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Edward Lloyd and His World Popular Fiction Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

Edward Lloyd and His World Popular Fiction Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls' which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism whilst developing links with Victorian politics theatre and music. | Edward Lloyd and His World Popular Fiction Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater American Architecture in the Depression Era

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater American Architecture in the Depression Era

New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable Mention Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright and the construction of his most famous house Fallingwater. The book reinterprets the history of this iconic building recognizing it as a Depression-era monument that stands as a testimony to what an American architect could achieve with the right site client and circumstance even in desperate economic circumstances. Using newly available resources author Catherine W. Zipf examines Wright’s work before and after Fallingwater to show how it was influenced by the economic climate public architectural projects of the Great Depression and America’s changing relationship with Modernist style and technology. Including over 50 black-and-white images this book will be of great interest to students historians and researchers of art architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright. | Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater American Architecture in the Depression Era

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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence its bulk and space its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

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Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place

Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place

This book follows Henry Klumb’s life in architecture from Cologne Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island Klumb was a one-time German immigrant a moderately successful designer and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico’s most prolific locally well-known and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most accomplished protégés and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness. Cruz explores his life works and legacy through the lens of a sense of place defined as the beliefs that people adopt actions undertaken and feelings developed towards specific locations and spaces. He argues that the architect’s sense of place was a defining quality of his life and work most evident in the houses he designed and built in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb offers a historical narrative culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb’s work: vernacular architecture the grid and the landscape dense urban spaces and open air rooms. This book is aimed at researchers academics and postgraduate students interested in Latin American architecture modernism and architectural history. | Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place

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Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage. From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent Jerri Daboo reconsiders the centrality of Bollywood and bhangra to theatre made for or about British South Asian communities. Addressing rarely discussed theatre companies such as Rifco and phenomena such as the emergence of large- scale Bollywood revue performances this volume goes some way towards remedying the lack of critical discourse around British South Asian theatre. A timely contribution to this growing field Staging British South Asian Culture is essential reading for any scholar or student interested in exploring the highly contested questions of identity and representation for British South Asian communities. | Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

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Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty Wrestling with Wicked Problems

Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty Wrestling with Wicked Problems

This book offers a multidisciplinary environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption. This book synthesizes the incredible complexity of the problem and the necessity of action in response highlighting the unambiguous problem facing humanity in the 21st century but arguing that it is essential to develop an ethics housed in ambiguity in response. Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty is divided into theoretical and applied chapters with the theoretical sections engaging in dialogue with scholars from a variety of disciplines while the applied chapters offer insight from 20th century activists who demonstrate and/or illuminate the theory including Martin Luther King Rachel Carson and Frank Lloyd Wright. This book is written for scholars and students in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies and the environmental humanities and will appeal to courses in religion philosophy ethics politics and social theory. | Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty Wrestling with Wicked Problems

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Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1830–1890 Cumbersome Allies

Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1830–1890 Cumbersome Allies

This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women’s rights as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men—William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips James Mott Frederick Douglass Henry B. Blackwell Stephen S. Foster Henry Ward Beecher Robert Purvis and Thomas Wentworth Higginson the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society. This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history women’s history gender studies and modern American history. | Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1830–1890 Cumbersome Allies

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Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures it incorporates a broader framework of considerations including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental design. The book is structured around the ancient Greek and medieval alchemists’ system of the Five Temperaments: fire earth air water and ether. Phillip James Tabb examines how these elements produce both positive and negative environmental forces which have an impact on architectural design – from drinking water and fresh air to torrential floods and tornados. He shows how responding to or enhancing these forces can help us to create a more sustainable healthy and purposeful architecture. To illustrate this each chapter draws on seminal contemporary works of architecture from Peter Zumthor’s Bruder-Klaus Field Chapel to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece at Fallingwater. These examples are accompanied by over a hundred high-quality illustrations. Expanding the discussion of sustainability to include phenomenological as well as qualitative considerations Elemental Architecture is ideal for students and researchers with an interest in sustainable architecture and architectural theory. | Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

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What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher’s greatness: Lloyd P. Gerson on Plato Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi David Bronstein on Aristotle Jonardon Ganeri on Buddhaghosa Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas Gary Hatfield on Descartes Karen Detlefsen on du Chtelet Don Garrett on Hume Allen Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher) Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as a metaphysician) Ken Gemes on Nietzsche Cheryl Misak on Peirce David Macarthur on Wittgenstein This also serves a larger philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what philosophy is in the first place? After all in practice we individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners’ greatest contributions. The book does not discuss every philosopher who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a definitive list of The Great Philosophers but rather to learn something about what great philosophy is and might be from illuminated examples of past greatness. | What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

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The Art of Writing Fiction

The Art of Writing Fiction

An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing Andrew Cowan’s The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia. As illuminating for the recreational writer as for students of Creative Writing the twelve chapters of this book correspond to the twelve weeks of a typical university syllabus and provide guidance on mastering key aspects of fiction such as structure character voice point of view and setting as well as describing techniques for stimulating creativity and getting the most out of feedback. This new edition offers extended consideration to structure point of view and the organisation of time in the novel as well as the conduct of the Creative Writing workshop in the light of the decolonising the curriculum movement. It features additional writing exercises as well as an afterword with invaluable advice on approaching agents and publishers. The range of writers surveyed is greatly expanded finding inspiration and practical guidance in the work of Margaret Atwood Ayanna Lloyd Banwo Richard Beard Tsitsi Dangarembga Richard Ford Ashley Hickson-Lovence Anjali Joseph James Joyce James Kelman Ian McEwan Arundhati Roy Sam Selvon Vikram Seth and Ali Smith among many others. With over 80 writing exercises and examples taken from dozens of novels and short stories the new edition of The Art of Writing Fiction is enriched by the author’s own experience as a novelist and lecturer making it an essential guide for readers interested in the theory teaching and practice of Creative Writing.

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The Deck Access Housing Design Guide A Return to Streets in the Sky

The Deck Access Housing Design Guide A Return to Streets in the Sky

The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck access housing sharing practical guidance and providing in-depth case studies while also presenting historical context about this flexible and evolving housing type. Despite a chequered history that saw it linked with urban decay and social malaise in the 1970s and 80s deck access housing today after a 40-year hiatus is fast becoming the default solution for mid-rise housing in the UK and London in particular. This is in part down to architects’ renewed interest in post-war Modernist typologies but also due to specific planning standards that favour the qualities – dual-aspect plans ‘public’ front doors – of deck access design. This comprehensive professional guide spotlights the best contemporary deck access housing in the UK and throughout mainland Europe explaining and analysing exemplars in detail. Illustrated in full colour throughout with plans elevations photographs project data and annotations case studies include both new build and retrofit projects in public housing co-housing and Third Age residential projects. Good architectural practice flows from an informed understanding of cultural and design history coupled with practical guidance and clear analysis of case studies. That is what this book provides for anyone interested in or involved in the design and delivery of deck access housing. Featured architects from the UK: AHMM · Apparata · Cartwright Pickard · Collective Architecture · DO Architecture · Hawkins Brown · Haworth Tompkins · Henley Halebrown · Levitt Bernstein · Maccreanor Lavington · Mæ · Matthew Lloyd · Pitman Tozer · Pollard Thomas Edwards · Proctor & Matthews · PRP · RCKa Featured architects from mainland Europe: ANMA · Arquitectura Produccions · Atelier Kempe Thill · Bureau Massa · DAMAST · Estudio Herreros · Fink + Jocher · KAAN · LEVS · Martin-Löf · MEF · Muñoz Miranda · Passelac & Roques · Waechter + Waechter | The Deck Access Housing Design Guide A Return to Streets in the Sky

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Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

Vladimir Mikhailovitch Bekhterev was a pioneering Russian neurologist psychiatrist and psychologist. A highly esteemed rival of Ivan Pavlov his achievements in the areas of personality clinical psychology and political and social psychology were recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Publication of the complete text of Collective Reflexology brings to the English-speaking world this brilliant scientist's final theoretical statements on how reflexological principles which he had been developing over a quarter century can be extended far beyond analysis of the individual personality. Bekhterev's work grows out of his interest in group psychology and suggestion. This concept of the reflex is much broader than Pavlov's. It is applicable to every variety of life. Bekhterev compared his own analyses to those of other European thinkers such as Comte LeBon and Sorokin. Such analyses strained against the official Marxist-Leninist doctrines of the era. Bekhterev died in 1927 allegedly of poisoning by Stalin's henchman. As with many scientists during the Soviet era his legacy was suppressed. In the normal course of events his name would have been as well known as that of Freud Pavlov or more lately B. F. Skinner. This first publication of Bekhterev's great work in English fills a void in the fields of psychology sociology and the history of science. V. M. Bekhterev was director of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg and founded there its Psychoneurological Institute. Among his many books are Suggestion: Its Role in Social Life (available from Transaction) and The Subject Matter and Goals of Social Psychology. Lloyd H. Strickland is professor of psychology at Carleton University. He is the author of numerous journal articles and editor of Directions in Soviet Social Psychology and Soviet and Western Perspectives in Social Psychology. Bekhterev (1857-1927) is a formidable figure and his work continues to deserve careful study. Canadian Psychology | Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

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Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

Surviving the Twentieth Century celebrates the achievements of the renowned sociologist Joseph Maier. A superb teacher and respected scholar of formidable scope Maier's work encompassed a variety of disciplines including sociology philosophy and political science. He is well known for his comparative research on Latin America as well as Jewish law and tradition. As Judith Marcus observes Maier helped to establish comparative-historical sociology as an acknowledged field of study. This volume records and pays tribute to his scholarship and significant public service. The volume is divided into parts reflecting the breath of Maier's intellectual interests. Contributors are drawn from a variety of fields and geographical arenas. Part 1 consists of biographical interviews and personal observations on Maier and his work by Herman Berlinski David Berlinski Geoffrey Lloyd Enrique Krauze and Aaron W. Warner. Part 2 includes contributions addressing some of the main themes in Maier's work: the interaction of nationalism community and personal identity; the impact of politics on social science; culture politics and religion. Contributors include Abraham Edel William Safran Reinhard Kreckel Zoltan Tarr Sandro Segre Ludwig von Friedberg Irving Louis Horowitz Judith Marcus Editfi Kurzweil Paul Neurath Ruth Rubinstein Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons Tony Carnes and Elfriede Uner. Part 3 reflects the impact of Maier's work on other scholars. It includes essays on philosophy religion literature and intellectual responsibility. Contributors include Tom Rockmore Laurent Stern Edmund Leites Alfred Schmidt Norbert Altwicker Rita Kuczynski Gerard Raulet and Peter Gottwald. Part 4 covers the influence of crisis on Jewish intellectual life and includes contributions by Herbert Strauss Emanuel Maier Leon A. Feldman Hannelore Kunzl and Johann Maier. The volume concludes in part 5 with personal tributes to Maier by Curt C. Silberman C. Alexander Weinstock and Helen Hacker. The volume includes an illuminating introduction by Judith Marcus thematic essay by Joseph Maier and a selected bibliography of his work. Scholars who have been influenced by Maier will welcome this volume. Those who are not familiar with the scope of his contributions will benefit from the experience of seeing how his work has affected the choices of others. This is the 24th volume issued in Transaction's distinguished scholar (festschrift) series. | Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

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