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Your search for architecture in text, title, author, description found 929 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 181 - 200 of 929 book(s) | |
| 181. |  | Title: France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century Author: Walton, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective - that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced France's distinctive pattern of industrial develo . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...by some of the finest art and architecture in the Western world. France imported... Similar Items...libraries also included design and architecture books, and several volumes on... ...wallpaper into the decoration and architecture of the large houses and chateaux... |
| 182. |  | Title: Cinema and the invention of modern life Author: Charney, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Intellectual History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popul . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...p. 29. 21. Jeanne Lawrence, "Steel Frame Architecture Versus the London Building... Similar Items...involving novel facets of tenement architecture (fig. 3.12). Newspaper stories... ...and egoism" (p. 209). Monumental architecture, on the other hand, humbled the... |
| 183. |  | Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870  Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Quiet, Home-Like Streets" The Urban Geography and Architecture of Prostitution... Similar Items...Quiet, Home-Like Streets" The Urban Geography and Architecture of Prostitution... |
| 184. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Frazer, William, 296 French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth... Similar Items...drawn and studied by students of architecture. Halfway up, the climber could... ...of all, Jean Bony's French Gothic Architecture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth... |
| 185. |  | Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sources Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Sports Publisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...179 Vitruvius, On Architecture 5.11 ca. 28 B.C.... Similar Items...Negotiating Roman Spectacle Architecture in the Greek World: Athens and... ...architect whose treatise on architecture is the only one of many in antiquity... |
| 186. |  | Title: Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa Author: Landau, Paul Stuart 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Art History | Cultural Anthropology | History Publisher's Description: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa - mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and cul . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...1937 . Bahloul, Joëlle . The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household... Similar Items...landscape dotted with pleasing rural architectures. 7 But there are significant... ...of communities planning village architecture in relation to the need to "watch... |
| 187. |  | Title: Christian souls and Chinese spirits: a Hakka community in Hong Kong Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Christianity | China Publisher's Description: How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Chris . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Institute for Worship and Religious Architecture. University of Birmingham, 81–... Similar Items...1986 China's Traditional Rural Architecture: A Cultural Geography of the Common... ...Sung-hsing. 1974 "Taiwanese Architecture and the Supernatural." In Religion and... |
| 188. |  | Title: Spacefaring: the human dimension Author: Harrison, Albert A Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science | Technology and Society | Psychology Publisher's Description: The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...the former, people can enjoy hard architecture that serves to isolate and defend... Similar Items...latter residents can enjoy softly flowing architecture that promotes a sense of... ...Savage's view, the sea settlement's architecture, the high degree of isolation,... |
| 189. |  | Title: Caste and capitalism in colonial India: the Nattukottai Chettiars Author: Rudner, David West Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...colonial period as well as photographs of contemporary architecture and rituals.... Similar Items...1989 "Chettinadu housing." Architecture and Design 5(4): 105–113. Paramasivarn,... ...55 , 58 , 74 Arccanai. See Worship Architecture: houses, 14, 112 , plates 9 -15;... |
| 190. |  | Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European Literature | Intellectual History Matches in book (9): ...outstanding characteristic in the architecture of this huge city. (P. 89) The... Similar Items...family, the Russian landscape, architecture, people, customs, and the unusual... ...the church had been completed. Its architecture represents the most successful... |
| 191. |  | Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...is as evident in the form or architecture of the book— in its structural... Similar Items...sketch of the just city’s political architecture and founding vision indicates... ...characteristic literary genre, but the architecture of a work’s composition, the... |
| 192. |  | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History Publisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...of Painting and Sculpture, of Architecture, and of Rome. O 1 2124, liasse 2:... Similar Items...classical principles in his own architecture but used his dissections to... ...by becoming professor royal of architecture. 32 Sédileau (? -1693), whose first... |
| 193. |  | Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state Author: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...41. R. M. Riefstahl, Turkish Architecture in Southwestern Anatolia (Cambridge,... Similar Items...articles in Studies on the Ottoman Architecture of the Balkans (Hampshire, Great... ...by a historian of art between the architecture of the early Ottomans and that of... |
| 194. |  | Title: Should I be tested for cancer?: maybe not and here's why Author: Welch, H. Gilbert Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Disease Publisher's Description: Getting tested to detect cancer early is one of the best ways to stay healthy - or is it? In this lively, carefully researched book, a nationally recognized expert on early cancer detection challenges one of medicine's most widely accepted beliefs: that the best defense against cancer is to always t . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...tissue). They would see that the architecture—the size, shape, and configuration... Similar Items...of the collection of cells—the architecture that results from how individual... ...the cells (called the microscopic architecture). The less individual cells look... |
| 195. |  | Title: Matches in book (1): ...substance, rather than form or architecture; one is struck by . . . the color... Similar Items |
| 196. |  | Title: Other modernities: gendered yearnings in China after socialism Author: Rofel, Lisa 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...As far as traditional architecture is concerned, our ancestors fully understood... Similar Items...11, 288 n22 Apter, David, 27 -28 architecture, of factory, 270 -71, 274 Asad,... ...They have begun to redesign factory architecture in the name of efficiency. They... |
| 197. |  | Title: Thundering Zeus: the making of Hellenistic Bactria Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Susan B. Mesopotamian Religious Architecture: Alexander Through the Parthians .... Similar Items...the Oxus: Archaeology, Art, and Architecture of Central Asia . London: Ernest... ...the Oxus: Archaeology, Art, and Architecture of Central Asia (London: Ernest... |
| 198. |  | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Houghton Library, School of Architecture and Design Private archive of Erich and... Similar Items...was nothing other than an architecture that anticipated its continuation in... ...to enter the textbooks of modern architecture and urban planning. Berlin was the... |
| 199. |  | Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...G. 1986 . China's Traditional Rural Architecture: A Cultural Geography of the... Similar Items...Press . Stein, R. A. 1957a . Architecture et pensée religieuse en Extreme-... ...them. So too with the dominant architectures of time. My ambition is to keep the... |
| 200. |  | Title: Poets on painters: essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets Author: McClatchy, J. D 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | Art | Poetry | Art History Publisher's Description: What are poets looking at , looking for , when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened languag . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...trees, isolated and thickset; architecture, ships, troop movements, the sea; an... Similar Items...hopefully, in this field of architecture and house-building. The intuitional... ...religion and wandering and architecture"—Stein prepared six public lectures. The... |