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The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven
transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing
the stars, moon, and sun, holds great significance to the Tlingit
people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. A new body of work by artist
Preston Singletary (American, born 1963) will immerse readers in
Tlingit traditions by telling this story through his monumental
glass works and installations. Primarily known for his celebration
of Tlingit art and design, Singletary will explore new ways of
working with glass inspired by Tlingit design principles. Tlingit
objects were traditionally used to show wealth and tell stories by
representing elements of the natural world, as well as the
histories of individual families. By drawing upon this tradition,
Singletary's art creates a unique theatrical atmosphere, in which
the pieces follow and enhance a narrative. This book includes texts
that place Singletary's work within the wider histories of both
glass art and native arts traditions-especially the art of
spoken-word storytelling. Also included are a biography and an
interview with the artist.
Crowds in the 21st Century presents the latest theory and research
on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social
sciences, including psychology, sociology, law, and communication
studies. Whether describing the language of the crowd in protest
events, measuring the ability of the crowd to empower its
participants, or analysing the role of professional organizations
involved in crowd safety and public order, the contributions in
this volume are united in their commitment to a social scientific
level of analysis. The crowd is often depicted as a source of
irrationality and danger - in the form of riots and mass
emergencies. By placing crowd events back in their social context -
their ongoing historical and proximal relationships with other
groups and social structures - this volume restores meaning to the
analysis of crowd behaviour. Together, the studies described in
this collection demonstrate the potential of crowd research to
enhance the positive experience of crowd participants and to
improve design, planning, and management around crowd events. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary
Social Science.
Crowds in the 21st Century presents the latest theory and research
on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social
sciences, including psychology, sociology, law, and communication
studies. Whether describing the language of the crowd in protest
events, measuring the ability of the crowd to empower its
participants, or analysing the role of professional organizations
involved in crowd safety and public order, the contributions in
this volume are united in their commitment to a social scientific
level of analysis. The crowd is often depicted as a source of
irrationality and danger - in the form of riots and mass
emergencies. By placing crowd events back in their social context -
their ongoing historical and proximal relationships with other
groups and social structures - this volume restores meaning to the
analysis of crowd behaviour. Together, the studies described in
this collection demonstrate the potential of crowd research to
enhance the positive experience of crowd participants and to
improve design, planning, and management around crowd events. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary
Social Science.
A classic work in the history of science, and described
as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun
one†by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their
hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in
decades. Â This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers
University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a
rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space.
This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs
who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of
success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury
Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the
development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the
relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a
memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an
enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the
planets, and satellites to outer space. Â
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The Complete Poetry (Paperback)
George Herbert; Edited by John Drury; Translated by Victoria Moul
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A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed
biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his
Latin verse by Victoria Moul. George Herbert wrote, but never
published, some of the very greatest English poetry, recording in
an astonishing variety of forms his inner experiences of grief,
recovery, hope, despair, anger, fulfilment and - above all else -
love. This volume, edited by John Drury, collects Herbert's
complete poetry - including such classics of English devotional
poetry as 'The Altar', Easter-Wings' and 'Love'. It also includes
the verse Herbert wrote in Latin, newly translated into English by
Victoria Moul. George Herbert was born in 1593 and died at the age
of 39 in 1633, before the clouds of civil war gathered. He showed
worldly ambition and seemed sure of high public office and a career
at court, but then for a time 'lost himself in a humble way',
devoting himself to the restoration of a church and then to his
parish of Bemerton, three miles from Salisbury. When in the year of
his death his friend Nicholas Ferrar published Herbert's poems
under the title The Temple, his fame was quickly established. John
Drury is Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His
books include The Burning Bush (1990), Painting the Word (1999),
and, most recently, Music at Midnight, the culmination of a
lifetime's interest in Herbert. Victoria Moul is Lecturer in Latin
Literature and Language at Kings College London. She is author of
Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition (2010) and editor of
Neo-Latin Literature (2014).
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
A THEOLOGY FOR ARTISANS OF A NEW HUMANITY
A THEOLOGY FOR ARTISANS OF A NEW HUMANITY
A THEOLOGY FOR ARTISANS OF A NEW HUMANITY
A THEOLOGY FOR ARTISANS OF A NEW HUMANITY
A THEOLOGY FOR ARTISANS OF A NEW HUMANITY
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may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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