Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 27 April 2009
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Dutch historian Rietbergen (Univ. of Nijmegen) offers a broad historical summary of European societal development over the last 5000 years. Religion gets very close attention, as do certain seminal developments: printing, gunpowder, migration from country to city, and industrialization. Interspersed excerpts from primary sources (Grotius, Chaucer, Michaelangelo) add some variety to the text, though not always gravity (Iron Maiden lyrics?). The final quarter of the book, dealing with the 20th century, turns more toward sociology with less convincing results?Rietbergen's prejudices (against the European Union, for instance) show through.
Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Other | 27 April 2009
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Why exactly was Citizen Kane such a revolutionary film? What are the hallmarks of Italian Neorealism? How do directors sew together a smooth scene from five or six different shots? Fabe answers these questions and more in this primer on the narrative structure of filmmaking, which analyzes 14 benchmark movies from D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation to Mike Figgis’s Timecode. (Since each film was selected to represent a significant cinematic movement—expressionism, postmodernism, French New Wave, etc.—the book also doubles as a concise history of film’s most innovative storytellers.)
Added by: youssry | Karma: 50.06 | Other | 27 April 2009
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The three major macronutrients are proteins, carbohydrates and lipids (oils and fats). This book is devoted to lipids, which are an important part of life for all of us. They are a significant part of all living systems, and of our diet, and they furnish the functional constituents of all personal care products and those materials by which we keep our homes and environment clean and wholesome. What are these materials in molecular terms? Where do they come from? What happens to them between the harvesting of crops and the appearance of the oils and fats in different products in the supermarket?
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 27 April 2009
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Comprises 34 essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science to illuminate Greek and Roman political thought in all its diversity and depth. Offers a broad survey of ancient political thought from Archaic Greece through Late Antiquity Approaches ancient political philosophy from both a normative and historical focus Examines Greek and Roman political thought within historical context and contemporary debate
