The Discovery of a World in the Moone

Discovery of the World - A Political Awa

📁 Discovery of the World - A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini

✍ Luciana Castellina 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Verso Books 🌐 English

<p>Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy--where she used to play tennis with Mussolini's daughter

New Worlds in the Cosmos: The Discovery

📁 New Worlds in the Cosmos: The Discovery of Exoplanets

✍ Michel Mayor, Pierre-Yves Frei 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

With the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting another star, we now realize that planets are not unique to our own Solar System. For centuries, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the Universe. We are now finally one step closer to knowing the answer. The quest for exoplanets is a

Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: A History of

📁 Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: A History of the World in 100 Discoveries

✍ National Geographic 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 National Geographic 🌐 English

Blending high adventure with history, this chronicle of 100 astonishing discoveries from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the fabulous "Lost City of the Monkey God" tells incredible stories of how explorers and archaeologists have uncovered the clues that illuminate our past. Archaeology is the key that unlo

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age

📁 Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

✍ Nabil Matar 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood tria

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age

📁 Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

✍ Matar, Nabil 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the ""Barbary Corsairs"" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood tr

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the age

📁 Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the age of discovery

✍ Matar, Nabil I 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

Presents data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. This book provides a unique direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any depiction