The Campus as a Work of Art

The Campus as a Work of Art
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Publisher : Praeger
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015024951249
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Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Campus as a Work of Art by : Thomas A. Gaines

This volume, for the first time, presents the total physical world of the college campus as a bona fide art form. It analyzes the aesthetic elements involved in the spawning and savaging of college grounds. The ideal campus design, once defined, is held up to over 100 campuses throughout the United States, and the relative artistic merit of each evaluated. Both the best and the worst in campus design are critically observed from the standpoint of urban space, architectural quality, landscape, and overall appeal. Variables such as regional differences, historical perspective, expansion, and visual focus also figure in the evaluation. A list of the fifty most artistically successful campuses in the country concludes this highly readable and yet academically valid work exploring a discrete artistic discipline.

Translating the World

Translating the World
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9780271080512
ISBN-13 : 0271080515
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Translating the World by : Birgit Tautz

In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar. German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry, yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century German cities existed within the context of their local environments, in which daily life occurred and writers such as Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe worked. Hamburg, a flourishing literary city in the late eighteenth century, was eventually relegated to the margins of German historiography, while Weimar, then a small town with an insular worldview, would become mythologized for not only its literary history but its centrality in national German culture. By interrogating the histories of and texts associated with these cities, Tautz shows how literary styles and genres are born of local, rather than national, interaction with the world. Her examination of how texts intersect and interact reveals how they shape and transform the urban cultural landscape as they are translated and move throughout the world. A fresh, elegant exploration of literary translation, discursive shifts, and global cultural changes, Translating the World is an exciting new story of eighteenth-century German culture and its relationship to expanding global networks that will especially interest scholars of comparative literature, German studies, and literary history.

Book Review Digest

Book Review Digest
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1098
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112082279776
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Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Book Review Digest by :

Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.

Directory of Scientific Directories

Directory of Scientific Directories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 526
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89048104111
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Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Directory of Scientific Directories by : Anthony P. Harvey

List of 2,209 annotated references arranged geographically and subarranged by broad subject divisions including Biological sciences and anthropology and Medicine, public health and safety. Books and periodical articles included. Covers period 1945-71. Author index, index of original titles, and KWIC index of English titles. 1st edition, 1969

Passing Illusions

Passing Illusions
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9780472053575
ISBN-13 : 0472053574
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Passing Illusions by : Kerry Wallach

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9780804790598
ISBN-13 : 0804790590
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Jewish Pasts, German Fictions by : Jonathan Skolnik

Jewish Pasts, German Fictions is the first comprehensive study of how German-Jewish writers used images from the Spanish-Jewish past to define their place in German culture and society. Jonathan Skolnik argues that Jewish historical fiction was a form of cultural memory that functioned as a parallel to the modern, demythologizing project of secular Jewish history writing. What did it imply for a minority to imagine its history in the majority language? Skolnik makes the case that the answer lies in the creation of a German-Jewish minority culture in which historical fiction played a central role. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Jewish writers and artists, both in Nazi Germany and in exile, employed images from the Sephardic past to grapple with the nature of fascism, the predicament of exile, and the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust. The book goes on to show that this past not only helped Jews to make sense of the nonsense, but served also as a window into the hopes for integration and fears about assimilation that preoccupied German-Jewish writers throughout most of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, Skolnik positions the Jewish embrace of German culture not as an act of assimilation but rather a reinvention of Jewish identity and historical memory.

Monatshefte

Monatshefte
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:L0083616953
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Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

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Directory of Cancer Research Information Resources

Directory of Cancer Research Information Resources
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : MINN:20000003280373
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Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Directory of Cancer Research Information Resources by : International Cancer Research Data Bank

730 entries to most of the available cancer information sources throughout the world. Includes publications, libraries, research centers and institutes, automated services, government agencies, organizations, cancer registries, projects information services, telephone services, and audiovisual sources. Classified arrangement. Each entry gives appropriate descriptive and contact information. Title, organization, geographical, and subject indexes.

Directory of Cancer Research Information Resources

Directory of Cancer Research Information Resources
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012567171
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Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Directory of Cancer Research Information Resources by :

Available cancer information sources throughout the world. Includes publications, libraries, classification schemes, audiovisual sources, cancer registries, special collections, projects information sources, organizations, and government agencies. Classified arrangement. Each entry gives descriptive and contact information. Title, organization, geographical, and subject indexes. Bibliography of 99 references.