Download or read book Arpia written by and published by Peter A. Craddock. This book was released on with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tattooed Bodies written by James Martell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the volume reflects the sheer diversity of meanings attributed to tattoos throughout history and across cultures. Essays explore conceptualizations of tattoos and tattooing in Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy, while utilizing theoretical perspectives to interpret tattoos in literary works by Melville, Beckett, Kafka, Genet, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others. Tattooed Bodies prompts readers to explore a few significant questions: Are tattoos unique phenomena or an art medium in need of special theoretical exploration? If so, what conceptual paradigms and theories might best shape our understanding of tattoos and their complex ubiquity in world cultures and histories?
Download or read book The Evolution of War written by Maurice R. Davie and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primitive peoples are also expertly examined.
Download or read book From the Land of Tattooed Warriors written by Jeffrey L Gross and published by Pageturner Press and Media. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Land of Tattooed Warriors; A Voyage from the Marquesas Islands to the Hawaiian Islands is a story of a battle, exile, romance and discovery of a land where life could begin anew. It tells the story of the incredible voyage from the Marquesas Islands by the first settlers of the Hawaiian Islands. The Marquesas Islands are fantastically rugged lands of savage grandeur and beauty; the remnants of ancient volcanic calderas that rise abruptly out of the sea. Theirs was a nearly forgotten dualistic world of both love and beauty, violence and fear. Where tribal warriors lived in a continual state of war and wild, bold and powerful landscapes created inhabitants possessing the same qualities. After a devastating military defeat, their Te'i'i tribe was exiled from its coastal valley into an inland area where survival by farming during a current drought would be uncertain. Their tribe had been able to move three double-hull voyaging canoes inland for protection allowing some to brave the dangers of the sea on a voyage of discovery in search of a new home. Among them were Takitoa, the leading warrior of the tribe, and Nanihi, the beautiful first-born daughter of their chief. While on Nuku Hiva Island their love was forbidden due to Nanihi's royal ancestry, but after leaving Taioha'e Bay and heading north to the Hawaiian Islands, they became free from taboo or tapu. During the month-long voyage, their romance grew and after settling into their new home in Waipi'o Valley on Hawai'i Island, they married. Nanihi gave birth to a son, Keali'i, and due to his mother's royal ancestry, he became high chief.
Download or read book Tattooed Warriors written by Jeffrey Gross and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tattooing the World written by Juniper Ellis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Juniper Ellis traces the origins and significance of modern tattoo in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, Albert Wendt, and Sia Figiel." --book cover.
Download or read book Painted People Humanity in 21 Tattoos written by Matt Lodder and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now.
Download or read book Some Heresies Dealt with written by Alexander Hay Japp and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Throne written by Stella Gemmell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is safe, and no one is to be trusted as the bloody war that began in Stella Gemmell’s The City continues... The dreaded emperor is dead. The successor to the throne is his nemesis, Archange. Many hope her reign will usher in a new era of freedom and stability. Soon however, word arises of a massive army gathering in the shadows of the north. They are eager to lay waste to the City and annihilate anyone—man, woman, or child—within it. Yet just as the swords clang in fields wet with the blood of warriors, family feuds, ancient rivalries, and political battles rage on within the cold stone walls of the City. A hero must rise up and restore the peace before anything left to fight for is consumed by the madness.
Download or read book The Warrior and the Druidess written by Cornelia Amiri and published by Cornelia Amiri. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 117 AD, Rome gave up on conquering Caledonia, the Picts ruled their land as they pleased, and Emperor Hadrian had to erect a huge wall to keep Roman-Britain safe from them. Druidess Tanwen’s quest takes her from her home of Britannia to Caledonia. The spirit of her ancestor, Boudica, sends Tanwen forth to wed the son of the chief of the Caledonii tribe: to aid in the war against Rome, keep their ways alive, and save Boudica's bloodline. But Brude, her intended, has other ideas. Tanwen's gorgeous, makes Brude’s blood boil, and he can't stop thinking of her. But Brude won't wed a druidess. Yet the fate of Caledonia rests in the hands of the warrior and the druidess. Will they put their differences aside to fulfill their destiny?
Download or read book Tattoo Histories written by Sinah Theres Kloß and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyses and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporary perspectives. Rather than presenting a universal, essentialized history of tattooing, the volume’s objective is to focus on the entangled and transcultural histories, narratives, and practices related to tattoos. Contributions stem from various fields, including Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Media and Literary Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Sociology. They advance the current endeavour on the part of tattoo scholars to challenge Eurocentric and North American biases prevalent in much of tattoo research, by including various analyses based in locations such as Malaysia, Israel, East Africa, and India. The thematic focus is on the transformative capacity of tattoos and tattooing, with regard to the social construction of bodies and subjectivity; the (re-)creation of social relationships through the definition of (non-)tattooed others; the formation and consolidation of group identities, traditions, and authenticity; and the conceptualization of art and its relevance to tattoo artist–tattooee relations.
Download or read book Pictish Warrior AD 297 841 written by Paul Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First mentioned by name in AD 297, the Picts inhabited Northern Britain from the end of the 3rd century AD to the 9th. They rose to power in the devastation following Emperor Septimus Severus's repression of the Caledonians in AD 208, and dominated Northern Britain for over 500 years, before vanishing mysteriously. The Picts represent a high point of Celtic civilisation, remaining free and unconquered beyond the borders of the Roman world, and rising to become the first barbarians to form a recognisable 'nation'. This title takes a detailed look at their origins, and examines Pictish heroic and warrior society, covering education and training, appearance and equipment, the status of women, and the experience of battle.
Download or read book Magellan s Cross written by Richard J. Field and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero of this historical novel is Martin Olden. The story is set against the researched facts of Magellan's voyage to Asia. In 1494 the division of the globe into two spheres of influence, between Portugal and Spain, left a vital question unanswered: which country's sphere encompassed Asia - particularly the fabulously wealthy Spice Islands? In 1519 Captain-General Ferdinand Magellan led a Spanish expedition, sailing westwards, to disprove Portugal's claim to the Spice Islands and establish that much of the rest of Asia were Spain's possessions. The voyage saw a series of dramatic events - by the time Magellan's fleet reached the Magellan Strait, mutinies had left all his Spanish Captains dead or marooned and there was appalling deprivation on the long voyage across the unexpectedly vast Pacific to the Philippines. It was there that Magellan, disregarding the Spanish king's orders, attacked Lapulapu a local ruler of Mactan Island. Prior to being captured on Mactan Island, Martin Olden helped Princess Lalu, Chief Lapulapu's half-sister, a skilful healer and powerful Shaman when she was assaulted by Santos - a misogynistic Spanish sailor. Captured by Lapulapu's warriors, Martin subsequently witnessed the fate of Magellan and fell in love with Lalu.
Download or read book Blood Ties written by C.C. Humphreys and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years have gone by since the events surrounding the death of Anne Boleyn. But her missing hand and all that it represents to the dark world of 16th-century Europe still draws the powerful to seek it out. Jean Rombaud - the French executioner of the first novel - has grown old, both in age and spirit. Wearied by the betrayal of a son and the scorn of a wife, he fights in the seemingly never-ending siege of Siena. Meanwhile, Gianni Rombaud has forsaken everything his ageing father stands for and now kills heathen for the Inquisition in Rome. Then he is summoned by Cardinal Carafa himself. His masters no longer merely want his dagger in the hearts of Jews, they want the hand of the dead queen... But only three people know where it is buried, and one of them is Gianni's father...
Download or read book God of Broken Things written by Cameron Johnston and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outcast magician must risk his body and mind to save the world from horrifying demons in this “kick-in-the-nuts, edgy, and dark” epic fantasy adventure (New York Journal of Books) Tyrant magus Edrin Walker destroyed the monster sent by the Skallgrim, but not before it laid waste to Setharis, and infested their magical elite with mind-controlling parasites. Edrin’s own Gift to seize the minds of others was cracked by the strain of battle, and he barely survives the interrogation of a captured magus. There’s no time for recovery though: a Skallgrim army is marching on the mountain passes of the Clanhold. Edrin and a coterie of villains race to stop them, but the mountains are filled with gods, daemons, magic, and his hideous past. Walker must stop at nothing to win, even if that means losing his mind. Or worse.
Download or read book Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second Class Citizenship written by M. Avilés-Santiago and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials.
Download or read book The King Country Or Explorations in New Zealand written by James Henry Kerry-Nicholls and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. This book was released on 1884 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author travelled through the King Country immediately it had been opened up for railway survey and construction. His journey with a Maori guide around central North Island is a valuable account.
