Author: Donald W. Engels
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is the definitive book on classical cats. The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Well known is its role in the religion and art of ancient Egypt, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion and worker as well? There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Yet other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Romans as it is to many modern people. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence for cats in Greece and Rome, and of their functions and representations in art. Donald Engels draws on authors from Aesop to Aristotle; on vase-painting, inscriptions and the plastic arts; and on a thorough knowledge of zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as the views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages.
Army Cats
Author: Tom Sleigh
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555975838
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over by the cemetery next to the CP you could see them in wild catmint going crazy: I watched them roll and wriggle, paw it, lick it, chew it, leap about, pink tongues stuck out, drooling. —from "Army Cats" Tom Sleigh's poetry swerves dramatically from the ordinary moment to the onrush of emergency or to the elusive past or to the unexpectedly comic. In Army Cats, Sleigh confronts the more feral aspects of war, journalism, art, and selfhood. Many of these poems are seen as if through the haze after the detonation of a roadside bomb, or while the smoke hasn't yet cleared from history in the making. One poem describes the fallout after a wedding is interrupted by an explosive; still another attempts to re-create the execution of Saddam Hussein as distorted by a cell-phone video recording found on YouTube. This is brilliant new work by one of America's finest and most relevant poets.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555975838
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over by the cemetery next to the CP you could see them in wild catmint going crazy: I watched them roll and wriggle, paw it, lick it, chew it, leap about, pink tongues stuck out, drooling. —from "Army Cats" Tom Sleigh's poetry swerves dramatically from the ordinary moment to the onrush of emergency or to the elusive past or to the unexpectedly comic. In Army Cats, Sleigh confronts the more feral aspects of war, journalism, art, and selfhood. Many of these poems are seen as if through the haze after the detonation of a roadside bomb, or while the smoke hasn't yet cleared from history in the making. One poem describes the fallout after a wedding is interrupted by an explosive; still another attempts to re-create the execution of Saddam Hussein as distorted by a cell-phone video recording found on YouTube. This is brilliant new work by one of America's finest and most relevant poets.
Classical Cats
Author: Donald W. Engels
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is the definitive book on classical cats. The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Well known is its role in the religion and art of ancient Egypt, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion and worker as well? There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Yet other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Romans as it is to many modern people. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence for cats in Greece and Rome, and of their functions and representations in art. Donald Engels draws on authors from Aesop to Aristotle; on vase-painting, inscriptions and the plastic arts; and on a thorough knowledge of zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as the views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is the definitive book on classical cats. The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Well known is its role in the religion and art of ancient Egypt, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion and worker as well? There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Yet other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Romans as it is to many modern people. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence for cats in Greece and Rome, and of their functions and representations in art. Donald Engels draws on authors from Aesop to Aristotle; on vase-painting, inscriptions and the plastic arts; and on a thorough knowledge of zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as the views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages.
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Category : Antiaircraft artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Antiaircraft artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Captain Cat
Author: Syd Hoff
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064441768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A patriotic feline, Captain Cat springs out of bed whenever the bugle sounds and he has more stripes than any of the soldiers. But most of all, this young recruit and his best friend Pete know what it really takes to make the army a home—friendship. ‘Hoff continues his string of hits.’ —BL. ‘Hoff has maintained his deft touch with a title that’s sure to appeal to youngsters.’ —SLJ.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064441768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A patriotic feline, Captain Cat springs out of bed whenever the bugle sounds and he has more stripes than any of the soldiers. But most of all, this young recruit and his best friend Pete know what it really takes to make the army a home—friendship. ‘Hoff continues his string of hits.’ —BL. ‘Hoff has maintained his deft touch with a title that’s sure to appeal to youngsters.’ —SLJ.
Cats With Guns
Author: Jonathan Parkyn
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1908696893
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Cats with Guns celebrates the best in felines and firearms. Including more than 40 photomontages of cats with rifles, revolvers, pistols, automatic and semi-automatic firearms, Cats with Guns also features background information on the specifications of the gun, its history and where it has been used.
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1908696893
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Cats with Guns celebrates the best in felines and firearms. Including more than 40 photomontages of cats with rifles, revolvers, pistols, automatic and semi-automatic firearms, Cats with Guns also features background information on the specifications of the gun, its history and where it has been used.
War of the Cats
Author: Donald Patchin
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847280617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
What happpens to a small town when cats mysteriously go on the warpath. "Funny. Provocative. Captivating"
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847280617
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
What happpens to a small town when cats mysteriously go on the warpath. "Funny. Provocative. Captivating"
Armor
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Category : Mechanization, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Mechanization, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Army Logistician
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Category : Logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Logistics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Engineer
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Category : Military engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : Military engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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