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A two-volume box set edition of a first-rate history of photography as told through two hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA. In Volume 1, Nineteenth Century, Acton tracks the history, artistic concepts, and technical advances of photography, including the pioneering work of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), Alphonse Louis Poitevin (1819-1892), Frederic Flacheron (1813-1883), Roger Fenton (1819-1869), Desir...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.

memo: So spannend kann Wissen sein! Ob Börse, Handel oder Globalisierung: Die grüne Kindersachbuchreihe "memo Wissen entdecken" verpackt geniales Wissen über Wirtschaft für Kinder in kurze, lesefreundliche Texte und viele detailreiche Bilder. Im übersichtlichen Layout begleitet das Chamäleon Lexi durchs Buch und hat überraschende Infos parat. Dazu gibt es ein beidseitig bedrucktes Poster mit dem Foto eines Containerhafens auf der einen und e...

A history of twentieth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.

Although the market economy is not as unpopular now as when Acton wrote "The Morals of Markets, " the morality of buying and selling has long bothered man's conscience. Defenses of capitalism often establish its efficiency or rely on a "that is the way human nature is anyway" argument. This book asserts that a free market is a necessary condition for the pursuit of moral excellence. Its analysis of the relation between capitalism and moral vir...

Not many of us can claim to have thrown chests of tea into the Boston Harbor or to have watched Vesuvius erupt, but that’s about to change...Wyllie, Acton, and Goldblatt’s The Time Traveler’s Handbook offers eighteen exceptional trips to the past, transporting you back to the greatest spectacles in history. You have the chance to join Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold and to march on Versailles with the revolutionary women of Paris....

Although the market economy is not as unpopular now as when Acton wrote "The Morals of Markets, " the morality of buying and selling has long bothered man's conscience. Defenses of capitalism often establish its efficiency or rely on a "that is the way human nature is anyway" argument. This book asserts that a free market is a necessary condition for the pursuit of moral excellence. Its analysis of the relation between capitalism and moral vir...