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Book The Bronze Bird

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anatoly Rybakov
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-12-01
  • ISBN : 9781410101426
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Bronze Bird written by Anatoly Rybakov and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to Kortik, originally published in the magazine Ionust' (Youth); it appeared in book form in 1957. The idea for the work came from a marble inkstand decorated with a bronze bird that stood on Rybakov's desk. The stand broke when he was moving to a new residence, and he saw that the bird was hollow. The thought occurred to him that the bird would be a good hiding place. In this work, Misha Poliakov has become a Youth Pioneer leader.

Book The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages

Download or read book The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages written by Ittai Weinryb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost wax casting (cire perdue) in western Europe and explores the cultural responses to large scale bronzes in the Middle Ages. Starting with mining, smelting, and the production of alloys, and ending with automata, water clocks and fountains, the book uncovers networks of meaning around which bronze sculptures were produced and consumed. The book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of metalwork in the Middle Ages and to the re-evaluation of medieval art more broadly, presenting an understudied body of work to reconsider what the materials and techniques embodied in public monuments meant to the medieval spectator.

Book BRONZE BIRD TOWER

    Book Details:
  • Author : CAROLE. WILKINSON
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781525243844
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book BRONZE BIRD TOWER written by CAROLE. WILKINSON and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art of the Bronze Age

Download or read book Art of the Bronze Age written by Holly Pittman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greg Woodard s Art of Bird Sculpture

Download or read book Greg Woodard s Art of Bird Sculpture written by Kurt M. Robinette and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world champion carver of raptors (as well as a master falconer), serves as your coach for carving your own fabulous birds. Greg Woodard shows how to create models that are painted, partially-painted, or all-natural. Sequenced photos illustrate every technique of every project. Where to start? How about a Golden Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Barn Owl, or Red-Tailed Hawk. An expert's tips take you through the delicate steps of inserting eyes and the details of lifelike feathering. A gallery of Woodward's own champion carvings lets you see prizes like "Cactus Flower," a preening American kestrel on a cactus, and "Hunting the Adobe," his natural wood sculpture of a prairie falcon chasing several swallows across a cliff colony.

Book Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant

Download or read book Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant written by Shelley Wachsmann and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Bronze Age, the ancient societies that ringed the Mediterranean, once mostly separate and isolate, began to reach across the great expanse of sea to conduct trade, marking an age of immense cultural growth and technological development. These intersocietal lines of communication and paths for commerce relied on rigorous open-water travel. And, as a potential superhighway, the Mediterranean demanded much in the way of seafaring knowledge and innovative ship design if it were to be successfully navigated. In Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant Shelley Wachsmann presents a one-of-a-kind comprehensive examination of how the early eastern Mediterranean cultures took to the sea--and how they evolved as a result. The author surveys the blue-water ships of the Egyptians, Syro-Canaanites, Cypriots, Early Bronze Age Aegeans, Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Sea Peoples, and discusses known Bronze Age shipwrecks. Relying on archaeological, ethnological, iconographic, and textual evidence, Wachsmann delivers a fascinating and intricate rendering of virtually every aspect of early sea travel--from ship construction and propulsion to war on the open water, piracy, and laws pertaining to conduct at sea. This broad study is further enhanced by contributions from other renowned scholars. J. Hoftijzer and W. H. van Soldt offer new and illuminating translations of Ugaritic and Akkadian documents that refer to seafaring. J. R. Lenz delves into the Homeric Greek lexicon to search out possible references to the birdlike shapes that adorned early ships' stem and stern. F. Hocker provides a useful appendix and glossary of nautical terms, and George F. Bass's foreword frames the study's scholarly significance and discusses its place in the nautical archaeological canon. This book brings together for the first time the entire corpus of evidence pertaining to Bronze Age seafaring and will be of special value to archaeologists, maritime historians, philologists, and Bronze Age textual scholars. Offering an abundance of line drawings and photographs and written in a style that makes the material easily accessible to the layperson, Wachsmann's study is certain to become a standard reference for anyone interested in the dawn of sea travel.

Book The Birding Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Sheehan
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 030771635X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Birding Life written by Larry Sheehan and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book with 200 full-color photos and a series of anecdotes shows how bird enthusiasts showcase their love of birds in and around their homes. By the author of Living With Dogs.

Book Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age

Download or read book Birds and the Culture of the European Bronze Age written by Joakim Goldhahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

Book Bronze and Sunflower

Download or read book Bronze and Sunflower written by Cao Wenxuan and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written, timeless tale by Cao Wenxuan, best-selling Chinese author and 2016 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. Sunflower is an only child, and when her father is sent to the rural Cadre School, she has to go with him. Her father is an established artist from the city and finds his new life of physical labor and endless meetings exhausting. Sunflower is lonely and longs to play with the local children in the village across the river. When her father tragically drowns, Sunflower is taken in by the poorest family in the village, a family with a son named Bronze. Until Sunflower joins his family, Bronze was an only child, too, and hasn’t spoken a word since he was traumatized by a terrible fire. Bronze and Sunflower become inseparable, understanding each other as only the closest friends can. Translated from Mandarin, the story meanders gracefully through the challenges that face the family, creating a timeless story of the trials of poverty and the power of love and loyalty to overcome hardship.

Book Dragonkeeper 6

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole Wilkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 9781525286186
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Dragonkeeper 6 written by Carole Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tao and Kai's journey has been long and at last they have arrived at the Dragon Haven. But what they find is not the sanctuary Kai has described. It seems they will be forced straight back into the clutches of the murderous nomad leader Jilong, who is intent on vengeance. Being a Dragonkeeper is so much harder than Tao could have imagined. Can he keep Kai safe? Bronze Bird Tower is the sixth and final novel in the internationally bestselling and award-winning Dragonkeeper series from Australian author Carole Wilkinson. This gripping junior fiction fantasy is perfect for younger readers. Follow the full action-packed adventure: Dragonkeeper(Book 1), Garden of the Purple Dragon(Book 2), Dragon Moon(Book 3), Blood Brothers (Book 4) and Shadow Sister(Book 5).www.carolewilkinson.com.au

Book Everygirl s Magazine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rowe Wright
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 710 pages

Download or read book Everygirl s Magazine written by Rowe Wright and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Birds of North and Middle America

Download or read book The Birds of North and Middle America written by Robert Ridgway and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Halberd at Red Cliff

Download or read book The Halberd at Red Cliff written by Xiaofei Tian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface. The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses."

Book The Plymouth Rocks

Download or read book The Plymouth Rocks written by Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Xbox

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Cheat Mistress
  • Publisher : M-Y Books Limited
  • Release : 2012-08-08
  • ISBN : 1907649654
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book Xbox written by The Cheat Mistress and published by M-Y Books Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheatmistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over seven million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most.With EZ Cheats: Video Game Cheats, Tips and Secrets: For Xbox 360 & Xbox, we aim to help you unlock the game's full potential with a series of tips, cheat codes, secrets, unlocks and/or achievement guides. Whether you want to find out how to spawn specific vehicles, learn how to open up harder difficulty settings, or discover sneaky ways to earn additional ingame currency, we have the answers. EZ Cheats are compiled by expert gamers who are here to help you get the most out of your games.EZ Cheats: Video Game Cheats, Tips and Secrets: For Xbox 360 and Xbox covers all of the top titles, including the Halo series, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Street Fighter IV, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Fallout 3, Mass Effect 2, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Half Life 2, Morrowind, and the Prince of Persia trilogy, amongst hundreds more top titles.Consoles covered: Xbox 360 / Xbox

Book The Poultry Chum

Download or read book The Poultry Chum written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food

Download or read book Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food written by Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: