Moon Sun

Author : Mark Holborn
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714876566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun and Moon written by Mark Holborn and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular pictorial history of astronomical exploration, for anyone who has gazed at the sky and wondered what lies beyond From the beginning of time, human beings have looked up at the stars and speculated on other worlds. Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Sun and Moon tells the story of that burning human need to comprehend the universe, from Neolithic observatories that mark the solstice to the latest space telescopes. It shows, for the first time, how the development of photography and cartography – the means of documenting other worlds – is linked indelibly to the charting of the heavens, from the first image on a glass plate to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Author : Lindsey Yankey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927018606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun and Moon written by Lindsey Yankey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he has always stayed in his own place in the sky, Moon asks to trade places with Sun for one day, but when Sun asks Moon to carefully examine the night, Moon has a change of heart.

Author : Robin Heath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802713815
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun, Moon and Earth written by Robin Heath and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the cycles of the sun and moon and discusses early calendars and the work of ancient astronomers and mathematicians.

Author : Tyler Nordgren
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096468
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun Moon Earth written by Tyler Nordgren and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: a total eclipse of the sun. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer Tyler Nordgren illustrates how this most seemingly unnatural of natural phenomena was transformed from a fearsome omen to a tourist attraction. From the astrologers of ancient China and Babylon to the high priests of the Maya, Sun Moon Earth takes us around the world to show how different cultures interpreted these dramatic events. Greek philosophers discovered eclipses' cause and used them to measure their world and the cosmos beyond. Victorian-era scientists mounted eclipse expeditions during the age of globe-spanning empires. And modern-day physicists continue to use eclipses to confirm Einstein's theory of relativity. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically written, Sun Moon Earth is the ideal guide for all eclipse watchers and star gazers alike.

Author : Irene Marsha Silverblatt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843340
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moon, Sun, and Witches written by Irene Marsha Silverblatt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy, Irene Silverblatt shows how Inca rulers used their Sun and Moon traditions as methods of controlling women and the Andean peoples the Incas conquered. She then explores the process by which the Spaniards employed European male and female imageries to establish their own rule in Peru and to make new inroads on the power of native women, particularly poor peasant women. Harassed economically and abused sexually, Andean women fought back, earning in the process the Spaniards' condemnation as "witches." Fresh from the European witch hunts that damned women for susceptibility to heresy and diabolic influence, Spanish clerics were predisposed to charge politically disruptive poor women with witchcraft. Silverblatt shows that these very accusations provided women with an ideology of rebellion and a method for defending their culture.

Author : Holly Lisle
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545000157
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Door written by Holly Lisle and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Genna is chosen as the Sunrider of prophecy, her destiny is to unite the magic of the sun and the moon for the good of both Nightlings and humans.

Author : Scott Kugle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626780
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Sun Meets Moon written by Scott Kugle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up sexual relationships to follow a path of personal holiness. Mah Laqa Bai Chanda (1768-1820), known as "Moon," was a Shi'i and courtesan dancer who transferred her seduction of men to the pursuit of mystical love. Both were poets in the Urdu language of the ghazal, or love lyric, often fusing a spiritual quest with erotic imagery. Kugle argues that Sun and Moon expressed through their poetry exceptions to the general rules of heteronormativity and gender inequality common in their patriarchal societies. Their art provides a lens for a more subtle understanding of both the reach and the limitations of gender roles in Islamic and South Asian culture and underscores how the arts of poetry, music, and dance are integral to Islamic religious life. Integrated throughout are Kugle's translations of Urdu and Persian poetry previously unavailable in English.

Author : Matthew Goodman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458760049
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun and the Moon written by Matthew Goodman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called theSunbrought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon—including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and theSun, a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world.An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism,The Sun and the Moontells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that made America a nation of newspaper readers.

Author : Andrew Weil
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618479054
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of the Sun and Moon written by Andrew Weil and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great popularizer of alternative medicine, here is a collection of essays about his travels to South America in the early 1970s in search of information on altered states of consciousness, drug use in other cultures, and other matters having to do with the complementarity of mind and body. Andrew Weil's experiences during this time laid the foundation for his mission to restore the connection between medicine and nature. In The Marriage of the Sun and Moon, now updated with a new preface by the author, the esteemed Dr. Weil attempts to empower patients to take fuller charge of their destinies.

Author : Holly Lisle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruby Key written by Holly Lisle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans and Nightlings are never to meet, but when Genna and her brother Dan venture into the old forest at night, they encounter a Nightling slave who reveals a terrifying secret.