Download or read book Mask of the Sun written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Emily Dickinson, slave revolts, Babylonian Kings, and Monticello all have in common? A solar eclipse. Whether it was deciding on the location of a grand home (or castle), inspiring poetry, timing battles and revolts, or planning expeditions, eclipses have inspired fear and fascination. Solar eclipses allowed Ptolemy to determine the length of the Mediterranean and helped Einstein establish his General Theory of Relativity. Preliterate societies recorded eclipses on turtle shells found in "The Wastes of Yin" and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." Eclipses were later instrumental in the creation of longitude and allowed Hubble to understand the expansion of the Universe (and disprove another theory of Einstein's in the process). John Dvorak, the acclaimed author of Earthquake Storms and The Last Volcano, examines this amazing phenomena and reveals the humanism behind the science. With insightful detail and vividly accessible prose, he provides explanations as to how and why eclipses occur—as well as insight into the eclipse of 2017, which was visible across North America.
Download or read book The Mask of the Sun written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finding of a valuable ancient Aztec mask off the coast of Key West leads the Gabrieli brothers on a harrowing adventure. Mysteriously transported to the 16th century Inca empire where the fate of an alternate timeline lies in the balance, Mike Gabrieli finds himself pitted against a most formidable Conquistador. Will it pay to have reached too fast for gold? Some additional time travel novels by Saberhagen: A Century of Progress After the Fact Pyramids Merlin’s Bones
Download or read book The Mask of the Sun written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1987-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mask of the Sun written by Philip Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mask of Enlightenment written by Stanley Rosen and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to become the definitive study of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Download or read book The Tsimshian written by Margaret Seguin and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of the region and introduces much original material on shamanism, basket making, and feasting.
Download or read book Mask of the Sorcerer written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If ever your heart has said, 'The great days are no more. The golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, and I came late, born out of time, to warm my hands at the embers that flicker and fade hour by hour' -- read this. . . Here are ghosts grim and gentle, red gold of Ophir, and fell weavings. Here is a tale to keep Scheherazade talking a hundred years." -- Gene Wolfe "Darrell Schweitzer is a fine writer . . . Not only is he skilled in the exotic use of the best trappings of Fantasy, he employs a disquieting awareness of the dark nooks of the mind and soul. . . .Best of all, Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound." -- Tanith Lee "Superlative." --Interzone Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella "To Become a Sorcerer," which forms the first four chapters of this book. He is also the author of "The White Isle," "The Shattered Goddess," and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are collected in such volumes as "The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack." An expert on fantastic fiction, who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he also co-edited the legendary "Weird Tales" magazine.
Download or read book Masks of the Spirit written by Peter T. Markman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (III) the metaphor of the mask after the conquest: syncretism; the Pre-Columbian survivals; the syncretic compromise; and today's masks. Over 100 color and black-&-white photos.
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Download or read book The Mask of Tamirella written by Associate Professor Dana Davis, PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-apocalyptic society, sixteen-year-old Caitlanna Mullen risks injury and death to salvage priceless artifacts. Instead, she uncovers secrets that will change her world forever.
Download or read book Report of the National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
