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Author : Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Recollections of My Life written by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara J. Brenneis
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557536783
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Genre Fusion written by Sara J. Brenneis and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Genre Fusion demonstrates how Spanish authors accurately represent the lived experience of Spain's history and collective memory by overlapping the genres of fiction and historiography."
Author : Esther Tusquets
Publisher : Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
ISBN 13 : 9781433116261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)
Download or read book We Had Won the War written by Esther Tusquets and published by Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Had Won the War (Habíamos ganado la Guerra) is the bestselling 2008 memoir about life in post-Civil War Barcelona by the acclaimed Spanish author Esther Tusquets. Unlike the majority of Spanish postwar narratives that are written from the perspective of those who lost the Civil War and suffered under the Franco regime, Tusquets' account recreates the era from the standpoint of the «winners.» As the offspring of an upper-middle-class Catalonian family who had sided with Franco in the armed conflict, the young Esther grew up as a privileged member of Spanish society, enjoying all the advantages that birth and material affluence could afford. The child's initial enchantment with the glittering, sheltered world of her kin soon turns to disillusionment, as she discerns the fault lines running through the larger social landscape, and senses the hypocrisy and cruelty of her parents' inbred clan. She finds in the inner world of literature and of the imagination compensation for a disturbing outer reality. As the growing girl struggles to find her own way, she experiments with political and religious movements that aim to forge a more just society. Her quest eventually leads to the rejection of all absolutist forms of thought and action, and to the assumption of her life's calling as a publisher and writer. The book paints a vivid picture of life during the early Franco years, while offering an intimate, revealing look at the childhood and adolescence of one of Spain's most remarkable contemporary authors.
Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674004511
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book On Histories and Stories written by A. S. Byatt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay between fiction and history forms the core of Byatt's essays as she explores historical storytelling and the translation of historical fact into fiction.
Author : William D. Browning
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000051315
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature Inside written by William D. Browning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design, this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits, principles and processes of biophilic design, Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice, across a range of international case studies – at different scales, and different typologies. Starting with the principles of biophilic design, and the principles and processes in practice, the book then showcases a variety of interior spaces – residential, retail, workplace, hospitality, education, healthcare and manufacturing. The final chapter looks ‘outside the walls’, giving a case study at the campus and city scale. With practical guidance and real-world solutions that can be directly-applied in day-to-day practice, this is a must-have for designers interested in applying biophilic principles.
Author : J. Norman Lockyer
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486450120
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Dawn of Astronomy written by J. Norman Lockyer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the fields of astrophysics and astro-archeology, J. Norman Lockyer believed that ancient Egyptian monuments were constructed "in strict relation to the stars." In this celebrated study, he explores the relationship between astronomy and architecture in the age of the pharaohs. Lockyer addresses one of the many points already extensively investigated by Egyptologists: the chronology of the kings of Egypt. All experts are in accord regarding the identity of the first monarch, but they cannot agree upon the dates of his reign within a thousand years. The author contends that by applying a knowledge of astronomy to the actual site orientation of the region's pyramids and temples, accurate dating can be achieved. In order to accomplish this, Lockyer had to determine the level of the ancient Egyptian ideas of astronomy. Some of his inferences have been invalidated by subsequent scholarship, but many of his other conclusions stand firm and continue to provide sensational leads into contemporary understanding of archaic astronomy.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226465675
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Political Essay on the Island of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation.
Author : Olga Merino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905762309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Paper Spurs written by Olga Merino and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Juana knows how to deal with harsh reality. She has no other choice." "Growing up in rural Spain in the 1950s means a life of poverty, hunger, and gruelling work. Juana leaves the home she has known all her life and heads to Barcelona to look for employment." "For a time she finds a wage and a bed in the house of the mysterious Senora Monterde, and companionship with the anarchist watchmaker Liberto. But life is never as it seems and once discovering Monterde's shameful secret Juana realizes she must rely on own resources to make the best of her new life in the city of marvels." --Book Jacket.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195110432
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Mendelssohn written by R. Larry Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Author : Alan Colquhoun
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262531016
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Modernity and the Classical Tradition written by Alan Colquhoun and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architecture. Alan Colquhoun is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. His previous collection of essays received the 1985 Architectural Critics Award.
Author : Pilar González-Bernaldo
Publisher : UCLA Latin American Center Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Civility and Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation written by Pilar González-Bernaldo and published by UCLA Latin American Center Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831628
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mendelssohn and His World written by R. Larry Todd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn's music, his social and intellectual circles, and his career. The essays in Part I cover the nature of a Jewish identity in Mendelssohn's music (Leon Botstein); his relationship to the Berlin Singakademie (William A. Little); the role of his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and accomplished composer (Nancy Reich); Mendelssohn's compositional craft in the Italian Symphony and selected concert overtures (Claudio Spies); his oratorio Elijah (Martin Staehelin); his incidental music to Sophocles' Antigone (Michael P. Steinberg); his anthem "Why, O Lord, delay forever?" (David Brodbeck); and an unfinished piano sonata (R. Larry Todd). Part II presents little-known memoirs by such contemporaries as J. C. Lobe, A. B. Marx, Julius Schubring, C. E. Horsley, Max Mller, and Betty Pistor. Mendelssohn's letters are represented in Part III by his correspondence with Wilhelm von Boguslawski and Aloys Fuchs, here translated for the first time. Part IV contains late nineteenth-century critical reviews by Heinrich Heine, Franz Brendel, Friedrich Niecks, Otto Jahn, and Hans von Blow.
Author : Clive L. N. Ruggles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107019782
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278) written by Clive L. N. Ruggles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IAU Symposium 278, the ninth of the 'Oxford' conferences on cultural astronomy, presents a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives on a set of problems that continue to raise exciting and challenging new research questions and promote vigorous debate. It extends discussions about cultural astronomy beyond the community of 'Western' academics to focus on the ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy of South America, Central and North America, and elsewhere. Highlights include vigourous debates about Chankillo, a recently discovered solar observation site in coastal Peru dating to c. 300 BC. The first IAU Symposium devoted to this topic not only discusses new discoveries and interpretations but also considers broader issues of mutual interest across disciplines in cultural astronomy, such as field methodology and social theory. This volume is valuable not just to researchers working in these fields, but to anyone who takes an interest in the protection of astronomical heritage.
Author : Leopold von Ranke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136882928
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of History written by Leopold von Ranke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of the writings of Leopold von Ranke was first published in 1973 and remains the leading collection of Ranke’s writings in the English language. Now updated with the needs of current students in mind, this edition includes previously untranslated materials, as well as a new introduction by Georg G. Iggers.
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Nature written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt's account of his monumental scientific expedition to South America and Cuba. Originally published in French between 1814 and 1825, this is the first edition in English ... This classic of scientific exploration was based on the researches of Humboldt and his companion, Aimé Bonpland, during their five-year excursion in South and Central America from 1799 to 1804. The volumes describe the voyage from Spain and the stop in the Canaries; Tobago and the first steps in South America; explorations along the Orinoco; Colombia and the area around Caracas; explorations in the northern Andes; and a visit to Cuba. "Humboldt and Bonpland traveled widely through South and Central America, studying meteorological phenomena and exploring wild and uninhabited country. At Callao, Humboldt measured the temperatures of the ocean current which came to bear his name ..."--Hill.
Author : Aaron Sachs
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201614
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Humboldt Current written by Aaron Sachs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence on American history through examining the work of four explorers—J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace, and John Muir—who embraced Humboldt's idea of a "chain of connection" uniting all peoples and all environments. A skillful blend of narrative and interpretation that also discusses Humboldt's influence on Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and Poe, The Humboldt Current offers a colorful, passionate, and superbly written reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American history.
