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Author | : Craig A. Grimes |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1800463766 |
In his compelling and fresh sixth book Craig A. Grimes takes a speculative look on history, power, and society. How so often little things lead to unforeseen big things, and carefully planned big things so often lead to nothing. A Distant Mountain takes one to The Valley of Mexico about 1350. The Aztecs have yet to rise to power; they are just one of the many Nahua city-states making up, as they knew it, the One World. What we know of these people, crushed in an eye-blink, generally begins and ends with ritual blood sacrifice. Yet at that time they had the most modern society of any in the world with, uniquely, free public education for all children, hospitals, efficiently managed public works, an ethical judicial system, and government supported associations that cared for the needy. The towns and cities were orderly, clean, prosperous and efficient. Which suggests that their society had both a rational and irrational aspect to it- like most. Age and youth, peace and war, death and love, the strikingly beautiful story is alive with a truth and understanding that illuminate the soul as a marvellous dream.
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Publisher | : Duncan Baird Publishers |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Hiking |
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Shows and describes ten of the world's greatest mountain ranges, including the Himalayas, Alps, Pyrenees, Rockies, and Andes.
Author | : Yoram Cohen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004499148 |
The IOS Annual Volume 21. “Carrying a Torch to Distant Mountains” brings forth cutting-edge studies devoted to a wide array of fields and disciplines of the Middle East, from the beginning of civilization to modern times.
Author | : Caleb Swift Carter |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2022-05-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824893093 |
Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago. Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.
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Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Mechanization, Military |
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Author | : Ian L. Donnachie |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719066733 |
This is the second of two anthologies designed to form an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. The collection of extracts in this anthology provide primary and secondary sources on industry and changing landscapes, new forms of knowledge, new conceptions of art and the artist, and the exotic and the Oriental. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and significance of the sources. Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than providing reassuring answers, but provide vital insights to the major events, movements, and personalities of the time. This volume provides an invaluable resource for all students of European culture in the period. A companion volume offers readings on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, and slavery, religion and reform.
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1838 |
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Author | : Peter Doyle |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2024-08-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0819501646 |
Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects--reverberation, room ambience, and echo--have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and landscapes. Author Peter Doyle traces the development of these acoustically-created worlds from the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus to the dramatic acoustic architectures of the medieval cathedral, the grand concert halls of the 19th century, and those created by the humble parlor phonograph of the early 20th century, and finally, the revolutionary age of rock 'n' roll. Citing recordings ranging from Gene Austin's 'My Blue Heaven' to Elvis Presley's 'Mystery Train,' Doyle illustrates how non-musical sound constructs, with all their rich and contradictory baggage, became a central feature of recorded music. The book traces various imagined worlds created with synthetic echo and reverb--the heroic landscapes of the cowboy west, the twilight shores of south sea islands, the uncanny alleys of dark cityscapes, the weird mindspaces of horror movies, the private and collective spaces of teen experience, and the funky juke-joints of the mind.
Author | : Dorothy Clark |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1488054703 |
New frontiers…and new challenges Prairie Courtship by Dorothy Clark Emma Allen’s spinsterhood bothers her less than the lack of opportunity to use her medical training. A wagon train headed to the Oregon Trail offers a new hope for the life she wants to lead. But first she must deal with the hazards of the journey—including infuriating wagon master Zachary Thatcher! Rocky Mountain Match by Pamela Nissen When blindness strikes carpenter Joseph Drake, the prospect of a lifetime of darkness fills him with despair. But strong-willed teacher Katie Ellickson knows what it’s like to be an outcast, and she won’t give up on him. Joseph thinks blindness is his most difficult obstacle, until he finds a bigger challenge—trying to reach Katie’s heart. Will she let him?