Search Results - "Modernity

In praise of idleness and other essays by Russell, Bertrand 1872-1970

Table of Contents: “…In praise of idleness -- "Useless" knowledge -- Architecture and social questions -- The modern Midas -- The ancestry of fascism -- Scylla and Charybdis, or, communism and fascism -- The case for socialism -- Western civilization -- On youthful cynici…”
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Nicolas Slonimsky writings on music

Table of Contents: “…Russian and Soviet music and composers -- v. 3. Music of the modern era -- v. 4. Slonimskyana…”
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Architecture and interior design an integrated history to the present by Harwood, Buie

Table of Contents: “…Precedents -- East Asia -- Antiquity -- Middle Ages -- Renaissance -- Baroque -- Rococo -- Early Neoclassic -- Revolution -- Late Neoclassic -- Victorian revivals -- Academic historicism -- Reforms -- Innovation -- Modernism -- Experimentation…”
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THE MATH BOOK Big Ideas Simply Explained Hardcover

Table of Contents: “…Ancient and clasical periods, 6000 BCE-500 CE -- The Renaissance, 1500-1680 -- The Enlightenment, 1680-1800 -- The 19th century, 1800-1900 -- Modern mathematics, 1900-present.…”
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The American department store transformed, 1920-1960 by Longstreth, Richard W.

Table of Contents: “…Bigger and bigger stores -- Modernizing stores -- Service beyond the stores -- Parking for stores -- Branch stores -- Station wagon stores -- Stores in shopping centers -- Stores make the mall -- Stores and the city…”
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Art theory an historical introduction by Williams, Robert 1955-

Table of Contents: “…List of plates -- List of figures -- Introduction -- Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The shield of Achilles -- Imitation and knowledge -- Beauty -- Rhetoric -- Word and world -- The early modern period -- Craftsmen and theorists -- Humanism -- The academic system -- The Enlightenment -- The eighteenth century -- Radical idealism -- The nineteenth century -- The crisis of the academy -- Impressionism -- "Absolute art exists at last" -- Ruskin and the aesthetes -- The early twentieth century -- Beyond nature -- Beyond reason -- American modern -- Postmodernism -- The critique of culture -- The phenomenology of signs -- Future present -- Sources and suggestions for further reading -- Index.…”
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The Arab Gulf States beyond oil and Islam by Foley, Sean 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of the modern Gulf, 1930-1981 -- Globalization, wars, and a telecommunications revolution -- The twenty-first-century Gulf -- When only women will work -- Inclusion, tolerance, and accommodation -- Beyond oil and islam.…”
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Oligonucleotide synthesis a practical approach

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to modern methods of DNA synthesis / Michael J. Gait -- Preparation of protected deoxyribonucleotides / Roger A. …”
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Berperang demi tuhan fundamentalisme dalam Islam, Kristen dan Yahudi by Armstrong, Karen

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Waste Matters New Perspectives of Food and Society

Table of Contents: “…from bio-waste management to agro-ecology in Italian winemaking and beyond -- The performativity of food packaging: market devices, waste crisis and recycling -- Arbiters of waste: date labels, the consumer and knowing good, safe food -- Food, waste and safety: negotiating conflicting social anxieties into the practices of domestic provisioning -- Practising thrift at dinnertime: mealtime leftovers, sacrifice and family membership -- Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices -- Eating from the bin: salmon heads, waste and the markets that make them -- Food waste in Australia: the freegan response -- A 'lasting transformation' of capitalist surplus: from food stocks to feedstocks -- The disposal of place: facing modernity in the kitchen-diner…”
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PROPOSED UPGRADING OF IPOH GENERAL POST OFFICE FOR POS MALAYSIA BERHAD AT JALAN PANGLIMA BUKIT GANTANG WAHAB, 30670 IPOH, PERAK DARUL RIDZUAN by Nadia Azira Sha'ari

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INTIMACY AND AGEING New relationships in later life by Bildtgård, Torbjörn, Öberg, Peter

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Riches of the Rylands: the special collections of the University of Manchester Library the special collections of the University of Manchester Library ; with a foreword by Jan Wilk...

Table of Contents: “…'Lively oracles of God': The Bible from antiquity to modernity - Elizabeth Gow 8. 'So many paths': religious traditions across the world - Elizabeth Gow 9. …”
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Beyond culture essays on literature and learning by Trilling, Lionel 1905-1975

Table of Contents: “…On the teaching of modern literature.--Emma and the legend of Jane Austen.…”
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Urtica therapeutic and nutritional aspects of stinging nettles

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to Urtica (botanical aspects) / Gulsel Kavalali -- Historical and modern uses of Urtica / Colin Randall -- The chemical and pharmacological aspects of Urtica / Gulsel Kavalali -- Various therapeutic uses of Urtica / Colin Randall -- Th…”
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RETHINKING THE ECONOMICS OF LAND AND HOUSING by Ryan-Collins, Josh, Lloyd, Toby, Macfarlane, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Landownership and property -- The missing factor : land in production and distribution -- Land for housing : land economics in the modern era -- The financialisation of land and housing -- Land, wealth and inequality -- Putting land back into economics and policy.…”
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The professional French pastry series by Bilheux, Roland 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Petits fours, chocolate, frozen desserts, and sugar work -- Decorations, borders and letters, marzipan, and modern desserts…”
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Change and persistence in Thai society essays in honor of Lauriston Sharp

Table of Contents: “…Education and the modernization of Th…”
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American theatre

Table of Contents: “…Realism in the modern American theatre, by J. Gassner.--The vanity of personality: the development of Eugene O'Neill, by A. …”
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Professional French pastry series by Bilheux, Roland 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Petits fours, chocolate, frozen desserts, and sugar work -- Decorations, borders and letters, marzipan, and modern desserts.…”
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