The Aeolian Master - Book Two - ZORG
Author: John Northern
Publisher: John Northern
Published: 2011-03-07
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0979823870
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Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture
Author: Barbara Kenda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1134151454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science. One of the principle goals of Renaissance architects was to augment the powers of pneuma so as to foster the art of well-being. Central to the study of pneumatic architecture are six Italian villas connected together by a ventilating system of caves and tunnels, including Eolia, in which Trento established an academic circle of scholars that included Palladio, Tazzo and Ruzzante. Picking up on current interest in environmental issues, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture reintroduces Renaissance perspectives on the key relationships in environmental issues between architecture and art and science. This beautifully illustrated and unprecedented study will illuminate the studies of any architecture or Renaissance student or scholar.
Quest for Eternal Sunshine
Author: Mendek Rubin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1631528793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy. Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946—despite having no money or professional skills—his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering. After Mendek died in 2012, his daughter, Myra Goodman, found an unfinished manuscript in which he’d revealed the intimate details of his healing journey. Quest for Eternal Sunshine—the extraordinary result of a posthumous father-daughter collaboration—tells Mendek’s whole story and is filled with eye-opening revelations, effective self-healing techniques, and profound wisdom that have the power to transform the way we live our lives. An inspirational biography of a Holocaust survivor overcoming depression and PTSD. An essential new addition to Jewish Holocaust history.
The Chronologers' Quest
Author: Patrick Wyse Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-17
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1139457578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, and religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the fascinating story of our attempts to determine the age of the Earth. This book investigates the many novel methods used in the search for the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, and from Comte de Buffon and Lord Kelvin determining the length of time for the cooling of the Earth, to the more recent investigations of Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson into radioactive dating of rocks and meteorites. The Chronologers' Quest is a readable account of the measurement of geological time. It will be of great interest to a wide range of readers, from those with little scientific background to students and scientists in a wide range of the Earth sciences.
A Quest for Home
Author: Christopher J. P. Smith
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780853235217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study re-places the prolific and controversial writer Robert Southey (1774–1843) within the literary context of the 1790s and beyond, a context in which he played so central a role.
The Quest
Author: Robert D. Morritt
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2009-12-14
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1443818321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many years I had wanted to write something about Troy and the Classical Age; ever since my earlier archaological 'digs' and flint knapping and an early essay on Troy, quite unplanned, that had my strict Headmaster quite aghast (and even myself). I expect it was something hidden within my psyche which knows a former life, I hesitate to go t here. Notwithstanding that, this book describes not just the story of 'Troy' but theories of whether it did exist, with recent archaeological 'finds'. The work done at Troy by Schliemann is portrayed, also the work of Dorpfeld, Blegen and more recently the modern methods of the recently deceased Professor Manfred Korfmann and the theories of Joachim Latacz are explored, with emphasis on the University of Tuebingen TROIA Project, which is consistently attracting international attention. Not only is Troy portrayed, but the travels of John Morritt to locate the site of Troy. The interesting way Morritt circumnavigated the Napoleonic armies makes one wonder if he was on a clandestine mission to record topography, as he later makes un-historical observations of military movements in an area the French navy were to invade to reach Egypt, etc. If the reader receives any benefit from this book, I will consider that I have done my part. If not, I recomend it wholeheartedly as a sure-fire cure for insomnia. Robert D. Morritt
Cyberformalism
Author: Daniel Shore
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-06-15
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1421425505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinguistic forms -- Search -- Studies -- "Was it for this?" and the study of influence -- Act as if and useful fictions -- WWJD? and the history of imitatio christi -- Milton's depictives and the history of style -- Conclusions -- Shakespeare's constructicon -- God is dead, long live philology
Resonant Matter
Author: Lutz Koepnick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1501343386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Resonant Matter, Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation The Visitors (2012), the book explores resonance-the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects-as a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpected, and unheard sounds in twenty-first century art to reflect on the attachments we pursue to sustain our lives and the walls we need to tear down to secure possible futures. The book's nine chapters approach The Visitors from ever-different conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Susan Philipsz, David Rothenberg, Juliana Snapper, and Tanya Tagaq. With this book, Koepnick situates resonance as a vital concept of contemporary art criticism and sound studies. His analysis encourages us not only to expand our understanding of the role of sound in art, of sound art, but to attune our critical encounter with art to art's own resonant thinking.
Wind Tunnel Studies of Aeolian Saltation Threshold and Dust Storm Triggering Mechanisms with the Use of High-speed Video and Specialized Boundary-layer Wind Tunnels at Atmospheric and Martian Mean Surface Pressures
Author: James Phoreman
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeep South
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0544323521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye."--
