The Nativity of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Enlarged and Elaborately Computed. A Complete Mathematical Analysis, Containing an Account of the Most Important Periods in the Life of Our Beloved Sovereign that in Future May Affect the Interests of England...
Title | The Nativity of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Enlarged and Elaborately Computed. A Complete Mathematical Analysis, Containing an Account of the Most Important Periods in the Life of Our Beloved Sovereign that in Future May Affect the Interests of England... PDF eBook |
Author | G. T. F. Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1848 |
Genre | Astrology |
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Hawaii's Story
Title | Hawaii's Story PDF eBook |
Author | Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Hawaii |
ISBN |
Queen Victoria
Title | Queen Victoria PDF eBook |
Author | Lytton Strachey |
Publisher | New York Harcourt, Brace [1921] |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow. Equally fascinating are the depictions of her relationships: with her governess "precious Lehzen", with Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli, with her beloved Albert and, in later life, her legendary devotion to her Highland servant John Brown.
The Life of King Edward VII
Title | The Life of King Edward VII PDF eBook |
Author | J. Castell Hopkins |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2020-07-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752318600 |
Reproduction of the original: The Life of King Edward VII by J. Castell Hopkins
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
Title | Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary PDF eBook |
Author | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada |
Publisher | James Lorimer & Company |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2015-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1459410696 |
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
The Topkapi Scroll
Title | The Topkapi Scroll PDF eBook |
Author | Gülru Necipoğlu |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1996-03-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892363355 |
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
The Invention of Tradition
Title | The Invention of Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1992-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521437738 |
This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.