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Pau Audouard. Fotografia en temps de Modernisme
Pau Audouard és, sens dubte, un dels fotògrafs més eminents de la Barcelona de principis de segle, no sols per la qualitat, la varietat i el volum de la seva obra, sinó també per la participació que ell mateix va tenir en els mitjans artístics de la ciutat. Prenent com a fil conductor la seva trajectòria professional, Núria F. Rius desplega una diversitat de temes que passen, sobretot, per l’estudi de la professió de fotògraf —des dels tallers familiars fins a les indústries— i per les relacions artístiques i socials de pintors, escriptors i fotògrafs, però que igualment atenyen aspectes més sociològics, com ara la satisfacció del professional que troba un guanyapà en un ofici nou o el tedi del retratista amb inquietuds artístiques. En definitiva, aquesta primera monografia dedicada a Audouard, rigorosa i amena, representa una aportació cabdal tant per a l’estudi de la fotografia com per a la història de la cultura dels segles XIX i XX.
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The Knights of Malta
This is a complete history of the Order of St John or Knights of Malta. Founded as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the Order has in succeeding centuries played an important military, religious and political role in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Observing Comets
Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because there are so many amateurs looking for them, and techniques and instruments have improved dramatically in the past few years. After a short but detailed introduction to the comets themselves Nick James and Gerald North describe comet hunting, photographing and imaging comets, and digital image processing. The use of computers for orbital calculations and even helping to discover new comets is given a full chapter, as are advanced techniques including comet photometry and spectroscopy. This comprehensive book has an accompanying CD-ROM and is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a reference text for more advanced amateur astronomers.
General Theory of Urbanization 1867
First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urbanization 1867 by Ildefons Cerdà, an essential work on urban development. In 1867 Ildefons Cerdà published his “Teoria general de la urbanitzación”. In this text, the “science of building cities”, understood as a phenomenon, became a new discipline with a broad economic, social and cultural impact on the life of the people of the city. Coinciding with 150 years since its publication, its first translation into English is being presented along with the publishing online at urbanization.org with the statistics transformed into interactive graphics and open data, with the aim of expanding the knowledge of Cerdà’s work and encouraging debate on the process of “urbanization” in the future. Co-published with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in collaboration with the Diputació de Barcelona, the Generalitat de Catalunya through Incasòl. Bloomberg Philanthropies contributed as a collaborator for the international di usion of the project.
Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000
The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Studies of the ways science and technology were communicated to the public in countries of the European periphery can provide a valuable insight into the mechanisms of the appropriation of scientific ideas and technological practices across the continent. The contributors to this volume each take as their focus the popularization of science in countries on the margins of Europe, who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may be perceived to have had a weak scientific culture. A variety of scient...
Iberian Cities
This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century.
Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity
Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity is a study of the emergence and development of the cultural image of the Iberian peninsula’s foremost modern city.
