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UNINA9910459642103321 |
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Autore |
Fathy Hassan |
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Titolo |
Architecture for the Poor [[electronic resource] ] : An Experiment in Rural Egypt |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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301.5409621 |
309.2/63/09623 |
720.962 |
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Community development - Egypt - al-Qurna |
Community development -- Egypt -- Qurna |
Sociology & Social History |
Social Conditions |
Social Sciences |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Prelude: Dream and Reality; 2 Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology; 3 Fugue: Architect, Peasant, and Bureaucrat; 4 Finale: Gourna Dormant; Appendix I: Cost Analysis of Labor and Rates of the Execution of Works ; Appendix II: In-Service Training; Appendix III: Organization of Work; Appendix IV: Foundations ; Appendix V: Brick Making; Appendix VI: Cost Analysis at the Moment when the Project Was Handed Over to the Ministry of Social Affairs; Glossary; Illustrations |
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Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such |
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ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in |
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UNINA9910480725003321 |
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Autore |
Eberlein Patrick <1944-> |
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Geodesics and ends in certain surfaces without conjugate points / / Patrick Eberlein |
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Providence : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1978] |
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©1978 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (116 p.) |
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; number 199 |
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Geometry, Differential |
Riemann surfaces |
Manifolds (Mathematics) |
Geodesics (Mathematics) |
Electronic books. |
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"Volume 13, issue 2 ... (first of 2 numbers)." |
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Bibliography: pages 110-111. |
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""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARIES""; ""1. Definitions""; ""2. Isometries and limit sets""; ""3. Fundamental domains""; ""CHAPTER 2 FURTHER PROPERTIES OF UNIFORM VISIBILITY MANIFOLDS""; ""1. Busemann functions and horospheres""; ""2. Classification of isometries""; ""3. Classification of limit sets""; ""CHAPTER 3 PARABOLIC GEODESICS""; ""CHAPTER 4 THE ENDS OF M""; ""1. Definition of parabolic and expanding ends""; ""2. Asymptotes in finitely connected surfaces""; ""3. A characterization of parabolic geodesies"" |
""4. Total curvatures of neighborhoods of parabolic and expanding ends""""5. Structure of the divergent geodesies associated to an end""; ""CHAPTER 5 SEPARATING GEODESICS OF M""; ""1. Definition of separating geodesies""; ""2. The case of an infinite cyclic fundamental group""; ""3. The two components of the complement of a separating geodesic""; ""4. Further properties of separating geodesies""; ""5. |
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Riemannian collared neighborhoods of expanding ends""; ""CHAPTER 6 THE SETS M[sub(0)] AND M*[sub(0)]""; ""1. Totally convex sets"" |
""2. Construction of the smallest closed totally convex set M[sub(0)]""""3. Criteria for M[sub(0)] to be compact""; ""4. The compact deformation retract M*[sub(0)]""; ""REFERENCES"" |
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UNINA9910136928903321 |
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Autore |
Lepselter Susan Claudia |
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Titolo |
Resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny / / Susan Lepselter |
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Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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9780472121540 (eBook) |
9780472072941 (hardback) |
9780472052943 (paperback) |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Human-alien encounters |
Conspiracy theories - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Captivity is a trope that appears in both ordinary and fantastic iterations here, and Susan Lepselter shows how multiple troubled histories--of race, class, gender, and power--become compressed into stories of uncanny memory. |
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