Author: George Sarton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486277402
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.
Author: George Sarton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486277402
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486277402
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
The Christian Century
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers
Author: Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813198208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Although they are commonplace in American homes, quilts are much more than simple patchwork bed coverings and wall adornments. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition, others reflect the cutting-edge talent and avant-garde mastery of contemporary quiltmakers. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is the first comprehensive study to approach quilts as objects of material culture that have adorned homes throughout the history of the commonwealth and the country. Linda Elisabeth LaPinta highlights such topics as quiltmaking in women's history, the influence of early Black quiltmakers, popular Kentucky quilt patterns, types, and colors, and the continuing importance of preserving the commonwealth's quilt history and traditions. The author provides a panoramic view of Kentucky quiltmaking from colonial America through the American Revolution, the Civil War to the 1900s, to the new millennium and the dynamic quilting industry of today. LaPinta reveals Kentucky's pivotal role in shaping significant aspects of American quilt culture—Kentuckians founded the first statewide quilt documentation project, created important exhibits and major quilt organizations, and established the National Quilt Museum. Rounding out this all-encompassing volume is a collection of fascinating and intimate artistic commentaries by notable quiltmakers, as well as discussion of the key players who have conserved, celebrated, and showcased the commonwealth's extraordinary quilt culture.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813198208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
Although they are commonplace in American homes, quilts are much more than simple patchwork bed coverings and wall adornments. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition, others reflect the cutting-edge talent and avant-garde mastery of contemporary quiltmakers. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is the first comprehensive study to approach quilts as objects of material culture that have adorned homes throughout the history of the commonwealth and the country. Linda Elisabeth LaPinta highlights such topics as quiltmaking in women's history, the influence of early Black quiltmakers, popular Kentucky quilt patterns, types, and colors, and the continuing importance of preserving the commonwealth's quilt history and traditions. The author provides a panoramic view of Kentucky quiltmaking from colonial America through the American Revolution, the Civil War to the 1900s, to the new millennium and the dynamic quilting industry of today. LaPinta reveals Kentucky's pivotal role in shaping significant aspects of American quilt culture—Kentuckians founded the first statewide quilt documentation project, created important exhibits and major quilt organizations, and established the National Quilt Museum. Rounding out this all-encompassing volume is a collection of fascinating and intimate artistic commentaries by notable quiltmakers, as well as discussion of the key players who have conserved, celebrated, and showcased the commonwealth's extraordinary quilt culture.
Artistic License
Author: Brooke Allen
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"Ms. Allen goes on to show how the incendiaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, in real terms, far more daring and more disturbing to the moral and ideological systems of their time than is the modern mutineer, who stages his rebellion within a social framework that condones - or at least pretends to condone - rebellion. In incisive essays, she considers such liberators as Pepys, Sterne, Boswell, Sheridan, Jane Austen, Hans Christian Andersen, Byron, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, L. Frank Baum, Sinclair Lewis, and William Saroyan. She finds it surprising that so many writers held on to artistic rectitude in the face of all-but-insuperable personal failings."--Jacket.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"Ms. Allen goes on to show how the incendiaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, in real terms, far more daring and more disturbing to the moral and ideological systems of their time than is the modern mutineer, who stages his rebellion within a social framework that condones - or at least pretends to condone - rebellion. In incisive essays, she considers such liberators as Pepys, Sterne, Boswell, Sheridan, Jane Austen, Hans Christian Andersen, Byron, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, L. Frank Baum, Sinclair Lewis, and William Saroyan. She finds it surprising that so many writers held on to artistic rectitude in the face of all-but-insuperable personal failings."--Jacket.
Our Third Century, Directions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim Littell
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Astrophysik IV: Sternsysteme / Astrophysics IV: Stellar Systems
Author: Frank K. Edmonson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642459323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642459323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Collected Works of Aleister Crowley Volume 1
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678148954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678148954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Social Progress
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Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
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Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description