Magic In The Web

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Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1935623931
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Magic Web written by and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community? In A Magic Web, photographer Christian Ziegler and evolutionary biologist Egbert Giles Leigh, Jr., invite readers to enter the marvelous world of Barro Colorado Island. This book is a unique combination of spectacular photography and clear, authoritative text written by an active scientist who has spent half a lifetime trying to understand the tropical forest. Luscious photographs of the forest reveal the wonderful diversity of its inhabitants and show many of the activities that give it its character and lend structure to its community. Drawing on decades of work on Barro Colorado Island, Egbert Leigh explains how the forest works: how plants and animals compete with but also depend on each other; how the solitary lives of cats contrast with the intricately organized lives of armies of ants; the variety of ways plants struggle for a place in the sun; and how these plants attract animals to pollenate their flowers. Finally, the book shows the importance of tropical forests to the people living near them, why they matter to the world at large, what we can learn from them, and how they differ from temperate-zone forests. Full of stunning full-color photographs accompanied by clear and accessible text, A Magic Web is a must for anyone planning to visit a tropical forest and for all those who wish they could.

Author : Robert B. Heilman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813163048
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic in the Web written by Robert B. Heilman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his earlier work on King Lear, Mr. Heilman combined a number of critical procedures to form a new and important approach to Shakespearian criticism. His study of Othello displays the maturity of insight and skill in analysis the years have brought him in developing his critical method. Mr. Heilman takes account of stage effects; he traces out literal and symbolic meanings; he analyzes plot relationships; he examines characters in terms of both their psychological and their moral situations, and style in relation to both character and meaning. He traces some effects due to historical meanings which have now been lost by certain words, and he tries to measure the impact of the drama upon, and its significance for, the modern consciousness. Mr. Heilman argues that Othello is at once "a play about love" and "a poem about love," and endeavors to find out how the poetry modifies and even helps determine the nature of the whole. He looks at numerous aspects of "action" (physical activity, psychological movement, intellectual operations) and "language" (speech habits, image types, recurrency in both literal and figurative language), and examines the essentially "dramatic" function of all of these. He finds the dramatis personae interwoven in relationships which may be seen, from one point of view, as "plot" and, from another, as the embodiment of complex themes. He treats Othello and Iago as figures that are not only fitted to a given stage but also represent permanent aspects of humanity-Iago with his "strategies against the spiritual order" and Othello with his "readiness in the victim."

Author : Virginia Heffernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501132679
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic and Loss written by Virginia Heffernan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A digital-culture expert who writes for The New York Times Magazine discusses the logic, aesthetics, cultural potential and societal impact of the Internet, a medium that favors speed, accuracy, wit, prolificacy and versatility."

Author : Rachel Roberts
Publisher : Seven Seas
ISBN 13 : 9781933164663
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avalon: Web of Magic Book 1 written by Rachel Roberts and published by Seven Seas. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avalon: Web of Magic Book 1, Circles in the Stream by Rachel Roberts Three very different young teens, Emily, the shy one, Adriane, the outsider, and Kara, the power shopper, are all drawn to a secret place deep in the woods where they discover a portal to another world. Wondrous animals have emerged from the portal, desperately seeking the magic that will keep them alive. Though the animals are peaceful and good, what follows them through the portal is twisted and evil and bent on destroying them all. The Fairimentals have chosen these three fourteen-year-olds to protect the magical animals. To save them and their world, the girls must overcome their differences and band together. They begin a perilous quest to discover Avalon, the lost, legendary home of magic, little knowing the terrible dangers they will face along the way.

Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226756874
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Net of Magic written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-06-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel's journeys take him from ancient Sanskrit texts to the slums of New Dehli as he explores India's remarkable magical tradition." --Publisher's description.

Author : Patricia Telesco
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806521978
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wiccan Web written by Patricia Telesco and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the electronic magic of the Internet, Wiccans have connected in new and powerful ways. Two bestselling authors bring technology and magic together, helping practitioners find new ways to cast spells, observe rituals and connect with other practitioners.

Author : Robert Bechtold Heilman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic in the Web written by Robert Bechtold Heilman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1977-10-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel Roberts
Publisher : CDS Books
ISBN 13 : 9781593153205
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Avalon Collection written by Rachel Roberts and published by CDS Books. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects three novels starring Emily, Adriane, and Kara as three friends who each have different tasks to perform in order to help the protetct the fairy realms from evil and war.

Author : William Seabrook
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048679962X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic Island written by William Seabrook and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Author William Seabrook introduced the concept of the walking dead to the West with this illustrated travelogue.

Author : Cat Weatherill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802722555
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Magic written by Cat Weatherill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Pied Piper enchanted the children of Hamelin and led them away, Mari and her brother, Jakob, followed his song. Now they are trapped in a beautiful but cruel world inhabited by a horrid Beast. Finding a way to escape will require some wild magic, in this powerful story of a family torn apart by tragedy, and the magical adventure that heals them.