Author: Shields T. Hardin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Colgate Story
Author: Shields T. Hardin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Becoming Colgate
Author: James Allen Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912568317
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912568317
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A History of Colgate University, 1819-1969
Author: Howard D. Williams
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Story of Colgate-Palmolive
Author: David R. Foster
Publisher:
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Category : Toilet preparations industry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Toilet preparations industry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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The Eddie Cantor Story
Author: David Weinstein
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512600482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A lively biography of the popular showman Eddie Cantor, with a focus on his involvement in Jewish culture and politics
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512600482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A lively biography of the popular showman Eddie Cantor, with a focus on his involvement in Jewish culture and politics
The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Summary & Analysis
Author: Elite Summaries
Publisher: Elite Summaries
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Detailed summary and analysis of The Power of Habit.
Publisher: Elite Summaries
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Detailed summary and analysis of The Power of Habit.
The Antikythera Mechanism
Author: Evaggelos G. Vallianatos
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 162734358X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and Its Demise, Evaggelos Vallianatos, historian and ecopolitical theorist, shows that after the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BCE, the Greeks, especially in Egypt, reached unprecedented heights of achievements in science, technology, and civilization. The Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical computer probably crafted in Rhodes in the second century BCE, was proof of that prowess. It’s the grandfather of our computers. Greek sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in 1900 on a 2,100-year-old Roman-era shipwreck. The hand-powered device reveals a sophisticated Greek technology previously unknown to scholars and historians, not seen and understood again until the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book not only describes how the sophisticated political and technological infrastructure of the Greeks after Alexander the Great resulted in the Antikythera celestial computer, and the bedrock of science and technology we know today, but also how the influence of Christianity on Greek civilization destroyed the nascent computer age of ancient Greece. Vallianatos, born in Greece and educated in America, is a historian, author, and journalist. He is a passionate champion of Greek culture and a well-suited guide to this historical account. Vallianatos explains how and why Greek scientists employed advanced engineering in translating the beautiful conception of the Antikythera Mechanism into an astronomical computer of genius: a bronze-geared device of mathematical astronomy, predicting the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon; calculating the risings and settings of important stars and constellations, and the movements of the planets around the Sun; while mechanizing the predictions of scientific theories. The computer’s accurate calendar connected these cosmic phenomena to the Olympics and other major Panhellenic religious and athletic celebrations, bringing the Greeks closer to their gods, traditions, and the Cosmos.
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 162734358X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and Its Demise, Evaggelos Vallianatos, historian and ecopolitical theorist, shows that after the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BCE, the Greeks, especially in Egypt, reached unprecedented heights of achievements in science, technology, and civilization. The Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical computer probably crafted in Rhodes in the second century BCE, was proof of that prowess. It’s the grandfather of our computers. Greek sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in 1900 on a 2,100-year-old Roman-era shipwreck. The hand-powered device reveals a sophisticated Greek technology previously unknown to scholars and historians, not seen and understood again until the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book not only describes how the sophisticated political and technological infrastructure of the Greeks after Alexander the Great resulted in the Antikythera celestial computer, and the bedrock of science and technology we know today, but also how the influence of Christianity on Greek civilization destroyed the nascent computer age of ancient Greece. Vallianatos, born in Greece and educated in America, is a historian, author, and journalist. He is a passionate champion of Greek culture and a well-suited guide to this historical account. Vallianatos explains how and why Greek scientists employed advanced engineering in translating the beautiful conception of the Antikythera Mechanism into an astronomical computer of genius: a bronze-geared device of mathematical astronomy, predicting the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon; calculating the risings and settings of important stars and constellations, and the movements of the planets around the Sun; while mechanizing the predictions of scientific theories. The computer’s accurate calendar connected these cosmic phenomena to the Olympics and other major Panhellenic religious and athletic celebrations, bringing the Greeks closer to their gods, traditions, and the Cosmos.
Manhua Modernity
Author: John A. Crespi
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520309103
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China's modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of these illustrations across the lively pages of popular pictorial magazines that entertained, informed, and mobilized a nation through a half century of political and cultural transformation. In this compelling media history, John Crespi argues that manhua must be understood in the context of the pictorial magazines that hosted them, and in turn these magazines must be seen as important mediators of the modern urban experience. Even as times changed—from interwar-era consumerism to war-time mobilization to Mao-style propaganda—the art form adapted to stay on the cutting edge of both politics and style.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520309103
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China's modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of these illustrations across the lively pages of popular pictorial magazines that entertained, informed, and mobilized a nation through a half century of political and cultural transformation. In this compelling media history, John Crespi argues that manhua must be understood in the context of the pictorial magazines that hosted them, and in turn these magazines must be seen as important mediators of the modern urban experience. Even as times changed—from interwar-era consumerism to war-time mobilization to Mao-style propaganda—the art form adapted to stay on the cutting edge of both politics and style.
In the Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains
Author: Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Solovyovo
Author: Margaret Paxson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253002594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In a small village beside a reed-lined lake in the Russian north, a cluster of farmers has lived for centuries -- in the time of tsars and feudal landlords; Bolsheviks and civil wars; collectivization and socialism; perestroika and open markets. Solovyovo is about the place and power of social memory. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in that single village, it shows how villagers configure, transmit, and enact social memory through narrative genres, religious practice, social organization, commemoration, and the symbolism of space. Margaret Paxson relates present-day beliefs, rituals, and practices to the remembered traditions articulated by her informants. She brings to life the everyday social and agricultural routines of the villagers as well as holiday observances, religious practices, cosmology, beliefs and practices surrounding health and illness, the melding of Orthodox and communist traditions and their post-Soviet evolution, and the role of the yearly calendar in regulating village lives. The result is a compelling ethnography of a Russian village, the first of its kind in modern, North American anthropology.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253002594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In a small village beside a reed-lined lake in the Russian north, a cluster of farmers has lived for centuries -- in the time of tsars and feudal landlords; Bolsheviks and civil wars; collectivization and socialism; perestroika and open markets. Solovyovo is about the place and power of social memory. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in that single village, it shows how villagers configure, transmit, and enact social memory through narrative genres, religious practice, social organization, commemoration, and the symbolism of space. Margaret Paxson relates present-day beliefs, rituals, and practices to the remembered traditions articulated by her informants. She brings to life the everyday social and agricultural routines of the villagers as well as holiday observances, religious practices, cosmology, beliefs and practices surrounding health and illness, the melding of Orthodox and communist traditions and their post-Soviet evolution, and the role of the yearly calendar in regulating village lives. The result is a compelling ethnography of a Russian village, the first of its kind in modern, North American anthropology.