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Author : Pradeep Nevatia & Rahul Nevatia
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798889358541
Author : John Man
Publisher : Random House
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409045649
**A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as The Travels, uncovered an entirely new world of emperors and concubines, great buildings - 'stately pleasure domes' in Coleridge's dreaming - huge armies and imperial riches. His book shaped the West's understanding of China for hundreds of years. John Man travelled in Marco's footsteps to Xanadu, in search of the truth behind Marco's stories; to separate legend from fact. Drawing on his own journey, archaeology and archival study, John Man paints a vivid picture of the man behind the myth and the true story of the great court of Kublai Khan.
Author : Donald C. Helleman,Kenneth B. Pyle,Donald C. Hellman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315503004
This volume analyzes the concerns that must be addressed if Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to be a viable component of the post-Cold War international order, such as what the future role of the USA who made Asia's transformation possible since 1945, is as a leader in that region. The economic analysis of legal and regulatory issues need not be limited to the neoclassical economic approach. The expert contributors to this work employ a variety of heterodox legal-economic theories to address a broad range of legal issues. They demonstrate how these various approaches can lead to very different conclusions concerning the role of the law and legal intervention in a wide array of contexts. The schools of thought and methodologies represented here include institutional economics, new institutional economics, socio-economics, social economics, behavioral economics, game theory, feminist economics, Rawlsian economics, radical economics, Austrian economics, and personalist economics. The legal and regulatory issues examined include anti-trust and competition, corporate governance, the environment and natural resources, land use and property rights, unions and collective bargaining, welfare benefits, work-time regulation and standards, sexual harassment in the workplace, obligations of employers and employees to each other, crime, torts, and even the structure of government. Each contributor brings a different emphasis and provides thoughtful, sometimes provocative analysis and conclusions. Together, these heterodox insights will provide valuable supplementary reading for courses in law and economics as well as public policy and business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Author : John Livingstone Lowes
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788728350645
It takes a great mind to study a great mind. The literary critic John Livingston Lowes puts his reputation on the line by chosing to analyse the sources, thoughts and imagination of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The result, 'The Road to Xanadu', is a remarkable and insightful examination of the creative processes and reading material that inspired 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'. Lowes brilliantly uses his study of Coleridge as a springboard to a more wide-ranging analysis of the imagination. If you like Coleridge's work, you will be fascinated by this look into the mind of a literary giant. John Livingston Lowes (1867-1945) was an American scholar and critic of English literature. His best-known subjects were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geoffrey Chaucer, author of 'The Canterbury Tales'. His most famous work is 'The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination', which examines the sources of Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'.
Author : John Livingstone Lowes
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781447497370
This vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu'. In this text Lowes examines the various sources of Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', exploring the books that he believed Coleridge would have read. It offers a fascinating insight into the creative process of the master poet. This is a text that will appeal to those with an interest in Coleridge and his most famous poems, and is a book not to be missed by the discerning poet and student of poetry. The chapters of this book include: 'Chaos', 'The Falcon's Eye', 'The Deep Well', 'The Shaping Spirit', 'The Magical Synthesis', 'Joiner's Work: An Interlude', 'The Loom', 'The Pattern', 'The Fields of Ice', 'The Courts of the Sun', 'The Journeying Moon', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now in a modern, affordable edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351567220
Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic traditions, this collection focuses on three material and conceptual links central to understanding the relationship between interior design and fashion-the body, fabric, and space. The volume considers the changing visual, material and spatial character, methodological challenges posed by, and formal, political and historiographical significance of, a wide range of British, European and North American case studies since the eighteenth century. The volume's eleven case studies allow the reader to understand connecting notions behind the formation of interiors and fashionable clothing. The essays combine a wide range of significant and challenging new examples alongside powerful reversionary analyses of the various periods, artists, designers, and their best and significant objects. Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity is concerned not only with fabric, but also with the body and the implications of embodiment in the practices of both design domains which are equally invested in the comfort, aesthetic pleasure, extension and support of the body in different and yet seemingly identical ways.
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0143031074
In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books produced in the last 20 years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining& Dalrymple s gift for transforming ordinary humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless suggests that he will go from strength to strength Alexander Maitland, Scotland on Sunday
Author : Nathaniel Benchley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Readers
ISBN : OCLC:221670027
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030213961
Author : Lloyd Alexander
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142407860
Vesper and her friends are sailing off to the newly discovered archeological site of Troy. But danger is close behind—and the party is tricked and imprisoned in a fabulous palace called Xanadu. Xanadu’s master is none other than Vesper’s archenemy, Dr. Helvitius, who has a diabolical scheme to dominate the world. His first goal is to destroy Vesper, who has thwarted him once too often. Escape seems impossible. But if anyone can do it, Vesper can!
Author : Hilary Leichter
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895743
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Author : Tulsidas Pahuja
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781645460527
Sindhiyat is a route map. Directing its reader towards Peace and prosperity. Happiness is no mere chase, it can certainly be experienced by following guidelines. Sindhiyat presents guidelines as derived from the life and story of Jhulelal. It also presents philosophy of life and living, ancient Vedantic values for day-to-day life of any seeker of Truth. A layman finds it extremely difficult to take to Spirituality as its texts are quite crisp, terse. Sindhiyat rewrites them in simple contemporary language.
Author : Terry Harpold
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816651016
Terry Harpold offers a sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age.
Author : Jeffrey Hotz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000448269
This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel in fiction and non-fiction, the study uncovers the spatial and legal conceptions of national identity. The study argues that imagined geographies in American literature dramatize a linguistic contest among dominant and marginal voices. Blending interpretations of canonical authors, such as James Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Herman Melville, with readings of less well -known writers like Gilbert Imlay, Elizabeth House Trist, Sauk Chief Black Hawk, William Grimes, and Moses Roper, the book interprets diverse authors' impressions of significant spaces migrations. The movements and regions covered include the Anglo-American migration to the Trans-Appalachian Valley after the Revolutionary War; the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and Anglo-American travel west of the Mississippi; the Underground Railroad as depicted in the fugitive slave narrative and novel; and the extension of American interests in maritime endeavors off the California coast and in the South Pacific.
Author : Glen Zipper,Elaine Mongeon
Publisher : Blink
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780310769040
An annihilation force of invading aliens. Human civilization on the brink of extinction. Earth’s only hope—seven cadets and the legendary starship they were never meant to command. No matter the cost, they will stop at nothing to survive. No matter the odds, they will fight to save their future. The distant future. Earth’s Alliance forces have emerged victorious from a brutal nine-year war with the mysterious Kastazi—a vicious, highly advanced alien race. In the dawn of a new peace, the Alliance Devastation Class starship California embarks on a mission of science and learning with a skeleton crew of seasoned officers, civilian students, and inexperienced military cadets in tow. For JD Marshall and Viv Nixon, gifted cadets and best friends, the mission holds special meaning: It offers an opportunity to prove themselves and begin to escape the long shadows of their legendary war hero parents. Suddenly ambushed by a second wave of invading Kastazi forces, JD and Viv make the impossible decision to spearhead a mutiny to save the California and everyone on it. In command and quickly out of options, they are forced to activate the ship's prototype Blink Reactor—an experimental technology they expect to send them to the safe, distant reaches of space. When their escape transports them to a reality they don’t recognize and reveals unimaginably terrifying secrets, they must fight their way home to save not just everyone they love but also humanity itself. Standing in their way are an insurmountable enemy, saboteurs from within, a mystery eons in the making, and the fabric of time and space itself.