National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Title | National Library of Medicine Current Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1184 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Current Catalog
Title | Current Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1174 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Catálogo de la sección Malagón de la Biblioteca Pública del Estado, Toledo: N-Z
Title | Catálogo de la sección Malagón de la Biblioteca Pública del Estado, Toledo: N-Z PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Authors, Exiled |
ISBN |
The Research System in Transition
Title | The Research System in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Susan E. Cozzens |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9400920911 |
On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which stretched from science policy practitioners, through research scientists and engineers, through academic observers of science and science policy. It was this diversity, along with the opportunities for infonnal discussion provided by long meals and remote location, that made the conference a special learning experience. Except at lecture time, it was impossible to distinguish the "students" at this event from the "teachers," and even the most senior members of the teaching staff went away with a sense that they had learned more from this group than from many a standard conference on science policy they had attended. The flavor of the conference experience cannot be captured adequately in a proceedings volume, and so we have not tried to create a historical record in this book. Instead, we have attempted to illustrate the core problems the panicipants at the conference shared, discussed, and debated, using both lectures delivered by the fonnal teaching staff and summaries of panel discussions, which extended to other panicipants and therefore increased the range of experiences reponed.
Aztecs
Title | Aztecs PDF eBook |
Author | Inga Clendinnen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 575 |
Release | 2014-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110769356X |
Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.
Technology and War
Title | Technology and War PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Van Creveld |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439143978 |
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.
An Anthropology of Images
Title | An Anthropology of Images PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Belting |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2022-07-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1400839785 |
A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the body In this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a "living medium" that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, An Anthropology of Images presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function. The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of compelling case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.