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Captain of Death Story of Tuberculosis

	Autor: Thomas Daniel Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: medycyna i zdrowie ISBN: 978-1-878822-96-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 253.8 zł	Nasza cena: 253.8 zł Kup teraz!

The re-emergence of tuberculosis as a major American public health hazard has focused much attention on the ancient disease. This book offers a comprehensive account of the disease from prehistoric times through to the present day, detailing the attempts to eradicate it completely. Its four separate sections (the spread of tuberculosis; its infectious nature; suseptibility to it; and methods of treatment) are linked through the device of presenting individuals' particular experience of the disease, whether as victims, or więcej...

American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport

	Autor: Love Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 1999 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-1-58046-024-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 165.6 zł	Nasza cena: 165.6 zł Kup teraz!

This extensive and lavishly produced book provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the history of American Scene painting and Regionalism with an emphasis on artists active during the period between the two World Wars. Though little known until recently, Carl W. Peters embodied the essence of American Scene painting throughout his extremely productive life. His works are considered here within the broad panorama of cultural and intellectual history during these exciting decades, when modernism and indigenous więcej...

Music in The Culture of Polish Galicia 1772-1914

	Autor: J. Pekacz Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-1-5804-6109-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 244 zł	Nasza cena: 244 zł Kup teraz!

This book explores the role of music in developing the culture of Galicia - a part of the Polish Commonwealth which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy from the first partition of Poland in 1772 until the end of World War I. It gives a central place to the relation the people had with shared musical objects, knowledge and practices - both domestic and imported from cultural centers such as Vienna - and the ways in which music emphasized social cleavages, and provided individuals and groups with a national identity, sense of więcej...

Wagner's Meistersinger Performance History Represention

	Autor: N. Vazsonyi Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: muzyka, film ISBN: 978-1-5804-6131-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 289.1 zł	Nasza cena: 289.1 zł Kup teraz!

Richard Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg' has been one of the most performed operas in the Western world, ever since its premiere in 1868, shortly after which it was adopted as Germany's national opera ('Nationaloper'), not least because of its historical coincidence with the unification of Germany under Bismarck in 1871. The three sections into which these studies fall cover performance, relationship to German history and, more elusively, specific issues of genre and interpretation. The first section, 'Performing więcej...

Wagner & Wagnerism in Nineteenth-century Sweden Finland

	Autor: H. Salmi Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-1-5804-6207-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 171.5 zł	Nasza cena: 171.5 zł Kup teraz!

"Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces" explores how Wagner's operas were performed and received in the theaters of Stockholm and other cities of the region and how excerpts from them were arranged for amateur performances in private homes. Wagner's music and his polemical writings aroused lively discussion around the Baltic, as they did everywhere else in the Western world. Thanks to detailed accounts in newspapers, journals, contemporary literature, and writings więcej...

Nigerian Chiefs

	Autor: Vaughan Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-1-5804-6249-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł	Nasza cena: 87.2 zł Kup teraz!

This book analyzes how indigenous political power structures in Nigeria survived both the constricting forces of colonialism and the modernization programs of postcolonial regimes. With twenty detailed case studies on colonial and postcolonial Nigerian history, the complex interactions between chieftaincy structures and the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic conditions of the twentieth century become evident. Drawing on the interactions between the state and chieftaincy, this study goes beyond earlier Africanist więcej...

Globalization & Catching-up in Transition Economies

	Autor: G. Kolodko Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-1-58046-050-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 200.9 zł	Nasza cena: 200.9 zł Kup teraz!

Kolodko, former finance minister of Poland, considers the links between issues of globalization and post-communist transition, the two most important economic features of the turn of the century. He discusses the pattern of economic growth and contraction of the past fifty years, and reviews the options for the next half century. He accounts for the severity of the transitional recession in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a result of both the legacies of the past and current policy mistakes, but demonstrates więcej...

Post Communist Transition Thorny Road

	Autor: Grzegorz Kołodko Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: ekonomia ISBN: 978-1-58046-057-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 200.9 zł	Nasza cena: 200.9 zł Kup teraz!

Post-Communist Transition: The Thorny Road treats the historical endeavor to transform state-controlled economies to new institutional arrangements of free market economies. This ongoing transition is an indispensable part of globalization. The recession created by the transition has lasted much longer than expected, contraction was deeper than earlier assumed, and the recovery was not - and in some cases still is not - as smooth as envisaged by both the relevant governments and international organizations. Instead of recovery więcej...

Music of American Folk Song

	Autor: Larry Polansky Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: muzyka, film ISBN: 978-1-58046-095-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 151.9 zł	Nasza cena: 151.9 zł Kup teraz!

This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included 'Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music więcej...

Polish Formalist School & Russian Formalism

	Autor: Andrzej Karcz Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2002 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-1-58046-110-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 200.9 zł	Nasza cena: 200.9 zł Kup teraz!

This study looks closely at the changes taking place in Polish literary scholarship at the turn of the century, and focuses on the work of the founder of Polish Formalism, Kazimierz Woycicki and the other main theoreticians and practitioners of this School. While presenting a comparative and contrasting approach to Polish and Russian Formalism, the study concentrates on how the ideas of the Russian Formalists were accepted and applied by the Polish School, which modified and transcended them. Special attention is paid to więcej...

Charles Nicolle Pasteur's Imperial Missionary

	Autor: K. Pelis Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-1-58046-197-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 263.6 zł	Nasza cena: 263.6 zł Kup teraz!

This book examines the biomedical research of Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Charles Nicolle during his tenure as director of the Pasteur Institute of Tunis. Using typhus as its lens, it demonstrates how the complexities of early twentieth century bacteriology, French imperial ideology, the "Pastorian mission," and conditions in colonial Tunisia, blended to inform the triumphs and disappointments of Nicolle's fascinating career. It illuminates how these diverse elements shaped Nicolle's personal identity, the więcej...

Seeing America

	Autor: M. Searl Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: socjologia, filozofia ISBN: 978-1-58046-244-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 171.5 zł	Nasza cena: 171.5 zł Kup teraz!

"Seeing America" is the first-ever catalog of the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection. Founded in 1913, the Memorial Art Gallery was created in conjunction with the University of Rochester so that it would function within a scholarly milieu, yet at the same time perform service as a community museum. From its conception it has been an ardent advocate for American art, which so many counterpart institutions snubbed until at least the 1930s, and more often until well after World War więcej...

George Eastman A Biography

	Autor: E. Brayer Wydawnictwo: University of Rochester Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-1-58046-247-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 126.4 zł	Nasza cena: 126.4 zł Kup teraz!

Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held camera helped the Eastman Kodak Company dominate the world market. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at staying out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston więcej...

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