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Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China: Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inca by : Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech
Download or read book Inca written by Paloma Carcedo de Mufarech and published by Marsilio. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip across time along a golden labyrinth leading to the birth of pre-Columbian civilizations. More than 250 masterpieces from the most important museums of Peru reveal the mastery and the skill of the pre-Columbian goldsmiths of the Central Andes, as well as how gold forged the belief, the rituals, the earthly and heavenly spheres, and the way of representing the political and the religious. The force of unknown symbols, represented by the finds pictured in this book, leads to the understanding of the spirituality of these ancient peoples. The mystic dimension of life and death lived through a deep relation with the gods is evoked by the outstanding images which picture their connection with the afterlife. Inca: Origin and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold highlights the tie with nature, focusing on the contrast between power and submission, sea and mountains, and earth and sky, without forgetting the importance of the Sun and the Moon in the idea and perception of the universe.
Book Synopsis Golden Kingdoms by : Joanne Pillsbury
Download or read book Golden Kingdoms written by Joanne Pillsbury and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
Download or read book Gold Seeking written by David Goodman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Gold of the Thracian Horsemen by : Palais de la civilisation (Montréal, Québec)
Download or read book Gold of the Thracian Horsemen written by Palais de la civilisation (Montréal, Québec) and published by Éditions de l'Homme. This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oldest Civilisation of Greece by : Harry Reginald Hall
Download or read book The Oldest Civilisation of Greece written by Harry Reginald Hall and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Past and Other Essays on the Development of Civilisation by : James Henry Breasted
Download or read book The New Past and Other Essays on the Development of Civilisation written by James Henry Breasted and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pyrite written by David Rickard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral sometimes known as fool's gold. Pyrite behaves like stone and shines like metal, and its dual nature makes it a source of both metals and sulfur. Despite being the most common sulfide mineral on the earth's surface, pyrite's bright crystals have attracted the attention of many different cultures, and its nearly identical visual appearance to gold has led to tales of fraud, trickery, and claims of alchemy. Pyrite occupies a unique place in human history: it became an integral part of mining culture in America during the 19th century, and it has a presence in ancient Sumerian texts, Greek philosophy, and medieval poetry, becoming a symbol for anything overvalued. In Pyrite, geochemist and author David Rickard blends basic science and historical narrative to describe the many unique ways pyrite is integral to our world. He explains the basic science of oxidation, showing us why the mineral looks like gold, and inspects death zones of present oceans where pyrite-related hydrogen sulfide destroys oxygen in the waters. Rickard analyzes pyrite's role in manufacturing sulfuric acid and discusses the significant appearance of the mineral in literature, history, and the development of societies. The mineral's influence extends from human evolution and culture, through science and industry, to our understanding of ancient, modern, and future earth environments. Energetic and accessible, Pyrite is the first book to show readers the history and science of a mineral that helped make the modern world.
Book Synopsis The Review of Reviews by : William Thomas Stead
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Golden Bull by : Marjorie Cowley
Download or read book The Golden Bull written by Marjorie Cowley and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brother and sister's search for a new life and new home . . . 5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa's father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice with Sidah, a master goldsmith for the temple of the moongod, but there is no place for Zefa in Sidah's household. Zefa, a talented but untrained musician, is forced to play her music and sing for alms on the streets of Ur. Marjorie Cowley vividly imagines the intrigues, and harsh struggle for survival in ancient Mesopotamia.
Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Book Synopsis The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation by : J. C. Stobart
Download or read book The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation written by J. C. Stobart and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation" by J. C. Stobart. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis A Handbook on Gold and Silver by : R. H. Hollingbery
Download or read book A Handbook on Gold and Silver written by R. H. Hollingbery and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1878 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lancet written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Church of England Pulpit, and Ecclesiastical Review by :
Download or read book The Church of England Pulpit, and Ecclesiastical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Children of the Sun by : William James Perry
Download or read book The Children of the Sun written by William James Perry and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1927 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of authorities": pages 503-526.
Book Synopsis Publications by : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
