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Reducere. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

Reducere. A room's acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects ...

Reducere. In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depend...

The preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba.Editor(s): Alejandro de la Fuente

This volume honors and examines the founders of the philosophy of logical empiricism. Historical and interpretive essays clarify the scientific phi...

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): David HamiltonNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 187 x 262 x 37Cover type: H...

In 1965, French microbiologist André Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on lysogeny--one of the two types of ...

Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute ...

A philosophical framework for understanding peripheral creativity in science.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Deepanwita Dasgupt...

uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social...

The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosop...

An insightful exploration of food policy and politics in Nicaragua.Illustrations: 25 b&w illustrations

National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Ameri...

Translingual Inheritance tells a new story of the early days of democracy in the United States, when English had not yet become the only dominant l...

Reducere. Description"I say that even later someone will remember us."--Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho's prediction came true; fragments of w...

Explores of role of fitness culture within modern Brazilian society.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Daniel SilvaNumber of pages...

Elaborates on the "intercolonial intimacies" that shape a transpacific understanding of coloniality and latinidad.Publisher: University of Pittsbur...

DescriptionLatin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identiti...

Reducere. In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. Wit...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

Scientists have used models for hundreds of years as a means of describing phenomena and as a basis for further analogy. In Scientific Models in Ph...

Explores Public-Interest Science as a Potential Alternative to CommodificationPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Hans RadderNumber...

In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts, and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizatio...

DescriptionTo most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of scientific endeavor. In spite of this,...

At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve ...

Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s--Lenin's ru...

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly...

Reducere. In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of...

Studies of women's rhetorics to date have focused largely on the civic arena and the home. These two spheres are clearly important, but they ignore...

Reducere. Winner of theMihajlo Misa Djordjevic Book Prizeawarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocult...

Reducere. Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philoso...

A Comparative Study of Latvia and Kazakhstan

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Reducere. Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articula...

Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 189...

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, th...

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of ...

Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National ImaginaryIllustrations: 37 b&w

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting pol...

Reducere. Muriel Rukeyser held a visionary belief in the human capacity to create social change through language. She earned an international reputation as a...

Reducere. Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency ...

Reducere. In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Mart nez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythago...

Explores the impact of the National Urban League in Pittsburgh.Illustrations: 8 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 table

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other ...

Reducere. With the coming of the twentieth century, America was thinking on a grand scale. Barriers of communication and transportation were being overcome a...

Reducere. DescriptionHell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent sevent...

Reducere. Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt a...

Reducere. The mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania provide the setting for the most popular whitewater in America: the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle. Peop...

This Element has two main aims. The first is to provide a explanation of how the micro-interactions between insurgents, authorities, and third part...

Reducere. Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces ...

Digital transformation and demographic change are usually seen as two separate but threatening events. As Japan is the world's frontrunner in demog...

Reducere. Poised on the precipice of mystery and longing, each character in Now You Know It All also hovers on the brink of discovery--and decision. Set in s...

Reducere. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the la...

DescriptionGrace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the tw...

Reducere. In Jackknife: new and Selected Poems, Beatty travels the turns and collisions of over twenty years of work. She moves from first-person narratives ...

Reducere. Toi Derricotte's story is a hero's journey--a poet earning her way home, to her own commanding powers. "I" New and Selected Poems shows the reader ...

What would it take to be home in one's body, to walk around the world as oneself, knowing the pain within and without us? Jan Beatty boldly answers...

Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images...

Holoholo is the Hawaiian word for walking out with no destination in mind. In the three sections of this book, Barbara Hamby walks out into the cur...

Reducere. Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in...

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world - rivers, birds, stones - and with a "you" that is not a person, necessar...

Reducere. The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, inv...

Reducere. Named U.S. Poet Laureate for 2004-2006, Ted Kooser is one of America's masters of the short metaphorical poem. Dana Gioia has remarked that Kooser ...

Reducere. Florida Book AwardPerhaps Paul Kareem Taylor said it best in his piece called On the Road Again: Barbara Hamby's American Odyssey "Reading Barbara ...

Reducere. Ukrainian cooking embodies national and ethnic tastes and reflects the spiritual and social awareness of Ukrainians. More than just a cookbook, Fes...

This collection of poems reflects multiple voices around the theme of connections.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Gary GildnerN...

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of SienaPublisher: Un...

Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art. With narrative and lyr...