Download or read book The Emperors Needles written by Susan Sorek and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obelisks, originally associated with the sun cult, had their heyday between 2000 and 1500 BC, when they adorned the Nile’s banks and proclaimed the splendour of the pharaohs. Today, only twenty-seven Egyptian obelisks remain standing and they are scattered in various locations throughout the world. Rome, with thirteen, boasts more than anywhere else, including Egypt itself. These monolithic structures can be seen in every corner of the ‘Eternal City’ and still hold a fascination for all who gaze upon them. This book is intended as a general guide to the obelisks that have found their way to the four corners of the earth. It examines the interest shown in them by the Roman emperors; it discusses each obelisk in detail, and traces individual histories and anecdotes concerning their journeys from Egypt. The work is illustrated throughout and translations of some of the relevant historical texts are supplied.
Download or read book Cleopatra s Needles written by Bob Brier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain that they would work. As the three obelisks, bound for Paris, London and New York, sailed towards their new homes, the world held its breath. Newspapers reported the obelisks' daily progress, complete with dramatic illustrations of the heroic deeds of the engineers and crews struggling under nearly impossible conditions. When the obelisks finally arrived safely in their new homes, bands played Cleopatra's Needle Waltz and silver obelisk pencils dangled from fashionable ladies' necks. This turbulent era, caught up in obelisk mania, is recreated by Bob Brier in all its glory. Amid astounding tales of engineering dexterity and naval endurance, the individuals involved in transporting the obelisks and receiving them in their future homes are brought to life through their letters and diaries, newspaper articles and illustrations. Written by a renowned Egyptologist and author, this compelling book will fascinate all those interested in Egypt, its iconic monuments and the history of great endeavour.
Download or read book Sick Man Turns Out to be a General written by Da WuLang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: for recommendation, for collection] bad luck urge through the strange world, become a poor double children sold by mom and dad. His family was suffering from severe illness, his uncle was malnourished, and there was even a jackal, a tiger, a leopard and a poisonous drug. Shen Jingli expressed his desire to hang himself in front of his house and wear it again.
Download or read book Through the Eye of a Needle written by Peter Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.
Download or read book A Needle in the Right Hand of God written by R. Howard Bloch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. In his fascinating new book, Yale professor R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the hidden meaning, the deep beauty, and the enduring allure of this astonishing piece of cloth. Bloch opens with a gripping account of the event that inspired the Tapestry: the swift, bloody Battle of Hastings, in which the Norman bastard William defeated the Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, and laid claim to England under his new title, William the Conqueror. But to truly understand the connection between battle and embroidery, one must retrace the web of international intrigue and scandal that climaxed at Hastings. Bloch demonstrates how, with astonishing intimacy and immediacy, the artisans who fashioned this work of textile art brought to life a moment that changed the course of British culture and history. Every age has cherished the Tapestry for different reasons and read new meaning into its enigmatic words and images. French nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century, fired by Tapestry’s evocation of military glory, unearthed the lost French epic “The Song of Roland,” which Norman troops sang as they marched to victory in 1066. As the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe, Hitler sent a team to France to study the Tapestry, decode its Nordic elements, and, at the end of the war, with Paris under siege, bring the precious cloth to Berlin. The richest horde of buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, the matchless beauty of Byzantine silk, Aesop’s strange fable “The Swallow and the Linseed,” the colony that Anglo-Saxon nobles founded in the Middle East following their defeat at Hastings–all are brilliantly woven into Bloch’s riveting narrative. Seamlessly integrating Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Byzantine elements, the Bayeux Tapestry ranks with Chartres and the Tower of London as a crowning achievement of medieval Europe. And yet, more than a work of art, the Tapestry served as the suture that bound up the wounds of 1066. Enhanced by a stunning full-color insert that includes reproductions of the complete Tapestry, A Needle in the Right Hand of God will stand with The Professor and the Madman and How the Irish Saved Civilization as a triumph of popular history.
Download or read book The New York Obelisk Cleopatra s Needle written by Charles Edward Moldenke and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleopatra s Needle written by Sir Erasmus Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paint with Needle and Thread written by Shuang Qiao and published by Shanghai Press. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embroidery is one of the most typical traditional crafts in China, and has been practiced for two to three thousand years— an art form that has survived through time. This book combines the most classic techniques of Chinese embroidery with modern aesthetics to offer a new creative experience.A comprehensive guide to embroidery, the book is illustrated with detailed text, close-up photographs and computer graphics, and step-by-step explanations of the process of embroidery. This book will help you to:• Understand the unique aesthetic designs and color schemes that have emerged from traditional Chinese embroidery;• Fully master the tools, materials, and basic techniques used in embroidery;• Learn nearly 20 classic Chinese embroidery techniques, and use each one to embroider a beautiful small-sized piece or pattern;• Produce around 10 pieces, including butterflies, flowers, and kingfishers, integrating a variety of techniques;• Gain new inspiration and stimulate your imagination and creativity for new projects.• Find transfer patterns for each piece in the appendix for you to print out and use.Containing all the knowledge beginners need to take up the craft, the book also allows experienced embroiderers to explore their potential. These beautiful patterns can be used in every aspect of your life. Treat the fabric as a canvas and the needle as the brush to bring your ideal world to life with embroidery!
Download or read book Public Feminism in Times of Crisis written by Leila Easa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media. While their concept of public feminism emerges from a moment of acute crisis (the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic), Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager locate its foundations in history, journeying through broad swatches of time looking for connections between the centuries through art and literature and culture. Each chapter focuses on what public feminists do in the world: Public feminists gain control over an archive that otherwise contains or excludes them; they recover their own stories and subjective experiences, sometimes for activist use; they examine images and language that construct women in patriarchal texts; they situate the individual within a collective and the collective within an individual; they confront the limitations of such situating due to the containment of patriarchy and reclaim new systems of power in response; and they resurface a deep history for the alternative strategies of memorializing they employ. In navigating these practices, the authors also attend to the material conditions of writing histories as well as those shaping and enabling public feminist acts and protests more broadly.
Download or read book William H Vanderbilt s Gift of an Egyptian Obelisk Cleopatra s Needle written by Henry H Gorringe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Branding Needle written by Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies Complete Guide to Needle work and Embroidery written by Miss Lambert (F.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving the Needle With Lean OKRs written by Bart den Haak and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders in the digital era are faced with breaking into new markets, disrupting existing ones, and doing so with more precision than ever before just to keep up with their competitors. To innovate more quickly, to rapidly experiment with ideas and technology, to pivot seemingly overnight, you need to have a system in place that can help you execute your most ambitious strategy. While OKRs (Objective and Key Results) have made huge waves recently, practical implementation of OKRs remains elusive for many. Lean OKRs are the evolved version of the OKR strategy execution tool that has powered the transformational journeys of giants like Google and Facebook. It is the lightweight method that turns good ideas into great execution, heightens employee engagement, aligns teams, and achieves measurable, breakthrough results. Lean OKRs presents insightful anecdotes, creative exercises, clear figures and step-by-step models. Designed as a comprehensive guide, it covers everything from theoretical roots to practical execution, including company-wide strategy alignment and emotional management. Applicable to small companies as well as large organisations, Lean OKRs drives innovation through behavioral changes, empowering and motivating teams through focused daily OKR practices that are simple to put into action. Practical and to the point, this book integrates a unique combination of structural and leadership strategies, resulting in a new approach to OKRs that conquers the hurdles experienced by most business leaders today.
Download or read book The Mysteries of the People The branding needle written by Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Branding Needle or The Monastery of Charolles written by Eugène Sue and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel titled 'The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles' by Eugène Sue tells a story of Queen Brunhild, a powerful figure from the sixth century who is the ancestor of Catherine of Medici, her tragic life, as well as the rustic and peaceful life of the settlement of Charolles. Sue looks upon the settlement of Charolles as the initial step towards the Communes, which later became a significant feature in the history of France. With the historic accuracy of the royal charter of Charolles, the novel describes the circumstances under which the charter was granted and the perils it faced. The story is a fascinating historical narrative that provides valuable insights into the history of France.
Download or read book Republicanism during the Early Roman Empire written by Sam Wilkinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the political ideology of Republicanism under the Roman emperors of the first century AD, Sam Wilkinson puts forward the hypothesis that there was indeed opposition to the political structure and ideology of the rulers on the grounds of Republicanism. While some Romans wanted a return to the Republic, others wanted the emperor to ensure his reign was as close to Republican moral and political ideology as possible. Analysing the discourse of the period, the book charts how the view of law, morality and behaviour changed under the various Imperial regimes of the first century AD. Uniquely, this book explores how emperors could choose to set their regime in a more Republican or more Imperial manner, thus demonstrating it was possible for both the opposition and an emperor to be Republican. The book concludes by providing evidence of Republicanism in the first century AD which not only created opposition to the emperors, but also became part of the political debate in this period.
Download or read book Shark Utilization Marketing and Trade written by Stefania Vannuccini and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharks are only a small proportion of world recorded fish landings, but they are a versatile and valuable resource. They sustain important fisheries in several countries and are a cheap but valuable source of protein for coastal communities dependent on subsistence fisheries. Sharks are exploited for their meat, fins, teeth, cartilage, liver and other internal organs. This report details species used and methods of preparation for various purposes.
