The Many Faces of George Washington - 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 Many Faces of George Washington write by Carla Killough McClafferty. This book was released on 2011-04-01. The Many Faces of George Washington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Washington's face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since his birth in 1732. And yet even in his lifetime, no picture seemed to capture the likeness of the man who is now the most iconic of all our presidents. Worse still, people today often see this founding father as the "old and grumpy" Washington on the dollar bill. In 2005 a team of historians, scientists, and artisans at Mount Vernon set out to change the image of our first president. They studied paintings and sculptures, pored over Washington's letters to his tailors and noted other people s comments about his appearance, even closely examined the many sets of dentures that had been created for Washington. Researchers tapped into skills as diverse as 18th-century leatherworking and cutting-edge computer programming to assemble truer likenesses. Their painstaking research and exacting processes helped create three full-body representations of Washington as he was at key moments in his life. And all along the way, the team gained new insight into a man who was anything but "old and grumpy." Join award-winning author Carla Killough McClafferty as she unveils the statues of the three Georges and rediscovers the man who became the face of a new nation.
The Many Faces of the Past
The Many Faces of the Past - 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 Many Faces of the Past write by James Dodwell. This book was released on 2017-05-07. The Many Faces of the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What if the AI we create is just like us? What if, through observing and interacting with us, it learns to lie, cheat and pursue selfish purposes. What would happen if it were adamant that it was in fact an Alternative Intelligence. Man may have made it. But what will it make of Man?
The Many Faces of Evil
The Many Faces of Evil - 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 Many Faces of Evil write by Amélie Rorty. This book was released on 2001. The Many Faces of Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first anthology to present the range of the forms of evil, from vice, sin, cruelty and crime to disobedience and wilfulness. The readings are drawn from an array of perspectives and each one is introduced and set in context by the author.
The Many Faces of Christ
The Many Faces of Christ - 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 Many Faces of Christ write by Philip Jenkins. This book was released on 2015-10-13. The Many Faces of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In The Many Faces of Christ religious historian Philip Jenkins refutes our most basic assumptions about the Lost Gospels and the history of Christianity. He reveals that hundreds of alternative gospels were never lost, but survived and in many cases remained influential texts, both outside and within the official Church. We are taught that these alternative scriptures--such as the Gospels of Thomas, Mary, or Judas--represented intoxicating, daring and often bizarre ideas that were wholly suppressed by the Church in the fourth and fifth centuries. In bringing order to the tumult, the Church canonized only four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The rest, according to this standard account, were lost, destroyed, or hidden. But more than a thousand years after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made his Roman Empire do the same, the Christian world retained a much broader range of scriptures than would be imaginable today"--
The Many Faces of Herod the Great
The Many Faces of Herod the Great - 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 Many Faces of Herod the Great write by Adam Kolman Marshak. This book was released on 2015-04-22. The Many Faces of Herod the Great available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An old, bloodthirsty tyrant hears from a group of Magi about the birth of the Messiah, king of the Jews. He vengefully sends his soldiers to Bethlehem with orders to kill all of the baby boys in the town in order to preserve his own throne. For most of the Western world, this is Herod the Great -- an icon of cruelty and evil, the epitome of a tyrant. Adam Kolman Marshak portrays Herod the Great quite differently, however, carefully drawing on historical, archaeological, and literary sources. Marshak shows how Herod successfully ruled over his turbulent kingdom by skillfully interacting with his various audiences -- Roman, Hellenistic, and Judaean -- in myriad ways. Herod was indeed a master in political self-presentation. Marshak's fascinating account chronicles how Herod moved from the bankrupt usurper he was at the beginning of his reign to a wealthy and powerful king who founded a dynasty and brought ancient Judaea to its greatest prominence and prosperity.
