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Charles Parsons is one of St. Louis' and the nation's most influential yet little-known figures. He was instrumental to the Union cause as a Civil War quartermaster and advisor to generals, politicians, and presidents alike. As a world-traveling art connoisseur, he helped found the first art museum west of the Mississippi, to which he donated his remarkable collection of American, European, and Asian art. To this day, his philanthropic work and dedication to education live on in some of the country's grandest institutions.

Esta guía propone al lector una visita al Museo del Prado con el objetivo de que pueda disfrutar de ella y aprovecharla al máximo. Le invita a detenerse en aquellas obras absolutamente imprescindibles y, sobre todo, le muestra cómo "mirarlas" para percibir aún más su belleza, le ayudará a reparar en la excelencia del artista volcada en su obra y a observar los distintos aspectos y detalles que hacen que esos cuadros sean únicos.

Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world’s foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Met’s transformation—J. P. Morgan, America’s leading financier and a prominent art collector, and Roger Fry, the headstrong English expert in art history who served as the Met’s curator of painting.

At the heart of Oxford University life, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest working libraries in Europe with some of its reading rooms - the medieval Duke Humfrey’s Library and the circular Radcliffe Camera - immortalised in films, including The Golden Compass the Harry Potter franchise. With access to priceless archives including Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons, this documentary reveals how the Elizabethan diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley created this extraordinary library and how it flourishes as a modern institution.

"Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, The Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure.

The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative? In this passionately argued book, Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of everything they do.

This audiobook is meant to help people not acquainted with listening to audiobooks. One day, I got really fed up with having little time to read during the day and with making little progress on my ever growing reading list. But, what if books could read themselves to us? I started to use audiobooks more and more, and I can say it deeply changed my life. I also describe a few special audiobooks that helped me along the way.

American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First Lady and librarian Laura Bush and many others, stars of literature, politics, entertainment, and the public arena speak with Kniffel about the ways libraries have been critical in their lives.

During an age of mass manufacturing, fast fashion, synthetic materials and the unsustainable practice of companies valuing quantity over quality, a return to tradition, connection, and simplicity is essential. Art historian and award-winning broadcaster Dr. James Fox explores the rapidly fading crafts and artisanal traditions of the world—such as coopering, basket-weaving, wheelwrighting, metalwork, and blacksmithing—that have shaped so much of our history through their alchemy of the hand-made human touch and generational wisdom.

Every city usually has at least one library, so some people take libraries for granted. Instead of taking libraries for granted, we ought to praise them to high heaven for all their noble contributions to humanity.

An interview recorded with Dr. Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in which he describes the major renovation and expansion of Britain's oldest museum, adding 39 galleries to house its collection of Egyptian, Persian, Japanese, Saxon, and Indian artefacts.

The term avant-garde continues to be used, in my opinion with far too much frequency, in discussions of contemporary art. It derives, of course, from military terminology, and implies that the art to which it is applied is somehow ahead of the game. It’s worth taking a look at how this assumption works in practice. Essentially, Western and now world art has witnessed the emergence of a series of avant-gardes since just before the third quarter of the 19th century.

Frederick Hundertwasser was an Austrian born artist and architect who came and settled in New Zealand's Bay of Islands. He liked it so much that he bought property - Kaurinuie where he continued to develop his personal artistic skills drawings, doing paintings and designing buildings which he used to build unique complexes with uneven floors, wavey walls that included colourful bottles that could withstand harsh temperature variations (seasonal differences), yet add its own magic when lit up by natural sunlight or artificial light. The Hundertwasser toilets were his first southern ...

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden-age detective novels to avant-garde poetry.

Esto es el resumen de una Investigación realizada a la Generación de Los Baby Boomers, para que de una forma amena, clara y corta, sepan su origen, quiénes fueron, qué hicieron, quiénes son actualmente y qué harán en los próximos años. Los Baby Boomers, la Generación que Revolucionó al mundo, nacida entre 1.946 y 1.964 está caracterizada por ser la de más alta población, con respecto a otras generaciones. Originada después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde todos los soldados volvieron a sus casas. Este fenómeno ocurrió en los países occidentales, como los Estados Unidos,...

Toward a Relational Foodscape in Chinese and Japanese North American Literature adopts a relational perspective of food justice to reread literary texts, mainly by contemporary Chinese and Japanese American/Canadian writers. The book highlights that the environment and race are closely intertwined in Asian North American ecocriticism. Yiyi He demonstrates how a food justice ecocritical lens informed by the East Asian (especially Chinese) notion “relational foodscape” challenges the binary between humans and more-than-humans while emphasizing relations and reciprocity between them. Yiyi ...

Esta obra aporta una breve biografía de cada personaje famoso seleccionado —escritores, artistas, políticos, filósofos, científicos, etcétera— y una cantidad respetable de sus frases más famosas. Muchas de estas frases son motivadoras, positivas y célebres; mientras que otras no lo son. Las personas que aparecen en este segundo tomo son: Alexander Graham Bell Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Renoir) Samuel Wilder (Billy Wilder) Abraham "Bram" Stoker Buda Gautama (Gautama Buddha) Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") Carlos...

Esta obra aporta una breve biografía de cada personaje famoso seleccionado —escritores, artistas, políticos, filósofos, científicos, etcétera— y una cantidad respetable de sus frases más famosas. Muchas de estas frases son motivadoras, positivas y célebres; mientras que otras no lo son. Las personas que aparecen en este primer tomo son: Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (Alexandre Dumas) Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle Benjamin Franklin Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) Lee Jun-fan (Bruce Lee) Charles Spencer Chaplin (Charles Chaplin) Charles ...

Nuestra lengua es rica en modismos, expresiones, frases hechas o locuciones que tratan sobre cualquier tema y ocasión. Nuestros abuelos, abuelas, tíos y tías siempre han usado multitud de frases hechas. Esta colección —guía de la fraseología tópica de la lengua castellana— invita a mirar nuestro idioma de otra manera. Pretende ser un homenaje a todas las personas que han hecho perdurar la sabiduría popular a través de los años mediante las frases hechas. También es un modo de difundir el español gracias a los modismos. No pretende ser un libro de frases hechas más, ya que ...

Este libro es el segundo de la colección Frases Motivadoras y Célebres. En el primer libro —Frases Motivadoras y Célebres: Consejos para Emprendedores— tenías los consejos para emprendedores de 18 multimillonarios. Ahora con esta segunda parte —Frases Motivadoras y Célebres: Citas y Consejos de Ricos— podrás aprender 267 citas y consejos de otros 18 magnates. Los negocios cambian con el paso del tiempo. Es irremediable, pero la esencia del emprendedor no varía. Los sectores se reinventan, aparecen nuevas fórmulas para solucionar necesidades mediante servicios o productos, ...