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Author : Michael Olmert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760770467
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Milton's Teeth & Ovid's Umbrella written by Michael Olmert and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Olmert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781417719549
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Milton's Teeth & Ovid's Umbrella written by Michael Olmert and published by . This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular author of The Book of Books offers a delightful look at how historians have plumbed ordinary items and activities to discover fascinating facts about the past. In 50 short, amusing essays, Michael Olmert reveals such things as why toothbrushes were crucial to the Industrial Revolution, the origins of graffiti, and more.
Author : Michael Olmert
Publisher : Touchstone Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella written by Michael Olmert and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 1996-06-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular author of The Book of Books offers a delightful look at how historians have plumbed ordinary items and activities to discover fascinating facts about the past. In 50 short, amusing essays, Michael Olmert reveals such things as why toothbrushes were crucial to the Industrial Revolution, the origins of graffiti, and more.
Author : Michael Bryson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783743514
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Love and its Critics written by Michael Bryson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.
Author : Neil D. Isaacs
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157773
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book You Bet Your Life written by Neil D. Isaacs and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are a nation of gamblers: pari-mutuel wagering at horse tracks; blackjack in Las Vegas; the NCAA basketball office pool; even day trading on the internet. Gambling is both our national pastime and our predominant cultural metaphor -- play the field; beat the odds; take a chance on love. Yet gambling poses serious risks to individuals and to society as a whole. Neil Isaacs -- sports historian, licensed clinical social worker, English professor, and a gambler himself for more than fifty years -- seeks to shatter the myths interfering with our understanding of gambling addiction, its causes, and its treatment. He begins by systematically debunking several commonly held beliefs, demonstrating that there is no such thing as the law of averages, that gambling is not inherently sinful, immoral, or criminal, and that money is not always the prime motivator for gamblers. Isaacs shows how habitual gambling can lead to compulsive gambling, but avoids oversimplifying this condition. Arguing against a undifferentiated interpretation of pathological gambling as a simple impulse control disorder, he draws examples from fiction, film, and his own practice to demonstrate additional ways gambling can be abused. A radical departure from established views, You Bet Your Life identifies the costs -- in dollars, people, families, and credit ratings -- of society's failure to address adequately the burdens of gambling.
Author : Luca Trabattoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040103227
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Planning and Designing the Absent City written by Luca Trabattoni and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities. The market evolutions allow us to look at these structures as temporary settlements characterised by a low-density dwelling and a close connection with natural elements and the landscape. This new and different point of view is sustained by the tendency of outdoor tourism to go in the direction of temporary villages, and this tendency is directly related to "time" and "landscape". The landscape is the reason why the campsite is settled. The time is linked to the holiday season timing. Today, both are greatly influenced by the introduction of the "Maxi-Caravan". This removable living unit can be placed on the empty pitch, occupying the landscape without ruining the soil. By the settlement of Maxi-Caravans, the campsite is transformed from an empty landscape with tents to a temporary settlement, whose timing is divided between the seasonal timing of the campsite and the "timing" of the product, and whose landscape is organised by the relation with the prevalent landscape and the internal one. The book's core defines the outdoor facility structure, using Italy as the main case study. To identify design strategies, the book analyses temporary settlement examples (quick time) and projects from historic outdoor tourism (medium time). Finally, the last chapter reflects on open-air accommodation facilities by showing their applicability in the different contexts of the refugee camps (long time). The aim of this research is to enhance the theme of open-air accommodation facilities, highlighting the need to equalise the study of temporary settlements with that of permanent settlements. It will be of interest to researchers and students of planning, landscape and tourism.
Author : Per Mollerup
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811832366
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Collapsible written by Per Mollerup and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collapsibles are objects that fold out for use and then fold back in again to save space. They include anything from sofabeds to Swiss army knives. Per Mollerup identifies 12 essential principles of collapsibility and looks at examples of each.
Author : 常俊跃
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book 英国社会与文化 written by 常俊跃 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书以英国社会文化为主线，涉及英国人的性格、价值观、宗教信仰、学校教育、政治政体、社会福利、生活方式、风俗节日、大众传媒、文学艺术、体育竞技、音乐赏析等主题。
Author : Robert Blackey
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434412296
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book History written by Robert Blackey and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes 14 essays written by the author that provide practical advice for teachers and students to assist both in achieveing the best results for teaching, learning, and writing about history. Part 1 offers suggestions for enlivening classroom presentations. Part 2 addresses the problems of teaching students to write, and part 2 focuses on history tests and exams, including ways to construct and respond to essay questions.
Author : Dr. ANUBHAVA VARDHAN SHARMA
Publisher : Book Rivers
ISBN 13 : 9355150385
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (551 download)
Download or read book ORAL HYGIENE - AIDS & TECHNIQUES written by Dr. ANUBHAVA VARDHAN SHARMA and published by Book Rivers. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Casper Harteveld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1849961573
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Triadic Game Design written by Casper Harteveld and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many designers, policy makers, teachers, and other practitioners are beginning to understand the usefulness of using digital games beyond entertainment. Games have been developed for teaching, recruiting and to collect data to improve search engines. This book examines the fundamentals of designing any game with a serious purpose and provides a way of thinking on how to design one successfully. The reader will be introduced to a design philosophy called “Triadic Game Design.”; a theory that all games involve three worlds: the worlds of Reality, Meaning, and Play. Each world is affiliated with aspects. A balance needs to be found within and between the three worlds. Such a balance is difficult to achieve, during the design many tensions will arise, forcing designers to make trade-offs. To deal with these tensions and to ensure that the right decisions are made to create a harmonic game, a frame of reference is needed. This is what Triadic Game Design offers.
Author : Michael Olmert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies written by Michael Olmert and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello. Explains how these well-made buildings actually functioned. The author is riveted by the history of outbuildings: their architecture, patterns of use, folklore, and even their literary presence. In two appendixes he also considers octagonal and hexagonal structures, which had special significance, both doctrinal and cultural, in early America.--from publisher description.
Author : John F. Moffitt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660987X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Caravaggio in Context written by John F. Moffitt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history of art. Through detailed analysis of paintings from his early Roman period, 1594-1602, this study now situates his art firmly within both its humanistic and its scientific context. Here, both his revolutionary painterly techniques--pronounced naturalism and dramatic chiaroscuro--and his novel subject matter--still-life compositions and genre scenes--are finally put into their proper cultural and contemporary environment. This environment included the contemporary rise of empirical scientific observation, a procedure--like Caravaggio's naturalism--committed to a close study of the phenomenal world. It also included the interests of his erudite, aristocratic patrons, influential Romans whose tastes reflected the Renaissance commitment to humanistic studies, emblematic literature and classical lore. The historical evidence entered into the record here includes both contemporary writings addressing the instructive purposes of art and the ancient literary sources commonly manipulated in Caravaggio's time that sanctioned a socially realistic art. The overall result of this investigation is characterize the work of the painter as an expression of "learned naturalism."
Author : Stephen A. Werner
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578597250
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)
Download or read book The Handy History Answer Book written by Stephen A. Werner and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Origin of Humans to Today ... All in One Volume! Highlights. Low lights. The twists and turns of social, political, and cultural history gathered in one fun and fascinating title! The Handy History Answer Book: From the Stone Age to the Digital Age takes a riveting walk through the ages, looking at the most important events of the past 5,000 years, including wars, disasters, pandemics, births, lives, and more. It supplies context to the past with a wealth of information on invention, philosophy, science, politics, culture, sports, business, law, media, and religion. A concise guide to all things historical, this feast of facts and compelling stories recounts the revolutionary ideas, acts, and inventions that changed the world. It surveys significant people, times, and events worldwide, with a special focus on U.S. history from its beginnings to the present. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of The Handy History Answer Book answers over 1,600 of the most frequently asked, most interesting, and unusual history questions, including ... What was the Stone Age? Why was Julius Caesar murdered? What are the origins of the religion of Islam? Why is the COVID-19 pandemic so significant? Why is the shamrock the symbol of St. Patrick? What is the legacy of the Crusades today? What are England’s royal “houses”? Did Marie Antoinette really say, “Let them eat cake”? When did people first migrate to North America? Who are the Cajuns? What is the Hubble Space Telescope? What were the first political parties in the United States? Who was Black Elk? When did chain stores first appear? Were the Nazi’s socialists? How long have hurricanes been given names? Who was Typhoid Mary? What happened at Pearl Harbor? What was the Bataan Death March? What is NATO? What is habeas corpus? Who was Emmett Till? Who was Genghis Khan? What was the triangular trade? Who is called the “Father of the Interstate System”? Who is Bernie Madoff? Who were the Wobblies? What was the Beat movement? Who is Ralph Nader?? What is the Occupy movement? What is the strongest earthquake ever measured? What happened on Apollo 13? What is Gray’s Anatomy? What is origin of Listerine®? What is the problem with antibiotics today? Who developed the first MRI machine? How does it work? What are the Ivy League colleges? Who were the Brothers Grimm? Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean? What was the Motion Picture Production Code? Which entertainers were in the Rat Pack? Who wrote the first computer program? What is unique about the Trump presidency? If “History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes” (as Mark Twain is reputed to have said) then The Handy History Answer Book is a lyrical and poetic treat. Clear, concise, and straightforward, this informative primer is a resource for brushing up on the events, terms, and history-makers many of us remember from school but can’t completely recall. Wide-ranging and comprehensive with nearly 250 illustrations, this information-rich tome also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. A perfect companion for history buffs of all ages.
Author : Charles Traub
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Realm of the Circuit written by Charles Traub and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate/graduate courses in Computer Art, History of Graphic Design and any new media course that deals with creativity and technology. Richly illustrated and focusing broadly on the history and development of creative applications of technology, In the Realm of the Circuit is a primer for designers, artists, and humanists. The book draws on diverse and multi-cultural examples from ancient civilizations to the present to illustrate the roots of all forms of creative expression, and their evolution through digital technology. It demonstrates the connection between the arts, humanities and technology that continue to influence today's digital society.
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Umut Turksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 150993796X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Countering Tax Crime in the European Union written by Umut Turksen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks durable solutions for tax crime and is a great resource for the development of knowledge, policy and law on tax crime. The book uniquely blends current practice with new approaches to countering tax crime. With insights from the EU-funded project, PROTAX, which conducts advanced research on tax crimes, the book comparatively analyses the EU's tax crime measures and the Ten Global Principles (TGPs) on fighting tax crime by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The study critically examines how the TGPs can serve as minimum standards for the EU to counter tax crime such as tax evasion and tax fraud. The study also analyses how the anti-tax avoidance package can be graduated to fight tax crime in the EU. When escalated, the strengths of the EU tax crime measures and TGPs can form a fortress in which criminal law can be empowered to mitigate tax crimes with greater effect. The book will be particularly useful for end-user stakeholders such as tax policy makers, LEAs, professional enablers as well as academics and students interested in productive interaction between tax, criminal and administrative laws.
