The Glass Ark

Author : Giordana Naccari
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9788857245201
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass Ark written by Giordana Naccari and published by Skira. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Murano glass art through the glass animal collection of Pierre Rosenberg, former Director of the Louvre This publication traces the history of 20th-century Murano glass art through the motif of the glass animal. Taken from the collection of Pierre Rosenberg, art historian and former Director of the Louvre, over 750 glass animals are presented here. Some of the more famous series included are the pulegosi (bubble glass) pieces by Napoleone Martinuzzi, the birds by Tyra Lundgren and Toni Zuccheri, the Zebrati (zebra-striped) series by Barovier & Toso, and the aquariums by Alfredo Barbini. The volume also features a vast sampling of animals made by lesser-known but equally interesting glassworks, focusing on the aspect of technical and design experimentation in 20th-century Murano glass production. The catalog also showcases sculptures by living artists such as Cristiano Bianchin, Isabelle Poilprez, Maria Grazia Rosin and Giorgio Vigna, which demonstrate the inexhaustible source of inspiration offered by the form of the glass animal.

Author : Linnea Gentry
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780670841738
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass Ark written by Linnea Gentry and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1991 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Biosphere 2 project which has created a closed environment intended to duplicate life on Earth in a way that would facilitate future space colonies.

Author : Linnea Gentry
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140349283
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass Ark written by Linnea Gentry and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Biosphere 2 project which has created a closed environment intended to duplicate life on Earth in a way that would facilitate future space colonies.

Author : Answers in Genesis
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1683440129
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey Through the Ark Encounter written by Answers in Genesis and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time and explore one of the best-known biblical events at the Ark Encounter! Be transported back in time to meet Noah and his seven other family members, who lived aboard the Ark and cared for all the animals during the Flood. See what their living quarters may have looked like, what they could have brought on board, and even what kinds of clothing they wore. At 510 feet long, 51 feet high, and 85 feet wide, Noah’s Ark stretched an American football field and a half long. The Ark built in Kentucky is the largest timber frame structure in the world, built from standing dead timber, in part by skilled Amish craftsmen. It is an architectural and engineering wonder containing three decks of world class exhibits. Whether or not you have visited the Ark Encounter, this book will guide you step-by-step through this faith-affirming wonder. Many of the animals that lived during Noah’s lifetime didn’t look much like the animals we see today. Prepare to have your expectations challenged by a host of incredibly lifelike sculpted animals, along with exotic live animals from around the world in Ararat Ridge Zoo. Plus, you’ll learn how Noah could have cared for all the animals and how the Ark was big enough to fit them all on board. See what is being called the “eighth wonder of the world.” Over 300,000 visitors from around the world have visited the Ark since its opening in July of 2016Words used to describe the Ark Encounter: Huge! Impressive! Bigger than imagined! Breathtaking! Beautiful! Amazing!Have you ever seen a thylacosmilid, entelodont, or chalicothere? These are just a few of the unfamiliar animals you can see and learn about in the Ark!

Author : Joel Sartore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426217773
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Photo Ark written by Joel Sartore and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.

Author : Wendy Orr
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805062212
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ark in the Park written by Wendy Orr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her parents take her to visit a very special pet store in the park across from her apartment, both Sophie and Mr. and Mrs. Noah, the pet store owners, have their secret wishes fulfilled.

Author : Andrew Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906427474
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass Forest written by Andrew Peters and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ark lives a mile up from the ground - in the last trees in the world. But Ravenwood faces a new threat by the empire that wants its precious wood. Ark and his friends must travel deep into enemy heartland to find out what evil is planned Awaiting them is a glittering forest of glass skyscrapers, a twisted echo of home. But the wildlife within is infinitely more dangerous .

Author : Sabine Höhler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317521
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990 written by Sabine Höhler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the Cold War. Höhler’s study brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the way this latter-day ark was invoked by politicians, environmentalists, cultural historians, writers of science fiction and many others across three decades.

Author : J.A. Campbell
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770673725
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Ark written by J.A. Campbell and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlander Kurt Strom is on a mission to the half-submerged, frozen city of Chicago on a hunt for relics and clues to the cause of the 'Great Fall' that has left but puny, tiny isolated pockets of humanity surviving in the Cold World of 2309. He finds much more than he bargained for. Strom is abducted from an office building roof-top atop Lake Michigan by a strange Alien Force. He and his Inuit partner Sabo are transported to the opposite ends of the Earth. Kurt discovers they are marooned with an unlikely host of others finding themselves abducted and dumped upon an island prison of fire and ice. Together they try to work to beat impossible odds of survival, escape. If successful, they would then have to find a way to battle a Force of Darkness which orbits the Earth from a thousand miles high, controlling its destiny.

Author : Arianne Faber Kolb
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367709
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jan Brueghel the Elder written by Arianne Faber Kolb and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kolb has produced a thoroughly researched essay on this painting, which is in the Getty Museum. The study focuses on Brueghel's depiction of nature, especially his exacting representation of identifiable species of animals and birds, the names of which are listed. Brueghel's collaboration with other painters, his and other painters' re-use of the same theme and composition, and the history and practice of natural history collection and representation are central themes. The volume, which is printed in a horizontal format (it's 11x8") and heavily illustrated, is written for a general audience, though art historians will also find much of interest.