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Author | : Brian Fagan |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1999-04-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780738201412 |
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Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond the artifacts—into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship, and ritual sacrifice. From the Nile's black land to the Aztec's world of the Fifth Sun, from Stonehenge to Jericho, Fagan describes how Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Geographic Information Systems, Computer Automated Design-mapping and other sophisticated scientific methods are helping us to decode the religious and spiritual beliefs of our forebears. This new “archaeology of the mind” blends a wealth of scientific disciplines—from botany, zoology, and geology to neuropsychology, palynology, and nuclear physics. With vivid imagery and a transporting voice, Fagan revolutionizes our understanding of the inner lives of ancient people.
Author | : Brian Fagan |
Publisher | : Perseus Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1998-05-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people, explaining how cutting-edge science can take readers beyond the artifacts and into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship and ritual sacrifice. Photos.
Author | : Camilla Townsend |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190673060 |
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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
Author | : Rebecca Roanhorse |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534437681 |
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Includes "Book club favorites reader's guide.
Author | : J. Black |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2010-05-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230277586 |
Download Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Even casual observers will be familiar with the Cherry Blossom or Sakura tress of Japan. When in full bloom the sight is spectacular but it sadly only takes a week until the tree is bare. In a longer cycle of nations and business, we see, unfortunately, a similar pattern for Japanese Multinational Corporations.
Author | : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2010-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307373541 |
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With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Author | : N. K. Jemisin |
Publisher | : Orbit |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 031622930X |
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At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
Author | : Leslie D. Ross |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2009-06-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0313342873 |
Download Art and Architecture of the World's Religions [2 volumes] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two abundantly illustrated volumes offer a vibrant discussion of how the divine is and has been represented in art and architecture the world over. Beginning with the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and moving forward through time, Art and Architecture of the World's Religions explores the major faiths from countries and continents around the globe, helping readers better understand the creations their beliefs have inspired. After tracing the history and development of a religion, the book provides a general overview of its principal beliefs and key practices. It then offers specific examples of how works of art/architecture reflect that religion's values. The focus of each chapter is on the temples, churches, and religious buildings, statues, paintings, and other works of art and architecture created by believers. Each representative work of art or architecture is examined in terms of its history, materials, symbols, colors, and patterns, as its significance is explained to the reader. With extensive illustrations, these volumes are the definitive reference work on art and architecture of the world's religions.
Author | : Brian Fagan |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408833549 |
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We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans changed the course of human history. What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the stars they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling detail, Fagan reveals how seafaring evolved so that the forbidding realms of the sea gods were transformed from barriers into a nexus of commerce and cultural exchange. From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats in the North Atlantic to sealskin kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity's urge to challenge the unknown and seek out distant shores.
Author | : Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191067202 |
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Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can ́t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.