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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Biographical register 1788-1939 Vol II - L-Z
Author: Photographing Papua
Author: Max QuanchiPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443806749
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew" Papua because many thousands of black and white photographs of Papuans, villages and material culture rapidly swamped the reading public once the process of halftone, newsprint reproduction became possible. In an innovative and breakthrough fashion Photographing Papua switches attention from a few well known prints in museums and archives, in some cases repeatedly reproduced, but mostly rarely seen outside of scientific and scholarly circles. It deals instead with thousands of photographs, often used in ways not intended when the photograph was taken, but which editors and publishers (and subsequent photographers) gradually made conform to an iconographic imperative, a sort of abbreviated visual gallery of "natives" and a quick-access pathway to the actual and imagined lives of Papuans in the "last Unknown" as New Guinea was titled. It is a study of representation, colonialism, cross-cultural encounters and the early world of illustrated media and photo-journalism.
Australian Men of Mark
Author: A Biographical Register, 1788-1939
Author: Herbert James GibbneyPublisher: Canberra : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Essentially a supplement to the `Australian dictionary of biography' (q.v.) containing brief biographical information on people who were short-listed but not finally included in the work. About 8000 names appear, roughly the same as ADB. Bibliographies and sources are included for each entry. Volume 2 includes an occupational index to the work.
Johns's Notable Australians
Author: Fred JohnsPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Victoria and Its Metropolis, Past and Present ...
Author: Alexander SutherlandPublisher:
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Category : Melbourne (Vic.)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Contains brief references to Aborigines derived from secondary sources.
The Taming of Chance
Author: Ian HackingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521388849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey
Author: Francis Bazley LeePublisher:
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Category : Mercer County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Introduction to Radar Systems
Author: Merrill I. SkolnikPublisher:
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Category : Radar
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Nathan Zuntz
Author: Hanns-Christian GungaPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080885241
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This book focuses on the life and work of Nathan Zuntz (1847-1920), a German physiologist, who made significant contributions to high altitude physiology and aviation medicine. He achieved fame for his invention of the Zuntz-Geppert respiratory apparatus in 1886 and the first treadmill (Laufband) in 1889. He also invented an X-ray apparatus to observe cardiac changes during exercise and constructed a climate chamber to study exercise under varying and sometimes extreme climates. Focuses on Zuntz's contribution to high altitude physiology and aviation medicine