Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Paper -
Author: A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection
Author: Birmingham Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene Plants of Western Canada
Author: Walter Andrew BellPublisher: R. Duhamel
ISBN:
Category : Paleobotany
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"Illustrates some of the more complete and recognizable megaplants from Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of Western Canada. They represent four successive plant assemblages or floras, which, in conjunction with associated and intervening faunal assemblages, permit age correlations of rock units within a province or region, and generalized age assignments in the European geological time-scale, such as: Cenomanian; Santonian-Campanian; Maestrichtian; Danian-Thanetian." --
Index
Author: United States. Bureau of CustomsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
These volumes are primarily a compilation of certain general tariff acts and a digest of rulings and decisions thereunder, but their scope includes also a reference to or citation of what might be called related laws such as the national industrial recovery act of 1933, in part, the agricultural adjustment act of 1933, in part, the antidumping act of 1921, and many others, including sections of the Revised statutes which are still in effect and which are now embodied in the United States Code. Those books are in a limited sense a revision of the compilation of customs laws and digest of decisions thereunder, published in 1908, in that they reprint such of the digest matter in that publication as embodies precedents or principles that are of contemporary value or historical interest, but the greater portion of these books in a digest of the decisions of the various courts of the United States and rulings of the Treasury Department during the period from January 1, 1908 to January 1, 1935.
Locomotive Firemen's Magazine
Author: Hunters and Collectors
Author: Tom GriffithsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.
Paper - Geological Survey of Canada
Author: Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities
Author: Janelle A. SchwartzPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527553388
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.
The Book Collector
Author: Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance
Author: Julius von SchlosserPublisher: Getty Research Institute
ISBN: 160606679X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.