Author: Geoffrey Goldberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578819433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
engineering and design history of Lancia, an Italian automotive company through the papers of one of their leading engineers, Francesco De Virgilio. A look at the design process from inside the company; also includes detailed Lancia family history as owners of the company; a look at post-war Italian industrial processes, from a broad based cultural perspective.
Lancia and de Virgilio
Author: Geoffrey Goldberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578819433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
engineering and design history of Lancia, an Italian automotive company through the papers of one of their leading engineers, Francesco De Virgilio. A look at the design process from inside the company; also includes detailed Lancia family history as owners of the company; a look at post-war Italian industrial processes, from a broad based cultural perspective.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578819433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
engineering and design history of Lancia, an Italian automotive company through the papers of one of their leading engineers, Francesco De Virgilio. A look at the design process from inside the company; also includes detailed Lancia family history as owners of the company; a look at post-war Italian industrial processes, from a broad based cultural perspective.
Medieval Self-Coronations
Author: Jaume Aurell i Cardona
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
Villani's Chronicle
Author: Giovanni Villani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Bentley
Author: Clare Hay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953582747
Category : Bentley automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953582747
Category : Bentley automobile
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pagan and Christian Rome
Author: Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Blameless in Abaddon
Author: James Morrow
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 057508149X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid-Atlantic proved a serious menace to both navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body - comatose yet far from inert - has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Dei: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history's injustices large and small. In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing odyssey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 057508149X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In Towing Jehovah, the discovery of the two-mile-long corpse of God in the mid-Atlantic proved a serious menace to both navigation and to faith. But was God truly dead, as the nihilists and the New York Times believed? In Blameless in Abaddon, His body - comatose yet far from inert - has been hauled from its temporary resting place in the Arctic to Florida, where it has become the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge practicing in Abaddon Township, Pennsylvania, proposes further travels for the Corpus Dei: to the World Court in The Hague, to answer for history's injustices large and small. In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing odyssey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.
Science is Fiction
Author: Andy Masaki Bellows
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262523189
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Essays examining the work of maverick scientific documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262523189
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Essays examining the work of maverick scientific documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve.
The Oxford Handbook of Dante
Author: Manuele Gragnolati
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198820747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198820747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality'; 'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
The Undivine Comedy
Author: Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Accepting Dante's prophetic truth claims on their own terms, Teodolinda Barolini proposes a "detheologized" reading as a global new approach to the Divine Comedy. Not aimed at excising theological concerns from Dante, this approach instead attempts to break out of the hermeneutic guidelines that Dante structured into his poem and that have resulted in theologized readings whose outcomes have been overdetermined by the poet. By detheologizing, the reader can emerge from this poet's hall of mirrors and discover the narrative techniques that enabled Dante to forge a true fiction. Foregrounding the formal exigencies that Dante masked as ideology, Barolini moves from the problems of beginning to those of closure, focusing always on the narrative journey. Her investigation--which treats such topics as the visionary and the poet, the One and the many, narrative and time--reveals some of the transgressive paths trodden by a master of mimesis, some of the ways in which Dante's poetic adventuring is indeed, according to his own lights, Ulyssean.
Hidden Histories
Author: D. Medina Lasansky
Publisher: didapress
ISBN: 8833380114
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.
Publisher: didapress
ISBN: 8833380114
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.