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Printing Presses

History and development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times

By: Michael N. Nagler,James Moran,Alois Maria Nagler,Professor Michael N Nagler

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Printing Presses

History and development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times

By: Michael N. Nagler,James Moran,Alois Maria Nagler,Professor Michael N Nagler

This book, the most comprehensive of its kind, surveys the history of the relief printing press and machine from its inception as an adaptation of a domestic screw press in the middle of the fifteenth century to the giant, fast rotary presses of today. It covers every type of press, including some to which, hitherto, little attention has been paid. Each group is described, together with information on performance and with specific examples of use. -- ǂc Book flap.

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264

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Univ of California Press

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0520022459

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9780520022454

Dying to Self and Detachment

By: Professor James Kellenberger

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Dying to Self and Detachment

By: Professor James Kellenberger

Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Beginning with an examination of humility in its general notion and as a religious virtue that detachment presupposes, Kellenberger draws on a range of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary sources that address the main characteristics of detachment, including the work of Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa, and Simone Weil, as well as writers as varied as Gregory of Nyssa, Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, Søren Kierkegaard, Andrew Newberg, John Hick and Keiji Nishitani. Kellenberger explores the key issues that arise for detachment, including the place of the individual's will in detachment, the relationship of detachment to desire, to attachment to persons, and to self-love and self-respect, and issues of contemporary secular detachment such as inducement via chemicals. This book heeds the relevance of the religious virtue of detachment for those living in the twenty-first century.

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308

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409461661

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9781409461661

Theater Design

By: George C. Izenour,Professor George C Izenour,Vern Oliver Knudsen,Robert Bradford Newman

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Theater Design

By: George C. Izenour,Professor George C Izenour,Vern Oliver Knudsen,Robert Bradford Newman

This text is a comprehensive reference to all aspects of theatre planning and construction and a history of theatre design from ancient times to the present. Drawing on examples from Greek and Roman models to Renaissance and baroque theatres to contemporary buildings around the world, it discusses such requirements as structural systems, seating, acoustics and visual volume in detail, considering the optimum conditions for both musical and dramatic performance. This edition includes, as an appendix, a new set of drawings, in addition to the original 900 illustrations.

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697

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Yale University Press

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0300067755

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9780300067750

Berkeley at War : The 1960s

The 1960s

By: W.J. Rorabaugh Professor of History University of Washington

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Berkeley at War : The 1960s

The 1960s

By: W.J. Rorabaugh Professor of History University of Washington

Berkeley, California, was the bellwether of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period of American history--a time when the top-down methods of a conservative establishment collided head-on with the bottom-up, grass-roots ethos of the civil rights movement and an increasingly well-educated and individualistic middle class. W.J. Rorabaugh, who attended the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1970s, presents a lively and informative account of the events that overtook and changed forever what had once been a quiet, conservative white suburb. The rise of the Free Speech Movement, which gave a voice to disfranchised students; the growth and increasing militance of a black community struggling to end segregation; the emergence of radicalism and the anti-war movement; the blossoming of "hippie" culture, with its scorn for materialism and enthusiasm for experimentation with everything from sex and drugs to Eastern philosophies; the beginnings of modern-day feminism and environmentalism--and how all of these coalesced in the explosive conflict over People's Park--are traced in a meticulously researched and authoritative narrative. At issue was the question of power, and the struggle between the establishment and the powerless led to developments that the advocates of a freer society could scarcely have foreseen: Ronald Reagan, elected governor of California in reaction to the events at Berkeley, and Edwin H. Meese III, who battled against the student movement and People's Park, rose to national power in the 1980s (without, however, gaining any popularity in Berkeley, where Walter Mondale won 83 percent of the vote in 1984). An invaluable account of its time and place, this book anchors the '60s in American history, both before and since that colorful decade.

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325

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198022522

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9780198022527

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Dying to Self and Detachment

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Theater Design

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Berkeley at War : The 1960s

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