Yearbook of Morphology 1995

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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The aim of the Yearbook of Morphology series is to support and enforce this upswing of morphological research and to give an overview of the current issues and debates at the heart of this revival.
The Yearbook of Morphology 1995 focuses on an important issue in the current morphological debate: the relation between inflection and word formation. What are the criteria for their demarcation, in which ways do they interact and how is this distinction acquired by children? The papers presented here concur in rejecting the `split morphology hypothesis' that claims that inflection and word formation belong to different components of the grammar. This volume also deals with the marked phenomenon of subtractive morphology and its theoretical implications.
Theoretical and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists and psycholinguists interested in linguistic issues will find this book of interest.

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Praise for the Second Edition:

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Since the publication of the First Edition of Geographical Information Systems in 1991, the "Big Book" of GIS has become the definitive work on the science, application, and practice of GIS. This new Abridged Second Edition of Geographical Information Systems brings this definitive reference to a whole new audience, with a streamlined format, a new chapter covering recent developments in GIS, and the full text of the Second Edition of Geographical Information Systems, seventy-two chapters in all, on the accompanying CD-ROM in searchable PDF format.

Unmatched in scope by any other reference on the subject, Geographical Information Systems, Second Edition provides crucial background on basic GIS concepts and addresses the radical shifts and changes that have taken place in GIS technology and its uses. Included in this Abridged Edition are twenty-four chapters covering topics as diverse as issues of space and time in GIS, problems with data quality, uncertainty and error detection, spatial analysis, developments in GIS architecture and spatial databases, GIS data collection, data transformation and linkage, implementing GIS and using it as a management tool, and the societal and legal implications of GIS and spatial information.

This affordable Abridged Edition provides a convenient reader for students taking any of a wide range of GIS courses, and serves as a concise reference for professionals working with GIS.

Customer Reviews:

Great Overall GIS Reference for Graduate Student or Beyond.......2007-01-11

This book (well really the included CD full of .pdfs) covers a broadly significant portion of the GIS spectrum. A very useful resource.

2 Volume Set, Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Applications and Management, 2nd Edition

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Required reference

2 Volume Set, Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Applications and Management, 2nd Edition

Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0471321826

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From a review of the First Edition: "The book is timely, packed with useful background information, and thought-provoking in its treatment of future prospects . . . the definitive guide to GIS."-Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

The one-stop source for current and comprehensive information on GIS-now in a new edition

The long-awaited Second Edition of Geographical Information Systems brings this definitive reference up-to-date with the latest developments in GIS techniques and practice. Completely restructured and rewritten by a select international team of almost 100 GIS experts, it remains the resource of choice for anyone seeking detailed, state-of-the-art information on all key aspects of this revolutionary spatial science technology-from underlying principles and methodology (Volume 1) to management and practical applications (Volume 2).

Unmatched in scope by any other reference on the subject, Geographical Information Systems, Second Edition provides crucial background on basic GIS concepts and addresses the radical shifts and changes that have taken place in GIS technology and its uses. The new edition comes complete with color illustrations, helpful cross-referencing, plus an extensive bibliography, a list of acronyms, and more-a full range of features that make this landmark resource easier to use than ever.

Volume 1 offers in-depth coverage of key GIS principles and technical issues, including:
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* Techniques for transforming and linking geographical data

Customer Reviews:

Required reference.......2000-01-23

"Big Book 2" is as important a reference work as the original edition. Everyone who is a serious student of GIS needs to have access to this resource. It covers the foundations and frontiers of GI *SCIENCE* with contributions from many of the most well-known researchers in the field. A must have.

Geographic Information Systems: Applications, Techniques, Principles and Management

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Geographic Information Systems: Applications, Techniques, Principles and Management
P. Longley , D. Rhind , M. Goodchild , and D. Maguir
Manufacturer: The Geoinformation Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains
how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters,
including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore
fifteenth-century art.
This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which
replaces the original.

Customer Reviews:

A Must-Read If You Are More Than A Casual Art Student.......2005-04-27

I really can't add more to Robert W. Moore's insightful review. However, I feel a need to counterbalance the ranting reviews posted by others on this page.

In particular, the one-star reviews listed here are simply embarrassing. Clearly, these reviewers do not represent the intended audience for this book. It's not Michael Baxandall's fault that these reviewers were unable or unwilling to engage themselves with the depth, detail, and scope of his book. Ignore them.

Here's a useful litmus test: If you would consider taking an art history course because you think it would be an "easy A," avoid this book. On the other hand, if you hold a genuine interest and enthusiasm for art history in general - and for Renaissance art in particular - this book should be well worth your time.

Not A good Read!!!.......2004-04-16

This book is what I would call hard to read, unless of course you already have a masters degree in Florentine art. As a student in an art history class that required this as one of our reads, I can say this book is crap, yes I mean crap. I have read many more well written books covering this subject in an easier to read format. I would defiantly not recommend this overpriced piece of firewood.

Splitting Attractive Hairs.......2003-05-17

This is the kind of book that History of Art departments throw at you early on in their courses to instil the right respect and awe for the whole academic ritual. When I first saw this book I was duly impressed and intimidated into thinking this was somehow a classic. In this work Baxandall is the exemplary academic, slowly building up a case from painstaking research and cleverly interpreted trivia. This approach is fine and dandy until you reflect that at the end of it the conclusions Baxandall has laboured so hard to arrive at are perhaps a little banal -- i.e. Renaissance painting was influenced by such contemporary phenomenon as religious practices, dancing, and (oddly) the ability to judge quantities by eye. The reason this book works is that the Renaissance is such an attractive period that Baxandall's painstakingly dull technique receives a charming counterpoint in the endearing trivia of the period. Unfortunately this effect is not replicated in other works by Baxandall that I have looked at. To college students getting a dose of this, I would say, 'Enjoy the period, but think about how relevant this kind of hairsplitting really is.'

terrible!!.......2002-10-11

... this book was tedious. there are very few books that make me say, "i'd rather be working!"
you have to have a really high tolerance for italian art, or even art in general. a passing interest simply will not allow for an enjoyable read.
...

A classic study of the vocabulary of Renaissance painting.......2001-10-29

I find it strange that many people find it strange that one might read a book like this one for fun. Twice in one day I had people approach me and ask me for what class I was reading this, as if there are books one reads only in school and books one reads in real life.

I did read this in real life, and I read it for three reasons: 1) I knew this is a highly regarded book in art criticism, 2) it deals with a period of art history about which I wanted to know more, and 3) it looked like it would be a fun read.

My primary reaction to the book upon reading it was: how did the author fit such a huge book into so few pages? There are books that cannot be measured by page count. PAINTING AND EXPERIENCE IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY contains 153 pages of text, with illustrations taking up around a third of those. Despite that, Baxandall is able to pack an amazing amount of information in a very small number of pages. Yet, as dense as this book is, it never becomes anything less than completely readable. It is a very fast read, and not merely because of the small number of pages. Baxandall's contention is that the visual experience of a Quattrocento person (or what he eventually comes to self-mockingly comes to call "a church-going business man, with a taste for dancing") is not one to which we any longer have conceptual access. He laments that we too often approach these paintings with our own conceptual categories in the forefront, and impose these upon the paintings, instead of judging them and perceiving them, as a contemporary would have. His goal in this slender volume is to attempt to reestablish some sense of the pictorial concepts with which a Quattrocento person approaches a painting. In this I believe he succeeds admirably. While visiting one of my local book superstores, I spent some time glancing through a number of books on Renaissance art, especially Hartt's well-known tome. I found that I was indeed responding differently to the paintings than I had before I read Baxandall. This is a book that capacitates its reader to enjoy a fuller participation in the appreciation of the visual world.

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The National Gallery of Art collection of Italian fifteenth-century paintings, the finest in any American museum, has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 Catalogue of Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley. Among the altarpieces, devotional works, portraits, and allegorical scenes are many world-famous masterpieces. In addition to Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, paintings by Domenico Veneziano, Castagno, Sassetta, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Perugino, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio make this a book of major masters of the Renaissance.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2007-03-27

One word will suffice - 'excellent'. In scholarship, clarity of writing, illustrations and design, it is excellent. The price is also unbelievably good for a publication of such quality. If I have a quibble, it is that it is too heavy for easy handling. Perhaps two volumes would have been better. But that is nothing compared with what is! Congratulations to the whole team who produced it. Nothing better in the world today.

Sienese Painting, from Its Origin to the Fifteenth Century (Icon Editions)

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Sienese Painting, from Its Origin to the Fifteenth Century (Icon Editions)
Bruce Cole
Manufacturer: Icon (Harpe)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0064309010

The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume 1 (National Gallery Catalogues)

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Marginal for my needs

The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume 1 (National Gallery Catalogues)
Dillian Gordon
Manufacturer: National Gallery Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1857092937

Customer Reviews:

Marginal for my needs.......2007-02-28

This is the first book in the National Gallery Catalogues series that I've purchased. Based on its size and topic, I thought it'd be full of large color illustrations and make an excellent visual reference much like the various "Paintings in the" books. I was both disappointed and delighted.

I enjoy art books for color plates and for technical information about paintings or the painting process, but I have no interest whatsoever in the history of the artists or their works. I was afraid this book would provide too little of the former and far too much of the latter. I was correct. There aren't as many works or large color plates as I hoped. There is far too much about the history, provenance, and attribution of the works than I care to see. However, the technical information in the this book saved it for me.

There are detailed technical notes for several of the works present in this volume. There's information on the methods and materials used, notes about damaged and retouched areas, and analysis of symbols used in the works to name a few things. These are backed up by close-up photos, X-rays, and the like and there are numerous references to sources for the information and analysis.

This was going to be my trial book of the series. If I was satisfied with the quantity and quality of color plates and their proportion to text then I'd purchase more and if not then I'd pass the series by. I can now say I won't purchase any more books in the series in search of color plates. I will give a few specialized, more subject specific, books a try though because of the potential for technical and artistic analysis. If I were into history and provenance I'd jump on any volume like this.

+2 for plate quality and quantity
+4 for technical information and analysis
+5 for history and provenance

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The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings
Dillian Gordon
Manufacturer: National Gallery London
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0300091575

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London's National Gallery holdings of Italian paintings are both deep and wide-ranging. This new, richly illustrated catalogue of the Italian paintings from 1400-1460 includes entries on masterpieces by the greatest artists of the period, such as Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Pisanello, and Uccello. Since the publication in 1961 of Martin Davies' catalogue of the earlier Italian Schools, much new evidence has become available through both scientific and archival investigations. Discoveries have been made and new theories advanced, not only about the identity of the artists but about the nature of their subject-matter and the original settings of their work. Among the completely new findings published here are the discovery of a concealed signature on an Annunciation by the Florentine painter Zanobi Strozzi and the identification of the missing predella panel from the Trinity altarpiece, begun by Pesellino, and completed by Filippo Lippi. Each picture has been reexamined by conservators and new information gleaned about its technique and condition. All the paintings

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Fifteenth-Century Italian Painting
Diane Cole Ahl
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0300080409

Fifteenth-Century North Italian Painting and Drawing: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Publication in Art History)

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Fifteenth-Century North Italian Painting and Drawing: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Publication in Art History)
Charles M. Rosenberg
Manufacturer: G K Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Florentine paintings, fifteenth century; (The Pitman gallery)

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Florentine paintings, fifteenth century; (The Pitman gallery)
Kenneth Clark
Manufacturer: Pitman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007E7BTC

Italian Painting in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

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Italian Painting in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Germain Bazin
Manufacturer: Hyperion Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KDBFHY

Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Paintings Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century

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Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Paintings Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century
Fern Rusk Shapley
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NL72P2

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An award-winning translation of the influential Danish master

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and his passionate cousin who marries his friend—his search for purpose becomes a yielding to disillusionment. One of Danish literature's greatest novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a protagonist some critics have compared to Hamlet, Jacobsen's masterpiece has at its center a young man who faces the anguish of the human condition but cannot find comfort in the Christian faith. Tiina Nunnally's award-winning translation offers readers a chance to experience anew a writer deeply revered by Rilke, Ibsen, Mann, and Hesse.

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THERE was in Niels Lyhne's nature a lame reflec-tiveness, child of an instinctive shrinking from decisive action, grandchild of a subconscious sense that he lacked personality. He was always struggling against this reflectiveness, sometimes goading himself by calling it vile names, then again decking it out as a virtue that was a part of his inmost self and was bound up with all his possibilities and powers. But whatever he made of it, and however he looked upon it, he hated it as a secret infirmity, which he might perhaps hide from the world, but never from himself; it was always there to humiliate him whenever he was alone with himself.

Customer Reviews:

Which translation is this.......2007-01-06

This new 2007 release seems a bit unclear on the translator. All the various editions in English available in the past few years are by Tina Nunnaly. I prefer the old fashioned Larsen translation. If the subtitle is to be believed, and this is in fact the first release of the Larsen translation in decades, then I recommend this as the edition to get. If it is, as links to "other" editions might suggest, another Nunnaly translation, then it's not a very exciting development.

Novel of Disilusion.......2001-02-10

This was the book more fantastic that I had read!!!!! This tell us about how a soul fell itself when your love is not recompensed. It makes a psycological interpretation of your mind in these so sad and difficult situation. It is a sensitive book for sensitive people!

Rebuttal to Independent Publisher.......1999-02-03

This is not a reprint, but a new translation by acclaimed translator and author Tiina Nunnally of arguably the finest novel ever to come out of Scandinavia. It had a huge influence on European writers, especially in Germany, where teenage boys would carry around a Danish dictionary in the vain hope of reading Jacobsen in the original, according to Stefan Zweig, and where the novel has been translated at least 6 times. Read it and see where Thomas Mann got his ideas for "Tonio Kröger." Jacobsen, who was a botanist as well as the translator of Darwin into Danish, fills the novel with flowers and plants, and he knows whereof he speaks. Dive headlong into this examination of creativity vs. lethargy, atheism vs. faith, and the seemingly infinite ability of the hero to misunderstand women!

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A Grundtvig Anthology

Manufacturer: James Clarke Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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A collection of writings by one of Denmark's most influential 19th century educationists.

Jens Peter Jacobsen (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 573 : Denmark)

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Jens Peter Jacobsen (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 573 : Denmark)
Niels Lyhne Jensen
Manufacturer: Twayne Publishers
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0805764151

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NIELS LYHNE
J. P. JACOBSEN
Manufacturer: Unknown
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SF9A26

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Niels Lyhne

Manufacturer: Cosac & Naify
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 8575030361

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Niels Lyhne

Manufacturer: Fjord Press, c/o Partners West
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Binding: Hardcover

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Niels Lyhne
I. P. Jacobsen
Manufacturer: Mineerva Bogerne
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SBRB26

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Niels Lyhne

Manufacturer: Rothgieber & Bossefel
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FMP6EI

Niels Lyhne (Scandinavian Classics, Volume XIII)

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Niels Lyhne (Scandinavian Classics, Volume XIII)
J. P. Jacobsen
Manufacturer: The American-Scandinavian Foundation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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In English, translated from the original Danish. Measures 5.25x7.5" Shipping weight under 1 pound.

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NIELS LYHNE EIN KUNSTLERROMAN
JENS PETER JACOBSEN
Manufacturer: GOLDMANNS GELBE TASCHENBUCHER
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000URJZ7C

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IN GERMAN

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