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Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age |
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Категория: Всемирная история, древний мир, Архитектура и строительство |
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Автор: John C. McEnroe
Издательство: University of Texas Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0292721935
Количество страниц: 220
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others.
Architecture of Minoan Crete is the first comprehensive study of the entire range of Minoan architecture--including houses, palaces, tombs, and cities--from 7000 BC to 1100 BC. John C. McEnroe synthesizes the vast literature on Minoan Crete, with particular emphasis on the important discoveries of the past twenty years, to provide an up-to-date account of Minoan architecture. His accessible writing style, skillful architectural drawings of houses and palaces, site maps, and color photographs make this book inviting for general readers and visitors to Crete, as well as scholars. |
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Is There Life on Other Planets?: And Other Questions About Space (Is That a Fact?) |
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Категория: Научно-познавательная литература, Астрономия, космос |
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Автор: Gregory Vogt
Издательство: Lerner Publications
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0822590824
Количество страниц: 44
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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There is no gravity in space. The North Star never changes its position in the sky. Earth's shadow causes the phases of the moon. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven using science? Let's investigate seventeen statements about space and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones still stump scientists! Find out whether astronauts really landed on the moon! Discover whether it's true that the same side of the Moon is always dark! See if you can tell the difference between fact and fiction with Is That a Fact?
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Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (Animals, History, Culture) |
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Категория: Научно-познавательная литература, Териология. Млекопитающие, Палеонтология. Ископаемые останки |
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Автор: Nigel Rothfels
Издательство: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0801869102
Количество страниц: 288
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces the origins of the modern zoo to the efforts of the German animal entrepreneur Carl Hagenbeck.
By the late nineteenth century, Hagenbeck had emerged as the world's undisputed leader in the capture and transport of exotic animals. His business included procuring and exhibiting indigenous peoples in highly profitable spectacles throughout Europe and training exotic animals--humanely, Hagenbeck advertised--for circuses around the world. When in 1907 the Hagenbeck Animal Park opened in a village near Hamburg, Germany, Hagenbeck brought together all his business interests in a revolutionary zoological park. He moved wild animals out of their cages and into "natural landscapes" alongside "primitive" peoples from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the islands of the Pacific. Hagenbeck had invented a new way of imagining captivity: the animals and people on exhibit appeared to be living in the wilds of their native lands.
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Alexander the Great: Lessons from History's Undefeated General (World Generals) |
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Категория: Гуманитарные науки » Исторические науки » Всемирная история, древний мир |
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Автор: Bill Yenne
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0230619150
Количество страниц: 224
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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The son of the great King Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander was educated by Aristotle and commanded a wing of his father's army in the victory over the Thebans and Athenians at the Battle of Chaeronea—all when he was still just a teenager. By the time of his death at age 32, he had amassed an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River and included all of Persia and most of Egypt. He ruled as both the shah of Persia and as a pharaoh of Egypt by right of conquest, and he was also crowned king of Asia.
Here, historian Bill Yenne illuminates the legendary vision of this classical hero. Exhibiting the best traits of a battlefield leader, Alexander was audacious, aggressive, fearless and victorious. His unfailing integration of strategic vision and tactical genius took him to the ends of the earth, and into immortality as a military leader. Alexander's influence on cultural and political history and the scope of his military prowess remains awe-inspiring to this day.
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Ecology in the 20th Century: A History |
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Категория: Биологические науки » Экология. Окружающая среда |
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Автор: Anna Bramwell
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год издания: 1989
isbn: 0300045212
Количество страниц: 292
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
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This book - an intellectual and political history of the ecology movement from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present - provides the first thorough study of the origins and background of 'Green' politics which has in recent years carved out a significant political constituency throughout Europe and America. Anna Bramwell locates the roots of the ideas of the modern ecological movement in two distinct strands of the scientific community, the biological and economic, and then traces the intellectual contributions of biological and economic ecologists through movements in Germany and Britain during the twentieth century. She looks at the literary background ofecologism, focusing in particular on the works of Knut Hamsun and Henry Williamson, and describes the work of the most important biological ecologist, the German Ernst Haeckel. Bramwell then explores the German contribution to ecologism in science and literature, its existence as a hidden agenda in the Third Reich, and its cross-fertilization with Britain and America.
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Российское ракетное оружие. 1943-1993 г.г. Справочник |
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Категория: Другая военная техника, Оружие |
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Автор: А.В. Карпенко
Издательство: Пика
Год издания: 1993
Количество страниц: 190
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
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Иллюстрированный справочник по ракетному оружию России, содержит информацию об ракетах выпущенных на самой заре ракетостроения до самых современных и перспективных образцов. В справочник вошли как баллистические ракеты так и геофизические ракеты, и комплексы противокосмической обороны.
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