Download or read book THE LUNAR CODEX written by Annie O'Connell and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night of the car accident changes everything for Jace Northall, leaving him an orphan at three years old. Fast forward 12 years later, and Jace is struggling to survive his teen years. Frequent relocations complicate his life, leaving him feeling lonely and frustrated. After his most recent move, Jace is hopeful they have finally found a place to call home, where he can finally just be a normal kid. After an adventurous night out with his new friends Marcus and Izzie, Jace learns that there is nothing normal about his life and is left desperately fighting to keep his world together and protect the ones he loves. Realizing the enemy is closing in, he abandons his old life, searching for answers. With his newfound abilities and the help of his friends, Jace is reborn as the unlikely hero while he journeys to discover who he truly is and how he fits in.
Download or read book Star Gods of the Maya written by Susan Milbrath and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Download or read book Commentary Upon the Maya Tzental Perez Codex written by Carl Eugen Guthe and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commentary Upon the Maya Tzental Perez Codex written by William Edmond Gates and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tonalamatl of the Aubin Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bataria written by Allison F. Chan and published by AFWQC Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bataria, Sonic Ones of the Airborne Realm - 110 Pages of Epic Fantasy and 17 Digital Art Illustrations! An explosion on a Summer night in 1980 hurtles eighteen-year-old Sarah Qin into Bataria, an ethereal realm spanning Heaven and Hell, where good souls must fly as human-sized bats to cross a deadly gauntlet to enter the city of Valle Oroia, Gold Valley. But there is also Griseo Vastum, the Grey Wastelands, where bad souls are stripped of their bat wings and demoted to Shadow Rats. What is Sarah's fate? Join the hero of this story to find out! Bonus Material when you buy this novella: - Why this novella and stowaways are in the Writers on the Moon Time Capsule - landing on the MOON in 2023! - 16 Bonus Pages of Chapter One following Sarah in the thriller occult fiction novel KaLEIDoSCOPE of GooD and EviL BOOK ONE
Download or read book Earth Moon Relationships written by Cesare Barbieri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conference on the Earth-Moon relationships brought together a number of distinguished scientists from different fields - such as Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Chemistry - but also scholars of Literature and Art, to discuss these relationships, their origins, and their influence on human activities and beliefs.
Download or read book Calendars in Antiquity written by Sacha Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, from the origins up to and including Jewish and Christian calendars in late Antiquity.
Download or read book The Inscriptions at Copan written by Sylvanus Griswold Morley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Codex Mexicanus written by Lori Boornazian Diel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 2019 Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.
Download or read book Maya Inscriptions Dealing with Venus and the Moon written by Herbert Joseph Spinden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mar a Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo written by Nancy Deffebach and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: María Izquierdo (1902–1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to achieve international recognition. During the height of the Mexican muralist movement, they established successful careers as easel painters and created work that has become an integral part of Mexican modernism. Although the iconic Kahlo is now more famous, the two artists had comparable reputations during their lives. Both were regularly included in major exhibitions of Mexican art, and they were invariably the only women chosen for the most important professional activities and honors. In a deeply informed study that prioritizes critical analysis over biographical interpretation, Nancy Deffebach places Kahlo's and Izquierdo's oeuvres in their cultural context, examining the ways in which the artists participated in the national and artistic discourses of postrevolutionary Mexico. Through iconographic analysis of paintings and themes within each artist's oeuvre, Deffebach discusses how the artists engaged intellectually with the issues and ideas of their era, especially Mexican national identity and the role of women in society. In a time when Mexican artistic and national discourses associated the nation with masculinity, Izquierdo and Kahlo created images of women that deconstructed gender roles, critiqued the status quo, and presented more empowering alternatives for women. Deffebach demonstrates that, paradoxically, Kahlo and Izquierdo became the most successful Mexican women artists of the modernist period while most directly challenging the prevailing ideas about gender and what constitutes important art.
Download or read book Sunflowers written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and published by River Paw Press. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on War, Resistance, Hope and Peace,' (Соняшники: Українська Поезія про Війну, Опір, Надію та Мир), edited by Indian-American poet Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, and published by River Paw Press features a diverse array of poems focusing on war and peace, written in the wake of the current armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. This compilation includes contributions from seventy-eight poets from Ukraine and various global regions, presenting works in their original Cyrillic language alongside their translations in English. Additionally, the collection includes poems from Anglophone writers worldwide, reflecting on the war and the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Download or read book Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and published by River Paw Press. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" (Любовні листи до України від Уяви), a finalist at the 2023 International Book Awards presented by American Book Fest, is a bilingual poetry collection written in English by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis and translated into Ukrainian by Volodymyr Tymchuk. It comprises 66 wartime poems centered on the current Russia-Ukraine armed conflict. The entire collection was written and translated, primarily in real-time, within just eight weeks. The poems in this book aim to build bridges in the hearts of readers, fostering a connection with Ukraine and allowing the world to witness its deep yearning for love, peace, and freedom. "This is a book of love, pure and overwhelming as love should be. This is a book of spirit, strong and willing, as spirit should be." ~ Lyudmyla Khersonska Author of "Vse svoi," and "Tyl'naia-litsevaia," reflections on Russian aggression in Ukraine. "Fresh on the heels of editing the wide-ranging and necessary anthology, "Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on War, Resistance, Hope and Peace," poet Kalpna Singh-Chitnis has responded with impassioned verses of empathy in "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" as the war rages on in Ukraine. These are poems meant to bridge the divide between one world and another, between a lover and those fighting on the front lines of Ukraine. " ~ Brian Turner, Author of "Here, Bullet." "We had Auden, and we had Sassoon, but we now have Kalpna Singh-Chitnis with a different take on war. ~ Yogesh Patel MBE "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" is among the most important books of American, Ukrainian, and Indian literary societies with a cultural mission." ~ Volodymyr Tymchuk - Poet, Translator and Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "A common spiritual child, a representative of the Indian and Ukrainian people will bring us all closer to purification by a drop, a spark, and a metaphor." ~ Ihor Pavliuk - People's Poet of Ukraine, Winner of the British PEN Prize and Swiss Literary Prize 2021 "Kalpna Singh-Chitnis' patriotic poems are her original interpretation of love poetry, which grows from nostalgic listening to the voices of Ukraine, attempting to go beyond the pathos and rhetorics of textbook ideas, expanding horizons with visions, overcoming fears and deep wounds with one word-LOVE." ~ Marianna Cheletska, Literary Critic "Real Windows, Beyond the Nightly News. After reading these poems, one questions why this is happening and what is important to live, defend, and even die for?" ~ Michael Whelan, Poet, military historian, and a corporal in the Irish Air Corps of Irish Defense Forces "Love Letters to Ukraine by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis is an extraordinarily compelling call for love that can transform the insides of both, the writer as well as those who "receive" the letters." ~ Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet, and Author of Vanishing Words "These are not just poems of love but an exhortation to fight on, a declaration of the victory of the Ukrainian and the human spirit." ~ Zilka Joseph, Author of In Our Beautiful Bones and Sparrows and Dust "Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava" is fiercely passionate and compassionate. Through her "love letters," Singh-Chitnis conducts a symphony of love set to the cacophony of war machines." ~ Ami Kaye, Publisher & Editor, Glass Lyre Press, LLC "In Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava, the emotional horizon that Singh-Chitnis evokes is both expansive and intimate, bringing the reader into contact with what is essential to the human condition: compassion and understanding." ~ Richard Modiano, Author of The Forbidden Lunch Box, and Director Emeritus Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center "Kalpna Singh-Chitnis breathes love into her latest poetry collection, Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava. With threads of prayers, compassion, courage, and poetry, she weaves a beautiful tapestry for Ukraine." ~ Alicia Viguer-Espert is the Author of Holding a Hummingbird
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Moon written by Anthony Aveni and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning author, astronomer, and anthropologist, an exploration of the scientific and cultural significance of the mesmerizing cosmic display. Since the first humans looked up and saw the sun swallowed by darkness, our species has been captivated by solar eclipses. Astronomer and anthropologist Anthony Aveni explains the history and culture surrounding solar eclipses, from prehistoric Stonehenge to Babylonian creation myths, to a confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, to a spectacle that left New York City in the moon’s shadow, to future eclipses that will capture human imaginations. In one accessible and engaging read, Aveni explains the science behind the phenomenon, tracks eclipses across the ancient world, and examines the roles of solar eclipses in modern times to reveal the profound effects these cosmic events have had on human history. Colored by his own experiences—Aveni has witnessed eight total solar eclipses in his lifetime—his account of astronomy’s most storied phenomenon will enthrall anyone who has looked up at the sky with wonder. “Aveni’s authoritative but accessible text is the clearest statement of the way our perception of eclipses has changed over the centuries.” —Stuart Clark, New Scientist “Authoritative and engaging.” —Marcelo Gleiser, NPR’s 13.7 “A recommended way to share the spirit of the occasion.” —Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History magazine “Everything you need to enjoy a solar eclipse—and even predict one, just like the Babylonians did! Aveni’s entertaining explorations show the very different impacts eclipses have had on past and present cultures.” —David DeVorkin, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Download or read book Where Are the Snows written by Kathleen Rooney and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Are the Snows takes its title from the famous refrain of François Villon’s 15th Century poem “Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past.” Like that poem, the book functions, among other things, as an ubi sunt, Latin for “Where are they?” as in “Where are the ones who came before us?”—the beautiful, the strong, the virtuous, all of them? In keeping with that long tradition, these poems offer a way to think about life’s transience—its beauty, its absurdity, and of course its mortality. Allusive and associative, anti-capitalist and unapologetically political, aligned somewhere between comedy and anger, this poetry juxtaposes the triumphs and tragedies (mostly tragedies) of our current age with those of history, and—by wondering “Where are they?”—explores the questions of where we are now and where we might be going.
