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Theatre of Blood (Blu-ray disc)
Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, …
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Vincent Price plays a Shakespearian actor Edward Lionheart, who
re-enacts murder scenes penned by the famous bard, in order to gain
revenge on the nine theatre critics who have denied him the Best
Actor of the Year award. His accomplice is his devoted daughter
(Diana Rigg) and together they seek revenge in a most bloody and
violent way: one critic is decapitated in his bed, one is made to
murder his own wife and another is forced to eat his beloved dogs.
Brewing is designed for those involved in the malting, brewing, and
allied industries who have little or no formal training in brewing
science. While some elementary knowledge of chemistry and biology
is necessary, the book clearly presents the essentials of brewing
science and its relationship to brewing technology. Brewing focuses
on the principles and practices most central to an understanding of
the brewing process, including preparation of malt, hops, and
yeast; the fermentation process; microbiology and contaminants; and
finishing, packaging, and flavor. The second edition gives more
emphasis to engineering and technological aspects, with the three
new chapters on water, engineering and analysis. Brewing, Second
Edition, is both a basic text for traditional college, short, and
extension courses in brewing science, and a basic reference for
anyone in the brewing industry.
The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping
art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge,
Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show
how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement
characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of
properties, and communal dormitories. Some of these settlements
were sanctuaries from religious persecution, like those of the
German Rappites, French Huguenots, and American Shakers, while
others were sanctuaries from the Industrial Revolution, like those
imagined by Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and other Utopian
visionaries. Because of their differences in ideology and theology,
these settlements have traditionally been viewed separately, but
Lewis shows how they are part of a continuous intellectual
tradition that stretches from the early Protestant Reformation into
modern times. Through close readings of architectural plans and
archival documents, many previously unpublished, he shows the
network of connections between these seemingly disparate Utopian
settlements--including even such well-known town plans as those of
New Haven and Philadelphia. The most remarkable aspect of the city
of refuge is the inventive way it fused its eclectic sources,
ranging from the encampments of the ancient Israelites as described
in the Bible to the detailed social program of Thomas More's Utopia
to modern thought about education, science, and technology. Delving
into the historical evolution and antecedents of Utopian towns and
cities, City of Refuge alters notions of what a Utopian community
can and should be.
Essays in Malting and Brewing is an original and comprehensive
examination of brewing from the perspective of a real brewer.
Brewing texts generally use a sequential barley-beer-bottle
organization that takes the reader systematically through the
various stages of beer-making in a logical and informative way.
This approach adequately communicates the essential operation.
However, brewers think about all of the stages in the process that
might affect a single property, such as beer color. Alternatively,
brewers might ponder the influence of such affective agents as
modification or oxygen throughout the process. Essays in Malting
and Brewing departs from the traditional sequential approach to
pursue brewing in the manner a brew master approaches the process.
It is structured to look down the length of the process for causes
and effects. Each essay discusses a problem, a beer component, or a
flavor, by following how this one item arises and how it changes
along the way. This is a crucial feature to bear this in mind when
reading the book because this organization brings together
information and ideas that are not usually presented side-by-side.
brewing and the way they are handled impact on process performance
and product quality. This new approach to an enduring subject is
essential for the informed reader interested in the malting and
brewing process.
This new book updates and expands Harold Burton's classic book, UHT
Processing of Milk and Milk Products, to provide comprehensive,
state-of-the-art coverage of thermal processing of liquid and
particulate foods. The food products covered now include soups,
sauces, fruit juices, and other beverages, in addition to milk and
milk products. Pasteurization, sterilization, and aseptic
processing are all discussed, with emphasis on the underlying
principles and problems of heat treatment of more viscous fluids,
where streamline flow conditions are likely to prevail, and of
products containing particles. Pasteurization and heat treatments
designed to further extend the shelf life of pasteurized products
are also discussed, and the pasteurization and sterilization
processes are compared to highlight similarities and differences.
Throughout, factors influencing the safety and quality of heated
foods are emphasized. This book contains over 100 illustrations and
50 tables, as well as extensive cross-referencing and a
comprehensive reference section.
New in the renowned World of Art series, this is a concise,
reliable introduction to the history of American art and
architecture from its 17th-century colonial beginnings to the
latest installation and video work. Structured chronologically, the
book not only discusses all the key artists and architects, art
works and buildings, but also succinctly defines the
characteristics of the different periods. Lewis charts the way
American artists and architects have both adopted and diverged from
earlier European models to create a language of their own, and
shows how that language has come to dominate the world.
The Gothic Revival, writes Michael Lewis, 'is more than a fashion
craze for pointed arches and pinnacles'. During its years of
greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art, belief,
society and labour to intense intellectual scrutiny, using the
Middle Ages as a platform from which to judge the modern world. It
is the unique merit of The Gothic Revival that it gives as much
attention to the ideas that gave Gothic architecture its emotional
and intellectual power as it does to its great monuments. The
eighteenth century admired the Gothic for its sense of decay and
melancholy; the nineteenth century first cherished its religious
piety, then its superb engineering. In the course of the Revival
the Gothic was attached to social movements of every sort - from
political liberalism to patriotic nationalism to labour reform.
Like Marxism, which also drew lessons from medieval society, the
Gothic Revival seemed to offer a comprehensive response to the
dislocations and traumas of the Industrial Revolution. By the early
twentieth century, the Gothic Revival had outlived its ideals. In
recent years, however, the climate of opinion has changed, and we
are ready to understand, appreciate and learn from it. Professor
Lewis's book is the most comprehensive, authoritative and sensitive
contribution to the revival of the Revival.
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The Professions and Civic Life (Hardcover)
Gary J. Schmitt; Contributions by Christopher Caldwell, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser, Austin L. Hughes, …
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Professions are institutions which, through their small size,
self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in
maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our
democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state
nor are entirely private, the individual professions-such as the
legal and education professions, journalism, economics,
architecture, or the military-arguably present practical avenues
through which to teach civic behavior and to restore Americans'
broken trust. This volume on the professions and civic life
undertakes a unique and timely examination of twelve individual
professions to see how each affects the character of American
citizenship and the civic culture of the nation through their
practices and ethos. Among the questions each essay in the volume
addresses are: What is distinctive-or not-about the specific
profession as it came to be practiced in the United States? Given
the specialized knowledge, training, and sometimes licensing of a
profession, what do the professions perceive to be their role in
promoting the larger common good? How can we bring professionals'
expert knowledge to bear on social problems in an open and
deliberative way? Is the ethic of a particular profession as it
understands itself today at odds with the American conception of
self-government and a healthy civic life? Through analysis of these
questions, each chapter presents a rich treatment of how the twelve
longstanding professions of political science, teaching, the law,
the military, economics, medicine, journalism, literature, science,
architecture, music, and history help support and challenge the
general public's civic behavior in general and their attachment to
the American regime in particular.
The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of
medieval artworks, was the subject of an international conference
at the British Museum in July 2008. This volume publishes 19 of 26
papers delivered at that conference. The physical nature of the
tapestry is examined, including an outline of the artefact's
current display and the latest conservation and research work done
on it, as well as a review of the many repairs and alterations that
have been made to the Tapestry over its long history. Also examined
is the social history of the tapestry, including Shirley Ann
Brown's paper on the Nazis' interest in it as a record of northern
European superiority and Pierre Bouet and Francois Neveux's
suggestion that it is a source for understanding the succession
crisis of 1066. Among those papers focusing on the detail of the
Tapestry, Gale Owen-Crocker examines the Tapestry's faces, Carol
Neuman de Vegvar investigates the Tapestry's drinking vessels and
explores differences in its feast scenes and Michael Lewis compares
objects depicted in the Tapestry and Oxford, Bodleian Library,
Junius 11. The book also includes a resume of four papers given at
the conference published elsewhere and a full black and white
facsimile of the Tapestry, with its figures numbered for ease of
referencing.
Frank Furness' energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture. This first biography details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the horror of war and its translation into aggressive architecture – train stations, banks, and libraries – and illuminates his influence on his century and the world.
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