In 1925, no one in New York City was more surprised than Murdock Pemberton-a newspaper reporter, Broadway publicist, playwright, and poet with no formal training in art or connoisseurship-when an upstart magazine, the New Yorker, named him its first art critic. But the keen eye, adventurous taste, crusading spirit, and irreverent wit expressed in his columns soon made Murdock a conquering hero of the avant-garde. Modernists as diverse as Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, and Alexander Calder cherished Murdock's friendship and support; so did cutting-edge art dealers and pioneers of industrial design. Kansas-born Murdock took aim at narrow-mindedness and bigotry in every part of the United States. The blunt, scrupulously muckraking journalism that delighted admirers from Greenwich Village studios to the Algonquin Round Table drew hisses from America's art establishment. Exposés of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, collector Andrew Mellon, and "plush-hung" commercial galleries-for the New Yorker and other national publications-thrust Murdock into the limelight as a David among the philistines, his favorite role. After discovering Murdock's archives in 2009, his granddaugther Sally, through exhaustive detective work and original research, produced this lavishly illustrated "scrapbook." Sleuthing in auction-house records, the archives of defunct galleries, and artists' estates enabled her to re-create much of Murdock's "lost" collection. She has also assembled an invaluable compendium of his writings and those of his contemporaries, many of which have never before appeared in print, providing a fresh, behind-the-scenes look at modernism's formative years. More than an intimate portrait of one man, this book is a captivating retrospective of the period he helped to shape.

Portrait of Murdock Pemberton

Sally Pemberton

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This treatment of Time-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Solids begins with a phenomenological description of the transport of some unspecified entity. It is assumed that the transport is caused by mechanical stresses or temperature fields. This hypothesis is based upon just a few well-established methods such as, for instance, the Zener theory of diffusion and the Inglis equation for stress enhancementof. Using these assumptions, it is possible to deduce formulae for a theoretically based description of several phenomena without referring to any specific process or entity.These theoretical results then provide the tools for performing methodologically better scientific work and for a better analysis of data in the practical application of materials. By publishing this work, the author hopes improve technical safety in transportation and other fields of practical materials application. Another goal is to stimulate the scientific investigation of a wider range of substances in order to analyze more extensively the elementary processes which produce observed phenomena.Because the intended readership of this work is not limited to scientists, the author has deliberately avoided the use of tensor calculus in the deduction of the formula.This is altogether a groundbreaking essay which will repay careful study.

Time-dependent Mechanical Properties of Solids (Materials Science Foundations)

Engineering & Transportation

Wolfgang Gräfe

Engineering

Diffusional Creep of Polycrystalline Materials

Burton, B.

Sol-gel technology is an important route for the fabrication of inorganic and inorganic-organic composite materials. As is typical of chemical synthesis routes, a wide range of parameters can be used to tailor the product.

Sol-Gel Production (Key Engineering Materials,)

Helmut Schmidt

Theoretical and Technological Aspects of Crystal Growth: Proceedings of the 10th International Summer School on Crystal Growth, Isscg - 10 Rimini, Italy, June 1998

Science & Math

C. Paorici

Chemistry

History and Spirit, An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation

Politics & Social Sciences

Kovel, Joel

Philosophy

As the Revolutonary War drew to a close, a black slave known as Mum Bett summoned the courage to take her owner to court in a bid for her freedom. She succeeded--becoming one of the first slaves to gain her freedom through the courts. Though slavery in the New England town in which she lived had been legal for more than 100 years, Mum Bett sought help from Theodore Sedgwick, an ambitous 33 year old attorney who agreed to take her case. Their quiet success set in motion a sequence of events that would topple an established way of life. As a free woman Mum Bett would protect Sedgwick's family during the Shays' Rebellion, a test of civil authority that shook a fragile government to its roots. She also became a second mother to Sedgwick's children, as he pursued a career in Congress, and his wife Pamela experienced the anguish of mental depression. As we search for insight into those who planted the first seeds of abolition, Mum Bett's courage and conviction act as an inspiration, and a reminder of the tremendous strength required to uproot American slavery. For additional information on Mother of Freedom, please visit www.benzrosewriter.com

Mother of Freedom (Mum Bett and the Roots of Abolition)

Ben Z. Rose

Young Vermonters: Not An Endangered Species is Joe Sherman s response to the claim that young Vermonters can t live in Vermont anymore. In a series of 20 interviews of Vermonters between 21 and 38, from all over the state, Sherman challenges the popular belief that the state is too expensive for them, they can t find jobs, they can t make it there. The interviews are raw, personal, and rich with the voices of the future generation of Vermont. Although the young are not endangered, Sherman concludes, living in the Green Mountain State is tough and getting tougher as the population ages (Vermont is the 49th oldest state in the country), costs rise, and job opportunities for the young shrink in number and in pay. So far, official handwringing and youth Vermonter complaints have been the response to this simmering issue. All it does is get hotter.

Young Vermonters - Not an Endangered Species

Joe Sherman

Nature & Ecology

Margaret Ramsey's memoir of her prodigious brother shows Frank Ramsey as clearly as if it were yesterday in the surroundings of his family, fellow scholars and friends. The life of an exceptional man is played out before our eyes against a background of a time that is now 'another country' but strangely linked in its manners and concerns to our own. A brilliant mathematician and a philosopher who belonged to the Cambridge of Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein (whose Tractatus he translated while a student) he was the innovator of a new subject of economic philosophy challenging Keynes on probability and contributing to taxation theory. Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) is not only the extraordinary inside story of a young genius. Margaret Paul brings to life an age - the twenties, a decade of interwar angst, both Freudian and political and with it a roll call of exceptionally gifted men and women. The preoccupations of that time call out subtly to the world of today.

Frank Ramsey (1903-1930): A Sister's Memoir

Margaret, Paul

Exploring the untapped potential of the Connecticut River Valley has engaged Lisa Leslie Henderson and her family of five for over a decade. At first, they kept a list of favorite destinations on the refrigerator. But with every fresh discovery, the list grew and grew - and grew. Three refrigerators later it has become Best-Loved Family Adventures.

Connecticut River Valley New Hampshire and Vermont Best- Loved Family Adventures Over 400 Fun-Filled Outings

Lisa Leslie Henderson

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