Download or read book Bodie s Gold written by Marguerite Sprague and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie's largest boom ended just over twenty years later, but the town survived into the twentieth century supported by a few small but steady mines. Mining ended with World War II. What remained of the town became a state park in 1964. In Bodie's Gold, author Marguerite Sprague uncovers the original sources of information whenever possible, from the first mining claims to interviews with former Bodieites. Enhanced with numerous historic photographs and extracts from newspapers of that period, as well as by the reminiscences of former residents, the book offers a fascinating account of life in a Gold Rush boomtown. The book is now available in a new, easier-to-handle paperback edition that will make it more convenient for readers who want to carry if with them in a car or backpack.

Download or read book Coins Bodies Games and Gold written by Leslie Kurke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. Here Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of Greek coinage as one of a number of symbolic practices that arise for the first time in the archaic period. By linking the imagery of metals and coinage to stories about oracles, prostitutes, Eastern tyrants, counterfeiting, retail trade, and games, she traces the rising egalitarian ideology of the polis, as well as the ongoing resistance of an elitist tradition to that development. The argument thus aims to contribute to a Greek "history of ideologies," to chart the ways ideological contestation works through concrete discourses and practices long before the emergence of explicit political theory. To an elitist sensibility, the use of almost pure silver stamped with the state's emblem was a suspicious alternative to the para-political order of gift exchange. It ultimately represented the undesirable encroachment of the public sphere of the egalitarian polis. Kurke re-creates a "language of metals" by analyzing the stories and practices associated with coinage in texts ranging from Herodotus and archaic poetry to Aristotle and Attic inscriptions. She shows that a wide variety of imagery and terms fall into two opposing symbolic domains: the city, representing egalitarian order, and the elite symposium, a kind of anti-city. Exploring the tensions between these domains, Kurke excavates a neglected portion of the Greek cultural "imaginary" in all its specificity and strangeness.

Download or read book Bodie 1859 1962 written by Terri Lynn Geissinger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains captioned, archival photographs that provide insights into the history of Bodie, California.

Download or read book The Gold of their Bodies written by Charles Gorham and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold of Their Bodies, first published in 1955, is a fascinating biography of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist artist, most famous for his colorful paintings of life in Tahiti and the South Pacific. Although fictionalized by the addition of dialogue, Gold of Their Bodies draws from Gauguin’s own writings and accurately portrays the adult life of Gauguin—his struggles to make a living from his art, his friendships with Van Gogh, Cezanne, Pissaro, and other contemporaries, his travels and life with the native peoples of the South Pacific, his relationships with Polynesian women, and his run-ins with French colonial authorities. Gauguin, prolific in his output (in large part due to the small price he received for his works), and troubled by poor health in his later life, died at the relatively young age of 54 in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. It was not until after his death that his works were recognized as masterpieces, and, in February 2015, one of his Tahitian paintings sold for the staggering price of $300 million dollars.

Download or read book Bodie The Gold Mining Ghost Town written by Kari Schuetz and published by Torque Books. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging images accompany information about Bodie. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

Download or read book Of Bodies and of Mans Soul written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1669 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bodie written by Michael H. Piatt and published by North Bay Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three decades of research, this book tells the story of mining in the former boomtown of Bodie, CA. Woven throughout are accounts of gambled fortunes, engineering marvels, and vigilante uprisings. Tracing Bodie's history from the discovery of gold in 1877 to the departure of its last residents in the 1940s, the book includes scores of never-before-published photos.

Download or read book Two Treatises in the One of Which the Nature of Bodies in the Other the Nature of Mans Soule is Looked Into written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1645 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Treatises In the One of Which the Nature of Bodies in the Other the Nature of Mans Soule is Looked Into in Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules written by Kenelm Digby and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brilliant Bodies written by Timothy McCall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and interprets the Renaissance glitterati—gorgeously dressed and adorned men—to reveal how charismatic bodies, in the palazzo and the piazza, seduced audiences and materialized power. Fifteenth-century Italian courts put men on display. Here, men were peacocks, attracting attention with scintillating brocades, shining armor, sparkling jewels, and glistening swords, spurs, and sequins. McCall’s investigation of these spectacular masculinities challenges widely held assumptions about appropriate male display and adornment. Interpreting surviving objects, visual representations in a wide range of media, and a diverse array of primary textual sources, McCall argues that Renaissance masculine dress was a political phenomenon that fashioned power and patriarchal authority. Brilliant Bodies describes and recontextualizes the technical construction and cultural meanings of attire, casts a critical eye toward the complex and entangled relations between bodies and clothing, and explores the negotiations among makers, wearers, and materials. This groundbreaking study of masculinity makes an important intervention in the history of male ornamentation and fashion by examining a period when the public display of splendid men not only supported but also constituted authority. It will appeal to specialists in art history and fashion history as well as scholars working at the intersections of gender and politics in quattrocento Italy.

Download or read book A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies written by Thomas Thomson (Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies written by Thomas Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aristotle s Theory of Bodies written by Christian Pfeiffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus understood, has a pivotal role in Aristotle's natural philosophy. A theory of body is a presupposed in, e.g., Aristotle's account of the infinite, place, or action and passion, because their being bodies explains why things have a location or how they can act upon each other. The notion of body can be ranked among the central concepts for natural science which are discussed in Physics III-IV. The book is the first comprehensive and rigorous account of the features substances have in virtue of being bodies. It provides an analysis of the concept of three-dimensional magnitude and related notions like boundary, extension, contact, continuity, often comparing it to modern conceptions of it. Both the structural features and the ontological status of body is discussed. This makes it significant for scholars working on contemporary metaphysics and mereology because the concept of a material object is intimately tied to its spatial or topological properties.

Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Simple Bodies of Chemistry written by David Low and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rehabilitating Bodies written by Lisa A. Long and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War's development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-consciousness. Looking to a wide range of literary, medical, and historical texts, she explores how they insist on the intimate relationship between the war and a variety of invisible wounds, illnesses, and infirmities that beset Americans throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and plague us still today. Long shows how efforts to narrate credibly the many and sometimes illusory sensations elicited by the Civil War led writers to the modern discourses of health and history, which are premised on the existence of a corporeal and often critical reality that practitioners cannot know fully yet believe in nevertheless. Professional thinkers and doers both literally and figuratively sought to rehabilitate—to reclothe, normalize, and stabilize—Civil War bodies and the stories that accounted for them. Taking a fresh look at the work of canonical war writers such as Louisa May Alcott and Stephen Crane while examining anew public records, journalism, and medical writing, Long brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with recent critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.

Download or read book Is There Still Gold in Bodie written by Jennifer Benito-Kowalski and published by Junior Park Ranger Adventure Kit LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uh-oh! One of the bears in Bodie State Historic Park has found GOLD. Gold was the reason Bodie became a town during the California Gold Rush, but it was also the reason the land and waterways were damaged. The animals of Bodie are worried another gold rush might happen if the humans find out there's still gold around. But what can a bunch of animals do? Cooperate! With the help of Kiara, the Junior Park Ranger at Bodie, the pronghorn, red-tailed hawks, bears, beavers, snakes, pikas, and all the other animals put their heads together, come up with a plan, and ACT to save Bodie! In Is There Still Gold in Bodie? the second book in the Junior Park Ranger Adventure Series by Jennifer Benito-Kowalski provides kids a brief history of Bodie State Historic Park, describes human impact on the environment, and shows the big things you can get done when you work together. Author Jennifer Benito-Kowalski draws from her fifteen years of conservation and park industry experience in creation of Is There Still Gold in Bodie? and upcoming books in her Junior Park Ranger Adventure Series. As a conservationist she has discovered the need for kid-focused, compelling story-telling that welcomes, embraces and celebrates diversity in our parks while educating the importance of protecting nature. Mom's Choice Award Winner: Is there still gold in Bodie? is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award. The Mom's Choice Awards (MCA) evaluates products and services created for parents and educators and is globally recognized for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. Using a rigorous evaluation process, entries are scored on a number of elements including production quality, design, educational value, entertainment value, originality, appeal and cost. Around the world, parents, educators, retailers and members of the media trust the MCA Honoring Excellence seal when selecting quality products and services for families and children. Is There Still Gold in Bodie received the gold award in December 2021.

Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Simple Bodies of Chemistry written by David Low (Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: