Heritage Railway-18 March 2022
English | 110 Pages | PDF | 106.81 MB

Nondestructive Testing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: A Practical Guide and New Perspectives by Giovanni Leucci
English | EPUB | 2019 | 247 Pages | ISBN : 3030018989 | 13.9 MB
This textbook provides a general introduction to the most important nondestructive testing (NDT) exploration methods for cultural heritage sites. It and highlights the application of NDT exploration methods to archaeology and monumental property. The ability to gauge the extent of an archaeological deposit or the state of preservation of artefacts without resorting to destructive actions is extremely useful in identifying unknown or potential artefacts, and can help to understand and approach a given site in a more targeted manner, both for excavation and restoration operations.

Madhu Bhalla, "Culture as Power: Buddhist Heritage and the Indo-Japanese Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 0367313596 | 2020 | 214 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections between India and Japan, it examines the pathways of communication on common aesthetic and religious heritage that emerged in the backdrop of colonial experiences and the rise of Asian nationalisms. The volume discusses themes such as Asian arts and crafts under colonialism, formation of East Asian art collections, development of Buddhist art history in Japan, Japanese encounters with Ajanta, India in the history of the Shinto tradition, Japan in India's xenology, and Buddhism and world peace, and suggests paradigms of reconnecting cultural heritage within a global platform.

Merz Telescopes: A global heritage worth preserving by Ileana Chinnici
English | PDF,EPUB(Both True) | 2017 | 190 Pages | ISBN : 3319414852 | 21.5 MB
This book comprises a fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectively offer the first survey on historical large refracting telescopes in the country, drawing on original documents and photographs. It opens with a general introduction on the importance of Merz telescopes in the history of astronomy and analyses of the local and international contexts in which the telescopes were made.

Military Heritage-Spring 2022
English | 102 Pages | PDF | 25.96 MB

Tractor & Farming Heritage Magazine - May 2022
English | 86 pages | True PDF | 69.1 MB

Nature: An English Literary Heritage
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1843846020 | 365 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
What might it mean to study ideas of nature within our English literary heritage? In posing this question this volume invites us both to discover a diversity of ways of looking at a major continuing topos within English literature, and to ask what we mean by nature itself within this context. Starting from the premise of considering the pathetic fallacy which demands that nature reflects our emotional needs and beliefs as well as providing our material sustenance, the author explores the astonishing variety of themes grouped under the banner of \x26#34;nature writing\x26#34;. Some chapters consider the broad distinctions of nature experienced as time and mortality for human beings, and nature perceived as \x26#34;out there\x26#34; in the local or larger environment; others demonstrate how nature is commandeered in the erotic pastoral lyrics of the Elizabethan sonneteers, how the concept of a \x26#34;natural\x26#34; family underpins the tragedy of King Lear, and how definitions of what is natural are used to validate dominion over women and animals as well as the earth itself. A literary heritage of nature is here envisaged as a polyphony of voices across the centuries in which English texts influence and are influenced by their continental and North American fellow\-artists. The colonial preoccupations of the Elizabethan Sir Walter Ralegh are re\-examined in the writings of the American nineteenth\-century defender of nature David Henry Thoreau. The seventeenth\-century Norfolk physician Sir Thomas Browne\x27s musings begin and end the meditations by W.G. Sebald on his twentieth\-century East Anglian pilgrimage in The Rings of Saturn. Mary Shelley\x27s new genre of science fiction is turned upside down in Italo Calvino\x27s Cosmicomics. Ted Hughes translates Ovid. Seamus Heaney takes his inspiration from English, Irish and continental peers and predecessors. This polyphonic chorus of writing about nature has always enriched our literature and continues to do so. At the same it demonstrates how we have naturalised nature in our culture, as both a celebration, and an admonishment for what we take for granted in our attitudes to the natural world.

Decolonizing Heritage by Ferdinand De Jong
English | ISBN: 1316514536 | 292 pages | EPUB | 17 Mar. 2022 | 27 Mb
Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. Revealing how Léopold Sédar Senghor's philosophy of Négritude inflects the interpretation of its colonial heritage, Ferdinand de Jong demonstrates how Senegal's reinterpretation of heritage sites enables it to overcome the legacies of the slave trade, colonialism, and empire. Remembering and reclaiming a Pan-African future, De Jong shows how World Heritage sites are conceived as the archive of an Afrotopia to come, and, in a move towards decolonization, how they repair colonial time.

Heritage Railway - March 18, 2022
English | 110 pages | True PDF | 106.8 MB

Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money By Peter Probst
2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0253222958 | PDF | 6 MB
Why has the home of a Yoruba river goddess become a UNESCO World Heritage site and a global attraction? Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world visit the sacred grove of Osun, Osogbo's guardian deity, to attend her festival. Peter Probst takes readers on a riveting journey to Osogbo. He explores the history of the Osogbo School, which helped introduce one style of African modern art to the West, and investigates its intimate connection with Osun, the role of art and religion in the changing world of Osogbo, and its prominence in the global arena.