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Author: Phillis Levin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2009-02-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0820333506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of poems by Phillis Levin won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.
Author: Joan Maloof
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2016-11-16
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1604697288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Maloof eloquently urges us to cherish the wildness of what little old-growth woodlands we have left. . . . Not only are they home to the richest diversity of creatures, but they work hard for humans too.” —New York Times Book Review An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally over a long period of time with little or no disturbance from humankind. They are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. In Nature’s Temples, Joan Maloof, the director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, makes a heartfelt and passionate case for their importance. This evocative and accessible narrative defines old-growth and provides a brief history of forests. It offers a rare view into how the life-forms in an ancient, undisturbed forest—including not only its majestic trees but also its insects, plant life, fungi, and mammals—differ from the life-forms in a forest manipulated by humans. What emerges is a portrait of a beautiful, intricate, and fragile ecosystem that now exists only in scattered fragments. Black-and-white illustrations by Andrew Joslin help clarify scientific concepts and capture the beauty of ancient trees.
Author: Nachiket Chanchani
Publisher: Global South Asia
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780295744513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage. Nachiket Chanchani?s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range?s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains
Author: Miroslav Verner
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9774165632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the prominence of ancient temples in the landscape of Egypt, books about them are surprisingly rare; this new and essential publication from a prominent Czech scholar answers the need for a study that goes beyond temple architecture to examine the spiritual, economic and political aspects of these specific institutions and the dominant roles they played. Miroslav Verner presents a deeper and more complex study of major ancient Egyptian religious centers, their principal temples, their rise and decline, their religious doctrines, cults, rituals, feasts, and mysteries. Also discussed are the various categories of priests, the organization of the priesthood, and its daily services and customs. Each chapter offers the reader essential and up-to-date information about temple complexes and the history of their archaeological exploration, in the context of the spiritual dimension and cultural legacy of ancient Egypt.
Author: A. R. George
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally begun in collaboration with Professor W. L. Moran, this work collects all of the extant cuneiform tablets inscribed with lists of temples. The temple lists are classified in terms of their organization, whether associated with lexical lists, organized theologically, topographically, or hierarchically--presenting deities and temples according to their relative rank. The main part of the book is an up-to-date gazetteer of the ceremonial names of ancient Mesopotamian temples. This gazetteer replaces similar (though less complete) listings from earlier in the century and provides (where known) location, divine owner, and other relevant information for each temple listed. By including not only names from temple lists, but also from other literary genres, Professor George has provided a standard reference guide that Assyriologists and others with interest in Mesopotamian religion will consult with regularity for years to come. Indexes to the gazetteer of divine, personal, and royal names, and of cuneiform tablets enhance the reference value of this unique tool. The sixteen plates include some material not previously published.
Author: Adam Hardy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.
Author: Alfred Westholm
Publisher:
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Davison
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1462907059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rich religious tradition and architecture of Bali are on display in this informative guidebook. Bali is an island with literally tens of thousands of temples, a proliferation of religious architecture probably not equaled anywhere else in the world. Each temple is like a model of the universe in miniature, reflecting Balinese assumptions about the nature of the universe and man's place in relation to the gods, the ancestors, and the rest of creation. This book is intended as a general introduction to the architectural symbolism of the typical Balinese temple and the cosmological significance of its layout. The informative text is complemented by dozens of watercolor illustrations and will provide a useful guide to many of the temples that the reader is likely to visit during a stay on the island.
Author: Tova Ganzel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9004444793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContextualizing Jewish Temples presents ten essays all written by specialists offering cross-disciplinary perspectives on the ancient Jewish temples and their contexts.
Author: Ton Derks
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789053562543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBevölkerungsgeschichte - Gallien - Siedlungsgeschichte - Tempel - Ritus - Religion - Götter.
