Entering the Stone

Entering the Stone
Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0820331538

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In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. Entering the Stone provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world.

Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East

Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East
Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107006988

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This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.

Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184001754

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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476746605

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

24 Hours in the Stone Age

24 Hours in the Stone Age
Author: Lan Cook
Publisher: 24 Hours In
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Prehistoric peoples
ISBN: 9781474977111

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Joina young girl as she goeshunting,makes her own stone tools and creates amazing cave art.Learn all about the dangers of life in the StoneAge,what makes a good shelter and what edible plantscan be gathered in the wild. Eye-catching illustrations by Laurent King bring this comic strip to life, as you visit the Stone Age for a day. Covers a wide range of Stone Age activities, from fishing and tracking animals, to making fire, stone tools and cave art.

Written in Stone

Written in Stone
Author: Chet Raymo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1989
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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Traces the geological time changes that shaped the land from Maine to New Jersey.

Within the Stone

Within the Stone
Author: Bill Atkinson
Publisher: Browntrout Publishers
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004
Genre: Photography in mineralogy
ISBN: 0763181897

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Mac guru Bill Atkinson shoots pictures of cut and polished rock slabs, transmuting them into masterpieces of "found" art with his high-resolution scanning camera and innovative color management techniques. For "Within the Stone," Atkinson picks 72 rock images for their evocative painterly qualities. Seven eminent poets and science writers, including Diane Ackerman and John Horgan, take turns responding to each image as a dream, landscape, seduction, or excogitative stimulus. In an appendix, three mineralogists describe each specimen's provenience, geological setting, and mineral composition. "A beautiful work of art." "Gems & Gemology." "Abstract masterpieces." "Popular Photography." "Revelations of the inner beauty of rocks." "PC Photo" "High tech meets timeless beauty." "Lapidary Journal." "Apple's soft ware star turns his code into art." "Macworld" Winner of 2004 Gold Ink Award, American Photo Best Photo Book of 2004

Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa

Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa
Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108424430

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A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.

Written in Stone

Written in Stone
Author: Sanford Levinson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1478004347

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Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later that summer, debates and conflicts over the memorialization of Confederate “heroes” have stormed to the forefront of popular American political and cultural discourse. In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics. Paying particular attention to the American South, though drawing examples as well from elsewhere in the United States and throughout the world, Levinson shows how the social and legal arguments regarding the display, construction, modification, and destruction of public monuments mark the seemingly endless confrontation over the symbolism attached to public space. This twentieth anniversary edition of Written in Stone includes a new preface and an extensive afterword that takes account of recent events in cities, schools and universities, and public spaces throughout the United States and elsewhere. Twenty years on, Levinson's work is more timely and relevant than ever.

Stone Tools in Human Evolution

Stone Tools in Human Evolution
Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1107123097

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An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.