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Written In Stone
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Author : Rosanne Parry
language : en
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2013-06-25
Written In Stone written by Rosanne Parry and has been published by Random House Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Rosanne Parry author of Heart of a Shepherd, shines a light on Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s, a time of critical cultural upheaval. Pearl has always dreamed of hunting whales, just like her father. Of taking to the sea in their eight-man canoe, standing at the prow with a harpoon, and waiting for a whale to lift its barnacle-speckled head as it offers its life for the life of the tribe. But now that can never be. Pearl's father was lost on the last hunt, and the whales hide from the great steam-powered ships carrying harpoon cannons, which harvest not one but dozens of whales from the ocean. With the whales gone, Pearl's people, the Makah, struggle to survive as Pearl searches for ways to preserve their stories and skills.
Written In Stone
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Author : Peter Unwin
language : en
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Release Date : 2020-10-17
Written In Stone written by Peter Unwin and has been published by Cormorant Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-17 with Fiction categories.
Paul Prescot’s desire to catalogue and comprehend the aboriginal rock paintings of the Canadian Shield is told through the eyes of the woman he loves, and who, for her own reasons, accompanies him on his travels to the deep north. Her journeys with her husband, and then alone, returning to the north shore of Lake Superior to commend his ashes to the water, draw her deeper into a history that, while foreign to them both, seems to offer a meaningful alternative to a world that has gone wrong. Peter Unwin turns his unique talents to a story that lies at the heart of this country and to the crucial issue of our times. Written in Stone maps the exhilarating and ultimately tragic consequences of one man’s commitment to the land of his birth, a land whose deep and unwritten past is outside the reach of his understanding. Written in Stone goes beyond the surface acknowledgments of settler impacts, and exists on the border of two solitudes, where the known and unknown cannot be separated, where mythology and reality are one, and where an old and inaccessible knowledge holds the means to a possible reconciliation.
Written In Stone
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Author : Christopher Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-10-30
Written In Stone written by Christopher Stevens and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Half the world’s population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. A mother tongue first spoken in Stone Age times, on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago. It was so effective that it flourished for two thousand years. It was a language that spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe and much of Asia. It is the genetic basis of everything we speak and write today – the DNA of language. WRITTEN IN STONE combines detective work, mythology, ancient history, archaeology, the roots of society, technology and warfare, and the sheer fascination of words to explore that original mother tongue, sketching the connections woven throughout the immense vocabulary of English – with some surprising results. In snappy, lively and often very funny chapters, it uncovers the most influential and important words used by our Neolithic ancestors, and shows how they are still in constant use today – the building blocks of all our most common words and phrases.
Written In Stone Icon Science
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Author : Brian Switek
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Written In Stone Icon Science written by Brian Switek and has been published by Icon Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Science categories.
Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of 'transitional fossils' was hotly debated; some palaeontologists wondered if these 'missing links' had been so quick that no trace of them was left. However, during the past three decades fossils of walking whales from Pakistan, feathered dinosaurs from China, fish with feet from the Arctic Circle, ape-like humans from Africa, and many more bizarre creatures that fill in crucial gaps in our understanding of evolution have all been unearthed. The first account of the hunt for evolution's 'missing links', Written in Stone shows how these discoveries have revolutionised palaeontology, and explores what its findings might mean for our place on earth.
Written In Stone
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Author : Sanford Levinson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Written In Stone written by Sanford Levinson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with History categories.
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate “heroes” have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless confrontation over the symbolism attached to public space. This twentieth anniversary edition of Written in Stone includes a new preface and an extensive afterword that takes account of recent events in cities, schools and universities, and public spaces throughout the United States and elsewhere. Twenty years on, Levinson's work is more timely and relevant than ever.
Written In Stone
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Author : Chet Raymo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Written In Stone written by Chet Raymo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Science categories.
Traces the geological time changes that shaped the land from Maine to New Jersey.
Not Written In Stone
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Author : Kyle Ward
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2011-04-22
Not Written In Stone written by Kyle Ward and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-22 with History categories.
Kyle Ward's celebrated History in the Making struck a chord among readers of popular history. ''Interesting and useful,'' according to Booklist, the book ''convincingly illustrates how texts change as social and political attitudes evolve.'' With excerpts from history textbooks that span two hundred years, History in the Making looks at the different ways textbooks from different eras present the same historical events. Not Written in Stone offers an abridged and annotated version of History in the Making specifically designed for classroom use. In each section, Ward provides an overview, questions for discussions and analysis, and then a fascinating chronological sampling of textbook excerpts which reveal the fascinating differences between different textbooks over time. An exciting new teaching tool, Not Written In Stone is destined to become a touchstone of classroom teaching about the American past.
Written In Stone
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Author : Ellery Adams
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2012-11-06
Written In Stone written by Ellery Adams and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-06 with Fiction categories.
When Munin Cooper, known as the Witch of Oyster Bay, warns Olivia Limoges that death is coming, neither of them realize that it is the older woman herself who will soon be found dead. And Olivia’s instincts tell her that something—or someone—more sinister than a mystical force is at play… Olivia has a lot on her plate preparing for the Coastal Carolina Food Festival. When she hears the news of Munin’s untimely death, however, finding the murderer takes priority. The witch left behind a memory jug full of keepsakes that Olivia knows must point to the killer—but she’s got to figure out what they mean. With handsome Police Chief Rawlings by her side, Olivia starts to identify some of the jug’s mysterious contents—and finds its secrets are much darker than she suspected. Now Olivia must enlist the help of the Bayside Book Writers to solve the puzzle behind the piece of pottery and put an end to a vengeful killer before any more damage can be done…
Drawn And Written In Stone
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Author : John Vincent Bellezza
language : en
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Release Date : 2020-08-27
Drawn And Written In Stone written by John Vincent Bellezza and has been published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-27 with categories.
Drawn and Written in Stone explores the religious history of the highest part of the TibetanPlateau through its rock art and inscriptions. It is focused on facsimiles ofritual and ceremonial monuments carved and painted on stone surfaces and rockinscriptions in the Tibetan language, vital archaeological and historicalmaterials for appraising the development of religion in Tibet, ca. 100 BCE to1400 CE. By probing the complexion of figures and letters in stone, this workconsiders how early cult traditions contributed to the establishment of TibetanBuddhism and a rival faith known as Yungdrung Bon. Outside of the Indiancultural context, relatively little has been written about the historicalantecedents of these popular Tibetan religions for a want of sources. Thismonograph helps remedy this large gap in Tibetan studies by drawing upon theauthor's surveys of rock art and rock inscriptions conducted in upmost Tibetbetween 1995 and 2013.
Written In Stone
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Author : Philomena Manifold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Written In Stone written by Philomena Manifold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with Travel categories.
A celebration of the unique coastline of the Great Ocean Road and the deep time that has shaped it. Written in Stone takes the reader from the ochre cliffs of Torquay where 25 million year old fossils can be found, past the tip of Cape Otway where Gondwanan rivers have preserved dinosaur bones and on towards the Twelve Apostles. Each location has been mapped, photographed, sketched and offered to the reader with the eye of a geologist and an artist. Through following the iconic Great Ocean Road Written in Stone shows us how to look closer and see things that we may otherwise pass by. It reveals how the colours, lines, textures and patterns we find in rocks are all here as a result of time and process acting on and shaping the landscape. This book captures the curiosity and beauty of small moments. Of objects found on walks, collected and treasured. Philomena shows us that each small piece is a puzzle to the wider workings of geology and how it shapes our lives.