מרץ 2017

הספרייה מציעה לקוראיה מידי חודש רשימת ספרים וכתבי-עת חדשים שנוספו לאוספיה כל רשומה מכילה:
מס' מיון, מחבר, כותר, מוציא לאור, שנת הוצאה , נושאים, מס' מערכת תוכן עיניינים ותקציר.
כדי לראות מצב ההשאלות יש ללחוץ על כותר.
 

  028.02 GOM

Gomez, Jeff 

 Print is dead : books in our digital age

 New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

 Contents  

Stop the presses -- Byte flight -- Us and them -- Newspapers are no longer news -- Totally wired -- Generation download -- Generation upload -- On demand everything -- Ebooks and the revolution that didn’t happen -- Saying goodbye to the book -- Writers in a digital future -- Readers in a digital future -- Will books disappear?

Abstract  

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change.

Subject  

Book industries and trade -- Forecasting.

 Publishers and publishing -- Effect of technological innovations on.

41590

 

 159.94 DEK

 De Koven, Bernard 

The well-played game : a player’s philosophy

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2013.

 Contents  

Searching for the well-played game -- Guidelines -- The play community -- Keeping it going -- Changing the game -- Ending the game -- Encore -- People, places, things -- Playing for keeps -- Playing to win vs having to win -- Completion.

Abstract  

"In ’The Well-Played Game’, games guru Bernard De Koven explores the interaction of play and games, offering players - as well as game designers, educators, and scholars - a guide to how games work. De Koven’s classic treatise on how human beings play together, first published in 1978, investigates many issues newly resonant in the era of video and computer games, including social gameplay and player modification. The digital game industry, now moving beyond its emphasis on graphic techniques to focus on player interaction, has much to learn from ’The Well-Played Game’." -- from the book jacket.

Subject  

Games -- Philosophy.

 Play (Philosophy)

 Game theory

41592

 

336.01 AND    

  Simon P. Anderson, Andre de Palma, and Jacques-Francois Thisse

Discrete choice theory of product differentiation

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 1992

 Abstract  

Product differentiation - in quality, packaging, design, color, and style - has an important impact on consumer choice. It also provides a rich source of data that has been largely unexplored because there has been no generally accepted way to model the information available. This important study shows that an understanding of product differentiation is crucial to understanding how modern market economies function and that differentiated markets can be analyzed using discrete choice models of consumer behavior. It provides a valuable synthesis of existing, often highly technical work in both differentiated markets and discrete choice models and extends this work to establish a coherent theoretical underpinning for research in imperfect competition.The discrete choice approach provides an ideal framework for describing the demands for differentiated products and can be used for studying most product differentiation models in the literature. By introducing extra dimensions of product heterogeneity, the framework also provides richer models of firm location.Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation introduces students and researchers to the field, starting at the beginning and moving through to frontier research. The first four chapters detail the consumer-theoretic foundations underlying choice probability systems (including an overview of the main models used in the psychological theory of choice), while the next four chapters apply the probabilistic choice approach to oligopoly models of product differentiation, product selection, and location choice. The final chapter suggests various extensions of the models presented as well topics for further research.Simon P. Anderson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. André de Palma is Professor of Marketing at the University of Geneva. Jacques-François Thisse is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, and is on th

Subject  

Consumers’ preferences -- Mathematical models

 Oligopolies -- Econometric models

 Product differentiation -- Mathematical models

41373

 

396.3 MED

 Mediating moms : mothers in popular culture

Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, [2012]

 Contents

 Introduction: Popular culture’s maternal embrace / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Mommy nearest: TV for preschoolers and the search for the good enough (working) mother / Stephanie Wardrop -- "Won’t somebody think of the children?": The nineties subversion of the animated mother / Jo Johnson -- Real(ity) TV practices of surveillance: evaluating mothers in Supernanny and Crash test mommy / Fiona Joy Green -- "The bump is back": celebrity moms, entertainment journalism, and the "media mother police" / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Are you a politician or a mother? / Jennifer Bell -- Motherhood, murder, and the media: Joanne Hayes and the Kerry babies case / Nicola Goc -- "Shit and string beans," boredom and babies: bad mothers in popular women’s fiction since 1968 / Imelda Whelehan -- Mothering across generations: L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables at 100 / Irene Gammel -- "You have to take it and own it": Yo’ Mama magazine as a space of refusal for teenage mothers / Beth O’Connor -- Mediating risky motherhood: a discursive analysis of offline and online responses to the oldest British mother-to-be / Maud Perrier -- And now, the breast of the story: realistic portrayals of breastfeeding in contemporary television / Kathryn Pallister -- Watch them suffer, watch them die: depictions of African mothers and motherhood in famine footage and in Fernando Meirelles’s The constant gardener / H. Louise Davis -- The reality of TV labour: Birth stories / Dominique Russell -- Mothering in the middle and self-care: just one more thing to do / Debra Langan -- S/Kin of virtual mothers: loss and mourning on a Korean birthmothers’ website / Hosu Kim -- Fostering the passive maternal experience: language and prescription in the What to expect series of maternity literature / Sally Mennill -- Motherhood, prime-time TV, and Grey’s anatomy / Latham Hunter --

 Tom vs. Brooke: or postpartum depression as bad mothering in popular culture / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt--Other mothers: looking at the matemal desire in the I world / Lenora Perry-Jamaniego -- Coming to terms: ethics, motherhood, and the cultural science fiction of the gene / Stuart J. Murray

Abstract  

A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media and popular culture

 In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist, psychoanalytic, sociological, literary, and cultural studies perspectives, the twenty chapters in this book examine an array of current and relevant contemporary topics related to maternal identities such as working, stay-at-home, ambivalent, absent, good, bad, single, teen, elder, celebrity, and lesbian mothers; and issues such as the mommy wars, self-care, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, infanticide, adoption, sex and sexuality, breastfeeding, post-partum depression, fertility, genetics, and reproductive technologies. Contributors from Canada, the United States, Britain, and Australia engage critically and theoretically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture media, and chart some of the provocative and liberating ways that we can use and interpret this media to encourage and promote alternative and transformative maternal readings, identities, and practices. Mediating Moms looks at mothers as imaged by and in the media; how mothers mediate or negotiate these images according to their historical, corporeal, and lived personhoods; and how scholars mediate the popular and academic discourses of motherhood as a way of registering, strengthening, and alleviating the tensions between representation and reality. Mediating Moms engages critically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, while mapping some of the provocative and liberating ways that mothers can use the media to transform and reaffirm their identities. Contributors include Jennifer Bell (Alberta), H. Louise Davis (Miami), Irene Gammel (Ryerson), Nicola Goc (Tasmania), Fiona Joy Green (Winnipeg), Latham Hunter (Mohawk), Joanne Ella Johnson, Hosu Kim (Staten Island), Beth O’Connor (Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Debra Langan (Wilfrid

 Engaging critically with stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture, Mediating Moms maps some of the provocative and liberating ways mothers can use the media to transform and reaffirm their identities.

Subject  

Motherhood in popular culture

Motherhood -- Social aspects

41610

 

  608(091) BEC

  Beckmann, John

 A history of inventions, discoveries, and origins

[New York] : [Viking], [2016].

Abstract

 In Beckmann’s work, we have endeavoured to improve it principally by altering such names, characters, descriptions, and opinions as have become obsolete, or are now known to be erroneous; and by such additions as seemed necessary to bring the accounts of the subjects treated of to the present state of knowledge. In some cases, these additions may appear to diverge from the declared object of the work; but in this we have only followed the example of Beckmann himself, who frequently deviates from a strict historical path, and we think advantageously, for the purpose of introducing curious, instructive, or amusing information. In most cases, where the subject under consideration is a process of manufacture, we have given a brief outline of its practice or theory, unless this had previously been done by the author.

Subject  

Inventions

 Inventions -- History.

 Inventors

 Discoveries in science

41554

 

‫ ‪E אלמ ‬
  ‫ אלמקיס, דוד ‬
המרת אנרגיה : שנאים ומכונות חשמל

מחלקת הפרסומים, משרד החינוך, התרבות והספורט, [--19]. ‬

Subject  

Electricity

 Electric transformers

41638

  E78 BUC

  Buck, John A. 

 Fundamentals of optical fibers / Second edition

  Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, [2004]

 Contents  

Selected topics in electromagnetic wave propagation -- Symmetric dielectric slab waveguides -- Weakly-guiding fibers with step index profiles -- Loss mechanisms in silica fiber -- Dispersion -- Special-purpose index profiles -- Nonlinear effects in fibers I: nonresonant processes -- Nonlinear effects in fibers II: resonant processes and amplification

Abstract  

Fundamentals of Optical Fibers, second Edition offers readers a timely and consistent introduction to the fundamental principles of light propagation in fibers. In it, the author reviews, in depth, fundamental wave guiding concepts, the influence of various fiber structures and materials on light transmission, nonlinear light propagation effects occurring in fibers, and various measurement techniques. Since the chief application of optical fibers is in communication systems, throughout the book the focus is on topics, which pertain to that domain.

Subject

 Fiber optics

 Optical fibers

 Optical communications

 Optical wave guides

41558

 

 TB_E79.3 GON

Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods.

 Digital image processing /  Fourth edition, global edition

 New York, NY : Pearson, [2018]

 Abstract  

Introduce your students to image processing with the industry’s most prized text For 40 years, Image Processing has been the foundational text for the study of digital image processing. The book is suited for students at the college senior and first-year graduate level with prior background in mathematical analysis, vectors, matrices, probability, statistics, linear systems, and computer programming. As in all earlier editions, the focus of this edition of the book is on fundamentals. The 4th Edition, which celebrates the book’s 40th anniversary, is based on an extensive survey of faculty, students, and independent readers in 150 institutions from 30 countries. Their feedback led to expanded or new coverage of topics such as deep learning and deep neural networks, including convolutional neural nets, the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), maximally-stable extremal regions (MSERs), graph cuts, k-means clustering and superpixels, active contours (snakes and level sets), and exact histogram matching. Major improvements were made in reorganizing the material on image transforms into a more cohesive presentation, and in the discussion of spatial kernels and spatial filtering. Major revisions and additions were made to examples and homework exercises throughout the book. For the first time, we added MATLAB projects at the end of every chapter, and compiled support packages for you and your teacher containing, solutions, image databases, and sample code.

Subject

Image processing -- Digital techniques.

41552

 

  635.82 COT

  Cotter, Tradd 

Organic mushroom farming and mycoremediation : simple to advanced and experimental techniques for indoor and outdoor cultivation

White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014

 Contents  

The ecology and life cycle of cultivated mushrooms -- The seven basic stages of mushroom cultivation -- Choosing a mushroom to cultivate -- Choosing, handling, and storing spawn -- Cultivating mushrooms outdoors on logs, stumps, and wood chips -- Cultivating mushrooms on compost and livestock waste -- Cultivating mushrooms on pasteurized or sterilized media -- Cropping containers -- Natural pest control and disease management -- Recycling, composting, and vermicomposting with mushrooms -- Urban mushroom cultivation -- Shroomin’ off the grid -- Mushroom products and cutting-edge applications -- Mushroom-infused beer, wine, and spirits -- Mushroom marketing -- Fungi in the classroom -- Basic laboratory construction, equipment, and procedures -- Starting cultures and spawn generation -- Culture collection maintenance -- Advanced cultivation and research strategies -- Morel cultivation: research update -- Introduction to mycoremediation -- The genus Agaricus (portabella mushrooms and relatives) -- The genus Agrocybe (black poplar) -- The genus Auricularia (wood ear) -- The genus Clitocybe (blewit) -- The genus Coprinus (shaggy mane) -- The genus Fistulina (beefsteak) -- The genus Flammulina (enoki, velvet foot) -- The genera Fomes, Fomitopsis, and Laricifomes (iceman polypore) -- The genus Ganoderma (reishi and other varnished polypores) -- The genus Grifola (maitake, hen of the woods) -- The genus Hericium (lion’s mane, pom-poms) -- The genus Hypholoma (brick top) -- The genus Hypsizygus (elm oyster, shimeji) -- The genus Laetiporus (chicken of the woods) -- The genus Lentinula (shiitake) -- The genera Macrocybe and Calocybe (giant macrocybe, giant milky) -- The genera Macrolepiota and Lepiota (parasol) -- The genus Pholiota (nameko) -- The genus Piptoporus (birch polypore) -- The genus Pleurotus (oyster mushrooms) -- The genus Sparassis (cauliflower) -- The genus Stropharia (king stropharia, garden giant, wine cap) -- T

Abstract

 What would it take to grow mushrooms in space? How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides? Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom-growing kit that would provide high-quality edible protein and bioremediation in the wake of a natural disaster? How can we advance our understanding of morel cultivation so that growers stand a better chance of success? For more than twenty years, mycology expert Tradd Cotter has been pondering these questions and conducting trials in search of the answers. In Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation, Cotter not only offers readers an in-depth exploration of best organic mushroom cultivation practices; he shares the results of his groundbreaking research and offers myriad ways to apply your cultivation skills and further incorporate mushrooms into your life--whether your goal is to help your community clean up industrial pollution or simply to settle down at the end of the day with a cold Reishi-infused homebrew ale.

Subject  

Mushroom culture.

 Mushrooms -- Organic farming.

 Fungal remediation

41465

 

  635.82 RUS

Russell, Stephen

 The essential guide to cultivating mushrooms : simple and advanced techniques for Gowing shiitake, oyster, lion’s mane, and maitake mushrooms at home

 North Adams, Massachusetts : Storey Publishing, 2014

 Contents  

Getting to know mushrooms -- Basic growing options -- Combating contaminants -- Your first grow -- Pressure cookers and flow hoods -- Grain spawn -- Casings -- Liquid cultures -- Working with sawdust -- Midsize fruiting chambers -- Agar cultures -- Large-scale grain spawn -- Bulk substrates.

Abstract  

Learn to grow the most popular species - oyster, shiitake, lion’s mane, and maitake - in controlled indoor environments at home. Beginning with the best ways to ensure success with a kit and proceeding through advanced techniques for creating sawdust spawn, working with liquid cultures and fruiting chambers, and much more, Stephen Russell covers everything the home grower needs to know. A trusted reference for market growers, this book is also the perfect companion for hobbyists craving a steady supply of dinner-table mushrooms"--Back cover.

Subject  

Edible mushrooms.

 Mushrooms.

41466

 

 681.3.07.01 COG

 Cognitive computing for big data systems over IoT : frameworks, tools and applications

 Cham : Springer, 2018

 Contents  

Beyond Automation: The Cognitive IoT -- Artificial Intelligence Brings Sense to the Internet of Things -- Cybercrimes Investigation and Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things Based on Data Science Methods -- Modeling and Analysis of Multi-Objective Service Selection Scheme in IoT-Cloud Environment -- Cognitive data science automatic fraud detection solution, based on Benford? s law, fuzzy logic with elements of machine learning -- Reliable Cross Layer Design for E-health Applications -- IoT Perspective -- Erasure Codes for Reliable Communication in Internet-ofThings (IoT) embedded with Wireless Sensors -- Review: Security and Privacy Issues of Fog Computing -- A Review on Security and Privacy Challenges of Big Data -- Recent Developments in Deep Learning with Applications -- High-Level Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in a Cognitive IoT/WoT Context -- Applications of IoT in Healthcare -- Security Stipulations on IoT Networks -- A Hyper Heuristic Localization Based Cloned Node Detection Technique using GSA Based Simulated Annealing in Sensor Networks -- Review on Analysis of the Application Areas and Algorithms used in Data Wrangling in Big Data -- An innovation model for Smart Traffic Management System Using Internet of Things(IoT).#xE000.

Abstract  

This book brings a high level of fluidity to analytics and addresses recent trends, innovative ideas, challenges and cognitive computing solutions in big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). It explores domain knowledge, data science reasoning and cognitive methods in the context of the IoT, extending current data science approaches by incorporating insights from experts as well as a notion of artificial intelligence, and performing inferences on the knowledge The book provides a comprehensive overview of the constituent paradigms underlying cognitive computing methods, which illustrate the increased focus on big data in IoT problems as they evolve. It includes novel, in-depth fundamental research contributions from a methodological/application in data science accomplishing sustainable solution for the future perspective. Mainly focusing on the design of the best cognitive embedded data science technologies to process and analyze the large amount of data collected through the IoT, and aid better decision making, the book discusses adapting decision-making approaches under cognitive computing paradigms to demonstrate how the proposed procedures as well as big data and IoT problems can be handled in practice. This book is a valuable resource for scientists, professionals, researchers, and academicians dealing with the new challenges and advances in the specific areas of cognitive computing and data science approaches.

Subject

 Big data.

 Data mining

 Information storage and retrieval systems

41535

  7.036(43) SCH (MEG)

Schwitters, Kurt

 Kurt Schwitters : space, image, exile.

 London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

 Contents  

Radiating space -- The wandering Merzbau -- For the hand -- The image in exile.

Abstract  

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theorist, a Dadaist, and a writer whose influence extends from Robert Rauschenberg and Eva Hesse to Thomas Hirschhorn. But while his early experiments in collage and installation from the interwar period have garnered much critical acclaim, his later work has generally been ignored. In the first book to fill this gap, Megan R. Luke tells the fascinating, even moving story of the work produced by the aging, isolated artist under the Nazi regime and during his years in exile. Combining new biographical material with archival research, Luke surveys Schwitters’s experiments in shaping space and the development of his Merzbau, describing his haphazard studios in Scandinavia and the United Kingdom and the smaller, quieter pieces he created there. She makes a case for the enormous relevance of Schwitters’s aesthetic concerns to contemporary artists, arguing that his later work provides a guide to new narratives about modernism in the visual arts. These pieces, she shows, were born of artistic exchange and shaped by his rootless life after exile, and they offer a new way of thinking about the history of art that privileges itinerancy over identity and the critical power of humorous inversion over unambiguous communication. Packed with images, Kurt Schwitters completes the narrative of an artist who remains a considerable force today. -- Publisher’s website.

Per.Sub.  

Schwitters, Kurt 1887-1948.

Subject

 Artists -- Germany -- 20th century.

 Artists -- Germany -- Biography.

 Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History

41599

 

‫ ‪7.05 ברו ‬

  ‫ ברודרמן, אלי ‬

 ‫ יופי של צריכה : חקירה אסתטית של המוצר המעוצב

 ‫ רמת-גן : | אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, [תשע"ז 2017]. ‬

Contents

‫ מבוא -- קליפה I. אובייקט אסתטי וחוויה אסתטית: חוויה אסתטית והיעדר אינטרס -- שיפוט הטעם של קאנט במבחן מוצר הצריכה המעוצב -- קליפה II. מאובייקט אסתטי למוצר צריכה מעוצב: טבעו של אובייקט אסתטי מעוצב וקשריו לתרבות -- קטגוריות של תרבות כתכונות אסתטיות -- קליפה III. מוצר צריכה מעוצב בתרבות: יופי מוסרי והיעדר אינטרס תרבותי -- האתיקה של המותג: המותג כחבר -- אסתטיקה של צורה תרבותית: סיכום שהוא התחלה -- ביבליוגרפיה ורשימת קיצורים -- מפתח שמות ומושגים. ‬

Abstract

 ‫ ספר זה מבקש לבדוק את אפשרות כינונה של תאוריה אסתטית חדשה למוצר הצריכה המעוצב, תאוריה שמביאה בחשבון את זמנה ומנסה לפתוח את שדה המחקר האסתטי למפגש ודיאלוג עם שדה התרבות. זהו הספר הראשון בשפה העברית העוסק בפילוסופיה ובאסתטיקה של העיצוב תוך דיון ודיאלוג עם הכותבים העכשוויים והמרכזיים בתחום האסתטיקה. הספר מבקש לבדוק האם המסגרת הנאו-קאנטיאנית של המחקר באסתטיקה העכשווית מתאימה לחקירה של נושא העיצוב ומוצרי הצריכה, האם היא רלוונטית והאם היא משאירה מקום לתרבות, ואם כן כיצד? כמו כן פותח הספר דיון על החיקוי (imitation), על יופי פונקציונלי ויופי מוסרי, ודן בטבעם לאור תרבות הצריכה. ‬

Subject

 Product design -- Philosophy.

 Industrial design

 Aesthetics

 Consumption (Economics)

41624

 

 7.05 KIN

 Simon King and Kuen Chang

 Understanding industrial design : principles for UX and interaction design

 First edition

 Sebastopol, California : O’Reilly Media, 2016.

Contents  

A brief history of industrial and interaction design -- Sensorial -- Simple -- Enduring -- Playful -- Thoughtful -- Sustainable -- Beautiful -- Conclusion.

Abstract  

"With the coming flood of connected products, many UX and interaction designers are looking into hardware design, a discipline largely unfamiliar to them. If you’re among those who want to blend digital and physical design concepts successfully, this practical book helps you explore seven long-standing principles of industrial design."--

Subject  

Industrial design

 User-centered system design

41553

 

 7.05:641.5 REB

  Rebora, Giovanni 

Culture of the fork : a brief history of food in Europe

New York : Columbia University Press, 2001

 Contents  

Grain and bread -- Soup with bread, polenta, vegetable stew, and pasta -- Stuffed pasta -- Water and salt -- Cheese -- Meat -- The farmyard -- Fish -- Salt-cured products and sausages -- Vegetables and fruits -- Fat was good -- Spices -- The Atlantic, the East Indies, and a few West Indies -- From the Iberian Peninsula to the distant Americas : the sugar route -- From Europe to America -- To eat at the same mensa -- Eating and drinking -- Dining with discernment -- Appendix : Dining with Christopher Columbus.

Abstract

 We know where he went, what he wrote, and even what he wore, but what in the world did Christopher Columbus eat? The Renaissance and the age of discovery introduced Europeans to exotic cultures, mores, manners, and ideas. Along with the cross-cultural exchange of Old and New World, East and West, came new foodstuffs, preparations, and flavors. That kitchen revolution led to the development of new utensils and table manners. Some of the impact is still felt―and tasted―today. Giovanni Rebora has crafted an elegant and accessible history filled with fascinating information and illustrations. He discusses the availability of resources, how people kept from starving in the winter, how they farmed, how tastes developed and changed, what the lower classes ate, and what the aristocracy enjoyed. The book is divided into brief chapters covering the history of bread, soups, stuffed pastas, the use of salt, cheese, meat, fish, fruits and vegetables, the arrival of butter, the quest for sugar, new world foods, setting the table, and beverages, including wine and tea. A special appendix, "A Meal with Columbus," includes a mini-anthology of recipes from the countries where he lived: Italy, Portugal, Spain, and England. Entertaining and enlightening, Culture of the Fork will interest scholars of history and gastronomy―and everyone who eats.

Subject  

Cooking, European.

 Food -- History.

 Gastronomy

 Food habits -- Europe

41556

 ‫ ‪711.43(569.4) שרו ‬
‫ שרון, סמדר 

"כך כובשים מולדת" : תכנון ויישוב חבל לכיש בשנות החמישים

חיפה : פרדס הוצאה לאור, תשע"ח 2017 ‬

 Abstract  ‫

ספרה של סמדר שרון מציע מבט ביקורתי נדיר על תהליך ההתיישבות בשנות החמישים. הספר מבוסס על מחקר היסטורי, סוציולוגי ופוליטי של תהליכי התכנון של חבל לכיש, של תהליך היישוב של המהגרים כחלק מההנדסה הדמוגרפית במרחב הקולוניאלי ושל פרויקט התִרבות הציוני. הניתוח המדוקדק של מסמכי ארכיון ומקורות ראשוניים נוספים פורש באופן מרתק את תפקידם של מומחים וסוכנים שונים — אם מתכננים ואם פוליטיקאים בעלי חזון — בפרויקט ההתיישבות בסְפר הישראלי המתהווה. לאורך הספר מתחדדת ההכרה התיאורטית והפוליטית בחשיבות הפרקטיקות המייצרות את המרחב הלאומי בשנות החמישים כאתר קונקרטי בו התכנון המודרני מייצר משמעות הנתפסת כמובנת מאליה, והופך את הסביבה למתווכת ולמשעתקת של יחסי הכוח. ספר זה מהווה תרומה חשובה למדף הספרים העוסקים ביחסי חברה, אתניות, פוליטיקה ומרחב בישראל. (פרופ׳ חיים יעקובי) ‬

Subject  

Regional planning -- Israel -- Lakhish Region.

 Lakhish Region (Israel) -- History

 Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century

 Land settlement -- Israel -- Lakhish Region -- History

41601

 

  721.05(569.4) ARM

  Armon, Eliezer 

If architecture is a language, then a building is a story

 Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia : Images Publishing Group, 2017 

Abstract

 "The difference between inspirational stories to the ones lacking inspiration often depends on the order the storyteller chooses to place his creation. In this sense, not only does this book represent a series of architect Eli Armon’s architectural achievements, but also provides a statement on his work in retrospect by attempting a story narrative that looks at the tale of creation. Thus, a new creation is formed, designed by choosing the picture angle, by editing the order of the pictures, and by writing words that interlace into a melody of structure and creation. Armon’s lyrical and philosophical points of view add another dimension to his architectural works that have created a texture of inspiration spots and have already turned into Places throughout our country." - Abridged text, from the Introduction. Armon is inspired by images from Israel and its landscape, worldwide cultures and the martial arts. His multidisciplinary and unconventional professional approach sees in the architectural planning the materialization of views, existential concepts, circles of life and faith, as one united and multifaceted work. His work is that of a curious researcher. It sprouts from biblical sources, the Hebrew letters, Jewish tradition and Kabbalah. List of projects: Holon Wolfson Railway Station, Tel Aviv; Lehavim-Rahat Railway Station; Beer-Sheva Central Railway Station; Department of Public Works, Beer-Sheva; Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development; Abraham’s Well Visitors’ Center, Beer-Sheva; Yad Sara, Beer-Sheva; Officers School Synagogue, Mitzpe Ramon; Yod Alef Community Center, Beer-Sheva; Ramot Sportive Community Center, Beer-Sheva; Kindergarten and Center for the Care of the Elderly, Meitar; El-Zahara School, Lod; Omer Comprehensive School; The Sports Hall, Omer; Culture Hall, Omer.

 This unique monograph delves into intriguing and beguiling architectural works by Eliezer Armon. Inspired by images from Israel and its landscape, worldwide cultures, and the martial arts, Armon’s multidisciplinary and unconventional professional approach to architecture sees in the architectural planning the materialization of views, existential concepts, circles of life and faith, as one united and multifaceted work. His work is that of a curious researcher. It sprouts from biblical sources, the Hebrew letters, Jewish tradition and Kabbalah.

Per.Sub.  

Armon, Eliezer, 1922-1995

Subject

 Architects -- Israel -- 20th century.

 Buildings

 Architectural design -- 20th century. -- Israel.

 Landscape architecture -- Israel.

 Architectural design

 Religious architecture

41423

 

‫ ‪727.7 ון-א ‬

‫ ון-אסן, יעל אילת מחבר ‬

 לחשוב מוזיאונים מחדש

[בני-ברק] : הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2016 ‬

 Contents  ‫

מבוא -- המוזיאולוגיה החדשה והשינויים הטכנולוגיים -- היברידיות -- המרחב המוזיאלי ויחסי זמן-מרחב חדשים -- הייצוג -- האובייקט -- האוסף והארכיון -- נרטיבים -- הראייה והמבט -- חוויה, גוף ונוכחות -- לחשוב מוזיאונים מחדש -- המקרה הישראלי - תהליכי ההתחדשות של מוזיאוני ישראל ותל אביב ‬

Abstract  ‫ רבים טוענים כי המוזיאון, כמוסד שתכליתו איסוף ותצוגה של נכסי אמנות, אינו רלוונטי לעידן הנוכחי. טענה זו עומדת בסתירה להתחדשותם של מוזיאונים קיימים ובעיקר להקמתם של מוזיאונים חדשים ברחבי העולם במבנים אדריכליים מרשימים ובתקציבי ענק. גם מיליוני המבקרים הפוקדים את המוזיאונים המתחדשים והחדשים מעידים על כך שהמוזיאון עודו רלוונטי. הספר לחשוב מוזיאונים מחדש בוחן את השינויים שעוברים מוזיאונים ומציע לראות ברבים מהם ביטוי לתמורות פרדיגמטיות שמקורן בטכנולוגיות החדשות ובהתאמתם של המוזיאונים לקהלי היעד שלהם. הניתוח המוצע בספר מתבסס על חקר תולדות האמנות והתרבות המוזיאלית, על תיאוריות ניו-מדיה ועל גישות ביקורתיות במדעי החברה והרוח. מתוך אלה מתגלה המוזיאון בארץ ובעולם כמרחב היברידי, שבו הממשי והווירטואלי מתלכדים לבלי הפרד. חלקו האחרון של הספר מוקדש לשני המוזיאונים הגדולים בארץ, מוזיאון ישראל בירושלים ומוזיאון תל אביב, שעברו בשנים האחרונות תהליכי התחדשות משמעותיים במטרה להתאים את עצמם לחשיבה מחודשת על אופי המוזיאון ועל המשמעויות הנגזרות ממנו ‬

Subject  

Museums

 Museum techniques

 Art museums -- History -- 20th century.

 Art museums -- History -- 21st century

41582

.

  741.5 SMO

 Smolderen, Thierry

 The origins of comics : from William Hogarth to Winsor McCay

 University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

 Contents  

William Hogarth: Readable Images -- Graffiti and Little Doodle Men -- The Arabesque Novels of Rodolphe Töpffer -- "Go, Little Book!" -- The Evolution of the Press -- A.B. Frost and the Photographic Revolution -- From the Label to the Balloon -- Winsor McCay: The Last Baroque

Abstract

 "In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Gustave Doré, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject  

Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism

41573

 

 745:687.01 HAR

 Harper’s Bazaar 150 years : the greatest moments

New York: Abrams, 2017.

 Contents

 Foreword / by Gwyneth Paltrow -- Introduction / by Glenda Bailey -- 1867-1933, Our bazaar: in the beginning, from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age -- 1933-1959, Astonish me: the making of the modern fashion magazine -- 1959-1972, What’s happening: space, race, and radical chic: Bazaar takes on the turbulent 1960s -- 1972-1992, The editor’s eye: the fashion magazine with "a little salt and pepper added" -- 1992-2001, The era of elegance: Kate Moss, the Clinton years, and the creative renaissance -- 2001-2017, Fashion’s back: Bazaar in the 21st century -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Abstract  

America’s first fashion magazine, Harper’s Bazaar has showcased the visions of legendary editors, photographers, and stylists and featured the works of noted writers since 1867. From its beginnings as a broadsheet aimed at the rising leisure class, the publication has since transformed into a magazine devoted to examining the lives of women through the lens of fashion. In celebration of the magazine’s 150th anniversary in 2017, Harper’s Bazaar: 150 Years captures the greats who have shaped the magazine over these decades. Harper’s Bazaar: 150 Years includes the most iconic pieces of work from the magazine’s archive: more than 150 photographs and covers and 50 text excerpts, including articles, poems, and works of fiction. Organized chronologically, the selections showcase the breadth of creativity and artistry that has been published in the pages of the magazine for more than a century and prove that Harper’s Bazaar is more than just a fashion magazine.

Corp.Sub.  

Harper’s Bazaar -- Pictorial works.

Title Sub.

 Harper’s bazaar -- Pictorial works

Subject  Fashion -- Periodicals.

 Fashion photography

 Clothing and dress

 Dress accessories

41597

 

 

‫ ‪745:687.01(569.4) חסו ‬
 ‫ חסון, רחל 

טראז: רקמה מקומית : תלבושות פלסטיניות מאוסף מ’ קליידמן

‫ ירושלים : יד ל.א. מאיר, המוזיאון לאמנות האסלאם, תשע"ה 2015 ‬

 ‬

Abstract  ‫

המוזיאון לאמנות האסלאם בירושלים מציג בימים אלה את התערוכה "טראז: רקמה מקומית" המבקשת להפנות זרקור אל אמנות הרקמה הפלשתינית ואל האופן שבאמצעות אמנות זו יצרו לעצמן הנשים הפלשתיניות שפה וזהות מורכבת. במסגרת התערוכה יוצגו שבע מערכות לבוש נדירות מאוספו יוצא הדופן של מנואל קליידמן המונה מאות תלבושות פלשתיניות אותנטיות מסיני ועד הגליל. מערכות לבוש אלו הכוללות גם שמלות נישואין, מתאפיינות במגוון רב של סגנונות, סוגי רקמות בדים וצבעים המצביעים ומאפיינים את אזורי המוצא של הנשים הרוקמות. אמנות הרקמה בחברה הפלשתינית- הטכניקה, הדגמים והמוטיבים – עברה מאם לבת דורות רבים. הנערה הפלסטינית החלה לרקום את שמלות הנדוניה שלה מגיל 12 ולבשה אותן רק אחרי החתונה. בנות המשפחה הבוגרות הן שלימדו אותה את המלאכה. אף שהרקמה היא אמנות מסורתית ודגמיה שמרניים, יש בה גם ביטוי ליצירתיות אישית ‬

Subject  

Clothing and dress -- Israel.

 Fashion

 Costume -- Israel -- Exhibitions.

 Embroidery -- Israel -- Exhibitions.

 Palestinian Arabs -- Clothing -- Exhibitions

 Ethnic costume -- Israel -- Exhibitions.

 Art Israel -- Israel -- Collectors and collecting -- Exhibitions

41585

 

 

 ‫ ‪745.522(560) ארו ‬

ארוג באהבה : אריגי קילים מאנטוליה : אוסף גאורג ובירגיט ראבה, ברלין

ירושלים : יד ל. א. מאיר, המוזיאון לאמנות האסלאם, [תשס"ז] 2007. ‬

 ‬

Subject

 Carpets -- Turkey.

 Rugs, Oriental -- Turkey

 Decoration and ornament -- Turkey.

 Kilims -- Turkey

 Weaving -- Turkey.

 Weaving -- Technique

41584

 

 

 749.1.036 WEG (HOL)

  Wegner, Hans J. 

Wegner : just one good chair

Copenhagen : Design Museum Danmark ; Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, 2014

 Abstract  

The name of Hans J. Wegner (1914-2007) is inseparable from his unrivalled chairs, which have helped Danish design achieve international recognition. Any fan of design has his or her favorite among Wegner’s approximately 500 creations, and there is hardly an interior design magazine that has not included an illustration of his elegant China Chair (1943) or Y Chair (1950). Even John F. Kennedy sat on the Round Chair, now known simply as The Chair (1949). Trained as a furniture maker, Wegner typically made his prototypes by hand, using traditional joinery techniques such as tongue-and-groove or finger joints. In the process, he often pushed the limitations of wood, giving his designs an unequaled elegance. Their beauty was matched by their practicality: he considered comfort and ergonomics to be equally as important as appearance. Despite his concern for functionality, his personality and sense of humor also shone through his works, as evidenced by his splendid Peacock Chair (1947) or the masculine Ox Chair (1960), available with or without horns.

Corp.Sub.  

Wegner, Hans J. 1914-2007 -- Exhibitions.

Subject  

Furniture design -- 20th century -- Exhibitions

 Chair design -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

 Furniture designers

41384

 

  75.036(44) TOU (SUZ)

 Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 

The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec : prints and posters from the Museum of Modern Art

 New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2014]

 Abstract  

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is widely regarded as the most talented and innovative printmaker of the late nineteenth century. Trained as a painter, Lautrec adopted color lithography in 1891, and it immediately became an obsession: in the decade before his early death, in 1901, he created more than 350 lithographs, from posters pasted up in the streets of Paris to livres d’artistes, fine art editions, and illustrations for magazines, journals, theater programs, books, and song sheets. Accompanying an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume presents more than one hundred prints and posters by Lautrec from MoMA’s outstanding collection of his work. Spanning the artist’s mature career, they exemplify Lautrec’s extraordinary range and ability as a printmaker and brilliantly evoke his milieu and central preoccupation: fin-de-siècle Paris, particularly the bohemian life he shared with the dancers, artists, prostitutes, and impresarios of the city’s burgeoning demimonde. Includes a color poster of Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph La Troupe de Mademoiselle Églantine.

Per.Sub.  

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901

 Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Corp.Sub.  

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions.

Subject  

Art, French -- 19th century

 Impressionism (Art) -- France

 Prints New York (State) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.

 Painters -- France -- 19th century.

 Posters, French -- 19th century

 Paris (France) -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions

41596

 

 76.026 FOW

Fowkes, Alex 

 Expressive type : unique typographic design in sketchbooks, in print, and on location around the globe

Beverly, Massachusetts : Rockport Publishers, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 2017.

 Contents  

Branding -- Packaging -- Environmental -- Self-initiated -- Real-world briefs.

Abstract  

Expressive Type showcases the work of major international designers working with typography in branding and advertising, environment, packaging and products, and self-initiated projects. The book concludes with a workbook section featuring four real-world "briefs" related to each category.

Subject  

Lettering -- Design.

 Type and type-founding

 Graphic arts

 Graphic design (Typography)

 Graphic design (Typography) -- Pictorial works.

 Graphic artists -- Biography

41575

 

  76.026 WHE

  Wheildon, Colin 

 Type & layout : are you communicating or just making pretty shapes

 Hastings, Vic., Australia : Worsley Press ; 2005

Contents  

What experts say -- Introduction : What this book can do for you ; A caveat -- Why this study matters -- Beautiful square wheels -- Oops! gravity works! : The perils of ignoring gravity ; Newspaper or formal layouts ; Magazines or free layouts -- Body type : Serif or sans serif? ; Bold & italics ; Left, right, centered, justified -- Headline type : Headline types with greater legibility ; Manipulated type ; Conclusions on headlines -- Black versus color : Black is beautiful ; Spot color in print ; Color in headline type ; Colored body type ; Color on color ; Reversed body text ; Conclusion overall -- Design bits : Out, damned spot! ; Widows, jumps and bastard measure ; Design elements ; Headlines ; Body type -- Read this flyer! : Why don’t they read your inserts? ; What we learned ; Readers’ preferred type sizes -- Conclusions -- Applying the rules : Fifteen cases -- Type right, gravity right, but ... ; Westlawn: lower case headline ; It works! just change the body type ; Life prescription ; Blue & green should never be seen ... ; More blue & green ; Making space for good type and more impact ; Are they serious? ; A magazine page that works for readers ; And one that’s not so good ; Meant to be read ; Not meant to be read! ; Lovely people, the Surfriders ... ; Screamer headlines might not be read! ; Could granny read it in poor light? -- App. 1. The research : The research program ; About the participants ; The methodology ; What I told participants ; My advisers ; Comprehension or readability? -- App. 2. Color, reading, and the eyes : On color, type, reading and the eyes -- App. 3. Non-fluent readers : Type and layout solutions -- App. 4. Typographical terms : Type ; Measures ; Spacing ; PostScript® -- Glossary.

Abstract  

With additional material by Geoffrey Heard and the original foreword by advertising guru the late David Ogilvy, this is a book for anyone who has a say in what appears in print and needs to know whether, as well as looking good, it will do its job by being read. Out of print for several years, this expanded and updated edition of the book is based on research carried out by the author in Sydney. Parts were first published in a brochure Communicating or Just Making Pretty Shapes by the Newspaper Advertising Bureau. It created a furor in the publishing and advertising industry because while it supports some old mores, it demolishes others. As David Ogilvy says in the foreword: "Hitherto designers have had to rely on their guesses as to what works best... all too often they guess wrong. Thanks to Colin Wheildon they no longer have to guess. No guesswork here. Only facts." Previously published as Type & Layout: How Typography and Design can Get Your Message Across or Get in the Way, by Strathmoor Press, Inc., Berkeley, California, USA. ISBN 0962489158

Subject  

Graphic design (Typography)

 Graphic arts

 Type and type-founding

 Layout (Printing)

41589

 

766:655.53 ART

 Artists’ books : a critical anthology and sourcebook

Rochester, New York : Visual Studies Workshop

Contents  

Plates : a visual preface -- Book art / by Richard Kostelanetz -- The new art of making books / by Ulises Carrión -- The artist’s book goes public ; Conspicuous consumption : new artists’ books / by Lucy R. Lippard -- Words and images : artists’ books as visual literature / by Shelley Rice -- The page as alternative space : 1950 to 1969 / by Barbara Moore and Jon Hendricks -- Some contemporary artists and their books / by Clive Phillpot -- The book stripped bare / by Susi R. Bloch -- The artist as book printer : four short courses / by Betsy Davids and Jim Petrillo -- Independent publishing in Mexico / by Felipe Ehrenberg, Magali Lara, and Javier Cadena -- Photobookworks : the critical realist tradition / by Alex Sweetman -- Systemic books by artists / by Robert C. Morgan -- Artists’ books collections

Abstract  

This anthology is the first in-depth look at artists’ bookworks. A series of essays, written by longtime participants in and observers of the field, address the following questions: what are the origins, attributes, and what is the potential of artsists’ books; what are their historical precedents; what issues are they addressing; who is making and publishing them? The essays are supplemented by extensive bibliographies and a list of collections

 Essays discuss the ways contemporary artists are using and redefining the book format and examine specific works

 "In addition to providing a much-needed resource for artists, teachers, and collectors, this book will form a bridge between book artists and their audience by providing ready access to information about a much discussed but little known art form" -- Book jacket flap.

Subject

Artists’ books

 Conceptual art

41569

 

 766:655.53 DRU

  Drucker, Johanna 

What is? : nine epistemological essays

Victoria, Texas : Cuneiform Press, 2013.

 Contents  

What is a letter? -- What is writing? -- What is a word’s body? -- What is a document? -- What is graphic textuality? -- What is graphic about graphic novels? -- What is a book? -- What is the cult future of the book? -- What is digital materiality?

Abstract

 "Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide"--Statement from Cuneiform Press (viewed on Vamp & Tramp website August 21, 2014).

Subject

 Books -- Design -- Philosophy.

 Books and reading -- Philosophy.

 Art and literature.

 Semiotics

 Knowledge, Theory of

41586

 

 

  766.018 POU

  Poulin, Richard 

Design school : layout : a practical guide for students and designers

 Beverly, Massachusetts : Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2018.

 Contents  

Introduction --1. Layout fundamentals -- 2. Anatomy of a grid -- 3. Grid systems -- 4. Compositional principles -- 5. Layout characteristics -- 6. Layout in practice -- Test your knowledge -- Answers -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.

Abstract

 Design School: Layout is an instructive guide for students, recent graduates, and self-taught designers. It provides a comprehensive introduction to creating and changing layouts: a crucially important skill that underpins practically every aspect of graphic design. You’ll get in-depth analysis of all the major areas of theory and practice used by experienced professional designers. Each section provides explanation and visual examples of grid systems and in-depth discussion of compositional principles and strategies. The text is interspersed with tests designed to help you retain key points you’ve covered in the preceding spreads, and includes illustrations sections with real world scenarios. This in-depth guide avoids the temptation to stray into other areas of design technique, preferring to cover the essential, detailed skills of the professional graphic designer to arm you with the knowledge needed for a successful start to your chosen career

Subject  

Grids (Typographic design)

 Layout (Printing)

 Graphic arts

 Graphic design (Typography)

 Visual communication

41588

 

   

 930.85(436) SCH

  Schorske, Carl E. 

Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture

 New York : Vintage, 1981.

 Contents  

Politics and the psyche: Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal -- The Ringstrasse, its critics, and the birth of urban modernism -- Politics in a new key: an Austrian trio -- Politics and patricide in Freud’s Interpretation of dreams -- Gustav Klimt: painting and the crisis of the liberal ego -- The transformation of the garden -- Explosion in the garden: Kokoschka and Schoenberg.

Abstract  

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism’s defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book’s wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

Per.Sub.  

Klimt, Gustav 1862-1918.

 Kokoschka, Oskar 1886-1980.

Subject  

Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.

 Austria -- Politics and government -- 1867-1918.

41603

 

  930.9 MAC

  MacGregor, Neil 

 A history of the world in 100 objects

 London : Penguin Books, 2012.

 Contents

 Pt. 1. Making us human : 2,000,000-9000 BC. Mummy of Hornedjitef; Olduvai stone chopping tool ; Olduvai handaxe ; Swimming reindeer ; Clovis spear point -- pt. 2. After the Ice Age : food and sex : 9000-3500 BC. Bird-shaped pestle ; Ain Sakhri lovers figurine ; Egyptian clay model of cattle ; Maya maize god statue ; Jomon pot -- pt. 3. The first cities and states : 4000-2000 BC. King Den’s sandal label ; Standard of Ur ; Indus seal ; Jade axe ; Early writing tablet -- pt. 4. The beginnings of science and literature : 2000-700 BC. Flood tablet ; Rhind mathematical papyrus ; Minoan bull-leaper ; Mold gold cape ; Statue of Ramesses II -- pt. 5. Old World, new powers : 1100-300 BC. Lachish reliefs ; Sphinx of Taharqo ; Chinese Zhou ritual vessel ; Paracas textile ; Gold coin of Croesus -- pt. 6. The world in the age of Confucius : 500-300 BC. Oxus chariot model ; Parthenon sculpture : Centaur and Lapith ; Basse-Yutz flagons ; Olmec stone mask ; Chinese bronze bell -- pt. 7. Empire builders : 300 BC-AD 10. Coin with head of Alexander ; Pillar of Ashoka ; Rosetta Stone ; Chinese Han lacquer cup ; Head of Augustus -- pt. 8. Ancient pleasures, modern spice : AD 1-500. Warren Cup ; North American otter pipe ; Ceremonial ballgame belt ; Admonitions scroll ; Hoxne pepper pot -- pt. 9. The rise of world faiths. Seated Buddha from Gandhara ; Gold coins of Kumaragupta I ; Silver plate showing Shapur II ; Hinton St. Mary mosaic ; Arabian bronze head -- pt. 10. The Silk Road and beyond : AD 400-800. Gold coins of Abd al-Malik ; Sutton Hoo helmet ; Moche warrior pot ; Korean roof tile ; Silk princess painting -- pt. 11. Inside the palace : secrets at court : AD 700-900. Maya relief of royal blood-letting ; Harem wall-painitng fragments ; Lothair crystal ; Statue of Tara ; Chinese Tang tomb figures -- pt. 12. Pilgrims, raiders and traders : AD 800-1300. Vale of York hoard ; Hedwig glass beaker ; Japanese bronze mirror ; Borobudur Budd

Abstract  

Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with objects which characterise the world we live in today. Seen through MacGregor’s eyes, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. A stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people; Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency; and an early Victorian tea-set speaks to us about the impact of empire. An intellectual and visual feast, this is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years. ’Brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched’ Mary Beard, Guardian ’A triumph: hugely popular, and rightly lauded as one of the most effective and intellectually ambitious initiatives in the making of ’public history’ for many decades’ Sunday Telegraph ’Highly intelligent, delightfully written and utterly absorbing ’ Timothy Clifford, Spectator ’This is a story book, vivid and witty, shining with insights, connections, shocks and delights’ Gillian Reynolds Daily Telegraph

Corp.Sub.  

British Museum -- Collections.

Subject  

Material culture -- History.

 World history -- Sources.

 Antiquities

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