Venice & Antiquity

Venice & Antiquity
Author: Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300067003

Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.

Everything Under the Sun

Everything Under the Sun
Author: Molly Oldfield
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241433800

"The only thing better than the questions, in this delightful and informative book, is the answers." - Neil Gaiman "This book is GLORIOUS. It's heart-and-soul fabulous, page after page." - Stephen Fry "One of the best kids books I have ever had the pleasure of reading" - Pandora Sykes "This book is heaven on a stick" - Sophie Dahl A wonderful new paperback edition of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by original QI Elf, Molly Oldfield. How much bamboo can a giant panda eat? Do aliens exist? What we would do if we didn't have a prime minister? Why do hammerhead sharks have such strange-shaped heads? Find out the answers to these curious questions and much, much more! Ponder where ideas come from with award-winning illustrator, Rob Biddulph. Find out why you taste things differently when you have a cold with Michelin star chef, Heston Blumenthal. Learn about everything from how astronauts see in the dark to what the biggest dinosaur was with experts from the Natural History Museum. Fascinating facts are accompanied by gorgeous illustrations making the perfect gift for Christmas. Whether you read a question a day, or dip into it whenever you are feeling curious, this is a book to treasure and share all year round. Illustrated by Momoko Abe, Kelsey Buzzell, Beatrice Cerocchi, Alice Courtley, Sandra de la Prada, Grace Easton, Manuela Montoya Escobar, Richard Jones, Lisa Koesterke, Gwen Millward, Sally Mullaney, and Laurie Stansfield. Praise for Everything Under the Sun: "Trivia fans will relish Everything Under the Sun" - The Guardian "A brilliant book for any child, but particularly those who don't love reading stories" - David Walliams "A wonderful gift for families" - Evening Standard "A wonderful collection of 366 curious questions about everything from science to nature, dinosaurs to space" - Scottish Sun "Simply mesmerising compendium" - Waterstones "As cute as it is educational" - Babyccino Kids "This is a book to treasure all year round" - My Baba "An absolute delight" - David Walliams

Vengeance in Medieval Europe

Vengeance in Medieval Europe
Author: Daniel Lord Smail
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442601264

How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages. The sources collected here illustrate the power and reach of the language of vengeance in medieval European society. They span the early, high, and later middle ages, and capture a range of perspectives including legal sources, learned commentaries, narratives, and documents of practice. Though social elites necessarily figure prominently in all medieval sources, sources concerning relatively low-status individuals and sources pertaining to women are included. The sources range from saints' lives that illustrate the idea of vengeance to later medieval court records concerning vengeful practices. A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society. The introduction traces recent scholarly developments in the study of vengeance and discusses the significance of these concepts for medieval political and social history.

Renaissance Venice

Renaissance Venice
Author: John Rigby Hale
Publisher: London : Faber
Total Pages: 481
Release: 1973-01
Genre: Renaissance
ISBN: 9780571089758

Atlas of the Conflict

Atlas of the Conflict
Author: Malkit Shoshan
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2010
Genre: Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN: 9064506884

This atlas of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict maps the processes and mechanisms behind the modification of the country during the last 100 years both on a policy level and in its physical implementation on the ground. Alongside providing an indispensable reference book on the specificities of the conflict, the atlas also provides lessons on a broader front, particularly in connection with disputes over former colonial territories and natural resources. Illustrated throughout with full-colour illustrations, maps and diagrams.

Python 101

Python 101
Author: Michael Driscoll
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre:
ISBN: 0996062815

Learn how to program with Python from beginning to end. This book is for beginners who want to get up to speed quickly and become intermediate programmers fast!

Duty and Desire Book Club Edition

Duty and Desire Book Club Edition
Author: Anju Gattani
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781953100092

To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.

The Anatomical Renaissance

The Anatomical Renaissance
Author: Andrew Cunningham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351894978

The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resurrected not merely the methods but also the research projects of Aristotle and other Ancients. The Moderns' choice of topics and subjects, their aims, and their evaluation of their investigations were all made in a spirit of emulation, not rejection, of their distant predecessors. First published in 1997, Andrew Cunningham’s masterly analysis of the history of the ’scientific renaissance' - a history not of things found, but of projects of enquiry - provoked a reappraisal of the intellectual roots of the Renaissance as well as illuminating debates on the history of the body and its images.