Poor Robins Prophesies And Divertisements

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199605422

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Poor Robin's Prophecies by Benjamin Wardhaugh Pdf

From the reign of Charles II to the early 19th century, a curious Almanac - part 'teach-yourself mathematics', part political satire - promoted the use of science in everyday life and trades. Benjamin Wardaugh tells the story of the rumbustious 'Poor Robin of Saffron Walden', and the rise of popular science in Georgian England.

Author : University Microfilms International
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : 0835721027

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Early English Books, 1641-1700 by University Microfilms International Pdf

Author : Donald Goddard Wing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078263152

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Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700 by Donald Goddard Wing Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Books on microfilm
ISBN : WISC:89126213099

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National Register of Microform Masters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112002528336

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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Pdf

A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.

Author : Roberte Hamayon
Publisher : Hau
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 098613256X

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Why We Play by Roberte Hamayon Pdf

Play is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?

Author : Douglas Kahn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262311625

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Noise, Water, Meat by Douglas Kahn Pdf

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473373631

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Witch Wood by John Buchan Pdf

First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of England.

Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798515955762

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Witch Wood Annotated by John Buchan Pdf

Witch Wood is a 1927 novel by the Scots author John Buchan, set in the Scottish Borders during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Critics have called it Buchan's masterpiece.

Author : J. Peakman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230512573

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Mighty Lewd Books by J. Peakman Pdf

Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.

Author : Diagram Group
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Amusements
ISBN : 1552978052

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How to Hold a Crocodile by Diagram Group Pdf

Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].

Author : William Hone
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019608862

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The Every-Day Book, Or by William Hone Pdf

As one of the most popular books of the early 19th century, The Every-Day Book offers a fascinating look at the daily lives, customs, and traditions of the people of England. From church festivals to sporting events, Hone's lively anecdotes and charming illustrations bring a bygone era to vivid life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Frederick Bridge
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas by Frederick Bridge Pdf

Nearly all of Shakespeare's plays provide for music both instrumental & vocal. This scholarly work attempts to reconstruct that music so as to make us more aware of the use of music as a dramatic device by Shakespeare & other dramatists of that era. 17 illus. plus a Musical Appendix.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Demonology
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3BSW

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott Pdf

Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1017313296

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A Book for a Rainy Day Or Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 by John Thomas Smith Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.