Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2178
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Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2178
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Bituminous Coal Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal trade
Languages : en
Pages :
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Hawaii Statehood
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
Still Turning
Author: Christopher C. GillisPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623493358
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth’s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company. Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s. Within a decade, the “mathematical windmill” began to dominate the market. Aermotor continued to expand and innovate. The ruggedness and simplicity of the American mechanical windmill has allowed it to outlast many newer water-pumping technologies over the years with minimal maintenance and oversight. Christopher C. Gillis traces this story and more, from the early days of the company to Aermotor’s present-day relevance as it continues to produce its iconic windmills. Still Turning is a significant contribution not only to the history of wind power but also to the history of American enterprise.
The Herndon Family of Virginia
Author: John Goodwin HerndonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911619041
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: National Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Principles of Molecular Recognition
Author: A.D. BuckinghamPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780751401257
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The importance of molecular recognition in chemistry and biology is reflected in a recent upsurge in relevant research, promoted in particular by high-profile initiatives in this area in Europe, the USA and Japan. Although molecular recognition is necessarily microscopic in origin, its consequences are de facto macroscopic. Accordingly, a text that starts with intermolecular interactions between simple molecules and builds to a discussion of molecular recognition involving larger scale systems is timely. This book was planned with such a development in mind. The book begins with an elementary but rigorous account of the various types of forces between molecules. Chapter 2 is concerned with the hydrogen bond between pairs of simple molecules in the gas phase, with particular reference to the preferred relative orientation of the pair and the ease with which this can be distorted. This microscopic view continues in chapter 3 wherein the nature of interactions between solute molecules and solvents or between two or more solutes is examined from the experimental standpoint, with various types of spectroscopy providing the probe of the nature of the interactions. Molecular recognition is central to the catalysis of chemical reactions, especially when bonds are to be broken and formed under the severe con straint that a specific configuration is to result, as in the production of enan tiotopically pure compounds. This important topic is considered in chapter 4.
Pension Appropriation Bill
Author: Vincent BoreingEnvironment, Health, and Safety
Author: Lari A. BishopPublisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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