Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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“The” Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London
Author: Zoological Society of London. Library
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1566
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The English Catalogue of Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Spectator
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Oceanic Encounters
Author: Margaret Jolly
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of `encounter¿ rather than the more common idea of `first contact¿ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of `strangers¿ or `others¿ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1921536292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of `encounter¿ rather than the more common idea of `first contact¿ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of `strangers¿ or `others¿ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.
Emerald Labyrinth
Author: Eli Greenbaum
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512601209
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer's chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply troubled colonial past and a complicated political present. Author Eli Greenbaum is a leading expert in sub-Saharan herpetology - snakes, lizards, and frogs - who brings a sense of wonder to the question of how science works in the twenty-first century. Along the way he comes face to face with spitting cobras, silverback mountain gorillas, wild elephants, and the teenaged armies of AK-47-toting fighters engaged in the continent's longest-running war. As a bellwether of the climate and biodiversity crises now facing the planet, the Congo holds the key to our planet's future. Writing in the tradition of books like The Lost City of Z, Greenbaum seeks out the creatures struggling to survive in a war-torn, environmentally threatened country. Emerald Labyrinth is an extraordinary book about the enormous challenges and hard-won satisfactions of doing science in one of the least known, least hospitable places on earth.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512601209
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer's chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply troubled colonial past and a complicated political present. Author Eli Greenbaum is a leading expert in sub-Saharan herpetology - snakes, lizards, and frogs - who brings a sense of wonder to the question of how science works in the twenty-first century. Along the way he comes face to face with spitting cobras, silverback mountain gorillas, wild elephants, and the teenaged armies of AK-47-toting fighters engaged in the continent's longest-running war. As a bellwether of the climate and biodiversity crises now facing the planet, the Congo holds the key to our planet's future. Writing in the tradition of books like The Lost City of Z, Greenbaum seeks out the creatures struggling to survive in a war-torn, environmentally threatened country. Emerald Labyrinth is an extraordinary book about the enormous challenges and hard-won satisfactions of doing science in one of the least known, least hospitable places on earth.