With an overwhelming volume of studies on Venice's port architecture and coastal protection, the challenge remains to convey to lay readers how the science of hydraulics was applied. This article reports an experiment in creating a vivid narrative of the movement and effects of sand over a relatively short period of twelve years (1610-1622), which, in this case, started with the fifteen-year-old carcass of a shipwreck at risk of capsizing. I emulate how the erosion of sandbanks triggered by the stranded (...) wreck affected the subsequent silting of the canal. This, in turn, influenced the relationships between land and sea, access and obstruction, and arrivals and departures. Such a microhistory of sand offers a broad picture of the maritime know-how and technology that came into play. Finally, the essay reflects on microhistory's potential to explore port architecture’s technicalities. This approach yields an understanding of the exquisitely practical, in-depth details of the engineering response to significant, contemporary, normal, and catastrophic events. (shrink)

REVIEWS: This is a very helpful volume and a good addition to contemporary scholarship on the valuable and little-known Jaina contribution to philosophy. Prof.Nagin Shah has edited the book well, including clear introduction and a very complete index.

Concept of Avidyā in the Vedānta philosophy of Śaṅkarācārya; a study.

Short stories from the lives of Prophet Muḥammad and Shiite Imams as a model of Islamic ethics.

Dictionary of terminology of Yoga philosophy.

Text with commentary, work on Advaita Vedanta.

Arab countries; intellectual life; congresses.

Verse and prose commentaries, with text, on Nyāyāvatārasūtra, verse treatise on Jain logic, by Siddhasena Divākara.

Classical commentary on Pañcapādikā of Padmapādācārya, 8th cent., work on Advaita Vedanta philosophy; includes Śrīcandramañjarī commentary.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; criticism and interpretation; Human; Alienation; philosophical aspects; Philosophy, Modern; 19th century.