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Book Artificial Sunshine

Download or read book Artificial Sunshine written by Maureen Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of domestic lighting from the middle ages to the 1990s, ranging from the practical considerations to the influence of lighting upon the clothes people wore and the way that they furnished their houses.

Book Artificial Sunshine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen Dillon
  • Publisher : National Trust
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781905400171
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Artificial Sunshine written by Maureen Dillon and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Dillon traces the history of domestic lighting, explaining the technological developments, providing the social context and detailing the changes in style of fittings. She draws upon the range of light fittings offered by the National Trust's collection of historic houses, from rushlights to chandeliers.

Book American Sunshine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Freund
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-04-16
  • ISBN : 0226262839
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book American Sunshine written by Daniel Freund and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public health. and entrepreneurs, dairymen, and tourism boosters transformed the pursuit of sunlight and its effects into a commodity. Within this historical context, Freund sheds light on important questions about the commodification of health and nature and makes an original contribution to the histories of cities, consumerism, the environment, and medicine.

Book The Refractionist

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1432 pages

Download or read book The Refractionist written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Poultry Review

Download or read book Canadian Poultry Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sunlight  Weather  and You

Download or read book Sunlight Weather and You written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness the Power of Sun and Weather to Boost Your Health. Are you tired of feeling down during winter months? Do you want to understand how sunlight and weather affect your body? Are you concerned about the impact of climate change on your health? What you'll get inside: - Learn about the physiological and psychological effects of sunlight on your body. - Dive into the science behind retinal dopamine and its connection to sunlight and weather conditions. - Discover the link between weather changes and migraines. - Understand how sunlight can help combat depressive disorders. - Explore the relationship between weather conditions and joint pain. - Discover preventative measures against skin cancer. - Understand the impact of cold weather on the immune system and chronic inflammation. - Learn about the influence of climate change on human health. If you want to gain a comprehensive understanding of how sunlight, weather, and climate affect your body, then this book is your ultimate resource. Buy it today!

Book The New Statesman

Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everybody s Guide to Nature Cure

Download or read book Everybody s Guide to Nature Cure written by Harry Benjamin and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That there is a very great necessity for a popularly written book on Natural Healing—or Nature Cure, as it is called—in this disease–ridden world of ours has been only too obvious to the writer for several years. The present volume may be taken, therefore, as his attempt to meet this long-felt need. For everyone who knows anything about Nature Cure, and has realised through personal experience what its methods of treatment can do for suffering humanity, there are tens of thousands still completely ignorant as to its very existence in the world of healing, and are, as a consequence, still gripped fast within the clutches of orthodox belief and faith in the “absoluteness” and “sanctity” of Medical Science, even though in many instances they have had ample evidence of its inability to help them in their own particular cases. In the course of his daily experience as a Naturopath—or practitioner of Nature Cure—the writer is being brought continually into contact with scores of people, drawn from every rank of society, who had previously spent practically all their time and money going from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist, hospital to hospital, in the vain hope of being cured of the diseases from which they had been suffering, only to find these same diseases becoming worse, not better, at medical hands. Indeed, in many instances, they had at last been given up as “incurable,” doomed to a life of chronic invalidism, because of the inability of the men whom the nation instinctively regards as its saviours from disease to do anything for them.

Book Science for the household  The life of a plant

Download or read book Science for the household The life of a plant written by Science and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of a Plant  Etc   Illustrated

Download or read book The Life of a Plant Etc Illustrated written by Life and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Homestead

Download or read book The Homestead written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stage Lighting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard E. Dunham
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2015-10-30
  • ISBN : 1317343948
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Stage Lighting written by Richard E. Dunham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book’s organization follows a layered approach that builds on basic principles: Light as a Medium (Part 1), Tools of a Lighting Designer (Part 2), Design Fundamentals (Part 3), and Lighting Applications (Part 4). This presents students with a practical and logical sequence when learning basic concepts. The full spectrum of the lighting design process is presented in detail, giving students an example of how one might develop a lighting design from script analysis through concept and plot development, and all the way to an opening. This detailed process with a step-by-step design approach gives students a plan to work from, which they can later modify as they mature and gain confidence as designers. The text contains a more comprehensive discussion of basic technology, light as a physical phenomena, and methodology of designs than is found in most introductory texts, bridging the gap between introductory and advanced lighting courses. The text will appeal to theatrical designers who want to venture into areas of lighting like architectural or virtual lighting design, while at the same time gaining a solid grounding in the fundmentals of lighting design. Lighting Design will also benefit illuminating engineers who want to move away from mere computational approaches in lighting and on to explore techniques along the design approaches of theatrical lighting design. The final 9 chapters cover many specialty areas of lighting design, highlighting the unique and shared qualities that exist between the different aspects of these elements. Discussions involve traditional entertainment areas like theatre, as well as lesser known facets of the industry including film/video, landscape lighting, retail/museum lighting, virtual lighting, concert, spectacle performances, and architectural lighting. Models of design tasks demonstrate the actual use and development of plots/sections, schedules, photometrics tables, and cut sheets, rather than simply talking about what they are. This hands-on approach provides students with a firm understanding of how to actually use these tools and processes.

Book The Seaside  Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800

Download or read book The Seaside Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 written by John Hassan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have made their way to the coast, attracted by the long sunshine hours, the clean ozone-charged air and the opportunities for bathing in and even drinking sea-water. Although the early health resort ideal began to give way to more pleasure orientated themes in the nineteenth century, the seaside holiday was still regarded by many as a wholesome and invigorating break from inland urban life well into the twentieth century. Yet with ever increasing numbers of visitors and rising levels of coastal pollution, this was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales since 1800 explores the ways in which English seaside resorts continually reinvented themselves to take account of contemporary trends in popular leisure and maintain their hold on the public's imagination. Particular account is paid to the interwar years when new obsessions with outdoor activities such as sunbathing and tanning were purposefully adopted by the industry to define the modern image of the resort holiday. For these and other reasons the seaside holiday reached new peaks of popularity in the 1930s and 1950s, yet, this very success placed enormous pressures on the environmental amenities that people came to enjoy. As this work shows, environmental stresses were manifold, particularly pollution of the resorts' prime assets, their beaches. As such, serious questions are raised concerning why it took such a long time for a determined effort to be made to reverse beach pollution, and the lessons to be learned regarding the impact of negative images of the coast as a zone of danger and infection.

Book Through the Healing Glass

Download or read book Through the Healing Glass written by John Stanislav Sadar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments. The advanced chemistry of "Vita" Glass mobilised theories of light and medicine, health practices and glassmaking technology to compress an entire epoch’s hopes for a healthy life into a glass sheet – yet it did so invisibly. To communicate its advantage, Pilkington Bros. spared no expense as they launched the most costly and sophisticated marketing campaign in their history. Engineering need for "Vita" Glass employed leading-edge market research, evocative photography and vanguard techniques of advertising psychology, accompanied by the claim: "Let in the Health Rays of Daylight Permanently through "Vita" Glass Windows." This is the story of how, despite the best efforts of two glass companies, the leading marketing firm of the day, and the opinions of leading medical minds, "Vita" Glass failed. However, it epitomised an age of lightness and airiness, sleeping porches, flat roofs and ribbon windows. Moreover, through its remarkable print advertising, it strove to shape the ideal relationship between our buildings and our bodies.

Book Nature Cure

    Book Details:
  • Author : RAJENDRA MENEN
  • Publisher : V&S Publishers
  • Release : 2015-06-01
  • ISBN : 9350574446
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Nature Cure written by RAJENDRA MENEN and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help understand the methods used by Naturopathy which was given a new definition in India by Dr. Jussawalla several decades ago. There are valuable tips on how to lead a healthy life. You can see why Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Morarji Desai, Meena Kumari and several other well-known personalities resorted to Nature Cure. The book may help you decide whether you need allopathy for immediate relief or if it is a better bet to change your lifestyle completely and remove the cause of the disease from the root. You will get to know the therapeutic uses of water, sunlight, air, massage, other Naturopathic methods, the right diet, the benefits of fasting, the virtues of vegetarianism, the importance of regular exercise, the value of sleep, the need for fellowship and a mind at peace with itself, the effects of colours, herbs, minerals, vitamins, even the zodiac, the harm from Genetically Modified foods, and so on. You can also decide if you need to be vaccinated as the dangers of vaccination are being hotly discussed all over the world now. This book will open a window to the latest research on health, nutrition and fitness sourced from the most authentic and - sometimes -- even irreverent health gurus who oppose mainstream beliefs with sound empirical knowledge.

Book Chambers s Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 892 pages

Download or read book Chambers s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Mechanics

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1925-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.