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July 4, 2023

Museums and the Construction of Disciplines Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain

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Free Download Richard Hodges, "Museums and the Construction of Disciplines: Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0715635085 | PDF | pages: 161 | 1.4 mb
Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of ‘archaeological’ and ‘artistic’ material culture, looking especially at the ways in which objects and histories were contested within museum politics. For example, in the 1850s, the status of Egyptian antiquities as ‘art’ or ‘archaeology’ was keenly debated, and this related closely to questions about which kinds of museum should house them and the possible histories and epistemologies in which they might figure. This concise study serves as a basis for a discussion of the continued intellectual legacy of this for our understanding, management and presentation of the past in the museum and in curricula. It is argued that by understanding the politics and circumstances through which the two disciplines were delimited and distinguished from one another we may be able to glimpse, retrospectively, the possibility of alternative art histories and alternative archaeologies.

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July 3, 2023

Integrated Management Systems for Construction Quality, Environment and Safety

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Free Download Alan Griffith, "Integrated Management Systems for Construction: Quality, Environment and Safety"
English | ISBN: 1138414379 | 2017 | 480 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Integrated management systems (IMS) are an innovative way of handling the plethora of management functions and procedures that are applied throughout major construction projects. Contracting companies use management systems to shape and define the corporate arrangement of their business activities, translating these into operational procedures for application to the construction projects they undertake. The management of quality, environment, and safety are at the forefront of systems evolution where the integration of these traditionally independent and dedicated standards-based and process-orientated systems can provide the potential to deliver greater organisational efficiency and effectiveness.

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July 3, 2023

Ariadne’s Threads The Construction and Significance of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age

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Free Download B. R. Jones, "Ariadne’s Threads: The Construction and Significance of Clothes in the Aegean Bronze Age "
English | ISBN: 9042932775 | 2015 | 340 pages | PDF | 22 MB
This book is the first to deal comprehensively with the construction, significance, and function of the full range of garments of Aegean women and related attire of men from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age. As valuable as precious metals, a significant commodity of trade, luxurious in design and decoration, Minoan dress rivaled that of its Near Eastern and Egyptian neighbors. Yet, Aegean costumes and textiles have been among the least understood of the major artistic achievements of the Minoan civilization. Since ancient Aegean textiles and garments have not survived, the study collects, analyzes and compiles a typology of the corpus of garments represented in sculpture, frescoes and glyptic to glean evidence for construction. It further considers the manufacturing techniques of extant Egyptian clothes, comparable images of ancient Near Eastern garments, textile manufacture on the warp-weighted loom, and dress documented in Mycenaean Linear B, Greek and Near Eastern texts. The combined evidence is buttressed by experiments in replicating Aegean and related Near Eastern garments as well as the weave structures of patterned cloths and bands. The replicated clothes are arranged on live models who assume the various positions of the clothed figures in the frescoes and sculptures they imitate, thereby bringing the ancient figures to life. This all inclusive study not only illuminates every aspect of Aegean costume, but the resultant understanding of dress and the way it drapes on the body has led to new restorations of the missing parts of fragmentary garments on figural sculptures and wall paintings.

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July 1, 2023

The Late-Career Novelist Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction

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Free Download Hywel Dix, "The Late-Career Novelist: Career Construction Theory, Authors and Autofiction"
English | ISBN: 1350030066 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 22 MB
The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the ‘late-career novel’, this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, The Late-Career Novelist draws for the first time on social psychology and career construction theory to examine how the dynamics of a literary career play out in the fictional worlds of our best-known novelists. From here, Hywel Dix develops and argues for a new mode of reading contemporary writing on the contexts of current literary culture.

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June 28, 2023

The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies Korea and Beyond

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Free Download Park Seung Woo, Victor T. King, "The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies: Korea and Beyond"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9814414581 | PDF | pages: 487 | 10.1 mb
At a time when Southeast Asian Studies is declining in North America and Europe, this book serves to remind us of the fresh, constructive and encouraging view of the field from Asia. On behalf of Taiwan’s Southeast Asian research community, I sincerely congratulate Professors Park and King for making such a great and timely contribution to the making of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia.

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