Creatures of Empire
Title | Creatures of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195304462 |
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Monsters of New York
Title | Monsters of New York PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce G. Hallenbeck |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0811753077 |
Explore monster myths and legends of the Empire State.
A New World of Animals
Title | A New World of Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel de Asúa |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351962140 |
Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning.
The Animal Estate
Title | The Animal Estate PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Ritvo |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674037076 |
Harriet Ritvo gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations.
Wolf Empire
Title | Wolf Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Ian Barry |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2007-06-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0762762128 |
Extraordinary photos that expose the elusive world of fur and teeth, light and shadow, and wolf behavior seldom seen by the human eye.
Squid Empire
Title | Squid Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Danna Staaf |
Publisher | University Press of New England |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1512601284 |
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods-the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for millions of years. But when fish evolved jaws, the ocean's former top predator became its most delicious snack. Cephalopods had to step up their game. Many species streamlined their shells and added defensive spines, but these enhancements only provided a brief advantage. Some cephalopods then abandoned the shell entirely, which opened the gates to a flood of evolutionary innovations: masterful camouflage, fin-supplemented jet propulsion, perhaps even dolphin-like intelligence. Squid Empire is an epic adventure spanning hundreds of millions of years, from the marine life of the primordial ocean to the calamari on tonight's menu. Anyone who enjoys the undersea world-along with all those obsessed with things prehistoric-will be interested in the sometimes enormous, often bizarre creatures that ruled the seas long before the first dinosaurs.
Empire in Black and Gold
Title | Empire in Black and Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616143398 |
The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbors. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, it killing Art . . . And now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the aging Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people, before a black-and-gold tide sweeps down over the Lowlands and burns away everything in its path. But first he must stop himself from becoming the Empire's latest victim.