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Voyages and Visions
Author | : Jaś Elsner,Joan Pau Rubiés |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1861890206 |
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A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Voyage
Author | : Claude Sieber |
Publsiher | : Quintessence Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0867152966 |
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"This unique and fascinating book, filled with brilliant photographs, offers a journey into the cosmos of the natural tooth. With cross sections and other unusual perspectives, these photographs demonstrate the unique structure and form of each tooth and their interplay with light reflection and absorption, both of which play decisive roles in the reconstruction of the tooth. Indeed, this understanding has greatly advanced the development and handling of new dental ceramics." "The author lures us into an extraordinary world of photography by which we experience the inner life and beauty of the natural tooth. This excellently designed volume will be of interest to not only dentists and dental technicians, but to anyone interested in the beauty of nature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Voyages and Visions
Author | : Jaś Elsner,Joan-Pau Rubiés |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1999-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 6612450665 |
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A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Visions of Empire
Author | : David Philip Miller,Peter Hanns Reill |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521172616 |
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Richly illustrated 1996 collection on how Pacific plants and peoples were depicted by European explorers.
Eastern Voyages Western Visions
Author | : Margaret Topping |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art, French |
ISBN | : 3039101838 |
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This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the range of French and francophone encounters with the East from the medieval period to the present day. --book cover.
Visual Voyages
Author | : Daniela Bleichmar |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300224023 |
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An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this lushly illustrated book. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region's transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.
Book Of Vision Quest
Author | : Steven Foster |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2011-10-18 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781451672404 |
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Blending numerous heritages, wisdoms, and teachings, this powerfully wrought book encourages people to take charge of their lives, heal themselves, and grow. Movingly rendered, The Book of the Vision Quest is for all who long for renewal and personal transformation. In this revised edition—with two new chapters and added tales from vision questers—Steven Foster recounts his experiences guiding contemporary seekers. He recreates an ancient rite of passage—that of “dying,” “passing through,” and “being reborn”—known as a vision quest. A sacred ceremony that culminates in a three-day, three-night fast, alone, in a place of natural power, the vision quest is a mystical, practical, and intensely personal journey of self-knowledge.
Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013 2022
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309479363 |
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In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022, and popularly referred to as the "decadal survey," has provided high-level prioritization and guidance for NASA's Planetary Science Division. Other considerations, such as budget realities, congressional language in authorization and appropriations bills, administration requirements, and cross-division and cross-directorate requirements (notably in retiring risk or providing needed information for the human program) are also necessary inputs to how NASA develops its planetary science program. In 2016 NASA asked the National Academies to undertake a study assessing NASA's progress at meeting the objectives of the decadal survey. After the study was underway, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2017 which called for NASA to engage the National Academies in a review of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. NASA and the Academies agreed to incorporate that review into the midterm study. That study has produced this report, which serves as a midterm assessment and provides guidance on achieving the goals in the remaining years covered by the decadal survey as well as preparing for the next decadal survey, currently scheduled to begin in 2020.