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Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds

Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch
Old Worlds New Worlds Other Worlds Book PDF

Author : Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645154504

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Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds by Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch Pdf

A rich anthology of stories, plays, poetry and illustrations from members of CBCA NSW Branch to engage children in the 2021 theme for CBCA Book Week and beyond. Created by over 70 contributors, including some of the most well loved Australian children's literature creatives as well as many up-and-coming. The Foreward is from the NSW Governor, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC and Mir Wilson, introduction from Ursula Dubosarsky the Australian Children's Laureate and acknowledgement of Country in Dharug by Jasmine Seymour. All the work has been donated by the creatives and developed by the dedicated committee of the CBCA NSW Branch Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch.Funds raised by the sales of this anthology will further the work of Bothe the CBCA NSW Branch and their Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch in fulfilling their shared purpose: to ensure Australian children have stories written for them, to support and celebrate the work of our Australian creatives, and to promote the joy of reading.

The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Lawrence Principe
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Author : Lawrence Principe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199567416

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Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved.

Old Worlds, New Worlds

Lisa Kaaren Bailey,Lindsay Diggelmann,Kim M. Phillips
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Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey,Lindsay Diggelmann,Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : PSU:000067790005

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Old Worlds, New Worlds by Lisa Kaaren Bailey,Lindsay Diggelmann,Kim M. Phillips Pdf

Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational to modern mentalities: race, ethnicity, nation, and the nature of humanity. The consequences were profound: both productive and destructive. At the beginning of the third millennium CE we occupy a world shaped by those centuries of travel and encounter. This collection examines key themes and moments in European cultural expansion. Unlike many studies it spans both the medieval and early modern periods, challenging the stereotype of the post-Columbus 'age of discovery'. There is room too for examining cross-cultural relationships within Europe and regions closely linked to it, to show that curiosity, conflict and transformation could result from such meetings as they did in more far-flung realms. Several essays deal with authors, events, and ideas which will be unfamiliar to most readers but which deserve greater attention in the history of encounter and exploration.

New Worlds, Ancient Texts

Anthony Grafton
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Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674254121

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Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.

Conversion

Kenneth Mills,Anthony Grafton
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Author : Kenneth Mills,Anthony Grafton
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580461239

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A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times. This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously debated. The historical settings treated here stretch from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century southern India and Andean Peru, from Bohemia to China during the age of the Reformations, from the fifteenth-century Low Countries to seventeenth-century New France and from the nineteenth-century Minnesota borderlands to late colonial Zimbabwe and modern India. The book's broad mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge about particular places and times, and spark new thinking about religious change, cultural appropriations, and interactive emergence across discipline and fields. This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, is also published by the University of Rochester Press.

Other Worlds

Teffi
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Author : Teffi
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375403

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Stories about the occult, folk religions, superstition, and spiritual customs in Russia by one of the most essential twentieth-century writers of short fiction and essays. Though best known for her comic and satirical sketches of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Teffi was a writer of great range and human sympathy. The stories on otherworldly themes in this collection are some of her finest and most profound, displaying the acute psychological sensitivity beneath her characteristic wit and surface brilliance. Other Worlds presents stories from across the whole of Teffi’s long career, from her early days as a literary celebrity in Moscow to her post-Revolutionary years as an émigré in Paris. In the early story “A Quiet Backwater,” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost, a day on which “no one dairnst disturb the earth.” The story “Wild Evening” is about the fear of the unknown; “The Kind That Walk,” a penetrating study of antisemitism and of xenophobia; and “Baba Yaga,” about the archetypal Russian witch and her longing for wildness and freedom. Teffi traces the persistent influence of the ancient Slavic gods in superstitions and customs, and the deep connection of the supernatural to everyday life in the provinces. In “Volya,” the autobiographical final story, the power and pain of Baba Yaga is Teffi’s own.

New Worlds for Old

David Ketterer
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Author : David Ketterer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015003842369

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Discusses the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Brockden Brown, Stanislaw Lem, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

New Worlds from Old Texts

Elton Thomas Edward Barker,Stefan Bouzarovski,C. B. R. Pelling,Leif Isaksen
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Author : Elton Thomas Edward Barker,Stefan Bouzarovski,C. B. R. Pelling,Leif Isaksen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199664139

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New Worlds from Old Texts by Elton Thomas Edward Barker,Stefan Bouzarovski,C. B. R. Pelling,Leif Isaksen Pdf

Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with space. In contrast to traditional "topographic" perspectives, the territorial extent of economic and political realms is increasingly conceived though a "topological" lens, in which the nature and frequency of links among different sites matter more than the physical distances between them. New Worlds from Old Texts focuses on the ancient Greek experience of space, conceived of in terms of both its literature and material culture remains, and uses this to reflect on modern thinking. Comprising twelve chapters written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, this edited collection explores the rich array of representational devices employed by ancient authors, whose narrative depictions of spatial relations defy the logic of images and surfaces that dominates contemporary cartographic thought. The volume focuses on Herodotus' Histories--a text that is increasingly cited by Classicists as an example of how ancient perceptions of space may have been rather different to the modern cartographic view--but also considers perceptions of space through the lens of other authors, genres, cultural contexts, and disciplines. In doing so, it reveals how a study of the ancient world can be reinvigorated by, and in turn help to shape, modern technological innovation and methods.

Old New Worlds

Judith Krummeck
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Author : Judith Krummeck
Publisher : Green Place Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1950584097

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Old New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa's Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah bears sixteen children. Two hundred years later, Judith leaves post apartheid South Africa with her new American husband to immigrate to the United States. She is drawn to Sarah's immigrant story in the context of her own experience, and she sets out to try and trace her. In the process, she finds a soul mate.

In Other Worlds

Margaret Atwood
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Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385533973

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In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.

The Light Between Worlds

Laura Weymouth
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Author : Laura Weymouth
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781911490685

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Six years ago, schoolgirls Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept from a war-time bunker to a fantasy kingdom. Now almost grown-up, they've returned to the real world, but grieving Evie will do almost anything to go back to the magical Woodlands that holds her heart ...

Other Worlds

Michael D. Lemonick
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Author : Michael D. Lemonick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047133148

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First published in 1885. The Preface begins: It is proposed to rehearse the lustrous story of Rome, from its beginning in the mists of myth and fable down to the mischievous times when the republic came to its end, just before the brilliant period of the empire opened. As one surveys this marvellous vista from the vantage-ground of the present, attention is fixed first upon a long succession of well- authenticated facts which are shaded off in the dim distance, and finally lost in the obscurity of unlettered antiquity. The flesh and blood heroes of the more modern times regularly and slowly pass from view, and in their places the unsubstantial worthies of dreamy tradition start up. The transition is so gradual, however, that it is at times impossible to draw the line between history and legend. Fortunately for the purposes of this volume it is not always necessary to make the effort. The early traditions of the Eternal City have so long been recounted as truth that the world is slow to give up even the least jot or tittle of them, and when they are disproved as fact, they must be told over and over again as story.

Old Worlds

John Michael Archer
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Author : John Michael Archer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804743371

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This book aligns ancient and early modern European travel narratives and historical surveys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts that contributed to English ideas about those regions: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Love's Labour's Lost, Milton's Paradise Lost and Muscovia, and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe.

New Worlds from Old

Elizabeth Johns,Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,National Gallery of Australia,Wadsworth Atheneum
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Author : Elizabeth Johns,Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,National Gallery of Australia,Wadsworth Atheneum
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500974691

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New Worlds from Old by Elizabeth Johns,Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,National Gallery of Australia,Wadsworth Atheneum Pdf

This publication accompanies a major exhibition organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the National Gallery of Australia. It features some fifty American and fifty Australian landscape paintings produced during the period when landscape became the focus for artists in both countries.In both traditions landscapes trace the ever-changing complexities of bringing what is known to the experience of the unknown, exploring the profound relationship that we have with the land on which we live. Many of America's finest landscape painters are represented, including Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, and William Merritt Chase. Australian artists include Joseph Lyatt, Augustus Earle, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Louis Buvelot, and Arthur Streeton, among others.

Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World

Tobias Nicklas,Joseph Verheyden,Erik M.M. Eynikel,Florentino Garcia Martinez
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Author : Tobias Nicklas,Joseph Verheyden,Erik M.M. Eynikel,Florentino Garcia Martinez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190733

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Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World by Tobias Nicklas,Joseph Verheyden,Erik M.M. Eynikel,Florentino Garcia Martinez Pdf

Is there another, perhaps better world than the one where we live? Is there a future for us after death and how does it look like? The articles in this volume describe how ancient Jewish and Christian authors dealt with the above questions and what their answers had to do with their own life experience.