, feudalism, slavery, Britain's early modern development, the patterns of Western colonization, the lack of socio-economic development in the contemporary third world, and the developmental success of Japan and China. Crotty's interdisciplinary framework combines elements agricultural economics, nutritional science, development studies, and demography into a comprehensive theory of history that will challenge and intrigue historians, social scientists, and their students.
Book Synopsis Humans in the Siberian Landscapes by : Vladimir N. Bocharnikov
Download or read book Humans in the Siberian Landscapes written by Vladimir N. Bocharnikov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-25 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia. It reveals the patterns of the processes of penetration, settlement, development and adaptation of Siberian populations from Paleolithic time to Russian colonization in the era of the Russian Empire, during Soviet modernization and in the face of modern challenges. The authors consider the principal interactions (character, stages, conditions), system-related evidence and phenomena that determine the diverse specifics and multidirectional vectors of a change in the ethnic (social, cultural, economic, legal) presence in large subregions of Siberia in the mirror of various theoretical paradigms. This transdisciplinary volume appeals to researchers, lecturers and students in the fields of geography, history, philosophy, anthropology, ecology, archaeology and interfaces to many other disciplines.
Book Synopsis Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary by : John Bayley
Download or read book Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary written by John Bayley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first critical assessment in English of Pushkin's writing, the author examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition.
Book Synopsis Bridge of the Separator by : Harry Turtledove
Download or read book Bridge of the Separator written by Harry Turtledove and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW NOVEL IN THE POPULAR VIDESSOS SERIES Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man¾and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city . . . if his world had not suddenly and tragically fallen apart when the Empire of Videssos erupted into civil war and the Khamorth barbarians swarmed over the borders. As the home he loved was brutally sacked, Rhavas had to flee for his life, and then make his way through lands swarming with fierce nomads and with soldiers loyal both to his cousin and to the rebel. He may never see Videssos the city again, let alone preside in its High Temple. He has always followed Phos, the god of light and goodness, Videssos' god, and despised evil rival Skotos. Those who fall off the Bridge of the Separator during judgment in the afterlife tumble down to Skotos' ice forevermore. But when evil seems to have swallowed the whole world, what is a cleric who reverences logic as well as goodness supposed to believe It's a harder question than Rhavas wishes it were. FANTASY ADVENTURE BY A BEST-SELLING AWARD-WINNING MASTER At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
