Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940
Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940

Author: A. Greenwood

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1137440538

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This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art

Author: Gordon Campbell

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2009-11-26

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13:

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art (GENR) deals with all aspects of Northern Renaissance art ranging from artists, architecture, and patrons, to the cities and centres of production vital to the flourishing of art in this period. Drawing upon the unsurpassed scholarship in The Dictionary of Art and adding dozens of new entries, GENR is a comprehensive reference resource on this important area.

Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory

Author: Sebastian Scholz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3110757273

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Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres. The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.

Fiction Refracts Science
Fiction Refracts Science

Author: Allen Thiher

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0826264697

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"Examines the relationship between science and the fiction developed by modernists, including Musil, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce. Looks at Pascalian and Newtonian cosmology, Darwinism, epistemology, relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the development of modernist and postmodern fiction, positivism, and finally works by Woolf, Faulkner, and Borges"--Provided by publisher.

The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality

Author: Michel Foucault

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1990-04-14

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0679724699

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Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius

Author: Dániel Margócsy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 9004336303

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Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

Chairs
Chairs

Author: Charlotte Fiell

Publisher: Welbeck

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 1802794565

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This updated edition features designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft.

Modernism and the Ordinary
Modernism and the Ordinary

Author: Liesl Olson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0199349789

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Modernism and the Ordinary overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Liesl Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in times of political crisis and war. Experiences like walking to work, eating a sandwich, or mending a dress were often resistant to shock, and these daily activities presented a counter-force to the aesthetic of heightened affect with which the period is often associated. With attentive and sensitive readings, Modernism and the Ordinary examines works by Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Stevens, Proust, Beckett, and Auden alongside the ideas of philosophers such as Henri Bergson and William James. In doing so, the book reveals the non-transformative power of the ordinary as one of modernism's most compelling attributes.