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Book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Coliseum

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  • Author : Benjamin D. Lisle
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2017-05-31
  • ISBN : 0812294076
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Modern Coliseum written by Benjamin D. Lisle and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "retro" Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture. In the early twentieth century, a new generation of stadiums arrived, located in the city center, easily accessible to the public, and offering affordable tickets that drew mixed crowds of men and women from different backgrounds. But in the successive decades, planners and architects turned sharply away from this approach. In Modern Coliseum, Benjamin D. Lisle tracks changes in stadium design and culture since World War II. These engineered marvels channeled postwar national ambitions while replacing aging ballparks typically embedded in dense urban settings. They were stadiums designed for the "affluent society"—brightly colored, technologically expressive, and geared to the car-driving, consumerist suburbanite. The modern stadium thus redefined one of the city's more rambunctious and diverse public spaces. Modern Coliseum offers a cultural history of this iconic but overlooked architectural form. Lisle grounds his analysis in extensive research among the archives of teams, owners, architects, and cities, examining how design, construction, and operational choices were made. Through this approach, we see modernism on the ground, as it was imagined, designed, built, and experienced as both an architectural and a social phenomenon. With Lisle's compelling analysis supplemented by over seventy-five images documenting the transformation of the American stadium over time, Modern Coliseum will be of interest to a variety of readers, from urban and architectural historians to sports fans.

Book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications  Cumulative Index

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications Cumulative Index written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book James Merrill

Download or read book James Merrill written by Langdon Hammer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--

Book Brother Souls

Download or read book Brother Souls written by Ann Charters and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they were—in Holmes’s words—“Brother Souls.” Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term “Beat Generation” to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation is the remarkable chronicle of this cornerstone friendship and the life of John Clellon Holmes. From 1948 to 1951, when Kerouac’s wanderings took him back to New York, he and Holmes met almost daily. Struggling to find a form for the novel he intended to write, Kerouac climbed the stairs to the apartment in midtown Manhattan where Holmes lived with his wife to read the pages of Holmes’s manuscript for the novel Go as they left the typewriter. With the pages of Holmes’s final chapter still in his mind, he was at last able to crack his own writing dilemma. In a burst of creation in April 1951, he drew all the materials he had been gathering into the scroll manuscript of On the Road. Biographer Ann Charters was close to John Clellon Holmes for more than a decade. At his death in 1988 she was one of a handful of scholars allowed access to the voluminous archive of letters, journals, and manuscripts Holmes had been keeping for twenty-five years. In that mass of material waited an untold story. These two ambitious writers, Holmes and Kerouac, shared days and nights arguing over what writing should be, wandering from one explosive party to the next, and hanging on the new sounds of bebop. Through the pages of Holmes’s journals, often written the morning after the events they recount, Charters discovered and mined an unparalleled trove describing the seminal figures of the Beat Generation: Holmes, Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and their friends and lovers.

Book Population Crisis

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Population Crisis written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1540 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Addicted to Architecture

Download or read book Addicted to Architecture written by Robert Dickson and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first challenge of designing and building a modest house while an architectural student, Robert Dickson has consistently applied a fresh and independent approach to design. Addicted to Architecture reveals the experiences and philosophies that have shaped the life of Robert Dickson, a pioneer of contemporary architecture and design in South Australia.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Michelangelo   s Vatican Piet   and its Afterlives

Download or read book Michelangelo s Vatican Piet and its Afterlives written by Lisa M. Rafanelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time. Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and artistic significance has shifted. Equally important is the fact that over its long life it has been relocated numerous times and has also been reproduced in images and objects produced both during Michelangelo’s lifetime and long after, described here as artistic progeny: large-scale, unique sculpted variants, smaller-scale statuettes, plaster and bronze casts, and engraved prints. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, early modern studies, religion, Christianity, and theology.

Book Weill Cornell Medicine

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  • Author : Antonio M. Gotto Jr.
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-18
  • ISBN : 1501703676
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Weill Cornell Medicine written by Antonio M. Gotto Jr. and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weill Cornell Medicine is a story of continuity and transformation. Throughout its colorful history, Cornell’s medical school has been a leader in education, patient care, and research—from its founding as Cornell University Medical College in 1898, to its renaming as Weill Cornell Medical College in 1998, and now in its current incarnation as Weill Cornell Medicine. In this insightful and nuanced book, dean emeritus Antonio M. Gotto Jr., MD, and Jennifer Moon situate the history of Cornell’s medical school in the context of the development of modern medicine and health care. The book examines the triumphs, struggles, and controversies the medical college has undergone. It recounts events surrounding the medical school’s beginnings as one of the first to accept female students, its pioneering efforts to provide health care to patients in the emerging middle class, wartime and the creation of overseas military hospitals, medical research ranging from the effects of alcohol during Prohibition to classified partnerships with the Central Intelligence Agency, and the impact of the Depression, 1960s counterculture, and the Vietnam War on the institution. The authors describe how the medical school built itself back up after nearing the brink of financial ruin in the late 1970s, with philanthropic support and a renewal of its longstanding commitments to biomedical innovation and discovery. Central to this story is the closely intertwined, and at times tumultuous, relationship between Weill Cornell and its hospital affiliate, now known as New York–Presbyterian. Today the medical school’s reach extends from its home base in Manhattan to a branch campus in Qatar and to partnerships with institutions in Houston, Tanzania, and Haiti. As Weill Cornell Medicine relates, the medical college has never been better poised to improve health around the globe than it is now.

Book ABA Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book ABA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.

Book Agents and Audiences

Download or read book Agents and Audiences written by Agrhananda Bharati and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented to the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

Book Loserville

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  • Author : Clayton Trutor
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2022-02
  • ISBN : 149622504X
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Loserville written by Clayton Trutor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta’s pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.

Book William S  Burroughs Literary Archive

Download or read book William S Burroughs Literary Archive written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: