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Passionate Curiosities

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Author : Lauren Elizabeth Talalay
language : en
Publisher: Kelsey Museum Publications
Release Date : 2015

Passionate Curiosities written by Lauren Elizabeth Talalay and has been published by Kelsey Museum Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Antiquities categories.

Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums.

Birds New To Science

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Author : David Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-26

Birds New To Science written by David Brewer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-26 with Nature categories.

Amazing as it might sound, ornithologists are still discovering several bird species each year that are completely new to science. These aren't all obscure brown birds on tiny islands – witness the bizarre Bare-faced Bulbul from Laos (2009), spectacular Araripe Manakin from Brazil (1998), or gaudy Bugun Liocichla from north-east India (2006). Birds New to Science documents more than half a century of these remarkable discoveries, covering around 300 species. Each account includes the story of discovery, a brief description of the bird (many with accompanying photographs), and details of what is known about its biology, range and conservation status. Written in an engaging style, this is a rich reference to an incredible era of adventure in ornithology.

Fish Energetics

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Author : Peter Tytler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Fish Energetics written by Peter Tytler and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.

It is almost thirty years since Professor G. G. Winberg established the basis for experimental studies in fish energetics with the publication of his monograph, Rate of Metabolism and Food Requirements of Fishes. His ultimate aim was to develop a scientific approach to fish culture and management, and the immense volume of literature generated in the ensuing years has been mainly in response to the demand for information from a rapidly expanding, world-wide aquaculture industry and to the shortcomings of contemporary practices in fisheries management. The purpose of this book is not to review this literature compre hensively, but, assuming an informed readership, to focus attention on topics in which new knowledge and theory are beginning to be applied in practice. Most emphasis has been placed on food; feeding; production (growth and reproduction) and energy budgeting, as these have most influence on the development of fish culture. Some chapters offer practical advice for the selection of methods, and warn of pitfalls in previous approaches. In others the influence of new theory on the interpretation of studies in fish energetics is discussed in the context of resource allocation and adaptation. We hope that the scope of material presented here will have sufficient interest and value to help significantly to fulfil Winberg's original objectives.

Translating Children S Literature

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Author : Gillian Lathey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-24

Translating Children S Literature written by Gillian Lathey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from prose fiction to poetry and picture books. Each of the seven chapters addresses a different aspect of translation for children, covering: · Narrative style and the challenges of translating the child’s voice; · The translation of cultural markers for young readers; · Translation of the modern picture book; · Dialogue, dialect and street language in modern children’s literature; · Read-aloud qualities, wordplay, onomatopoeia and the translation of children’s poetry; · Retranslation, retelling and reworking; · The role of translation for children within the global publishing and translation industries. This is the first practical guide to address all aspects of translating children’s literature, featuring extracts from commentaries and interviews with published translators of children’s literature, as well as examples and case studies across a range of languages and texts. Each chapter includes a set of questions and exercises for students. Translating Children’s Literature is essential reading for professional translators, researchers and students on courses in translation studies or children’s literature.

Sofia Si Veste Sempre Di Nero

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Author : Paolo Cognetti
language : it
Publisher: Minimum Fax
Release Date : 2012-09-05

Sofia Si Veste Sempre Di Nero written by Paolo Cognetti and has been published by Minimum Fax this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with Fiction categories.

Sofia si veste sempre di nero è la nuova prova narrativa di Paolo Cognetti, autore di Manuale per ragazze di successo e Una cosa piccola che sta per esplodere. Nei suoi racconti, cesellati con la finezza di Carver e Salinger, ha saputo rappresentare con sorprendente intensità l’universo femminile. Ed è ancora una donna la protagonista del suo nuovo libro, un romanzo composto da dieci racconti autonomi che la accompagnano lungo trent’anni di storia: dall’infanzia in una famiglia borghese apparentemente normale, ma percorsa da sotterranee tensioni, all’adolescenza tormentata da disturbi psicologici, alla liberatoria scoperta del sesso e della passione per il teatro, al momento della maturità e dei bilanci. Con la sua scrittura precisa e intensa, che nasconde dietro l’apparente semplicità una straordinaria potenza emotiva, Cognetti ci regala il ritratto di un personaggio femminile indimenticabile: una donna torbida e inquieta, capace di sopravvivere alle proprie nevrosi e di sfruttare improvvisi attimi di illuminazione fino a trovare, faticosamente, la propria strada. Un libro avvincente in cui ciascun lettore troverà momenti di bellezza e di dolore, di ansia e di riscatto, che riconoscerà di aver vissuto anche sulla sua stessa pelle.

Latin Prose Prefaces

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Author : Tore Janson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

Latin Prose Prefaces written by Tore Janson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Latin literature categories.

The Emergence Of The Classical Style In Greek Sculpture

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Author : Richard Neer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-22

The Emergence Of The Classical Style In Greek Sculpture written by Richard Neer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-22 with History categories.

In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art. Rewriting the history of Greek sculpture in Greek terms and restoring wonder to a sometimes dusty subject, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the art of sculpture or the history of the ancient world.

The Red Sphinx

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Author : Alexandre Dumas
language : en
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Release Date : 2017-01-03

The Red Sphinx written by Alexandre Dumas and has been published by Pegasus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with Fiction categories.

For the first time in English in over a century, a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years later, but a mere twenty days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII—and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger—and passionate romance! Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storyline—a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure, heretofore unknown to English-language readers, by the great Alexandre Dumas, king of the swashbucklers.

Visualizing The Invisible With The Human Body

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Author : J. Cale Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-11-05

Visualizing The Invisible With The Human Body written by J. Cale Johnson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with History categories.

Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological ‘types’ that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.

Between Utopia And Dystopia

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Author : Hanan Yoran
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-04-19

Between Utopia And Dystopia written by Hanan Yoran and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-19 with Philosophy categories.

Between Utopia and Dystopia offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of the universal and critical intellectual, but that this identity undermined the fundamental premises of humanist discourse. It closely reads several works of Erasmus and Thomas More, employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intellectual history, and adopting theoretical insights and methodological procedures from various disciplines.