Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : University of California, Office for History of Science & Technology
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Author : Margy Burns Knight
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761316477
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
Author : Sanja Perovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139537032
One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.
Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137570245
This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero. Offering a new and interdisciplinary lens through which the franchise can be analyzed, Funnell and Dodds explore a range of topics that have been largely, if not entirely, overlooked in Bond film scholarship. These topics include: the shifting and gendering of geopolitical relations; the differing depiction and evaluation of vertical/modern and horizontal/pre-modern spaces; the use of classical elements in defining gender, sexuality, heroic competency, and geopolitical conflict; and the ongoing importance of haptics (i.e. touch), kinesics (i.e. movement), and proxemics (i.e. the use of space) in defining the embodied and emotive world of Bond. This book is comprehensive in nature and scope as it discusses all 24 films in the official Bond canon and theorizes about the future direction of the franchise.
Author : Grete Jamissen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319510584
This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education. It outlines how to teach, research and build communities in tertiary institutions through the particular form of audio-visual communication known as digital storytelling by developing relationships across professions, workplaces and civil society. The book is framed within the context of ‘The Four Scholarships’ developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement and redefining of teaching, including the scholarships of discovery, integration, application, and teaching and learning. Across four sections, this volume considers the potential of digital storytelling to improve, enhance and expand teaching, learning, research, and interactions with society. Written by an international range of academics, researchers and practitioners, from disciplines spanning medicine, anthropology, education, social work, film and media studies, rhetoric and the humanities, the book demonstrates the variety of ways in which digital storytelling offers solutions to key challenges within higher education for students, academics and citizens. It will be compelling reading for students and researchers working in education and sociology.
Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627531378
Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they work, the women dream of a machine that can grind the millet and free them from their pounding sticks. But the machine will only come when the women have raised enough money to buy it. Yatandou must help raise the money, even if it means parting with something she holds dear. Through the eyes and voice of a young girl, award-winning author Gloria Whelan brings to life one village's dream of a better future. Atmospheric paintings from artist Peter Sylvada capture the landscape and spirit of this inspiring story of sacrifice and hope.
Author : Kevin Desmond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 147663341X
Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy output made it impractical until the 1990s, when the advent of lightweight materials, more efficient solar power, improved engines and the Li-Po (lithium polymer) battery opened the skies to a wide variety of electric aircraft. The author describes the diverse designs of modern electric flying machines--from tiny insect-styled drones to stratospheric airships--and explores developing trends, including flying cars and passenger airliners.
Author : Jane Pritchard
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781851778355
"This book was published to coincide with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 25 September 2010-9 January 2011"--Title page verso.
Author : Chrestien Le Clercq
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2018-10-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780343118839
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Author : Bernard Quaritch
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1936
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