Early Mesoamerican Cities

Early Mesoamerican Cities PDF Author: Michael Love
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
This study of early cities in Mesoamerica will contribute significantly to the world-wide discourse on early cities and urbanism.

Early Mesoamerican Cities

Early Mesoamerican Cities PDF Author: Michael Love
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
This study of early cities in Mesoamerica will contribute significantly to the world-wide discourse on early cities and urbanism.

Maya Wasn't Built in a Day

Maya Wasn't Built in a Day PDF Author: Notebook Gift for Maya Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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MAYA WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY Notebook Birthday Gift is a 120 pages Simple and elegant Notebook on a Matte-finish cover, birthday gifts for women, birthday gifts for men, Perfect gift for anyone who's Name Is MAYA Lovers Diary, It's A MAYA Thing, You Wouldn't Understand, Ideal Gift Idea for friend, sister, brother, gradparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens who love MAYA , Great for taking notes in class, journal writing and essays, Perfect gift for parents, gradparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens as a Birthday gift. 120 pages Size 6 x 9 (15.24 x 22.86 cm)- the ideal size for all purposes, fitting perfectly into your bag White-color paper Soft, glossy cover Matte Finish Cover for an elegant look and feel Looking for a cool name tag present for MAYA Wife Girl Women ? Are you looking for a gift for your friend, parents or relatives ? Then you need to buy this Cute MAYA WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY gift Journal for your brother, sister, Auntie

Boundaries

Boundaries PDF Author: Maya Lin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501146564
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

2000 Years of Mayan Literature

2000 Years of Mayan Literature PDF Author: Dennis Tedlock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520271378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Book Description
A chronological survey of Mayan literature, covering two thousand years, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to later works using the Roman alphabet.

Maya's Aura - Goa to Nepal

Maya's Aura - Goa to Nepal PDF Author: Skye Smith
Publisher: Skye Smith
ISBN: 0988131447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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This is novel four of the “Maya's Aura” series. In this naughty novel of magic and mayhem, our young Maya is on the run and following a quest. Her healing hands have a side effect of creating fatal heart attacks in predator men. Unfortunately her youthful good looks attracts them like tigers to a lamb. Because the police want to question her about heart attack coincidences, she has fled the USA.

She must find out more about her powers, and since all answers seem to be in India, she and Marique to buy cheap tickets to Mumbai. Between Marique’s quest for sun and beaches, and Maya’s quest for gurus with knowledge of auras, their trip turns into a series of exotic adventures. Their road trip across India leads them to the beaches of Goa, holy Dharamsala, along the spectacular gorges of Nepal, and to the far side of the Himalayas.

About the Author

Skye Smith is my pen name. My family convinced me not to use my real name because my stories are so critical of predator males. You'll understand and forgive me this as you fall in love with sweet Maya, my main character.

For those of you who like stories about vampires, witches, and magic, you won’t be disappointed by my very different, more realistic take on it all. My vampires are parasites wearing business suits. My witches are healers ignored by the modern world. My magic is based on aura’s, and everyone has felt or seen an aura at least once in their lives.

Other Novels By The Same Author:

The Hoodsman – 12 historical adventures set in the Norman conquest.

Knut – many historical adventures set in the Viking Era.

The Pistoleer – 9 historical adventures set in the English Civil War.

Maya’s Aura – 8 new age adventures while tripping around the world.

1. “The Awakening” - She discovers her strange aura.
2. “The Refining” - She learns how to use her aura.
3. “The Ashram” - She searches for answers in India
4. “Goa to Nepal” - She follows a quest into the Himalayas
5. “The Charred Coven” - She fights black craft in England.
6. “The Crystal Witch” - She learns psychic craft in England
7. “The Redemptioner” - Psychic dreams of her ancestor Britta.
8. “Destroy the Tea Party” - Britta’s adventures in Boston in 1773.



Maya's First Rose

Maya's First Rose PDF Author: Martin Scot Kosins
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
I know that the thing we humans call The Soul really does exist. I saw it -- in the eyes of an Old Dog. This is the true story of Martin Kosins, and the very special pet Maya who changedhis life.

Collapse

Collapse PDF Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141976969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Book Description
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times

An Heiress to Remember

An Heiress to Remember PDF Author: Maya Rodale
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062838857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Book Description
Can a scandalized heiress… Beatrice Goodwin left Manhattan a duchess and has returned a divorcée, ready to seize control of her fate and the family business. Goodwin’s Department Store, once the pinnacle of fashion, has fallen from favor thanks to Dalton’s, its glamorous competitor across the street. But this rivalry has a distinctly personal edge… And a self-made tycoon… For Wes Dalton, Beatrice has always been the one—the one who broke his young heart by marrying a duke, and now, the one whose cherished store he plans to buy, just so he can destroy it. It’s the perfect revenge against a family who believed he’d never be good enough for their daughter—until Beatrice’s return complicates everything… Find happily ever after at last? While Goodwin’s and Dalton’s duel to be the finest store in Gilded Age Manhattan, Beatrice and Wes succumb to a desire that has only deepened with time. Adversaries by day, lovers by night, both will soon have to decide which is sweeter: winning the battle or thoroughly losing their hearts…

Sandcastle Beach

Sandcastle Beach PDF Author: Jenny Holiday
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 1538716585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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From the USA Today bestselling "master of witty banter" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a hilarious and heartwarming romance about two enemies whose feud turns red-hot.Maya Mehta will do anything to save her tiny, beloved community theater. Put on musicals she hates? Check. Hire an arrogant former-pop-star-turned-actor? Done. But what Maya really needs to save her theater is Matchmaker Bay's new business grant. She's got some serious competition, though: Benjamin "Law" Lawson, local bar owner, Jerk Extraordinaire, and Maya's annoyingly hot arch nemesis. Let the games begin. Law loves nothing more than getting under Maya's skin, and making those gorgeous eyes dance with irritation. But when he discovers the ex-pop star has a thing for Maya, too, Law decides he's done waiting in the wings-starting with a scorching-hot kiss. Turns out there's a thin line between hate and irresistible desire, and Maya and Law are really good at crossing it. But when things heat up, will they allow their long-standing feud to get in the way of their growing feelings? Includes the bonus novella Once Upon a Bride!

The Friar and the Maya

The Friar and the Maya PDF Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646424247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Book Description
The Friar and the Maya offers a full study and new translation of the Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (Account of the Things of Yucatan) by a unique set of eminent scholars, created by them over more than a decade from the original manuscript held by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid. This critical and careful reading of the Account is long overdue in Maya studies and will forever change how this seminal text is understood and used. For generations, scholars used (and misused) the Account as the sole eyewitness insight into an ancient civilization. It is credited to the sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan, monastic inquisitor, and bishop Diego de Landa, whose legacy is complex and contested. His extensive writings on Maya culture and history were lost in the seventeenth century, save for the fragment that is the Account, discovered in the nineteenth century, and accorded near-biblical status in the twentieth as the first “ethnography” of the Maya. However, the Account is not authored by Landa alone; it is a compilation of excerpts, many from writings by other Spaniards—a significant revelation made here for the first time. This new translation accurately reflects the style and vocabulary of the original manuscript. It is augmented by a monograph—comprising an introductory chapter, seven essays, and hundreds of notes—that describes, explains, and analyzes the life and times of Diego de Landa, the Account, and the role it has played in the development of modern Maya studies. The Friar and the Maya is an innovative presentation on an important and previously misunderstood primary source.