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Celestial Empire

Author : Nathan Woolley
Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278768
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Empire written by Nathan Woolley and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celestial Empire shows the wealth and cultural richness of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China for nearly three centuries, as seen through rare materials from the National Library of China and the National Library of Australia. The book is illustrated with stunning images, from woodblock printed books to colourful maps, making accessible a wealth of culture from China’s last imperial dynasty. Many works that appear in the book have never been seen outside China before, or presented in English. Examples include painted scrolls of scenic and sacred sites, maps detailing a variety of landscapes, woodblock illustrations demonstrating extraordinary skill and artistic vision and delightful folk art used on festive occasions. The book also includes architectural drawings produced for the Imperial court of iconic locations such as the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. A visually beautiful book that gives insight into the dynasty that laid the foundations of modern China.

Hello!

Author :
Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642278873
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Hello! written by and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiasou! That’s hello in Greek! Or would you like to say hello in Chinese? What about Italian or Korean? Murrinhpatha or Kaurna? Meet 12 Australian friends who can speak different languages. They tell us how to count from 1 to 10, say hello and goodbye and lots of other words in their languages about play, food, hobbies and clothes. Once we’ve said hello, we can watch Emiko playing the Japanese drum and Pilinh performing an Aboriginal dance. We can see how to make gnocchi with Sophia and flat bread with Amal. This book is an introduction to 12 languages spoken most frequently in Australian homes, plus three Indigenous languages. At the back of the book is a pronunciation guide. Illustrated in a cartoon style, the pictures add humour and fun to language learning. Each language and culture is introduced by a child character - and you might spot a koala or two … Selamat tinggal! That’s goodbye in Indonesian!

History

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 074408850X
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book History written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day. Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas, political forces, and technological advances that have shaped our planet. Every historical episode is explored and explained with the help of stunning images that bring the authoritative text to life. Important points in history, from the battle of Hastings and the storming of the Bastille to D-Day and 9/11, have clear but concise coverage, together with profiles of influential figures, such as Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and Nelson Mandela. It's time to head back in time and explore the past with this striking history book, which features: - Profiles of key people who have made history. - Features on inventions, discoveries, and ideas that changed the world. - Graphics lend immediacy and impact to key statistics. - National Histories section separately chronicles key events of every country As each moment in history is defined and detailed, supporting panels note the causes and consequences, providing wider context and broadening our horizons. New and enhanced coverage of recent events - such as the Arab Spring - and contemporary issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, bring the book firmly into the present. With its broad-themed approach to important historical events, this book shows that ours is a history with genes and viruses, not just battle and treaties - and the stories and biographies of men and women from every corner of the globe who have shaped today's world reaffirm that SI History is the story of humankind in which everyone has a part to play.

History

Author : Adam Hart-Davis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756698588
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book History written by Adam Hart-Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homo sapiens have remained the same species, largely unchanged in genetic makeup and anatomy since the Cro-Magnon era. By contrast, the cultural, social, and technological changes since then have been nothing less than extraordinary. At the core of this development is the ability of humans to store and transmit knowledge, so that each new generation stands upon the shoulders of its predecessors. This ability to use what has gone before is what sets humans apart. Telling our story, from prehistory to the present day, DK's History is a thought-provoking journey, revealing the common threads and forces that have shaped human history. Taking a broad-themed approach, acknowledging varied factors at work, from climate, ecology, disease, and geology and their roles in the human story, this visual celebration makes history accessible and relevant, putting events in their wider context and showing how they have shaped the world we live in. Features inventions, discoveries, and ideas that have shaped world history Looks at human achievement through artifacts, painting, sculpture, and architecture Places humankind in context as part of the natural world Includes eyewitness accounts and biographies of key figures at turning points in history Gives factors such as climate and natural disasters their full place in the human story Uncovers the past, from analyzing ice cores to deciphering extinct languages A comprehensive timeline chronicles the key events of the countries of the world.

This Errant Lady

Author : Jane Franklin
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642107491
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book This Errant Lady written by Jane Franklin and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.

Report of the Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum

Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library of Congress Information Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the National Museum

Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Report of the National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Malaguna Road

Author : Sarah Johnston Chinnery
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642106878
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Malaguna Road written by Sarah Johnston Chinnery and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australian anthropologist E.W.P. Chinnery took his young Irish bride, Sarah, to Port Moresby in 1921, she did not imagine that the island of New Guinea-one of the most extraordinary regions on earth-would become her home for the next 16 years. Already a keen photographer, Sarah began recording her experiences in a daily diary.

Chinese Painting

Author : Mario Bussagli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Painting written by Mario Bussagli and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From earliest times the delicate precision of Chinese painting has captivated Western art lovers. The sophisticated techniques, the evident love of nature and the glimpses of a quiet civilised life all add to the enchantment. This book begins with the quick sketch-like painting from the Lo-Yang tombs, dating from the 3rd century, and continues with the closely observed T'ang paintings of people, not only Emperors and court dignitaries, but also peasants and grooms with the celebrated T'ang horses. Sung painters produced some of the most powerful landscapes in Chinese art, with their strangely shaped mountains looming menacingly up through the mists, and with man, absorbed in fishing or in meditation, dwarfed by the immensity of his environment. Nautre always present in Chinese art, now preoccupied painters almost to the exclusion of all else, and the studies of trees, particularly bamboo and pines, set in mountainous river landscapes are superb. Bussagli takes the account right up to the 19th and 20th centuries, a period seldom covered in books on Chinese painting. -- Book jacket.

Faces of Mandurama

Author : John Robert Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Faces of Mandurama written by John Robert Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic book of haunting photographs which tells the story of the small settlement of Mandurama, New South Wales, at the turn of the century. Images of Australian pioneers - the loggers, settlers, shopkeepers, farmers, weddings, family groups, babies and children - were captured by a local photographer whose vast collection of glass plates survived and was eventually deposited at the National Library.

Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...

Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ... written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark and Hurrying Days

Author : Robert Menzies
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642192855
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Dark and Hurrying Days written by Robert Menzies and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.

Painted Wood

Author : Valerie Dorge
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892365013
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Painted Wood written by Valerie Dorge and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The function of the painted wooden object ranges from the practical to the profound. These objects may perform utilitarian tasks, convey artistic whimsy, connote noble aspirations, and embody the highest spiritual expressions. This volume, illustrated in color throughout, presents the proceedings of a conference organized by the Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and held in November 1994 at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book includes 40 articles that explore the history and conservation of a wide range of painted wooden objects, from polychrome sculpture and altarpieces to carousel horses, tobacconist figures, Native American totems, Victorian garden furniture, French cabinets, architectural elements, and horse-drawn carriages. Contributors include Ian C. Bristow, an architect and historic-building consultant in London; Myriam Serck-Dewaide, head of the Sculpture Workshop, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels; and Frances Gruber Safford, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A broad range of professionals—including art historians, curators, scientists, and conservators—will be interested in this volume and in the multidisciplinary nature of its articles.

Plumes from Paradise

Author : Pamela Swadling
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743325460
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Plumes from Paradise written by Pamela Swadling and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.

Chinese Export Watercolours

Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Export Watercolours written by Craig Clunas and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transpacific Engagements

Author : Florina H. Capistrano-Baker
Publisher : Ayala Foundation, Inc., Getty Research Institute, and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut)
ISBN 13 : 6218028224
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Transpacific Engagements written by Florina H. Capistrano-Baker and published by Ayala Foundation, Inc., Getty Research Institute, and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut). This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires, notably Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and others vied for commercial and political control of transoceanic networks, particularly the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas. The essays in Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) address the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on both the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. The essays are grouped into three parts entitled “Entangled Empires,” “Empires and Translations,” and “Empires and Trade.” A common thread in the diverse perspectives presented here is the importance of transpacific engagements to the global connections of the sixteenth century and beyond. While the focus is on the specific connection between the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas through the Philippines, we see how other parts of the world, notably South and Southeast Asia and Europe, were also participants impacted by these transpacific linkages. The goal is to convey the complexity of entangled networks of commercial, political, and religious interests that complicate the Spanish enterprise in the Pacific. Commercial ventures into Canton and Manila by the early American republic, for example, overlapped with and later replaced the Spanish galleons. East, South, and Southeast Asian polities and dynasties remained powerful players in what were often multilateral, rather than bilateral, exchanges. Contributors to this volume are based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.