Los Angeles Historic Resource Survey Report: A Framework for a Citywide Historic Resource Survey is the culmination of the Getty Conservation Institute’s (GCI) Los Angeles Historic Resource... More > Survey project. In 2002 the GCI began working with the City of Los Angeles on comprehensive research into historic resource survey methods and best practices, and the myriad uses of survey data. This report provides a flexible framework for the city to design and conduct the country’s most ambitious citywide historic resource survey to date.
While the survey framework and methods presented in the GCI report were developed for Los Angeles, it will be valuable to others interested in surveys who may be undertaking comparable work.
Learn more about the GCI’s Los Angeles Historic Resource Survey Project at www.getty.edu/conservation/field_projects/lasurvey/.< Less
This collection of essays comprises a survey of the author's academic and philosophical output over a period of 20 years. During the course of my intellectual adventures I have traveled to over 33... More > countries, and visited innumerable libraries, museums and cultural centres, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Fez, Moscow, Bethlehem, Scandinavia, Russia, India, the Philippines, USA, Canada etc.. I remain optimistic as a philosopher because of our imaginative capacity, our spiritual and intellectual resources, which we can and hopefully will draw on individually and collectively to heal our current< Less
This collection of essays comprises a survey of the author's academic and philosophical output over a period of 20 years. During the course of my intellectual adventures I have traveled to over 33... More > countries, and visited innumerable libraries, museums and cultural centres, in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Fez, Moscow, Bethlehem, Scandinavia, Russia, India, the Philippines, USA, Canada etc.. I remain optimistic as a philosopher because of our imaginative capacity, our spiritual and intellectual resources, which we can and hopefully will draw on individually and collectively to heal our current< Less
Written by experts in the field, the Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Measurement begins with a brief survey of various gas measurement techniques and continues with fundamental aspects and cutting-edge... More > progress in NDIR gas sensors in their historical development. Providing sufficient background information and details, the book Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Measurement is an excellent resource for advanced level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers, instrumentation engineers, applied physicists, chemists, material scientists in gas, chemical, biological, and medical sensors to have a comprehensive understanding of the development of non-dispersive infrared gas sensors and the trends for the future investigation.< Less
A long-awaited textbook that introduces the major schools, treachings, and practices of Daoism, this work presents a chronological survey that is thematically divided into four parts: Ancient... More > Thought, Religious Communities, Spiritual Practices, and Modernity. It offers an integrated vision of the Daoist tradition in is historical and cultural context, estab-lishing connections with relevant information on Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, popular religion, and political developments. It also places Daoism into a larger theoretical and comparative framework, relating it to mysticism, millenarianism, forms of religious organization, ritual, meditation, and modernity. The book makes ample use of original materials and provides references to further readings and original sources in translation. It is a powerful resource for teaching and studying alike.< Less
