Moon Spotlight Angkor Wat
Title | Moon Spotlight Angkor Wat PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Vater |
Publisher | Moon Travel |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-03-16 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9781598805611 |
Moon Spotlight Angkor Wat is a 60-page compact guide covering the best of this Cambodian city, including the remaining temples of Angkor—Phnom Wat Bakheng, Thomanon, and Neak Pean. Travel journalist and screenwriter Tom Vater offers his firsthand advice on what sights are must-sees, and sightseeing highlight maps make planning your time easy. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, and transportation. Helpful maps guide travelers through this richly-historical region of Cambodia. This Spotlight guidebook is excerpted from Moon Cambodia.
Down Beat
Title | Down Beat PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1258 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Arts |
ISBN |
The contemporary music magazine.
Don't Try This at Home
Title | Don't Try This at Home PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Navarro |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2012-10-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 006204527X |
Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?
Four Roads Cross
Title | Four Roads Cross PDF eBook |
Author | Max Gladstone |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2016-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765379422 |
"The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm--and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world"--Amazon.com.
Stealing History
Title | Stealing History PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Atwood |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1429901357 |
Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and who is fencing and buying them. In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, and across America, showing how the worldwide antiquities trade is destroying what's left of the ancient sites before archaeologists can reach them, and thus erasing their historical significance. And it is getting worse. The discovery of the legendary Royal Tombs of Sipan in Peru started an epidemic. Grave robbers scouring the courntryside for tombs--and finding them. Atwood recounts the incredible story of the biggest piece of gold ever found in the Americas, a 2,000-year-old, three-pound masterpiece that cost one looter his life, sent two smugglers to jail, and wrecked lives from Panama to Pennsylvainia. Packed with true stories, this book not only reveals what has been found, but at what cost to both human life and history.
Angkor Wat – A Transcultural History of Heritage
Title | Angkor Wat – A Transcultural History of Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Falser |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 1170 |
Release | 2019-12-16 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 3110335840 |
This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. Volume 1 (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. Volume 2 (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today. Congratulations to our author Michael Falser who received the prestigious 2021 ICAS Book Prize in the "Ground Breaking Subject Matter" category.
Man and His Symbols
Title | Man and His Symbols PDF eBook |
Author | Carl G. Jung |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307800555 |
The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.