Space weather: storms from the Sun

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910704261503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Silver Spring, Md.] : , : U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, , [2013?]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (10 pages) : color illustrations
• Soggetti: Solar activity - Forecasting; Space environment; Magnetic storms; Sun Environmental aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 3, 2016).

Reading architectural history / / Dana Arnold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783832503321
• Autore: Arnold Dana
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-134-53231-8; 0-415-25050-1; 1-134-53232-6; 1-280-05669-X; 0-203-16447-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Classificazione: 21.60
• Disciplina: 720/.7/22
• Soggetti: Architecture - Historiography; Architecture - England - 18th century
• 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 (p. [219]-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reading the past : what is architectural history? What is history? / EH Carr ; The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- The authority of the author : biography and the reconstruction of the canon. Biographical dictionary / Sir Howard Colvin ; What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- On classical ground : histories of style. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 / Sir John Summerson ; Art history and class struggle / Nicos Hadjinicolaou -- A class performance : social histories of architecture. Life in the English country house / Mark Girouard ; In search of cultural history / EH Gombrich --The illusion of inclusion : the guidebook and historic architecture. The buildings of England / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ; The Blue guide / Roland Barthes -- Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender. Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denise Scott Brown ; Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman.
• Sommario/riassunto: Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history and how should we read it?Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain. Discursive essays consider a range of writing