Secrets in Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secrets in Translation write by Margo Sorenson. This book was released on 2018-10. Secrets in Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fictional celebration of Italian life and culture where seventeen-year-old Alessandra returns for the summer to Italy, where she grew up. While confronting organized crime in the picturesque small town of Positano and babysitting a rebellious twelve year old, Alessandra loses her heart to a handsome Italian boy who hides secrets of his own.
Women's Secrets
Women's Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Secrets write by Helen Rodnite Lemay. This book was released on 1992-10-14. Women's Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Womens Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the works Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women. Both the content of the treatise and the reputation of its author (erroneously believed to be Albertus Magnus) inspired a few medieval scholars to compose lengthy commentaries on the text, substantial selections from which are included, providing further evidence of how medieval men interpreted science and viewed the female body.
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross
Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross write by Peter Lock. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with interesting observations on the early history of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom. The translation is based upon the text edited by Jacques Bongars in 1611. There is an introduction that contextualises the book, its author, his sources and his audience. The notes provide essential information to clarify internal textual references and allusions, as well as the role of Biblical references in Sanudo's grand design. The index is designed to make this detailed text usable and accessible. In this, his major work, Sanudo advocated the conquest of Egypt as the means to regain Jerusalem for the Latins and worked through his points with considerable detail alongside references to 13th-century Mediterranean history, especially involving Louis IX of France and Charles of Anjou, king of Naples. Books I and II give considerable detailed discussion of the concept, plan and costs of his proposed crusade. Book III provides an outline history of the crusades and the crusader states. It is derived from a wide-reading of other sources especially of William of Tyre, and, for events after 1184 on the Eracles, the letters of James of Vitry, and Sanudo's own experiences in the east. Throughout, the work contains a staggering amount of cartographical, ethnographical, geographical, and nautical information, as well as numerous unique insights into historical events and personalities of the late 13th century, not only in Outremer but in Western Europe.
The Alchemy of Al-Razi
The Alchemy of Al-Razi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Alchemy of Al-Razi write by Ph D Gail Marlow Taylor. This book was released on 2015-03-24. The Alchemy of Al-Razi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over a thousand years ago, the Persian physician and chemist Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi presented his students with a book of alchemy instructions called the Kitab al-Asrar or Book of Secrets. For over seven hundred years this systematic text on managing chemicals, equipment, and procedures was copied and imitated throughout Europe. Using historian Julius Ruska's authoritative German translation, this book presents al-Razi's Book of Secrets in English for the first time and analyzes it from the perspective of a modern scientific laboratory. The Kitab al-Asrar offers a view into the understanding of chemistry and procedure organization in the tenth-century Islamic world. Yet a careful reading yields even more than that. As a laboratory manual, it gives intriguing clues into Persian culture under the Abbasid caliphate: the relationship of teacher and student; attitudes toward safety, labor, and quantification; tools and logical problem-solving; commerce and the availability of luxury goods; and the value of the written word. This is the Kitab al-Asrar.
The Secret of Everlasting Life
The Secret of Everlasting Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret of Everlasting Life write by Richard Bertschinger. This book was released on 2011-08-15. The Secret of Everlasting Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Secret of Everlasting Life is the first translation from the Chinese of the second-century Can Tong Qi. This ancient work, the earliest known text on transformation and immortality, echoes the wisdom and poetry of both the Tao Te Ching and I Ching. The Can Tong Qi is also the ancestral text of all Qi Gong exercises in China. This translation reveals for the first time the meditation methods practised for thousands of years by Taoist sages. Presented here with its original Chinese commentaries, the Can Tong Qi is full of practical information and advice about the process of human transformation and how to nurture and develop the natural life-energy within us. Richard Bertschinger's additional commentary explains the intricacies of Chinese allegory and symbolism for the Western reader. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in Taoist thought, Chinese philosophy and culture, or Chinese medicine.
