Download or read book Il Lato Oscuro di Marte Dal Mito Alla Colonizzazione written by Stefano Nasetti and published by Stefano Nasetti. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nel più completo, dettagliato e aggiornato libro mai pubblicato su Marte, l’autore espone la sua minuziosa ricerca riguardo tutte le conoscenze sul pianeta rosso, anticipa le prossime rivelazioni scientifiche e ci guida alla ricerca di possibili risposte alle domande riguardanti il perché il pianeta rosso è stato così importante per tutte le antiche civiltà, e sul probabile perché sia sovente stato associato a una divinità della guerra e ai concetti di vita e rinascita. Dalle prime osservazioni fino alle ultime scoperte scientifiche frutto dell’esplorazione spaziale, l’autore propone un viaggio tra astronomia, storia, mitologia e attualità. Pagina dopo pagina emerge chiaro come l’idea che avevamo riguardo il passato e il presente di Marte, sia completamente cambiata. Le analogie tra quanto ora conosciamo dal punto di vista scientifico-astronomico e le conoscenze delle antiche civiltà, aprono scenari affascinanti. Dalle civiltà mesopotamiche a quelle del mediterraneo, passando per l’Egitto, le civiltà del centro e Sud America, quelle dei nativi americani, delle civiltà dell’india, del Giappone fino a quella degli aborigeni australiani, l’incredibile quantità d’informazioni riguardo il passato di Marte, e forse della Terra, contenuta nei miti antichi porterà il lettore a interrogarsi su molti aspetti della vita, del nostro passato e del nostro futuro che diamo forse per scontati. Sinossi Creazionismo o abiogenesi? Per spiegare la comparsa della vita sulla Terra c'è una terza via. Una possibilità che appare oggi essere la più logica e probabile, alla luce delle oggettive scoperte scientifiche degli ultimi anni. Una possibilità che addirittura sembra essere stata di conoscenza comune in molte civiltà del passato, in cui Marte (pianeta e divinità) ha lasciato il segno. Una pagina dopo l'altra, scopriremo realtà o possibilità sorprendenti. "Il lato oscuro di Marte - dal mito alla colonizzazione" è il libro che racconta la possibile storia del nostro passato e del nostro prossimo futuro, legato a doppio filo con il pianeta rosso. Le ricostruzioni storiche che tutti oggi conoscono, sono frutto delle sommarie conoscenze che avevamo in passato, quando queste ricostruzioni sono state elaborate. Oggi però, disponiamo di informazioni più oggettive e aggiornate per provare a formulare una nuova versione più verosimile, concreata e coerente della storia dell'uomo, di Marte, della Terra e della vita nel nostro sistema solare. Marte è rimasto impresso nell'immaginazione umana fin dalle prime osservazioni, e nemmeno l'ascesa della scienza e della tecnologia ha interrotto il fascino che ha sempre circondato questo pianeta. I telescopi, nel 1880, rivelarono strani segni sulla superficie del pianeta rosso. Il pianeta rosso nel passato ha influenzato la Terra e la vita dell’uomo molto di più di quanto potrà forse fare nel futuro, condizionando il pensiero, il linguaggio e la quotidianità di centinaia di migliaia di generazioni, fino ai giorni nostri. Il legame tra l’umanità e Marte è un qualcosa di profondo, che trascende il mito, la leggenda e risiede nel profondo dell’animo umano, forse addirittura nel suo codice genetico. Nel prossimo decennio assisteremo ad annunci sorprendenti. Il quadro della situazione descritto nel libro preparerà il lettore a questa prossima realtà. Ciò che stiamo per sapere sul passato del pianeta rosso, costringerà l'uomo a rivedere sotto nuova luce, la storia passata della Terra e della vita su di essa!
Download or read book Chinese Buddhism written by Joseph Edkins and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castle on the Hudson written by Renato Cantore and published by Rubbettino Editore. This book was released on 2017-07-25T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Paterno was seven when he left Castelmezzano, a small mountain town in Basilicata to set sail on one of the rattletrap ships headed to America. Thirty years later he was one of the top builders in New York City, among the first to construct the skyscrapers that would form the world's most famous skyline. Intelligence, brilliance, intuition and an ability to stay ahed of the times made him a leading figure in the life of Manhattan. He created garden communities, focused on new technologies and turned to the best architects. Paterno didn't just want to offer houses, but new lifestyles to tens of thousands of people. His first American dream looked like a white castle at the northernmost tip of Manhattan, where he lived for years with his wife and son, sorrounded by a small but very loyal retinue. A friend of Giuseppe Prezzolini, he donated a library of 20.000 books, the Paterno Library, to the Casa Italiana at Columbia University. Fiorello La Guardia, the Italian-American mayor of New York City, called him a genius. Born into poverty, Paterno died a wealthy man on the green of the most exclusive country club in Westchester.
Download or read book Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle written by K. J. Dover and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.
Download or read book Greek Mercenaries written by Matthew Trundle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Mercenaries is an analysis of the political, social and economic aspects of classical Greek mercenary service.
Download or read book Comparative Poetics written by Earl Roy Miner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.
Download or read book Facing the Planetary written by William E. Connolly and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, tectonic plates, and species evolution—he combines a critical understanding of capitalism with an appreciation of how such nonhuman systems periodically change on their own. Drawing upon scientists and intellectuals such as Lynn Margulis, Michael Benton, Alfred North Whitehead, Anna Tsing, Mahatma Gandhi, Wangari Maathai, Pope Francis, Bruno Latour, and Naomi Klein, Connolly focuses on the gap between those regions creating the most climate change and those suffering most from it. He addresses the creative potential of a "politics of swarming" by which people in different regions and social positions coalesce to reshape dominant priorities. He also explores how those displaying spiritual affinities across differences in creed can energize a militant assemblage that is already underway.
Download or read book The Flying Saucer Conspiracy written by Donald Edward Keyhoe and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Donald Keyhoe.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Historiography written by John Marincola and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the past thirty years the study of classical historiography has undergone great changes. While not abandoning traditional questions about sources and reliability, newer scholarship, influenced and informed by the current debates in the academy at large about the nature and purpose of all historiography, has sought to understand the ancient historians on their own terms and has more closely engaged with the ways in which the Greeks and Romans constructed their pasts, with the various roles that history played in these societies, with the relationship of history as a literary composition to other genres, and with the importance of the historian himself in giving form and meaning to his history. The essays in the present volume, six of which are translated into English for the first time, address these and other issues. Topics treated include the relationship of history and myth, the importance of oral tradition in the formation of both Greek andRoman historical traditions, the role of memory (both individual and societal) in shaping notions of the past and determining what is thought worthy of record, the influence of other genres such as poetry and oratory on historiography, and ancient notions of falsehood and historical truth. An introduction places the essays in the larger context of earlier and more recent trends in the study of Greek and Roman historiography"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Mandarin Chinese written by Charles N. Li and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-04-20 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.
Download or read book The Battle of Dorking written by George Tomkyns Chesney and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirit of the Liturgy written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Softcover Edition with Index! Considered by Ratzinger devotees as his greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautifully written treatment of the "great prayer of the Church" will help readers rediscover the Liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as the very center of our Christian life. Among the many liturgical issues that he covers in this work, Cardinal Ratzinger discusses fundamental misunderstandings of the Second Vatican Council's intentions for liturgical renewal, especially the orientation of prayer at the Eucharistic sacrifice, the placement of the tabernacle, and the posture of kneeling. Other important topics he discusses include the following: the essence of worship; Jewish roots and new elements of the Christian Liturgy; the historic and cosmic dimensions of the Liturgy; the relationship of the Liturgy to time and space; art, music, and the Liturgy; active participation of all the faithful; gestures, posture, and vestments. "My purpose here is to assist this renewal of understanding of the Liturgy. Its basic intentions coincide with what Guardini wanted to achieve. The only difference is that I have had to translate what Guardini did at the end of the First World War, in a totally different historical situation, into the context of our present-day questions, hopes, and dangers. Like Guardini, I am not attempting to involve myself with scholarly discussion and research. I am simply offering an aid to the understanding of the faith and to the right way to give the faith its central form of expression in the Liturgy." - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, from the preface
Download or read book Queen written by Queen and published by Faber Music Limited. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen: Greatest Hits Volume 2 - Recreate the flamboyance of rock's greatest! Packed with hits such as 'I Want to Break Free', 'It's A Hard Life' and 'The Show Must Go On' in manageable sheet music arrangements for voice and piano with guitar chords.
Download or read book Northern China the Valley of the Blue River Korea written by Claudius Madrolle and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Placing Outer Space written by Lisa Messeri and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT's labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today’s planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe.
Download or read book Cultural Mobility written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Mobility offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. It has emerged under the very distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt and represents a new way of thinking about culture and cultures with which scholars in many disciplines will need to engage.
Download or read book Black and Blur written by Fred Moten and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and José Esteban Muñoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing.
