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Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bringing together an international team of scholars this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing typography and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history design history photography and architectural history. | Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

GBP 130.00
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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused coherent and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson for example represent a sustained engagement with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and comprehensive treatment of America as a category of enquiry in Cavell’s writing engaging with the terms of Cavell’s various configurations of the nation and offering readings of American texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell’s work has in turn for literary and film criticism. This study of the role played by philosophy in the articulation of the American self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of literature and the practice of philosophy are conjoined in the ethical and political project of national self-definition. | Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

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The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

This rich volume explores the complex problem of obedience and conformity re-examining Stanley Milgram’s famous electric shock study and presenting the findings of the most extensive empirical study on obedience toward authority since Milgram's era. Dolinski and Grzyb refer to their own series of studies testing various hypotheses from Milgram’s and others’ research examining underlying obedience mechanisms as well as factors modifying the degree of obedience displayed by individuals in different situations. They offer their theoretical model explaining subjects’ obedience in Milgram’s paradigm and describe numerous examples of the destructive effect of thoughtless obedience both in our daily lives as well as in crucial historical events stressing the need for critical thinking when issued with a command. Concluding with reflections on how to prevent the danger of destructive obedience to authority this insightful volume will be fascinating reading for students and academics in social psychology as well as those in fields concerned with complex social problems. | The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

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An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority An Experimental View

An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority An Experimental View

Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination – casting new light on social phenomena in the process. His 1974 study Obedience to Authority exemplifies creative thinking at its most potent and controversial. Interested in the degree to which an “authority figure” could encourage people to commit acts against their sense of right and wrong Milgram tricked volunteers for a “learning experiment” into believing that they were inflicting painful electric shocks on a person in another room. Able to hear convincing sounds of pain and pleas to stop the volunteers were told by an authority figure – the “scientist” – that they should continue regardless. Contrary to his own predictions Milgram discovered that depending on the exact set up as many as 65% of people would continue right up to the point of “killing” the victim. The experiment showed he believed that ordinary people can and will do terrible things under the right circumstances simply through obedience. As infamous and controversial as it was creatively inspired the “Milgram experiment” shows just how radically creative thinking can shake our most fundamental assumptions. | An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority An Experimental View

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In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

In the Image of God is a compilation of lectures by Stanley Leavy a psychoanalyst approaching retirement reflecting on his experience as a follower of Freud and his method and also as a lifelong faithful Episcopalian. The overarching idea linking the individual lectures is Leavy's belief that the deliberate study of the operations of the mind must yield results that are not just compatible with religious faith but amplify it eschewing the faith versus science argument for a more inclusive worldview. | In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

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The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic cybernetic and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s. A pioneering figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism in Germany in 1922 and a celebrated peer of radical figures in De Stijl the Bauhaus and Russian constructivism when he emigrated to Detroit in 1923 he introduced the vanguard theory of productivism through his photography essays designs and pedagogy. By following Lönberg- Holm’s ongoing matrix of relations until the postwar era with the European vanguards in CIAM and former members of the Structural Study Associates (SSA) especially Fuller Frederick Kiesler and C. Theodore Larson this study shows how their definition of building as a form of environmental control anticipated the contemporary disciplines of industrial ecology industrial metabolism and energy accounting. | The Ideal of Total Environmental Control Knud Lönberg-Holm Buckminster Fuller and the SSA

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Cubism and Abstract Art

Cubism and Abstract Art

Originally published in 1936 in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century and which had an impact on every major form of art. Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France – Seurat and Neo-Impressionism Gauguin and Synthetism and Cézanne – through abstract tendencies in Dada and Surrealism. He distinguishes two main trends in abstract art: the geometrical structural current as it developed in Cubism and later in Constructivism and Mondrian and the intuitional decorative current running from Matisse and Fauvism through Kandinskt and later Surrealism. He shows how individual movements influenced one another and how many artists experimented with more than one style. Barr also discusses the involvement of a number of abstract movements in architecture and the practical arts – the Bauhaus in Germany de Stijl in Holland Purism in France and Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia. | Cubism and Abstract Art

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Monomial Algebras

Monomial Algebras

Monomial Algebras Second Edition presents algebraic combinatorial and computational methods for studying monomial algebras and their ideals including Stanley–Reisner rings monomial subrings Ehrhart rings and blowup algebras. It emphasizes square-free monomials and the corresponding graphs clutters or hypergraphs. New to the Second Edition Four new chapters that focus on the algebraic properties of blowup algebras in combinatorial optimization problems of clutters and hypergraphs Two new chapters that explore the algebraic and combinatorial properties of the edge ideal of clutters and hypergraphs Full revisions of existing chapters to provide an up-to-date account of the subject Bringing together several areas of pure and applied mathematics this book shows how monomial algebras are related to polyhedral geometry combinatorial optimization and combinatorics of hypergraphs. It directly links the algebraic properties of monomial algebras to combinatorial structures (such as simplicial complexes posets digraphs graphs and clutters) and linear optimization problems.

GBP 74.99
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The State in Relation to Labour

The State in Relation to Labour

W. Stanley Jevons was a central figure linking political economy with social policy and The State in Relation to Labour is the quintessential product of that fusion. Jevons reviews how legislation enacted for the protection of labor re-established the social contract on a new industrial footing. The concept of industrial partnership insured that the state continued to hold a monopoly of power while taking account of rising labor agitation. Jevons' scholarly brilliance is evident in this pathbreaking work on economics and policy construction. The State in Relation to Labour deals with the economic role of government in resolving conflicts between different groups of English citizens. The issue of class is central to the topic and two further points are implicit. The first is the market economy as a product of the institutions which form and operate through it. Jevons argues that markets can be and indeed have been formed to favor one class interest or another. Second he asserts that conventional arguments favor the class interests they serve whether or not they are recognized to doing so. Jevons neither shrinks from candid analysis of English social political and economic history and institutions nor espouses an openly pragmatic approach to the economic role of government. He eschews the erection of class or other ideological sentiment into principles of policy. Implicit in his analysis is an understanding that some law some set of legal rights and limitations is necessary. The issue is not whether government will establish relative rights and responsibilities but what they will be and further when they will be changed. Among the topics discussed are principles of industrial legislation direct interference of the state with labor the Factory Acts and similar legislation directly affecting laborers trade union legislation the law of industrial conspiracy cooperation and industrial partnership and arbitration and conciliation. In a new introduction Warren J. Samuels examines the life and works of William Stanley Jevons. He discusses the various arguments put forth in The State in Relation to Labour and the consequences of Jevons' approach.

GBP 130.00
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On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose? In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz Berenice Abbott Paul Strand Lee Friedlander James Welling and Wolfgang Tillmans among others and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake Peter Henry Emerson Edward Weston Siegfried Kracauer André Bazin and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between sceptical and non-sceptical Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard. Written in a clear and engaging style On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography aesthetics art and visual studies. | On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

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The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career using the idea of exorcism to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what why and how we build which allowed for more open discourse and enhance the phenomenology found in architectural experiences. Three distinct eras in his architectural career are applied to analogies of outlines apparitions and angels throughout the book across seven chapters. Using these thematic examples the author investigates the progression of thought and depth inside the architect’s imagination by studying key projects such as the Texas houses Wall House Architectural Masques and his final works. Featuring comments by Gloria Fiorentino Hejduk Stanley Tigerman Steven Holl Zaha Hadid Charles Jencks Phyllis Lambert Juhani Pallasmaa Toshiko Mori and others this book brings to life the intricacies in the mind of John Hejduk and would be beneficial for those interested in architecture and design in the 20th century. | The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

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An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

When the existential philosopher Colin Wilson died in December 2013 it was suggested by one perceptive obituary writer that despite the seemingly diverse subject matter of his books his true legacy lay in the field of Consciousness Studies. This is particularly apparent when studying his many essays and books on psychology and taking into consideration his close association with the celebrated American psychologist Abraham Maslow whose concept of 'Peak Experiences'(PEs) became for Wilson an important link to experiencing enhanced consciousness. Maslow however felt that PEs could not be induced at will; Wilson thought otherwise and through his work sought to encourage his readers and students to live more vital and appreciative lives thereby paving the way toward an evolutionary leap for mankind in consciousness-indeed a change in consciousness that would potentially change everything. In this study Colin Stanley Wilson's bibliographer and author of Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': A Guide for Students and Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students provides an illuminating essay on each of Wilson's nine major books on psychology. | An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

GBP 130.00
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Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector Second Edition thoroughly examines the world of transportation as it relates to public procurement stressing the importance of not only procuring the right goods materials and services but also ensuring their proper delivery to their final destination. Designed to educate the public procurement professional on ways to realize enhanced cost savings it offers an introduction to the history of transportation as well as industry terminology and accepted practices. Authors Darin Matthews and Linda Stanley explore recent transportation industry evolutions including the development of important technologies like package tracing delivery notification and drone delivery and ways to successfully integrate this technology. Sustainability in transportation—including product packaging material reuse and reduced emissions for delivery vehicles— is likewise examined. Through the use of case studies and transportation industry resources Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector Second Edition offers a complete package for professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of logistics and transportation as well as for university courses on transportation supply chain management and public procurement.

GBP 89.99
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The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

First published in 1984. In these essays Stanley Please contends that the World Bank is constrained in its ability to use its position and . power in the interests of more rapid development of the poorer countries of the world. These constraints derive in large part from the legal restriction on the Bank to engage primarily in project lending and from the division of responsibility between the ·Bank and its sister institution the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the Bank's financing of projects and investment programs has made a significant contribution Mr. Please argues that greater Bank involvement in national policy formation can greatly benefit economic development. He looks at ways to increase cooperation between the Bank and the IMF examines the policy work the Bank has done in the past and assesses the capacity of the Bank for policy formation evaluates the need for it to do more such work and discusses the likely responses of developing and developed countries to these changes | The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

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Theatres of Architectural Imagination

Theatres of Architectural Imagination

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces. Imagination is arguably the architect’s most crucial capacity underpinning memory invention and compassion. No simple power of the mind architectural imagination is deeply embodied social and situational. Its performative potential and holistic scope may be best understood through the model of theatre. Theatres of Architectural Imagination examines the fertile relationship between theatre and architecture with essays interviews and entr’actes arranged in three sections: Bodies Settings and (Inter)Actions. Contributions explore a global spectrum of examples and contexts from ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy to modern Europe North America India Iran and Japan. Topics include the central role of the human body in design; the city as a place of political drama protest and phenomenal play; and world-making through language gesture and myth. Chapters also consider sacred and magical functions of theatre in Balinese and Persian settings; eccentric experiments at the Bauhaus and 1970 Osaka World Expo; and ecological action and collective healing amid contemporary climate chaos. Inspired by architect and educator Marco Frascari the book performs as a Janus-like memory theatre recalling and projecting the architect’s perennial task of reimagining a more meaningful world. This collection will delight and provoke thinkers and makers in theatrical arts and built environment disciplines especially architecture landscape and urban design.

GBP 34.99
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Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book design resource and product guide. It explores the transition in residential lighting from incandescent light sources to LEDs and how to apply LED lighting with great success. It begins with the fundamental characteristics of light including color temperature color rendering and spectral power distribution and how LEDs differ from older light sources. Combining innovative graphics with the enduring design principles of good lighting the book explains how to design with light layers light people and balance daylight and electric light. Every room of the house as well as exterior and garden spaces is addressed in 33 case studies of residential lighting with LEDs with a wide variety of lighting projects in different styles. Showcasing over 200 color photographs of dramatic interiors beautifully lit with LEDs and clear concise descriptions of design strategies and product specifications Beautiful Light helps both professionals and non-professionals successfully navigate the new era of LEDs in residential lighting. | Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

GBP 34.99
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Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality neutrality and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish Asao Inoue Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle Richard Rorty Slavoj Zizek and Steven Pinker this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing grammar and argumentation foster marginalization oppression and the restriction of student agency. Instead it argues that the best way to educate and empower a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical analysis of core topics in composition studies including the teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality; empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism. Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and composition as well as more seasoned scholars and program administrators this polemical book provides an accessible staging of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with. | Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

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The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

In this thoughtful and revelatory book Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art creativity and what Jung called the creative spirit in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology’s most iconic thinkers such as C. G. Jung James Hillman and Joseph Campbell as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas such as Martha Graham Mary Oliver Stanley Kunitz and Ursula K. Le Guin this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity and the vital role of the artist in the modern world. Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity and of the soul this enlightening book is perfect for artists and creators of all types as well as Jungian analysts and therapists and academics interested in the arts humanities and depth psychology. | The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

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Plasma Physics and Engineering

Plasma Physics and Engineering

Plasma Physics and Engineering presents basic and applied knowledge on modern plasma physics plasma chemistry and plasma engineering for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as for scientists and engineers working in academia; research labs; and industry with plasmas laser and combustion systems. This is a unique book providing a clear fundamental introduction to all aspects of modern plasma science describing all electric discharges applied today from vacuum to atmospheric pressure and higher from thermal plasma sources to essentially cold non-equilibrium discharges. A solutions manual is available for adopting professors which is helpful in relevant university courses. Provides a lucid introduction to virtually all aspects of modern plasma science and technology Contains an extensive database on plasma kinetics and thermodynamics Includes many helpful numerical formulas for practical calculations as well as numerous problems and concepts This revised edition includes new material on atmospheric pressure discharges micro discharges and different types of discharges in liquids Prof. Alexander Fridman is Nyheim Chair Professor of Drexel University and Director of C. & J. Nyheim Plasma Institute. His research focuses on plasma approaches to biology and medicine to material treatment fuel conversion and environmental control. Prof. Fridman has almost 50 years of plasma research in national laboratories and universities of Russia France and the United States. He has published 8 books and received numerous honors for his work including Stanley Kaplan Distinguished Professorship in Chemical Kinetics and Energy Systems George Soros Distinguished Professorship in Physics the State Prize of the USSR Plasma Medicine Award Kurchatov Prize Reactive Plasma Award and Plasma Chemistry Award. Prof. Lawrence A. Kennedy is Dean of Engineering Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Emeritus at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on chemically reacting flows and plasma processes. He is the author of more than 300 archival publications and 2 books the editor of three monographs and served as Editor–in-Chief of the International Journal of Experimental Methods in Thermal and Fluid Science. Professor Kennedy was the Ralph W. Kurtz Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at OSU and the Stanley Kaplan University Scholar in Plasma Physics at UIC. Prof. Kennedy is also the recipient of numerous awards such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2008) and the Ralph Coats Roe Award from ASEE (1993). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers the American Physical Society the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

GBP 44.99
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Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel. A graduate of the Bauhaus Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son Eldar Sharon joined the office in 1964. Thus the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall. This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture modern architecture Israel studies Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge. | Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel Building Social Pragmatism

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Weimar A Cultural History

Weimar A Cultural History

The term Weimar culture while generally accepted is in some respects unsatisfactory if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army nor is there any obvious connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the escape of the Kaiser nor were the great scientific discoveries triggered off by the proclamation of the Republic in 1919. As the eminent historian Walter Laqueur demonstrates the avant-gardism commonly associated with post-World War One precedes the Weimar Republic by a decade. It would no doubt be easier for the historian if the cultural history of Weimar were identical with the plays and theories of Bertolt Brecht; the creations of the Bauhaus and the articles published by the Weltbühne. But there were a great many other individuals and groups at work and Laqueur gives a full and vivid accounting of their ideas and activities. The realities of Weimar culture comprise the political right as well as the left the universities as well as the literary intelligentsia. It would not be complete without occasional glances beyond avant-garde thought and creation and their effects upon traditional German social and cultural attitudes and the often violent reactions against Weimar that would culminate with the rise of Hitler and the fall of the republic in 1933. This authoritative work is of immense importance to anyone interested in the history of Germany in this critical period of the country's life. | Weimar A Cultural History

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American Abolitionists

American Abolitionists

This book the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US from the origins of the movement in the eighteenth century through to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief Introduction and/or Background to the subject valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined followed by a substantial and authoritative section of Analysis focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct Assessment of the subject a generous selection of Documents and a detailed bibliography. Stanley Harrold provides an accessible introduction to the subject synthesizing the enormous amount of literature on the topic. American Abolitionists explores the roles of slaves and free blacks in the movement the importance of empathy among antislavery whites for the suffering slaves and the impact of abolitionism upon the sectional struggle between the North and the South. Within a basic chronological framework the author also considers more general themes such as black abolitionists feminism and anti-slavery violence. For readers interested in American history.

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Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism skepticism and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically while Cahill avoids interpretative debates he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences Wittgenstein and philosophical anthropology. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/9780367638238 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

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