Many Stones
Author: Carolyn Coman
Publisher: namelos llc
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1608980081
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Author: Carolyn Coman
Publisher: namelos llc
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1608980081
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Author: Franklin Henry Martin
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 1472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Max Bauer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-08-29
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0486151255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic study begins with a general analysis of precious stones followed by descriptions of their cutting and mounting. The remainder of this volume focuses on the diamond. 52 figures.
Author: William Bell
Publisher: Seal Books
Published: 2010-09-03
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0385674082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGarnet Havelock was always a bit different from other guys. He never quite fit in and he was okay with that. Now, in his final year of high school, he’s just marking time, waiting to get out into the real world. When a mysterious girl transfers to his school Garnet thinks he might have found the girl of his dreams, if only he could get her to talk to him. As Garnet struggles to win over one girl, another girl is trying to get his attention – unfortunately she lived over 150 years ago. Garnet becomes fascinated by her history and that of the black community she belonged to. As he draws closer to the truth, he uncovers a horrifying chapter in his town’s history, and discovers the ways in which deep-seated prejudices and persecution from the past can still reverberate in the present.
Author: Birgit Sawyer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-12-07
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0191542547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages in the process of conversion, and the growth of royal power. Many monuments were declarations of faith or manifestations of status; but virtually all reflect inheritance claims, and cast unexpected light on the prehistory of the inheritance customs found in later Scandinavian law codes. The results of this analysis make a significant contribution to understanding developments in other parts of the Germanic world, as well as Scandinavia. The inclusion of a digest of the data-base on which this book is based will facilitate further study of this rich vein of evidence.
Author: Joseph Gwilt
Publisher:
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 1472
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Published: 1968-06
Total Pages: 992
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David L. Haberman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0190086718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan is based on ethnographic and textual research with two major objectives. First, it is a study of the conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. In this capacity it provides detailed information about the rich religious world associated with Mount Govardhan, much of which has not been available in previous scholarly literature. It is often said in that Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible" for devoted worshipers. This investigation includes examination of the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. Second, it aims to address the challenge of interpreting something as radically different as the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploration of interpretive strategies that aspire to make the un-understandable understandable, and engages in theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and like realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and secondarily, its twin anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Accordingly, the second aim aspires to use the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to "make the impossible possible". ""--