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Mariusz Ziolkowski
History, Calendar and Skylore of the Incas at the Time of the Spanish Conquest

A significantly expanded translation of the author's Pachap vnancha: El calendario metropolitano del Estado Inca, this book is the culmination of several decades of research on Andean calendar-astronomica…

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Donald Campbell
The Arecibo Observatory: A History of Innovation and Discovery

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Written by its former Director, this book presents a historical account of the famous Arecibo Observatory and its 305-meter radio astronomical telescope, widely known for its groundbreaking scientific dis…

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Cosmic Events

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

This book showcases a wide-ranging study of the comets of 1618. That year came to be regarded as a turning point in European history, marking the start of the Thirty Years' War, which was the most destruc…

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Kristen Lippincott
Alessandro Piccolomini's Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

This book presents the first interdisciplinary study of Alessandro Piccolomini's two early astronomical works - De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stelle Fisse. First published in Venice in 1540, the two tre…

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Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Booklet of Abstracts. Timekeeping, Navigation, Surveying - Cultural Astronomy and Instruments.

The main topic is cultural astronomy and archaeoastronomy. A cultural and thematic arc is drawn for the location of humans in space and time for archaic and ancient cultures. All epochs are presented from…

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Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Booklet of Abstracts. Timekeeping, Navigation, Surveying - Cultural Astronomy and Instruments.

The main topic is cultural astronomy and archaeoastronomy. A cultural and thematic arc is drawn for the location of humans in space and time for archaic and ancient cultures. All epochs are presented from…

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Susan M Divine
Historical Debt and Cultural Capital in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Narrative

Susan M. Divine delves beyond the historical fiction model to look at how different genres and generations of contemporary artists take on the concerns of memory, nostalgia, tradition, trauma, and cultura…

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Philip A. Clarke
Aboriginal Peoples and Terrestrial Invertebrates in Australia

Aboriginal peoples have deep connections with Australia's terrestrial invertebrates, going back millennia. This book focuses on these historical and cultural relationships, describing the role of insects …

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The Anglican Church in the Anglophone Caribbean

This book highlights the Church's significant cultural, social, and political presence across the Anglophone Caribbean.Individual authors collectively provide a series of readings of historical and contem…

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Scripture in Its Material and Literary Context

This edited collection situates Scripture within its material and literary context in the cultures of the ancient Near East and Southern Levant. In exploring Bible backgrounds, biblical history, biblical …

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Design for Performative Arts Spaces

This comprehensive book explores the multifaceted world of performative arts spaces.Part I establishes a strong foundation by tracing the historical evolution of these spaces, showcasing iconic examples, …

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Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
The Ife-Modakeke Conflict

Examines the complex interplay of history, culture, and politics that have shaped the longstanding conflict between the Ife and Modakeke communities in Nigeria.

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Suman Gupta
Collective Principles and the Formation of the Internet

Springer Series on Cultural Computing

This book describes how distinctive socio-political commitments and cultural practices developed upon the internet in the later 20^th^ and early 21^st^ century and considers what lies ahead in those terms…

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Rubellite Kawena Johnson, John Kaipo Mahelona, Clive Ruggles,
Nā Inoa Hōkū

The first edition of Nā Inoa Hōkū , published in 1975, reignited global interest in Hawaiian and Pacific star knowledge and navigation at a critical time, coinciding with the epic first journey of the Haw…

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Julian Zabalbeascoa
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War, now in a new paperback edition. "Julian Zabalbeascoa …

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Gail Milissa Grant
The Sable Cloak

In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect their empire---an "unforgettable must-read" for readers of Tayari Jones (Victoria Christopher Murra…

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Ron Graham
The Informal Imperialist

River Books

A fascinating and historically significant glimpse of the life of the Burmese in late 19th century. Diaries, journals, court documents are all harvested to give a thrilling account of a surgeon's life in …

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Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G Plant
The Life of Herod the Great

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great---not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who li…

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Samuel Kolawole
The Road to the Salt Sea

"As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from …

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Anna Rose Johnson
Secrets at Sparhawk Point

To draw tourists to their declining coastal town, a group of children claim to have seen a mythic creature from Ojibwe legend, the storm-monster Mishipeshu. But when their plan backfires, they'll need to …

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