Reading From Right To Left

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Right Hand Left Hand

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Author : I. C. McManus
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2002

Right Hand Left Hand written by I. C. McManus and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

McManus considers evidence from anthropology, particle physics, the history of medicine, and the notebooks of Leonardo to answer questions like: Why are most people right-handed? Why does European writing go from left to right, while Arabic and Hebrew go from right to left? And how do we know that Jack the Ripper was left-handed?

The Global Soul

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Author : Pico Iyer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-08-31

The Global Soul written by Pico Iyer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Travel categories.

Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of floatingness. In the transnational village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. As Iyer points out, "everywhere is so made up of everywhere else," and our very souls have been put into circulation. Yet even global beings need a home. Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of departure, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life — shops, services, sociability — is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta, where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics' secret face. And, finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global-village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home. "As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed," The New Yorker has written. In The Global Soul, he extends the meaning of far-flung to places within and all around us.

Dead Famous

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Author : Greg Jenner
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2021-08-19

Dead Famous written by Greg Jenner and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.

Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend; or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience - the list of stars whose careers burned bright before the Age of Television is extensive and thrillingly varied. Celebrities could be heroes or villains; warriors or murderers; brilliant talents, or fraudsters with a flair for fibbing; trendsetters, wilful provocateurs, or tragic victims marketed as freaks of nature. Some craved fame while others had it forced upon them. A few found fame as small children, some had to wait decades to get their break. But uniting them all is the shared origin point: since the early 1700s, celebrity has been one of the most emphatic driving forces in popular culture; it is a lurid cousin to Ancient Greek ideas of glorious and notorious reputation, and its emergence helped to shape public attitudes to ethics, national identity, religious faith, wealth, sexuality, and gender roles. In this ambitious history, that spans the Bronze Age to the coming of Hollywood's Golden Age, Greg Jenner assembles a vibrant cast of over 125 actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, freaks, demigods, ruffians, and more, in search of celebrity's historical roots. He reveals why celebrity burst into life in the early eighteenth century, how it differs to ancient ideas of fame, the techniques through which it was acquired, how it was maintained, the effect it had on public tastes, and the psychological burden stardom could place on those in the glaring limelight.

Greek Writing From Knossos To Homer

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Author : Roger D. Woodard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-12

Greek Writing From Knossos To Homer written by Roger D. Woodard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.

Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer examines the origin of the Greek alphabet. Departing from previous accounts, Roger Woodard places the advent of the alphabet within an unbroken continuum of Greek literacy beginning in the Mycenean era. He argues that the creators of the Greek alphabet, who adapted the Phoenician consonantal script, were scribes accustomed to writing Greek with the syllabic script of Cyprus. Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script--for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology--were transferred to the new alphabetic script. Proposing a Cypriot origin of the alphabet at the hands of previously literate adapters brings clarity to various problems of the alphabet, such as the Greek use of the Phoenician sibilant letters. The alphabet, rejected by the post- Bronze Age "Mycenaean" culture of Cyprus, was exported west to the Aegean, where it gained a foothold among a then illiterate Greek people emerging from the Dark Age.

Left To Right

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Author : David Crow
language : en
Publisher: AVA Publishing
Release Date : 2006-11

Left To Right written by David Crow and has been published by AVA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with Art categories.

Left to Right: The cultural shift from words to pictures is an in-depth study of the influence digital technology has had on the way we communicate, and the increasingly visual nature of our culture.

Left Right Emma

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Author : Stuart J. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2012-02-01

Left Right Emma written by Stuart J. Murphy and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

After learning the concept of left and right, Emma leads the class marching band on Grandparents Day.

Reading Appalachia From Left To Right

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Author : Carol Mason
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-23

Reading Appalachia From Left To Right written by Carol Mason and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-23 with History categories.

In Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward shift in American culture and politics. At a time when black nationalists and white conservatives were both maligned as extremists for opposing education reform, the wife of a fundamentalist preacher who objected to new language-arts textbooks featuring multiracial literature sparked the yearlong conflict. It was the most violent textbook battle in America, inspiring mass marches, rallies by white supremacists, boycotts by parents, and strikes by coal miners. Schools were closed several times due to arson and dynamite while national and international news teams descended on Charleston.A native of Kanawha County, Mason infuses local insight into this study of historically left-leaning protesters ushering in cultural conservatism. Exploring how reports of the conflict as a hillbilly feud affected all involved, she draws on substantial archival research and interviews with Klansmen, evangelicals, miners, bombers, and businessmen, a who, like herself, were residents of Kanawha County during the dispute. Mason investigates vulgar accusations of racism that precluded a richer understanding of how ethnicity, race, class, and gender blended together as white protesters set out to protect "our children's souls."In the process, she demonstrates how the significance of the controversy goes well beyond resistance to social change on the part of Christian fundamentalists or a cultural clash between elite educators and working-class citizens. The alliances, tactics, and political discourses that emerged in the Kanawha Valley in 1974 crossed traditional lines, inspiring innovations in neo-Nazi organizing, propelling Christian conservatism into the limelight, and providing models for women of the New Right.

Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger

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Author : Gary Michuta
language : en
Publisher: Catholic Answers Press
Release Date : 2017-09-15

Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger written by Gary Michuta and has been published by Catholic Answers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Religion categories.

Some differences between Catholicism and Protestantism can be tricky to grasp, but one of them just requires the ability to count: Catholic bibles have seventy-three books, whereas Protestant bibles have sixty-sis - plus an appendix with the strange title Apocrypha. What's the story here? Protestants claim that the medieval Catholic Church added six extra books that had never been considered part of the Old Testament, either by Jews or early Christians. Catholics say that the Protestant Reformers removed those books, long considered part of Sacred Scripture, because they didn't like what they contained. In Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger, Gary Michuta presents a revised and expanded version of his authoritative work on this key issue. Combing the historical record from pre-Christian times to the Patristic era to the Reformation and its aftermath, he traces the canon controversy through the writings and actions of its major players.

At Left Brain Turn Right

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Author : Anthony Meindl
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-01

At Left Brain Turn Right written by Anthony Meindl and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with Performing Arts categories.

."..shows you how to silence the noise of your left brain, ignite your creative side, and live the life you've always imagined"--P. [4] of cover.

Blade Of The Immortal Beasts

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Author : Hiroaki Samura
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
Release Date : 1997

Blade Of The Immortal Beasts written by Hiroaki Samura and has been published by Dark Horse Manga this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.

The immortal samurai Manji is recovering from his wounds as Rin hunts for her family's murderer.