Life in Stone

Life in Stone

Author: Christa Sadler

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780938216810

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An overview of the Colorado Plateau's fossil remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago, featuring numerous illustrations and photographs.


Life in Stone

Life in Stone

Author: Rolf Ludvigsen

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0774841516

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Life in Stone is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils. Each of its chapters is written by a specialist for a general audience, and each is devoted to a separate fossil group that is particularly well represented in the province. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Life in Stone will provide fascinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the animals and plants that inhabited British Columbia during prehistoric times.


The Life-Giving Stone

The Life-Giving Stone

Author: Michael T. Searcy

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2011-05-15

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0816501262

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In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.


The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone: A Novel

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone: A Novel

Author: Adele Griffin

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1616953616

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For fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Girl, Interrupted, and A.S. King, National Book Award-finalist Adele Griffin tells the fully illustrated story of a brilliant young artist, her mysterious death, and the fandom that won't let her go. From the moment she stepped foot in NYC, Addison Stone’s subversive street art made her someone to watch, and her violent drowning left her fans and critics craving to know more. I conducted interviews with those who knew her best—including close friends, family, teachers, mentors, art dealers, boyfriends, and critics—and retraced the tumultuous path of Addison's life. I hope I can shed new light on what really happened the night of July 28. —Adele Griffin


Life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

Life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: Raintree Publishers

Published: 2014-08-14

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781406285628

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This volume examines daily life for children in prehistoric Britain. Chapters focus on the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages, looking at family life, finding food, education, religion, art, culture and much more.


The Lives of Stone Tools

The Lives of Stone Tools

Author: Kathryn Weedman Arthur

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0816537135

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"This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.


Blood from a Stone

Blood from a Stone

Author: Richard Hammer

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-06-23

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0765386038

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The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.


Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone

Author: Abraham Verghese

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 8184001754

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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.


Listening to Stone

Listening to Stone

Author: Hayden Herrera

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0374281165

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"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--


How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter

How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 146779080X

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Team up with Dar, who lived around 15,000 years ago in the late Stone Age. Find out what it takes to survive in prehistoric times as he teaches you how to: ● trap animals ● make fire ● build shelters ● hunt a mammoth Do you have the skills and guts to be a Stone-Age hunter?