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This beautiful publication presents a collection of exquisite
ancient bronzes from the Wadsworth Atheneum that were collected by
John Pierpont Morgan. It accompanies a special exhibition of the
bronzes at Bowdoin College. This fully illustrated catalogue
presents highlights of the ancient bronzes that were collected by
J. Pierpont Morgan and are currently in the collection of the
Wadsworth Atheneum. Purchased between 1904 and 1916, the bronzes
were given to the museum by Morgan’s son in 1917. Morgan was a
passionate collector and spent years of his life acquiring
exquisite works of art. He had a discerning eye and discriminating
taste, and his driving motivation was to find works of quality and
beauty. His Greek and Roman bronzes include a range of figure and
vessel types: males and females, gods and mortals, humans and
animals and hybrid mythological creatures, free-standing
statuettes, and furniture embellishments. This is the first
exhibition and publication to consider the bronzes as a group.
Morgan chose each work of art for its exquisite craftsmanship, its
quality of composition and execution, and its preservation. These
objects represent the very best of ancient Mediterranean bronze
sculpture, with carefully rendered clothing, hair, and fur, and
adorned with inlays of silver and other luxury materials.
Showcasing different types of objects and figures that were made in
bronze in the ancient world, this exhibition and book demonstrate
the high level of quality that these works of art could achieve.
The bronzes are important not only for their provenance and place
in America’s ‘Gilded Age’, but also as highly significant
individual works of art that represent the best of ancient
bronzeworking. New high-resolution photography of each work of art
will allow readers to appreciate their intricate details of
craftsmanship, including copper and silver inlay. This focused
publication will also present current research on these exceptional
objects to help readers better understand how they were made and
what they represented in an ancient context.
The Full-Lifecycle Guide to API Design Principles of Web API Design
brings together principles and processes to help you succeed across
the entire API design lifecycle. Drawing on extensive
in-the-trenches experience, leading consultant James Higginbotham
helps you align every stakeholder on specific outcomes, design APIs
that deliver value, and scale the design process from small teams
to the entire organization. Higginbotham helps you bring an
"outside-in" perspective to API design to reflect the voices of
customers and product teams, map requirements to specific and
well-organized APIs, and choose the right API style for writing
them. He walks through a real-world example from the ground up,
offering guidance for anyone designing new APIs or extending
existing APIs. Deliver great APIs by getting your design processes
right Gain agreement on specific outcomes from design teams,
customers, and other stakeholders Craft job stories, conduct
EventStorming, and model capabilities Identify the right APIs, and
organize operations into coherent API profiles Choose the best
styles for each project: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or event-based async
APIs Refine designs based on feedback from documenters, testers,
and customers Decompose APIs into microservices Mature your API
program, implementing design and management processes that scale
This guide is invaluable for anyone involved in planning or
building APIs--architects, developers, team leaders, managers in
single and multi-team environments, and any technical or business
professional delivering "API-as-a-product" offerings. Register your
book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or
corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Pisciculture - the process of raising fish--held a lasting
fascination for the people of ancient Rome. Whether bred for
household consumption, cultivated for sale at market, or simply
kept in confinement for reasons of aesthetic appreciation, fish
remained an important commodity and prominent cultural symbol
throughout the periods of the Roman Republic and early Empire.
Roman pisciculture reached its greatest level of sophistication,
though, between the first century b.c. and the first century a.d.
with the development of a highly specialized architectural element:
the piscina, or artificial fishpond. Based on a thorough
examination of the archaeological record and complemented by site
plans, maps, and photographs, James Higginbotham's work represents
the most comprehensive study of the fishponds of Roman Italy.
Higginbotham covers the technical aspects of Roman fishponds--their
design, construction, and operation--and places the piscinae within
their social, political, and economic context. He argues that in a
society fascinated by pisciculture, ownership of a fishpond was a
powerful display of wealth and social status and, ultimately, a
manifestation of the intense competition between aristocratic Roman
families that would eventually lead to civil war. UNC Press
Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make
available again books from our distinguished backlist that were
previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered
from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback
formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality
discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and
indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in
the semantics of sentence structure. The book brings together his
key contributions to the fields, including his recent intervention
in the debate on the roles of context and anaphora in reference.
The book's chapters are presented in the form in which they were
first published, with afterwords where needed to cover points where
the author's thought has developed. It is fully indexed and has a
collated bibliography. This will be a precious resource for all
those involved in the study of current semantics, and its
interactions with syntactic theory, in linguistics, philosophy, and
related fields.
The view that an adequate semantics of natural language calls for some theory of events has been a focus of considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. This book offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with contributions by leading experts. A comprehensive introductory essay is included.
In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary
language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable
debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers
a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with emphasis
precisely on the interplay between linguistic applications and
philosophical implications. Each chapter has been written expressly
for this volume by leading authors in the field, including Nicholas
Asher, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Johannes Brandl, Denis Delfitto,
Regine Eckardt, James Higginbotham, Alessandro Lenci, Terence
Parsons, Alice ter Meulen, and Henk Verkuyl.
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