William Morris (1834-1896) : L’Art dans tout

Sustainable Socialism: William Morris on Waste

While William Morris has long been recognized for his radical approach to the problem of labor, which built on the ideas of John Ruskin and informed his contributions to the Arts and Crafts philosophy, his ideas about waste have received much less attention. This article suggests that the Kelmscott Press, which Morris founded in 1891, was designed to embody the values of durability and sustaina...

The Green Borders of William Morris

/ n the recent exhibition of Kelmscott Press books held by the University of Melbourne Library, we were treated to many examples of borders designed by William Morris. Some of these borders are repeats, but all draw on Morris's extensive repertoire of 'conventionalised' organic forms. Having spent some time studying the concept of nature in the work of Morris, it was these 'green' borders which...

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Conception et Evaluation de XQuery dans une architecture de médiation "Tout-XML"

XML has emerged as the leading language for representing and exchanging data not only on the Web, but also in general in the enterprise. XQuery is emerging as the standard query language for XML. Thus, tools are required to mediate between XML queries and heterogeneous data sources to integrate data in XML. This paper presents the XMedia mediator, a unique tool for integrating and querying disp...

December 1834

/19r cont'd/ Monday Decr. Ist. We are at last come to a new month-which has been ushered in in Paris by very powerful winds from the W. The weather altogether seems to approach nearly to the NoVr. weather of England. Went down to the Hotel Dieu this morning. Breschet [did] not come, followed Chomel. Went thence to the Hop'. St. Louis. Saw a fine collection of cases, particularly some excellent ...