The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832
| Author | : Various |
| Publisher | : Litres |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2021-01-18 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 5041357528 |
Mirror Of Literature Amusement Instruction Volume 20 No 567 September 22 1832
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The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
| Author | : James Hammond Trumbull |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 726 |
| Release | : 1886 |
| Genre | : Hartford County (Conn.) |
| ISBN | : |
The Social Life of Coffee
| Author | : Brian Cowan |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2008-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300133502 |
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
| Author | : Charles Mackay |
| Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1852 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Excerpt from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Vol. 2 A forest huge of spears and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields, in thick array. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Trust in Numbers
| Author | : Theodore M. Porter |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2020-08-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0691210543 |
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Conservation of the Last Judgment Mosaic, St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague
| Author | : Francesca Piqué |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Decoration and ornament, Architectural |
| ISBN | : 0892367822 |
Illustrated in color throughout, this handsome volume presents selected papers from an international symposium held in June 2001 marking the completion of a ten-year project to conserve the Last Judgment mosaic, at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. The project was a partnership between the Office of the President of the Czech Republic, the Prague Castle Administration, and the Getty Conservation Institute. The goal of the symposium was to present the methodology, research, and results of the project, which involved conserving one of the finest examples of monumental medieval mosaic art in Europe. The volume's essays are divided into three parts, which cover the historical and art-historical context, conservation planning and methodology, and project implementation and maintenance. Topics addressed include the history, iconography, and visual documentation of the mosaic; the development and application of surface cleaning and protective coating techniques for the mosaic's glass tesserae; and post-treatment monitoring and maintenance.
The Mass Ornament
| Author | : Siegfried Kracauer |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9780674551633 |
The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.
