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Author : Ariel Baska,Joyce VanTassel-Baska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Latin language
ISBN : 1618210912
Ancient Roots and Ruins helps teachers of English and gifted students explore the world of the ancient Romans, focusing on their important role in shaping modern language, history, and culture.
Author : Logan Wagner,Hal Box,Susan Kline Morehead
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292749832
The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The site of a community’s most important architecture—church, government buildings, and marketplace—the plaza is both sacred and secular space and thus the very heart of the community. This extensively illustrated book traces the evolution of the Mexican plaza from Mesoamerican sacred space to modern public gathering place. The authors led teams of volunteers who measured and documented nearly one hundred traditional Mexican town centers. The resulting plans reveal the layers of Mesoamerican and European history that underlie the contemporary plaza. The authors describe how Mesoamericans designed their ceremonial centers as embodiments of creation myths—the plaza as the primordial sea from which the earth emerged. They discuss how Europeans, even though they sought to eradicate native culture, actually preserved it as they overlaid the Mesoamerican sacred plaza with the Renaissance urban concept of an orthogonal grid with a central open space. The authors also show how the plaza’s historic, architectural, social, and economic qualities can contribute to mainstream urban design and architecture today.
Author : Jim Willis
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578596430
Where do we come from? What are the origins of modern civilization? Do the world's pyramids, the Nazca Lines, Easter Island statues, and other enigmatic structures, archaeological wonders, and geographic anomalies contain evidence of ancient gods? Sifting through the historical and archaeological evidence, Ancient Gods: Lost Histories, Hidden Truths, and the Conspiracy of Silence probes the myths, stories, history, and facts of ancient civilizations, lost technologies, past catastrophes, archetypal astronauts, and bygone religions to tease out the truth of our distant past and modern existence. It takes and in-depth look at the facts, fictions, and controversies of our ancestors, origins, who we are as a people—and who might have come before us. It tackles more than 60 nagging stories of ancient gods, ancestors, alien visitors, theories and explanations, including: • Why did our ancestors crawl deep underground and paint on cave walls? • How did the megalithic temple site called Göbekli Tepe come to be built—11,600 years before the agricultural revolution? • How were massive stones, weighing tons, dragged miles to build Stonehenge? • Who—and why—were pyramids built on the equatorial band circling the earth? • What secrets does modern DNA analysis reveal mankind's heritage? • Are we to believe the Ancient Alien Theory? • And more!
Author : Lennart Wouter Kruijer,Miguel John Versluys,Ian Lilley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003861836
This book explores the analytical and practical value of the notion of "rooted cosmopolitanism" for the field of cultural heritage. Many concepts of present-day heritage discourses - such as World Heritage, local heritage practices, or indigenous heritage - tend to elide the complex interplay between the local and the global - entanglements that are investigated as "glocalisation" in Globalisation Studies. However, no human group ever creates more than a part of its heritage by itself. This book explores an exciting new alternative in scholarly (critical) heritage discourse, the notion of rooted cosmopolitanism, a way of making manifestations of globalised phenomena comprehensible and relevant at local levels. It develops a critical perspective on heritage and heritage practices, bringing together a highly varied yet conceptually focused set of stimulating contributions by senior and emerging scholars working on the heritage of localities across the globe. A contextualising introduction is followed by three strongly theoretical and methodological chapters which complement the second part of the book, six concrete, empirical chapters written in "response" to the more theoretical chapters. Two final reflective conclusions bring together these different levels of analysis. This book will appeal primarily to archaeologists, anthropologists, heritage professionals, and museum curators who are ready to be confronted with innovative and exciting new approaches to the complexities of cultural heritage in a globalising world.
Author : Jeffrey W. Cody,Frances Terpak
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060544
Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.
Author : Robert Kono
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642588163
Greg Sonoda, a Japanese American attorney, embarks on a quest to determine what influence God has in his life. In the back of his mind is the question, first and foremost, of whether God exists at all. God is such an elusive concept to a humanist, who, from his earliest years, was made to question God's very existence""he suffered in the concentration camps for the duration of WWII""and he doubts his efforts will ever come to fruition. In Westward Lies the Sun, Greg's search for truth is given voice during the frequent debates with his poker foursome, although the late-night discussions produce more questions than answers. But they do serve to articulate thoughts and feelings about sundry issues such as the search for Greg's family heirloom: a samurai sword stolen during Greg's incarceration in the camps. More significantly, Greg is forced to ponder God's hand in his family's survival after being shipwrecked on a small, uninhabited Micronesian island. Greg and his family make several discoveries on the island that lead to financial success and miraculous physical healing. But will the island also heal Greg spiritually? The family sword""Onimaru""is ultimately used in a showdown on the island with Greg's quest for God, together with his mental and physical survival, hanging in the balance.
Author : John Levi Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190663599
Introduction: Black classicism in the American empire -- Phillis Wheatley and the affairs of state -- In plain sight: slavery and the architecture of democracy -- Ancient history, American time: Charles Chesnutt and the sites of memory -- Crumbling into dust: conjure and the ruins of empire -- National monuments and the residue of history
Author : Wieslaw Wieckowski
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789691856
Excavations at the Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site brought to light the first intact burial of female high-elite members of the Wari culture. This book presents the results of bioarchaeological analyses performed to date, and focuses on reconstructing the funeral rite and social status of the deceased.
Author : Bill Lane
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780133040289
Why do otherwise brilliant and successful leaders fail – and often do so dramatically? How can you prevent your own career “train wreck” by learning from their experiences? This book distills the core causes of executive failure, demonstrates how to identify them in your own behavior – and helps you to eliminate or avoid them. Bill Lane, Jack Welch’s long-time colleague draws on his own experience as a GE insider as well as from extensive interviews with former GE executives now running their own companies, including Dave Calhoun (CEO, Nielsen); Jim McNerney (CEO, Boeing); Lloyd Trotter (retired Vice-Chairman of GE), Frank Doyle (ex-Executive VP at GE), Kip Condron (ex-CEO, Americas, AXA Equitable); Andrew McMahon (President, AXA Equitable), and many others. Together with these elite executives, Lane demonstrates how to avoid arrogance, recognize when you must micromanage, learn how to communicate far more effectively, maintain a relentless focus on what matters most, and avoid the temptations to sacrifice your #1 leadership asset: your integrity. Along the way, he offers hard-hitting insights on everything from choosing your battles to cultivating the “right” forms of paranoia. Losing It will be an indispensable resource for everyone aspiring to become a more effective leader, including managers at all levels, and all MBA candidates and executive education students.
Author : Bertus Haverkort,Katrien van 't Hooft
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056931176
Knowledge has become a buzzword of the age. In the North, people talk of the knowledge-based economy; in the South, the World Bank now defines itself as a knowledge institution. But the question is: whose knowledge? This collection of general reflections and practical experiences illustrates the inappropriateness of a Western model in many local settings, and the positive value of non-Western systems of knowledge, values and ways of doing things. It shows how traditional knowledge is being recognised in the botanical and agricultural sectors - local medicinal herbs, local seed varieties and animal breeds, local methods of pest control. The projects illustrate the notion of endogenous development, or development from within. They show how development can be based on locally available natural resources and local knowledge, values and leadership institutions; how development options can be locally determined; and how to retain the benefits of development within local areas and communities. Endogenous development is not a total solution, but complementary to ongoing modern technological and global economic processes. But the remarkable experiments described do show the rich benef
Author : Noam Leshem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107149472
Noam Leshem examines the radical transformation of Arab landscapes seized by Israel in the 1948 war. By looking at the spatial history of Arab villages, Leshem highlights the intricate and often intimate engagements between Jews and Arabs in the present day.
Author : Alicia Puglionesi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982116750
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction--with profound repercussions for politics past and present. Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal. They present a national identity based on harvesting the treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire's power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth, particularly to Indigenous people and ways of understanding, this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every nation tells some stories and suppresses others, and In Whose Ruins illustrates the way American myths have been inscribed on the earth itself, overwriting Indigenous histories and binding us into an unsustainable future. In these pages, historian Alicia Puglionesiilluminates the story of the Grave Creek Stone, "discovered" in an ancient Indigenous burial mound, and used to promote the theory that a lost white race predated Native people in North America--part of a wider effort to justify European conquest with alternative histories. When oil was discovered in the corner of western Pennsylvania soon known as Petrolia, prospectors framed that treasure, too, as a birthright passed to them, through Native guides, from a lost race. Puglionesi traces the fate of ancient petroglyphs that once adorned rock faces on the Susquehanna River, dynamited into pieces to make way for a hydroelectric dam. This act foreshadowed the flooding of Native lands around the country; over the course of the 20th century, almost every major river was dammed for economic purposes. And she explores the effects of the US nuclear program in the Southwest, which contaminated vast regions in the name of eternal wealth and security through atomic power. This promise rang hollow for the surrounding Native, Hispanic, and white communities that were harmed, and even for some scientists. It also inspired nationwide resistance, uniting diverse groups behind a different vision of the future--one not driven by greed and haunted by ruin. This deeply researched work of narrative history traces the roots of American fantasies and fears in a national tradition of selective forgetting. Connecting the power of myths with the extraction of power from the land itself reveals the truths that have been left out and is an invaluable torch in the search for a way forward.
Author : Nicholas Khatch
Publisher : NK
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Welcome to our comprehensive list of 50 fantastic things to do in Nice, France. Nestled on the stunning French Riviera, Nice offers an array of captivating experiences that will leave you enthralled. Begin your exploration with a leisurely stroll along the iconic Promenade des Anglais, where you can soak in the breathtaking views of the azure Mediterranean Sea. Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere of the Old Town (Vieux Nice), with its narrow, picturesque streets, colorful buildings, and bustling local markets. Indulge your senses at the Cours Saleya Market, where the fragrant aromas of fresh produce and vibrant blooms fill the air. Discover the city's rich history and architectural wonders as you visit the magnificent Nice Cathedral and the opulent Palais Lascaris. Art lovers will be delighted by the contemporary works at the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC) and the extensive art collections at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice. Immerse yourself in the cultural heritage of Nice at the Musée Masséna, which offers fascinating insights into the city's past. Nature enthusiasts will find solace in the beautiful gardens of the Promenade du Paillon, where lush greenery and vibrant flowers create a serene oasis. For breathtaking panoramic views, venture to Mont Boron, where you can capture stunning vistas of the city and the sparkling Mediterranean coastline. Take a day trip to nearby Èze, a charming village perched on a hilltop, or explore the historic Roman ruins of Cimiez. No visit to Nice would be complete without savoring the renowned Nicoise cuisine. Indulge in local specialties such as Salade Niçoise, Socca, and Ratatouille at authentic restaurants and charming sidewalk cafes. And, of course, don't forget to relax on the pebble beaches of Nice, basking in the warm Mediterranean sun and taking refreshing dips in the crystal-clear waters. With its captivating blend of history, art, stunning landscapes, and delectable cuisine, Nice offers a wealth of unforgettable experiences for every traveler. Whether you're seeking cultural immersion, relaxation by the sea, or a vibrant city adventure, Nice will leave an everlasting impression, enticing you to return again and again to unravel its many wonders.
Author : Fred DuVal,Lisa Schnebly Heidinger
Publisher : Inkwell Productions
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 0976634066
An Arizona newspaper and TV commentator, and veteran of national and state politics, presents a portrait of his home state's history, people, and culture, including interviews with long-time residents of each significant Arizona city and town.
Author : George Kalogeris
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807175996
Winthropos, the title of George Kalogeris’s new poetry collection, comes from the “Greek-ified” name his father, an immigrant from Greece, gave to the blue-collar New England town where the family lived. Following in the spirit of his acclaimed Guide to Greece, Kalogeris conjures Winthrop, Massachusetts, as a central locus of lyric and elegiac memory. While the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.