| Author | : James M. Deem |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780547370248 |
Traces the efforts of a scientific team to learn about the life and culture of a person whose skeletal remains are traced to prehistoric times, profiling the valuable technical achievements of artists who use special skills to reconstruct faces from archaeological remains. 10,000 first printing.
| Author | : Donald R. Kelley |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300075588 |
In this book, one of the world's leading intellectual historians offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late eighteenth century. Donald R. Kelley focuses on persistent themes and methodology, including questions of myth, national origins, chronology, language, literary forms, rhetoric, translation, historical method and criticism, theory and practice of interpretation, cultural studies, philosophy of history, and "historicism." Kelley begins by analyzing the dual tradition established by the foundational works of Greek historiography--Herodotus's broad cultural and antiquarian inquiry and the contrasting model of Thucydides' contemporary political and analytical narrative. He then examines the many variations on and departures from these themes produced in writings from Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian antiquity, in medieval chronicles, in national histories and revisions of history during the Renaissance and Reformation, and in the rise of erudite and enlightened history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout, Kelley discusses how later historians viewed their predecessors, including both supporters and detractors of the authors in question. The book, which is a companion volume to Kelley's highly praised anthology Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, will be a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in interpretations of the past.
| Author | : Kristin Zambucka |
| Publisher | : Raupo |
| Total Pages | : 122 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
A collection of the beautiful, loving portraits of older, tattooed, Maori women by Kristine Zambucka. Each in full colour, and full sized (142 x 9.5"). These women - the kuia - were fast vanishing even when the book was published 50 years ago, despite their noted longevity, but, in the words of Dr, S. M. Mead in the Foreword, 'The tattooed kuia is something more than a grandmother. She is a symbol, a bridge between life and death'. Words which have ever more resonance now perhaps than when they were written.
| Author | : Richard M. Ketchum |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Birth control |
| ISBN | : 9780828100922 |
From the day in 1912 when Margaret Sanger decided to champion birth control, the enemy was never very far away.
| Author | : Gillian Braithwaite |
| Publisher | : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
One of the odder (and uglier or cuter dependent on your point of view) styles of Roman pottery is clearly the face pot - literally pots with facial features attatched in relief.
| Author | : Dan McLerran |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014-10-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781320169691 |
This special print edition of the Fall 2014 issue of Popular Archaeology Magazine contains compelling accounts of some recent discoveries and developments in the fields of archaeology and anthropology, including discoveries that have changed the face of human evolution, a finding in an underwater cave in the Yucatan Peninsula that tells a story with implications for Native American origins, excavations at the largest ancient Mycenaean site ever discovered, new wall paintings at Angkor Wat, and much more.
| Author | : Susan Walker |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Egypt |
| ISBN | : 9780415927451 |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, February-May 2000, the first major showing in North America of stunning painted mummy portraits that represent a confluence of ancient Egyptian and Roman cultures and the Graeco-Roman painting tradition. The catalog concentrates closely on the paintings, their artistry, and their social context and meaning. Seven contributed essays set the context. The 122 color and 23 bandw illustrations are fully discussed and described by editor Walker, who is affiliated with the British Museum. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Donna-Claire Chesman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2021-10-26 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 163758069X |
An album-by-album celebration of the life and music of Mac Miller through oral histories, intimate reflections, and critical examinations of his enduring work. “One of my most vivid memories of him is the way he would look at you while he was playing you a song. He tried to look you right in the eyes to see how you were feeling about it.” —Will Kalson, friend and first manager Following Mac Miller’s tragic passing in 2018, Donna-Claire Chesman dedicated a year to chronicling his work through the unique lens of her relationship to the music and Mac’s singular relationship to his fans. Like many who’d been following him since he’d started releasing mixtapes at eighteen years old, she felt as if she’d come of age alongside the rapidly evolving artist, with his music being crucial to her personal development. “I want people to remember his humanity as they’re listening to the music, to realize how much bravery and courage it takes to be that honest, be that self-aware, and be that real about things going on internally. He let us witness that entire journey. He never hid that.” —Kehlani, friend and musician. The project evolved to include intimate interviews with many of Mac’s closest friends and collaborators, from his Most Dope Family in Pittsburgh to the producers and musicians who assisted him in making his everlasting music, including Big Jerm, Rex Arrow, Wiz Khalifa, Benjy Grinberg, Just Blaze, Josh Berg, Syd, Thundercat, and more. These voices, along with the author’s commentary, provide a vivid and poignant portrait of this astonishing artist—one who had just released a series of increasingly complex albums, demonstrating what a musical force he was and how heartbreaking it was to lose him. “As I’m reading the lyrics, it’s crazy. It’s him telling us that he hopes we can always respect him. I feel like this is a message from him, spiritually. A lot of the time, his music was like little letters and messages to his friends, family, and people he loved, to remind them of who he really was.” —Quentin Cuff, best friend and tour manager
| Author | : Bill Holm |
| Publisher | : Afton Historical Society Press |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781890434991 |
FACES OF CHRISTMAS PAST is an engaging, middle-aged look at the perils of Christmas, our own self-imposed burdens of ritual duty (like the newsy Christmas Xerox), and the more unsettling fact that successive Christmases, more even than New Year's, mark the passing of our life from childhood to death. "Old Christmas card photos show us how we've aged," says author Bill Holm, "reminding us that, though time may curve in Einstein's physics, in our small life it is a straight line to white hair and bifocals."
