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The Death of Captain Cook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Death of Captain Cook

In a style that is more detective story than conventional biography, Williams explores the multiple narratives of Cook's death. In short, Williams examines the story of Cook's progress from obscurity to fame and, eventually, to infamy--a story that, until now, has never been fully told.

Pacific Art in Detail
  • Language: en

Pacific Art in Detail

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The art of the Pacific Islands is exciting, varied, vibrant and ever-changing. Across the great breadth of the Pacific, artists have always employed a wide variety of materials and techniques to create objects for specific purposes. These have been central to the management of land and ocean, of political and spiritual power, and of connections to gods and ancestors. This book focuses on objects from the domestic to the sacred, from the elegantly simple to the sumptuously ornate, and from the historic to the contemporary. The author draws on striking and colourful examples from the Pacific's major cultural regions: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia, beginning with an introduction asking 'What is Pacific art?' Each of the beautiful artworks is then explored further through close-ups, allowing intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. Ideal as a spur to creative inspiration, this beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of the wide array of Pacific art, evoking the skills of the most accomplished Pacific artists and craftworkers, past and present.

Facing Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Facing Empire

Reid, Daniel K. Richter, Rebecca Shumway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Nicole Ulrich

HPI Case Files Book 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 111

HPI Case Files Book 3

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-08
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Paul Dale Roberts, HPI's Esoteric Detective takes you on another journey of paranormal investigations. His elite team seeks out the mysteries of the universe to seek out the truth. In the flavor of Kolchak, the Night Stalker it's paranormal investigation and journalism at its peak!

HPI Chronicles: Volume II Ghost Stories and UFOs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

HPI Chronicles: Volume II Ghost Stories and UFOs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-28
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Paul Dale Roberts & Shannon McCabe of H.P.I. International, are at it again in their newest addition to H.P.I. Chronicles. Volume II gives us more Ghost Stories and UFO investigation. Join Paul Dale Roberts and the H.P.I. crew as they delve into the world of the paranormal with true interviews, investigations, and UFO hunts. BEWARE: These aren't the stories you hear around the campfire; because these are true!! www.HPIparanormal.net

HPI Supernatural Darkness Book 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

HPI Supernatural Darkness Book 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

More adventures from the case files of HPI International (Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence). With a few off subject articles and interviews for your reading enjoyment.

A World in a Shell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

A World in a Shell

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-17
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Following the trails of Hawai‘i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction. In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Shell, Thom van Dooren offers a collection of snail stories from Hawai‘i—once home to more than 750 species of land snails, almost two-thirds of which are now gone. Following snail trails through forests, laboratories, museums, and even a military training facility, and meeting with scientists and Native Hawaiians, van Dooren explores ongoing processes of ecological and cultural loss as they are woven through with pos...

Sears Genealogical Catalogue - Ray's Notes Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 478

Sears Genealogical Catalogue - Ray's Notes Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-24
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Name Index (INDEX ONLY) of the 26,000 grtx-grandchildren of Richard Sears of Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony circa 1639. This index will point you to a record at Ancestry.com or Wikitree.com or into one of the twelve volumes of details about each generation of Richard's descendants. These descendants have been a critical part of every element of the history of the United States and the world. (INDEX ONLY)

Curious Encounters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Curious Encounters

With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a dis...

Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Curious Devices and Mighty Machines

From their quirky origins to their contemporary role as centers of advocacy, a look at the secret lives of science museums—past, present, and future. Science museums have paradoxes at their core. They must be accessible and fun while representing increasingly complex science. They must be both historic and contemporary. Their exhibits attract millions, but most of their objects remain in deep storage, seldom seen. This book delves into these conflicts, revealing the secret lives of science curators; where science objects come from and who uses them; and, ultimately, what science museums are for. With an insider’s eye, Samuel J. M. M. Alberti exposes the idiosyncratic past and intriguing current practices of these institutions—and sets out a map for their future.