1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009844580403321

Autore

United Nations. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East

Titolo

Multiple - purpose river basin development / United Nations, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : United Nations, 1955-1961

Descrizione fisica

v. : ill. ; 28 cm

Collana

Flood control series

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000323890403321

Autore

Alexander, Jerome

Titolo

Colloid chemistry theoretical and applied / Jerome Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Chemical Catalog Company, 1931-32

Descrizione fisica

2 voll., ill., 24 cm

Disciplina

541

Locazione

DCH

Collocazione

DCH-089-6

DCH-089-7

DCH-089-8 $b 3061 $f DCH

DCH-089-9 $b 3062 $f DCH

DCH-089-10 $b 24114 $f DCH

DCH-089-11 $b 24115 $f DCH

DCH-089-12 $b 5346 $f DCH

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

v. 3 = First series of papers on Technological applications. v. 4 = series of papers on technical applications.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972476903321

Autore

Rodriguez-Hernandez Raul

Titolo

Mexico's ruins : Juan Garcia Ponce and the writing of modernity / / Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

9780791480823

0791480828

9781429471237

1429471239

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Disciplina

868/.6409

Soggetti

Literature and society - Mexico

Politics and society - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Traces of theory, tropes of modernity -- The storyteller's ruins -- Monuments and relics, I -- Monuments and relics, II -- De ánima, de corpore : the ruins of the bourgeois world -- Modernity, contingency, compensation -- A brief return to the ruin.

Sommario/riassunto

At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of "ruins": a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book.