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Book The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

Download or read book The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals written by Edward Payson Evans and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution written by Peter Crawford Oliver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and non-Canadians seeking a clear, concise, and authoritative account of Canadian constitutional law. The Handbook is divided into six parts: Constitutional History, Institutions and Constitutional Change, Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Constitution, Federalism, Rights and Freedoms, and Constitutional Theory. Readers of this Handbook will discover some of the distinctive features of the Canadian constitution: for example, the importance of Indigenous peoples and legal systems, the long-standing presence of a French-speaking population, French civil law and Quebec, the British constitutional heritage, the choice of federalism, as well as the newer features, most notably the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section Thirty-Five regarding Aboriginal rights and treaties, and the procedures for constitutional amendment. The Handbook provides a remarkable resource for comparativists at a time when the Canadian constitution is a frequent topic of constitutional commentary. The Handbook offers a vital account of constitutional challenges and opportunities at the time of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Book Naming the Laurentians

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Graham
  • Publisher : Les Editions Main Street Inc
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 097395860X
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Naming the Laurentians written by Joseph Graham and published by Les Editions Main Street Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Perspectives

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  • Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-11-14
  • ISBN : 0226789373
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Ancient Perspectives written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.

Book The Commerce of Cartography

Download or read book The Commerce of Cartography written by Mary Sponberg Pedley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Mapping the American West  1540 1857

Download or read book Mapping the American West 1540 1857 written by Carl Irving Wheat and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Fashion in France

Download or read book The History of Fashion in France written by Augustin Challamel and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994

Download or read book Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994 written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites that the International Astronomical Union has approved from its founding in 1919 through its triennial meeting in 1994.

Book Rome s World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-08-16
  • ISBN : 0521764807
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Rome s World written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the Peutinger Map as a masterpiece both of mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology.

Book English Book Collectors

Download or read book English Book Collectors written by William Younger Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sovereign Map

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  • Author : Christian Jacob
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2006-10-15
  • ISBN : 0226389537
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book The Sovereign Map written by Christian Jacob and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book The Lost Constellations

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  • Author : John C. Barentine
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2015-10-23
  • ISBN : 3319227955
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book The Lost Constellations written by John C. Barentine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casual stargazers are familiar with many classical figures and asterisms composed of bright stars (e.g., Orion and the Plough), but this book reveals not just the constellations of today but those of yesteryear. The history of the human identification of constellations among the stars is explored through the stories of some influential celestial cartographers whose works determined whether new inventions survived. The history of how the modern set of 88 constellations was defined by the professional astronomy community is recounted, explaining how the constellations described in the book became permanently “extinct.” Dr. Barentine addresses why some figures were tried and discarded, and also directs observers to how those figures can still be picked out on a clear night if one knows where to look. These lost constellations are described in great detail using historical references, enabling observers to rediscover them on their own surveys of the sky. Treatment of the obsolete constellations as extant features of the night sky adds a new dimension to stargazing that merges history with the accessibility and immediacy of the night sky.

Book Cadillac s Village  Or  Detroit Under Cadillac

Download or read book Cadillac s Village Or Detroit Under Cadillac written by Clarence Monroe 1853-1932 Burton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Iowa

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  • Author : Thomas Foster (of Washington, D.C.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The Iowa written by Thomas Foster (of Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When France Was King of Cartography

Download or read book When France Was King of Cartography written by Christine Marie Petto and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a rich source for historians and historians of science investigating patronage, the governmental initiatives and support for science, and the governmental involvement in early modern commerce. Over the course of nearly two centuries (1594-1789), in adopting and adapting maps as tools of statecraft, the Bourbon Dynasty both developed patron-client relations with mapmakers and corporations and created scientific institutions with fundamental geographical goals. Concurrently, France—particularly, Paris—emerged as the dominant center of map production. Individual producers tapped the traditional avenues of patronage, touted the authority of science in their works, and sought both protection and legitimation for their commercial endeavors within the printing industry. Under the reign of the Sun King, these producers of geographical works enjoyed preeminence in the sphere of cartography and employed the familiar rhetoric of image to glorify the reign of Louis XIV. Later, as scientists and scholars embraced Enlightenment empiricism, geographical works adopted the rhetoric of scientific authority and championed the concept that rational thought would lead to progress. When France Was King of Cartography investigates over a thousand maps and nearly two dozen map producers, analyzes the map as a cultural artifact, map producers as a group, and the array of map viewers over the course of two centuries in France. The book focuses on situated knowledge or 'localized' interests reflected in these geographical productions. Through the lens of mapmaking, When France Was King of Cartography examines the relationship between power and the practice of patronage, geography, and commerce in early modern France.

Book The Explorations of the La V  rendryes in the Northern Plains  1738 43

Download or read book The Explorations of the La V rendryes in the Northern Plains 1738 43 written by George Hubert Smith and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fra Mauro s World Map

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  • Author : Piero Falchetta
  • Publisher : Brepols Publishers
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 840 pages

Download or read book Fra Mauro s World Map written by Piero Falchetta and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains: digital reproduction of Fra Mauro's world map with the ability to navigate within the map and extract information from it.