In Sights

WYMAN, J., Dear Jeffie. Being the letters from Jeffries Wyman, first director of the Peabody Museum, to his son, Jeffries Wyman, Jr. Ed. by G.E. Gifford. Cambridge (Mass.), Peabody Museum Press, 1978.
Wyman (1814-1874) "was a pioneer-anthropologist of nineteenth-century America and one of its great comparative anatomists. (...) The letters show a fatherly concern that his son be impressed with the rich variety of sights, sounds, forms, smells, and colors that enhance life. These letters are the work of a great scientists to instill in his son the concepts of acute observation and wonder".- "Published for the members of the Peabody Museum Association in a limited edition".

4to. 14, 82 S. m. 2 Porträts u. über 40 Abb. OPp. (Fuß beschabt).

[KW: Anthropology; Ethnology; Völkerkunde (Ethnolog., Anthropologie, Religion)]

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Julian,Smith: Ecuador Handbook Including the Galapagos Islands, Moon Books, Oktober 2005 ISBN: 1566916100
From horseback riding between ancient haciendas in the Andes and cruising around the Galapagos Islands to relaxing in a mellow coastal beach town, this guide includes suggested travel strategies and lists of must-see sights.

NEUBUCH! 191 mm x 140 mm x 25 mm Colour photos, b&w photos & illustrations, maps

[KW: Ecuador, Ekuador, Galapagos, Travel / South America / General]

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Guo, Xiaolu: Ein Ufo, dachte sie, englische Ausgabe&UFO in Her Eyes, CHATTO & WINDUS, 029 ISBN: 0701183365
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. As UFO Hotels spring up, and the local villagers go out of business, Xiaolu Guo's startling parable of change imagines an uneasy future for rural China and its relations not only with Beijing but the wider world beyond.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 200 p. w. numerous ill. 21,5 cm

[KW: Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen]

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Richter, Jana: The Tourist City Berlin Tourism & Architecture, BRAUN PUBLISHING, 050 ISBN: 303768058X
This publication examines the relationship between architecture, urban spaces and the current trend of city tourism. To begin with, the volume broaches the issue of the physical effects and the resulting spatial consequences that tourism has on Berlin. Amongst other things, this book presents the historical development of Berlin's sights depicted in the Baedeker guidebook from 1895 to the present day. In the second, more theory-based part of the book, various articles provide an insight into the current global development, using examples such as the Metropol Parasol in Sevilla. The final chapter of The Tourist City Berlin focuses on specific topics such as the construction of a new city center by the art scene.

NEUBUCH! 2010. 351 p. w. photos, ill. and maps. 20,5 cm 200 mm x 140 mm 200 farbige Abbildungen

[KW: Berlin, Kunst; Führer, Berlin, Kunst; Architektur]

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