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Book SynopsisA work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.Trade Review"Art of the Modern Age is an important contribution to the field, and its readership should not be limited to philosophers. While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest."--F.L. Rush, Bookforum "This academically solid, well-documented book ... [offers] very good background for courses in the history of aesthetics or art theory."--ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword. The Speculative Philosophers of Art by Arthur C. Danto ix Introduction 3 Part One: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS? CHAPTER 1 Kantian Prolegomena to an Analytic Aesthetics 17 THE JUDGMENT OF TASTE AND FINALITY WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OF A SPECIFIC END 19 NATURAL BEAUTY AND ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY: THE STATUS OF THE FINE ARTS 31 GENIUS AND TASTE 40 THE WORK OF ART IN KANT AND IN ROMANTICISM 49 AESTHETICS, META-AESTHETICS, AND THEORY OF ART 55 Part Two: THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART CHAPTER 2 The Birth of the Speculative Theory of Art 67 Poetry as the Sublation of Metaphysics (Novalis) 72 FROM PHILOSOPHY TO POETRY 73 THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF POETRY 81 QUESTIONS 90 The History of Literature as a Speculative Project (Friedrich Schlegel) 96 HISTORICISM 97 LITERATURE 102 THEORY AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE 107 LITERATURE AS AN ORGANISM 114 ANCIENT AND MODERN 121 THE THEORY OF GENRES 129 CHAPTER 3 The System of Art (Hegel) 135 ART 138 ART, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION 146 PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ART: SYSTEM AND HISTORY 152 ART AS AN ORGANIC SYSTEM 158 THE ARTS 166 THE ART OF ART: POETRY 174 CHAPTER 4 Ecstatic Vision or Cosmic Fiction? 182 From AnagoGy to Artistic Redemption (Schopenhauer) 186 THE PLACE OF ART 186 FROM ART TO THE ARTS 194 FROM ART AS DETACHMENT TO PHILOSOPHICAL WISDOM 201 The Fiction of Truth and the Truth of Fiction (Nietzsche) 208 ART AS A FUNDAMENTAL METAPHYSICAL ACTIVITY 210 THE GENEALOGY OF ART 222 ART AND THE WILL TO POWER 230 CHAPTER 5 Art as the Thought of Being (Heidegger) 237 HEIDEGGER AND ROMANTICISM 239 ART AND TRUTH OF BEING 246 ART AS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION AND AS ECSTATIC DEVIATION 252 POETRY AND THOUGHT 256 AN INTERPRETIVE PRACTICE 265 CONCLUSION What the Speculative Tradition Misunderstood 273 THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART IN "THE MODERN ART WORLD" 274 THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART AS A PERSUASIVE DEFINITION: CONCERNING "MODERNIST" HISTORICISM 284 AESTHETICS AND ART 292 ON AESTHETIC PLEASURE 298 Notes 309 Index of Names 347 Index of Concepts 351

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to analysis techniques used in the design of linear feedback control systems with emphasis on both classical and matrix methods. This text presents all design methods in a building-block sequence, including a thorough analysis of first- and second-order systems as well as general state space systems.Table of ContentsAutomatic Control Systems. Linear Dynamical Systems. Free Response. Forced Response. Frequency Response. Output Feedback Control. Stability Analysis in Output Feedback Systems. State Variable Feedback Design. References. Appendix. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in diagnosing skin cancer, emphasising the importance of early detection to improve treatment outcomes. It reviews various machine learning algorithms, with a focus on support vector machines, to classify skin cancer with higher accuracy than traditional methods. Designed for beginners and experts alike, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of AI techniques and their implementation in healthcare.â Compares the accuracy of AI-based detection methods with traditional medical practices. â Covers the basics of AI and its relevance in early disease detection, different types of skin cancer and the critical need for early detection. â Reviews various machine learning techniques, focusing on support vector machines for skin cancer classification. â Provides step-by-step guidance on implementing AI techniques for skin cancer detection, including programming aspects. â Includes illustrations and real-world examples of AI in action for early skin cancer detection.The findings of this study will aid doctors in treating the disease at its onset, preventing future deterioration. This book can be referred to by professionals and researchers.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisThis major new textbook in social theory takes the concept of modernity as its guiding theme.Trade Review'Nigel Dodd is to be congratulated for a most intelligent, mature, organized, balanced, and sane account of the major trends in European social theory over the last century and a half. I know of no sounder secondary source on the theories of modernity and postmodernity. He brings clarity and order to a range of literature that is too often murky and unordered, and for that several generations of scholars and students will be grateful.' --Neil J. Smelser, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford '[An] excellent guide to the state of the art in contemporary social theory...provide[s] excellent critical accounts of the evolution and contemporary relevance of modern social theory.' (Sociological Research Online) 'Dodd's work is thus both a survey of social theory...and an effort to find a new way forward. The book is consciously positioned as a college course text, meaning that unlike truckloads of others on the subject, it is both readable and explicable for those without an MA in the History of Consciousness.' (Canadian Journal of Political Science)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Modern and Postmodern Social Theory. Part I: Classical Social Theory. 1. Modernity and Society: Marx and Durkheim. 2. Modernity and Reason: Simmel and Weber. Part II: Modern Social Theory. 3. A Critique of Reason: Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse. 4. Reason and Power: Foucault. 5. The Potential of Reason: Habermas. Part III: Postmodern Social Theory. 6. Reality in Retreat: Lyotard and Baudrillard. 7. Society under Suspicion: Bauman and Rorty. 8. Modernity Renewed: Giddens and Beck. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisA most striking, design-led reference book, A to Z Great Modern Artists features artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in his constructivist poster style, Andy Warhol as a classic repeat print, and Barbara Hepworth illustrated to resemble one of her distinctive bronze and rod sculptures. With expert text by art historian Christopher Masters, each artist's entry includes a summary of the essential things you need to know about the artist; their biographical details, why they're so significant, where you can find their works today, and a surprising fact about them plus reproductions of key works.Whether you're already an art expert, or looking for a helpful cheat to navigating around a gallery, you'll love this stunning and intelligent guide to global artists of the modern age.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing language change using data less readily available in other corpora.While previous scholarship on CPs exists from a synchronic perspective, this book is the first to focus exclusively on Late Modern English with a diachronic approach to CPs, understood as phraseological verbs consisting of a verb and a deverbal noun or this combination with a preposition, such as to ask a question or to take hold of. The volume builds on  real-life spoken data encompassing the proceedings of the Old Bailey at the Central Criminal Court in London, which predate the invention of audio-recording technology. Leone explores syntactic and semantic changes and the role performed by phenomena associated with grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization in this period from both quantitative and qualitat

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Book SynopsisSecure Communication of the Auxiliary Information to the Receiver to Retrieve the Secret Message: A Steganography Approach.- Blockchain and IPFS-Enabled System for Efficient Vaccination Record Management.- RDDM: A Respiratory Disease Detection Technique using Deep Learning Models.- A Multi-Stage Machine Learning Pipeline for Agro-Climatic Feasibility Analysis and Dynamic Yield with Price Prediction.- Efficient Detection and Mitigation of False Data  Injection Attacks in Automatic Generation Control Using Machine  Learning Models.- Multilingual Keyword Spotting System in Indian Languages for Inclusive Education System Applications.- Predicting and Managing Solar Power in Virtual Power Plants Using Machine Learning.- Multiuser detection in hybrid Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) using machine learning.- Knee osteoarthritis detection and categorization with deep learning models.- Intelligent Farm Insect Identification Using Attention-Driven Neural Networks.- Attention Enhanced Visual Feature Extraction for Medical Image Retrieval using Multi-Stage Residual Networks.- Sentiment Analysis of Bengali Literature using NLP.- Brain Tumour Detection Using Contour-based Cropping and Skull Stripping.- Vehicle number plate identification system.- Data-Driven Visual Chart Predictions with Machine Learning.

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Book SynopsisModern Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers is a modern introduction to basic topics in mathematics at the undergraduate level, with emphasis on explanations and applications to real-life problems. There is also an 'Application' section at the end of each chapter, with topics drawn from a variety of areas, including neural networks, fluid dynamics, and the behavior of 'put' and 'call' options in financial markets. The book presents several modern important and computationally efficient topics, including feedforward neural networks, wavelets, generalized functions, stochastic optimization methods, and numerical methods.A unique and novel feature of the book is the introduction of a recently developed method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), called the unified transform. PDEs are the mathematical cornerstone for describing an astonishingly wide range of phenomena, from quantum mechanics to ocean waves, to the diffusion of heat in matter and the behavior of financial markets. Despite the efforts of many famous mathematicians, physicists and engineers, the solution of partial differential equations remains a challenge.The unified transform greatly facilitates this task. For example, two and a half centuries after Jean d'Alembert formulated the wave equation and presented a solution for solving a simple problem for this equation, the unified transform derives in a simple manner a generalization of the d'Alembert solution, valid for general boundary value problems. Moreover, two centuries after Joseph Fourier introduced the classical tool of the Fourier series for solving the heat equation, the unified transform constructs a new solution to this ubiquitous PDE, with important analytical and numerical advantages in comparison to the classical solutions. The authors present the unified transform pedagogically, building all the necessary background, including functions of real and of complex variables and the Fourier transform, illustrating the method with numerous examples.Broad in scope, but pedagogical in style and content, the book is an introduction to powerful mathematical concepts and modern tools for students in science and engineering.

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Book SynopsisWhen African Modernism was first published in 2015, it was showered with international praise and has been sought after ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books’ 10th anniversary, this landmark book will now be available again. Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial powers. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed states expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features 100 buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster especially for the book’s first edition, documenting the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed through an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Additional essays on specific aspects and topics of postcolonial Africa, likewise richly illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.

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Book SynopsisChinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increasing popularity of learning Chinese as a second language, there is a demand for a guide to Chinese grammar that's targeted at second language learners.This four-volume set is one of the earliest and most influential works on Chinese grammar, with a special focus on teaching and learning Chinese as a second language. Utilizing their rich teaching experience, the authors analyze a myriad of authentic examples to describe the Chinese grammatical phenomenon and rules. This volume introduces the functional words in modern Chinese grammar, which include prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, onomatopoeia, and interjections.Since the first edition came out in 1983, this set has been revised twice and remained one of the best sellers in this topic. Practitioners and scholars of teaching Chinese as a second language, as well as students with a basic knowledge of Chinese, will find it a handy reference.Table of Contents1 Preposition. 2 Conjunction. 3 Auxiliary. 4 Onomatopoetic Word. 5 Interjection

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Book SynopsisErica Farmer is the co-founder of Quantum Rise Talent Group, a consultancy specialising in AI and digital skills. Prior to this, she was Head of Talent, Leadership Development and Apprenticeships at Virgin Care and Head of Learning at The MISSION Group. She is also a frequent conference speaker and the host of the AI for the Average Joe podcast. She is based in London, UK.

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Book SynopsisDogopolis suggests a surprising source of urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.Trade Review"Dogopolis is a beautifully presented book with an evocative historical voice and great confidence and flair. It is also a lot of fun to read. Pearson offers a treasure trove of details about the shared lives of humans and dogs across three rapidly urbanizing cities that epitomized urban modernity, and deals with themes at the heart of urban history in his examination of the public and private spaces; class, gender, and race relationships; and public health and disease."-- "Neil Pemberton, Manchester University"Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Straying 2 Biting 3 Suffering 4 Thinking 5 Defecating Coda Acknowledgments Appendix: Reflections on Animals, History, and Emotions Chronology Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFirst survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage - they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today's world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide presents the Big 5 of literacy â decoding, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and spelling. They are the five essential skills for success in school and in life.Tom Nicholson offers a toolkit to help you bring your class, including those with persistent literacy learning difficulties such as dyslexia, up to typically achieving level for their age and beyond. Designed as a âœone stop shopâ for classroom teachers, this book covers assessment, planning and progression of writing, spelling, decoding and comprehension, with a range of practical, easy-to-follow charts, activities, lesson plans, and posters. The final chapter is a Countdown to the Classroom, showing how to plan for a successful and explicit start to literacy, how to encourage good conduct, and how to be an effective leader. Chapters combine both the experience gleaned from a teaching career focused on literacy and countless hours of research.The author presents solutions for the pressing problem of achieving high levels of literacy in the modern classroom for all students, not just some. Containing a wealth of resources and tips for teaching ages 9-12, this will be of great interest to all classroom teachers teaching literacy, as well as parents and librarians.

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Book Synopsis A practical book written for engineers who design and use antennas The author has many years of hands on experience designing antennas that were used in such applications as the Venus and Mars missions of NASA The book covers all important topics of modern antenna design for communications Numerical methods will be included but only as much as are needed for practical applications Table of ContentsPreface xv 1 Properties of Antennas 1 1-1 Antenna Radiation 2 1-2 Gain 3 1-3 Effective Area 6 1-4 Path Loss 6 1-5 Radar Range Equation and Cross Section 7 1-6 Why Use an Antenna? 9 1-7 Directivity 10 1-8 Directivity Estimates 11 1-8.1 Pencil Beam 11 1-8.2 Butterfly or Omnidirectional Pattern 13 1-9 Beam Efficiency 16 1-10 Input-Impedance Mismatch Loss 17 1-11 Polarization 18 1-11.1 Circular Polarization Components 19 1-11.2 Huygens Source Polarization 21 1-11.3 Relations Between Bases 22 1-11.4 Antenna Polarization Response 23 1-11.5 Phase Response of Rotating Antennas 25 1-11.6 Partial Gain 26 1-11.7 Measurement of Circular Polarization Using Amplitude Only 26 1-12 Vector Effective Height 27 1-13 Antenna Factor 29 1-14 Mutual Coupling Between Antennas 29 1.15 Antenna Noise Temperature 30 1-16 Communication Link Budget and Radar Range 35 1-17 Multipath 36 1-18 Propagation Over Soil 37 1-19 Multipath Fading 39 References 40 2 Radiation Structures and Numerical Methods 42 2-1 Auxiliary Vector Potentials 43 2-1.1 Radiation from Electric Currents 44 2-1.2 Radiation from Magnetic Currents 49 2-2 Apertures: Huygens Source Approximation 51 2-2.1 Near- and Far-Field Regions 55 2-2.2 Huygens Source 57 2-3 Boundary Conditions 57 2-4 Physical Optics 59 2-4.1 Radiated Fields Given Currents 59 2-4.2 Applying Physical Optics 60 2-4.3 Equivalent Currents 65 2-4.4 Reactance Theorem and Mutual Coupling 66 2-5 Method of Moments 67 2-5.1 Use of the Reactance Theorem for the Method of Moments 68 2-5.2 General Moments Method Approach 69 2-5.3 Thin-Wire Moment Method Codes 71 2-5.4 Surface and Volume Moment Method Codes 71 2-5.5 Examples of Moment Method Models 72 2-6 Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method 76 2-6.1 Implementation 76 2-6.2 Central Difference Derivative 77 2-6.3 Finite-Difference Maxwell’s Equations 77 2-6.4 Time Step for Stability 79 2-6.5 Numerical Dispersion and Stability 80 2-6.6 Computer Storage and Execution Times 80 2-6.7 Excitation 81 2-6.8 Waveguide Horn Example 83 2-7 Ray Optics and the Geometric Theory of Diffraction 84 2-7.1 Fermat’s Principle 85 2-7.2 H -Plane Pattern of a Dipole Located Over a Finite Strip 85 2-7.3 E-Plane Pattern of a Rectangular Horn 87 2-7.4 H -Plane Pattern of a Rectangular Horn 89 2-7.5 Amplitude Variations Along a Ray 90 2-7.6 Extra Phase Shift Through Caustics 93 2-7.7 Snell’s Laws and Reflection 93 2-7.8 Polarization Effects in Reflections 94 2-7.9 Reflection from a Curved Surface 94 2-7.10 Ray Tracing 96 2-7.11 Edge Diffraction 96 2-7.12 Slope Diffraction 98 2-7.13 Corner Diffraction 99 2-7.14 Equivalent Currents 99 2-7.15 Diffraction from Curved Surfaces 99 References 100 3 Arrays 102 3-1 Two-Element Array 104 3-2 Linear Array of N Elements 109 3-3 Hansen and Woodyard End-Fire Array 114 3-4 Phased Arrays 115 3-5 Grating Lobes 117 3-6 Multiple Beams 118 3-7 Planar Array 120 3-8 Grating Lobes in Planar Arrays 125 3-9 Mutual Impedance 127 3-10 Scan Blindness and Array Element Pattern 127 3-11 Compensating Array Feeding for Mutual Coupling 128 3-12 Array Gain 129 3-13 Arrays Using Arbitrarily Oriented Elements 133 References 135 4 Aperture Distributions and Array Synthesis 136 4-1 Amplitude Taper and Phase Error Efficiencies 137 4-1.1 Separable Rectangular Aperture Distributions 139 4-1.2 Circularly Symmetrical Distributions 140 4-2 Simple Linear Distributions 140 4-3 Taylor One-Parameter Linear Distribution 144 4-4 Taylor n Line Distribution 147 4-5 Taylor Line Distribution with Edge Nulls 152 4-6 Elliott’s Method for Modified Taylor Distribution and Arbitrary Sidelobes 155 4-7 Bayliss Line-Source Distribution 158 4-8 Woodward Line-Source Synthesis 162 4-9 Schelkunoff’s Unit-Circle Method 164 4-10 Dolph–Chebyshev Linear Array 170 4-11 Villeneuve Array Synthesis 172 4-12 Zero Sampling of Continuous Distributions 173 4-13 Fourier Series Shaped-Beam Array Synthesis 175 4-14 Orchard Method of Array Synthesis 178 4-15 Series-Fed Array and Traveling-Wave Feed Synthesis 188 4-16 Circular Apertures 191 4-17 Circular Gaussian Distribution 194 4-18 Hansen Single-Parameter Circular Distribution 195 4-19 Taylor Circular-Aperture Distribution 196 4-20 Bayliss Circular-Aperture Distribution 200 4-21 Planar Arrays 202 4-22 Convolution Technique for Planar Arrays 203 4-23 Aperture Blockage 208 4-24 Quadratic Phase Error 211 4-25 Beam Efficiency of Circular Apertures with Axisymmetric Distribution 214 References 215 5 Dipoles Slots and Loops 217 5-1 Standing-Wave Currents 218 5-2 Radiation Resistance (Conductance) 220 5-3 Babinet–Booker Principle 222 5-4 Dipoles Located Over a Ground Plane 223 5-5 Dipole Mounted Over Finite Ground Planes 225 5-6 Crossed Dipoles for Circular Polarization 231 5-7 Super Turnstile or Batwing Antenna 234 5-8 Corner Reflector 237 5-9 Monopole 242 5-10 Sleeve Antenna 242 5-11 Cavity-Mounted Dipole Antenna 245 5-12 Folded Dipole 247 5-13 Shunt Feeding 248 5-14 Discone Antenna 249 5-15 Baluns 251 5-15.1 Folded Balun 252 5-15.2 Sleeve or Bazooka Baluns 253 5-15.3 Split Coax Balun 255 5-15.4 Half-Wavelength Balun 256 5-15.5 Candelabra Balun 256 5-15.6 Ferrite Core Baluns 256 5-15.7 Ferrite Candelabra Balun 258 5-15.8 Transformer Balun 258 5-15.9 Split Tapered Coax Balun 259 5-15.10 Natural Balun 260 5-16 Small Loop 260 5-17 Alford Loop 261 5-18 Resonant Loop 263 5-19 Quadrifilar Helix 264 5-20 Cavity-Backed Slots 266 5-21 Stripline Series Slots 266 5-22 Shallow-Cavity Crossed-Slot Antenna 269 5-23 Waveguide-Fed Slots 270 5-24 Rectangular-Waveguide Wall Slots 271 5-25 Circular-Waveguide Slots 276 5-26 Waveguide Slot Arrays 278 5-26.1 Nonresonant Array 279 5-26.2 Resonant Array 282 5-26.3 Improved Design Methods 282 References 283 6 Microstrip Antennas 285 6-1 Microstrip Antenna Patterns 287 6-2 Microstrip Patch Bandwidth and Surface-Wave Efficiency 293 6-3 Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna 299 6-4 Quarter-Wave Patch Antenna 310 6-5 Circular Microstrip Patch 313 6-6 Circularly Polarized Patch Antennas 316 6-7 Compact Patches 319 6-8 Directly Fed Stacked Patches 323 6-9 Aperture-Coupled Stacked Patches 325 6-10 Patch Antenna Feed Networks 327 6-11 Series-Fed Array 329 6-12 Microstrip Dipole 330 6-13 Microstrip Franklin Array 332 6-14 Microstrip Antenna Mechanical Properties 333 References 334 7 Horn Antennas 336 7-1 Rectangular Horn (Pyramidal) 337 7-1.1 Beamwidth 341 7-1.2 Optimum Rectangular Horn 343 7-1.3 Designing to Given Beamwidths 346 7-1.4 Phase Center 347 7-2 Circular-Aperture Horn 348 7-2.1 Beamwidth 350 7-2.2 Phase Center 352 7-3 Circular (Conical) Corrugated Horn 353 7-3.1 Scalar Horn 357 7-3.2 Corrugation Design 357 7-3.3 Choke Horns 358 7-3.4 Rectangular Corrugated Horns 359 7-4 Corrugated Ground Plane 359 7-5 Gaussian Beam 362 7-6 Ridged Waveguide Horns 365 7-7 Box Horn 372 7-8 T-Bar-Fed Slot Antenna 374 7-9 Multimode Circular Horn 376 7-10 Biconical Horn 376 References 378 8 Reflector Antennas 380 8-1 Paraboloidal Reflector Geometry 381 8-2 Paraboloidal Reflector Aperture Distribution Losses 383 8-3 Approximate Spillover and Amplitude Taper Trade-offs 385 8-4 Phase Error Losses and Axial Defocusing 387 8-5 Astigmatism 389 8-6 Feed Scanning 390 8-7 Random Phase Errors 393 8-8 Focal Plane Fields 396 8-9 Feed Mismatch Due to the Reflector 397 8-10 Front-to-Back Ratio 399 8-11 Offset-Fed Reflector 399 8-12 Reflections from Conic Sections 405 8-13 Dual-Reflector Antennas 408 8-13.1 Feed Blockage 410 8-13.2 Diffraction Loss 413 8-13.3 Cassegrain Tolerances 414 8-14 Feed and Subreflector Support Strut Radiation 416 8-15 Gain/Noise Temperature of a Dual Reflector 421 8-16 Displaced-Axis Dual Reflector 421 8-17 Offset-Fed Dual Reflector 424 8-18 Horn Reflector and Dragonian Dual Reflector 427 8-19 Spherical Reflector 429 8-20 Shaped Reflectors 432 8-20.1 Cylindrical Reflector Synthesis 433 8-20.2 Circularly Symmetrical Reflector Synthesis 434 8-20.3 Doubly Curved Reflector for Shaped Beams 437 8-20.4 Dual Shaped Reflectors 439 8-21 Optimization Synthesis of Shaped and Multiple-Beam Reflectors 442 References 443 9 Lens Antennas 447 9-1 Single Refracting Surface Lenses 448 9-2 Zoned Lenses 451 9-3 General Two-Surface Lenses 454 9-4 Single-Surface or Contact Lenses 459 9-5 Metal Plate Lenses 461 9-6 Surface Mismatch and Dielectric Losses 463 9-7 Feed Scanning of a Hyperboloidal Lens 464 9-8 Dual-Surface Lenses 465 9-8.1 Coma-Free Axisymmetric Dielectric Lens 466 9-8.2 Specified Aperture Distribution Axisymmetric Dielectric Lens 468 9-9 Bootlace Lens 470 9-10 Luneburg Lens 472 References 472 10 Traveling-Wave Antennas 474 10-1 General Traveling Waves 475 10-1.1 Slow Wave 478 10-1.2 Fast Waves (Leaky Wave Structure) 480 10-2 Long Wire Antennas 481 10-2.1 Beverage Antenna 481 10-2.2 V Antenna 482 10-2.3 Rhombic Antenna 483 10-3 Yagi–Uda Antennas 485 10-3.1 Multiple-Feed Yagi–Uda Antennas 492 10-3.2 Resonant Loop Yagi–Uda Antennas 495 10-4 Corrugated Rod (Cigar) Antenna 497 10-5 Dielectric Rod (Polyrod) Antenna 499 10-6 Helical Wire Antenna 502 10-6.1 Helical Modes 503 10-6.2 Axial Mode 504 10-6.3 Feed of a Helical Antenna 506 10-6.4 Long Helical Antenna 507 10-6.5 Short Helical Antenna 508 10-7 Short Backfire Antenna 509 10-8 Tapered Slot Antennas 512 10-9 Leaky Wave Structures 516 References 518 11 Frequency-Independent Antennas 521 Spiral Antennas 522 11-1 Modal Expansion of Antenna Patterns 524 11-2 Archimedean Spiral 526 11-3 Equiangular Spiral 527 11-4 Pattern Analysis of Spiral Antennas 530 11-5 Spiral Construction and Feeding 535 11-5.1 Spiral Construction 535 11-5.2 Balun Feed 536 11-5.3 Infinite Balun 538 11-5.4 Beamformer and Coaxial Line Feed 538 11-6 Spiral and Beamformer Measurements 538 11-7 Feed Network and Antenna Interaction 540 11-8 Modulated Arm Width Spiral 541 11-9 Conical Log Spiral Antenna 543 11-10 Mode 2 Conical Log Spiral Antenna 549 11-11 Feeding Conical Log Spirals 550 Log-Periodic Antennas 550 11-12 Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna 551 11-12.1 Feeding a Log-Periodic Dipole Antenna 556 11-12.2 Phase Center 558 11-12.3 Elevation Angle 559 11-12.4 Arrays of Log-Periodic Dipole Antennas 560 11-13 Other Log-Periodic Types 561 11-14 Log-Periodic Antenna Feeding Paraboloidal Reflector 563 11-15 V Log-periodic Array 567 11-16 Cavity-Backed Planar Log-Periodic Antennas 569 References 571 12 Phased Arrays 573 12-1 Fixed Phase Shifters (Phasers) 574 12-2 Quantization Lobes 578 12-3 Array Errors 580 12-4 Nonuniform and Random Element Existence Arrays 582 12-4.1 Linear Space Tapered Array 582 12-4.2 Circular Space Tapered Array 584 12-4.3 Statistically Thinned Array 587 12-5 Array Element Pattern 588 12-6 Feed Networks 590 12-6.1 Corporate Feed 590 12-6.2 Series Feed 592 12-6.3 Variable Power Divider and Phase Shifter 592 12-6.4 Butler Matrix 594 12-6.5 Space Feeding 596 12-6.6 Tapered Feed Network with Uniform-Amplitude Subarrays 597 12-7 Pattern Null Formation in Arbitrary Array 599 12-8 Phased Array Application to Communication Systems 601 12-9 Near-Field Measurements on Phased Arrays 602 References 604 Index 607

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Book SynopsisTechnology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.Trade Review"This is an important book. Lorenzo Simpson has given us a tough-minded, cool-eyed, warm-hearted critique of the technological perspective and of the post-modernist response . . . extraordinarily rich in language and subtle in conception." -- Marx W. Wartofsky, Baruch College"This book is an excellent contribution both to cultural theory and to substantive moral philosophy. Lorenzo Simpson offers a subtle and scholarly account of the eclipse of imminent by instrumental value in the 'postmodern' world; at the same time, his distinctive voice brings home to us how our lives are impoverished by this development and how we can resist it." -- Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College"Lorenzo Simpson's major new work on technology, temporality, and ethics is clearly the product of wide reading and mature reflection. . . . His discussions of Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty and a host of other major theorists are uniformly first-rate." -- Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Question of Technology; Chapter 2 The Idea of Technological Rationality; Part 2 Science, Language and Experience; Chapter 3 Science, Language and Experience: Reflections on the Nature of Self-Understanding; Part 3 Technology, Meaning and Time; Chapter 4 Meaning and Time: An Essay on Technology; Part 4 On the Use and Abuse of Repetition for Critique; Chapter 5 The Use of Repetition for Critique; Chapter 6 The Abuse of Repetition for Critique; Chapter 7 Notes Towards the Trivialization of a Distinction: An Interlude on the Conversations of Modernity; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 8 Technology and the Conversations of Modernity: Postmodernism, Technology, Ethics and Time;

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Book SynopsisWith this practical guide, you'll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries. You'll learn best practices for application architecture and planning, databases, security, testing, debugging, and deployment.

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Book SynopsisBeautifully designed and featuring breathtaking photography, this book from the creator of The Modern House makes the perfect coffee table book and is the ultimate gift for home design enthusiasts ''A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy'' GuardianIn 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand - and went on to inspire a generation to live more thoughtfully and beautifully at home.As The Modern House grew, Matt and Albert came to realise that the most successful homes they encountered - from cleverly conceived studio flats to listed architectural masterpieces - had been designed with attention to the same timeless principles: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Decoration.In this lavishly illustrated bookTrade Review'A source of fascination, inspiration and fantasy' * Guardian *'A handsome new book (...) splits the pair's accumulated learnings about life enhancing design across five central tenets: space, light, materials, nature and decoration ... a culture destination for interiors obsessives' * Sunday Times *'This is a book filled with such insight and detail that you'll be rearranging and rethinking your space in the most useful of ways' * Stylist *'The Modern House transformed our search for the perfect home' * Financial Times *'If you are a frequent consumer of house porn, chances are The Modern House will feature heavily in your browser history. A sumptuously packaged estate agency for some of the UK's most remarkable homes' * Vogue *'A Modern Way to Live reads so beautifully. It's a lyrical love letter to the home and architecture, and the places and conditions that create the best of both worlds ... generously informative and inspirational' * Waitrose Weekend *'The Modern House sells the most incredible design-led homes in urban and rural locations in the UK' * Evening Standard *'Gibberd is co-founder of The Modern House, a design-led London estate agency whose website attracts 15 million page views a year. In handling the sale of thousands of homes, from small flats to listed architectural masterpieces, he noticed the same five principles for living emerging again and again: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Curation. His delectable first book aims to expand on these transformative principles, from the effective positioning of doors and windows, to the anchor provided by possessions. Property porn with a point' * Bookseller *'An elegant, tasteful book as covetable as the houses it explores' * Sunday Express *

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Book SynopsisThe Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up–to–date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries, including the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the evolution of political, social, economic, and scientific thought, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, the Cold War, Globalization––and much more. Volume I of the Cartoon History of the Modern World picks up from Gonick''s award winning Cartoon History of the Universe Series. That series began with the Big Bang and ended with Christopher Columbus sailing for the New World. This book starts off with peoples that Columbus discovered and ends with the U.S. Revolution.Trade Review"I first discovered your Cartoon History series when I was in fifth grade. I was hooked. My mom noticed my interest in history, and she asked if I would be interested in competing in the National History Bee. To prepare, I didn’t study. I didn’t read textbooks or historical studies. Instead, I just kept reading your books, over and over again, and I found myself leading most of the rounds. By the end of the night, I had earned a spot in the national stage of the Bee." — Freshman, Brown University

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Book SynopsisStephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that curiosity', with its origins in the seventeenth-century world-view can be a valid concept for understanding some aspects of contemporary art that contest the modern, suggesting ways of sidetracking the modern by adopting a lengthier historical view.Table of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction, by Margaret MacNamidhe Ways Around Modernism 1. Strange Encounters Lunch on the Grass Lunch in the Studio Beyond Parody Renaissance to Modern Ingres meets Picasso Conclusion 2. Curiouser and Curiouser Modernism and Experiment Curiosity in Context Curiosity, Religion and Science Surrealism as Curiosity The Artist’s Brief Seminar Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 “There is a difference between prose and poetry”; Chapter 3 Our (?) Country; Chapter 4 “You can't go back, they'll cut your throat”; Chapter 5 The Exodus of The Little Review; Chapter 6 “Beauty in our slaughter-fold”; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

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Book SynopsisPart 2, Discourses and Myths About AI, excavates metaphors and policies to ask normative questions about what is desirable' AI and what conditions make this possible.

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Book SynopsisPenelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modernism, women's writing, feminist criticism, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalysis, autobiography, and women's studies. Published in 1991, it was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writings of H. D., the pen-name for Hilda Doolittle (1886â1961), who has been known primarily as a poet. Her prose, more personal, experimental, and postmodern than her poetry, raises central questions about the relation of women writers to language, desire and history. She suppressed in her lifetime many of these texts because of their daring exploration of her bisexuality and their radical critique of the social order. H. D.'s prose writings contribute importantly to the many histories and theories of modernism that are redrawing boundaries to include the achievement of women writers.Trade Review"The first comprehensive study of H.D.'s prose, Penelope's Web is important both as a study of H.D.'s writing and as a thoughtful contribution to the remapping of modernism that critically engages poststructuralist theories of the feminine and skillfully negotiates between linguistic, materialist, and psychoanalytic interpretive strategies." American Literature"...a high-gear example of complex literary criticism bursting-at-the-seams with insights. Unusually perceptive are her insights into H.D.'s analysis with Freud, reflecting the care and thoroughness with which Friedman has read her Freud. She is equally skilled in placing H.D.'s prose within the context of modernist prose experimentation....a staggering variety of psychological and textual issues coloring H.D.'s prose are given illumination....This strikes me as literary criticism at its most dynamically imaginative and undogmatic, a criticism worthy of a poet and fiction writer as various as H.D....here is a noble reading of a noble oeuvre of poet's prose." Norman Weinstein, American Book Review"...Friedman's contribution to the burgeoning field of scholarship on this once-neglected author of lyric and epic poetry, historical novels, romans à clef, memoirs, and 'tributes' to Ezra Pound and Sigmund Freud is unparalleled....Friedman's Penelope's Web is an exemplary affirmative reading of H.D.'s work: a powerful new reading of her many and extremely varied prose writings; a provocative study by an American feminist who is self-consciously negotiating with post-structuralist theories of language and subjectivity while at the same time reaffirming her commitment to the idea of female-centered poetics." Ann Ardis, NovelTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the double weave of H. D.'s prose modernism; 1. 'H. D. - Who is she?': discourses of self-creation; 2. Origins: rescriptions of desire in HER; 3. Madrigals: love, war and the the return of the repressed; 4. Borderlines: diaspora in the history novels and the Dijon series; 5. Rebirths: re/membering the father and mother; Coda: bridging the double discourse in H. D.' Oeuvre; Chronology: dating H. D.'s writing; Notes; Works cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisSean Latham is Pauline Walter Endowed Chair of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. He is editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, co-founder of the Modernist Journals Project. His teaching and research focuses on modernist studies, James Joyce, periodicals, media theory, and the digital humanities. He is the author or editor of nine books including Am I a Snob?: Modernism and the Novel (Cornell University Press, 2003), The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), and The Little Review Ulysses (New York: Yale University Press, 2015).Gayle Rogers is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He works primarily on global modernisms, literary history, translation, comparative literature, and periodicals. His publications include Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (2016), Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (2012), and a number of works in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Comparative Literature, NOVEL, Journal of Modern Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, and 100 Escritores del siglo XX.Trade ReviewThe field of modernist studies consists in large part of debates over how the field should be defined…[This book] is an elegant, lucid, and helpful introduction to the field of modernist studies. Yet— and to its very great credit—it does not shy away from the definitional problems I have described but weaves them into a clear articulation of the difficulties and contradictions at the heart of modernism as a project and as a field. * Twentieth-Century Literature *Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * CHOICE *Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers offer a perfectly timed history … that will be of immediate interest to anyone who studies modernism and twentieth-century literary history … They offer a succinct, often fascinating account of how and why it has become impossible to offer a tidy definition of modernism … The picture that emerges from Latham and Rogers’s narrative is one of incredible complexity and variety … With this condensed, lucid, compelling history, Latham and Rogers enable their readers … to learn what has been accomplished in the last century of interrogating modernism and then discover what tasks remain. Because of the significant critical generosity that underwrites this study, we can conclude, with Pound, Latham, and Rogers, that there is still much to do. * James Joyce Quarterly *An ambitious project … tracing the evolution of the term “modernism” from a cultural buzzword to a consolidated … signifier of a particular set of artistic conventions and works … It would not be surprising to see this study on any modernist’s bookshelf. * Make It New (The Ezra Pound Society) *An excellent account of the development of the idea of Modernism, with a useful glossary and a very good critical bibliography. * Ian Patterson, University of Cambridge, UK *The writers display deep and wide expertise as they move nimbly over more than a century’s worth of fraught material. They offer students and colleagues a thorough overview of the debates that have constituted the field they call "modernist studies." * boundary 2 *An engaging introduction to the fraught history of modernism as a critical and aesthetic category, the book makes a substantive case for the lability of its subject ... This is disciplinary historiography at its most lucid, and the narrative weaves introduce readers to or reminds them of an impressive number of arguments without ever feeling rushed, over-stuffed, or, most importantly, tangential ... Latham and Rogers append an extensive critical bibliography of significant works in modernist studies, which should prove invaluable to students and early researchers looking for direction in navigating such a diverse field. The detail of this apparatus speaks to the utility of Modernism as a whole, a book that should become a staple in modernist classrooms and dissertation reading lists for the foreseeable future. * The Year's Work in English Studies *Latham and Rogers succeed in providing in the four chapters of their book an excellent introduction to the shifting conceptualizations and criticisms of modernism in literary and artistic debates. * Contributions to the History of Concepts *Admirably, the authors manage to produce not only a survey of the term’s complex trajectory, but one laced with important critical contentions ... Latham and Rogers’s analyses make their book far more than just an introductory survey. * Textual Practice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Is there a there there? Chapter 1: The Emergence of “Modernism” Chapter 2: Consolidation Chapter 3: Iron Filings Chapter 4: Networks Glossary Critical Bibliography Works Cited

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Book SynopsisModernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and ''90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth, white surfaces of new architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I Geist. 1.From locus genii to Heart of the City: Embracing the Spirit of the City. 2. Straight or Crooked Streets? The Contested Rational Spirit of the Modern Metropolis. 3. August Endell: The Spirit and the Beauty of the City. Part II Place. 4. Embodying the Spirit of the Metropolis: the Warenhaus Wetheim, Berlin. 5. The Hamburg Bismarck as City Crown and National Monument. 6. The Lantern and the Glass: On the Themes of Renewal and Dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist Art and Architecture. Part III Faith. 7. "Cities More Fair to Become the Dwelling Place of Thy Children": Transcendent Modernity in British Urban Reconstruction. 8. Privet: Theologies of Privacy in Some Modernist Urbanism. 9. Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt and the Reconstruction of Cologne. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisPraise for the First Edition Stahl offers the solvability of equations from the historical point of view...one of the best books available to support a one-semester introduction to abstract algebra. CHOICE Introductory Modern Algebra: A Historical Approach, Second Edition presents the evolution of algebra and provides readers with the opportunity to view modern algebra as a consistent movement from concrete problems to abstract principles. With a few pertinent excerpts from the writings of some of the greatest mathematicians, the Second Edition uniquely facilitates the understanding of pivotal algebraic ideas. The author provides a clear, precise, and accessible introduction to modern algebra and also helps to develop a more immediate and well-grounded understanding of how equations lead to permutation groups and what those groups can inform us about such diverse items as multivariate functions and the 15-puzzle. Featuring new Trade Review“An in-depth explanation of the principles and practices of modern algebra in terms of the historical development from the Renaissance solution of the cubic equation to Dedekind's ideals.” (Expofairs.com, 12 November 2015) “This book is an excellent book for an upper-level, undergraduate, one or two semester course, in modern algebra, for a typical University student population that is not especially strong in proofs.” (MAA Reviews, 13 January 2014)Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 The Early History 1 1.1 The Breakthrough 1 2 Complex Numbers 9 2.1 Rational Functions of Complex Numbers 9 2.2 Complex Roots 17 2.3 Solvability by Radicals I 23 2.4 Ruler and Compass Constructibility 26 2.5 Orders of Roots of Unity 36 2.6 The Existence of Complex Numbers* 38 3 Solutions of Equations 45 3.1 The Cubic Formula 45 3.2 Solvability by Radicals II 49 3.3 Other Types of Solutions* 50 4 Modular Arithmetic 57 4.1 Modular Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication 57 4.2 The Euclidean Algorithm and Modular Inverses 62 4.3 Radicals in Modular Arithmetic* 69 4.4 The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic* 70 5 The Binomial Theorem and Modular Powers 75 5.1 The Binomial Theorem 75 5.2 Fermat's Theorem and Modular Exponents 85 5.3 The Multinomial Theorem* 90 5.4 The Euler φ-Function* 92 6 Polynomials Over a Field 99 6.1 Fields and Their Polynomials 99 6.2 The Factorization of Polynomials 107 6.3 The Euclidean Algorithm for Polynomials 113 6.4 Elementary Symmetric Polynomials* 119 6.5 Lagrange's Solution of the Quartic Equation* 125 7 Galois Fields 131 7.1 Galois's Construction of His Fields 131 7.2 The Galois Polynomial 139 7.3 The Primitive Element Theorem 144 7.4 On the Variety of Galois Fields* 147 8 Permutations 155 8.1 Permuting the Variables of a Function I 155 8.2 Permutations 158 8.3 Permuting the Variables of a Function II 166 8.4 The Parity of a Permutation 169 9 Groups 183 9.1 Permutation Groups 183 9.2 Abstract Groups 192 9.3 Isomorphisms of Groups and Orders of Elements 199 9.4 Subgroups and Their Orders 206 9.5 Cyclic Groups and Subgroups 215 9.6 Cayley's Theorem 218 10 Quotient Groups and their Uses 225 10.1 Quotient Groups 225 10.2 Group Homomorphisms 234 10.3 The Rigorous Construction of Fields 240 10.4 Galois Groups and Resolvability of Equations 253 11 Topics in Elementary Group Theory 261 11.1 The Direct Product of Groups 261 11.2 More Classifications 265 12 Number Theory 273 12.1 Pythagorean triples 273 12.2 Sums of two squares 278 12.3 Quadratic Reciprocity 285 12.4 The Gaussian Integers 293 12.5 Eulerian integers and others 304 12.6 What is the essence of primality? 310 13 The Arithmetic of Ideals 317 13.1 Preliminaries 317 13.2 Integers of a Quadratic Field 319 13.3 Ideals 322 13.4 Cancelation of Ideals 337 13.5 Norms of Ideals 341 13.6 Prime Ideals and Unique Factorization 343 13.7 Constructing Prime Ideals 347 14 Abstract Rings 355 14.1 Rings 355 14.2 Ideals 358 14.3 Domains 361 14.4 Quotients of Rings 367 A Excerpts: Al-Khwarizmi 377 B Excerpts: Cardano 383 C Excerpts: Abel 389 D Excerpts: Galois 395 E Excerpts: Cayley 401 F Mathematical Induction 405 G Logic, Predicates, Sets and Functions 413 G.1 Truth Tables 413 G.2 Modeling Implication 415 G.3 Predicates and their Negation 418 G.4 Two Applications 419 G.5 Sets 421 G.6 Functions 422 Biographies 427 Bibliography 431 Solutions to Selected Exercises 433 Index 440 Notation 444

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Book SynopsisA look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist style Throughout the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, the graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray everyday life during the machine age. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 21, 2021–January 17, 2022)Trade Review“[In] Modern Times…there is a particularly good range of bold lino cuts by Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews and their contemporaries.”—Catherine Croft, C20 Magazine

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Book SynopsisInterest in the study of national identity as a collective phenomenon is a growing concern among the social and political sciences. This book addresses the scholarly interest in examining the origins of ideologies and social practices that give historical meaning, cohesion and uniqueness to modern national communities. It focuses on the various routes taken towards the construction of cultural authenticity as an inspirational purpose of nation-building and reveals the diversity of the themes, practices and symbols used to encourage self-identification and communality. Among the techniques explored are the dramatization of suffering and tragedy, the exaltation of heroes and deeds, the evocation of landscape, nature and the arts and the delimitation of collective values to be pursued during reconstruction in post-war periods.Trade Review’...the volume has been well-selected with a good balance between theory and case studies. The texts are logically arranged, and drawn together well by the introduction and conclusion. Many chapters have been translated from French, making them more widely available...The broad focus and extensive theoretical material mean that most readers will find at least several useful chapters herein.’ The Global Review of Ethnopolitics ’This book will please those who are interested in the theoretical, symbolic, social and conflicting dimensions of nationalism. It combines a certain unity of problematique with a great diversity of topics. The essays are of mixed interest, but they offer a fair sampling of European (and mostly French) research on national identity.’ Nationalism and Ethnic Politics ’...this collection of articles brings some fresh life into understanding national identity.’ Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism ’...readers of this rich volume will enjoy a piece of work that goes a long way towards helping the social sciences recognize the crucial influence of national structures in the shaping of group identities.’ Intercultural Education ’...an interesting and useful addition...some of the case studies provided here are very illuminating. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of academic disciplines and, indeed, it is one that I have recommended to many of my final-year and masters-level students.’ Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The study of national identity, Natividad Gutiérrez. Dimensions of National Identity: Interpretations of national identity, Anthony D. Smith; Theories of national personality revisited: Anglo-American models and French conceptions, Philippe Claret; National identity and modernity, Montserrat Guibernau. Symbolizing the Nation: Forging the authentic nation: Alpine landscape and Swiss national identity, Oliver Zimmer; Folk culture and the construction of European national identities between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, Anne-Marie Thiese and Catherine Bertho-Lavenir; The shaping of a nation: Catalan history and historicity in Post-Franco Spain, Yolaine Cultiaux. Teaching National Identity: Recreating the French nation: the teaching of history at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques at the end of the nineteenth century, Corinne Delmas; National identity construction and the teacher’s unions of the Germanys and Japan, 1945-1955, Julian Dierkes; Hindu nationalism and the social welfare strategy, Christophe Jaffrelot. Disrupted National Identities: Nationalism and the politics of national identities in Latin America: gender, power and racism, Sallie Westwood; The difficult stabilization of Turkish national identity, Gérard Groc; Between mimesis and rebellion: the vicissitudes of Romanian nationalism, Catherine Durandin. Conclusion: Culture and national identity, Alain Dieckhoff.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectural affinities, as well as connections with the international Modern movement (including José Antonio Coderch, Lluís Clotet, Federico Correa, Alfonso Milá, Oscar Tusquets, Manuel Valls). Observations on the common threads that link eight case studies are enriched by a photographic essay by David Grandorge and by detailed architectural drawings on a number of significant projects of the time. An interview with the authors Stephen Bates (Sergison Bates architects, London) and Fernando Villavecchia (Liebman Villavecchia Arquitectos, Barcelona) provides a background to their shared fascination with Cadaqués. A timeline contextualises the projects against the backdrop of historical events and the milestone in the lives of the clients and architects who made the village a unique locus in the history of architecture. Text in English and Spanish (Spanish in an inserted booklet).

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