Download or read book Hidden Histories written by D. Medina Lasansky and published by didapress. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Unknowers written by Linsey McGoey and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliberate ignorance has been known as the ‘Ostrich Instruction’ in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid culpability. So why do so many figures at the top still get away with it when disasters on their watch damage so many people’s lives? Does the idea that knowledge is power still apply in today’s post-truth world? A bold, wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ignorance and power in the modern age, from debates over colonial power and economic rent-seeking in the 18th and 19th centuries to the legal defences of today, The Unknowers shows that strategic ignorance has not only long been an inherent part of modern power and big business, but also that true power lies in the ability to convince others of where the boundary between ignorance and knowledge lies.
Download or read book Manual of Physical Anthropology written by Juan Comas and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense written by Leopold Damrosch Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic assumptions limited his ability to appreciate or create tragedy, despite a deep understanding of human suffering. This limitation, Mr. Damrosch argues, derived partly from his Christian belief, and more largely from a view of reality that did not allow exclusive focus on its tragic aspects. The author discusses Irene, The vanity of Human Wishes, and Johnson's criticism of tragedy, particularly that of Shakespeare. A Final chapter places Johnson's view in the context of modern theories. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Witness to an Era India 1920 to the Present Day written by Francis Robert Moraes and published by London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Relates To India Of 1920 To The Present Day. Record Of These Years And Frank Moraes Commentary On Them. Contains 8 Pages Of Illustrations.
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Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by George Irwin and published by [Auckland] : Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book traces the origin and course of the 'general disease' of Dr Johnson's life, the 'vile melancholy which tormented him during much of his life. The evidence is all available in the records of Dr Johnson's life and in his writings, which are more often than not autobiographical. George Irwin has brought it together in an illuminating account of Johnson's uneasy relations with his mother, his struggles to understand and master his neurosis, and the relief which finallyu came through the largely unconscious agency of Mrs Thrale..."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Seed and the Soil written by Carol Lowery Delaney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively ethnography of one intensely studied village, it teems with insights on the links between cosmology, power, and gender. A book for theologians, feminists, all anthropologists, and other critical thinkers."--Paul Stirling, The University of Kent, Canterbury "One of the best ethnographic accounts of family, kinship, and social relations in a Turkish village. Delaney provides an integrated treatment of the character of Turkish village culture."--Michael Meeker, University of California, San Diego
Download or read book The Art of the Picture Frame written by Jacob Simon and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 8/11/96 - 9/2/97.
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality written by M. Houlbrook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of historical debate in the history of European and American sexuality since c. 1750. Each chapter explores in detail one theme, such as race, pornography, marriage, science or religion, which historians have seen as essential to writing the history of sexuality. The book therefore not only offers a broad introduction to the state of the art, but also suggests new directions for research and debate.
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Download or read book The Fictions of Romantick Chivalry written by Eithne Henson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Scotland, Johnson found the remains of the lost feudal world of Macbeth, of abbeys, hermitages, castles and arbitrary power, of violence and luxury, and, in a riot of romantic role-playing, concluded that "the fictions of romantick chivalry" had their basis in history. Throughout his writing, however, Johnson is always ambivalent about romance, and it is his prudent rejection of its seductive dangers that has tended to be stressed by successive generations of critics. This study aims to redress the balance."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Paul Tuttle Designs written by Marla Berns and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tuttle Designssurveys Tuttle's 50-year career, primarily as a furniture designer, showcasing more than 60 examples of seating and tables, and highlighting five homes he designed in Santa Barbara early in his career. Paul Tuttle's (1918-2002) impressive oeuvre is noted for its combination of gorgeous woods with materials such as steel, glass, cane, and upholstery. Regardless of how aesthetically beautiful or freshly inventive his creations are, they were always intended to be functional uttle stands out among mid-to-late twentieth-century designers in his avoidance of trends or styles and his commitment to solving design problems in an original way. Working within a modernist tradition, Tuttle's work is distinguished by an elegance of line, purity of materials, fascination with structure, and delight in small details. Although crafted with precision and taste, his furniture often exudes a distinctive quirky playfulness that reflects the designer's belief that a sense of fun should be part of a work's purpose.
Download or read book Young Sam Johnson written by James Lowry Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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