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The Court That Tamed the West

From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom

By: Richard Cahan,Pia Hinckle,Jessica Royer Ocken

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The Court That Tamed the West

From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom

By: Richard Cahan,Pia Hinckle,Jessica Royer Ocken

This unique history reveals how a century of Federal Court drama and influential rulings shaped the development and culture of Northern California. From the gold rush to the Internet boom, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has played a major role in how business is done and life is lived on the Pacific Coast. When California was first admitted to the Union, pioneers were busy prospecting for new fortunes, building towns and cities—and suing each other. San Francisco became the epicenter of a litigious new world of fortune-seekers and corporate interests. Northern California’s federal court set precedents on issues ranging from shanghaied sailors to Mexican land grants and the civil rights of Chinese immigrants. Through the era of Prohibition and the labor movement to World War II and the tumultuous sixties and seventies, the court's historic rulings have defined the Bay Area's geography, culture, and commerce.

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525

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Heyday.ORIM

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ISBN 10

1597142638

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9781597142632

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

With a Collection of the Documents and Texts up to Vasari and an Appendix of Sources on the Arena Chapel

By: Michael Viktor Schwarz,Pia Theis

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Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

With a Collection of the Documents and Texts up to Vasari and an Appendix of Sources on the Arena Chapel

By: Michael Viktor Schwarz,Pia Theis

Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist.

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427

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Böhlau Wien

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ISBN 10

3205216970

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9783205216971

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By: Maria Pia Donato

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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By: Maria Pia Donato

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance and last confession. Special masses were celebrated to implore God’s clemency and Pope Clement XI ordered his personal physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to perform a series of dissections in the university anatomical theatre in order to discover the 'true causes' of the deadly events. It was the first investigation of this kind ever to take place for a condition which was not contagious. The book that Lancisi published on this topic, De subitaneis mortibus (’On Sudden Deaths’, 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death; it was not only an accomplished example of mechanical philosophy as applied to the life sciences in eighteenth-century Europe, but also heralded a new pathological anatomy (traditionally associated with Giambattista Morgagni). Moreover, Lancisi’s tract and the whole affair of the sudden deaths in Rome marked a significant break in the traditional attitude towards dying, introducing a more active approach that would later develop into the practice of resuscitation medicine. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death and a new attitude towards dying first came into being, breaking free from the Hippocratic tradition, which regarded death as the obvious limit of physician’s capacity, and leading the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains in force to this day.

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240

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Routledge

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1317048520

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9781317048527

TRUMPET & CONTINUO Musiche per Tromba e Basso Continuo (Fantini, Viviani, Telemann)

By: Jonathan Pia

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TRUMPET & CONTINUO Musiche per Tromba e Basso Continuo (Fantini, Viviani, Telemann)

By: Jonathan Pia

La presente pubblicazione si prefigge di offrirvi, in maniera del tutto esaustiva, la letteratura per trombae basso continuo risalente all'epoca barocca.Verrà dunque proposta la seconda parte del Modo per Impararea sonare di Tromba [...] Quanto Musicalmente in Organo diGirolamo Fantini, costituita da numerose forme di danza esonate, risalente al 1638.Successivamente, sarà la volta delle Sonate per trombetta sola di Giovanni Bonaventura Viviani, pubblicate nel 1678all'interno dei Capricci Armonici.In conclusione, verrà presentata la meno nota Air detrompette di Georg Philipp Telemann, composta nel 1728 edinserita nella raccolta Der getreue Music-Meister.

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Lulu.com

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1291849017

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9781291849011

Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin

An Interdisciplinary Analysis

By: Maria Pia Pozzato

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Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin

An Interdisciplinary Analysis

By: Maria Pia Pozzato

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born in a place they did not remember because they moved in when they were very small, they could draw the place they did remember as the scenario of their early childhood. The drawings are examined from three different perspectives: semiotics, cognitive psychology and geography. The semiotic instruments are used to describe how each person reconstructs a complex image of his/her childhood place, and how they translate their own memories from one language to another, e.g. from drawing to verbal story, trying to approach what they want to express in the best possible way. The cognitive-psychological point of view helps clarify the emotional world of the interviewees and their motivations during the process of reconstruction and expression of their childhood experiences. The geographical conceptualizations concern a cultural level and provide insight into the cartographic models that inspire the maps people drew. One of the main findings was the influence from cultural codes as demonstrated in the fact that most of the US students interviewed drew their maps showing considerable cartographic expertise in comparison to their European counterparts.

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307

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Springer

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3319688588

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9783319688589

Cycles

By: Brian K. Vaughan,Pia Guerra

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Cycles

By: Brian K. Vaughan,Pia Guerra

After a mysterious plague kills every living being with a Y chromosome, escape artist Yorick Brown inexplicably becomes the last man on Earth.

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132

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Vertigo

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1401200761

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9781401200763

Whys and Wherefores

By: Brian K. Vaughan

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Whys and Wherefores

By: Brian K. Vaughan

Written by Brian K. Vaughan Art by Pia Guerra & Jos� Marz�n Jr. Cover by Massimo Carnevale Yorick Brown's long journey through an Earth populated only by women comes to a dramatic, unexpected conclusion in this final volume, collecting issues #55-60 of the critically acclaimed series. Advance-solicited; in stores June 18 - 168 pg, FC, $14.99 US

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166

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Vertigo

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140121813X

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9781401218133

Motherland

By: Brian K. Vaughan,Pia Guerra,Goran Sudzuka

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Motherland

By: Brian K. Vaughan,Pia Guerra,Goran Sudzuka

When a plague of unknown origin kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, Yorick Brown discovers that he is the only male left and embarks on a transcontinental journey to discover why.

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Titan Books (UK)

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1845764544

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9781845764548

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The Court That Tamed the West

The Court That Tamed the West

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

TRUMPET & CONTINUO Musiche per Tromba e Basso Continuo (Fantini, Viviani, Telemann)

TRUMPET & CONTINUO Musiche per Tromba e Basso Continuo (Fantini, Viviani, Telemann)

Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin

Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin

Cycles

Cycles

Whys and Wherefores

Whys and Wherefores

Motherland

Motherland

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