The story of a man returning after many years to his family's abandoned farmhouse in Indiana reveals an American Midwest where community, trust, and commitment are no longer at the center and a way of life is rapidly disappearing.
Alphonese Mucha's "Byzantine beauties" graced walls, windows and art salons in Paris in the late 1890's in the form of posters and advertisements for a multitude of things. A native Czechoslovakian, Mucha used Byzantine Art influences interwoven with romaticized, ornamented female figures in allegorical settings in his poster and advertising ...
Churchgoers traces the fate of ecstatic religious experience in the practical, matter-of-fact Midwest by examining the lives of Mitchell Chandler, a molecular biologist on the fast track who begins to have paranormal experiences; Randy Overmeyer, a Pentecostal preacher who met God on angel dust and has never looked back; and Randy's pretty, ...
The continuing success of helio- and asteroseismology in studying the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun, and of other single stars, has been highlighted in recent years by many topical meetings. The present proceedings document the first Seismology symposium ever held in conjunction with an IAU General Assembly. This substantially ...
By the turn of the 20th century, West Adams had become one of the first bedroom communities in fast-growing Los Angeles. Mansions and bungalows housed bankers and merchants who commuted to their businesses downtown, as well as moviemakers, debutantes, the social elite, and one or two scoundrels. Anchored by Adams Boulevard, this area just west of ...
The continuing success of helio and asteroseismology in studying the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun, and of other single stars, has been highlighted in recent years by many topical meetings. The present Proceedings document the first seismology symposium ever held in conjunction with an IAU General Assembly. This substantially ...
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