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Author : John James Kelway
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ISBN 13 : 9782957484713
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Human Body's Cabinet of Etymological Curiosities written by John James Kelway and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. McKeown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190610433
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities written by J. C. McKeown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted portrait of the origins of modern medicine in the ancient world
Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)
Download or read book An English Dictionary, Etymological, Pronouncing, and Explanatory, for the Use of Schools written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Anthony Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022664684X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day-by-day journey through 366 delightfully archaic words and quirky historical trivia. Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word—are explored. On the day on which flirting was banned in New York City, for instance, you’ll discover why to “sheep’s-eye” someone once meant to look at them amorously. On the day on which a disillusioned San Franciscan declared himself Emperor of the United States, you’ll find the word “mamamouchi,” a term for people who consider themselves more important than they truly are. And on the day on which George Frideric Handel completed his 259-page Messiah after twenty-four days of frenzied work, you’ll see why a French loanword, literally meaning “a small wooden barrow,” is used to refer to an intense period of work undertaken to meet a deadline. The English language is vast enough to supply us with a word for every occasion—and this linguistic “wunderkammer” is here to prove precisely that. So whatever date this book has found its way into your hands, there’s an entire year’s worth of linguistic curiosities waiting to be found.
Author : Mark Antony LOWER
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, etymological, and humourous. With chapters of rebuses and canting arms, the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of latinized surnames, etc written by Mark Antony LOWER and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language, Containing the Pronunciation, Etymology, and Explanation of All Words Authorized by Eminent Writers: to which are Added, a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, and an Accented List of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names written by Alexander Reid and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander REID (LL.D.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language, containing the pronunciation, etymology and explanation of all words authorized by eminent writers. To which are added, a vocabulary of the roots of English words and an accented list of proper names written by Alexander REID (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501733451
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities written by Jan Bondeson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a "maternal impression" because Mary had longed for a meal of rabbit while pregnant. Bondeson explains that the fallacy of maternal impressions, conspicuous in the novels of Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, has ancient roots in Chinese and Babylonian manuscripts. Bondeson also presents the tragic case of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman with thick hair growing over her body and a massive overgrowth of the gums that gave her a simian or ape-like appearance. Called the Ape Woman, she was exhibited all over the world. After her death in 1860, Julia's husband, who had also been her impresario, had her body mummified and continued to exhibit it throughout Europe. Bondeson tracked the mummy down and managed to diagnose Julia Pastrana's condition as the result of a rare genetic syndrome.
Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143133446
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Museum of the Americas written by J. Michael Martinez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.
Author : David Wood
Publisher : Creation Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Body Probe written by David Wood and published by Creation Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and the human body are becoming increasingly entwined. As we enter the new millennium, Body Probe provides a graphic, penetrative and confrontational insight into the work of leading international performance artists and designers.
Author : Edward Smedley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Squeal-Zyg. (Miscellaneous) Oriental Geography, Mythology, Etymology, Antiquities, and Statistics. African Geography. Ancient Geography. European Geography. America Geography. British Counties. Scotland. Waldenses and New Zealand. Botany. Zoology. Law.Stadt-Holder. Tribune. Tufa. University. Vase. Vesuvius. Vigil. Writing. Xebecque. Stones, Meteoric. Stove. Ventilate. Stucco. Sunday Schools. Swedenborgians. Surveying. Weights and Measures. Tabasheer. Tea.Tobacco. Turmeric. Tabernacle. Talmud. Talisman. Triumph. Triumvir. Troubadour. Vassal. Vatican. Viscount. Vishnu. Witch. Water. Wines and Spirituous Liquors. Superstition. Targum. Touching. Voluntary Associations written by Edward Smedley and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Brassett
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623172462
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Secret Language of Anatomy written by Cecilia Brassett and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly illustrated key to decoding anatomical terminology, with 150 terms for body parts that derive from animals, plants, objects, and more An initiation into the mysterious subject of anatomical terminology, this book reveals the body's secret language by explaining the close relationship between human organs and structures and the evocative names given to them by anatomists. Beautifully crafted images illustrate 150 terms derived from the animal, food, place, plant, symbol, or other object that the body structure or function clearly resembles. Complete with a guide to prefixes and suffixes, this book decodes patterns in the naming of parts throughout the human body and makes anatomical terms more memorable for medical students and practitioners. In addition to professionals, anyone interested in the history of anatomy, the structure and function of the human body, medical etymology, and the history of language will be fascinating by this engrossing, accessible, and informative book.
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Author : George M. Eberhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576077640
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Mysterious Creatures [2 volumes] written by George M. Eberhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to cryptozoology—the quest to identify animals that have not been officially catalogued by science and to place these unknown animals into their proper zoological categories. In this fascinating two-volume encyclopedia, author George M. Eberhart provides a comprehensive catalog of nearly 1,000 cryptids—unknown animals usually reported through eyewitness accounts and not yet described by science. Cryptids are the stuff of folklore, hoaxes, and genuine scientific breakthroughs. There are 400 now-classified cryptids once considered either extinct or pure fantasy. The cryptozoologist's job is to strip away the myth, misidentification, and mystery—and separate fact from fiction. Mysterious Creatures covers everything from dinosaurs and the emala-ntouka, an elephant-killing dinosaur-like animal of central Africa, to searches for the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, and other cryptozoological hoaxes. Entries about specific animals include the derivation or meaning of each cryptid's name, its scientific name, variant names, a physical description, behavior, description of tracks, habitat, significant sightings, present status, and possible explanations. Illustrations and photographs accompany many entries. The book also includes resources and references for further information.
Author : Marina Hassapopoulou
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452971447
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Interactive Cinema written by Marina Hassapopoulou and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a primarily receptive activity into a participatory, multimedia experience. Surveying a multitude of unorthodox approaches throughout the history of motion pictures, Marina Hassapopoulou offers insight into a range of largely ephemeral and site-specific projects that consciously assimilate viewers into their production. Analyzing examples of early cinema, Hollywood B movies, museum and gallery installations, virtual-reality experiments, and experimental web-based works, Hassapopoulou travels across numerous platforms, highlighting a diverse array of strategies that attempt to unsettle the allegedly passive spectatorship of traditional cinema. Through an exploration of these radically inventive approaches to the medium, many of which emerged out of sociopolitical crises and periods of historical transition, she works to expand notions of interactivity by considering it in both technological and phenomenological terms. Deliberately revising and expanding Eurocentric scholarship to propose a much broader, transnational scope, the book emphasizes the ethical dimensions of interactive media and their links to larger considerations around community building, citizenship, and democracy. By combining cutting-edge theory with updated conventional film studies methodologies, Interactive Cinema presses at the conceptual limits of cinema and offers an essential road map to the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary media.
Author : Mark Antony Lower
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book English Surnames written by Mark Antony Lower and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 802 pages
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Author : Charles Annandale
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Total Pages : 1054 pages
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Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Knowledge Unabridged written by Charles Annandale and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
