Contemporary Viewing Stone Display

Contemporary Viewing Stone Display
Author: Richard Turner
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578675244

A comprehensive guide to viewing stone traditions and practices, featuring a gallery of stunning stone displays by an international array of collectors. This volume offers fresh perspectives on an ancient practice to all readers, from the curious to the connoisseur.

The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities

The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
Author: Jeffrey Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009037463

This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis – its antecedents, current forms, and future trajectories – as well as possible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods, fields, and global locations, but it is organized to give readers a working context for the foundational debates. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities, shows why that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topics, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considers the topic's global implications, especially those that involve environmental justice issues.

Living with Stone

Living with Stone
Author: Alonso Claudia Martinez
Publisher: Koenemann
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9783741920523

This book offers a broad and comprehensive catalog of contemporary uses of natural stone in private homes, public buildings, and public spaces, with particular emphasis on both traditional and modern applications.

The Physics of Quantum Fields

The Physics of Quantum Fields
Author: Michael Stone
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461205077

A gentle introduction to the physics of quantized fields and many-body physics. Based on courses taught at the University of Illinois, it concentrates on the basic conceptual issues that many students find difficult, and emphasizes the physical and visualizable aspects of the subject. While the text is intended for students with a wide range of interests, many of the examples are drawn from condensed matter physics because of the tangible character of such systems. The first part of the book uses the Hamiltonian operator language of traditional quantum mechanics to treat simple field theories and related topics, while the Feynman path integral is introduced in the second half where it is seen as indispensable for understanding the connection between renormalization and critical as well as non-perturbative phenomena.

Contemporary Collecting

Contemporary Collecting
Author: James Rondeau
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone collection," held at the Art Insitute of Chicago from June 25 to September 19, 2010.

Viewed Sideways

Viewed Sideways
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-08-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1611725143

Over 50 years of essays on Japan from premier film critic, essayist, and novelist, Donald Richie.

Disability and Contemporary Performance

Disability and Contemporary Performance
Author: Petra Kuppers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136500405

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.

A Lateral View

A Lateral View
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: James Currey
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: