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Author: Nicholas Dames
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-11-07
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0691135193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today. Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time.
Author: Alonzo L. Hamby
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781600214578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Outline of U.S. History' is a publication of the U.S. Department of State. The first edition (1949-50) was produced under the editorship of Francis Whitney, first of the State Department Office of International Information and later of the U.S. Information Agency. Richard Hofstadter, professor of history at Columbia University, and Wood Gray, professor of American history at The George Washington University, served as academic consultants. D. Steven Endsley of Berkeley, California, prepared additional material. It has been updated and revised extensively over the years by, among others, Keith W. Olsen, professor of American history at the University of Maryland, and Nathan Glick, writer and former editor of the USIA journal, Dialogue. Alan Winkler, professor of history at Miami University (Ohio), wrote the post-World War II chapters for previous editions. This new edition has been completely revised and updated by Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. Professor Hamby has written extensively on American politics and society.
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2012-12-18
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0307367584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's a hilariously revisionist account of Noah's ark, narrated by a passenger who doesn't appear in Genesis. It's a sneak preview of heaven. It encompasses the stories of a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists and of woodworms tried for blasphemy in sixteenth-century France. It explores the relationship of fact to fabulation and the antagonism between history and love. In short, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a grandly ambitious and inventive work of fiction, in the traditions of Joyce and Calvino, from the author of the widely acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot.
Author: Spiro Kostof
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780520226043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Architect traces the role of the profession across the centuries and in different cultures, showing the architect both as designer and as mediator between the client and the builder.
Author: P. Scott Corbett
Publisher:
Published: 2024-09-10
Total Pages: 1886
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKU.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author: Daniel Hack Tuke
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench
Published: 1882
Total Pages: 626
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1969-08-15
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780262530095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independently by four companies—du Pont, General Motors, Standard Oil (New Jersey), and Sears, Roebuck. This 1990 reprint includes a new introduction by the author.
Author: Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 019505329X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on the field of solid-state physics - also referred to as condensed matter physics - which grew to maturity between 1920 and 1960. The history of some exciting developments is told here in an easy-to-follow text, accessible to general readers, while maintaining standards of high scholarship.
Author: Assad Shoman
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2005-06-01
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 075951383X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe—in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. “Part thriller, part history, part romance...Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.” —Baltimore Sun
