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Chad
Chad is a nation of varied landscapes—from desert regions to wetlands. Readers are given a tour of the many geographical features that make up this African republic while also learning fascinating facts about the people who live there. Chad’s history, customs, and government are presented using enlightening main text, helpful sidebars, and eye-catching photographs. As readers discover the culture of Chad through its languages, religions, arts, and cuisine, they gain a deeper appreciation for other ways of life. That appreciation is also fostered through recipes that add a creative component to this learning experience.
Evening News
Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger. Early modern news writers and consumers often understood journalistic texts in terms of recent developments in optics and astronomy, Reeves demonstrates, even as many of the first discussions of telescopic phenomena such as planetary satellites, lunar cr...
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordi...
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Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735
This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.
Archaological Survey of India
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
