1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465519703321

Autore

Ingram Susan (Susan V.)

Titolo

Berliner chic [[electronic resource] ] : a locational history of Berlin fashion / / Susan Ingram and Katrina Sark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK, : Intellect

Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16259-8

9786613162595

1-84150-432-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SarkKatrina

Disciplina

391.00943/155

Soggetti

Fashion - Germany - Berlin - History

Clothing and dress - Germany - Berlin - History

Women designers - Germany - Berlin - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Illustrations; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Locating Berliner Chic; Chapter 1: Berliner Chic in Museums; Chapter 2: Berliner Chic and Historiography; Chapter 3: Berliner Chic and Photography; Chapter 4: Berliner Chic on the Silver Screen; Chapter 5: Berlin Calling: Sex and Drugs and Punk and Techno; Chapter 6: Becoming Berlin: The Flux of Corporate Luxe; Chapter 7: Conclusion - Where Fashion Lives Today, Battleground Berlin; References; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. Once home to emperors and dictators, peddlers and spies, it is now a fashion showplace that attracts the young and hip. This gripping history follows Berlin chic through a host of historical eras and events, including the Nazi eradication of the primarily Jewish ready-to-wear industry, the confusion surrounding the split and reunification of the East and West, an unsuccessful effort to launch a fashion museum, and the debut of Berlin



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787719303321

Autore

Sovern Michael I

Titolo

An improbable life : my sixty years at Columbia and other adventures / / Michael I. Sovern ; cover design by Catherine Casiliano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, New York] : , : A Columbia University Publication, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53705-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CasilianoCatherine

Disciplina

378.0092

Soggetti

College presidents - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Walter F. Mondale; Foreword by Lee C. Bollinger; 1. A Shared Story; 2. Riot; 3. Rebuilding; 4. Aftermath; 5. Condoms and Wrinkle Cream; 6. Becoming a Dean; 7. Litigating: Tuskegee and the Supreme Court; 8. Provost; 9. Building an Administration; 10. Beginnings; 12. Columbia College; 12. Columbia Law School; 13. Minnesota; 14. Coming Home; 15. Publishing and Moonlighting; 16. Climbing Out of a Hole; 17. Ceremonies; 18. Doing the Right Thing: Coeducation, Charter Revision, and Columbia Football; 19. The Pulitzer Prizes

20. Reagan Versus Mondale 21. Disappointing My Peers: Divestiture and Earmarks; 22. City Corruption and Columbia Unrest; 23. A Sabbatical Leave and a Return to Celebrations; 24. Remembering Malcolm X and Working with the Community; 25. International Guests, Anniversaries, Dedications, and a New Campaign; 26. Closing a School; 27. Salman Rushdie at Risk; 28. Hail and Farewell; 29. The Last Year; 30. A Backward Glance; 31. There Is Life After a Presidency; 32. Shubert-a Great Gig; 33. Almost a Justice; 34. Sotheby's; 35. America's Challenge; 36. What Next?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.According to the New York Times, ?If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely



Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who served as the university's president from 1980 to 1993, recounts his sixty-year involvement with the institution, as well as his experiences growing up poor in the South Bronx and attending

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910303544603321

Titolo

Russian language journal = : Russkiĭ i︠a︡zyk (izuchenie i prepodavanie)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : [publisher not identified], , [1966]-

East Lansing, Mich. : , : Michigan State University, Dept. of German & Russian

Washington, DC : , : American Council of Teachers of Russian

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

491

Soggetti

Russian language

Russian philology

Russian language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

Russian language - Study and teaching

Russe (Langue)

Philologie russe

Russe (Langue) - Étude et enseignement - Allophones

Russe (Langue) - Étude et enseignement

Filologie

Russisch

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Editors: 1966-67, N.P. Avtonomoff; 1967-1973, V.I. Grebenschikov; 1973-<2000> M.P. Sendich; 2005-, M.D. Lekic.