Island of secrets: The discovery and exploration of Easter Island

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A Mystery and A Tragedy.......2003-01-10

Some mysteries may never be solved. Where did the Sumerian language come from? Who built the stones at Carnac and why? Who was buried in the Great Pyramid.

What do the mysterious inscriptions found at Easter Island say? And what were the stone statues for. Those are the mysteries of Easter Island.

The tragedy was what happened to the Easter Islanders. The westerners were not all evil, and the islanders themselves were not all good (e.g., they practiced human sacrifice) but the enslavement, kidnapping, rape etc. of the islanders by western maritime visitors is shocking even today. And the book tells that story too. So it is not just a book about the mysteries of Easter Island but about the almost complete destruction of it by Europeans and I am sad to say Americans.

And the two are related. If slavers had not taken hundreds of islanders to Chile to work as slaves, including the king and prince of the island, perhaps enough of the culture would have survived for western scholars to meet with those who could read the writings of the tablets. Perhaps we would really know why and how the islanders built their mysterious giants.

This book (published by Harry Abrams) is an English translation of one of a series of small, lavishly illustrated French historical guides. One really cannot go wrong with this series, whether in French or in English.

Everyone involved in this Easter Island book did a great job, and they produced a wonderful way for a beginner to learn about some of the strangest archeological sites on our planet.

Excellent.......2000-10-11

This book provides readers with many of the facts of Easter Island. I had heard about the stone statues, but had little knowledge of the history of the island. This book provided quite a bit of information on the history and covered all the theories of the statues and what they might mean and how they got there. An excellent book!

The best book to-date about Easter Island.......1997-05-02

This is a translation of "Des dieux regardent les etoiles -- Les derniers secrets de l'Ile de Paques" ("Gods gaze at the stars -- The last secrets of Easter Island"), Catherine and Michel Orliac's excellent little book about Easter Island. Easter Island and its mysteries -- from its huge statues to its strange hieroglyphics -- have been a magnet for crankery of all types, from the benign to the outrageous. How refreshing, then, it is to see such a delicious book, factual and balanced, with high-quality authentic illustrations on every page, every one of them well chosen and to the point. Almost everything you may ever want to know about Easter Island -- short of a tourist guide -- is there, with full sources and references. How so much information could have been packed in so few pages is a wonder. Complete, attractive and scholarly, this little book will appeal to all, even to the specialists. The illustrations alone are a never-ending source of wonder and delight. Highly recommended.

History was Buried-Great Discoveries in Archaeology

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History was Buried-Great Discoveries in Archaeology

Manufacturer: Hart Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000B39E1M

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Pacifico Iberoamericano, Islas Galapagos y Pascua - N 55 (Biblioteca iberoamericana)

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Pacifico Iberoamericano, Islas Galapagos y Pascua - N 55 (Biblioteca iberoamericana)
J. M. Rubio Recio
Manufacturer: Anaya Publishers
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The Voyage Of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez To Easter Island

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The Voyage Of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez To Easter Island
Felipe Gonzalez , and Mynheer J. Roggeveen
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 1432532111

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Although a pre-school viewer was certain these pictures were taken in California, they were in fact shot in various regions of the human landscape. Teger took many of them in pubic places; the Land Down Under is explored at great length. These inventive images of toy figurines scampering 'round and about breasts, buttocks and genitals tease as well as titillate. Some are reminiscent of comic French postcards; others, like the Mount Fuji series, are works of art. All are tinged with wit.

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Allan Tegers award winning Bodyscapes have been entertaining art lovers worldwide for almost 20 years. He created this series while he was a professor of psychology as a teaching tool to illustrate that two realities can exist at the same time. Bodyscapes are not a double exposures but a unique landscape created by photographing toys and assorted scale models on the human body. the results are sometimes subtle, sometimes humorous but always delightful. Dr. Tegers images have been exhibited in many gallery shows, appeared in magazines and newspapers nationwide, and were featured on national television. A very few signed copies of Allan's first book are available.

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A Thing of Beauty....
Incredible

Bodyscapes
Jean Paul Bourdier
Manufacturer: Earth Aware Editions
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Binding: Hardcover

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The term “body art” often conjures rude images of radical piercings and raunchy tattoos on “modern primitives.” Here artist Jean Paul Bourdier applies his skills to a completely different task: to create haunting photographic images that allow viewers to see the environment from inside out by painting the bodies of models, thereby making them one with the desert landscape. In these photographs Bourdier eschews any digital altering, instead combining primal forms and materials with diverse textures to create exciting new interpretations of timeless nature and temporal body.

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A Thing of Beauty...........2007-06-19

Jean Paul Bourdier has created a stunningly beautiful piece of art in this book of photos and essays taken on his several trips to the dessert. His 'eye' captures both the rich colors and the shifting contours of life. Do yourself a favor and get a copy of this beautifully done book.

Incredible.......2007-06-17

Jean Paul Bourdier has created a masterpiece here ... I am just blown away by the work displayed in this book. Do yourself a favour and get one to meditate to and also to put out on your coffee table to share with friends.

Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (Visual Cultures)

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Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (Visual Cultures)
N. Mirzoeff
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Western art has long sought to visualize the perfect body. Whether composed from fragments or derived from a single model, this ideal, straight, white body is now in crisis. But what will take its place? In Bodyscape, Nicholas Mirzoeff traces the roots of our current obsession with body images from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. He argues that the representation of the body has always shaped, and been shaped by, crises of political and cultural identity.

Mirzoeff's illuminating study engages with artists' work in painting, sculpture, photography and film, showing the centrality of the body in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Manet and Poussin, to photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Paul Strand, to Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Nancy Spero. _

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Models for photographers

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Models for photographers.......2004-10-22

A book dedicated to subject models who pose for photogs. Great book which includes fantastic photos (even some famous nudes like Madonna) in artistic poses. A fine example of what can be done with a model, a camera, and accent lighting. At this price you can't go wrong.

CORPS/DÉCORS: FEMMES, ORGIE, PARODIE/BODYSCAPE: WOMEN, ORGY, PARODY.Hommage à Lucienne Frappier-Mazur.(Faux Titre 171)

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This volume, written in honor of Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Professor Emerita of French at the University of Pennsylvania, reflects her wide-ranging contributions to the study of French literature, especially the writings of Balzac, Sade and Sand. Organized into five sections, it brings together 23 original essays in English and French by noted scholars of history and literature, the majority of which explore various inscriptions of the body, especially the female body, in political and literary discourse. Many of the issues engaged in these essays - the body as a cultural product insofar as it forms the basis for constructions of the modern nation-state as well as the exclusion of women from that social body; the baroque setting of orgy and the performance of the erotic/eroticized body on that scene; the representation of poor and working-class bodies; women's autobiographical praxis; parody - testify to the influential scholarship of Frappier-Mazur. The broad spectrum of authors in this volume is noteworthy. In addition to essays on Shakespeare, Rousseau, Sade, Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, LautrÉamont, MallarmÉ, Zola, there are also studies devoted to Restif de la Bretonne, Olympe de Gouges, Louise Michel, Poictevin, Rachilde, Jean Lorrain, Marthe Bibesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Leiris, Daniel Pennac, and Ken Bugul.

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Bodyscapes: Body and Discourse (Odense University Literary and Cultural Studies , No 3)

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too funny dog pranks.......2003-01-01

This was a surprisingly funny little comic book; Dogs doing outrageous pranks to their humans! Thats all. 107 pages of giggles.

not that funny.......2000-05-17

I found this collection of one page comics only slightly humorous. A lot of the "canine pranks" seem to be repeated throughout the book. Basically I was disappointed.

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In the Caribbean Windward Islands, one in three jobs and half of export earnings depend on bananas. But from the end of 2005, the European Union will give up the last non-tariff measures designed to protect this trade. Looming over the islanders are unemployment, poverty, further emigration, and the almost inevitable switch to growing illegal drugs. Banana Wars tells how the US government, answering the grievances of a single American corporation, forced the World Trade Organization to nullify a European Community commitment to protect small Caribbean banana growers. The international trading system lacks the flexibility needed to give states like the Windward Islands the protection that they need to survive, while powerful supermarket chains insist on ever-lower prices, to the short-term benefit of consumers but the serious detriment of growers. This book calls for new EU arrangements to help the Caribbean banana industry beyond 2005 and for the WTO to give greater consideration to the needs of very small states with vulnerable economies.

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