Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl, 1823-1871
Author | : Horst Weber |
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Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Animals in art |
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Author | : Horst Weber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Animals in art |
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Author | : Tiffany Jenkins |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0191631892 |
The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history. Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home, and no one culture owns culture.
Author | : Michael Charles Tobias |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030113191 |
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.
Author | : Bethan Roberts |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1789144752 |
A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians—from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan—Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale’s disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1382 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Frederic Boase |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 936 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1376 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2011-06-15 |
Genre | : Pets |
ISBN | : 1445609371 |
Explodes the myth of Edinburgh's Greyfriars Bobby.
Author | : Sir Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1470 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Daryl Yeap |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2023-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9811279047 |
In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy, daughters and wife of Asia's richest man at the turn of the 20th century — Oei Tiong-ham. Flying planes, managing Asia's richest estate and charming the West with their sense of style and sophistication — at a time when bound feet, matchmaking and subservience were in vogue — the three women punctured through cultural stereotypes and challenged the ideals of womanhood. In doing so, they paved the way for millions to follow. Written in a distinct style, the book is revealing, holding surprises even for those familiar with their stories.