Intermediate Horizons


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Foreword: Intermediate horizons / Matthew Kirschenbaum -- Section I. Approach -- Benjamin Franklin's postal work / Christy L. Pottroff -- Linking book history and the digital humanities via museum studies / Jayme Yahr -- Section II. Access -- Material and digital traces in patterns of nature: early modern botany books and seventeenth-century needlework / Mary Learner -- Opening the book: the utopian dreams and uncertain future of open access textbook publishing / Joseph L. Locke and Ben Wright -- Books of ours: what libraries can learn about social media from books of hours / Alexandra Alvis -- Section III. Assessment -- Whose books are online? Diversity, equity, and inclusion in online text collections / Catherine A. Winters and Clayton P. Michaud -- Electronic versioning and digital editions / Paul A. Broyles -- Materialisms and the cultural turn in digital humanities / Mattie Burkert.




American Flower Painting


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The Painter as Naturalist


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Boken samler fire århundres illustrasjoner av naturens vakreste (og ofte bizarre) skapninger laget av de mest respekterte naturkunstnere i Europa og Amerika. Teksten presenterer bildene og forklarer kunstens rolle i sammen- heng med naturvitenskapens fremvekst. Noen kunstnere som er representert i boken er: Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Holbein, Redouté og Maria-Sybilla Mer- ian. Innbundet, 27 x 34 cm, 286 s.




Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces (2 vols in case)


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This richly illustrated book provides an overview of all known Dutch and Flemish artists up to the nineteenth century, who painted or drew flower pieces, or else made prints of them.




From Botany to Bouquets


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U.S. History


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U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.