Author: Sahitya AkademiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Sahitya AkademiBowker's Law Books and Serials in Print
Author: The Great Investors
Author: Glen ArnoldPublisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 0273743392
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Written Here, Published There
Author: Friederike Kind-KovácsPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633860237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Written Here, Published There offers a new perspective on the role of underground literature in the Cold War and challenges us to recognize gaps in the Iron Curtain. The book identifies a transnational undertaking that reinforced détente, dialogue, and cultural transfer, and thus counterbalanced the persistent belief in Europe's irreversible division. It analyzes a cultural practice that attracted extensive attention during the Cold War but has largely been ignored in recent scholarship: tamizdat, or the unauthorized migration of underground literature across the Iron Curtain. Through this cultural practice, I offer a new reading of Cold War Europe's history . Investigating the transfer of underground literature from the 'Other Europe' to Western Europe, the United States, and back illuminates the intertwined fabrics of Cold War literary cultures. Perceiving tamizdat as both a literary and a social phenomenon, the book focuses on how individuals participated in this border-crossing activity and used secretive channels to guarantee the free flow of literature.
Virginia State Publications in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert
Author: Wendy C. HodgsonPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547912
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Mary W. Klinger Book Award The seemingly inhospitable Sonoran Desert has provided sustenance to indigenous peoples for centuries. Although it is to all appearances a land bereft of useful plants, fully one-fifth of the desert's flora are edible. This volume presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than fifty traditional cultures of the Sonoran Desert and peripheral areas. Drawing on thirty years of research, Wendy C. Hodgson has synthesized the widely scattered literature and added her own experiences to create an exhaustive catalog of desert plants and their many and varied uses. Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert includes not only plants such as gourds and legumes but also unexpected food sources such as palms, lilies, and cattails, all of which provided nutrition to desert peoples. Each species entry lists recorded names and describes indigenous uses, which often include nonfood therapeutic and commodity applications. The agave, for example, is cited for its use as food and for alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, syrup, fiber, cordage, clothing, sandals, nets, blankets, lances, fire hearths, musical instruments, hedgerows, soap, and medicine, and for ceremonial purposes. The agave entry includes information on harvesting, roasting, and consumption—and on distinguishing between edible and inedible varieties. No other source provides such a vast amount of information on traditional plant uses for this region. Accessible to general readers, this book is an invaluable compendium for anyone interested in the desert’s hidden bounty.
Classical Numismatic Auctions XX
Author: Publisher: Classical Numismatic Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries
Author: Annetta AlexandridisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110757990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
Based on two international conferences held at Cornell University and the Freie Universität of Berlin in 2010 and 2015, this volume is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of plaster cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture. Focusing on Europe, the Americas, and Japan, art historians, archaeologists and a literary scholar discuss how different museum and academic traditions – national as well as disciplinary –, notions of value and authenticity, or colonialism impacted the fate of collections. The texts offer detailed documentation of degrees of destruction by spectacular acts of defacement, demolition, discarding, or neglect. They also shed light on the accompanying discourses regarding aesthetic ideals, political ideologies, educational and scholarly practices, or race. With destruction being understood as a critical part of reception, the histories of cast collections defy the traditional, homogenous narrative of rise and decline. Their diverse histories provide critical evidence for rethinking the use and display of plaster cast collections in the contemporary moment.
Books in Print
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
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