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Stylish Cakes
Stylish Cakes
Neuville, Charlotte
¥224.56
More than sixty unique couture confections that take the pastry arts to a whole new level of imagination, style, and tasteWith 250 full-color photographs and illustrations
Ryan Korban
Ryan Korban
Korban, Ryan
¥224.56
Ryan Korban has redefined luxury for a new generation, with an approach to interior design that infuses a timeless sensibility with a sense of lost romance, sex, fantasy, and a strong fashion influence. In this beautiful book filled with more than one hundred full-color photographs, the acclaimed interior designer, who is making a career of translating this aesthetic into elegant, comfortable interiors, shows readers how to achieve a sense of luxury in their homes that is at once glamorous and highly personal.Each of the book's seven thematic chapters focuses on a key component or influence that is essential to Korban's approach to decorating, and offers numerous sources of inspiration and innovative ideas. Every section also includes an introductory essay that explains his point of view on the subject, followed by a seamless flow of captioned images that expresses it in detail and from various visual perspectives. The photographs of spaces he has designed including homes for celebrity clients are complemented by images from fashion, advertising, fine art, and design that will inspire readers with their compelling juxtaposition and enhance the luxurious aesthetic. A Sources section listing Korban's go-to shops for everything from flowers to furniture rounds out this stunning book that is as alluring as the spaces featured within.With more than 100 full-color photographs throughout
Eat with Your Hands
Eat with Your Hands
Pelaccio, Zak
¥224.51
From Zakary Pelaccio, founder and owner of Fatty Crab and Fatty 'Cue, comes a gorgeous, groundbreaking cookbook of Southeast Asian—inspired, French— and Italian—inflected food that celebrates getting your hands dirty in—and out of—the kitchen.Eat with Your Hands takes readers on a tour of the outrageously flavorful and wholly original food that has made Pelaccio a star, in a cookbook that's as irreverent, high-spirited, and deeply iconoclastic as the chef himself.Combining a punk rock ethos with a commitment to producing exquisitely imagined and executed food, Eat with Your Hands brings together Pelaccio's eclectic influences in wildly inventive recipes that showcase his innovative blending of Asian flavors, sustainable local ingredients, and American gusto. Full of highly opinionated suggestions for both what to drink and what to listen to in the kitchen, paeans to the joys of the mortar and pestle and fermented condiments, charming sidebars on kitchen techniques, and an unbridled love for real food, Eat with Your Hands is a celebration of no-holds-barred cooking from a chef who is redefining the American culinary landscape.
Star Product Designers
Star Product Designers
Alegre, Irene
¥224.51
Includes 350 illustrations and full-color photographsStar Product Designers offers an insider's look at the best product designers working today. With the goal of eliminating the need for instruction manuals, every designer in this book endeavors to create products that are user-friendly, efficient, and beautiful.Perfect for both the amateur designer as well as the most accomplished and anyone else in between this comprehensive compendium reveals the design process, from concept to finished product, of some of the most innovative products on the market today. Featuring a wealth of concept sketches, profiles of the leading designers and design firms, and gorgeous, full-color photographs of the products themselves, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in understanding product design and the creative design process.
See Hear Yoko
See Hear Yoko
Gruen, Bob
¥224.51
Conceived expressly for Yoko Ono as a gift between friends on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, See Hear Yoko is a visual portrait of an icon of contemporary American cultural history, from her days with John Lennon through to the present. Legendary rock and roll photographer Bob Gruen was welcomed into the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their years in New York City, when Gruen served as their personal lensman, and he continues to document Yoko today. Approached by his friend Jody Denberg, an Austin rock radio mainstay who had logged twenty-five years of interviews with Yoko, Gruen collaborated with him to create an extraordinary birthday gift. In this breathtaking volume, Gruen has selected more than three hundred classic color and black-and-white photographs accompanied by text of Yoko's insights gleaned from Denberg's many hours of interviews to illuminate the intimate story of Yoko Ono at the height of her fame as a woman, wife, mother, and avant-garde artist who keeps creating because, as she notes, that's who I am.Yoko's role as a peace activist and artist underscores the enduring legacy of the era. See Hear Yoko reveals a modern woman in love, in ascension, in grief, in joy, and in peace.Lavish and beautiful, mirroring the deeply personal design of the original volume given to Yoko herself, See Hear Yoko brings into focus an extraordinary woman, and one of the most memorable periods in modern history.
Dearest Letty
Dearest Letty
Sgt.Leland Duvall
¥224.26
Listing the credits for this book must begin with Nancy Gately, for it was she, shortly before her death in 2010, who recognized that Leland Duvall’s wartime letters had both literary and historical value. It came about this way: At lunch with other residents at the retirement home, Nancy heard her new neighbor, Letty Duvall, say that her daughter had discovered the love letters to Letty from her future husband while cleaning out the garage and that she was having fun rereading them after sixtyfive years. Nancy asked if she could read a few and, having done so, insisted that they be made into a book. Letty was sure that Leland would have been mortified at the thought of thousands of people pawing around in his thoughts, but she agreed that Nancy should ask my advice. My idea, naturally, was that the letters deserved to be published and that, while he probably would not have cared one way or the other, Leland might have found some satisfaction in having them published since he had taken great pleasure in writing every one of them. Letty consented.
满3件6折 太上感应篇汇编+安士全书(套装共六册)
太上感应篇汇编+安士全书(套装共六册)
恒强 等校注
¥224.00
太上感应篇汇编+安士全书(套装共六册)
史记选(汉俄对照)
史记选(汉俄对照)
Vyatkin A·R·
¥224.00
《史记选(共3册汉俄对照)(精)》为三卷本,古文、今译、法文三者对照。所选31篇是《史记》中故事性强、极具代表性的篇目,这些故事描写注重细节,且场面宏大,人物形象跃然纸上。在《史记》五体中,以七十列传的内容为生动丰富,因此,《史记选》所选篇目中,列传有很大比重。《史记》是中国部纪传体通史,它是西汉史学家司马迁的隐忍发愤之作。它记述了上起黄帝,下至汉武帝三千年间的历史。全书共130篇,以人物为中心,通过人物传记勾勒历史发展的进程。
满3件6折 没有超能力的超级英雄(全8册)
没有超能力的超级英雄(全8册)
(英)格雷格·詹姆斯,克里斯·史密斯 文;(西)艾丽卡·萨尔塞多 图;潘霓,王甜甜 译
¥224.00
一本自信之书,给孩子战胜困难的超能力!贴近8~12岁孩子生活,用文字给孩子精神鼓励!漫威式校园冒险,颂扬勇气、善良、互助的英雄品格!
满3件6折 遥感干涉高光谱成像仪定标技术
遥感干涉高光谱成像仪定标技术
计忠瑛 胡炳樑 王爽
¥224.00
遥感光谱成像技术的快速发展,对其定量化水平和数据质量提出更高的要求。定标是遥感器输出数据定量化的主要手段,研究、改定标技术,提高定标精度,对提高遥感数据产品质量,推动高光谱成像遥感技术的应用具有重要意义。遥感干涉光谱成像技术具有独特的优势,其定标技术也具有特殊性。本书介绍了辐射传输、辐射定标的基础理论和干涉型高光谱成像仪的定标原理;遥感干涉光谱成像仪在卫星发射前及在轨运行后的定标技术(发射前的地面定标、星上定标、在轨场地定标、交叉定标,利用云、冰等场景和月亮辐射行定标,以及近年发展的场地自动化定标和全球定标场网定标);各定标技术的原理和方法、数据处理方法;干涉型高光谱成像仪定标实例等。 本书适用于从事遥感光学仪发、研制、应用的专业人员和相关专业的大学本科、研究生参考阅读。
满3件6折 中国磁光电混合存储产业蓝皮书
中国磁光电混合存储产业蓝皮书
中国通信工业协会互联网产业专业委员会
¥224.00
本书分为综述篇、技术篇、产研篇、应用篇及附录等部分。力求全面、完整、真实的介绍磁光电混合存储的技术、市场和应用发展现状及趋势,为大数据存储行业提供技术和市场的发展路线图,可为相关政府部门、科研机构、高校、企业研究磁光电混合存储理论、技术及发应用提供参考。
满3件6折 一代文学大师林语堂逝世40周年纪念典藏版(全18册)
一代文学大师林语堂逝世40周年纪念典藏版(全18册)
林语堂
¥223.99
本套书是林语堂逝世40周年纪念典藏版,共18册,分别为《从异教徒到基督徒》、《风声鹤唳(纪念典藏版)》、《红牡丹(纪念典藏版)》、《京华烟云:全2册》、《孔子的智慧(纪念珍藏版) 》、《赖柏英》、《老子的智慧(纪念典藏版)》、《美国的智慧(典藏版)(套装共2册)》、《奇岛》、《生活的艺术》、《苏东坡传》、《唐人街》、《啼笑皆非》、《吾国与吾民》、《武则天正传》、《印度的智慧》、《中国的智慧》、《朱门》。 《吾国吾民》:是林语堂在西方文坛的成名作与代表作。该书用坦率幽默的笔调、睿智通达的语言娓娓道出了中国人的道德、精神状态与向往,以及中国的社会、文化与生活情趣。将中国人的性格、心灵、理想、生活、政治、社会、艺术剖释得非常美妙,并与西方人的性格、理想、生活等做了深入的比较,在海内外引起轰动。 《风声鹤唳(纪念典藏版)》:《纽约时报》将之誉为中国的《飘》。抗日战争时期,战争就像大风暴,秋风扫落叶般扫荡着所有人的命运。小说即以抗日战争时期的中国(北平、上海、武汉三地)为背景,讲述了一个身世离奇的美丽女人在乱世的传奇经历,以及她终在火热的爱国气氛中走出狭小自我、超越个人情爱、生命得到升华的故事。同时,本书也史诗般地表现了在“中华民族到了危险的时候,民族精神痛苦而伟大的升华。 《京华烟云:全2册》:全书讲述了北平曾、姚、牛三大家族从1901年义和团运动到抗日战争三十多年间的悲欢离合和恩怨情仇。全书结构宏伟,线索交错,全景式展现了近现代中国社会发生的急剧而深刻的变化,被誉为现代版的《红楼梦》。 《孔子的智慧(典藏版) 》:在林语堂先生看来,孔子的思想不只是“处世格言”“道德修养”,更是一种深沉的理性思索,一种对人生意义的执着追求,充满了诗意的情感内容,具有“终极关怀”的宗教品格。孔子的思想代代相传,渗透在我们每个人的血液里,成为中国人的“文化心魂”。 《苏东坡传》:苏东坡是一个秉性难改的乐天派,是悲天悯人的道德家,是散文作家,是新派的画家,是伟大的书法家,是酿酒的实验者,是工程师,是假道学的反对派,是瑜伽术的修炼者,是佛教徒,是士大夫,是皇帝的秘书,是饮酒成性者,是心肠慈悲的法官,是政治上的坚持己见者,是月下的漫步者,是诗人,是生性诙谐爱开玩笑的人。但是这还不足以道出苏东坡的全部。 《唐人街》:在中国现代文坛上,林语堂的《唐人街》属于早期“移民文学”范畴。它像一座桥梁一样,连接着二三十年代突现民族意识和爱国情感的域外小说与表现“美国梦”的追求与幻灭的当代作品。作者以散文化的笔法,以他童年时期故乡一家人同舟共济、相亲相爱的人生经历为素材,描写了来自中国福建的老汤姆一家在纽约唐人街同舟共济“创业”,并通过辛苦的劳作和诚实的努力,终实现了“美国梦”的故事。 《朱门》;《朱门》与《京华烟云》《风声鹤唳》合称“林语堂三部曲”。这部小说于1953年付梓,主要讲述了两位西安人——记者李飞和名门闺秀杜柔安跨越门第界限的爱情传奇。小说不仅描写了20世纪30年代西安古城的文化风貌、动荡时局,而且跟随两名主人公的经历,也花很多笔墨描述了广袤的西疆风情,以及发生在那块种族混居、斗争不断的土地上的传奇故事,并处处流露出作者平等博爱的人道主义情怀。 《啼笑皆非》:本书书分四卷。卷一论“局势”。陈叙今日世界之危局,及第三次大战之伏机。卷二论“道术”,指出道术之沦丧,及以物质主义方术解决危机之错误。卷三论“征象”,批驳现行战后和平之各种论著,以见今日思想之症结。卷四论“治道”,由学术思想上分析近百年来文化之去向,及推陈人道扫地之史因,并由科学穷极思变之新倾向,透入一道曙光,排脱唯物机械论,重立自由意志论。 ......
满3件6折 女神制造:做乘风破浪的姐姐(共11册)
女神制造:做乘风破浪的姐姐(共11册)
柳崖,尤琳,张瀚一,《美丽俏佳人》节目组,等
¥223.99
一套书解决你关于护肤、造型、健身、生活、工作、情感的所有问题,做一颗玫瑰色的子弹,晋升惊艳女神! 《活着就要气场全开》:“只想做个小女孩,无奈变成女总裁。”在这本书里,作者除了分享怎么赢,还梳理了亲身经历的血淋淋的教训。希望自己受过的伤,能成为读者的导航,告诉怀揣玫瑰梦想的女孩们,人生路上哪里有沼泽,哪里有宝藏。 《生活不易,敬之以美》:生活美学家、星巴克合作艺术家、水彩女王尤琳的生命感悟,分别从艺术之美、独立之美、爱情之美、亲子之美和人格之美讲述了如何面对人生琐碎而不生怨怼,向爱而生。 《精致女孩指南》:这是一本从护肤、身体护理、生活习惯、工作、情感等多个方面教女孩如何变得精致、有气质的实用手册。书中从很多细小的方面告诉你,如何通过改变一点点,达到精致、气质的目的,例如:敏感肌护肤策略、暴露生活态度的足部皮肤、相亲中的气场指南等。 《从平凡到惊艳 我的美丽圣经》:本书分为护肤、化妆、瘦身、美发、美甲五部分。作者阵容强大,韩国化妆艺术家元伦喜、中国台湾人气整体造型师凡妮莎以及内地女性生活方式专家她品强强联合,旨在打造适合亚洲女性的美容时尚解决方案。 《健身女神:我要马甲线》:视频点击量过亿,人气女神赵雨菲独家马甲线练成术大公开。 《性感女神:不只是瘦》:体重是衡量身材好坏的标准吗?谢黎明在《性感女神不只是瘦》中告诉你,不要相信任何减重的捷径或一味只注重体重,“越轻越美”的观念是完全不对的!我们应更关心自身的健康和身材的匀称,健身的目的应是拥有健康、拥有自信、拥有一个好身材。生活中我们也会发现,很多很瘦的人并不好看,尤其是通过节食或疾病减下十几千克的人,他们大多三围小、皮肤松弛、气色不好,这样的“病态美”并不是真的美。 《礼仪女神:训练优雅》:本书以问答形式详细解释了300多个有关礼仪的关键信息,内容丰富,涵盖: 日常礼仪——教你避免造成人际交往中的尴尬时刻; 商务礼仪——教你正确、有礼貌地接待客户、参加宴会; 国际礼仪——教你明白各国文化习俗的不同,不踩国际交往雷区。 《不美不活(美丽俏佳人)》:本书分护肤、彩妆、发型、服装搭配四个部分。 你不仅可以了解站在时尚前沿的美俏主播们的现实生活,还可以学习除了《美丽俏佳人》节目以外的更多新鲜美容秘籍。我们集结了众多业界达人独家供稿,全书精彩纷呈,为你提供“美丽”能量,让生命绚烂绽放!梅琳、Kevin、小P、游丝棋、家弘强大专家团指导,带你揭开美丽密码,开启你的女神潜能! 《我的闺蜜是中医》:集合了五位知名中医及养生专家之所长,分别从肌肤养护、体质养生、内分泌调理、身体疾病自我判断、脊柱矫正五大方面为女性答疑解惑、出谋划策。 《微整》:微整不仅能改变我们先天缺陷,还能将已经很美的自己变得更加完美。本书包含两个部分:真实的医美故事和热门医美项目解读。 《越吃越瘦的秘密:66的魔法拼搭瘦身餐》:简单易做的减脂餐:让自己跟66老师一起,养成良好的饮食和生活习惯。吃到饱,健康瘦。
Models of Influence
Models of Influence
Barker, Nigel
¥223.92
A Collectible Anthology of the 50 Most Inf luential Models in Fashion HistoryIn Models of Influence, photographer, television host, and fashion authority Nigel Barker profiles fifty of the most noteworthy models from the 1940s to the present, revealing how their look or way of modeling not only made an indelible stamp on the industry but also influenced fashion design, the popular way of dress, and notions of female beauty worldwide.Each of the book's eight chapters focuses on a distinct period, from the postwar modeling boom, which ushered in an era of models who communicated a return to glamour, to the present day, with the emergence of media-savvy models who understand the power of branding themselves to the world at large. Each entry highlights the model's background and career, exploring her unique qualities and the secret to her staying power, whether it's her physical characteristics, daring approach to image making, transformative abilities, or a particular energy that captured or even redefined the zeitgeist of fashion and culture of the time.To complement the text, Barker has personally selected more than one hundred full-color and black-and-white photographs from the archives of the world's top fashion photographers Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Francesco Scavullo, Herb Ritts, and Mario Testino among them to assemble a collectible anthology of many of the finest fashion images from the last seventy years.With an engaging, informative text and a vivid collection of seminal photographs, Models of Influence is the definitive word on the subject.With 110 full-color and black-and-white photographs
SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition
SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated edition
Levitt, Steven D.
¥223.92
Seeing is believing . . . The Smash Hit SuperFreakonomics is now Bigger and Better SuperFreakonomics was an instant New York Times bestseller that caused a media uproar, continuing the amazing success begun with the groundbreaking, worldwide sensation Freakonomics.With the Illustrated Edition, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner bring alive their smart thinking and great storytelling with an explosion of visual evidence, including: A by-the-numbers tally of a high-priced call girl's career, and a tracking sheet from an intensive survey of Chicago street prostitutes. A visual quiz that lets you pit your memory against the memory of a chess grand master. Images of the hurricane-killing machine and other geo-engineering inventions described in SuperFreakonomics. A look into whether doctors are better at saving lives in TV dramas or in real hospitals. Whether probing the intricacies of sex change oper-ations, the effectiveness of child car seats, or what really motivates people to do good, the Illustrated Edition of SuperFreakonomics employs photographs, drawings, and graphs that will lead readers to see the world in a bold, fresh way.
The Game
The Game
Strauss, Neil
¥223.86
Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of this generation.
Sex Itself
Sex Itself
Richardson, Sarah S.
¥223.67
Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical-with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y.?Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between cultural gender norms and genetic theories of sex from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, postgenomic age.?Using methods from history, philosophy, and gender studies of science, Sarah S. Richardson uncovers how gender has helped to shape the research practices, questions asked, theories and models, and de*ive language used in sex chromosome research. From the earliest theories of chromosomal sex determination, to the mid-century hypothesis of the aggressive XYY supermale, to the debate about Y chromosome degeneration, to the recent claim that male and female genomes are more different than those of humans and chimpanzees, Richardson shows how cultural gender conceptions influence the genetic science of sex.Richardson shows how sexual science of the past continues to resonate, in ways both subtle and explicit, in contemporary research on the genetics of sex and gender. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, genes and chromosomes are moving to the center of the biology of sex. Sex Itself offers a compelling argument for the importance of ongoing critical dialogue on how cultural conceptions of gender operate within the science of sex.
Androids in the Enlightenment
Androids in the Enlightenment
Voskuhl, Adelheid
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The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these "e;Enlightenment automata"e; have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized.?In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata-both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the eighteenth century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions. Voskuhl argues, contrary to much of the subsequent scholarly conversation, that these automata were unique masterpieces that illustrated the sentimental culture of a civil society rather than expressions of anxiety about the mechanization of humans by industrial technology. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that modern selves and societies had become indistinguishable from machines.?
Fragments and Assemblages
Fragments and Assemblages
Bahr, Arthur
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In Fragments and Assemblages, Arthur Bahr expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manu*s, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manu*s and literary works. Specifically, Bahr argues that manu* compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as both assemblages and fragments: as meaningfully constructed objects whose forms and textual contents shed light on the city's literary, social, and political cultures, but also as artifacts whose physical fragmentation invites forms of literary criticism that were unintended by their medieval makers. Such compilations are not simply repositories of data to be used for the reconstruction of the distant past; their physical forms reward literary and aesthetic analysis in their own right. The compilations analyzed reflect the full vibrancy of fourteenth-century London's literary cultures: the multilingual codices of Edwardian civil servant Andrew Horn and Ricardian poet John Gower, the famous Auchinleck manu* of texts in Middle English, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. By reading these compilations as both formal shapes and historical occurrences, Bahr uncovers neglected literary histories specific to the time and place of their production. The book offers a less empiricist way of interpreting the relationship between textual and physical form that will be of interest to a wide range of literary critics and manu* scholars.
Arbitrary Rule
Arbitrary Rule
Nyquist, Mary
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Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slaveryIn Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny. She argues that as powerful rhetorical and conceptual constructs, Greco-Roman political liberty and slavery reemerge at the time of early modern Eurocolonial expansion; they help to create racialized "e;free"e; national identities and their "e;unfree"e; counterparts in non-European nations represented as inhabiting an earlier, privative age.?Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slavery's discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart. Nyquist proceeds through analyses not only of texts that are canonical in political thought-by Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, and Locke-but also of literary works by Euripides, Buchanan, Vondel, Montaigne, and Milton, together with a variety of colonialist and political writings, with special emphasis on tracts written during the English revolution. She illustrates how "e;antityranny discourse,"e; which originated in democratic Athens, was adopted by republican Rome, and revived in early modern Western Europe, provided members of a "e;free"e; community with a means of protesting a threatened reduction of privileges or of consolidating a collective, political identity. Its semantic complexity, however, also enabled it to legitimize racialized enslavement and imperial expansion.?Throughout, Nyquist demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery and tyranny are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over slaves and, by extension, the state, its representatives, or its laws over its citizenry.
In the Watches of the Night
In the Watches of the Night
Baldwin, Peter C.
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Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin's evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors-scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike-in the nocturnal city.Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.