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• Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception, Tsivian, Taylor, Bodger August 1998

  Yuri Tsivian

  early writings on film as well as examining the physical elements of cinematic performance. "Tsivian...Introduction Part I 1. Early cinema architecture and the evolution of the social composition of cinema...

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• Patterns of Russia: History, Culture, and Spaces, Milner-Gulland September 2020

  Robin Milner-Gulland

  face of Russia developed and evolved through its distinct architecture, astonishing art, and its varied public spaces. What emerges...setting: the Russian natural landscape as well as distinctive elements of traditional material culture. Tellingly illustrated,...national self-awareness through its art, literature, and architecture. This is not a geography of Russia, nor a history of Russian...

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• Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria, Merback March 2013

  Mitchell B. Merback

  persecutions. Exploring the legends, cult forms, imagery, and architecture of these host-miracle shrines, Pilgrimage and Pogrom reveals...is a compelling study of the role of visual culture and architecture of pilgrimage sites in memory building. His descriptions...personal piety, pilgrimage sites with their visual and architectural elements were also of political and cultural significance...

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• Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma, Tainturier June 2021

  François Tainturier

  plans–the care given to the very beautiful layout, are all elements that strike you at first sight.”...integrates disparate scholarly domains, including religion, architecture, history, and area studies… The careful analysis that...Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians...

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• The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media, Peters August 2016

  John Durham Peters

  The Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media John Durham Peters...9780226253978 The Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media John Durham Peters...Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit...

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• The Pure Element of Time, Be’er, Harshav October 2012

  Haim Be’er

  Brandeis University Press The Pure Element of Time Haim Be’er 9781611684322...Distributed for Brandeis University Press The Pure Element of Time Haim Be’er...Published in 1998 as Havalim, The Pure Element of Time is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about...gripping work of art. Constructed as a triptych, The Pure Element of Time begins with the author’s boyhood. Raised in an orthodox...

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• The Theory of Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions, Scheiner, Mindell January 2020

  Edited by Samuel M. Scheiner and David P. Mindell

  of science appreciate both the architecture of the present theory and how that architecture might evolve."...formulated and solved. This splendid volume lays out key elements of the theory of evolutionary biology, which arguably is...

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• Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element, Staubach September 2013

  Suzanne Staubach

  Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element Suzanne Staubach...Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element Suzanne Staubach...development of agriculture and the invention of baking, architecture, religion, and even the space program. In Clay, Suzanne...

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• Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in Phonology, Breit, Yoshida, Youngberg April 2024

  Edited by Florian Breit, Yuko Yoshida, and Connor Youngberg

  UCL Press Elements, Government and Licensing Developments in Phonology Edited by Florian Breit...9781800085305 Distributed for UCL Press Elements, Government and Licensing Developments in Phonology...empirical developments in phonology. Elements, Government and Licensing covers three principal domains...Theoretical topics covered include the formalization of Element Theory, the hotly debated topic of structural recursion in...

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• Astrid Lowack: The Elements of Transcendence, Bornscheuer August 2020

  Edited by Marion Bornscheuer

  Hirmer Publishers Astrid Lowack The Elements of Transcendence Edited by Marion Bornscheuer...Distributed for Hirmer Publishers Astrid Lowack The Elements of Transcendence Edited by Marion Bornscheuer...new perspective, and so does paradisiacal equilibrium. The elements Lowack deploys to bring about these effects are light, movement...

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