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William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison

Author : Peter L. Galison
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775730389
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison written by Peter L. Galison and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsere Auffassungen von Zeit verändern sich fortwährend auf vielschichtige Art und Weise. Dies ist eine Untersuchung dieser Verschiebungen und Kämpfe in Form von Zeichnungen und Texten, Musik und Bewegung bis hin zu Filmen und Konzepten. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde Zeit übergreifend organisiert: Dörfer, Städte, ganze Länder wurden ihrer »eigenen« Zeit beraubt, als die Uhren mithilfe von Signalen synchronisiert wurden. Albert Einstein stieß mit seiner radikalen Idee, die die Vorstellung eines »überallhörbaren Tik-Tak« zugunsten von Zeiten, die nicht Zeit sind, außer Kraft setzte, auf erbitterten Widerstand. Auch in unserem eigenen Zeitalter wird die Zeit wieder durcheinandergewirbelt – die Zeit wird mit Informationen gekreuzt, sie wird herausgefordert am Horizont Schwarzer Löcher oder sogar von vielen Stringtheoretikern als pure Illusion dargestellt. In einer kongenialen langfristigen Partnerschaft mit Peter L. Galison, Historiker, Autor, Filmemacher sowie Professor für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften und der Physik an der Harvard University, widmet sich der südafrikanische Künstler William Kentridge der Erforschung dieser Ideen in Die Ablehnung der Zeit, ein Projekt für die dOCUMENTA (13), in dessen Entstehen das vorliegende Notizbuch Einblick gewährt. Sprache: Deutsch/EnglischWilliam Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012William Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012

William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison

Author : Peter L. Galison
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775749837
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison written by Peter L. Galison and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsere Auffassungen von Zeit verändern sich fortwährend auf vielschichtige Art und Weise. Dies ist eine Untersuchung dieser Verschiebungen und Kämpfe in Form von Zeichnungen und Texten, Musik und Bewegung bis hin zu Filmen und Konzepten. Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde Zeit übergreifend organisiert: Dörfer, Städte, ganze Länder wurden ihrer »eigenen« Zeit beraubt, als die Uhren mithilfe von Signalen synchronisiert wurden. Albert Einstein stieß mit seiner radikalen Idee, die die Vorstellung eines »überallhörbaren Tik-Tak« zugunsten von Zeiten, die nicht Zeit sind, außer Kraft setzte, auf erbitterten Widerstand. Auch in unserem eigenen Zeitalter wird die Zeit wieder durcheinandergewirbelt – die Zeit wird mit Informationen gekreuzt, sie wird herausgefordert am Horizont Schwarzer Löcher oder sogar von vielen Stringtheoretikern als pure Illusion dargestellt. In einer kongenialen langfristigen Partnerschaft mit Peter L. Galison, Historiker, Autor, Filmemacher sowie Professor für die Geschichte der Wissenschaften und der Physik an der Harvard University, widmet sich der südafrikanische Künstler William Kentridge der Erforschung dieser Ideen in Die Ablehnung der Zeit, ein Projekt für die dOCUMENTA (13), in dessen Entstehen das vorliegende Notizbuch Einblick gewährt. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch William Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012William Kentridge (*1955 in Johannesburg, Südafrika) schloss 1976 ein Studium der Politik und Afrikanistik an der Witwatersrand-Universität in Johannesburg ab. 1976-1978 studierte er Druckgrafik an der Johannesburg Art Foundation. 1981/82 nahm er an der École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecog in Paris Pantomime- und Schauspielunterricht. Seit den 1980er-Jahren wurde sein Werk in zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen gezeigt, Fünf Themen etwa war 2010 am MoMA, New York, dem Jeu de Paume, Paris, und an der Albertina, Wien, zu sehen. Kentridge war Teilnehmer der documenta X (1997) sowie der Documenta11 (2002) und ist auch auf der dOCUMENTA (13) (2012) vertreten. Er wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter 2003 mit dem Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, 2010 mit dem Kyoto-Preis für Kunst und Philosophie. Der Künstler lebt und arbeitet in Johannesburg. Stand: Juni 2012

William Kentridge: the Refusal of Time

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher : Xavier Barral Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782365110075
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge: the Refusal of Time written by William Kentridge and published by Xavier Barral Editions. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge's recent work is situated on the border between art and science: by examining our perception and understanding of time, he reconsiders the creative process. A work in progress in the truest sense, The Refusal of Time continues and deepens the polymorphic, dreamlike, political and humanist body of work developed by Kentridge from his very earliest days as an artist. An installation with performance elements, The Refusal of Time was conceived by Kentridge and science historian Peter Galison for Documenta 13, and realized in collaboration with video filmmaker Catherine Meyburgh and composer Philip Miller, both of whom worked with Kentridge and Galison for a year. Time in its various manifestations--narrative, fragmented, slowed down and speeded up; distortions of space-time; simultaneity--is explored through various media, including dance, film, music and spoken word. The book itself is a work of art; it includes sketches and notebooks, all the texts read during the performance, pictures from the rehearsals and workshop as well as highlights of the show, interviews and drawings created specially for it by Kentridge.

The Refusal of Time

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher : Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 13 : 9782365110075
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Refusal of Time written by William Kentridge and published by Editions Xavier Barral. This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge's recent work is situated on the border between art and science: by examining our perception and understanding of time, he reconsiders the creative process. A work in progress in the truest sense, "The Refusal of Time" continues and deepens the polymorphic, dreamlike, political and humanist body of work developed by Kentridge from his very earliest days as an artist. An installation with performance elements, "The Refusal of Time" was conceived by Kentridge and science historian Peter Galison for Documenta 13, and realized in collaboration with video filmmaker Catherine Meyburgh and composer Philip Miller, both of whom worked with Kentridge and Galison for a year. Time in its various manifestations--narrative, fragmented, slowed down and speeded up; distortions of space-time; simultaneity--is explored through various media, including dance, film, music and spoken word. The book itself is a work of art; it includes sketches and notebooks, all the texts read during the performance, pictures from the rehearsals and workshop as well as highlights of the show, interviews and drawings created specially for it by Kentridge.

Futures of the Study of Culture

Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110669544
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Futures of the Study of Culture written by Doris Bachmann-Medick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities. Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.

William Kentridge

Author : Leora Maltz-Leca
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520290550
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book William Kentridge written by Leora Maltz-Leca and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : on the southern tip of Africa -- Process as metaphor : the metaphorics of erasure -- History as process : theaters of politics and Hegel in Africa -- Process/procession : a process of change -- Drawing up, drawing out : drawing as thinking -- Projection : the most promiscuous of metaphors -- Being contemporary up south : world time and other doubtful enterprises

Objectivity

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130619
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Objectivity written by Lorraine Daston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences — from anatomy to crystallography — are those featured in scientific atlases: the compendia that teach practitioners of a discipline what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Atlas images define the working objects of the sciences of the eye: snowflakes, galaxies, skeletons, even elementary particles. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology. As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity — or truth-to-nature or trained judgment — is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to any one interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity — and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.

The Illogic of Kassel

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224368
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Illogic of Kassel written by Enrique Vila-Matas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary look at one of Europe’s most acclaimed art exhibitions by a Spanish author “offering strange cerebral satisfactions” (Village Voice). A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer’s mission will be to sit down to write every morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town, transforming himself into a living art installation. Once in Kassel, the writer is surprised to find himself overcome by good cheer as he strolls through the city, spurred on by the endless supply of energy at the heart of the exhibition. This is his spontaneous, quirky response to art, rising up against pessimism.With humor, profundity, and a sharp eye, Enrique Vila-Matas tells the story of a solitary man, who, roaming the streets amid oddities and wonder, takes it upon himself to translate from a language he does not understand.

Postsensual Aesthetics

Author : James Voorhies
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262372843
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Postsensual Aesthetics written by James Voorhies and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics. In this original work of aesthetic theory, James Voorhies argues that we live in the shadow of old ways of thinking about art that emphasize the immediate visual experience of an autonomous art object. But theory must change as artistic and curatorial production has changed. It should encompass the full range of activities through which we encounter art and exhibitions, in which reading and thinking are central to the aesthetic experience. Voorhies advances the theoretical framework of a “postsensual aesthetics,” which does not mean we are beyond a sensual engagement with objects, but rather embraces the cognitive connections with ideas that unite art and knowledge production. Cognitive engagements with art often begin with publications conceived as integral to exhibitions, conveying the knowledge and research artists and curators produce, and continuing in time and space beyond traditional curatorial frames. The idea, and not just visual immediacy, is now art’s defining moment. Voorhies reframes aesthetic criteria to account for the liminal, cognitive spaces inside and outside of the exhibition. Surveying a wide range of artists, curators, exhibitions, and related publications, he repositions the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, and draws inspiration from Rosalind Krauss and Fredric Jameson, to describe a contemporary “logic of the curatorial.” He demonstrates how, even as we increasingly expect to learn from contemporary art, we must avoid an instrumentalist and reductive view of art as a mere source of information. As Voorhies shows through an analysis of two major global exhibitions, dOCUMENTA (13) (artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev) and Documenta11 (artistic director Okwui Enwezor), and of Ute Meta Bauer’s curatorial work at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, it is imperative for artistic research to retain its unique role in the production of knowledge.

Flute

Author : William Kentridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flute written by William Kentridge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kentridge Flute is a dense collection of essays, photographs and images tracking the internationally famous South African artist's explorations into and production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Kentridge's production of the opera premiered in Brussels in 2002, and FLUTE was launched in South Africa to celebrate the opera's African premiere in Cape Town. The book is packed with full color illustrations, photographs from the stage productions, pages from Kentridge's preparatory journals and numerous reproductions of the drawings and print works that spilled out of the artist's studio and onto the stage.

Small Town Talk

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823217
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Small Town Talk written by Barney Hoskyns and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren-and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences and associations of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene-and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s-Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

Image and Logic

Author : Peter Galison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226279176
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Image and Logic written by Peter Galison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.

The Private Life of the Diary

Author : Sally Bayley
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783522232
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Private Life of the Diary written by Sally Bayley and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure. The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets is an elegantly-told story of the evolution – and perhaps death – of the diary. It traces its origins to seventeenth-century naval administrator, Samuel Pepys, and continues to twentieth-century diarist Virginia Woolf, who recorded everything from her personal confessions about her irritation with her servants to her memories of Armistice Day and the solar eclipse of 1927. Sally Bayley explores how diaries can sometimes record our lives as we live them, but that we often indulge our fondness for self-dramatization, like the teenaged Sylvia Plath who proclaimed herself 'The Girl Who Would be God'. This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?

Futures of the Study of Culture

Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110669390
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Futures of the Study of Culture written by Doris Bachmann-Medick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Reihe widmet sich zentralen neueren Konzepten und Methoden im Feld der kulturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung und inhaltlichen Fragestellungen. Sie zielt darauf, die gegenwärtige Diskussion in den Kulturwissenschaften weiter zu profilieren und sie zugleich für die Arbeit in den Disziplinen fruchtbar zu machen: durch die Ausarbeitung interdisziplinärer Schlüsselkonzepte und die Entwicklung einer transkulturellen study of culture. Die Bände gehen überwiegend aus den Literatur-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften hervor, aber auch aus der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie und den Medienwissenschaften.

History's People

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487000073
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book History's People written by Margaret MacMillan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the CBC Massey Lectures Series In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life. History’s People is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.

Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

Author : Peter Galison
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243869
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time written by Peter Galison and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book Review A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others.…Galison has unearthed fascinating material" (New York Times). Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science were converging, step-by-step, on the answer: Albert Einstein, an young, obscure German physicist experimenting with measuring time using telegraph networks and with the coordination of clocks at train stations; and the renowned mathematician Henri Poincaré, president of the French Bureau of Longitude, mapping time coordinates across continents. Each found that to understand the newly global world, he had to determine whether there existed a pure time in which simultaneity was absolute or whether time was relative. Esteemed historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time.

The Private Life of Mrs Sharma

Author : Ratika Kapur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408873664
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Private Life of Mrs Sharma written by Ratika Kapur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.