Symbol of Terra?
Author | : Edwin Charles Tubb |
Publisher | : Orbit Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989-03-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780099631002 |
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Author | : Edwin Charles Tubb |
Publisher | : Orbit Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989-03-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780099631002 |
Author | : E. C. Tubb |
Publisher | : New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780879979553 |
Clues to the location of the lost planet Earth lead Dumarest to an eccentric collector of ancient wisdom, Tama Chenault, who demands Dumarest's total allegiance
Author | : E.C. Tubb |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575107081 |
Clues from Angado, clues from the lady Govinda, all leading Dumarest on in his search for the lost Planet Earth. But first they lead him to a collector of ancient wisdom called Tama Chenault. But Chenault is not all that he seems, and Dumarest is forced to bargain for the information he seeks. In return he must pledge allegiance to Chenault's deadly plan . . . (First published 1984)
Author | : Thomas Wilson |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The author of the work derives the origins of what we know as a swastika symbol from the earliest cultures. He studies its origins in the ancient shapes of a cross and brings the comparison of different types of cross symbols, which later evolved in the swastika. Further, the author examines the role of the swastika in the extreme Orient (Japan, Korea, China, and Tibet), the classical Orient (Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia, Phenicia, Lycaonia, Armenia, Caucasus, and Asia Minor - including Troy and mentioning Schliemann), Africa (Egypt, Algeria, Ashantee), classical Occident (Mediterranean - Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, Milos, and Thera), Europe (the Bronze Age, the Gallo-Roman period, the Anglo-Saxon period, and the swastika on ancient coins), the United States of America (in pre-Columbian times, among the North American Indians, and a "colonial patchwork"), Central America (Nicaragua, Yucatan, and Costa Rica), and South America (Brazil and Paraguay). He shows various artifacts associated with the swastika, including spindle-whorls, coins, vases, and idols. The author also notes the importance of this symbol among both the ancient Buddhists and Hindus. It is generally a very deep and interesting study showing the universalism of the swastika symbol in different cultures of the world.
Author | : Jonathan Matusitz |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442235799 |
The symbolic value of targets is what differentiates terrorism from other forms of extreme violence. Terrorism is designed to inflict deep psychological wounds on an enemy rather than demolish its material ability to fight. The September 11, 2001 attacks, for example, demonstrated the power of symbolism. The World Trade Center was targeted by Al Qaeda because the Twin Towers epitomized Western civilization, U.S. imperialism, financial success, modernity, and freedom. The symbolic character of terrorism is the focus of this textbook. A comprehensive analysis, it incorporates descriptions, definitions, case studies, and theories. Each chapter focuses on a specific dimension of symbolism in terrorism and explains the contexts and processes that involve the main actors as well as the symbolism of both the purposes and targets of terrorism. Also discussed are new religious movements, which represent another important aspect of terrorism, such as Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese cult that used sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995. Over forty areas of symbolism are covered throughout the chapters, including physical and non-physical symbolism, linguistic symbolism, the social construction of reality, rituals, myths, performative violence, iconoclasm, brand management, logos, semiotics, new media, and the global village. This allows for an in-depth examination of many issues, such as anti-globalization, honor killing, religious terrorism, suicide terrorism, martyrdom, weapons, female terrorism, public communication, visual motifs, and cyberspace. Main concepts are clearly defined, and followed by theory illustrated by international case studies. Chapter summaries, key points, review questions, research and practice suggestions are recurring components as well. This groundbreaking text encompasses all major aspects of symbolism in terrorism and will be an essential resource for anyone studying terrorism.
Author | : Janet M. Macdonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jennifer Reid |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0776604163 |
From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (traditionally called Acadia) with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. Despite nearly three centuries of interaction, these communities have largely remained alienated from one another. What were the differences between Mi'kmaq and British structures of valuation? What were the consequences of Acadia's colonization for both Mi'kmaq and British people? By examining the symbolic and mythic lives of these peoples, Reid considers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots of this alienation and suggests that interaction between British and Mi'kmaq during the period was substantially determined by each group's fundamental religious need to feel rooted - to feel at home in Acadia.
Author | : Zelia Nuttall |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734047838 |
Reproduction of the original: The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
Author | : William G. Dever |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 2003-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575065452 |
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations.
Author | : Kathleen Cohen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520018440 |
This book focuses upon the tomb with a transi image, which the author defines as 'a tomb with a representation of the deceased as a corpse, shown either nude or wrapped in a shroud', tombs that were peculiar to Northern Europe from the late fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Cohen challenges the modern view that the transi image was a mere memento mori for the living. Drawing upon 200 examples of tombs with, as well as without transi images, and upon poetry, church hymns, prayers, sermons, ceremonial texts, and wills, she demonstrates that in the course of the 15th & 16th centuries the meaning of the transi evolved, reflecting changes in religious, social and intellectual life during this period.