Author: Edward Isidore Sears
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears
Author: Edward Isidore Sears
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The National Quarterly Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Pages : 866
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Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Ari Ben-Menahem
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540688315
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 6070
Book Description
This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540688315
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 6070
Book Description
This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.
Landscape and Images
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393754X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn’t only a rarity; he or she is suspect. Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America’s constructed landscapes. Stilgoe’s essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of "teen geography" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o’ lanterns becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural Midwest for the classic image of itself. At times breathtaking in their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe’s observations speak to specialists—whether they be artists, historians, or environmental designers—as well as to the common reader. Our landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent. The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393754X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn’t only a rarity; he or she is suspect. Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America’s constructed landscapes. Stilgoe’s essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of "teen geography" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o’ lanterns becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural Midwest for the classic image of itself. At times breathtaking in their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe’s observations speak to specialists—whether they be artists, historians, or environmental designers—as well as to the common reader. Our landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent. The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.
Early American Textbooks, 1775-1900
Author: United States. Department of Education. Educational Research Library
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The American Catalogue of books: or English guide to American literature, giving the full title of original works published in the United States since the year 1800
Author: S. Low & Co. (Firm)
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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The American Catalogue of Books, Or English Guide to American Literature, Giving the Full Titles of Original Works Published in the United States Since the Year 1800, with Especial Reference to Works of Interest to Great Britain. With the Prices at which They May be Obtained in London
Author: Sampson LOW (the Elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Pages : 212
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The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Pages : 988
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The District School Journal of the State of New-York
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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