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Throughout the centuries there have been many wonderful stories
told. Stories of gods, heroes, monsters and the individuals who
have changed their own fates, and the story that is about to be
told is no different. This is the story of an average boy who will
learn what it means to be a hero and how to change fate, not only
his own but that of others as well. While the main character may
seem like an unlikely hero, he has all of the qualities that many
great heroes have had in the past. Within this young man beats the
heart of a champion, but like many champions he will be tested.
This young man's name is Michael Richardson and he is about to go
on the journey of a lifetime.
Throughout the centuries there have been many wonderful stories
told. Stories of gods, heroes, monsters and the individuals who
have changed their own fates, and the story that is about to be
told is no different. This is the story of an average boy who will
learn what it means to be a hero and how to change fate, not only
his own but that of others as well. While the main character may
seem like an unlikely hero, he has all of the qualities that many
great heroes have had in the past. Within this young man beats the
heart of a champion, but like many champions he will be tested.
This young man's name is Michael Richardson and he is about to go
on the journey of a lifetime.
The ten-year research program and the Kapalga fire experiment at CSIRO in Australia has provided a wealth of knowledge about savanna ecosystems and the critical but poorly understood role of fire. The frequent low intensity fires examined in this volume characterize fire in the tropics and are a dominant force in shaping the structure and function of tropical ecosystems. Contributors discuss fire in relation to rainfall, groundwater, and the mammals and plants in the ecology and management of ecosystems. Among the management issues addressed are: habitat management, endangered species, protection of people and property, erosion and nutrient depletion, integration of knowledge from indigenous people and western science, and atmospheric pollution from fire smoke. This book will be valuable to tropical and savanna ecologists, fire ecologists and fire managers throughout the world, whether they are interested in plants, animals, soils or in the landscape as a whole.
What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it
been at times central to the discipline, and at other times
seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have
a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology,
human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the
most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the
relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural
history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty
years. In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J.
Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the
role of architecture in art history over the last century - which
has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores
the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from
formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key
institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October.
Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion,
Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and
Woelfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and
present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a
powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture.
In the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious:
practical anxieties about personal safety and metaphysical
anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the
small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long
been regarded as problems, in need of drastic solutions. In this
context, the contemporary revival of city centres is remarkable.
But in a culture that largely fears the urban, how can the
contemporary city be imagined? How is it supposed to be used or
inhabited? What does it mean? Taking England since WWII as its
principal focus, this provocative and original book considers the
Western city at a critical moment in its history.
The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museum
explores the key battlegrounds in the design of the
contemporary-art museum, describing the intersection of art,
aesthetics and politics at the highest levels, and the commitment
of states, cities and wealthy individuals to the display of art.
Global in scope, the book examines key examples from Europe and the
Americas to contemporary China. It describes museum building as the
projection of political power, but also as a desire to acquire
power. So it is a book about ambitious peripheries as much as the
traditional centres: Dundee and Bilbao as well as New York and
Paris. It is commonplace to assume that the contemporary-art museum
has become ever more spectacular, and the place of art ever more
subservient within it. This book argues that a tendency to
spectacle coexists with another equally powerful tendency, to make
art museums that celebrate the artistic process, typically
attempting to recreate the feeling of the artist's studio. That
tendency is strongly represented in the designs for the Centre
Georges Pompidou, completed in 1977, and arguably in the many
contemporary art museums which have adapted former industrial
buildings. Richard J. Williams's stimulating text includes many
historical examples to illustrate how we got to where we are now,
from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, to the Guggenheim museums in New
York and Bilbao, London's Tate Modern, Oscar Niemeyer's work in
Brazil and beyond, and the 798 Art District in Beijing.
Fire is a major agent of disturbance in many biomes of the world
but is a particularly important feature of tropical savannas. Up to
50% of the ext- sive tropical savanna landscapes of northern
Australia are burnt each year. This includes prestigious
conservation reserves such as World Heritage- listed Kakadu
National Park, in the Top End of the Northern Territory. As in
other savanna regions of the world, the responses of biota to
different ?re regimes are poorly understood, such that ?re
management represents one of the greatest challenges to
conservation managers and researchers alike. This is the context
within which a landscape-scale ?re experiment was established at
Kapalga Research Station in Kakadu,which aimed to provide a sound
scienti?c basis for conservation management in the region. The
experiment was established by The Australian Commonwealth Scienti?c
and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO),but involved
collaborators from a range of universities and government agencies,
including the m- agers of Kakadu,the Australian Nature Conservation
Agency (ANCA:now Parks Australia North). This book summarizes the
?ndings from the Kapalga ?re experiment and explores the
implications for conservation management. We believe that Kapalga
has provided important insights into the ?re ecology of tropical
savannas and has broad relevance for the conservation management of
?- prone landscapes in general. This book should be of interest to
researchers, graduate students, and land management agencies. vii
viii Preface We are extremely grateful to all our
collaborators,both inside and outside CSIRO, for their involvement
in the Kapalga experiment.
In the western world, cities have, arguably, never been more
anxious: realistic anxieties about personal safety, and
metaphorical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in
culture are the small change of journalism and political debate.
Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of drastic
solutions. In this context, the contemporary revival of city
centers is remarkable. But in a culture that largely fears the
urban, how can the contemporary city be imagined? How is it
supposed to be used or inhabited? What should it look like? What
should be its purpose? Which existing forms of urban life might
serve as models for a new city? Taking England since WW2 as its
principal focus, this provocative and original book considers the
western city at a critical moment in its history.
Historically among the most urbanized of countries, England is an
extraordinary urban laboratory. The energy and thoroughness with
which its cities have been transformed in the 1990s have lessons
for urban development everywhere.
"The Anxious City "examines the problem of the contemporary city
through a series of detailed case studies: Poundbury, Milton
Keynes, Liverpool's Albert Dock redevelopment, Trafalgar Square,
Canary Wharf, the Great Court of the British Museum, and central
Manchester after the 1996 IRA bomb. It deals with some broader
cultural phenomena too: the continuing attraction of picturesque
aesthetics, and the lure of southern European urbanism (exemplified
by the RIBA's canonization of Barcelona) and the complex,
contradictory relationship between urbanism in England and the USA.
The experience of these places, the book argues, shows a culture
where the idea of the cityremains contested: the frantic
redevelopment of city centers in the 1990s represented one vision
of the city - the city of spectacular consumption, competing in
some imaginary urban race with other world cities. But such
development took place against continuing suburbanization and
sprawl. In spite of allthe building works, the city was still being
worked out
This book is a cultural history that will be essential reading for
anyone interested in the recent history of urban life. It argues
that the contemporary city is uniquely anxious, caught between
nostalgia for the past, and uncertainty about the future. At a
crucial moment in the history of the city, it cuts through the
urbanistic propaganda spread by architects and politicians. This
unique and challenging study will be of interest to students and
practitioners alike.
What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it
been at times central to the discipline, and at other times
seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have
a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology,
human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the
most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the
relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural
history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty
years. In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J.
Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the
role of architecture in art history over the last century - which
has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores
the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from
formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key
institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October.
Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion,
Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and
Woelfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and
present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a
powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture.
Throughout the centuries there have been many wonderful stories
told. Stories of gods, heroes, monsters and the individuals who
have changed their own fates, and the story that is about to be
told is no different. This is the story of an average boy who will
learn what it means to be a hero and how to change fate, not only
his own but that of others as well. While the main character may
seem like an unlikely hero, he has all of the qualities that many
great heroes have had in the past. Within this young man beats the
heart of a champion, but like many champions he will be tested.
This young man's name is Michael Richardson and he is about to go
on the journey of a lifetime.
Throughout the centuries there have been many wonderful stories
told. Stories of gods, heroes, monsters and the individuals who
have changed their own fates, and the story that is about to be
told is no different. This is the story of an average boy who will
learn what it means to be a hero and how to change fate, not only
his own but that of others as well. While the main character may
seem like an unlikely hero, he has all of the qualities that many
great heroes have had in the past. Within this young man beats the
heart of a champion, but like many champions he will be tested.
This young man's name is Michael Richardson and he is about to go
on the journey of a lifetime.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm22536793Includes legislation.Philadelphia: W.P. Kildare,
1884. 115 p.; 23 cm.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG95-B1698Includes index.Philadelphia: T.& J.W.
Johnson, 1903. xxiv, 313 p.: forms; 24 cm
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