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Inland Drift Sand Landscapes

Origin and History; Relief, Forest and Soil Development; Dynamics and Management

By: Josef Fanta,Henk Siepel

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Inland Drift Sand Landscapes

Origin and History; Relief, Forest and Soil Development; Dynamics and Management

By: Josef Fanta,Henk Siepel

Man has had a complex relationship with inland drift sands through the ages. For some centuries these landscapes were seen as a threat, especially to agriculture and housing. This book considers the processes, origin, conservation and restoration of this very special but harsh biotope, one that is characterised by fields of lichens with sparse grasses and heather alongside a range of special animal, fungi and plant species. • Part 1 - Drift sand landscapes of NW Europe • Part 2 - Microclimate and soil development • Part 3 - Ecosystem succession on drift sands • Part 4 - Forestation of drift sands • Part 5 - Practical implications

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384

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BRILL

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9004277951

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9789004277953

The Native Leisure Class

Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes

By: Rudolf Josef Colloredo-Mansfeld

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The Native Leisure Class

Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes

By: Rudolf Josef Colloredo-Mansfeld

In the Andean city of Otavalo, Ecuador, a cultural renaissance is now taking place against a backdrop of fading farming traditions, transnational migration, and an influx of new consumer goods. Recently, Otavalenos have transformed their textile trade into a prosperous tourist industry, exporting colorful weavings around the world. Tracing the connections among newly invented craft traditions, social networks, and consumption patterns, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld highlights the way ethnic identities and class cultures materialize in a sensual world that includes luxurious woven belts, powerful stereos, and garlic roasted cuyes (guinea pigs). Yet this case reaches beyond the Andes. He shows how local and global interactions intensify the cultural expression of the world's emerging "native middle classes," at times leaving behind those unable to afford the new trappings of indigenous identity. Colloredo-Mansfeld also comments on his experiences working as an artist in Otavalo. His drawings, along with numerous photographs, animate this engaging study in economic anthropology.

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296

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University of Chicago Press

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0226113949

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9780226113944

Josef Frank

Life and Work

By: Christopher Long,Josef Frank

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Josef Frank

Life and Work

By: Christopher Long,Josef Frank

Architect, designer, and theorist Josef Frank (1885-1967) was known throughout Europe in the 1920s as one of the continent's leading modernists. Yet despite his important contributions to the development of modernism, Frank has been largely excluded from histories of the movement. Josef Frank: Life and Work is the first study that comprehensively explores the life, ideas, and designs of this complex and controversial figure. Educated in Vienna just after the turn of the century, Frank became the leader of the younger generation of architects in Austria after the First World War. But Frank fell from grace when he emerged as a forceful critic of the extremes of modern architecture and design during the early 1930s. Dismissing the demands for a unified modern style, Frank insisted that it was pluralism, not uniformity, that most characterized life in the new machine age. He called instead for a more humane modernism, one that responded to people's everyday needs and left room for sentimentality and historical influences. He was able to put these ideas into practice when, in 1933, he was forced to leave Vienna for Sweden. There his work came to define Swedish (or Scandinavian) modern design. For more than thirty years he was the chief designer for the Stockholm furnishings firm Svenskt Tenn, producing colorful, cozy, and eclectic designs that provided a refreshing alternative to the architectural mainstream of the day and presaged the coming revolt against modernism in the 1960s. In this sensitive study of one of the twentieth century's seminal architects and thinkers, Christopher Long offers new insight into Josef Frank's work and ideas and provides an important contribution to the understanding of modernist culture and its history.

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450

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University of Chicago Press

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0226492664

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9780226492667

Život p{r}outníka

Aneb, zlobivý kritik

By: Josef Šiman

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Aneb, zlobivý kritik

By: Josef Šiman

Bylo nebylo, žil byl jednou v Praze jeden relativne spokojený pade–až šede- sátník, otec dvou dospelých detí, ríkejme mu treba pan X. Vystupoval pomerne casto a kriticky v médiích, ríkal, psal a svobodne publikoval co si myslel, jeho knihy, na to, že šlo více méne o tituly odborné, se kupodivu dobre prodávaly i cetly, nebot spojovaly s odborností i vtip. Jak se jeho život postupne zklidnoval, s úlevou odhazoval všechny kdysi tolik stresující a frustrující touhy po poctách i krásných ženách, stacilo mu, že restituoval nejaký ten majetek, z nehož si porídil krásný byt na Starém meste pražském, odkud to mel pár kroku do všech divadel, kaváren i do práce. Zkrátka idilka... až do doby, než idilickou hladinu života pana X, rozcerila necekane slecna A. Puvodne jeho studentka, pozdeji milenka, druhá protagonistka našeho príbehu. Byla pritom jak vekem, tak rodinným puvodem, vetšinou svých dosavadních obskurních zamestnání i mentalitou jeho nejmyslitelneji možným protikladem. Spojovala je snad osudová pritažlivost? Šlo o chemii? Osudovou lásku? Nebo jen obe strany chtejí využít, co život zrovna nabízí....? V této dobe také zurí v Praze boj o divadelní granty a pan X je predsedou grantové komise. Kdo utrhne víc, alternativci, nebo komercáci, kdo víc profituje na lásce, mladé ženy a nebo starší muži...? Proc si vlastne mladé ženy vybírají starší pány, jako své milence?

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501

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1496976312

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9781496976314

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