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Author : Stephan D. Mifsud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789990915457
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Maltese Bestiary written by Stephan D. Mifsud and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012811
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Animalia written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical—whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western imperialism. Victorian imperial authorities, adventurers, and colonists used animals as companions, military transportation, agricultural laborers, food sources, and status symbols. They also overhunted and destroyed ecosystems, laying the groundwork for what has come to be known as climate change. At the same time, animals such as lions, tigers, and mosquitoes interfered in the empire's racial, gendered, and political aspirations by challenging the imperial project’s sense of inevitability. Unconventional and innovative in form and approach, Animalia invites new ways to consider the consequences of imperial power by demonstrating how the politics of empire—in its racial, gendered, and sexualized forms—played out in multispecies relations across jurisdictions under British imperial control. Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Peter Hansen, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anna Jacobs, Daniel Heath Justice, Dane Kennedy, Jagjeet Lally, Krista Maglen, Amy E. Martin, Renisa Mawani, Heidi J. Nast, Michael A. Osborne, Harriet Ritvo, George Robb, Jonathan Saha, Sandra Swart, Angela Thompsell
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Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Europe [2 volumes] written by Thomas M. Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 1487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in Europe. Each country receives a chapter encompassing such topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, standard of living, cuisine, gender roles, relationships, dress, music, visual arts, and architecture. This authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia provides readers with richly detailed entries on the 45 nations that comprise modern Europe. Each country profile looks at elements of contemporary life related to family and work, including popular pastimes, customs, beliefs, and attitudes. Students can make cross-cultural comparisons-for instance, a student could compare social customs in Denmark with those in Norway, compare Greece's cuisine with that of Italy, and contrast the architecture of Paris with Amsterdam and Barcelona. Culture and society are changing in each region and nation of Europe due to many political and economic forces, both inside and outside of each nation's borders. This encyclopedia considers many of the transformations connected to globalization, as well as traditions that still hold strong, to provide a complete assessment of the processes that make European societies and cultures distinctive.
Author : Uwe Jens Rudolf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119188
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Malta written by Uwe Jens Rudolf and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malta, has been visited and influenced over the centuries by many different peoples and cultures. The site of the oldest free-standing, man-made structures known to exist, Malta has been occupied by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Arabs, Normans, the Knights of St. John, Swabians, Angevins, French, and British. Most recently, Malta has elected a new government replacing one that had been in office for many years, major improvements in infrastructure, a significant growth in population, the liberalization of laws permitting divorce and same-sex marriage. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Malta contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Malta.
Author : Anthony Dunne
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019841
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Speculative Everything written by Anthony Dunne and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.
Author : Wendy Williams
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613120850
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Kraken written by Wendy Williams and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling examination of one of the most popular and most intriguing animals in the deep blue sea The ocean is the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth with eighty percent of it still largely unexplored; thus, it is of perennial fascination. In Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, journalist Wendy Williams introduces one of the ocean’s most charismatic, monstrous, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants: the squid. More than just calamari, squid species are fascinatingly odd creatures, with much to teach us about our own species, not to mention the obsessive interest so many of us can't help but have for the enormous beast that is the giant squid, which is quick to attack sperm whales, and even submarines and boats. Williams also examines other equally enthralling cephalopods, including the octopus and the cuttlefish, and explores their otherworldly abilities, such as camouflage and bioluminescence. Kraken takes the reader on a wild ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way answering some riddles about how the human brain works, what intelligence really is, and what monsters lie in the deep. Wendy Williams weaves a rich narrative tapestry around her subject, drawing powerfully on the passions and discoveries of scientists, fisherman, and squid enthusiasts around the world.
Author : Greg Cox
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765384140
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase written by Greg Cox and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the hit TNT television series."--front cover.
Author : Simon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0380751925
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Necronomicon written by Simon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1980-03-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 31 years, there has been a lot of ink—actual and virtual—spilled on the subject of the Necronomicon. Some have derided it as a clumsy hoax; others have praised it as a powerful grimoire. As the decades have passed, more information has come to light both on the book's origins and discovery, and on the information contained within its pages. The Necronomicon has been found to contain formula for spiritual trans-formation, consistent with some of the most ancient mystical processes in the world, processes that were not public knowledge when the book was first published, processes that involve communion with the stars. In spite of all the controversy, the first edition sold out before it was published. And it has never been out of print since then. This year, the original designer of the 1977 edition and the original editor have joined forces to present a new, deluxe hardcover edition of the most feared, most reviled, and most desired occult book on the planet.
Author : Carrie Vaughn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908983091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
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Author : Luis Coloma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Don John of Austria written by Luis Coloma and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Fearing
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171813
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Big Clock written by Kenneth Fearing and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of American noir, part murder mystery and part black comedy, set in dark corners of corporate New York City. George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment. Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline’s apartment on the night of the murder; he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back; but he doesn’t know who he was. Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else? How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir.
Author : Dee Dee Chainey
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849947058
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers written by Dee Dee Chainey and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthralling tales of the sea, rivers and lakes from around the globe. Folklore of the seas and rivers has a resonance in cultures all over the world. Watery hopes, fears and dreams are shared by all peoples where rivers flow and waves crash. This fascinating book covers English sailor superstitions and shape-shifting pink dolphins of the Amazon, Scylla and Charybdis, the many guises of Mami Wata, the tale of the Yoruba River spirit, the water horses of the Scottish lochs, the infamous mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, and much more. Accompanied by stunning woodcut illustrations, popular authors Dee Dee Chainey and Willow Winsham explore the deep history and enduring significance of water folklore the world over, from mermaids, selkies and sirens to ghostly ships and the fountains of youth. With this book, Folklore Thursday aims to encourage a sense of belonging across all cultures by showing how much we all have in common.
Author : Christa Davis Acampora
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742514270
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)
Download or read book A Nietzschean Bestiary written by Christa Davis Acampora and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Nietzschean Bestiary' gathers essays treating the most vivid & lively animal images in Nietzsche's work, such as the howling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions, & the notorious blond beast.
Author : Oberon Zell-Ravenheart
Publisher : Career Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564149565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (495 download)
Download or read book A Wizard's Bestiary written by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Inman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism written by Thomas Inman and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Cabal written by Clive Barker and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabal is the story of Boone, a tortured soul haunted by the conviction that he has committed atrocious crimes. In a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, he seeks refuge and finds the last great creatures of the world - the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. They are possessed of unearthly powers-and so is Boone. In the hunt for Boone, they too will be hunted. Now only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction. And only the undying passion of a woman can save Boone from his own corrupting hell... This novella is the basis for the Major Motion Picture - Nightbreed.
Author : Claire Fenton-Glynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193028
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Children's Rights and Sustainable Development written by Claire Fenton-Glynn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how to implement children's rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.
