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The God behind the Marble

Author : Alice Goff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828719
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The God behind the Marble written by Alice Goff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Germans’ attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution. For German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth century, beautiful works of art acted as beacons of freedom, instruments of progress that could model and stimulate the moral autonomy of their beholders. Amid the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Germans struggled to uphold these ideals as they contended with the destruction of art collections, looting, and questions about cultural property. As artworks fell prey to the violence they were supposed to transcend, some began to wonder how art could deliver liberation if it could also quickly become a spoil of war. Alice Goff considers a variety of works—including forty porphyry columns from the tomb of Charlemagne, the Quadriga from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Laocoön group from Rome, a medieval bronze reliquary from Goslar, a Last Judgment from Danzig, and the mummified body of an official from the Rhenish hamlet of Sinzig—following the conflicts over the ownership, interpretation, conservation, and exhibition of German collections during the Napoleonic period and its aftermath.

Stone

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ruined Stones

Author : Eric Reed
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464208352
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Ruined Stones written by Eric Reed and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An in-depth look at what it was like in England during World War II and how women took over men's jobs, leading to a social revolution that continues today." —Kirkus Reviews Surviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius—named for the Emperor Hadrian who built the famous wall right at the edge of the then civilized world. No matter its later history as a wool trade, then coal mining center, and the ship building that makes it a German bombing target, Newcastle's Roman past won't be ignored. Grace is eager to explore city life. And she's turned professional with an official job in the city's constabulary. The war means women can find work, even if most men in the job discount if not actively resent her. Grace's arrival coincides with the discovery of the body of a young woman, curiously difficult to identify, at the scanty ruins of a Roman temple situated across from a church. The bone-numbing cold, the fogs, and the Blitz, not to mention to peculiar behavior of some of the citizens and the hostility directed towards a woman in man's work, test Grace's resolve to be an effective officer. There are many potential leads, and much suspicious behavior to sort through. What role do ancient rituals play in the murder and what follows? What current misbehavior or crimes is someone, or someones, desperate to cover up? The investigation, carried out through fog and blackout and fear as well as the hostility of her colleagues, tests Grace's resolve to be an effective officer. Will it also endanger her life?

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones

Author : George Frederick Kunz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Lore of Precious Stones written by George Frederick Kunz and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stone

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iron in the Pines

Author : Arthur Dudley Pierce
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813505145
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Iron in the Pines written by Arthur Dudley Pierce and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of southern New Jersey lies an area of some 96,000 acres of sprawling wilderness. It is the famous Wharton Tract which the state of New Jersey purchased in 1954 for a watershed, game preserve, and park. Many people know and love these wooded acres. Each year, people by the thousands visit Batsto Village, once the center of the iron industry that thrived on the tract more than a century ago. With warmth and accuracy, Arthur D. Pierce tells the story of the years when iron was king, and around it rose a rustic feudal economy. There were glass factories, paper mills, cotton mills, and brickmaking establishments. Here, too, were men who made those years exciting: Benedict Arnold and his first step toward treason; Charles Read, who dreamed of an empire and died in exile; Revolutionary heroes and heroines, privateers, and rogues. The author's vivid pictures of day-to-day life in the old iron communities are based upon careful research. This book proves that the human drama of documented history belies any notion that fiction is stranger than truth.

What If Fungi Win?

Author : Arturo Casadevall
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421449013
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book What If Fungi Win? written by Arturo Casadevall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other lifeforms, bats, amphibians, and essential crops are also increasingly threatened by these pathogens. Enter fungal kingdom frontiersman Dr. Arturo Casadevall, an epidemiologist, professor, and inventor. Casadevall shares how the 1990s AIDS epidemic's fungal complications drove his medical mycology work, how COVID-19's fungal incidences underscore the continuing threat to the immunocompromised, and how he and his Johns Hopkins University laboratory team are discovering ways to counter the threats posed by these cunning, hungry combatants. What If Fungi Win? describes the beneficial roles of fungi along with their mischievous and deadly impacts and illustrates how committed experts like Casadevall are researching ways to save us and our food supplies. In addition to an overview of blights, lichens, molds, mushrooms, rusts, and smuts, readers will learn about: • how fungi proliferated following the mass dinosaur extinction • Oregon's ancient 2,384-acre Armillaria ostoyae—Earth's largest organism • the rye fungus ergot that may have fueled the Salem witch trials • mushrooms used to create vegan leather and eco-friendly packaging, as well as plastic-consuming fungi • why it's critical that funding institutions pay attention to fungal risks and aid scientists in their work.

The Red Dragon

Author : Charles Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Red Dragon written by Charles Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breaking Stones

Author : Kruno Čudina
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398404306
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Stones written by Kruno Čudina and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of human potential is never beyond our sight. An opportunity is always offered to people. Sometimes in a mysterious way. Whoever ignores or rejects it will never truly experience life’s journey. Staying on the same path is to constantly relive the same day. That’s why exploration embodies mankind’s natural need to deal with the secrets below the surface. Although the facts about us as human beings speak in an understandable language, this doesn’t mean we’re not an enigma to ourselves. Understanding oneself is a very demanding process, similar to an autopsy. Not a physical autopsy, but a spiritual one. Discovering the anatomy of one’s soul cannot be done abruptly. Moments of inspiration will make the realization of whether we are controlled by our consciousness or our subconsciousness easier. Hiding behind a heavy veil until the very end is not truly living. Sometimes a mere piece of paper under a windshield wiper with just three words and a phone number can change your life instantly. The hero of this novel who only refers to himself as “The Recorder” dared to call a number left on a piece of paper beneath his windscreen wiper. He sensed an opportunity. A few weeks later, a telegram arrived: IT’S TIME. IT’S YOUR TURN NOW. MOVE NOW! A trip to an unknown estate marks the beginning of an adventure, and he begins writing the history of his life.

Beneath These Waters

Author : Sharyn Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Beneath These Waters written by Sharyn Kane and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Good Dictator II

Author : Gonçalo JN Dias
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1071507192
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Good Dictator II written by Gonçalo JN Dias and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of a trilogy, this is a thriller with a twist. Matthias, a young man living far from his family, is fighting for survival after taking his first few steps away from the family farm into a society that has risen from the ashes. Sara is a young lady, who appears to be fleeing east to escape the claws of an oppressive society. Gustavo, after fifteen years in power, has decided that the time has come to find a successor. However, a surprise from the past may change his plans. The fates of Matthias, Sara and Gustavo are about to collide.

Prophetic Studies, Or, Lectures on the Book of Daniel

Author : John Cumming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic Studies, Or, Lectures on the Book of Daniel written by John Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the Edge

Author : Mark McKenna
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522862608
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book From the Edge written by Mark McKenna and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1797, five British sailors and 12 Bengali seamen struggled ashore after their longboat broke apart in a storm. Their fellow-survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove were stranded more than 500 kilometres southeast in Bass Strait. To rescue their mates and to save themselves the 19 men must walk 700 kilometres north to Sydney. That remarkable walk is a story of endurance but also of unexpected Aboriginal help. From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories recounts four such extraordinary and largely forgotten stories: the walk of shipwreck survivors; the founding of a 'new Singapore' in western Arnhem Land in the 1840s; Australia's largest industrial development project nestled amongst outstanding Indigenous rock art in the Pilbara; and the ever-changing story of James Cook's time in Cooktown in 1770. This new telling of the central drama of Australian history ;the encounter between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, may hold the key to understanding this land and its people.

British Critic

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coast Road

Author : Paul Gogarty
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1909396133
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Coast Road written by Paul Gogarty and published by Portico. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 'Travel Narrative Book of the Year' in 2005 by the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW), The Coast Road presents an idiosyncratic and illuminating snapshot of England and what it is to be English today. In this travelogue, award-winning writer Paul Gogarty travels 3,000 miles in a motorhome, exploring intimate coastal communities and ruminating on the future of the English coast. All points of the compass are covered; after an unsettling benediction at Dover's Eastern Docks he travels to Derek Jarman's Dungeness; to rakish Brighton and Madame Rosina's Bournemouth; the mudflats and Arabian sands of the north- west, where he joins a roomful of George Formbys in Blackpool; the now infamous Morcambe Bay; Billy Butlin's Skegness; and a parachuting vicar. The journey comes full circle in the secret creeks of East Anglia. The Coast Road is a warm-hearted tribute to England's coastline written by a romantic spirit who beautifully captures both the idiosyncrasies of the nation and the euphoria of the open road.