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Download or read book "Mephisto", the Marvellous Automaton, Exhibited at the International Theatre, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889 written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019685815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (858 download)
Download or read book "mephisto", The Marvellous Automaton, Exhibited At The International Theatre, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889 written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book provides a detailed account of Mephisto, a mechanical man who was exhibited at the International Theatre Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. The book examines the engineering behind this marvel of the age, as well as the reactions of audiences who saw the automaton perform. Examining a relic of a bygone era, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of technology and entertainment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paul Metzner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377400
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.
Author : ?va Forg cs
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781858660127
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics written by ?va Forg cs and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historian Éva Forgács's book is an unusual take on the Bauhaus. She examines the school as shaped by the great forces of history as well as the personal dynamism of its faculty and students. The book focuses on the idea of the Bauhaus - the notion that the artist should be involved in the technological innovations of mechanization and mass production - rather than on its artefacts. Founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius and closed down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus had to struggle through the years of Weimar Germany not only with its political foes but also with the often-diverging personal ambitions and concepts within its own ranks. It is the inner conflicts and their solutions, the continuous modification of the original Bauhaus idea by politics within and without, that make the history of the school and Forgács's account of it dramatic.
Author : Carlo Cercignani
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606987
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Ludwig Boltzmann written by Carlo Cercignani and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in detail. A substantial part of the book is devoted to discussing his scientific and philosophical ideas and placing them in the context of the second half of the 19th century. The fact that Boltzmann was the man who did most to establish that there is a microscopic, atomic structure underlying macroscopic bodies is documented, as is Boltzmann's influence on modern physics, especially through the work of Planck on light quanta and of Einstein on Brownian motion. Boltzmann was the centre of a scientific upheaval, and he has been proved right on many crucial issues. He anticipated Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and proposed a theory of knowledge based on Darwin. His basic results, when properly understood, can also be stated as mathematical theorems. Some of these have been proved: others are still at the level of likely but unproven conjectures. The main text of this biography is written almost entirely without equations. Mathematical appendices deepen knowledge of some technical aspects of the subject.
Author : George Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Chess & Chess-players written by George Walker and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Ridgely Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Old and the New Magic written by Henry Ridgely Evans and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547540655
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Illuminations written by Walter Benjamin and published by HMH. This book was released on 1968-10-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode; and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.
Author : Charles Van Doren
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345373162
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (453 download)
Download or read book A History of Knowledge written by Charles Van Doren and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1992-03-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history. "Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows." Clifton Fadiman Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club
Author : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300103779
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Word that Causes Death's Defeat written by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), one of twentieth-century Russia’s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson’s superb translations of three of Akhmatova’s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin’s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet’s magnum opus. Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet’s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet’s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova’s poems and how and why they were created.
Author : Dr Alexander Cowan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479609
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The City and the Senses written by Dr Alexander Cowan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature.
Author : Guido Giacomo Preparata
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conjuring Hitler written by Guido Giacomo Preparata and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of how the US has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.
Author : Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826118771
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Prolongation of Life written by Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three chief evils that hang over us are disease, old age, and death. To study and control senescence, Metchnikoff proposed the establishment of a new scientific discipline he named 'gerontology.' In this classic text on the prolongation of life, Metchnikoff suggests that science should be encouraged and helped in every possible way in its task of removing the diseases and habits that now prevent human life from running its normal course, and his belief is that, were the task accomplished, the great cause of pessimism would disappear. Metchnikoff was able to proclaim himself an optimist, and found, in biological science, for the present generation a hope, or at the least an end towards which to work, and for future generations a possible achievement of that hope." ó From the Introduction by Gerald Gruman, MD, PhD
Author : William Henry Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Queen of Tears written by William Henry Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521871808
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture written by Laurence Senelick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.
Author : Charles Austin 1874-1948 Beard
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013421549
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Whither Mankind; a Panorama of Modern Civilization written by Charles Austin 1874-1948 Beard and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319767380
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Judges, Judging and Humour written by Jessica Milner Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time. It contributes to cultural studies and social science/socio-legal studies of both humour and the role of emotions in the judiciary and in judging. It explores the surprisingly varied intersections between humour and the judiciary in several legal systems: judges as the target of humour; legal decisions regulating humour; the use of humour to manage aspects of judicial work and courtroom procedure; and judicial/legal figures and customs featuring in comic and satiric entertainment through the ages. Delving into the multi-layered connections between the seriousness of the work of the judiciary on the one hand, and the lightness of humour on the other hand, this fascinating collection will be of particular interest to scholars of the legal system, the criminal justice system, humour studies, and cultural studies.
