Author: Olivier Gabet
Publisher: Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN: 2821601395
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The exhibition "10,000 Years of Luxury" (Louvre Abu Dhabi, 30 October 2019–18 February 2020) explores the multifaceted nature of luxury from ancient times to the present day. Its catalogue allows the reader to explore luxury through fashion, jewellery, visual art, furniture and design with masterpieces from the collections of international institutions and brands. Highlights among the objects presentes include the oldest pearl in the world, the renowned Boscoreale Treasure – one of the largest collections of silverware preserved from Roman Antiquity – and dresses and jewellery from design houses such as Cartier, Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, CHANEL, Christian Dior, ELIE SAAB and Yves Saint Laurent.
10 000 years of luxury
Author: Olivier Gabet
Publisher: Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN: 2821601395
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The exhibition "10,000 Years of Luxury" (Louvre Abu Dhabi, 30 October 2019–18 February 2020) explores the multifaceted nature of luxury from ancient times to the present day. Its catalogue allows the reader to explore luxury through fashion, jewellery, visual art, furniture and design with masterpieces from the collections of international institutions and brands. Highlights among the objects presentes include the oldest pearl in the world, the renowned Boscoreale Treasure – one of the largest collections of silverware preserved from Roman Antiquity – and dresses and jewellery from design houses such as Cartier, Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, CHANEL, Christian Dior, ELIE SAAB and Yves Saint Laurent.
Publisher: Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN: 2821601395
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The exhibition "10,000 Years of Luxury" (Louvre Abu Dhabi, 30 October 2019–18 February 2020) explores the multifaceted nature of luxury from ancient times to the present day. Its catalogue allows the reader to explore luxury through fashion, jewellery, visual art, furniture and design with masterpieces from the collections of international institutions and brands. Highlights among the objects presentes include the oldest pearl in the world, the renowned Boscoreale Treasure – one of the largest collections of silverware preserved from Roman Antiquity – and dresses and jewellery from design houses such as Cartier, Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, CHANEL, Christian Dior, ELIE SAAB and Yves Saint Laurent.
I was Born about 10,000 Years Ago
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780688134112
Category : Humorous stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Born about 100 centuries ago, the narrator has seen many things happen since he watched Adam and Eve eat an apple.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780688134112
Category : Humorous stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Born about 100 centuries ago, the narrator has seen many things happen since he watched Adam and Eve eat an apple.
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Author: Philip Coggan
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782833390
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe. More is the story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of long-distance trade - obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7,000 years before Christ - and ends with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. On such a grand scale, quirks of historical perspective leap out: futures contracts and commercial branding are among the many seemingly modern components of the global economy have existed since ancient times. Yet it was only in the 18th century that a cascade of innovations began to drive up prosperity in a lasting way around the world. To piece this fascinating saga together, Philip Coggan takes the reader inside medieval cottages and hi-tech hydroponic farms, prehistoric Chinese burial mounds and modern central banks. At every step of our journey, he finds that it was connections between people that created our wealth. Will the same openness continue to serve us in the 21st century?
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782833390
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest household product reveals a web of enterprise that stretches around the globe. More is the story of how we spun that web. It begins with the earliest glimmerings of long-distance trade - obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7,000 years before Christ - and ends with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. On such a grand scale, quirks of historical perspective leap out: futures contracts and commercial branding are among the many seemingly modern components of the global economy have existed since ancient times. Yet it was only in the 18th century that a cascade of innovations began to drive up prosperity in a lasting way around the world. To piece this fascinating saga together, Philip Coggan takes the reader inside medieval cottages and hi-tech hydroponic farms, prehistoric Chinese burial mounds and modern central banks. At every step of our journey, he finds that it was connections between people that created our wealth. Will the same openness continue to serve us in the 21st century?
Civilizations
Author: Jane McIntosh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780563488897
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Civilizations takes the reader forward from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780563488897
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Civilizations takes the reader forward from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Splash!
Author: Howard Means
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0306845644
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all--the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic. Splash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today's Olympic games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water, about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation and public health, colonialism, segregation and integration, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more. Unique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history--and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, it has fun along the way.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0306845644
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Choose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming! From man's first recorded dip into what's now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all--the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic. Splash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today's Olympic games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water, about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation and public health, colonialism, segregation and integration, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more. Unique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind's swimming history--and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer's day, it has fun along the way.
10,000 Years
Author: YHWH
Publisher: Moses Messenger of God
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book, 10,000 Years, contains a real, authentic, non-fiction true story. You will see some shocking content in this book. To learn that everything I described here is truth, read my other book, Holy Vegan Earth. I repeat this is a true story. To learn about evidence and proof of what I have given you, read the other book. Here I only give you the story sections. Moses June 2020 Vegan-Religion.org
Publisher: Moses Messenger of God
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book, 10,000 Years, contains a real, authentic, non-fiction true story. You will see some shocking content in this book. To learn that everything I described here is truth, read my other book, Holy Vegan Earth. I repeat this is a true story. To learn about evidence and proof of what I have given you, read the other book. Here I only give you the story sections. Moses June 2020 Vegan-Religion.org
The Ten Thousand Things
Author: Maria Dermout
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Ten Thousand Years of Pottery
Author: Emmanuel Cooper
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The finest history of pottery available, this book offers an inspirational journey through one of the oldest and most widespread of human activities.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812235548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The finest history of pottery available, this book offers an inspirational journey through one of the oldest and most widespread of human activities.
The 10,000 Year Explosion
Author: Gregory Cochran
Publisher: Stranger Journalism
ISBN: 0465002218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Two leading researchers make the controversial argument that the human species is still measurably evolving in important ways--in fact, faster than ever before.
Publisher: Stranger Journalism
ISBN: 0465002218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Two leading researchers make the controversial argument that the human species is still measurably evolving in important ways--in fact, faster than ever before.
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality
Author: Timothy A. Kohler
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816537747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"Field-defining research that will set the standard for understanding inequality in archaeological contexts"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816537747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
"Field-defining research that will set the standard for understanding inequality in archaeological contexts"--Provided by publisher.