Author: James Cracraft
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: present, identity, russian, architectures
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2003-05
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0801488281
ISBN-13: 9780801488283

From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great’s use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl—across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity, and power. Church architecture has inspired national cohesion and justified political control while representing the claims of religion in brick, wood, and stone. The architectural vocabulary of the Soviet state celebrated industrialization, mechanization, and communal life. Buildings and landscapes have expres

Author: James Cracraft
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Keywords: peter, reform, church
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1971-06
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0804707472
ISBN-13: 9780804707473

Author: James Cracraft
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: peter, revolution
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-03-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0674019849
ISBN-13: 9780674019843

Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era. Linking together and transcending Peter’s many reforms of state and society, Cracraft argues, was nothing less than a cultural revolution. New ways of dress, elite social behavior, navigation, architecture, and image-making emerged along with expansive vocabularies for labeling new objects and activities. Russians learne

Author: Dan Cracraft
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: food, fast, metaphysical, enlightenment, instant
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2004-05-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 141841722X
ISBN-13: 9781418417222

Instant Enlightenment: Metaphysical Fast Food by Koda Finally, a book that proves psychic phenomena is a reality by enabling everyday people to experience it personally -- in just minutes. For example, Koda’’s Psychic Window Technique quickly produces the experience of Visual Telepathy, and the effects, which include the visual perception of what may be reincarnational selves, will blow your mind. Telekinesis (moving matter at a distance) can be accomplished by essentially anyone within seconds by spinning a paper wheel balanced on a straight pin. Other easy to perform exercises, w

Authors:Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: life, tree, assembling
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2004-07-22
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195172345
ISBN-13: 9780195172348

This edited volume is provides an authoritative synthesis of knowledge about the history of life. All the major groups of organisms are treated, by the leading workers in their fields. With sections on: The Importance of Knowing the Tree of Life; The Origin and Radiation of Life on Earth; The Relationships of Green Plants; The Relationships of Fungi; and The Relationships of Animals. This book should prove indispensable for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, ecologists interested in biodiversity, and as a baseline sourcebook for organismic biologists, botanists, and microbiologists. An

Authors:Michael M. Miyamoto, Joel Cracraft,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sequences, dna, analysis, phylogenetic
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-11-14
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0195066987
ISBN-13: 9780195066982

With increasing frequency, systematic and evolutionary biologists have turned to the techniques of molecular biology to complement their traditional morphological and anatomical approaches to questions of the historical relationship and descent among groups of animals and plants. In particular, the comparative analysis of DNA sequences is becoming a common and important focus of research attention today. The objective of this volume is to survey the emerging field of molecular systematics of DNA sequences, and to appraise the strengths and limitations of the different approaches yielded by the

Authors:James R. MacDonald, James Keir Hardie, James K. Hard
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: socialist, budget, empire, labour, socialism, serfdom
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1974-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0838615406
ISBN-13: 9780838615409