Catching the Light: Remembering Wallace Stegner

STEGNER, Page

Stegner, Mary

Biographies & Memoirs

Stanford Univ Libraries

This publication provides an in-depth view of Sunset Magazine over its century of publication. Articles focus on the magazine's history and evolution, from its founding by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1898, its survival through the Depression years, and its focus on environmental living and progressive technologies in the late 1980s and 1990s. Ultimately, the book records the vital role the magazine played in documenting Western American lifestyles, architecture, the values of its residents, and more. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes a bibliography, with over 9,000 articles separated by topics such as travel, people, the outdoors, civic and cultural affairs, the economy, food and entertaining, etc. Also included is a chronology of over 900 Sunset books, and an author-subject index.

Sunset Magazine, a Century of Western Living, 1898-1998: Historical Portraits and a Chronological

Starr, Kevin

Memoir of a distinguished scholar and art collector, with emphasis on: 
--the historical and social background of his 19th century forebears, including members of New York high society and a governor of Michigan --collecting of American Folk Art --experience as a student and then "baby dean" at Harvard --experience as a young Stanford professor in the '60s --travel in Africa tracing the steps of his mysterious uncle

Momentary Bliss : An American Memoir

Education & Teaching

Carnochan, W. B.

Schools & Teaching

In conjunction with a groundbreaking exhibit and international conference, the Stanford University Libraries are proud to announce the publication of The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher. 
Regarded by many as one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars of the Baroque era, Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) published more than thirty works on such topics as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology, numerology, Egyptology, geology, and music. A contemporary of Newton and Descartes, Kircher was also the creator of one of Europe's earliest and most famous museums at the Collegio Romano in Rome. As a tribute to Kircher, his museum was recently reconstructed in the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, and also in an exhibit that opened this winter at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome. 
Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the renowned Jesuit's birth, this volume features eleven original, captivating and highly readable essays by Kircher scholars at Stanford, Stonehill College, and the University of Manchester, England. This special 160-page volume, edited by Daniel Stolzenberg, features over 120 elaborate illustrations photographed directly from Stanford's 17th and 18th century Kircher holdings. The book is a metaphorical "guided tour" of Kircher's encyclopedia, touching on many aspects of intellectual, scientific, cultural, religious, and artistic life in the Baroque era. 
The essays are supplemented by two appendices; the first focuses on a project to place Kircher's correspondence on the World Wide Web, and the second is a bibliography of the Stanford University Libraries' holdings of books by and related to Kircher. 
A must buy for Kircher enthusiasts, those interested in the history of science and the culture of the Baroque, polymaths, general readers, and more!

The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher

History

Stolzenberg, Daniel

World

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