The Crystal Dynasty
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The Crystal Dynasty
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Author : Abigail Mader
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-06-28
The Crystal Dynasty written by Abigail Mader and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-28 with Fiction categories.
For a millennium, the prosperous land of Ethos revelled in the protection of the Divine Spirit and the unshakeable bond of the Royal Family. But all that changed with a devastating betrayal within the Royal family unit. In the wake of treachery, the young twins are forced to flee, finding refuge in the care of their mystical grandfather. The looming question is whether he can shield them from the clutches of the ruthless traitor Queen or if the twin's mother, Cecilia, being held prisoner in the castle, can escape to reunite with her children. Meanwhile, the new Queen, firmly seated on her throne, fixates her ambition on reassembling the long-lost magical crystal shards, scattered across the realm generations ago. If these shards were to fall into the wrong hands, unimaginable chaos would be unleashed. As the quest to recover the four elusive crystal shards unfolds, the lines between good and evil blur, and a once-unified family finds itself torn asunder. With the fate of Ethos hanging in the balance, who will emerge victorious in this epic struggle?
Crystals In Art
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Author : Lauren Haynes
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2019-10-11
Crystals In Art written by Lauren Haynes and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-11 with Art categories.
Based on an exhibition organized by Joachim Pissarro and curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Lauren Haynes, Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today explores the complex and varied connections between crystal and art throughout the world. Included are both ancient artifacts—such as engraved gems, figurines, and vases—and works from contemporary artists around the world that explore the power of crystal in art by drawing on its form, properties, and mysterious qualities. Featuring more than sixty-five works from ancient Egypt and Greece, through to Rome, China, India, Japan, the Middle East, the Americas, and beyond, this book invites readers to discover how the power of crystal transcends the boundaries of time and space. Taken together, all of these objects illustrate how crystal has bridged the gap between things we can see and things we can’t: science and art, fact and faith, medicine and magic—the visible and the invisible. Published in collaboration with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and University of Arkansas School of Art.
Traditional Chinese Toggles
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Author : Margaret Duda
language : en
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Release Date : 2011
Traditional Chinese Toggles written by Margaret Duda and has been published by Editions Didier Millet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
This volume is a much-needed reference guide to the historical and cultural significance of Chinese toggles or zhuizi - carved pieces of jade, ivory, bone, wood, shell and semi-precious stones used by the Chinese in ancient times as counterweights to secure personal effects like tobacco pipes and money pouches to their belts. Over time, toggles became treasured objects of identity and expression, believed to bring the bearer good luck, happiness, fertility, longevity and health. The book explains how toggles were used in daily and ceremonial life, and interprets the designs that are fundamental to understanding these artefacts. Accompanied by stunning photography and detailed descriptions, Traditional Chinese Toggles: Counterweights and Charms will be the definitive illustrative guide to this little-known Chinese art form.
Scripture Geography
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Author : James HEWITT (Lecturer on Geography at the Training College, Battersea.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
Scripture Geography written by James HEWITT (Lecturer on Geography at the Training College, Battersea.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with categories.
A Maritime Vietnam
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Author : Tana Li
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02
A Maritime Vietnam written by Tana Li 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 2024-02 with History categories.
Powerful new history of Vietnam over two millennia arguing that key political changes resulted from the impact of the sea.
Amulets
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Author : W.M. Flinders Petrie
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2023-04-20
Amulets written by W.M. Flinders Petrie and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-20 with Social Science categories.
Facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1914 pioneering typological catalogue of Egyptian amulets, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series. Remarkably, though it can be criticized in points of detail emanating from more recent research, it remains unsurpassed in its comprehensive description, typological classification, and interpretation. While an absence of reasoned argument for the dating of his various groups is a weak point of Petrie’s study from the point of view of modern scholarship, his attention to detail and careful consideration of typology and potential meaning, borne of decades of observation, means that this, and the other catalogs in the series, remain as invaluable reference books for Egyptologists. Based on examination of his own extensive collection of Egyptian artifacts, Petrie presents a typologically ordered catalog divided into seven main groups defined on the basis of interpretation rather than subject: amulets of ‘similar,’ i.e., relating to body parts; power; property; protection; human-headed; animal-headed; and animal gods. Each class of object is described along with its varieties: material, distribution, position within burials, its chronological position as defined by Petrie himself, and its meaning interpreted. Collections containing examples are listed and hundreds of objects are presented in photographs and a selection of burial associations illustrated by coffin plans.
Healing With Poisons
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Author : Yan Liu
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2021-06-22
Healing With Poisons written by Yan Liu and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-22 with History categories.
Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.
The Egyptians In The Time Of The Pharaohs
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Author : Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: London : Published for the Crystal Palace Company by Bradbury and Evans
Release Date : 1857
The Egyptians In The Time Of The Pharaohs written by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and has been published by London : Published for the Crystal Palace Company by Bradbury and Evans this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Egypt categories.
Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology
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language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2021-02-04
Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology written by and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with Science categories.
Worldwide research on ancient glass began in the early 20th century. A consensus has been reached in the community of Archaeology that the first manmade or synthetic glasses, based on archaeological findings, originated in the Middle East during the 5000-3000's BC. By contrast, the manufacturing technology of pottery and ceramics were well developed in ancient China. The earliest pottery and ceramics dates back to the Shang Dynasty - the Zhou Dynasty (1700 BC-770 BC), while the earliest ancient glass artifacts unearthed in China dates back to the Western Han Dynasty. Utilizing the state-of-the art analytical and spectroscopic methods, the recent findings demonstrate that China had already developed its own glassmaking technology at latest since 200 BC. There are two schools of viewpoint on the origin of ancient Chinese glass. The more common one believes that ancient Chinese glass originated from the import of glassmaking technology from the West as a result of Sino-West trade exchanges in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD). The other scientifically demonstrates that homemade ancient Chinese glass with unique domestic formula containing both PbO and BaO were made as early as in the Pre-Qin Period or even the Warring States Period (770 BC-221 BC), known as Yousha or Faience.This English version of the previously published Chinese book entitled Development History of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology is for universities and research institutes where various research and educational activities of ancient glass and history are conducted. With 18 chapters, the scope of this book covers very detailed information on scientifically based findings of ancient Chinese glass development and imports and influence of foreign glass products as well as influence of the foreign glass manufacturing processes through the trade exchanges along the Silk Road(s).
New Scientist
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
New Scientist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Science categories.