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Terra Cognita
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Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Terra Cognita written by Eviatar Zerubavel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with History categories.
Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?In Terra Cognita, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that physical encounters are only one part of the complex, multifaceted process of discovery. Such encounters must be complemented by an understanding of the true identity of what is being discovered. The small group of islands claimed by Columbus to have been discovered off the shores of Asia was a far cry from what we now call America. The discovery of the New World was not achieved in a single day but was a slow process--mental as well as physical--that lasted almost three hundred years. By celebrating 1492 as a year of discovery, we inevitably distort the reality of history.In vividly documenting how a slowly emerging New World gradually forced itself into Europe's consciousness, Zerubavel shows that Columbus did not discover America on October 12, 1492. Supplemented by fascinating old maps and a new preface written for this paperback edition, Terra Cognita will be of interest to historians, geographers, cognitive scientists, sociologists, and students of culture.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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Terra Cognita
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Author : Kim Aaron
language : en
Publisher: still is the written word Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-13
Terra Cognita written by Kim Aaron and has been published by still is the written word Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with Art categories.
The first colonization mission to our closest star witnesses Earth go silent during their 20 year journey. When they arrive, the mission survey crew wakes to find they may be the only humans left in existence. Their ship was not designed to make it the four and half light-year return trip to Earth, and even if they did, what if Earth was destroyed or uninhabitable? What can they do but continue? Nearly a thousand human beings live a pastoral life nestled in their valley. They have no communication with any other humans and assume they might be the only ones left alive in the galaxy. But something is happening to the planet beneath their feet. Can Navi, a 12 year-old girl chosen by some force to save her people, understand the enigmatic and frightening warnings she is receiving? Or will some looming, yet unknown disaster bring the curtain down on the human race?
Lingua Terra Cognita A Festschrift For Professor Roman Kalisz
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Author : Danuta Stanulewicz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Lingua Terra Cognita A Festschrift For Professor Roman Kalisz written by Danuta Stanulewicz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Cognitive grammar categories.
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Author : Chad Davidson
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2022-08-17
Terra Cognita written by Chad Davidson and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-17 with Art categories.
Twenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the author’s continual travels—and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters—in the “bel paese.” Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travelers have with Italy. As much a meditation on what home and away mean as it is a travel memoir, Terra Cognita finds literary predecessors such as Dante and Italo Calvino crowding in alongside more accustomed sights from travel shows, Hollywood films, and tourist guides. Though each essay departs from a particular location in Italy and remains rooted in the author’s own history there, the book ultimately becomes less about those places and more about the placelessness any such journey can engender, how—even after flying across an ocean and landing in a foreign country—we are still hopelessly and fully ourselves.
Terra Incognita
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Author : Ian Goldin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-08-27
Terra Incognita written by Ian Goldin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-27 with Science categories.
'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees 'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps 'An indispensable read' Arianna Huffington From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, 'you can't use old maps to explore a new world.' And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old maps are no longer fit for purpose. Welcome to Terra Incognita. Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity's impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species. Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world; the truth about immigration - and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.
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Author : John Michalski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-15
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Papua New Guinea, nestled on the world's largest tropical island, separated from Australia by only a few miles, has always been a place of difficult terrain, complex sociology, and magnificent natural wonder.Ten years after his first visit (recounted in Paradise: Solo across New Guinea), John Michalski returns to old haunts and familiar faces. But what has become of this nascent island nation in the intervening years? Throughout his journey, the author reflects on the various affects-positive and negative-of the millennial clash between the modern West and the undeveloped "Fourth World.""Michalski's books have the elements of travel guide, history lesson and personal memoir all rolled into one, taking you places you'll not likely get to on your own. Settle in for a wonderful trip on many levels. Highly recommended!""Delightful ... Michalski's warmth, curiosity and humor will engross even the non-science-oriented.""I found myself looking forward to each new chapter and wondered what could possibly happen next. I also felt immersed in a culture that was quite fascinating. This is a great travel book and highly recommended.""If you're an arm chair traveler you will feel immersed in an ancient culture that is modernizing every day, told from the viewpoint of a man who obviously cherishes the time he spent there. And who knows, it may inspire you to get up from your armchair and set out on an adventure of your own."
Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism
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Author : Robert G. Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995
Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism written by Robert G. Coleman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Nature categories.
This book examines the geological aspects of the ultrahigh pressure minerals - diamond and coesite - in the Earth's crust.
Terra Cognita
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Author : Chuck McAllister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-16
Terra Cognita written by Chuck McAllister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with categories.
Ten years after his first visit (recounted in "Paradise: Solo across New Guinea"), Chuck McAllister returns to old haunts and familiar faces. But what has become of this nascent island nation in the intervening years? Through his journey, McAllister reflects on the various affects--positive and negative--of the millennial clash between the modern West and the undeveloped "Fourth World."
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Author : Virginia Crosswhite Hyde
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2010
Terra Incognita written by Virginia Crosswhite Hyde and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Frontier and pioneer life in literature categories.
"'Terra Incognita': D.H. Lawrence at the Frontiers, edited by Virginia Crosswhite Hyde and Eari G. Ingersoll, is a collection of nine essays by scholars from five countries. They show ways in which Lawrence explored not only remote regions of the earth but also consciousness and human relations. The book also considers implications of terms like "frontier," "boundary," and "place." It gives readings that are the first to utilize new texts and research in the final prose volumes of the Cambridge Lawrence Edition. This includes all the essays Lawrence wrote in America about Southwestern and Mexican Indians (Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays, 2009). Writers are Michael Hollington, Judith Ruderman, Edina Pereira Crunfli, Tina Ferris, Virginia Crosswhite Hyde, Jack Stewart, Keith Cushman, Julianne New-mark, and Paul Poplawski. In addition to the essays, the book contains eight pages of color illustrations. It will interest both general readers and scholars of Lawrence and of twentieth-century literature"--Publisher's website.