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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652549
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vermeer's Hat written by Timothy Brook and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in exchange for weapons. Beaver pelts, in turn, financed the voyages of sailors seeking new routes to China. There - with silver mined in Peru - Europeans would purchase, by the thousands, the porcelain so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time. Vermeer's haunting images hint at the stories behind these exquisitely rendered moments. As Timothy Brook shows us in Vermeer's Hat, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually open doors onto a rapidly expanding world.

Author : Rosie King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979256707
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweetwater, Saltwater written by Rosie King and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Springs District, Big Sandy/Salt Wells Resource Areas Oil and Gas Development, Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) B1(v.1); Final Environmental Assessment (EA). written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara L. Baer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964949713
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saltwater, Sweetwater written by Barbara L. Baer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : California Coastal Commission
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520061861
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Coastal Resource Guide written by California Coastal Commission and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoritative guide to the natural and cultural resources of California's magnificent 1,100-mile coastline is the companion to the best-selling California Coastal Access Guide. Whereas the Access Guide stressed public access to the California coast, the Resource Guide focuses on the rich and varied natural resources of the coast and its diverse habitats, including detailed descriptions of flora and fauna; the Guide also features accounts of the history of the coast, and includes numerous striking and informative drawings, photographs, and maps. Part One consists of sections of statewide interest divided into three categories: the first is coastal geography, which includes descriptions of coastal mountains, rivers, marine terraces, beaches, wetlands, nearshore waters, and the open ocean; the second is living resources, covering the flora and fauna of the coast; and the third is cultural resources, treating history, architecture, recreation, and economy, including such topics as parks and beaches, recreational fishing, amusement parks, lighthouses, offshore oil, tourism, agriculture, and other coastal industries. Part Two is composed of individual sections on each of California's coastal counties, as well as San Francisco Bay, the Farallon Islands, and the Channel Islands. This portion of the book includes 150 maps, lists of species of interest, a summary of each county's history, and site-by-site descriptions of parks, beaches, rivers, wetlands, coastal towns and cities, missions, museums, and other coastal resources; detailed information on the habitats, wildlife, and history of each site are included, as well as its address, and, where applicable, the phone number. Copiously illustrated, accessible, and above all, entertaining, this book is an indispensable reference guide for residents and vacationers as well as a fun book to browse in for anyone interested in California's coast.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flood Control written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arnold Kling Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462834205
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Economics written by Arnold Kling Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the subject of economics using clear prose, rather than the graphs and equations common in many textbooks. The focus is on contemporary issues, particularly technological innovation and growth. To browse through the book or read some endorsements of the book, click here. The link below only gives you a brief excerpt.

Author : Geoffrey W. Dennis
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738748145
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism written by Geoffrey W. Dennis and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly expanded over one hundred other entries, incorporating more knowledge and passages from primary sources. This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings, drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Kabbalah, and other esoteric branches of Judaism, is exhaustively researched yet easy to use. It includes over one thousand alphabetical entries, from Aaron to Zohar Chadesh, with extensive cross-references to related topics and new illustrations throughout. Drawn from the well of a great spiritual tradition, the secret wisdom within these pages will enlighten and empower you. Praise: "An erudite and lively compendium of Jewish magical beliefs, practices, texts, and individuals...This superb, comprehensive encyclopedia belongs in every serious library."—Richard M. Golden, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of North Texas, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition "Rabbi Dennis has performed a tremendously important service for both the scholar and the novice in composing a work of concise information about aspects of Judaism unbeknownst to most, and intriguing to all."—Rabbi Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism

Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
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Download or read book Decisions on Geographic Names in the United States written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebeca L. Hey-ón
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477327258
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Channeling Knowledges written by Rebeca L. Hey-ón and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hey-Colón considers the central role of water within the writings and imaginations of Latinx and Caribbean women writers and artists. Water is seen as a political border with the United States, but also symbolically as a carrier of knowledge, place of transmutation, and an embodiment of the Afro-diasporic religious figure of Yemayá, the orisha who is most directly tied to water. Oceans, seas, and rivers are the crux of narrative applications by writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa in her seminal work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, which likens the Rio Grande to an open wound "where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds," and thus the locus of trauma, but also of processing trauma. Likewise, Hey-Colón argues that the physical and the sacred are intimately tied together in Afro-diasporic beliefs--the body is literally the repository of the sacred within spirit possession and so these bodies, when they were captured and subjected to the traumas of slavery, were experienced at the same time over their travels across the Atlantic by the spirits they brought with them from the Old World to the New. In doing so they became a sort of living archive and invocation that is continually passed down through successive generations to their descendants. Water and spirituality are a place of trauma and of healing"--