Apollonia On My Mind

Author : Nicholas C. Flemming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464260327

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Apollonia on My Mind by Nicholas C. Flemming Pdf

The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits to ocean exploitation, ocean climate change, prehistoric settlements on the continental shelf, ocean law, and safe scientific diving. Flemming is paralyzed from the chest down and has used a wheelchair for the past 52 years; one chapter assesses how he has continued to work in rough conditions and at sea, visiting 60 countries since his accident.Flemming's early experience with the Royal Marines Special Boat Service provided the foundation for a scientific research career under water. Intrigued by a report of a sunken city seen from a helicopter, he set out to map the submerged Greek city at Apollonia, near Benghazi, in 1958-59, as a Cambridge undergraduate. Doctoral research on the cause of submergence and uplift of hundreds of coastal Mediterranean ruins was followed by adventures in now-submerged caves from the Ice Ages when the sea level was lower.In 1965, as industry awakened to the potential of seabed exploitation, Flemming journeyed around the world to assess marine technology and forecast future developments for UK industries. This led to participation in the UN Committee on the Law of the Sea and in the design of a Global Ocean Observing System.Flemming later turned to academic research around submerged stratified prehistoric settlements. Advances in seabed mapping now enable marine archaeologists to study and plot numerous sites in the context of the Ice Age terrestrial landscape.This is a multi-disciplinary adventure story that argues that different skills and fields can interact creatively with surprising results. It will be enjoyed by all those interested in the development of underwater archaeology, climate science, and ocean exploration.

Author : Horatio Gates
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781387558117

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Lost In My Mind, Yet Honey So Sweet by Horatio Gates Pdf

Simply for those who are speechless, and have no words. Those who need guidance. You are here, and you are loved.

Author : Nicholas C. Flemming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464260335

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Apollonia on My Mind by Nicholas C. Flemming Pdf

The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits to ocean exploitation, ocean climate change, prehistoric settlements on the continental shelf, ocean law, and safe scientific diving. Flemming is paralyzed from the chest down and has used a wheelchair for the past 52 years; one chapter assesses how he has continued to work in rough conditions and at sea, visiting 60 countries since his accident.Flemming's early experience with the Royal Marines Special Boat Service provided the foundation for a scientific research career under water. Intrigued by a report of a sunken city seen from a helicopter, he set out to map the submerged Greek city at Apollonia, near Benghazi, in 1958-59, as a Cambridge undergraduate. Doctoral research on the cause of submergence and uplift of hundreds of coastal Mediterranean ruins was followed by adventures in now-submerged caves from the Ice Ages when the sea level was lower.In 1965, as industry awakened to the potential of seabed exploitation, Flemming journeyed around the world to assess marine technology and forecast future developments for UK industries. This led to participation in the UN Committee on the Law of the Sea and in the design of a Global Ocean Observing System.Flemming later turned to academic research around submerged stratified prehistoric settlements. Advances in seabed mapping now enable marine archaeologists to study and plot numerous sites in the context of the Ice Age terrestrial landscape.This is a multi-disciplinary adventure story that argues that different skills and fields can interact creatively with surprising results. It will be enjoyed by all those interested in the development of underwater archaeology, climate science, and ocean exploration.

Author : Dermot Hope-Simpson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496983336

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Travels in My Eighties by Dermot Hope-Simpson Pdf

After my wife died, I decided to remain active, including travelling. This book is an account of twelve journeys I made over the four years since then, and it is liberally illustrated with my photographs. Many of these journeys were individual but some were group tours. The places visited include various parts of Turkey, in particular the eastern part of that country. It also includes visits to Jordan, Albania, Uzbekistan, Warsaw, Iran, the former Russian Republic of Georgia, Kosovo, and Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh. I am still travelling, and in 2013, I went to Myanmar (Burma), Bulgaria, and the semi-autonomous province of Iraqi Kurdistan. In the last of these, we found ourselves to be the first tourist group ever to visit and as a result were greeted by the Minister of Tourism and the collected representatives of the local press and television networks.

Author : Andrew J. Farrara
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663245649

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The Modern Divine Comedy Book 1: Inferno 1 Descending by Andrew J. Farrara Pdf

This book explores and details the experiences and trials of both the Journalist Romano known here as the First Man Adam and his celestial ancient Persian guide Zarathustra while they travel to the Inferno and Limboland Arenas of the Pre-Historic Paleo Heroes; the Ancient Greek Gods & Goddesses; the Ancient Roman Gods & Goddesses; the Sumerian & Babylonian & Egyptian Gods; the Norse Viking Gods; the Indian Hindoo Vedic Gods; the Chinese Gods & Emperors; the Koreans; the Vietnamese; the Amerikan Experimental; the Cambodian & Laotian Encampments; the Burmese; the Hodgepodge of Nations On The Fringe Desiring Anonymity; the Japanese; the Irish Republican Army & Sinn Fein; the Native Americans; the Incas & Aztecs & Mayas; and Cuba & Nicaragua.

Author : Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195079302

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Binding Passions by Guido Ruggiero Pdf

Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich complexity of the culture and poetics of the everyday at the end of the Renaissance and illuminates a previously unexplored chapter in Italian history.

Author : Rexford Walker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524509903

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Strike of Venus by Rexford Walker Pdf

Living in the Roman world of the fourth century could be very challenging. It was a time of change and danger. Barbarians were attacking the empire from all directions. At sea, no ship was safe from pirates. From the east, the Sasanian Empire from Persia was once more challenging the power of Rome. Even religion was changing. The new Christian religion was spreading throughout the empire. But which Christian beliefs were to be accepted? Constantine settled the problem by calling the Council of Nicaea. His mother, Helena, would contribute much to the new religion. The story is told by a large cast of characters that represent people from different backgrounds: soldiers, slaves, religious people, and beautiful women. The main character is Julia, the daughter of a retired Roman soldier whose estate in the south of Gaul produced grapes and olive oil. As a young girl, she got the Strike of Venus when playing the game of talus bones. This assured her of a charmed life. Then one day, she, her father, and her slave left by ship with wine for Constantines new city in the east. She met a handsome young officer of the Imperial Navy who was to protect her from pirates. Other characters include Antaios from Alexandria, who tried being a monk in upper Egypt; Meirit, a beautiful Jewish woman who would steal his heart; Belisar the Manichaen, who fought the Sasanians; and Puglius, the slave who would steal from his mistress, murder his family, and then become a Christian. Also included is how Helena found the tabulum, which was affixed to the cross of Jesus, and what she did with it. This and many more fascinating stories are included in the book.

Author : Kathleen Béres Rogers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030139889

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Creating Romantic Obsession by Kathleen Béres Rogers Pdf

Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s anxieties. Using a number of literary texts, some well-known (like Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 “The Tell Tale Heart”) and some not (like Charlotte Dacre’s 1811 The Passions and Charles Brockden Brown’s 1787 Edgar Huntly), the book looks at “vigilia”, an overly intense curiosity, “intellectual monomania”, an obsession with study, “nymphomania” and “erotomania”, gendered forms of desire, “revolutiana”, an obsession with sublime violence and military service, and “ideality,” an obsession with an idea. The coda argues that traces of these Romantic constructs can be seen in popular accounts of obsession today.

Author : John Joseph Adams,Leigh Bardugo,Dale Bailey,Helena Bell,Genevieve Valentine,E. Lily Yu,Debbie Urbanski,Nisi Shawl,Alexander Weinstein,Jeremiah Tolbert,Catherynne M. Valente,A. Merc Rustad,Greg Van Eekhout,Peter S. Beagle,Brian Evenson,N. K. Jemisin,Caroline M. Yoachim,Alice Sola Kim,Nick Wolven,Joseph Allen Hill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544973985

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by John Joseph Adams,Leigh Bardugo,Dale Bailey,Helena Bell,Genevieve Valentine,E. Lily Yu,Debbie Urbanski,Nisi Shawl,Alexander Weinstein,Jeremiah Tolbert,Catherynne M. Valente,A. Merc Rustad,Greg Van Eekhout,Peter S. Beagle,Brian Evenson,N. K. Jemisin,Caroline M. Yoachim,Alice Sola Kim,Nick Wolven,Joseph Allen Hill Pdf

A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2016

Author : Helena Modjeska
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528760461

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Memories And Impressions Of Helena Modjeska by Helena Modjeska Pdf

The car comes to a stop. After several years of absence, I am in Poland again. The sun sheds upon the snow myriads of sparks, which glisten like so many precious gems; a purple strip of mist rises above the distant forest of dark, pointed pines, which form a background to white, humble huts, throbbing with lives of patience and toil, under the iron hand of the ruler... I feel a mysterious glow penetrating into the very depth of my heart, tears rise to my eyes; I humbly bow my head and whisper, "Hail, beloved..." "Einsteigen, meine Herrschaften,” shouts the metallic voice of the conductor, waking me from my revery, and by his sudden cry in a foreign language brutally recalling to my mind the misfortunes of my country. As we proceed further through German Poland we look in vain for any outward sign of the nationality of the inhabitants; there is none. No Polish inscriptions, no Polish names of the stations, no railroad employees allowed to speak Polish; yet crowds of peasants and workingmen hurrying to the fourth-class cars speak only the vernacular. Strange to say, there is one thing that all the efforts of the repressive governmental system cannot destroy, and that is the deep-rooted patriotism of the people, nor can they make of no avail their heroic struggle to preserve their mother-tongue.

Author : Richard Broxton Onians
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate by Richard Broxton Onians Pdf

Author : Samantha Cohoe
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250768858

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Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe Pdf

"A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core." - Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights Forbidden magic, a family secret, and a night to reveal it all... The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the island’s magic and its spirits. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her. But tonight is First Night, when the Prospers and their high-society friends celebrate the night Lord Prosper first harnessed the island’s magic and started producing aether – a magical fuel source that has revolutionized the world. With everyone returning to the island, Mae finally has the chance to go after what she’s always wanted. When the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae realizes that things aren’t what they seem. And Ivo, the reclusive, mysterious heir to the Prosper magic, may hold all the answers – including a secret about Mae’s past. As Mae and her friends unravel the mysteries of the island, and the Prospers’ magic, Mae starts to question the truth of what her world was built on. In this YA fantasy, Samantha Cohoe wonderfully mixes magic and an atmospheric setting into a fantastically immersive world, with characters you won’t be able to forget.

Author : M. Carlson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230111486

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Performing Bodies in Pain by M. Carlson Pdf

This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Author : Richard Braccia
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781449043414

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Respublica by Richard Braccia Pdf

Respublica recreates the teeming world of pre-Christian Rome with all its drama and sensualism, and it mirrors the strife and crises of contemporary America. Marcus Cicero, a respected but marginalized statesman, describes in his own voice, complemented by omniscient narrative, his life-long struggle against subversion and tyranny. Cicero combats the intrigues of the renegade, Catalina, and then fends off the attacks of the wild demogogue, Clodius. He idolizes the military hero, Pompeius, while distrusting the ambitions of the emergent Caesar. In the midst of civil war, Cicero strives to hold his family together. Devoted to his strong-willed wife, Terentia, he is alternately tempted and repelled by the wanton, Clodia Pulchra. He writes his personal history for the benefit of his son, Marcus, but the very light of his life is his beloved daughter, Tullia. Cicero's brother, Quintus is loyal despite a simmering envy of his older sibling. In his ultimate struggle against the usurpations of Marcus Antonius, Cicero is fated to live or perish with the free Repubic. Respublica is powerful historical fiction written with heart and mind and spirit... and guts.

Author : Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588154

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Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt by Jane Rowlandson,Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.