Sprinkler Irrigation Systems
Sprinkler Irrigation Systems

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Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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This guide tells how to plan, design, and efficiently manage sprinkler irrigation systems. Also discussed is "chemigation," the process of applying an agricultural chemical (fertilizer or pesticide) to the soil or plant surface with an irrigation system. Dozens of photographs, drawings, tables, and equations complement the text. Topics cover: System planning and design. Water sources. Sprinkler characteristics. Systems, selection, and management. Pumps, piping, and power units. Chemigation. Sprinkler application of effluent.

Sartre
Sartre

Author: Marjorie Grene

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 322

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Originally published in 1973 by New Viewpoints, this complete study of Sartre as both philosopher and writer is one of the few available in the critical literature of philosophy. Co-published by arrangement with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.

Michigan Modern
Michigan Modern

Author: Amy Arnold

Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 1423644980

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Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, and Amy L. Arnold, project manager for Michigan Modern, have curated nearly thirty essays and interviews from a number of prominent architects, academics, architectural historians, journalists, and designers, including historian Alan Hess, designers Mira Nakashima, Ruth Adler Schnee, and Todd Oldham, and architect Gunnar Birkerts, describing Michigan’s contributions to Modern design in architecture, automobiles, furniture and education.

Giacomo Puccini and His World
Giacomo Puccini and His World

Author: Arman Schwartz

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0691172862

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Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini’s operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection’s essays explore Puccini’s engagement with spoken theater and operetta, and with new technologies like photography and cinema. Other essays consider the philosophical problems raised by "realist" opera, discuss the composer’s place in a variety of cosmopolitan formations, and reevaluate Puccini’s orientalism and his complex interactions with the Italian fascist state. A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini’s interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the verismo movement. Excerpts from Fausto Torrefranca’s notorious Giacomo Puccini and International Opera, perhaps the most vicious diatribe ever directed against the composer, appear here in English for the first time. The contributors are Micaela Baranello, Leon Botstein, Alessandra Campana, Delia Casadei, Ben Earle, Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Walter Frisch, Michele Girardi, Arthur Groos, Steven Huebner, Ellen Lockhart, Christopher Morris, Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici, and Alexandra Wilson.