Carruth Family

Carruth Family
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Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 083287860X
ISBN-13 : 9780832878602
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Synopsis Carruth Family by : Harold B. Carruth

Fabricating Architecture

Fabricating Architecture
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781616890001
ISBN-13 : 1616890002
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Synopsis Fabricating Architecture by : Robert Corser

In this increasingly digitized world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of fabrication. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, digital design remains a fluid concept, its development and current influence discussed in scattered articles.

The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America

The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America
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Publisher : Legare Street Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1015434525
ISBN-13 : 9781015434523
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of the Shinn Family in Europe and America by : Josiah Hazen Shinn

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
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Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0711225389
ISBN-13 : 9780711225381
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Garden of Cosmic Speculation by : Charles Jencks

This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life.

The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 (1893–1913)

The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 (1893–1913)
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 419
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ISBN-10 : 9780253007810
ISBN-13 : 025300781X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 (1893–1913) by : The Peirce Edition Project

Praise for Volume 1: " . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader's edition provides the first comprehensive anthology of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce's mature philosophy. A central focus of Volume 2 is Peirce's evolving theory of signs and its appplication to his pragmatism.

Peirce on Signs

Peirce on Signs
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9781469616810
ISBN-13 : 1469616815
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Synopsis Peirce on Signs by : James Hoopes

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines. This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce's writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his work. James Hoopes has selected the most authoritative texts and supplemented them with informative headnotes. His introduction explains the place of Peirce's semiotic in the history of philosophy and compares Peirce's theory of signs to theories developed in literature and linguistics.

Pennsylvania Genealogies

Pennsylvania Genealogies
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Total Pages : 816
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112041980308
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Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Pennsylvania Genealogies by : William Henry Egle

Archaeological Semiotics

Archaeological Semiotics
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781405199131
ISBN-13 : 140519913X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Archaeological Semiotics by : Robert W. Preucel

This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology’s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture. Providing an introduction to Saussure and a review of his legacy across structural, symbolic, and cognitive anthropology, Preucel goes on to present the Peircian alternative and highlights its influence on pragmatic anthropology. Of special interest are the discussions of the interrelations of structuralism and processual archaeology, poststructuralism and postprocessual archaeologies, and cognitive science and cognitive archaeology. The author offers two original case studies demonstrating how material culture pragmatically mediates social relations- one focusing on the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt from 1680-1694 and the other on the New England utopian community of Brook Farm from 1842-1846. Throughout his analysis, Preucel emphasizes the close links between archaeology and other social sciences. But he also contends that archaeology, by virtue of the powerful ideological character of the past, can open up new spaces for discourse and dialogue about meaning, and, in the process, make a valuable contribution to contemporary semiotics.

Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 625
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ISBN-10 : 9780393049916
ISBN-13 : 0393049914
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by : Terrence W. Deacon

Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

Peirce's Approach to the Self

Peirce's Approach to the Self
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 0887068820
ISBN-13 : 9780887068829
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Peirce's Approach to the Self by : Vincent Michael Colapietro

Based on a careful study of his unpublished manuscripts as well as his published work, this book explores Peirce's general theory of signs and the way in which Peirce himself used this theory to understand subjectivity. Peirce's views are presented, not only in reference to important historical (James, Saussure) and contemporary (Eco, Kristeva) figures, but also in reference to some of the central controversies regarding signs. Colapietro adopts as a strategy of interpretation Peirce's own view that ideas become clarified only in the course of debate.