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University of Pennsylvania

Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983158
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book University of Pennsylvania written by George E. Thomas and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin, founder of America's first university, the University of Pennsylvania, hoped that its students would learn "everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental." The same might be said of the architecture of its campus, both useful and ornamental. The newest title in our highly acclaimed Campus Guide Series takes readers on an insider's tour of this historic school, unique in the Ivy League for its single urban campus. The guide presents architectural walks of a campus that is distinguished by landmark buildings. Thomas traces the university's rich history from its founding in 1749 to the present wave of construction on the modern campus. Hand-colored maps and detailed descriptions of the buildings guide to readers on their tour.

Critical Disaster Studies

Author : Jacob A.C. Remes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299728
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Critical Disaster Studies written by Jacob A.C. Remes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions—and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, critical disaster studies reveals the stakes of defining people or places as vulnerable, resilient, or at risk. As social constructs, disaster, vulnerability, resilience, and risk shape and are shaped by contests over power. Managers and technocrats often herald the goals of disaster response and recovery as objective, quantifiable, or self-evident. In reality, the goals are subjective, and usually contested. Critical disaster studies attends to the ways powerful people often use claims of technocratic expertise to maintain power. Moreover, rather than existing as isolated events, disasters take place over time. People commonly imagine disasters to be unexpected and sudden, making structural conditions appear contingent, widespread conditions appear local, and chronic conditions appear acute. By placing disasters in broader contexts, critical disaster studies peels away that veneer. With chapters by scholars of five continents and seven disciplines, Critical Disaster Studies asks how disasters come to be known as disasters, how disasters are used as tools of governance and politics, and how people imagine and anticipate disasters. The volume will be of interest to scholars of disaster in any discipline and especially to those teaching the growing number of courses on disaster studies.

The Things I Learned in College

Author : Sean-Michael Green
Publisher : Theleigh Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780692603178
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Things I Learned in College written by Sean-Michael Green and published by Theleigh Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals what life is like for students who are able to study in the Ivy League and explores the myths and secrets of the institutions.

Building America's First University

Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235159
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Building America's First University written by George E. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice

On Screen and Off

Author : Anne Berg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298411
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book On Screen and Off written by Anne Berg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berlin. In Hamburg, film was key in turning this self-styled "Gateway to the World" into a "Nazi city." The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. In Hamburg, those very subjects chanced upon film culture as a seemingly apolitical opportunity to articulate their own ideas about how Nazism ought to work. Tracing discourses around film production and film consumption in the city, On Screen and Off illustrates how Nazi ideology was envisaged, imagined, experienced, and occasionally even fought over. Local authorities in Hamburg, from the governor Karl Kaufmann to youth wardens and members of the Hamburg Film Club, used debates over cinema to define the reach and practice of National Socialism in the city. Film thus engendered a political space in which local activists, welfare workers, cultural experts, and administrators asserted their views about the current state of affairs, articulated criticism and praise, performed their commitment to the regime, and policed the boundaries of the Volksgemeinschaft. Of all the championed "people's products," film alone extended the promise of economic prosperity and cultural preeminence into the war years and beyond the city's destruction. From the ascension of the Nazi regime through the smoldering rubble, going to the movies grounded normalcy in the midst of rupture.

Authentic Happiness

Author : Martin Seligman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884132
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Happiness written by Martin Seligman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives. In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity -- into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity. Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.

Becoming Penn

Author : John L. Puckett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291085
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Penn written by John L. Puckett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar redevelopment and expansion of urban universities, and the indispensable part these institutions played in the remaking of American cities. Yet urban renewal is only one aspect of this history. Drawing from Philadelphia's extensive archives as well as the University's own historical records and publications, John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd examine Penn's rise to eminence amid the social, moral, and economic forces that transformed major public and private institutions across the nation. Becoming Penn recounts the shared history of university politics and urban policy as the campus grappled with twentieth-century racial tensions, gender inequality, labor conflicts, and economic retrenchment. Examining key policies and initiatives of the administrations led by presidents Gaylord Harnwell, Martin Meyerson, Sheldon Hackney, and Judith Rodin, Puckett and Lloyd revisit the actors, organizations, and controversies that shaped campus life in this turbulent era. Illustrated with archival photographs of the campus and West Philadelphia neighborhood throughout the late twentieth century, Becoming Penn provides a sweeping portrait of one university's growth and impact within the broader social history of American higher education.

The Camera and the Press

Author : Marcy J. Dinius
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206347
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Camera and the Press written by Marcy J. Dinius and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.

Financial Report - University of Pennsylvania

Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Financial Report - University of Pennsylvania written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pennsylvania

Author : Randall M. Miller
Publisher : Guida Editori
ISBN 13 : 9780271022147
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania written by Randall M. Miller and published by Guida Editori. This book was released on 2002 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, has remained at the heart of American history. Created partly as a safe haven for people from all walks of life, Pennsylvania is today the home of diverse cultures, religions, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations. Many ideas, institutions, and interests that were formed or tested in Pennsylvania spread across America and beyond, and continue to inform American culture, society, and politics. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth is the first comprehensive history of the Keystone State in almost three decades. In it distinguished scholars view Pennsylvania's history critically and honestly, setting the Commonwealth's story in the larger context of national social, cultural, economic, and political development. Part I offers a narrative history and Part II offers a series of "Ways to Pennsylvania's Past" -- nine concise guides designed to enable readers to discover Pennsylvania's heritage for themselves. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth is the result of a unique collaboration between The Pennsylvania State University Press and The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the official history agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The result is a remarkable account of how Pennsylvanians have lived, worked, and played through the centuries.

University of Pennsylvania Bulletin

Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book University of Pennsylvania Bulletin written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

University of Pennsylvania

Author : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book University of Pennsylvania written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940

Author : Edward Potts Cheyney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220879X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940 written by Edward Potts Cheyney and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This, then, is his history of the University of Pennsylvania from its founding to its bicentennial anniversary.

The College of the University of Pennsylvania

Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The College of the University of Pennsylvania written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

College of the University of Pennsylvania

Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book College of the University of Pennsylvania written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rules and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, Enacted by the Board of Trustees

Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Rules and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, Enacted by the Board of Trustees written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

University of Pennsylvania

Author : University of Pennsylvania Archives
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439631824
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book University of Pennsylvania written by University of Pennsylvania Archives and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time photography was invented in the 1830s, the University of Pennsylvania, America's first university, was nearly a century old. University of Pennsylvania, a unique photographic collection, focuses on the school's history at its present campus in West Philadelphia beginning shortly after the end of the Civil War and provides images of more than a century of student life inside and outside the classroom. In every category, from campus landmarks to the student body to the traditions that bind the community together, these photographs demonstrate the close connections between Penn's present and its past. They also reveal historical aspects of the Penn experience that have since vanished.