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Zone of the Marvellous

In Search of the Antipodes

By: Martin Edmond

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Zone of the Marvellous

In Search of the Antipodes

By: Martin Edmond

Imaginative and cerebral, this volume recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes—namely Australia and New Zealand—from the Western perspective over the course of the past five millennia. Tracing the fiction underlying the fact in the tales of, among others, Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Thomas More, this remarkable compilation explores the imagination of travelers, writers, map-makers, charlatans, and rogues who dreamed of other worlds. Delving into the Australian character and the New Zealand psyche, this account also conveys an insightful glimpse into Western history.

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Auckland University Press

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1775582477

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9781775582472

Edmond Wollmann's Collected Works: 1985-2018 (The Integrated Guide Series Book 2)

By: Edmond H. Wollmann

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Edmond Wollmann's Collected Works: 1985-2018 (The Integrated Guide Series Book 2)

By: Edmond H. Wollmann

This volume is a collection of articles, essays, notes and posts in response to the most often asked questions and issues the author encountered in his career as an astrologer and consultant beginning in the 1970s to the present as of this printing. This text is a blending of science, metaphysics, philosophy, astrology and psychology on an array of popular topics. 553 pages, 71 articles, and 16 pieces of artwork, all in one place.

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553

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Altair Publications

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0966353277

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9780966353273

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

What Were They Thinking?

By: Edmond Brown

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Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

What Were They Thinking?

By: Edmond Brown

Newton rejected Huygens’ wave theory of light. How can a wave propagate through empty space? Maxwell showed that light was an electromagnetic wave. There must be some medium. Why couldn’t the medium be found? Was it moving with respect to us? Good theories create as many questions as they answer. Einstein’s theories answered these questions but raised others.

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275

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Outskirts Press

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147875981X

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9781478759812

Battarbee and Namatjira

By: Martin Edmond

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Battarbee and Namatjira

By: Martin Edmond

Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their first encounters in the early 1930s, when Battarbee introduced Namatjira to the techniques of water-colour painting, through the period of Namatjira’s popularity as a painter, to the tragic circumstances leading to his death in 1959, their close relationship was to have a decisive impact on Australian art. This biography, illustrated with photographs, makes extensive use of Battarbee’s diaries for the first time, to throw new light on Namatjira’s life, and to bring Battarbee, who has been largely ignored by biographers, back into focus. Some of its findings will be controversial. By moving between the artists and their backgrounds, and looking closely at the nature of their friendship, Edmond is able to portray the personal and social complexities the two men faced, while at the same time illuminating larger cultural themes – the treatment of the Arrernte and Indigenous people generally, the influence of the Lutheran church, the development of anthropology, and the evolution of Australian art.

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368

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Giramondo Publishing

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1922146692

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9781922146694

The Earth Machine

The Science of a Dynamic Planet

By: Edmond A. Mathez,James D. Webster

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The Earth Machine

The Science of a Dynamic Planet

By: Edmond A. Mathez,James D. Webster

From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that carved the Grand Canyon to the earth-shaking fury of volcanoes and earthquakes, this fascinating book—inspired by the award-winning Hall of Planet Earth at New York City's American Museum of Natural History—tells the story of the evolution of our planet and of the science that makes it work. With the same exuberance and expertise they brought to the creation of the Hall of Planet Earth, co-curators Edmond A. Mathez and James D. Webster offer a guided tour of Earth's dynamic, 4.6-billion-year history. Including numerous full-color photographs of the innovative exhibit and helpful, easy-to-understand illustrations, the authors explore the major factors in our planet's evolution: how Earth emerged from the swirling dusts of a nascent solar system; how an oxygen-rich, life-sustaining atmosphere developed; how continents, mountain ranges, and oceans formed; and how earthquakes and volcanic eruptions alter Earth's surface. Traversing geologic time and delving into the depths of the planet-—beginning with meteorites containing minuscule particles that are the solar system's oldest known objects, and concluding with the unusual microbial life that lives on the chemical and thermal energy produced by sulfide vents in the ocean floor—The Earth Machine provides an up-to-date overview of the central theories and discoveries in earth science today. By incorporating stories of real-life fieldwork, Mathez and Webster explain how Earth is capable of supporting life, how even the smallest rocks can hold the key to explaining the formation of mountains, and how scientists have learned to read nature's subtle clues and interpret Earth's ever-evolving narrative.

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353

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Columbia University Press

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0231500874

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9780231500876

Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Edmond Rostand

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Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Edmond Rostand

Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see. Portraits suggest that he did have a big nose, though not nearly as large as described by Rostand.

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243

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Simon and Schuster

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1625587023

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9781625587022

Waimarino County

& Other Excursions

By: Martin Edmond

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Waimarino County

& Other Excursions

By: Martin Edmond

Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams before delivering its grand finale: a meditation on the mysterious identity of a writer.

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291

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Auckland University Press

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1775582353

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9781775582359

Chronicle of the Unsung

By: Martin Edmond

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Chronicle of the Unsung

By: Martin Edmond

The development of the artistic identity is revealed in this autobiography of an award-winning screenwriter. Anecdotes of travels and relationships with friends, roommates, and lovers are balanced with aesthetic encounters with artists such as Van Gogh, Gaugin, and Rimbaud. Episodes in Amsterdam, London, Sydney, Fiji, and New Zealand demonstrate the impact of place on the author's personal life. The nature of the creative personality and the process of writing an autobiography are explored in this artistic and personal revelation.

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Auckland University Press

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1775580423

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The Expatriates

By: Martin Edmond

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The Expatriates

By: Martin Edmond

The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendents of those colonists return to interrogate the centre. This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient Rome; John Platts-Mills, radical lawyer and political activist; and Joseph Burney Trapp, librarian, scholar and protector of culture. These were men, born in remote New Zealand, who achieved fame in Europe—even as they were lost sight of at home. Men who became, from the point of view of their country of origin, expatriates. A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of these four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealand’s place in the world, then and now.

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276

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Bridget Williams Books

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1988533147

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9781988533148

Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley's, Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's, Methods of Approximation

By: Francis Maseres,Edmond Halley,William Frend

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Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley's, Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's, Methods of Approximation

By: Francis Maseres,Edmond Halley,William Frend

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Andesite Press

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1375471139

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9781375471138

Universal Arithmetick: Or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. to Which Is Added, Dr. Halley's Method of Finding the Roots

By: Isaac Newton,Edmond Halley

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Universal Arithmetick: Or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. to Which Is Added, Dr. Halley's Method of Finding the Roots

By: Isaac Newton,Edmond Halley

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Legare Street Press

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1015774806

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Book's by Edmond Halley

Zone of the Marvellous

Zone of the Marvellous

Edmond Wollmann's Collected Works: 1985-2018 (The Integrated Guide Series Book 2)

Edmond Wollmann's Collected Works: 1985-2018 (The Integrated Guide Series Book 2)

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein

Battarbee and Namatjira

Battarbee and Namatjira

The Earth Machine

The Earth Machine

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Waimarino County

Waimarino County

Chronicle of the Unsung

Chronicle of the Unsung

The Expatriates

The Expatriates

Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley's, Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's, Methods of Approximation

Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebraick Equations by Dr. Halley's, Mr. Raphson's, and Sir Isaac Newton's, Methods of Approximation

Universal Arithmetick: Or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. to Which Is Added, Dr. Halley's Method of Finding the Roots

Universal Arithmetick: Or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. to Which Is Added, Dr. Halley's Method of Finding the Roots

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