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  • Death by Appointment: How Dr. Marcel Petiot Killed Dozens in Nazi-Occupied Paris

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    On the evening of March 11, 1944, firefighters forced their way into a smoke-filled townhouse on the Rue Le Sueur in German-occupied Paris and descended to the basement. What they found stopped them at the threshold: human bodies burning in the furnaces, dismembered remains in a quicklime pit, seventy-two suitcases packed for journeys that would never happen. The building belonged to Dr. Marcel ... Leer más

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  • RESILIENCY FOR FIRST RESPONDERS

    Getting the Job Done No Matter What

    Build resiliency for your first responder family to meet life's challenges! First responders are the backbone of communities throughout our country, but the challenges they face can put a lot of pressure on their families and loved ones. With that in mind, James Hyde wrote Resiliency for First Responders: Getting the Job Done No Matter What, a guide for first responders and their families. With ... Leer más

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  • The Trouble with Space in Painting

    A Critical History

    de James Hyde ...
    Series series Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
    James Hyde, a practicing painter, presents a radical and historically detailed investigation into how the concept of pictorial space in art emerged.Using primary documents and a selection of images, Hyde exposes what many will find surprising-that space only becomes part of the descriptive apparatus of art and architecture at the turn of the 20th century, not earlier. Remarkably, this is the first ... Leer más

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  • On Literature

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  • The Science of Leonardo

    Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

    de Fritjof Capra ...
    Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing ... Leer más

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  • What Art Is

    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Leer más

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  • The Written World and the Unwritten World

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  • Disclosing Horizons

    Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design.Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as an ideal model of how everyday existence could be measured and ultimately judged. ... Leer más

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  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

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  • Art and Illusion

    A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation - Millennium Edition

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    A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century’s most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psychology of pictorial ... Leer más

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  • The Measure of Reality

    Quantification in Western Europe, 1250–1600

    Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in any other part of the world. The Measure of Reality, first published in 1997, discusses the epochal ... Leer más

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  • Attunement

    Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

    How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and ... Leer más

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