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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393075893
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) written by J. R. McNeill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based on exhaustive research, McNeill's story—a compelling blend of anecdotes, data, and shrewd analysis—never preaches: it is our definitive account. This is a volume in The Global Century Series (general editor, Paul Kennedy).

Here Comes the Sun

Author : Ken Worpole
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890733
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Here Comes the Sun written by Ken Worpole and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Comes the Sun looks at how social reformers, planners and architects in the early twentieth century tried to remake the city in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia. While much has been written about architectural modernism, Worpole concentrates less on buildings and more on the planning of the spaces in-between – the parks, public squares, open-air museums, promenades, public pools and other public leisure facilities. Life in the open was of particular concern to early urban planners and reformers, with their dreams of release from the confines of overcrowded, unsanitary slums. Picturing youthful working-class bodies made healthy by exercise and tanned by the sun, they imagined an escape route from cities. Worpole demonstrates how open-air public spaces became sought-after commissions for many early modernist architects in the early 1900s, resulting in the transformation of the European cityscape. "...a fascinating account of the political idealism that informed urban planning for the first two-thirds of the twentieth-century...full of insights into how public space influences a sense of belonging and ownership."—The Guardian "This is one of those books you stroke lovingly. Open it, and there is page after page of beautiful photographs...this book combines history, society, politics, environment and place in a well-written and emotive text. The strength of the book is the way it crosses these traditional boundaries and disciplines."—Town and Country Planning "Drawing on architectural theories, philosophy, literature and even film-making, Worpole's book is wide-ranging and erudite and should be of interest to the layperson as well as to the urban planner. It is also elegantly written and complemented by a mixture of black and white and colour photographs to provide a visual emphasis to the points he raises."—N16 Magazine

The Sun and the Moon

Author : Matthew Goodman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458760049
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Sun and the Moon written by Matthew Goodman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called theSunbrought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon—including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and theSun, a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world.An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism,The Sun and the Moontells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that made America a nation of newspaper readers.

Towards the Sun

Author : Kenneth McConkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913645083
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Towards the Sun written by Kenneth McConkey and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been monographs on British artist-travellers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there has been no equivalent survey of what the writer, Henry Blackburn, described as ?artistic travel? a hundred years later. By 1900, the ?Grand Tourist? became a ?globe-trotter? equipped with a camera, and despite the development of ?knapsack photography?, visual recording by the old media of oil and watercolour on-the-spot sketching remained ever-popular.00Kenneth McConkey?s new book explores the complex reasons for this in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. He alerts us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists? colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afield. The seeds of wanderlust were sown in student years in places where tuition was conducted in French or German, and models were often 0Spanish, Italian, or North African. At first the countries of western Europe were explored 0afresh and cities like Tangier became artists? haunts. Training that prioritized plein air naturalism led to the common belief that a well-schooled young painter should be capable of working anywhere, and in any circumstances.00This richly illustrated book explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates artists including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefines the picturesque, by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination and aesthetic value.

Century of the Sun

Author : Christine Olsen Carne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722316702
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Century of the Sun written by Christine Olsen Carne and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When the Sun Danced

Author : Jeffrey S. Bennett
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932483
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book When the Sun Danced written by Jeffrey S. Bennett and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between May and October of 1917, three young shepherds were reportedly visited six times by an apparition of the Virgin Mary near the town of F tima in Portugal. At the final apparition event, approximately 70,000 visitors gathered to witness a prophesied miracle intended to convince the public that the children's visions were of divine origin. The miracle took the form of a solar anomaly; witnesses claimed that the sun began to "dance." Exploring the early development of the cult of the Virgin of F tima and the overthrow of the liberal, secular government by pro-Catholic elements, Jeffrey Bennett offers the first book-length scholarly study of the cult's relationship to the rise of authoritarian politics in Portugal. When the Sun Danced offers a fascinating look at the cultural dynamics that informed one of the most turbulent periods in the nation's history.

Sunspots and the Sun King

Author : Ellen McClure
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056930
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sunspots and the Sun King written by Ellen McClure and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediation, monarchy, and Louis XIV's attempts to legitimize his reign In order to assert his divine right, Louis XIV missed no opportunity to identify himself as God’s representative on earth. However, in Sunspots and the Sun King Ellen McClure explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to reconcile the logical and mystical aspects of divine right monarchy. McClure analyzes texts devoted to definitions of sovereignty, presents a meticulous reading of Louis XIV’s memoirs to the crown prince, and offers a novel analysis of diplomats and ambassadors as the mediators who preserved and transmitted the king’s authority. McClure asserts that these discussions, ranging from treatises to theater, expose incommensurable models of authority and representation permeating almost every aspect of seventeenth-century French culture.

Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Author : Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bubble in the Sun

Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128380
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Bubble in the Sun written by Christopher Knowlton and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.

A Piece of the Sun

Author : Daniel Clery
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468310410
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book A Piece of the Sun written by Daniel Clery and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How physicists are trying to solve our energy problems—by unlocking the secrets of the sun: “Explain[s] cutting-edge science with remarkable lucidity.” —Booklist This revelatory book tells the story of the scientists who believe the solution to the planet’s ills can be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power on Earth, we can secure all the heat and energy we would ever need. The simple yet extraordinary ambition of nuclear-fusion scientists has garnered many skeptics, but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible—and perhaps even preferable to other options. Clery argues passionately and eloquently that the only thing keeping us from harnessing this cheap, clean and renewable energy is our own shortsightedness. “Surprisingly sprightly…Clery walks readers through the history of fusion study, from Lord Kelvin, Albert Einstein and a large cast of peculiar physicists, to all manner of international politics—e.g., the darts and feints of the Cold War, the braces applied by OPEC in the wake of the 1973 war among Israel, Egypt and Syria. Clery negotiates the hard science with aplomb.” —Kirkus Reviews “A timely perspective on truly urgent science.” —Booklist “Ultimately, Clery argues that developing a source of energy that won’t damage the climate—or ever run out—is worth striving for.” —Publishers Weekly

A Century in the Sun

Author : Baltimore Sun, The
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893116054
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Century in the Sun written by Baltimore Sun, The and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Christian Century

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1560 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sun Kings

Author : Stuart Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691141266
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Sun Kings written by Stuart Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story behind English astronomer Richard Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the sun and how his understanding that the sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth helped usher in the modern era of astronomy.

Sun Seekers

Author : Ananda Pellerin
Publisher : Atelier Aditions
ISBN 13 : 9780997593587
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Sun Seekers written by Ananda Pellerin and published by Atelier Aditions. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine and nature: California as a beacon of better health Since the mid-19th century, the idea of California has lured many waves of migrants. Here, writer and editor Lyra Kilston explores a less examined attraction: the region's promise of better health. From ailing families seeking a miracle climate cure to iconoclasts and dropouts pursuing a remedy to societal corruption, the abundance of sunshine and untamed nature around the small but growing Los Angeles area offered them refuge and inspiration. In the wild west of medical practice, eclectic nature-cure treatments gained popularity. The source for this trend can be traced to the mountains and cold-water springs of Europe, where early sanatoriums were built to offer the natural cures of sun, air, water and diet; this sanatorium architecture was exported to the West Coast from Central Europe, and began to impact other types of building. Sun Seekers: The Cure of Californiaconstitutes the second volume of The Illustrated America(following 2016's Old Glory), Atelier Éditions' ongoing series excavating America's cultural past. Lyra Kilstonis a writer and editor focused on architecture, history, design and urbanism. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, Wiredand Hyperallergic, among other publications. She was on the curatorial team of Overdrive: LA Constructs the Future, 1940-1990, exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Building Museum.

Nineteenth Century

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Something New Under the Sun

Author : Alexandra Kleeman
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 1984826301
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun written by Alexandra Kleeman and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).