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The dream of "progress" that animated many nineteenth-century artistic and political movements gave way at the turn of the century to a dissatisfaction with the Industrial Civilization and a recurrent pessimism about a future dominated by mechanization. Art Nouveau, which was both a style and a movement, embodied this dissatisfaction, marking the turn-of-the-century period with an aesthetic that consciously set out to revolutionize literature, the arts, and society within the framework of a brutalizing, wildly burgeoning Industrial Civilization. Generally associated with northern European...

Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in politics. The essays in this volume seek to shed light on the construction of nationalism in Iran in its many manifestations; cultural, social, political and ideological, by exploring on-going debates on this important and progressive topic.

Claire is newly retired from a long career in epidemiology. No longer does she have an important daily schedule or the comfort of routine. All she has is her empty house and her computer. Desperate to escape incoming loneliness and death by boredom, she begins the search for something to fill her time and give her life purpose again.

Her quest for meaning leads to the Institute of Psychology, where Claire enrolls in a psychoanalysis course taught by the talented psychologist David Brown. Claire is even invited to Brown's group sessions for women of advanced age, where she befriends...

From 1876 to 1915, Edward James Lennox was a formidable force in Toronto s architectural community. Many of his buildings are still landmarks in a city that continues to evolve.

Born and educated in Toronto, Lennox looked to the past for inspiration but was never captured by it. His prototypical Annex houes on Madison Avenue, Old City Hall, and Casa Loma bear witness to his technical expertise and aesthetic sensibilities. Through text and illustrations, this volume tells the story of the a resolute architect whose vision helped shape an emerging city, and who in his time was called...