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The Cambridge star atlas
Published 2011Subjects: “…Stars Atlases.…”
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Chuck Taylor, Converse all star the true story of the man behind the most famous athletic shoe in history /
Published 2006“…Chuck Taylor, all star…”
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Cultural astronomy of the Japanese archipelago : exploring the Japanese skyscape /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Japanese people and stars : cultural astronomy and star lore of the Japanese -- Stars in mythology and classical literature -- Star lore of the Hokkaido Ainu -- Ethnoastronomy in the Ryukyu Islands -- Archaeoastronomy of prehistoric Japan : a historical survey -- Fallen star legends in Japanese folk beliefs -- Cosmology seen in house and burial orientation of the Hokkaido Ainu, Northern Japan -- The sun and the Kingdom of Ryukyu : an ethnohistorical approach to state formation -- Epilogue.…”
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Playing America's game baseball, Latinos, and the color line /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Latinos play America's game -- A national game emerges -- Early maneuvers -- Holding the line -- Baseball should follow the flag -- "Purest bars of Castilian soap" -- Making Cuban stars -- Becoming Cuban senators -- Playing in the world Jim Crow made -- Latinos and baseball's integration -- Troubling the waters -- Latinos and baseball's global turn -- Saying it is So-sa! …”
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The strange career of the Black athlete African Americans and sports /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…the categorization of African-American star athletes, 1892-1946 -- When the rooster crows : African American athletes in the struggle for civil rights, 1954-1968 -- The rules have changed but the game is still the same : black athletes' achievements in the civil rights era and beyond -- She's done more for her country than what the U.S. could have paid her for : African American women and sports.…”
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A voice for Earth American writers respond to the Earth Charter /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Rockefeller -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp -- Lake Conestee / John Lane -- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders -- Who / Robert Michael Pyle -- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching -- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy -- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray -- Imagination and principle into a new ethic -- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman -- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.…”
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Visualising skyscapes : material forms of cultural engagement with the heavens /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Facing the sky / Professor Gabriel Cooney -- Skyscape archaeology : the place of the sky in the academy / Liz Henty -- Visualising skyscapes : GIS-based 3D modelling and astronomical simulation / Georg Zotti -- On measurement, uncertainty and maximum likelihood in skyscape archaeology / Fabio Silva -- The dark sky character of archaeological landscapes : cultural meaning and conservation strategies / Frank Prendergast -- The phenomenology of star phases and their role in considering skyscapes / Bernadette Brady -- Toads turning time : verifying visualisations of the sanctuary (Avebury, Wiltshire) by inter-disciplinary method / Lionel Sims -- Linsmeau early Bronze Age structure showing a possible astronomical intent / Frédéric Heller, Frédéric Broes and Georg Zotti -- Time pursued by a bear : Ursa Major and stellar time-telling in the Paduan Salone / Darrelyn Gunzburg -- Visualisation of the sky in traditional cultures of Eurasia and its ancient representations / Emília Pásztor -- The square kilometre array art exhibition / Jarita Holbrook -- A brief account of three millennia of Chinese preoccupation with the skyscape / David W. …”
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