Author: Edward HallowellPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
On a New Genus and Two New Species of African Serpents
Author: Edward HallowellHeroic Fantasy Short Stories
Author: Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1787552454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
New authors and collections. Somewhere between epic historical fantasy, sword and sorcery and Tolkien-esque fantasy exists a thick vein of storytelling that would make Robert E Howard and H.G. Wells proud. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery we present a compilation of savage swordplay, and high magic, of daring deeds and gaudy battles, in a blazing mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Susan Murrie Macdonald, Beth Dawkins, Kate O'Connor, Voss Foster, Joanna Michal Hoyt, Lauren C. Teffeau, A. Creg Peters, Alexandra Renwick, Amy Power Jansen, Tony Pi, Therese Arkenberg , David Busboom, Erin Gitchell, M. Elizabeth Ticknor, Zach Chapman, and Michael Haynes. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Homer, John Buchan, A. Merritt, William Morris, and Clark Ashton Smith.
Snake Identification in the Ancient Egyptian Brooklyn Medical Papyrus
Author: Nicholas R. CasewellPublisher: Lockwood Press
ISBN: 1957454040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book is about snakebite and snake identification in ancient Egypt. The authors--in a remarkable collaboration between the fields of Egyptology, medicine, herpetology, biology, and ecology--offer a new examination of the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, better-known as the Snakebite Papyrus, a pragmatic medical treatise concerned with snake identification, snakebite, and treatment. Dating to sometime in the seventh through fourth centuries BCE, the document is the first-known structured treatise on snakebites from antiquity. The preserved paragraphs name 24 snakes (and one chameleon), providing a brief description of the snake, sometimes its habits, the appearance of its bite, and the effects on the victim. The papyrus was intended to enable the ancient physician to identify the snake from the description given by the patient in order to give appropriate prognosis and treatment. As there was little effective treatment for snake bites in ancient Egypt, sometimes the physician resorted to magical incantations to invoke divine assistance. The Snakebite Papyrus was first translated into French by Serge Sauneron and published posthumously in 1989. Major advances in fields such as biogeography, climate and niche modeling, and linguistics in the past thirty years have brought new perspectives. The authors provide a review of Sauneron's and more recent studies and bring their own investigations, results, and comparisons to further clarify this remarkable historical document.
The Illustrated Natural History
Author: John George WoodPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
The Illustrated Natural History
Author: WoodJournal
Author: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Journal of the Society of Arts
Author: Journal of the Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Report of the Director-general of Public Health, New South Wales, for the Year Ended ...
Author: New South Wales. Dept. of Public HealthPublisher:
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual
Author: Amelia M. TrevelyanPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188296
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual examines the thousands of beautiful and intricate ritual works of art—from ceremonial weaponry to delicate copper pendants and ear ornaments—created in eastern North America before the arrival of Europeans. The first comprehensive examination of this 3,000-year-old metallurgical tradition, the book provides unique insight into the motivation of the artisans and the significance of these objects, and highlights the brilliance and sophistication of the early civilizations of the Americas.Comparing the ritual architecture and metallurgy of the original Americans with the ethnological record, Amelia M. Trevelyan begins to unravel the mystery of the significance of the objects as well as their special functions within the societies that created them. The book includes dozens of striking color and black and white photographs.