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Book Another Modern

Download or read book Another Modern written by Tom Avermaete and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods~ISBN 90-5662-473-3 U.S. $55.00 / Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 400 pgs / 35 color and 215 b&w. ~Item / March / Architecture

Book Another Reason

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gyan Prakash
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-16
  • ISBN : 0691214212
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Another Reason written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation. Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the dawn of the postcolonial era. He begins by taking us into colonial museums and exhibitions, where Indian arts, crafts, plants, animals, and even people were categorized, labeled, and displayed in the name of science. He shows how science gave the British the means to build railways, canals, and bridges, to transform agriculture and the treatment of disease, to reconstruct India's economy, and to transfigure India's intellectual life--all to create a stable, rationalized, and profitable colony under British domination. But Prakash points out that science also represented freedom of thought and that for the British to use it to practice despotism was a deeply contradictory enterprise. Seizing on this contradiction, many of the colonized elite began to seek parallels and precedents for scientific thought in India's own intellectual history, creating a hybrid form of knowledge that combined western ideas with local cultural and religious understanding. Their work disrupted accepted notions of colonizer versus colonized, civilized versus savage, modern versus traditional, and created a form of modernity that was at once western and indigenous. Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill. With its deft combination of rich historical detail and vigorous new arguments and interpretations, Another Reason will recast how we understand the contradictory and colonial genealogy of the modern nation.

Book Another Modernity

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  • Author : Clémence Boulouque
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1503613119
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Another Modernity written by Clémence Boulouque and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel. What Benamozegh proposed was unprecedented: that the Jewish tradition presented a solution to the religious crisis of modernity. According to Benamozegh, the defining features of Judaism were universalism, a capacity to foster interreligious engagement, and the political power and mythical allure of its theosophical tradition, Kabbalah—all of which made the Jewish tradition uniquely equipped to assuage the post-Enlightenment tensions between religion and reason. In this book, Clémence Boulouque presents a wide-ranging and nuanced investigation of Benamozegh's published and unpublished work and his continuing legacy, considering his impact on Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as on far-right Christians and right-wing religious Zionists.

Book Another Escape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefan Camenzind
  • Publisher : Images Publishing Group
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781864707182
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Another Escape written by Stefan Camenzind and published by Images Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guest houses have become an exceptionally popular and attractive type of accommodation for tourists and travelers in recent decades. As the setting often influences the architecture, interior design, and decoration of a guest house, visitors have the opportunity to more closely experience local customs and culture and engage with the surrounding environment. Another Escape: Designing the Modern Guest House II presents a collection of guest houses in China, North America, Europe and Northern Africa that are in harmony with their setting. These outstanding projects are distinct for their architecture and interior spaces, and each has a character that is greatly influenced by history, culture, and regional context. This book provides guidance on guest house design and management, and with enticing color photographs, technical drawings, and freehand sketches, it is an essential source of inspiration for architects, interior designers, small business owners, and anyone looking to establish a guest house in their local region.

Book Anthropologia

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Anthropologia written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Another Christmas Carol

Download or read book Another Christmas Carol written by John C Derr and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What if the Ghostly visitations did not begin with, nor end with, Scrooge, but the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit one misanthropic soul in need of reclamation every Christmas Eve? This modern-day sequel to the Charles Dickens classic assumes all of the above. And this time, the spiritual trio's attentions have been directed to a not-so-nice woman in Philadelphia. Ellie Printh is a 53-year-old heart transplant survivor and wealthy business owner who loves no one and has no intention of changing that. On the anniversary of the life-saving operation performed seven Christmas Eves prior, the spirit of her equally irascible heart donor warns her she will be visited by three ghosts, looking to reform her character and give her a fresh start. But will this supernatural encounter change Ellie for good or are some people simply too stuck in their ways? John Derr's Dickens-inspired novel is a Christmas story that can be enjoyed at any time of the year. Exploring some big themes including childhood trauma and abuse, Another Christmas Carol's message will stay with readers long after they finish the final page.

Book American Pulp

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  • Author : Paula Rabinowitz
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-19
  • ISBN : 1400865298
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book American Pulp written by Paula Rabinowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated cultural history of the midcentury pulp paperback "There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities. Drawing on extensive original research, Paula Rabinowitz unearths the far-reaching political, social, and aesthetic impact of the pulps between the late 1930s and early 1960s. Published in vast numbers of titles, available everywhere, and sometimes selling in the millions, pulps were throwaway objects accessible to anyone with a quarter. Conventionally associated with romance, crime, and science fiction, the pulps in fact came in every genre and subject. American Pulp tells how these books ingeniously repackaged highbrow fiction and nonfiction for a mass audience, drawing in readers of every kind with promises of entertainment, enlightenment, and titillation. Focusing on important episodes in pulp history, Rabinowitz looks at the wide-ranging effects of free paperbacks distributed to World War II servicemen and women; how pulps prompted important censorship and First Amendment cases; how some gay women read pulp lesbian novels as how-to-dress manuals; the unlikely appearance in pulp science fiction of early representations of the Holocaust; how writers and artists appropriated pulp as a literary and visual style; and much more. Examining their often-lurid packaging as well as their content, American Pulp is richly illustrated with reproductions of dozens of pulp paperback covers, many in color. A fascinating cultural history, American Pulp will change the way we look at these ephemeral yet enduringly intriguing books.

Book The Linen Guildsman

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  • Author : Irish and Scottish Linen Damask Guild, Inc
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Linen Guildsman written by Irish and Scottish Linen Damask Guild, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The School World

Download or read book The School World written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog

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  • Author : University of Maine at Orono
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1026 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by University of Maine at Orono and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Professional Paper

Download or read book Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architecture

Download or read book Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Modern Disciples of Rembrandt

Download or read book The Modern Disciples of Rembrandt written by Frederick Keppel and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Another Shot

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  • Author : Brooke St. James
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-03-21
  • ISBN : 9781508968436
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Another Shot written by Brooke St. James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Shot is a contemporary romantic novella based on the classic story of Ruth and Boaz. My name is Rae, and this is my story. Regretfully, it begins on a sad note. Everything was taken from me when my husband died in a tragic car accident. The only person on Earth who could have possibly been hurting more than me was my beloved mother-in-law, Laura, who lost her husband and only sons in the same accident. Laura was forced to leave Arizona and return to New York, and I decided to go with her. I packed my things with no prospects or expectations; all I had was the undeniable urge to remain with her. As a result of becoming a widow at twenty-three, I was in a surreal frame of mind, and making a new start with my mother-in-law seemed like the only logical decision. Less than two weeks after the accident we were on our way to New York. I trusted we'd make it somehow, but never imagined someone greater than us already had a plan in place-a plan as romantic as a fairy-tale.

Book Psychologism

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  • Author : Martin Kusch
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-06-23
  • ISBN : 1134801114
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Psychologism written by Martin Kusch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. When did psychology become a distinct discipline? What links the continental and analytic traditions in philosophy? Answers to both questions are found in this extraordinary account of the debate surrounding psychologism in Germany at the turn of the century. The trajectory of twentieth century philosophy has been largely determined by this anti-naturalist view which holds that empirical research is in principle different from philosophical inquiry, and can never make significant contributions to the latter's central issues. Martin Kusch explores the origins of psychologism through the work of two major figures in the history of twentieth century philosophy, Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl. His sociological and historical reconstruction shows how the power struggle between the experimental psychologists and pure philosophers influenced the thought of these two philosophers, shaping their agendas and determining the success of their arguments for a sharp separation of logic from psychology. A move that was crucial in the creation of the distinct discipline of psychology and was responsible for the anti-naturalism found in both the analytic and the phenomenological traditions in philosophy. Students and lecturers in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and history will find this study invaluable for understanding a key moment in the intellectual history of the twentieth century.

Book Creating Another Self

Download or read book Creating Another Self written by Samuel Maio and published by Truman State Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded and updated volume, Samuel Maio is definitive and comprehensive in his discussion of American personal poetry. While broadening the concept of persona to include the first-person speaker, he analyses representative poets categorised by the aesthetics of voice, demonstrating these poets' far-reaching influence into the 21st century.

Book Masters in Music

Download or read book Masters in Music written by Daniel Gregory Mason and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: