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Your search for architecture in text, title, author, description found 929 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 161 - 180 of 929 book(s) | |
| 161. |  | Title: Information and organizations  Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Department and Center Architecture... Similar Items...Architectural drawings, 328 Architecture, 329 -330 Arizona, 128 Artisans, 33 ,... ...into an implementation strategy ("system architecture") requires a good deal of... |
| 162. |  | Title: Emerson: the mind on fire: a biography Author: Richardson, Robert D 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Social and Political Thought | United States History Publisher's Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...monuments of the Jewish and Roman architecture under whose shadow they were... Similar Items...thought crystallization as "God's architecture." It was what he hoped to catch... ...he might write a lecture on God's architecture, a sketch of a winter's day as a... |
| 163. |  | Title: Rethinking the borderlands: between Chicano culture and legal discourse Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Chicano Studies | Literature | Language and Linguistics | Law | Social and Political Thought | Rhetoric | Postcolonial Studies | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies . New York:... Similar Items...USE), 87 , 183 n12 Utopianism: and architecture, 81 ; and Chicano identity, 24 ;... ...institutional forms as Mission Revival architecture and festivals like the much-... |
| 164. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...THE ARCHITECTURE OF CULTURAL IDENTITY... Similar Items...is that the "minimal" neuronal architecture required for a click option is not... |
| 165. |  | Title: America becomes urban: the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980 Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an u . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Suit riots, 233 Los Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies (Banham), 12... Similar Items...Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies (New York:... ...or their elegant remains, the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, wilderness... |
| 166. |  | Title: Essays on the blurring of art and life Author: Kaprow, Allan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Art Theory Publisher's Description: As the creator of "Happenings" and "Environments," Allan Kaprow is the prince and prophet of all we call performance art today. He is also known for having written some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential essays of his generation. From "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock" in 1958 to "The . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...French in Aujourd'hui: Art et architecture (Paris, January 1967). "Experimental... Similar Items...a total unity. Painting, music, architecture, ceremony—were each an identifiable... ...arts of painting, sculpture, or architecture. In the present exhibition [Allan... |
| 167. |  | Title: Bolshevik festivals, 1917-1920 Author: Von Geldern, James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | European Literature | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...A. , and Linda Nochlin, eds. Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics .... Similar Items...and Linda Nochlin, eds. , Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics (... ...with art and nature, undivided by the architecture of aristocratic and bourgeois... |
| 168. |  | Title: All in sync: how music and art are revitalizing American religion Author: Wuthnow, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | Art | Music | Sociology Publisher's Description: Robert Wuthnow shows how music and art are revitalizing churches and religious life across the nation in this first-ever consideration of the relationship between religion and the arts. All in Sync draws on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with church members, clergy, and directors of lead . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...hymns and “church-looking” architecture. In many of these churches, music and... Similar Items...hymns, worship settings, church architecture, poetry, stories, home decorations,... ...paintings in fine galleries, church architecture, and belles lettres. They fail... |
| 169. |  | Title: Khubilai Khan: his life and times Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Living from 1215 to 1294 Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Here for the first time is an English-language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...1981): 59-81. ———. "Imperial Architecture under Mongolian Patronage: Khubilai's... Similar Items...Altaic Series. Boyd, Andrew. Chinese Architecture and Town Planning, 1500 B.C. -... ...and Nepalese forms in Chinese architecture. Moreover, his sponsorship of Chinese... |
| 170. |  | Title: Melville's anatomies Author: Otter, Samuel 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | United States History Publisher's Description: In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - Typee , White-Jacket, Moby-Dick , and Pierre - Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...of Nat Turner," 304 n94 "Greek Architecture" (Melville), 261 "Greek Masonry" (... Similar Items...of valuables" (36). Like the elaborate architectures of the self in Pierre —the... ...the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the architecture of apertures linking the inside... |
| 171. |  | Title: Engineering trouble: biotechnology and its discontents Author: Schurman, Rachel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Conservation | EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Technology and Society | Agriculture | Technology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...PATENTING LIFE: THE LEGAL ARCHITECTURE OF A NEW ECONOMIC SPACE... Similar Items...associated with the emerging architecture of the agricultural biotechnology... ...reprogrammed. The idea that the basic architecture of the organism is contained... |
| 172. |  | Title: The Society of Six: California colorists Author: Boas, Nancy 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | California and the West | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six - Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest - created a color-centered modernist idiom . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Mullgardt, Louis Christian. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the... Similar Items...and conservatism in art and architecture were the result. "I think that was a... ...simplicity and natural harmony in architecture, homemaking, and family styles,... |
| 173. |  | Title: Evolution of sickness and healing Author: Fabrega, Horacio Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medicine | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...On the Evolved Content and Architecture of the SH Adaptation... Similar Items...the extent of pluralism, its architecture across social groupings, the degree to... ...one glimpses the emerging social architecture of SH. In summary, an adaptation... |
| 174. |  | Title: Subtle bodies: representing angels in Byzantium Author: Peers, Glenn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Medieval Studies | Art History | Christianity | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This boo . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Alpago-Novello, A. , et al. Art and Architecture in Medieval Georgia . Trans. N.... Similar Items...1986 . Mango, C. Byzantine Architecture . London , 1986 . Mango, C. Byzantium.... ...1982 . Ruggieri, V. Byzantine Religious Architecture (582–867): Its History and... |
| 175. |  | Title: Technology as freedom: the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home Author: Tobey, Ronald C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | American Studies | Technology and Society | United States History Publisher's Description: Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Renaissance: A Review of Domestic Architecture . New York: William T. Comstock,... Similar Items...Robinson, L. Eugene. Domestic Architecture . New York: Macmillan, 1917. Rodgers,... ...145–148. Pommer, Richard. "The Architecture of Urban Housing in the United... |
| 176. |  | Title: The city as subject: Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka Author: Hanes, Jeffrey E 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing in . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...of modern Japanese thought: Cities/architecture], ed. Fujimori Terunobu (Tokyo:... Similar Items...of modern Japanese thought: Cities/architecture], edited by Fujimori Terunobu .... ...districting, monumental public architecture, triumphal arches, and grand, tree-... |
| 177. |  | Title: The sinister way: the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Religion | Asian History | China | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who pre . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...in Early Chinese Art and Architecture . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University... Similar Items...the third century. Although tomb architecture still imitated actual dwellings,... ...a return to more elaborate tomb architecture and decoration was in full swing.... |
| 178. |  | Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...Press . MacDonald, W. L. 1986 . The architecture of the Roman empire. Vol. 2 ,... Similar Items...impact of Rome in the East. In Architecture and architectural sculpture in the... ...Aurea templa: Recherches sur l’architecture religieuse de Rome à l’époque d’... |
| 179. |  | Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Computer Integrated Manufacturing Architecture," which had twenty partners. A... Similar Items...enterprises SNA Systems Network Architecture SOGT Senior Officials Group for... ...engineering c. Advanced systems architectures d. Signal processing 3. IT... |
| 180. |  | Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent Author: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Religion | Gender Studies | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...sculpture, metalwork, and even the architecture of the abbey itself. The... Similar Items...The Return to the Forest: Natural Architecture and the German Past in the Age of... ...monasticism: historiography of art and architecture of, 4 ; literature of, 130 ;... |