In Search of Your European Roots

In Search of Your European Roots

Author: Angus Baxter

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780806316574

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Guides readers through the complexities of genealogical research in Europe, and includes up-to-date information on church, state, and provincial archives.


In Search of Your German Roots

In Search of Your German Roots

Author: Angus Baxter

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780806317847

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"This new edition of In Search of Your German Roots is designed to help you trace your German ancestry; not only in Germany but in all the German-speaking areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Crimea, from the Czech Republic to Belgium. Like all books by Angus Baxter, it shows you how to conduct your research by correspondence and e-mail; how to work in your own home, at your computer, using the resources of libraries and archives or the records of church and state"--Page 4 of cover.


Barbarism and Civilization

Barbarism and Civilization

Author: Bernard Wasserstein

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-02-12

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 0191622516

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The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of respect and opportunity. It was a century of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental spoliation, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression - and of individualism resurgent. Covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic change, Barbarism and Civilization is by turns grim, humorous, surprising, and enlightening: a window on the century we have left behind and the earliest years of its troubled successor.


Port Series

Port Series

Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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The Art of the Literary Poster

The Art of the Literary Poster

Author: Allison Rudnick

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2024-03-07

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1588397742

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Spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular form of visual culture in the United States. Created by some of the best-known illustrators and graphic designers of the period—including Will H. Bradley, Florence Lundborg, Edward Penfield, and Ethel Reed—these advertisements for books and high-tone periodicals such as Harper’s and Lippincott’s went beyond the realm of commercial art, incorporating bold, stylized imagery and striking typography. This book, based on the renowned Leonard A. Lauder Collection, explores the craze for literary posters, which became sought after collectibles even in their day. It offers new scholarly perspectives that address the aesthetic sophistication and modernity of the literary poster; the impact of early experiments in the field of advertising psychology; the expanded opportunities for women artists, who played an important role in advancing the so-called poster style; and the printmaking techniques that artists employed in this novel art form. A lively survey of a little-known but highly influential period in graphic design, The Art of the Literary Poster is sure to delight enthusiasts of illustration, advertising, and book arts.


Intuition of the Instant

Intuition of the Instant

Author: Gaston Bachelard

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0810129043

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The instant -- The problem of habit and discontinuous time -- The idea of progress and the intuition of discontinuous time -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: "Poetic instant and metaphysical instant" by Gaston Bachelard -- Appendix B: Reading Bachelard reading Siloe: an excerpt from "Introduction to Bachelard's poetics" by Jean Lescure -- Appendix C: A short biography of Gaston Bachelard