Download or read book Assuan File Abu Simbel written by Giovanna Magi and published by Casa Editrice Bonechi. This book was released on 1989 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and History of Umbria written by Giuliano Valdes and published by Casa Editrice Bonechi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to the art and history of this part of Italy
Download or read book The Golden Book of Sicily written by Giuliano Valdés and published by Casa Editrice Bonechi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Heritage written by Francesco Bandarin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Heritage presents the most comprehensive analysis of heritage issues available today. Critically analysing the complexity of the current and forthcoming issues faced by heritage, it presents insightful directions for the future. Drawing on the author’s many years of experience working in senior positions at UNESCO, the book presents discussions of heritage sites all around the world. Today, our cultural and natural legacies face significant threats due to social and economic developments, political pressures, and unresolved historical issues. This book delves into these threats from two distinct perspectives: internal tensions and external pressures. The internal tensions include the disregard for human rights and gender equality; the increasing exploitation of heritage for political purposes; the development of post-colonial perspectives; and the necessity to reassess the established notion of "universal value." External pressures stem from global processes, unsustainable tourism, political conflicts, ethnic clashes, and religious strife that are causing destruction in numerous parts of the world. Examining the dynamics between heritage and these internal tensions and external pressures, Bandarin offers insights into the challenges faced and emphasises the imperative role of civil society in safeguarding the value of heritage for present and future generations. Changing Heritage explores a wide range of issues surrounding the crisis in heritage management on an international level. It will be essential reading for heritage scholars, students, and professionals
Download or read book Architecture of Ra written by Kyle Weyburne and published by Kyle Weyburne. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was turned into a feature film which scooped international awards throughout Europe. It finally solves that question that has vexed us for centuries; "Why did the Egyptians build their insane pyramids?". They were the World's first skyscrapers. One of them in particular, the 'Great Pyramid' is the last of the Seven Wonders of the World and it’s a miracle that it still stands. Many have tried to destroy it, even today, ISIS sought to do the same. And while Cleopatra seems remote to us, she lived closer to our time than she did to that of the pyramid builders... mammoths still roamed the Earth when the Great Pyramid was created!! Despite it being the most incredible structure that humans have ever built, we still have no idea what its function was. Most assume it was to be the tomb for King Khufu, but then again, most agree that he was never buried there!? So why then did they spend two decades building what was to be the World’s tallest building for the next 4,000 years? Surely, even the Ancient Egyptians weren’t so vain as to devote so much time and effort to simply proving the greatness of Pharaoh Khufu? Its measures are so precise that my distant ancestor 'Isaac Newton' studied its dimensions to gauge the size of the planet. Others are so overwhelmed by its exactitude and its immense size that they feel that they have to attribute it to aliens, or Atlanteans. It's understandable then, that we struggle to understand its purpose. This book though, finally reveals the truth and its stranger than any fiction we could conjure––they believed that their pyramids were necessary to save Pharaoh's life, but also, to turn him into a god!
Download or read book The Rushdie File written by Lisa Appignanesi and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents all sides of the Rushdie controversy, providing an international chronology of events, early reviews of the book, and more reflective articles drawn from the huge, worldwide coverage, fairly and fully representing all points of view.
Download or read book The Golden Book of Rome and the Vatican written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Future in Ruins written by Lynn Meskell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading European intellectuals such as Henri Bergson, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, and Aldous and Julian Huxley. Often critiqued for its inherent Eurocentrism, UNESCO and its World Heritage program today remain embedded within modernist principles of "progress" and "development" and subscribe to the liberal principles of diplomacy and mutual tolerance. However, its mission to prevent conflict, destruction, and intolerance, while noble and much needed, increasingly falls short, as recent battles over the World Heritage sites of Preah Vihear, Chersonesos, Jerusalem, Palmyra, Aleppo, and Sana'a, among others, have underlined. A Future in Ruins is the story of UNESCO's efforts to save the world's heritage and, in doing so, forge an international community dedicated to peaceful co-existence and conservation. It traces how archaeology and internationalism were united in Western initiatives after the political upheavals of the First and Second World Wars. This formed the backdrop for the emergent hopes of a better world that were to captivate the "minds of men." UNESCO's leaders were also confronted with challenges and conflicts about their own mission. Would the organization aspire to intellectual pursuits that contributed to the dream of peace or instead be relegated to an advisory and technical agency? An eye-opening and long overdue account of a celebrated yet poorly understood agency, A Future in Ruins calls on us all to understand how and why the past comes to matter in the present, who shapes it, and who wins or loses as a consequence.
Download or read book Mideast File written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Flooded Pasts written by William Carruthers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War. As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption. Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome.
Download or read book The Nile written by John A. Shoup and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an avenue for students to explore the Nile—the world's longest river—and better understand its larger role in society in the past, present, and future. The Nile River has been the most important natural resource for Egyptians and other Africans who live along its shores for thousands of years, bringing life to an otherwise arid and bleak desert region. Without the Nile, civilizations in Egypt could not have achieved such success. The physical, cultural, religious, and political impacts of this mighty riverway are enormous. This one-volume encyclopedia explores a breadth of topics related to the Nile River, from ancient irrigation techniques to 19th-century exploration and from current environmental controversies to concerns regarding man-made Lake Nasser. Readers will be able to explore beyond the physical aspects of the world's longest river to achieve an understanding of the Nile River's larger role in society. After a preface and introduction that provides general background information on the source, tributaries, and mouth of the Nile, the encyclopedia presents thematic essays that cover topics such as the Nile's physical geography; history; environmental issues and controversies; culture, religion, and legend; and politics. More than 100 entries cover key individuals, specific locations, geology and structure, significant expeditions, gods and deities, and folklore related to the Nile. In addition, the work provides an appendix of primary document excerpts from explorers' journals and more recent legislation on damming as well as an appendix of place names, interesting sidebars, and a helpful chronology of key events.
Download or read book Mai de ieri mai de departe written by Anamaria Smigelschi and published by Humanitas SA. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: „Cititorule, ai în mână o carte în care ieri e încă azi, iar departele e foarte aproape. Ți se face cadou o sursă de bucurie, melancolie și talent.“ (Andrei PLEȘU) Înzestrată cu vocația călătoriei, privirea ageră a artistului plastic și știința potrivirii cuvintelor, Anamaria Smigelschi ne poftește s-o urmăm în lungul și-n latul lumii, din India până-n Mexic și din Suedia până-n Egipt, într-o călătorie ce șerpuiește nu doar prin spațiu, ci și prin timp. Ghid neobosit și entuziast, autoarea se strecoară, cu ușurința celui care se simte pretutindeni ca acasă, prin palate strălucite, bazaruri încărcate de minunății, muzee care-ți taie răsuflarea și catedrale semețe, zugrăvindu-ne toate câte le vede când cu vervă și umor, când cu pioasă admirație. Gusturi, mirosuri, culori, sunete, senzații se amestecă într-o învârtejită simfonie a simțurilor, nelăsându-ne o clipă de răgaz între două călătorii. Iar undeva, bine tăinuită în spatele urzelii narative, ghicim iubirea Anamariei Smigelschi pentru trecut, pentru acel „ieri“ din titlu, dinaintea căruia face o reverență: „Nu-mi plac orașele futuriste care cresc din soluri mustind de petrol și dolari, insulele artificiale desenate pe ocean în formă de palmieri și enormele turnuri răsucite în spațiu înfrângând toate legile echilibrului și ale logicii. Trecutul însă mă pasionează, civilizațiile antice, misterioase îmi taie respirația, la fel locurile călcate de oameni vechi, șlefuite cu palma, ridicate cu puterea minții“. Zeița Ganga, din nemărginita-i grație, a turnat apă în capul zeului. Apa s-a scurs printre șuvițele-i răsucite, răcorindu-l. De atunci, indienii cred că baia purificatoare în undele râului îi va izbăvi de chinul reîncarnărilor și drumul lor către Nirvana va fi lin. La Varanasi, orașul sfânt al Indiei, pe seară, 25 de adulți și un tinerel peltic și deosebit de obraznic ne-am cocoțat, doi câte doi, în 13 ricșe deșelate și am pornit într-o goană incredibilă spre Gange. Pe străzi înguste și aglomerate ne-am luptat cu alte sute de ricșe, motociclete, taxiuri bombate ca niște gândaci cu spinarea galbenă din mușama, claxonând în delir, printre mii de indieni tuciurii, negustori ambulanți sau stabili, agitați în fața dughenelor mizerabile cu mărfuri heteroclite, atârnate sub firmele pestrițe, pe un caldarâm plin de hârtoape și cu movile de gunoaie la intersecții. Am coborât pe treptele cheiului cu o spaimă nebună să nu ne pierdem unii de alții în mulțimea colorată, noroc de un domn general din grup cu un cap mai înalt decât toți ceilalți. Am primit buchețele de flori cu lumânărică de la splendide făpturi înfășurate în sariuri strălucitoare și le-am plătit cu sume variind între 20 și 200 de rupii, în funcție de rezistența noastră la lumina ochilor lunecoși. Cu o dorință în gând ce avea să se împli-nească, le-am dat drumul pe apa deja plină de luminițe plutind printre sutele de bărci cu pelerini și turiști. O puzderie de copii se înghesuiau să ne arate o treaptă primejdioasă sau o groapă, după care își pretindeau recompensa. – India, 2009
Download or read book From the Browder File written by Anthony Tyrone Browder and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Smithsonian Archives written by Smithsonian Archives and published by Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Ancient Egypt written by John Malam and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the civilization of ancient Egypt, its history, geography, dynasties, daily life, religion, art and influences on subsequent civilizations. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
