scholarly journals The Library of Virginia Cookbook Collection

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Ray
Keyword(s):  
Rare Book ◽  
Hampton Institute ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Reasonable Price

My obsession with collecting cookbooks for the Library of Virginia began after a very savvy book dealer offered me a collection of Virginia cookbooks of “genealogical significance and import.” The fellow is a very good salesman and made a convincing argument, but his prices were more than I wanted to pay. He did, however, inspire me to begin looking for cookbooks in the aforementioned thrift stores and estate sales, where I usually pay from fifty cents to a couple of dollars for a book. Once in a while I am tempted to pay retail for a particularly good regional cookbook or a very unusual collective work. But usually I spend no more than $5. I seldom spend Library funds for cookbooks, but there are exceptions. For example, a few months ago a rare book dealer “offered” the Library a copy of the 1921 Hampton Institute cookbook, A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School, by Carrie Alberta Lyford, for about $275. However, after a bit of research I discovered that very edition still available at the Hampton Museum for $40. I’m sure the dealer’s copy has character, but the Library was able to acquire a pristine example for a very reasonable price. Considering fewer than 25 OCLC libraries hold the book, it can be considered scarce (though perhaps not rare).

Literary process in Russia of the 18 th — 19 th centuries. Secular and spiritual literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Work Method

Investigations of the creative heritage of Russian writers and poets of the 18 th -19 th centuries, as well as of the most prominent representatives of the Russian clergy and Russian culture, are presented in the scientific work; key issues of the writers’ work method and style, of their works’ genre features, creative self-determination, are raised; new and unique explanations of both widely known and less read classics’ works, which reveal deep meanings and ideas that have not yet been identified in literary criticism, are given. The literary process of the era is illustrated by the special continuity of thoughts and ideas characteristic of Russian literature for which, deep vision and understanding of life, religious consciousness (it is from the said position the study of the works’ artistic worlds is necessary). Materials of archives, rare book publications and periodicals equipped with scientific commentary are introduced into scientific circulation. The originality of the published investigations and materials gives the collective work topicality and special colour on the whole.

Plasticity of the neural coding metaphor: An unnoticed rhetoric in scientific discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Frezza ◽  
Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Neural Coding ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Brain Behavior

Abstract The convincing argument that Brette makes for the neural coding metaphor as imposing one view of brain behavior can be further explained through discourse analysis. Instead of a unified view, we argue, the coding metaphor's plasticity, versatility, and robustness throughout time explain its success and conventionalization to the point that its rhetoric became overlooked.

The collection of rare publications in local history of Kostanay Regional Universal Scientific Library

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darikha Dyusibaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Local History ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
History Of ◽  
Small Holders

The origins and characteristics of the rare book collection of L. Tolstoy Scientific Library are discussed. The focus is made of the unique publications in the local history of the late 19-th – eary 20-th century. The publications cover the history of the region and comprising vast document array. Several publications are described in detail, e. g. «Migrant small-holders in Turgay Oblast», «Essays in the Natural History of the 1- st and 2-тв Maurzum volost of Turgay Oblast», statistical reports, land management instructions, «The Proceedings of Kustanay Society of Local Lore and History», etc. The problem of the collection preservation and digitization is discussed.

Perancangan dan Pembuatan Situs Reseller Management pada Cargo Fashion

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-87
Author(s):  
Enrico Siswanto
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Index Terms ◽  
Waterfall Model ◽  
Reasonable Price

Cargo Fashion is a small business that focuses on selling branded garments exports with the best quality and reasonable price. Cargo Fashion still has difficulty in making sales to reseller because still using manual way. Therefore, Cargo Fashion requires a website-based system that can accommodate reseller sales wherever and whenever. Website designed using Waterfall method and built using the PHP and MySQL language for the database. The results of this study is a website that can make sales for resellers and at the same time facilitate the owner of Cargo Fashion in checking the stock of goods and view sales reports. The system was tested to the owner and 100% accepted and meet all the requirements. Index Terms—reseller management, web-based application, waterfall model

Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tarlau
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
Progressive Organizations

Contrary to the conventional belief that social movements cannot engage the state without becoming co-opted and demobilized, this study shows how movements can advance their struggles by strategically working with, in, through, and outside of state institutions. The success of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers has made it an inspiration for progressive organizations globally. The MST’s educational initiatives, which are less well known but equally as important, teach students about participatory democracy, collective work, agroecological farming, and other practices that support its socialist vision. This study details how MST activists have pressured municipalities, states, and the federal government to implement their educational proposal in public schools and universities, affecting hundreds of thousands of students. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land documents the potentials, constraints, failures, and contradictions of the MST’s educational struggle. A major lesson is that participating in the contentious co-governance of public education can help movements recruit new activists, diversify their membership, increase practical and technical knowledge, and garner political power. Activists are most effective when combining disruption, persuasion, negotiation, and co-governance into their tactical repertoires. Through expansive leadership development, the MST implemented its educational program in local schools, even under conservative governments. Such gains demonstrate the potential of schools as sites for activists to prefigure, enact, and develop the social and economic practices they hope to use in the future.

Boutiques and Prêt-à-porter in Santiago de Chile: A Formula for Women’s Modernity (1967–1973)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefina Vidal M ◽  
Macarena García O ◽  
Pedro Álvarez C
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Haute Couture ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
Consumer Segment ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Formula

Abstract In the second half of the 1960s, prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) fashion was established in Chile. As an alternative to haute couture (high fashion), prêt-à-porter brought an eagerness for modernisation that was reflected in the setting up of a network of women-led boutiques, which developed strongly between 1967 and 1973. This article first examines the precedents that allowed for the creation of a ‘local fashion system’ that promoted collective work around trades such as knitting and dressmaking. It also analyses the arrangement of a circuit of boutiques in the comuna of Providencia, a strategic sector of Santiago de Chile (the capital city) that fostered the dynamics of social gathering. Later, the article describes the profile of the designer-entrepreneurs whose work was attuned to a female consumer segment that aimed to access a new formula of the modernising bourgeoisie. It also reassesses the rise of a movement called Moda Autóctona, which distanced itself from European fashion and was supported by the government during the socialist regime of Salvador Allende. Lastly, it tackles the eventual dismantling of this network of women’s fashion stores as a result of the installation of a military dictatorship in Chile.

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