Balder Ex-Libris - Levinson DavidReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearLevinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 6 - Russia and Eurasia-Chinaurn:md5:30ce8293f9849f3f5d36af05747357952012-01-17T00:43:00+00:002014-05-07T21:59:39+01:00balderLevinson DavidAsiaChinaEncyclopediaRussia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Levinson_David_-_Encyclopedia_of_World_Cultures_Vol_6_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Levinson David - Hays Terence E.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 6 - Russia & Eurasia-China</strong><br />
Year : 1994<br />
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The territory of Northern Eurasia (roughly Macro-Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States 1CIS1, or the former USSR) covers more than one-sixth of the earth's land surface. Much of it is blanketed by seemingly endless forest. It is inhabited by people speaking over one hundred languages and constitutes the third most populous geopolitical entity in the world. It extends from the Arctic Sea to the deserts of Turkestan and includes maximum and minimum degrees of temperature, elevation, precipitation, wind, land and mineral resources, and ecological, cultural, and linguistic variation. The cultures of this huge area may be divided roughly into four parts that overlap-for example, the Jews and Gypsies, each with significant subcultural variation, range from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The four major culture areas are: European Russia, with its Slavic, particularly Great Russian, majority and many Tatar and Uralic minorities; Central Asia, with its predominantly Turkic, Muslim peoples, notably the Kazakhs and the Uzbeks, spread over vast steppes and desert ranges; Siberia, with its many small indigenous groups such as the northernmost Nganasan and a huge Russian (Siberiaki) majority mainly in the cities from the Urals to Vladivostok; and the Caucasus, where the density and multiplicity of cultures (e.g., Daghestan is known as "the Mountain of Languages") coexists with many shared patterns and traits. <strong>...</strong></p>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 5 - East and Southeast Asiaurn:md5:12835b98498ceddf1ce1e834c873e5a62012-01-17T00:41:00+00:002014-05-07T21:59:43+01:00balderLevinson DavidAsiaEncyclopedia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Levinson_David_-_Encyclopedia_of_World_Cultures_Vol_5_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Levinson David - Hays Terence E.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 5 - East & Southeast Asia</strong><br />
Year : 1993<br />
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The national motto of the Indonesian republic, "Bhineka tunggal ika" (Unity amid Diversity), could well stand as the theme of this introductory essay. The diversity, not just of Indonesia but of the whole realm of tropical and subtropical Asia, is quite apparent as one reads through the many dozens of descriptive accounts published here and in the volume on South Asia. Some groups are tiny, while others number in the millions; some are maritime, while others live high in the mountain ranges; some have long flourished in the mainstream of major Eastern civilizations, while others are so remote that they have been effectively cut off from any civilizational influence until the present century, by geography if not by preference. <strong>...</strong></p>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 4 - Europeurn:md5:4512faf42bde493b71a25125c86d2ae12012-01-17T00:37:00+00:002014-05-07T21:59:49+01:00balderLevinson DavidEncyclopediaEurope <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Levinson_David_-_Encyclopedia_of_World_Cultures_Vol_4_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Levinson David - Hays Terence E.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 4 - Europe</strong><br />
Year : 1992<br />
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Europe is in tremendous flux. Political boundaries and designations are changing with dizzying speed. Population mobility is altering the human landscape in astonishing and unpredictable ways. To publish this volume on European cultures at this particular historical juncture provides both a wonderful opportunity to offer a much-needed resource to help interpret these phenomenal changes as well as an awesome challenge to include information that is as up-to-date as possible. The volume covers 116 cultures of western, northern, central, Mediterranean, and southeastern Europe. Also included here are island cultures in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean that traditionally have been affiliated sociopolitically with mainland European cultures. The locations of many of these cultures are shown on maps 2-4. Not included in this volume are cultures in North Africa, mainland Turkey, or within the former Soviet Union. The cultures in the European section of the former Soviet Union, such as Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine, are covered in volume 6. <strong>...</strong></p>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 3 - South Asiaurn:md5:f13d5a5cc8184c9cfe86c02e0aa3ba812012-01-17T00:34:00+00:002014-05-07T21:59:52+01:00balderLevinson DavidEncyclopediaSouth Asia <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Levinson_David_-_Encyclopedia_of_World_Cultures_Vol_3_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Levinson David - Hays Terence E.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 3 - South Asia</strong><br />
Year : 1992<br />
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The diversity of South Asia, which covers a major sector of tropical and subtropical Asia, is quite apparent as one reads through the dozens of descriptive accounts published here, most written by an acknowledged expert on the community, caste, tribe, or sect in question. Some groups are tiny, others number in the millions; some are maritime, others live high in the mountain ranges; most have long flourished in the mainstream of major Indian civilizations, although a few are so remote that they have been effectively cut off from any civilizational influence until the present century, by mountains or deserts if not by preference. <strong>...</strong></p>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 2 - Oceaniaurn:md5:9e01ad7354cc8612e0877ad0d32991242012-01-17T00:28:00+00:002014-05-07T22:00:08+01:00balderLevinson DavidEncyclopediaOceania <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Levinson_David_-_Encyclopedia_of_World_Cultures_Vol_2_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Levinson David - Hays Terence E.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 2 - Oceania</strong><br />
Year : 1991<br />
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If you turn a globe just so, all you can see is the Pacific Ocean, the earth's largest geographic feature. Its estimated area of some 181 million square kilometers is greater than that of all of the world's land areas combined; however, even when Aus. tralia is included, the Pacific contains only about 9 million square kilometers of dry land. The rest consists of more than half ofthe world's volume of free water, with an average depth of over 4,000 meters and reaching depths over 10,600 meters in the Mariana Trench, just south of Guam. From the Bering Strait in the north to the Antarctic Circle is a distance of more than 14,700 kilometers, and to cross the Pacific at its greatest width, between Singapore and Panama, one must travel about 19,700 kilometers. A first impression of Oceania, then, is one of vast size and distances. <strong>...</strong></p>Levinson David - Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 1 - North Americaurn:md5:c41f66dc68a6b3e700c99a72bc1c74322012-01-17T00:23:00+00:002014-05-07T22:00:13+01:00balderLevinson DavidEncyclopediaNorth America <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Levinson_David_-_Encyclopedia_of_World_Cultures_Vol_1_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Levinson David - O'Leary Timothy J.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 1 - North America</strong><br />
Year : 1991<br />
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This project began in 1987 with the goal of assembling a basic reference source that provides accurate, clear, and concise descriptions of the cultures of the world. We wanted to be as comprehensive and authoritative as possible: comprehensive, by providing descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or by describing a representative sample of cultures for regions where full coverage is impossible, and authoritative by providing accurate descriptions of the cultures for both the past and the present. <strong>...</strong></p>