Author: Kress Library of Business and EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Supplement, 1473-1848
Author: Kress Library of Business and EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Catalogue, with Data Upon Cognate Items in Other Harvard Libraries: Supplement, 1473-1848
Author: Kress Library of Business and EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Physiognomy, Or, The Corresponding Analogy Between the Conformation of the Features and the Ruling Passions of the Mind
Author: Johann Caspar LavaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The State Nobility
Author: Pierre BourdieuPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804733465
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Examining in detail the work of consecration carried out by elite education systems, Bourdieu analyzes the distinctive forms of power—political, intellectual, bureaucratic, and economic—by means of which contemporary societies are governed.
JOHANN MEYER, EIN SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINISCHER DICHTER.
Author: JOHANN. HEINEMANNLa Práctica Della Mercatura
Author: Francesco Balducci PeglottiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
The Retreat of the Elephants
Author: Mark ElvinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.
The Pennsylvania-German
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
The Preparation of the Novel
Author: Roland BarthesPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231136153
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step of the creative process along the way. Barthes's lectures move from the desire to write to the actual decision making, planning, and material act of producing a novel. He meets the difficulty of transitioning from short, concise notations (exemplified by his favorite literary form, haiku) to longer, uninterrupted flows of narrative, and he encounters a number of setbacks. Barthes takes solace in a diverse group of writers, including Dante, whose La Vita Nuova was similarly inspired by the death of a loved one, and he turns to classical philosophy, Taoism, and the works of François-René Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust. This book uniquely includes eight elliptical plans for Barthes's unwritten novel, which he titled Vita Nova, and lecture notes that sketch the critic's views on photography. Following on The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977-1978) and a third forthcoming collection of Barthes lectures, this volume provides an intensely personal account of the labor and love of writing.
1889-1899
Author: Illinois. Railroad and Warehouse CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description