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  2. The Discoverers - Wikipedia

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    The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration ...

  3. Structural art - Wikipedia

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    The idea of structural art as a creative subdiscipline of structural engineering originates from the scholarship of Prof. David P. Billington of Princeton University. The term appears to have been coined in his 1983 book The Tower and the Bridge, and arose out of scholarly study of great works of structural design made by engineers starting in the late 18th century with the beginning of the ...

  4. Artist's book - Wikipedia

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    Alexander, Charles, ed. (1995) Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts; Bernhard Cella(2012) Collecting Books: A selection of recent Art and Artists' Books produced in Austria, a YouTube Video that is part of the project. Bleus, Guy (1990) Art is Books; Borsuk, Amaranth (2018). The Book. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press

  5. Category:1983 books - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... Books written or published in the year 1983. Books portal; 1980s portal; 1978; ... Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (book) S ...

  6. Technical art history - Wikipedia

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    The scientific analysis of art was initially simply referred to as “technical studies”, a term that was used in early publications by the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums in the 1930s. [2] [3] These technical studies entered the discipline art history in the first half of the twentieth century. [4]

  7. Richard J. Bernstein - Wikipedia

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    In his 1983 book Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, Bernstein diagnosed a serious issue that affects much of modern philosophy as it oscillates between two untenable positions; on the one hand, the dogmatic search for absolute truths, and on the other, the conviction that "anything goes" when it comes to the ...

  8. Howard Gardner - Wikipedia

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    In March 2022, MIT Press published Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner's book The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be. [ 9 ] At the start of 2024, Gardner was the most cited Educational Scholar in the United States, according to the Edu-Scholar Public Influence Ratings.

  9. Startide Rising - Wikipedia

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    Startide Rising is a 1983 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the second book of six set in his Uplift Universe (preceded by Sundiver and followed by The Uplift War). It earned both Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel in 1984.