Culture on Ice
Author: Ellyn Kestnbaum
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2003-05-21
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780819566423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first in-depth, critical look at figure skating.
Author: Ellyn Kestnbaum
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2003-05-21
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780819566423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first in-depth, critical look at figure skating.
Author: Klaus Dodds
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2018-06-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1780239475
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Ice, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond Earth, ice has been found on other planets, moons, and meteors—and scientists even think that ice-rich asteroids played a pivotal role in bringing water to our blue home. But our outlook need not be cosmic to see ice’s importance. Here today and gone tomorrow in many parts of the temperate world, ice is a perennial feature of polar and mountainous regions, where it has long shaped human culture. But as climates change, ice caps and glaciers melt, and waters rise, more than ever this frozen force touches at the core of who we are. As Dodds reveals, ice has played a prominent role in shaping both the earth’s living communities and its geology. Throughout history, humans have had fun with it, battled over it, struggled with it, and made money from it—and every time we open our refrigerator doors, we’re reminded how ice has transformed our relationship with food. Our connection to ice has been captured in art, literature, movies, and television, as well as made manifest in sport and leisure. In our landscapes and seascapes, too, we find myriad reminders of ice’s chilly power, clues as to how our lakes, mountains, and coastlines have been indelibly shaped by the advance and retreat of ice and snow. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Ice is an informative, thought-provoking guide to a substance both cold and compelling.
Author: Dennis J. Stanford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0520949676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.
Author: Daisy Kabagarama
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780205417957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Whitson
Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Published: 2006-05
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Rev up that Zamboni. Even the most hardened of hockey fans and critics will find something new in Artificial Ice." - Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire
Author: Dennis J. Stanford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0520227832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea and introduced the distinctive stone tools of the Clovis culture. Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge that narrative. Their hypothesis places the technological antecedents of Clovis technology in Europe, with the culture of Solutrean people in France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago, and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought."--Back cover.
Author: Klaus Dodds
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781803163550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Ice: Nature and Culture, Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural and geopolitical history of ice, revealing how throughout history human communities have made sense of ice.
Author: George Frederick Shrady
Publisher:
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 822
ISBN-13:
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