Rarest Blue

Author : Baruch Sterman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762790423
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rarest Blue written by Baruch Sterman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, dyed fabrics ranked among the most expensive objects of the ancient Mediterranean world, fetching up to 20 times their weight in gold. Huge fortunes were made from and lost to them, and battles were fought over control of the industry. The few who knew the dyes’ complex secrets carefully guarded the valuable knowledge. The Rarest Blue tells the amazing story of tekhelet, or hyacinth blue, the elusive sky-blue dye mentioned 50 times in the Hebrew Bible. The Minoans discovered it; the Phoenicians stole the technique; Cleopatra adored it; and Jews—obeying a Biblical commandment to affix a single thread of the radiant color to the corner of their garments—risked their lives for it. But with the fall of the Roman Empire, the technique was lost to the ages. Then, in the nineteenth century, a marine biologist saw a fisherman smearing his shirt with snail guts, marveling as the yellow stains turned sky blue. But what was the secret? At the same time, a Hasidic master obsessed with reviving the ancient tradition posited that the source wasn’t a snail at all but a squid. Bitter fighting ensued until another rabbi discovered that one of them was wrong—but had an unscrupulous chemist deliberately deceived him? Baruch Sterman brilliantly recounts the complete, amazing story of this sacred dye that changed the color of history.

Author : Constance Van Hoven
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632898497
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare and Blue written by Constance Van Hoven and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of rare blue species--from the blue lobster to the blue black bear--are rare and unique for a reason. Travel across Earth to discover eight species that are blue in color and are either naturally rare, threatened, or endangered. Panoramic illustrations and a playful main text prompt a search for the blue species at hand, while the page-turn and informative sidebars zoom in to reveal a closer look at the species. There's a lot to uncover about the Karner blue butterfly, blue black bear, blue whale, Quitobacquito pupfish, Cerulean warbler, blue lobster, Eastern Indigo snake, and big bluestem grass. A surprise ending celebrates that planet Earth is the rarest and bluest and must be protected for the sake of all.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781775432371
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Blue written by Mary Elizabeth Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1979 the black robin of the Chatham Islands was on the brink of extinction, with only five birds left. When the Wildlife Service intervened to rescue them in 1980, there was only one female who could lay fertile eggs. She became known as Old Blue. Today there are 200 or more living black robins - all of them her descendants"--Publisher information.

Author : Isabelle Simler
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1467464538
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Hour written by Isabelle Simler and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely and tranquil celebration of nature The sun has set, the day has ended, but the night hasn't quite arrived yet. This magical twilight is known as the blue hour. Everything in nature—sky, water, flowers, birds, foxes—comes together in a symphony of blue to celebrate the merging of night and day. With its soothing text and radiant artwork, this elegant picture book displays the majesty of nature and reminds readers that beauty is fleeting but also worth savoring.

Author : Max Krochmal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626764
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Texas written by Max Krochmal and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together to empower the state's marginalized minorities. At the ballot box and in the streets, these diverse activists demanded not only integration but economic justice, labor rights, and real political power for all. Their efforts gave rise to the Democratic Coalition of the 1960s, a militant, multiracial alliance that would take on and eventually overthrow both Jim Crow and Juan Crow. Using rare archival sources and original oral history interviews, Krochmal reveals the often-overlooked democratic foundations and liberal tradition of one of our nation's most conservative states. Blue Texas remembers the many forgotten activists who, by crossing racial lines and building coalitions, democratized their cities and state to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a decade earlier--and it shows why their story still matters today.

Author : Kai Kupferschmidt
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615197532
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue: The Science and Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color written by Kai Kupferschmidt and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about the color blue? Blue is our favorite color globally—the darling of artists since the time of the pharaohs. So it’s startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that “true” blue is truly rare. The sea and sky are blue, but we can’t bottle this trick of physics. And the few creatures, plants, and minerals that appear blue are almost all deceiving us. There’s no blue pigment in a blue jay—it would be brown but for how its feathers distort light. Kai Kupferschmidt has been enraptured by blue since childhood. In Blue, he invites readers on his globe-trotting quest to understand his favorite color— from Kyoto, where scientists are trying to engineer a blue rose, to Brandenburg, where conservationists hope to save the “little blue macaw.” Deep underground where blue crystals grow and miles overhead where astronauts gaze at our “blue marble” planet-wherever he finds this alluring color, it has a story to tell.

Author : Michel Pastoureau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691978867
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture—from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, Michel Pastoureau tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury. Black took on new meanings for early modern Europeans as they began to print words and images in black and white, and to absorb Isaac Newton's announcement that black was no color after all. During the romantic period, black was melancholy's friend, while in the twentieth century black (and white) came to dominate art, print, photography, and film, and was finally restored to the status of a true color. For Pastoureau, the history of any color must be a social history first because it is societies that give colors everything from their changing names to their changing meanings—and black is exemplary in this regard. In dyes, fabrics, and clothing, and in painting and other art works, black has always been a forceful—and ambivalent—shaper of social, symbolic, and ideological meaning in European societies. With its striking design and compelling text, Black will delight anyone who is interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design.

Author : Constance Van Hoven
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623540976
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare and Blue written by Constance Van Hoven and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of rare blue species--from the blue lobster to the blue black bear--are rare and unique for a reason. Travel across Earth to discover eight species that are blue in color and are either naturally rare, threatened, or endangered. Panoramic illustrations and a playful main text prompt a search for the blue species at hand, while the page-turn and informative sidebars zoom in to reveal a closer look at the species. There's a lot to uncover about the Karner blue butterfly, blue black bear, blue whale, Quitobacquito pupfish, Cerulean warbler, blue lobster, Eastern Indigo snake, and big bluestem grass. A surprise ending celebrates that planet Earth is the rarest and bluest and must be protected for the sake of all.

Author : Baruch Sterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789652296214
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rarest Blue written by Baruch Sterman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History and Rediscovered.

Author : Helena Jayne Bryant
Publisher : Gentle Winds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781734691320
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Moon, Rare Fire: The Extraordinary True Story of a Woman's Rise when Darkness Fell written by Helena Jayne Bryant and published by Gentle Winds Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirteen years, Helena Jayne Bryant was hunted by a madman. Until the day she climbed behind the wheel of a big rig and began a career as an over-the-road truck driver, hoping to outrun her past, hoping to reclaim the life she had lost. Helena learns how to heal from personal tragedy through the power of hope, and the art of light and magic.