A Token Of Elegance

Author : Martin Barnes Lorber,Rebecca McNamara,Carolyn Hsu-Balcer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8897737625

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A Token of Elegance by Martin Barnes Lorber,Rebecca McNamara,Carolyn Hsu-Balcer Pdf

- At once an important social history of tobacco and smoking and a beautiful coffee table book, A Token of Elegance is ideal for art and design historians, history students, museum professionals, and collectors- Of great interest to jewelry historians as many cigarette holders were made for their international clientele by the major jewelry firms and this is the first book where so many cigarette holders are catalogued and photographed The book offers an unprecedented look at cigarette holders through a selection of approximately 125 pieces from the collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer. Its introductory essay is both a social history of that world-changing leaf, tobacco, and a design history of its accoutrements. It examines the history of smoking from its pre-Columbian roots in the Americas through to the present-day worldwide e-cigarette craze, taking the reader on a journey from tobacco smoking as a sacred ritual, through the controversies of its worldwide spread, and the machine-rolled cigarette's role in the world wars and as a tool for European and American women's equality. Following the illustrated essay is a luxurious catalogue of newly commissioned photography that makes these diminutive objects pop off the pages with brilliant color and form. The collection includes cigarette holders in their simplest incarnations - the disposable promotional holders given away at trendy New York nightclubs - to their most exquisite - the work of Fabergé, Cartier, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels and other renowned jewelers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contents: Foreword by Carolyn Hsu-Balcer; Introduction; Chapter 1: Tobacco's Journey from the New World to the Old: Medicine and Pleasure; Chapter 2: The Rise of Cigarette Culture: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 3: Smoking, Sociability, and a New Modern Era: From the First World War to the Second; Chapter 4: The Cigarette Holder's Peak and Fall: A New Culture of Smoking; Catalog; Appendix: Materials Used in Cigarette Holders; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits.

Author : Barry Shank
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231509251

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A Token of My Affection by Barry Shank Pdf

Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy!" For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection, and kinship, becoming an integral part of American life and culture. Contemporary incarnations of these emotional transactions performed through small bits of decorated paper are often dismissed as vacuous clichés employing worn-out stereotypes. Nevertheless, the relationship of greeting cards to systems of material production is well worth studying and understanding, for the modern greeting card is the product of an industry whose values and aims seem to contradict the sentiments that most cards express. In fact, greeting cards articulate shifting forms of love and affiliation experienced by people whose lives have been shaped by the major economic changes of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A Token of My Affection shows in fascinating detail how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and partially determine the most private, internal, and intimate of feelings. Beautifully illustrated, A Token of My Affection follows the development of the modern greeting card industry from the 1840s, as a way of recovering that most elusive of things—the emotional subjectivity of another age. Barry Shank charts the evolution of the greeting card from an afterthought to a traditional printing and stationery business in the mid-nineteenth century to a multibillion-dollar industry a hundred years later. He explains what an industry devoted to emotional sincerity means for the lives of all Americans. Blending archival research in business history with a study of surviving artifacts and a literary analysis of a broad range of relevant texts and primary sources, Shank demonstrates the power of business to affect love and the ability of love to find its way in the marketplace of consumer society.

Author : Sander L. Gilman,Xun Zhou
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1861892004

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Smoke by Sander L. Gilman,Xun Zhou Pdf

People have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether for pleasure or relief, whether as part of an elaborate religious ritual or merely to strike a pose. This is the first truly comprehensive history of smoking, describinbg all of its forms, practices, paraphernalia and materials, in cultures, locations and times throughout the world.

Author : Shing-Tsaan Huang,Ted Herman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540450320

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Self-Stabilizing Systems by Shing-Tsaan Huang,Ted Herman Pdf

The refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems, SSS 2003, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in June 2003. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers address self-stabilization issues for various types of systems and software including communication protocols, sensor networks, biological systems, and directed networks; several new algorithms are presented.

Author : Kai Jacob,Dierk Schindler,Roger Strathausen,Bernhard Waltl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031142406

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Liquid Legal – Humanization and the Law by Kai Jacob,Dierk Schindler,Roger Strathausen,Bernhard Waltl Pdf

“Humanization and the Law” combines two current and complementary trends in the business-to-business (B2B) market of the legal industry: digitalization and humanization. On the one hand, digital transformation in corporate legal departments and law firms continues to advance. Contract management, e-discovery, due diligence, legal operations, and forensic data analysis are just a few examples of task areas where the use of intelligent software solutions minimizes legal risks and increases compliance, enables efficiency gains and cost reductions through automation, and allows faster and more agile responses to changing market demands and client expectations. On the other hand, the increasing number of failed digitalization projects shows that technology alone is not enough to successfully transform legal departments and law firms. Software solutions must be integrated into existing work processes, be easy to use, and provide real benefits in order to be accepted by employees. People and their ability to make decisions and lead others remain the focus in an increasingly digitalized legal industry. More than 20 authors provide insights into why human aspects matter for business, what organizations can do to increase the mental well-being and motivation of their employees, and how to prevail in the upcoming war for talent in the legal industry. “The legal industry has been largely dismissive of “soft skills” and “humanizing law.” One of the paradoxes of our time is that the ascendency of automation, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Big Data, and other technological platforms has elevated, not diminished, the importance of humanity. It is not only what distinguishes us from machines but it also enables us to apply our humanity to machines. The legal function will play an important role in this process but must first take a hard look at itself.” (Mark A. Cohen, in “Foreword”)

Author : Graham King
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780340614198

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Understanding and Designing Computer Networks by Graham King Pdf

Understanding and Designing Computer Networks considers the ubiquitous nature of data networks, with particular reference to internetworking and the efficient management of all aspects of networked integrated data systems. In addition it looks at the next phase of networking developments; efficiency and security are covered in the sections dealing with data compression and data encryption; and future examples of network operations, such as network parallelism, are introduced. A comprehensive case study is used throughout the text to apply and illustrate new techniques and concepts as they are introduced. Presented in a format which is specifically tailored to modular courses, this comprehensive text should be essential reading for undergraduates in the fields of computer science, electronics or telecommunications.

Author : Victoria Lautman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034015266

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The New Tattoo by Victoria Lautman Pdf

Ugly: trivial art; hairy bodies; pock marks; and worst, rotten color rendition. The weak color was probably intentional--for some misguided artistic purpose. $35.00 though 1994 (and probably $20.00 on the remainder tables within a half year). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Priyan Dias
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811512711

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Philosophy for Engineering by Priyan Dias Pdf

This book highlights the unique need for philosophy among engineers, which stems from issues regarding their knowledge (epistemology), role or being (ontology) and influence (ethics). It discusses practice, context, ethics, models and failure as key aspects of engineering, and provides an easy but essential introduction to philosophy for engineers by presenting four key philosophers and linking them to these aspects: Karl Popper (failure), Thomas Kuhn (models), Michael Polanyi (practice & ethics) and Martin Heidegger (context & ethics). Popper, Kuhn and Polanyi are philosophers of science (epistemologists) who have challenged the view that science is a ‘cool, detached’ discipline, since it also depends on human imagination (Popper), consensus (Kuhn) and judgment plus artistry (Polanyi); factors that are central to engineering. Heidegger (an ontologist) critiqued technology on the one hand (ethics), but also stressed the importance of ‘doing’ over ‘knowing,’ thus ‘authenticating’ the highly pragmatic engineering profession. Science is the ‘core’ component of engineering, which is overlaid by a variety of heuristics . Practice-based knowledge can be formalized, with artificial intelligence (AI) offering a valuable tool for engineering, just as mathematics has done for science. The book also examines systems thinking in engineering. Featuring numerous diagrams, tables and examples throughout, the book is easily accessible to engineers.

Author : Paolo Ciancarini,Alessandro Fantechi,Roberto Gorrieri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387355627

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Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems by Paolo Ciancarini,Alessandro Fantechi,Roberto Gorrieri Pdf

Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems presents the leading edge in several related fields, specifically object-orientated programming, open distributed systems and formal methods for object-oriented systems. With increased support within industry regarding these areas, this book captures the most up-to-date information on the subject. Many topics are discussed, including the following important areas: object-oriented design and programming; formal specification of distributed systems; open distributed platforms; types, interfaces and behaviour; formalisation of object-oriented methods. This volume comprises the proceedings of the International Workshop on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS), sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) which was held in Florence, Italy, in February 1999. Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems is suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level courses in computer science and telecommunications, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and government.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780330462471

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pdf

In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don’t recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is Clive James’s unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record – and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.

Author : Leonard Lawson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471675263

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Musings From My Mind by Leonard Lawson Pdf

A well-written book which will be hard to put down. The first part of the book comprises a fascinating look back at some of the author's more humorous moments throughout his life, together with features about his recent family ancestors. The second part of the book comprises a number of intriguing short stories, many of which have a subtle twist at the end. A good read from cover to cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : American poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433010840654

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Flower Gift by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott Hardy
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468968903

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Ellumacence Part 3 by Scott Hardy Pdf

With the capture of Toria, Lewis and the others venture across the seas of Ellumacence and discover a far bigger fate awaiting them that will change the fate of the very planet. *Advisory* This book may contain violence and horror. This book is recommended for ages 15 and up.

Author : Soma Chaudhuri,Samir R. Das,Himadri S. Paul,Srikanta Tirthapura
Publisher : Springer
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540681403

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Distributed Computing and Networking by Soma Chaudhuri,Samir R. Das,Himadri S. Paul,Srikanta Tirthapura Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2006, held in Guwahati, India in December 2006. Coverage in this volume includes ad hoc networks, distributed computing and algorithms, security, grid and P2P computing, performance evaluation, internetworking protocols and applications, optical networks and multimedia, sensor networks, and wireless networks.

Author : John Mongan,Noah Suojanen Kindler,Eric Giguère
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118169384

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Programming Interviews Exposed by John Mongan,Noah Suojanen Kindler,Eric Giguère Pdf

The pressure is on during the interview process but with the right preparation, you can walk away with your dream job. This classic book uncovers what interviews are really like at America's top software and computer companies and provides you with the tools to succeed in any situation. The authors take you step-by-step through new problems and complex brainteasers they were asked during recent technical interviews. 50 interview scenarios are presented along with in-depth analysis of the possible solutions. The problem-solving process is clearly illustrated so you'll be able to easily apply what you've learned during crunch time. You'll also find expert tips on what questions to ask, how to approach a problem, and how to recover if you become stuck. All of this will help you ace the interview and get the job you want. What you will learn from this book Tips for effectively completing the job application Ways to prepare for the entire programming interview process How to find the kind of programming job that fits you best Strategies for choosing a solution and what your approach says about you How to improve your interviewing skills so that you can respond to any question or situation Techniques for solving knowledge-based problems, logic puzzles, and programming problems Who this book is for This book is for programmers and developers applying for jobs in the software industry or in IT departments of major corporations. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.