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  • Who Saved the Redwoods

    The Unsung Heroines of the 1920s Who Fought for Our Redwood Forests

    de Laura Wasserman, James Wasserman ...
    The Unsung HeroinesHave you ever stood in a redwood grove and wondered how it was saved from the loggers' saws? The answer isn't as simple as a few famous names or a single act of government.Who Saved the Redwoods? tells the gripping, untold story of the women who formed the front line of the forest conservation movement in the 1920s. This was an era of intense, industrial-scale logging, when it ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Elusive Archives

    Material Culture in Formation

    de Julian Yates, Wendy Bellion, Julie L. McGee, Torsten Cress, Cindy Ott, Laura E. Helton, Jennifer Van Horn, Kiersten Thamm, Alexandra Ward, Alexander Lawrence Ames, Halina Adams, Rosalie Hooper, Sarah Wasserman, Spencer Wigmore, Catherine Morrissey, Michelle Everidge, Kaila T. Schedeen, Lu Ann De Cunzo, Natalie Elizabeth Wright, Oliver Scheiding, J. Ritchie Garrison, Jesse Kraft, Michael J. Emmons, Jessica Conrad, Bernard L. Herman ...
    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Who Saved the Redwoods

    The Unsung Heroines of the 1920s Who Fought for Our Redwood Forests

    de Laura and James Wasserman ...
    Powerful lumber interests stood in the way of the first campaigns to save the redwood trees of Humboldt County, California, but they were boldly opposed and pushed back. This history of the early 1900s recalls the Progressive Era crusades of women and men who prevailed against great odds, protecting the best of California’s northern redwood forests.This book tells the forgotten, dramatic story of ... Leer más

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edición de Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Leer más

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  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    de Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Leer más

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  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    de Ben Child ...
    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Leer más

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  • Human-Built World

    How to Think about Technology and Culture

    de Thomas P. Hughes ...
    Series series science.culture
    To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western ... Leer más

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  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    de Zachary Schrag ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Leer más

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  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    de Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...
    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Leer más

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  • Housing and Dwelling

    Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

    Edición de Barbara Miller Lane ...
    Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, ... Leer más

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  • Inside the Lost Museum

    Curating, Past and Present

    de Steven Lubar ...
    Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors’ interactions with ... Leer más

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  • The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

    de Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale, Atia Sattar, Beth A. McCoy, Robin Blyn, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Charles M. Tung, Aaron Jaffe, Grant Farred, Seth Morton, David L. Martin ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the ... Leer más

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