Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This report reviews progress in the care of Britain's archives over the 1990s, and in making them available for study. It also identifies some key issues that need to be addressed, by government and others, at the beginning of the new millennium.
Archives at the Millenium
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This report reviews progress in the care of Britain's archives over the 1990s, and in making them available for study. It also identifies some key issues that need to be addressed, by government and others, at the beginning of the new millennium.
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This report reviews progress in the care of Britain's archives over the 1990s, and in making them available for study. It also identifies some key issues that need to be addressed, by government and others, at the beginning of the new millennium.
Millennium
Author: Jacques Attali
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780812920888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Jacques Attali, French President Mitterand's most trusted advisor and president of the new European bank of Reconstruction and development, offers a provocative and all-too-convincing view of the future in an increasingly troubled world.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780812920888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Jacques Attali, French President Mitterand's most trusted advisor and president of the new European bank of Reconstruction and development, offers a provocative and all-too-convincing view of the future in an increasingly troubled world.
A Shopkeeper's Millennium
Author: Paul E. Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. Paul E. Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. In a new preface, he reassesses his evidence and his conclusions in this major work.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The religious revival that transformed America in the 1820s, making it the most militantly Protestant nation on earth and spawning reform movements dedicated to temperance and to the abolition of slavery, had an especially powerful effect in Rochester, New York. Paul E. Johnson explores the reasons for the revival's spectacular success there, suggesting important links between its moral accounting and the city's new industrial world. In a new preface, he reassesses his evidence and his conclusions in this major work.
Lord of the Dark Millennium: The Dan Abnett Collection
Author: Dan Abnett
Publisher: Games Workshop
ISBN: 9781789991383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A massive collection of fantastic short stories from New York Bestselling author Dan Abnett, collated together for the first time. A must read for all Abnett fans! From the bloody battlefields of the Sabbat Crusade to the clandestine world of the Inquisition, and the grand stage of the galaxy-defining Horus Heresy, this anthology brings together for the first time all of the Warhammer 40,000 and Horus Heresy short stories by esteemed science fiction and New York Times bestselling author Dan Abnett. Featured in these pages are both classic tales such as ‘Thorn Wishes Talon’ and ‘A Ghost Return’ and lesser known gems like ‘Midnight Rotation’ and ‘Eternal’ that add depth and nuance to some of the author’s most celebrated characters including Gaunt’s Ghosts, Gregor Eisenhorn, Horus Aximand, Shadrak Meduson and many more. Containing well over thirty stories and charting a legacy over twenty years in the making, Lord of the Dark Millennium is the definitive Black Library short fiction collection of Dan Abnett.
Publisher: Games Workshop
ISBN: 9781789991383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A massive collection of fantastic short stories from New York Bestselling author Dan Abnett, collated together for the first time. A must read for all Abnett fans! From the bloody battlefields of the Sabbat Crusade to the clandestine world of the Inquisition, and the grand stage of the galaxy-defining Horus Heresy, this anthology brings together for the first time all of the Warhammer 40,000 and Horus Heresy short stories by esteemed science fiction and New York Times bestselling author Dan Abnett. Featured in these pages are both classic tales such as ‘Thorn Wishes Talon’ and ‘A Ghost Return’ and lesser known gems like ‘Midnight Rotation’ and ‘Eternal’ that add depth and nuance to some of the author’s most celebrated characters including Gaunt’s Ghosts, Gregor Eisenhorn, Horus Aximand, Shadrak Meduson and many more. Containing well over thirty stories and charting a legacy over twenty years in the making, Lord of the Dark Millennium is the definitive Black Library short fiction collection of Dan Abnett.
The Art of Getting Over
Author: Stephen Powers
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466866403
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
What started as simple street movement, a way to assert individuality and pride, has blossomed into much more: Graffiti is everywhere. From Sprite commercials to The Source magazine to Soho art galleries, the elements and vernacular of the graffiti aesthetic are apparent in today's society. The Art of Getting Over: Graffiti at the Millennium examines graffiti's influence from its earliest days to its undeniable ubiquity now. Written by insider Stephen Powers, it includes a general history, in-depth interviews with both the progenitors of the form and current artists, and full-color illustrations of the most important works over the last 30 years. Unlike other subcultures that have been corrupted by the media and the mainstream, graffiti has maintained its sense of the underground and its clandestine feel. The purity and integrity that have defined the graffiti writer's mission have never faltered. The Art of Getting Over offers an unprecedented glimpse into this deeply affecting urban art form.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466866403
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
What started as simple street movement, a way to assert individuality and pride, has blossomed into much more: Graffiti is everywhere. From Sprite commercials to The Source magazine to Soho art galleries, the elements and vernacular of the graffiti aesthetic are apparent in today's society. The Art of Getting Over: Graffiti at the Millennium examines graffiti's influence from its earliest days to its undeniable ubiquity now. Written by insider Stephen Powers, it includes a general history, in-depth interviews with both the progenitors of the form and current artists, and full-color illustrations of the most important works over the last 30 years. Unlike other subcultures that have been corrupted by the media and the mainstream, graffiti has maintained its sense of the underground and its clandestine feel. The purity and integrity that have defined the graffiti writer's mission have never faltered. The Art of Getting Over offers an unprecedented glimpse into this deeply affecting urban art form.
The Color Complex
Author: Kathy Russell
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385471610
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Presents a powerful argument backed by historical fact and anecdotal evidence, that color prejudice remains a devastating divide within black America.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385471610
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Presents a powerful argument backed by historical fact and anecdotal evidence, that color prejudice remains a devastating divide within black America.
You Are All Free
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The events leading to the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793, and in France.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
The events leading to the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793, and in France.
The Millennial Sovereign
Author: A. Azfar Moin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504713
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was not alone in doing so. In this field-changing study, A. Azfar Moin explores why Muslim sovereigns in this period began to imitate the exalted nature of Sufi saints. Uncovering a startling yet widespread phenomenon, he shows how the charismatic pull of sainthood (wilayat)—rather than the draw of religious law (sharia) or holy war (jihad)—inspired a new style of sovereignty in Islam. A work of history richly informed by the anthropology of religion and art, The Millennial Sovereign traces how royal dynastic cults and shrine-centered Sufism came together in the imperial cultures of Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran, and Mughal India. By juxtaposing imperial chronicles, paintings, and architecture with theories of sainthood, apocalyptic treatises, and manuals on astrology and magic, Moin uncovers a pattern of Islamic politics shaped by Sufi and millennial motifs. He shows how alchemical symbols and astrological rituals enveloped the body of the monarch, casting him as both spiritual guide and material lord. Ultimately, Moin offers a striking new perspective on the history of Islam and the religious and political developments linking South Asia and Iran in early-modern times.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504713
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was not alone in doing so. In this field-changing study, A. Azfar Moin explores why Muslim sovereigns in this period began to imitate the exalted nature of Sufi saints. Uncovering a startling yet widespread phenomenon, he shows how the charismatic pull of sainthood (wilayat)—rather than the draw of religious law (sharia) or holy war (jihad)—inspired a new style of sovereignty in Islam. A work of history richly informed by the anthropology of religion and art, The Millennial Sovereign traces how royal dynastic cults and shrine-centered Sufism came together in the imperial cultures of Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran, and Mughal India. By juxtaposing imperial chronicles, paintings, and architecture with theories of sainthood, apocalyptic treatises, and manuals on astrology and magic, Moin uncovers a pattern of Islamic politics shaped by Sufi and millennial motifs. He shows how alchemical symbols and astrological rituals enveloped the body of the monarch, casting him as both spiritual guide and material lord. Ultimately, Moin offers a striking new perspective on the history of Islam and the religious and political developments linking South Asia and Iran in early-modern times.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307272117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307272117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!
Cinema and Art as Archive
Author: Aa. Vv.
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857529983
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
As Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the contemporary discursive practices in cinema and art develops in the semantic openendedness of the term, in the repositioning of the idea of archive.The individual disciplines involved in one such field – history of cinema and art, theory of cinema and art, aesthetics, semiotics, philology, etc. – begin to open up to questioning the notion of archive even ‘in negative’: in other words what – after Michel Foucault – the “archive” is not, or does not seem to be. The “archive” is not the ‘library of libraries’ or ‘encyclopedia’, it is not ‘memory’, it is not museum, it is not a ‘database’.In recent years, the attention focused on such ideas has not so much highlighted the ‘impulses’, ‘turns’ and specific forms of art (“art archive”) as it has revealed in many ways how the “archive” concerns us in the interrelation of aesthetic, political, ethical and legal levels among various disciplinary fields.
Publisher: Mimesis
ISBN: 8857529983
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
As Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the contemporary discursive practices in cinema and art develops in the semantic openendedness of the term, in the repositioning of the idea of archive.The individual disciplines involved in one such field – history of cinema and art, theory of cinema and art, aesthetics, semiotics, philology, etc. – begin to open up to questioning the notion of archive even ‘in negative’: in other words what – after Michel Foucault – the “archive” is not, or does not seem to be. The “archive” is not the ‘library of libraries’ or ‘encyclopedia’, it is not ‘memory’, it is not museum, it is not a ‘database’.In recent years, the attention focused on such ideas has not so much highlighted the ‘impulses’, ‘turns’ and specific forms of art (“art archive”) as it has revealed in many ways how the “archive” concerns us in the interrelation of aesthetic, political, ethical and legal levels among various disciplinary fields.