A Strange Wilderness

Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402790850

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A Strange Wilderness by Amir D. Aczel Pdf

The international bestselling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem explores the eccentric lives of history’s foremost mathematicians. From Archimedes’s eureka moment to Alexander Grothendieck’s seclusion in the Pyrenees, bestselling author Amir Aczel selects the most compelling stories in the history of mathematics, creating a colorful narrative that explores the quirky personalities behind some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and enduring theorems. Alongside revolutionary innovations are incredible tales of duels, battlefield heroism, flamboyant arrogance, pranks, secret societies, imprisonment, feuds, and theft—as well as some costly errors of judgment that prove genius doesn’t equal street smarts. Aczel’s colorful and enlightening profiles offer readers a newfound appreciation for the tenacity, complexity, eccentricity, and brilliance of our greatest mathematicians.

Author : Nancy Plain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780803248847

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This Strange Wilderness by Nancy Plain Pdf

Describes how the writer and naturalist set about recording in both word and image the birds of North America, and details the legacy his work has left behind.

Author : Nancy Plain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803284036

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This Strange Wilderness by Nancy Plain Pdf

Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image—lifelike and life size—rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter. Through talent and dogged determination, he rose from backwoods obscurity to international fame. In This Strange Wilderness, award-winning author Nancy Plain brings together the amazing story of this American icon’s career and the beautiful images that are his legacy. Before Audubon, no one had seen, drawn, or written so much about the animals of this largely uncharted young country. Aware that the wilderness and its wildlife were changing even as he watched, Audubon remained committed almost to the end of his life “to search out the things which have been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world.” This Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the reader back to the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518210570

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Author : Brant A. Gardner
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Brant A. Gardner Pdf

Stop looking for the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica and start looking for Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon! Second Witness, a new six-volume series from Greg Kofford Books, takes a detailed, verse-by-verse look at the Book of Mormon. It marshals the best of modern scholarship and new insights into a consistent picture of the Book of Mormon as a historical document. Taking a faithful but scholarly approach to the text and reading it through the insights of linguistics, anthropology, and ethnohistory, the commentary approaches the text from a variety of perspectives: how it was created, how it relates to history and culture, and what religious insights it provides. The commentary accepts the best modern scholarship, which focuses on a particular region of Mesoamerica as the most plausible location for the Book of Mormon’s setting. For the first time, that location—its peoples, cultures, and historical trends—are used as the backdrop for reading the text. The historical background is not presented as proof, but rather as an explanatory context. The commentary does not forget Mormon’s purpose in writing. It discusses the doctrinal and theological aspects of the text and highlights the way in which Mormon created it to meet his goal of “convincing . . . the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.”

Author : C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1420050303

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Mathematically Speaking by C.C. Gaither,Alma E Cavazos-Gaither Pdf

For the first time, a book has brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the discipline of mathematics. Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations provides profound, wise, and witty quotes from the most famous to the unknown. You may not find all the quoted "jewels" that exist, but you will definitely a great many of them here. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from addition to zero. This book will be a handy reference for the mathematician or scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on mathematics.

Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier,Lubaina Himid,Alan Rice,Hannah Durkin
Publisher : Liverpool Studies in Internati
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789620856

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Inside the Invisible by Celeste-Marie Bernier,Lubaina Himid,Alan Rice,Hannah Durkin Pdf

Inside the Invisible investigates the life and works of Turner Prize-winning Black British artist and curator Lubaina Himid (CBE) to provide the first study of her lifelong determination to do justice to the hidden histories and untold stories of Black women, children, and men bought and sold into transatlantic slavery.

Author : Dianne Porter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781483626451

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My Mother's Way of Dying Well by Dianne Porter Pdf

The unexpected collection of my parent’s ashes from the crematorium opened the door to a new adventure in dealing my parents death that I personally found very liberating for my soul. It marked the beginning of a personal pilgrimage of faith I had no intention of taking, I thought I was dealing with my parents remains. As time passed I realized I had no choice but to take this path – this journey was the only way forward for me. Surprisingly for me it actually strengthened my faith in God and his ways as taught in the Christian faith and it’s hard to describe how. Once I committed myself to the task I had to take action. I plunged my hands into their ashes that first day even though for me it was like plunging my hands into my parent’s dead bodies. It was irksome and revolting to me the first time.

Author : Christopher Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118768228

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A Companion to Australian Art by Christopher Allen Pdf

A Companion to Australian Art A Companion to Australian Art is a thorough introduction to the art produced in Australia from the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 to the early 21st century. Beginning with the colonial art made by Australia’s first European settlers, this volume presents a collection of clear and accessible essays by established art historians and emerging scholars alike. Engaging, clearly-written chapters provide fresh insights into the principal Australian art movements, considered from a variety of chronological, regional and thematic perspectives. The text seeks to provide a balanced account of historical events to help readers discover the art of Australia on their own terms and draw their own conclusions. The book begins by surveying the historiography of Australian art and exploring the history of art museums in Australia. The following chapters discuss art forms such as photography, sculpture, portraiture and landscape painting, examining the practice of art in the separate colonies before Federation, and in the Commonwealth from the early 20th century to the present day. This authoritative volume covers the last 250 years of art in Australia, including the Early Colonial, High Colonial and Federation periods as well as the successive Modernist styles of the 20th century, and considers how traditional Aboriginal art has adapted and changed over the last fifty years. The Companion to Australian Art is a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate students of the history of Australian artforms from colonization to postmodernism, and for general readers with an interest in the nation’s colonial art history.

Author : Stan Lauryssens
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429986601

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Dali & I by Stan Lauryssens Pdf

An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some very questionable sources, but he soon discovered that the shadiest source of all was Dalí himself. The more successful Stan became, the closer he came to Dalí, until he found himself living next door to the aging artist, in the Catalonian hills. While hiding from Interpol's detectives, Stan spent his time with the artists, musicians, business associates, and eccentrics who surrounded Dalí. He learned about Dalí's secret history, the studio of artists who produced his work, and the moneymaking machine that kept Dalí's extravagant lifestyle afloat long after his creativity began to flounder. Dalí & I offers a behind-the-scenes view of the commerce and conspiracy that go hand in hand in the international art world, written by a man who has been to the top only to discover that it's not so different from the bottom.

Author : Daniel J. Philippon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082032759X

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Conserving Words by Daniel J. Philippon Pdf

Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world.

Author : B. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230239289

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Transversal Subjects by B. Reynolds Pdf

Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that have greatly influenced the development of present-day understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis, aesthetics, education and human rights.

Author : Charles James Longman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081756946

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Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman Pdf

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292720657

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The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience by G. Edward White Pdf

Looks at how Remington, Roosevelt, and Wister popularized an idealized image of the West and Western values

Author : George Washington Sears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Camping
ISBN : PRNC:32101078193925

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Woodcraft by George Washington Sears Pdf