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Book The Golden Flood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edwin Lefevre
  • Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
  • Release : 2005-11-01
  • ISBN : 1596054883
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Golden Flood written by Edwin Lefevre and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young man with his deposits of nineteen and one-half millions-and more to come-troubled the president. With that much cash, Grinnell already was a potential disturber of finance. With much more he could be infinitely worse-to the public and to the great moneyed interests. -from The Golden Flood This financial mystery novels revolves around an enigmatic young man who deposits ever-increasing sums of gold bars into a large bank, much to the bank president's bemused chagrin. A century after its original publication in 1905, this remains must reading for those looking for insight into the driving forces of modern economies, and the nature of the people who influence it. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Lefevre's The Plunderers. American journalist EDWIN LEFEVRE (1871-1943) also authored the short fiction collected in Wall Street Stories (1901), the novel Sampson Rock of Wall Street (1906), and the based-on-fact Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923).

Book Objects of Translation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Finbarr Barry Flood
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 1400833248
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Objects of Translation written by Finbarr Barry Flood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries--challenges existing narratives that cast the period as one of enduring hostility between monolithic "Hindu" and "Muslim" cultures. These narratives of conflict have generally depended upon premodern texts for their understanding of the past. By contrast, this book considers the role of material culture and highlights how objects such as coins, dress, monuments, paintings, and sculptures mediated diverse modes of encounter during a critical but neglected period in South Asian history. The book explores modes of circulation--among them looting, gifting, and trade--through which artisans and artifacts traveled, remapping cultural boundaries usually imagined as stable and static. It analyzes the relationship between mobility and practices of cultural translation, and the role of both in the emergence of complex transcultural identities. Among the subjects discussed are the rendering of Arabic sacred texts in Sanskrit on Indian coins, the adoption of Turko-Persian dress by Buddhist rulers, the work of Indian stone masons in Afghanistan, and the incorporation of carvings from Hindu and Jain temples in early Indian mosques. Objects of Translation draws upon contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and globalization to argue for radically new approaches to the cultural geography of premodern South Asia and the Islamic world.

Book Saints and Scholars

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  • Author : Hugh Magennis
  • Publisher : DS Brewer
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 184384303X
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Saints and Scholars written by Hugh Magennis and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies - from literature and material culture to religion and politics. Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old Englishtexts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate, they draw especially on Hugh Magennis' own interests in hagiography and issues of community and reception. Taken together, they provide a "state of the discipline" account of the present, and future, of Anglo-Saxon studies. The volume also includes contributions from the leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. Dr Stuart McWilliams is a Newby Trust Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Ciaran Carson, Marilina Cesario, Mary Clayton, Ivan Herbison, Joyce Hill, Malcolm Godden, Chris Jones, Christina Lee, Medbh McGuckian, Stuart McWilliams, Juliet Mullins, Elisabeth Okasha, Jane Roberts, Donald Scragg, Mary Swan, John Thompson, Elaine Treharne, Robert Upchurch, Gordon Whatley, Jonathan Wilcox

Book Beowulf  Scholar s Edition Revised

Download or read book Beowulf Scholar s Edition Revised written by Unknown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edition there are three modern English translations along with the original Old English version that students and teachers can use to study and compare the original epic in all its glory! Now in larger print!

Book Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

Download or read book Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age written by Adam Sundberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.

Book The Literary World

Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ea   s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story

Download or read book Ea s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story written by Martin Worthington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume argues that Ea used a ‘bitextual’ message: one which can be understood in different ways that sound the same. His message thus emerges as an ambivalent oracle in the tradition of ‘folktale prophecy’. The argument is supported by interlocking investigations of lexicography, divination, diet, figurines, social history, and religion. There are also extended discussions of Babylonian word play and ancient literary interpretation. Besides arguing for Ea’s duplicity, the book explores its implications – for narrative sophistication in Gilgamesh, for audiences and performance of the poem, and for the relation of the Gilgamesh Flood story to the versions in Atra-hasīs, the Hellenistic historian Berossos, and the Biblical Book of Genesis. Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story will interest Assyriologists, Hebrew Bible scholars and Classicists, but also students and researchers in all areas concerned with Gilgamesh, word-play, oracles, and traditions about the Flood.

Book The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius  1511 1575

Download or read book The Kaleidoscopic Scholarship of Hadrianus Junius 1511 1575 written by Dirk van Miert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadrianus Junius was Holland’s most important scholar of the third quarter of the sixteenth century. This book analyses Junius’ most important works, some of which have never been studied before. It contextualise them in light of the tradition of humanism.

Book Choice

Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Church School Journal

Download or read book The Church School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resilient Urban Futures

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  • Author : Zoé A. Hamstead
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 3030631311
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Resilient Urban Futures written by Zoé A. Hamstead and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.

Book The Sunday School Journal

Download or read book The Sunday School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scholar s Hand book on the International Lessons

Download or read book Scholar s Hand book on the International Lessons written by Edwin Wilbur Rice and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1414 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book The Academy

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Academy  with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review

Download or read book Academy with which are Incorporated Literature and the English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book SSC General Awareness   Topic wise  PYQ  Book  English Edition    18 Topic wise Solved Tests with Free Access to Online Tests

Download or read book SSC General Awareness Topic wise PYQ Book English Edition 18 Topic wise Solved Tests with Free Access to Online Tests written by EduGorilla Prep Experts and published by EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: