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Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project $7.50 Science tells us we’re all related—one vast family sharing a common ancestor who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago. But countless questions remain about our great journey from the birthplace of Homo sapiens to the ends of the Earth. How did we end up where we are? When did we get there? Why do we display such a wide range of colors and features? The fossil record offers some answers, but exciting… |
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In Search of Your British and Irish Roots – a Complete Guide to Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Ancestors … |
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In Search of My Father: One Woman’s Search for the Father She Never Knew $10.22 How did Florence Nightingale and Sir Alexander Mackenzie become part of the same family history? And how does Captain Booty Graves fit into the picture? Who was the well-respected doctor in London, Ontario, son of a Northwest partner and Metis mother, who married a grandniece of a British aristocrat? Who was the first Newfoundlander, the grandson of a merchant seaman, to become a member of the fed… |
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The Black Ancestor by Russo, Albert [Paperback] $19.5 When Leodine, a young white girl living in the Belgian Congo, discovers that her greatgrandmother was African, she feels tainted and somehow unclean. New dilemmas arise in her life. Should she continue to befriend Yolande, the mulatto girl at her school? Or will her white friends begin to suspect she and Yolande share a common ancestry? With the onset of puberty, more problems arise: what will happen if she marries and has children? Amid much internal confusion, Leodine embarks on a journey, both physical and metaphysical, in search of her true identity. The Black Ancestor is part of Russos awardwinning African trilogy, which also includes Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika and Mixed Blood. Author: Russo, Albert Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 218 Publication Date: 2009/12/01 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.49 inches |
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The Black Ancestor by Russo, Albert [Hardcover] $39 When Leodine, a young white girl living in the Belgian Congo, discovers that her greatgrandmother was African, she feels tainted and somehow unclean. New dilemmas arise in her life: Should she continue to befriend Yolande, the mulatto girl at her school? Or will her white friends begin to suspect she and Yolande share a common ancestry? Amid much internal confusion, Leodine embarks on a journey, both physical and metaphysical, in search of her true identity. The Black Ancestor is part of Russos awardwinning African trilogy, which also includes Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika and Mixed Blood. Author: Russo, Albert Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 218 Publication Date: 2009/12/01 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.62 inches |
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The Ancestor $4.57 This book is in Good Used condition |
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Socrates’ Ancestor by McEwen, Indra K. Edition ILL, 0 $26.49 Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings and the dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwen argues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle of Western thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility of craft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance of the encompassing colonnade – the ptera or wings – that made Greek temples Greek.Who was Socrates' ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors were also the first Western philosophers: the preSocratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greek city-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out the connections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent of speculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground in the amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that they had to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor in Knossos.Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance of reductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological, and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest written record of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression in Anaximander's built work – a cosmic model that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of the world, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of early Greek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then moves James forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored for the meaning of city.Indra Kagis McEwen teaches architecture at the National Theatre School of Canada and at I'Université duQuébec à Montréal. |
