Search Results - "Masterpiece"

Hotel Ponce de Leon : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Flagler's gilded age palace / by Keys, Leslee F.

Table of Contents: “…The men who mentored a masterpiece -- "The modern wonder of the Ancient City" -- A Spanish renaissance palace in a Spanish colonial paradise -- Historic preservation in St. …”
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Hotel Ponce de Leon : the rise, fall, and rebirth of Flagler's gilded age palace / by Keys, Leslee F.

Table of Contents: “…The men who mentored a masterpiece -- "The modern wonder of the Ancient City" -- A Spanish renaissance palace in a Spanish colonial paradise -- Historic preservation in St. …”
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Fighting windmills encounters with Don Quixote / by Durán, Manuel, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Cervantes -- Experimenting with existing narrative tools -- Constructing Don Quixote -- A look into Cervantes' masterpiece -- Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England -- An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain -- Don Quixote and the New World : two American perspectives -- Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century.…”
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Einstein relatively simple : our universe revealed in everyday language / by Egdall, Ira Mark

Table of Contents: “…From unknown to revolutionary -- The great conflict -- The two postulates -- A new reality -- The shrinking of time -- Simultaneity and the squeezing of space -- The world's most famous equation -- Spacetime -- Einstein's dream -- "The happiest thought of my life" -- The warping of space and time -- Stitching spacetime -- What is spacetime curvature? -- Einstein's masterpiece -- The universe revealed -- In the beginning.…”
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Einstein relatively simple : our universe revealed in everyday language / by Egdall, Ira Mark

Table of Contents: “…From unknown to revolutionary -- The great conflict -- The two postulates -- A new reality -- The shrinking of time -- Simultaneity and the squeezing of space -- The world's most famous equation -- Spacetime -- Einstein's dream -- "The happiest thought of my life" -- The warping of space and time -- Stitching spacetime -- What is spacetime curvature? -- Einstein's masterpiece -- The universe revealed -- In the beginning.…”
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Fighting windmills encounters with Don Quixote / by Durán, Manuel, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Cervantes -- Experimenting with existing narrative tools -- Constructing Don Quixote -- A look into Cervantes' masterpiece -- Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England -- An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain -- Don Quixote and the New World : two American perspectives -- Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century.…”
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On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Crawford, Robert, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…. -- City hearts -- Poverty and wealth -- Sauchiehall Street, masterpieces, tenements, and books -- Art, learning, arsenic, and architecture -- Water -- Coda: the Falkirk Wheel.…”
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On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Crawford, Robert, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…. -- City hearts -- Poverty and wealth -- Sauchiehall Street, masterpieces, tenements, and books -- Art, learning, arsenic, and architecture -- Water -- Coda: the Falkirk Wheel.…”
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Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / by Mani, B. Venkat

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Introduction : world literature as a pact with books -- 1. Of masters and masterpieces : an empire of books, a mythic European library -- 2. …”
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Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / by Mani, B. Venkat

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Introduction : world literature as a pact with books -- 1. Of masters and masterpieces : an empire of books, a mythic European library -- 2. …”
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Our Master’s Voice : Advertising / by Rorty, James, 1890-

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Our Master’s Voice : Advertising / by Rorty, James, 1890-

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Moolaade how teenage girls see themselves /

Table of Contents: “…Sembene has made a masterpiece, both a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.…”

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
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Moolaade how teenage girls see themselves /

Table of Contents: “…Sembene has made a masterpiece, both a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.…”

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel by Cooper, Barbara MacGowan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: fundamental differences -- Anatomy of a riot -- Love and violence -- From "Satan's masterpiece" to "the social problem of Islam" -- A Hausa spiritual vernacular -- African agency and the growth of the church in the Maradi Region, 1927-1960 -- Disciplining the Christian : defining elderhood, Christian marriage, and "God's work," 1933-1955 -- "An extremely dangerous suspect" : from Vichy-era travails to postwar triumph -- Impasses in vernacular education, 1945-1995 -- Handmaid to the gospel : SIM's medical work in Niger, 1944-1975 -- The tree of life : regenerating and gendering the garden after the fall, 1975-2000 -- Ca̧ bouge : Hausa Christian practice in a Muslim milieu -- Epilogue: SIM's successors and the Pentecostal explosion.…”
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Un homme qui crie = A screaming man

Table of Contents: “…Sembene has made a masterpiece, both a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.…”

Our savage art poetry and the civil tongue / by Logan, William, 1950 Nov. 16-

Table of Contents: “…The bowl of diogenes; or, The end of criticism -- Verse chronicle : out on the lawn -- Verse chronicle : stouthearted men -- The most contemptible moth : Lowell in letters -- Forward into the past : reading the new critics -- Verse chronicle : one if by land -- Verse chronicle : the great American desert -- The state with the prettiest name -- Elizabeth Bishop unfinished -- Elizabeth Bishop's sullen art -- Verse chronicle : jumping the shark -- Verse chronicle : Victoria's secret -- Attack of the anthologists -- The lost world of Lawrence Durrell -- Hart Crane overboard -- On reviewing Hart Crane -- The endless ocean of Derek Walcott -- The civil power of Geoffrey Hill -- Verse chronicle : God's chatter -- Verse chronicle : let's do it, let's fall in luff -- Pynchon in the poetic -- Back to the future (Thomas Pynchon) -- Verse chronicle : the world is too much with us -- Verse chronicle : Valentine's Day massacre -- The forgotten masterpiece of John Townsend Trowbridge -- Frost at midnight.…”
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Un homme qui crie = A screaming man

Table of Contents: “…Sembene has made a masterpiece, both a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.…”

Our savage art poetry and the civil tongue / by Logan, William, 1950 Nov. 16-

Table of Contents: “…The bowl of diogenes; or, The end of criticism -- Verse chronicle : out on the lawn -- Verse chronicle : stouthearted men -- The most contemptible moth : Lowell in letters -- Forward into the past : reading the new critics -- Verse chronicle : one if by land -- Verse chronicle : the great American desert -- The state with the prettiest name -- Elizabeth Bishop unfinished -- Elizabeth Bishop's sullen art -- Verse chronicle : jumping the shark -- Verse chronicle : Victoria's secret -- Attack of the anthologists -- The lost world of Lawrence Durrell -- Hart Crane overboard -- On reviewing Hart Crane -- The endless ocean of Derek Walcott -- The civil power of Geoffrey Hill -- Verse chronicle : God's chatter -- Verse chronicle : let's do it, let's fall in luff -- Pynchon in the poetic -- Back to the future (Thomas Pynchon) -- Verse chronicle : the world is too much with us -- Verse chronicle : Valentine's Day massacre -- The forgotten masterpiece of John Townsend Trowbridge -- Frost at midnight.…”
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