The Star-crossed Renaissance
Author: Don Cameron Allen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780714610290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Star-Crossed
Author: Barbara Dee
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1481478494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twelve-year-old Mattie wrestles with her crush on Gemma as they participate in their school production of Romeo and Juliet in what School Library Journal calls “a fine choice for middle school libraries in need of an accessible LGBTQ stories.” Twelve-year-old Mattie is thrilled when she learns the eighth grade play will be Romeo and Juliet. In particular, she can’t wait to share the stage with Gemma Braithwaite, who has been cast as Juliet. Gemma is brilliant, pretty—and British!—and Mattie starts to see her as more than just a friend. But Mattie has also had an on/off crush on her classmate Elijah since, well, forever. Is it possible to have a crush on both boys AND girls? If that wasn’t enough to deal with, things offstage are beginning to resemble their own Shakespearean drama: the cast is fighting, and the boy playing Romeo may not be up to the challenge of the role. And due to a last-minute emergency, Mattie is asked to step up and take over the leading role—opposite Gemma’s Juliet—just as Mattie’s secret crush starts to become not-so-secret in her group of friends. In this funny, sweet, and clever look at the complicated nature of middle school romance, Mattie learns how to become a lead player in her own life.
Romeo and Juliet Before Shakespeare
Author: Masuccio (Salernitano)
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780772720153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Star-Crossed Stone
Author: Ken McNamara
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0226514714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about humanity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human ingenuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the fossil at its heart.
The Duke and the Stars
Author: Monica Azzolini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-02-11
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0674067916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis.
A Star-crossed Golden Age
Author: Frederick A. De Armas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780838753767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute directed by Frederick A. de Armas and contains essays by the director, some of the visiting faculty, and the participants. The book seeks to develop the link between mythology and the comedia through a number of approaches, including astrology, cartomancy, pre-Socratic elemental cosmology, iconography, hagiography, metamorphoses, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian principles, the philosophy of Schopenhauer, Santayana's poetics, syncretism, gender studies, and Vedic theories.
Still Star-Crossed
Author: Melinda Taub
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0449816656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now an ABC TV show from producer Shonda Rhimes! Discover what happened after the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, as mysterious figures in Verona are determined to reignite the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. In fair Verona, enemies still walk the streets. Two news hearts. Same two families. The fight to the altar is about to happen. All. Over. Again. This homage to the classic Shakespearean tale of Romeo and Juliet will have readers pining for a star-crossed love of their very own. “A recipe for escapist television that Shondaland has perfected.” —The Hollywood Reporter on the TV adaptation
The Fated Sky
Author: Benson Bobrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-11-14
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0743268954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'The Fated Sky' looks at famous figures and important historical events that were influenced by astrology.
StarCrossed
Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0545429455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →16-year-old Digger thrives as a spy and sneak-thief among the feuding religious factions of Gerse. But when a routine job goes horribly wrong and her partner and lover Tegen is killed, she disguises herself in a group of young nobles and sneaks out of the city. Accepted as a lady-in-waiting at the stronghold of the powerful Nemair, she finds new peace and friendship (and some new targets). But when an old client from the city comes to the castle, she realizes her hosts may be planning the ultimate uprising against the king - and rather than true peace, she may be at the heart of the rebellion.Now with an extensive excerpt of the daring sequel, LIAR'S MOON!
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
Author: Edward F. Ricketts
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0817311726
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of Rickett's letters discuss his studies of the Pacific littoral and his theories of "phalanx" and transcendence. Epistles to family members, often tender and humorous, add dimension and depth to Steinbeck's mythologized depictions of Ricketts." "Editor Katharine A. Rodger has enriched the correspondence with an introduction, a biographical essay, and a list of works cited. The book will be important for students of John Steinbeck and the development of 20th-century American fiction, as well as for those interested in the history of science, especially in the fields of marine biology and ecology."--Jacket.
