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Provides a starting document to aid nonspecialists in their understanding, valid operation & calibration of aerosol particle size analysers, so that the various types of equipment are used correctly & traceable quantitative data can be obtained with confidence. ... Read more

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This compact handbook is designed to meet the needs of the factory medical officer with no specialized knowledge of dermatology. It will also provide those in formal dermatological training with a useful introduction to the subject. All the contributors have been selected for their experience of working in industrial areas, and the editors have encouraged a direct practical approach which sets some of the problems of industrial dermatology within the wider context of dermatology in a population of working age. ... Read more

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The Birth of a Nation (1915) remains the most controversial American film ever made, and its director, D. W. Griffith, one of the most extraordinary figures in film history. It was the first true feature film and did more than any other to launch Hollywood both as an industry and as an idea. The film consolidated a trend in cinematic technique and an approach to dramatic narrative that define American cinema to this day. As a great but ideologically troubled film that offers us a reflection of ourselves as Americans, The Birth of a Nation continues to intrigue, challenge, infuriate, and awe.Robert Lang's introduction to this volume explores in fascinating detail the warped view of history that this great film presents. Griffith, a Southerner, was intent on resurrecting, idealizing, and justifying the South. In The Birth of a Nation, it is racism that unites the white North and South; the protection or abolition of slavery is not the divisive issue. In a powerful synthesis of spectacle and narrative, Griffith seeks to give the Southern cause a sense of glamour and high purpose. Lang considers the film as a historical melodrama, and by examining Griffith's "historiography as ideological practice," he traces the way in which the bloody, traumatic reality of the Civil War and Reconstruction becomes melodramatic myth.This unparalleled guide to The Birth of a Nation offers a shot-by-shot continuity script; a biographical sketch of the director; a sampling of contemporary reviews; a series of essays by distinguished critics including James Chandler, Michael Rogin, Janet Staiger, and Mimi White; and a filmography and bibliography.Robert Lang is an assistant professor of English and film studies at the University of Hartford. ... Read more

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Dr. Robert Lang takes David Wark Griffith's un-scripted film (The Birth Of A Nation) and breaks it down shot by shot. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery, D. W. Griffith House, Wooldridge-Rose House, Carpenter-Smith House. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery -In May 1871, several local citizens of Pewee Valley, Kentucky, twenty miles northeast of Louisville, Kentucky, decided they wanted a local public cemetery. By August 1871 the land was purchased. The following spring, in 1872, the cemetery was organized and plants were placed to beautify the area. When they were finished, they asked for a charter from the Kentucky state government. Close to the cemetery, the Villa Ridge Inn was built in 1889. The site was a four-story summer resort was to be popular with Louisville entrepreneurs and their families. However, despite being a $90,000 construction with "majestic architecture", it never attracted enough visitors to stay in business. Between the Inn's closure and 1902, it had temporarily become a private high school, the successor to the Kentucky College for Young Ladies. When the approval for the Confederate home was gained in 1904, the cemetery was divided into three parts; one for Confederate veterans, one for whites, and one for blacks. In 1902 the Kentucky state assembly unanimously approved the building of a veterans home specifically for Confederate veterans of the American Civil War by the cemetery. It was done at the behest of former Confederate officer Bennett H. Young, who had long desired such a facility as he saw many former Confederate veterans were no longer able to take care of themselves. After Young's group acquired $16,000, the legislation was approved. Young's group of Confederate veterans and the Daughters of the Confederacy chose the Villa Ridge site just outside the cemetery, as it was well-sited a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15404290 ... Read more