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Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UGA:32108033945141
Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015023176855
Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OCLC:320970947
Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1402387716
Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : OCLC:702552381
Author : Richard S Peale
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020943262
This is a complete cyclopedia of knowledge condensed into one volume for easy reference. It covers a wide range of topics including history, biographies, sciences, and statistics providing simple and effective methods for self-instruction. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 136325491X
Author : Richard S. Peale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OCLC:320970947
Author : Charles Kostelnick,Michael Hassett
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0809325020
In this wide-ranging analysis, Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett demonstrate how visual language in professional communication--text design, data displays, illustrations--is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified, and modified by users in visual discourse communities.
Author : Society for the Diffusion of Useful K
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021126217
This comprehensive reference book is a must-have for anyone seeking practical knowledge. It includes information on a vast array of subjects from history, science, and literature to gardening, law, and medicine. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Charles Kostelnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351537612
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. Today, we are used to seeing data portrayed in a dizzying array of graphic forms. Virtually any quantified knowledge, from social and physical science to engineering and medicine, as well as business, government, or personal activity, has been visualized. Yet the methods of making data visible are relatively new innovations, most stemming from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century innovations that arose as a logical response to a growing desire to quantify everything-from science, economics, and industry to population, health, and crime. Innovators such as Playfair, Alexander von Humboldt, Heinrich Berghaus, John Snow, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, and Charles Minard began to develop graphical methods to make data and their relations more visible. In the twentieth century, data design became both increasingly specialized within new and existing disciplines-science, engineering, social science, and medicine-and at the same time became further democratized, with new forms that make statistical, business, and government data more accessible to the public. At the close of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, an explosion in interactive digital data design has exponentially increased our access to data. The contributors analyze this fascinating history through a variety of critical approaches, including visual rhetoric, visual culture, genre theory, and fully contextualized historical scholarship.
Author : Charles Kostelnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351628235
This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers—in short, "humanizing" it. Although human figures have long been deployed in practical communication, their uses in this context have received little systematic analysis. Drawing on rhetorical theory, art history, design studies, and historical and contemporary examples, the book explores the many rhetorical purposes that human forms play in functional pictures, including empowering readers, narrating processes, invoking social and cultural identities, fostering pathos appeals, and visualizing data. The book is aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in business, technical, and professional communication as well as an interdisciplinary audience in rhetoric, art and design, journalism, engineering, marketing, science, and history.
Author : Claudia Stokes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298161
An aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by earlier American audiences, Claudia Stokes contends. On the contrary, readers were taught to value familiarity, traditionalism, and regularity. Literary originality was often seen as a mark of vulgar sensationalism and poor quality. In Old Style Stokes offers the first dedicated study of a forgotten nineteenth-century aesthetic, explicating the forms, practices, conventions, and uses of unoriginality. She focuses in particular on the second quarter of the century, when improvements in printing and distribution caused literary markets to become flooded with new material, and longstanding reading practices came under threat. As readers began to prefer novelty to traditional forms, advocates openly extolled unoriginality in an effort to preserve the old literary ways. Old Style examines this era of significant literary change, during which a once-dominant aesthetic started to give way to modern preferences. If writing in the old style came to be associated with elite conservatism—a linkage that contributed to its decline in the twentieth century—it also, paradoxically provided marginalized writers—people of color, white women, and members of the working class—the literary credentials they needed to enter print. Writing in the old style could affirm an aspiring author's training, command of convention, and respectability. In dismissing unoriginality as the literary purview of the untalented or unambitious, Stokes cautions, we risk overlooking something of vital importance to generations of American writers and readers.
Author : Gerald Carson
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631682933
Americans have traveled a far piece since Goody Randall climbed over the back of a Bay Colony pew in defense of her social position, or a frontier Congressman tried to eat the doilies at a White House dinner, or, more recently, since the adjustable Emily Post interpreted the social law on whether a lady’s maid could appear in bobbed hair. (She could not!) With unfailing scholarship, great good humor and occasional overtones of irony when snobbery raises its ugly nose, Gerald Carson here portrays the journey of American manners through shifting tastes and customs in regards to weddings, dances, hair styles, drinking, dueling, dress, smoking, the telephone, the automobile, the rise of the country club and the history of the fraternal lodge, among hundreds of topics. There is much of special interest to citizens of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and many other cities. There is a full chapter on manners in the nation’s capital as well as one on books of etiquette. The author’s emphasis is upon the middle class, the mainstream of America’s national life, rather than Society with the capital S. This field has been plowed a good many times, while Mr. Carson’s area is almost untouched. His central theme is the reaching out of the American man and woman for self-improvement and a life of some grace. Citizens of the United States are still free to become, as the late Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger pointed out, as unequal as they can.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035113532