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The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An Urban Appraisal

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: MacDonald, William, PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, The author of a classic work on the architecture of imperial Rome here broadens his focus to present an original study of urban architecture in Roman market towns, port cities, veterans' colonies, and major metropolitan centers throughout the empire. "Simply the best book on Roman urbanism that] I know.... A formidable breakthrough. It brings to life the genius of Roman urbanism and reveals its continuing relevance for present urban planning and architecture."-Leon Krier, Architects Journal "In this very fine book-the successor to his Introductory Study-William L. MacDonald lays before the reader the physical evidence of what a Roman city was like for its inhabitants.... The illustrations in An Urban Appraisal, this second volume of The Architecture of the Roman Empire, are superbly chosen, illuminating the text as well as being interesting in themselves.... It is a joy to find a book so attractively designed, worthy of both its author and his subject."-Martin Henig, The Times Literary Supplement Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians for the most distinguished work of scholarship in architectural history. Acquista Ora

A Brief Introduction to Ancient Aegean Art: Cycladic,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Uhl, Jason, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, In this volume you will find a brief evaluation on the importance of the artistry of the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. It is through the art and architecture of these very early Greek civilizations that we have been better able to understand the true roots of the Greek civilization in its entirety. The art and architecture of these three civilizations have yielded us much insight into the basic social organization, living habits, religions and spiritual figures that would later develop into the basis for Greek society.

Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol.

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boston Society of Natural History, PUBLISHER: General Books LLC, NA

Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McCarthy, Kevin / Laurie, Murray / Hartigan, Karelisa V., PUBLISHER: Pineapple Press (FL), - Each significant building on campus and in town is pictured and described here, with information on its history, architecture, location, and present use - Gainesville boasts charming historic neighborthoods and a vibrant down-town entertainment district - This book will introduce everyone to the unique places and character of the university and the Gainesville area

The Architecture of All Abundance: Creating a Successful

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Carroll, Lenedra J., PUBLISHER: New World Library, Navigating the shark-infested waters of the entertainment industry, recovering from life-threatening illness, and rebounding from business failure, Lenedra Carroll has pioneered innovative principles for building success in the material world. Engaging stories deftly portray alternative ways to attain prosperity, love, good health, and a sense of purpose while living ethically and in harmony with others. Practical exercises make the seven principles clear and accessible for every reader.

Meals in a Social Context: Aspects of the Communal Meal in

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: Aarhus University Press, Scholarly contribution provide insight into how social mores and etiquette were transmitted to children, the growing significance of family for Christians, the culture clashes of Greek and Roman, and the development of religious connotations around meals. The wide range of related interdisciplinary topics considered includes the development of the Eucharist as a ritual in its own right, funeral banquets, the role of women at meals, the architecture of the Greek and Roman meal and the provision of food for the poor.

Victorian Book Potions and Perfumes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Westland, Pamela, PUBLISHER: Booksales, Filled with the scents of yesteryear, this delightful gift book details the nostalgic and romantic ways a Victorian Lady would have perfumed and scented her house. Presents traditional methods using flowers, spices, herbs and fruits. Glorious Full color.

General Plan for the city of Boston Architettura

, Piano regolatore di Boston. Buono stato, con tavole all'interno

Building Unity in the Church of the New Milennium

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Perry, Dwight / Perkins, John / Emerson, Michael, PUBLISHER: Moody Publishers, The church has changed. It is more diverse and as such faces new and imposing challenges. Building Unity in the Church of the New Millennium is an extraordinary collection of articles from a diverse group of ministry leaders devoted to unity among those of different races, classes, genders, and other groups within the church. To love as Christ commanded, the church simply must learn to incorporate, reach out to, and become unified with the people of God's whole kingdom.

Architektur In Deutschland/Architecture In Germany

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Prestel Publishing, PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing, This volume focuses on the topic of reconstruction as it examines three recently completed projects in Berlin, Munich, and Potsdam, and three different approaches to the task of rebuilding. The pros and cons of this ardently debated theme are explored and questioned from various perspectives in essays written by leading critics. The comprehensive section on projects presents fifteen new building projects in Germany by Barkow Leibinger, Meck Architects, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, and others. More than two hundred color photographs and drawings illustrate the newest edition of the DAM Yearbook.

The Claverings

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Trollope, Anthony / Skilton, David, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Since its first appearance in , this novel has been acclaimed as one of Trollope's most successful protrayals of mid-Victorian life. The Claverings is filled with contemporary detail and shows, as Trollope often does, the weakness of men and the emotional strength of women.

A Study in Scarlet

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Doyle, Arthur Conan / Edwards, Owen / Edwards, Dudley, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, this was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction--Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion--make their auspicious debut. The two detectives are immediately in fine form as Holmes plucks the solution to the mystery from the heart of Victorian London.

Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Revell, Keith D., PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, In , the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex urban environment in history. In this far-ranging study, Keith D. Revell shows how experts in engineering, law, architecture, public health, public finance, and planning learned to cope with the daunting challenges of collective living on this new scale. Engineers applied new technologies to build railroad tunnels under the Hudson River and construct aqueducts to quench the thirst of a city on the verge of water famine. Sanitarians attempted to clean up a harbor choked by millions of gallons of raw sewage. Economists experimented with new approaches to financing urban infrastructure. Architects and planners wrestled with the problems of skyscraper regulation and regional growth. These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell details the ways that technical values -- distinctive civic culture of expertise -- helped reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City. Building Gotham thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city.

Victorian Cities

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Briggs, Asa / Lees, Lynn Hollen / Lees, Andrew, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, A comparative study in urban history, "Victorian Cities" examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well.

Portrait of a Port: Boston,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bunting, William H. / Bunting, W. H., PUBLISHER: Belknap Press, Two hundred and thirty-four striking photographs of the port of Boston combine with interpretive commentary to recapture the flavor, buoyancy, and excitement of the city's years as one of the two or three great American ports. After the Civil War Boston underwent a radical and successful transformation from a declining mercantile home port to an important and competitive modern seaport. At the same time the transition from sail to steam was taking place. Photographic studies of deep water sail and steam vessels, naval ships, fishing boats, catboats, tugs, schooners, and sloops, and of the picturesque wharves--all create a kaleidoscopic visual history of these years of change. The volume offers, as well, some of the most distinguished early work in photography, including the widest selection ever published of photographs by pioneer marine photographer Nathaniel Stebbins.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

The norton anthology of English literature, Volume E. The Victorian Age. Libro tenuto in ottime condizioni ( pag) Incluso nel prezzo spesa di spedizione via posta prioritaria.

The Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling: The Only

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wing, Charlie, PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, A treasure of indispensable information for anyone in home improvement, building, remodelling, or design When it was first published in , The Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling won acclaim from both professionals and amateurs. Now, completely revised and expanded with more than detailed illustrations, this edition provides all the tools a builder needs, such as: -- Explicit checklists for meeting building codes and standards -- The latest information on making a home handicapped accessible -- Special estimating formulas for ordering supplies This valuable time and money-saver is a must-have.

The Celebration of Scandal: Toward the Sublime in Victorian

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bernstein, Carol L., PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press, Bernstein explores the representation of the city in Victorian fiction--from the scandal of its slums, through the sublime of its fashionable society, to a darker urban sublime. The Celebration of Scandal analyzes the urban fiction of both well-known novelists (Dickens, Gissing, James, and Meredith) and more marginal writers (Disraeli and Bulwer-Lytton) in terms of their representations of the city, both the scandalous and the sublime. It also includes a discussion of the dandy novels of Catherine Gore, whose parodies of high life are virtually unknown to modern readers. Bernstein explores the scandals lying at the heart of the representation of the city in Victorian fiction. Social scandals--slums that belie the myths of urban progress, for instance--are only intensified by methods of representation that overturn mimetic conventions. But if one pole of this study is the scandal, then its opposite is the sublime. Bernstein examines the parodic mode of the dandy and moves to the serious urban sublime that records urban experience in its ambiguity, its narcissism, its negativity, and its strength. Bernstein then discusses fictional and nonfictional urban sketches that present many of the problems facing urban artists in their encounters with the city. She stakes out new territory, blending the work of major critics of Victorian literature (Steven Marcus, Hillis Miller, etc.), lesser-known nineteenth-century urban texts, and a substantial dosage of Continental materials, ranging from the crucial work of Baudelaire and his great expositor, Walter Benjamin, to theorists such as Freud, Bakhtin, Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan.

Planning Design Engineering Sys CL

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dandy, G. C. / Dandy / Warner, R., PUBLISHER: Spons Architecture Price Book, This comprehensive introduction to the scope and nature of engineering offers students a commonsense approach to the solution of engineering problems. Case studies and real-world examples are used to illustrate the role of the engineer, the type of work involved and the methodology employed in engineering practice.

Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Piehler, Liana F. / Hewitt, Regina, PUBLISHER: Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc., Spatial dynamics and imagery surface as distinctive and insightful elements for investigating female figures in Victorian art and literature. This book explores the concept that space can be a productive and creative realm, rather than merely an empty or confining category, for personal development. Through discussing representative Victorian paintings of the mid- to late- s, as well as novels by women authors, Spatial Dynamics and Female Development in Victorian Art and Novels illustrates the ways visual and literary genres utilize space. This book sharpens our view of nineteenth-century women's perspectives on themselves, and recognizes connections between the visual and literary arts.

Property Companies and the Construction Industry in Britain

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smyth, Hedley / Robson, Brian / Ley, David, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book was the first detailed and systematic account of the property and construction sectors of the British economy. Developing out of a materialist theoretical perspective, Dr Smyth provides an alternative explanation of the different characteristics of the two sectors and rejects traditional notions of the 'backwardness' of the construction sector. The specific historical experience of the Second World War and the rebuilding it necessitated, provides the basis of this analysis and it is argued that the particular divergencies of the construction sector stem from periods of wider economic crisis. Similar periods of crisis have shaped the property sector which, dependent upon the complex relationship between ground rent, the value of the building and building rent, cannot be understood in terms of 'urban rent'. Property companies and the construction industry in Britain challenges both established and radical thinking and its historical account of the development, management and production of the built environment in the years since addresses some of the central concerns of human geography today.

John C Parkin, Archives & Photography: Reflections on the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fraser, Linda / McMordie, Michael / Simmins, Geoffrey, PUBLISHER: University of Calgary Press, Architectural practice in post-World War II Canada brought substantial change to the face of the Canadian built environment, led by the contribution of John C. Parkin. As senior partner at the Toronto-based architectural firm John B. Parkin Associates (no relation) from to the s, Parkin oversaw the creation of a large number of modernist projects, including hospitals, airports, schools, shopping malls, and factories, and received national recognition for his contributions. This richly illustrated book includes an interview with John C. Parkin and essays that examine the incorporation of art in built architecture, the influence of architectural photography in defining Modern architecture to a Canadian public, the importance of architectural archives, and the corporate structure of a large, highly successful Canadian architectural firm.

Contemporary: Architecture and Interiors of the s

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jackson, Lesley, PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, This book is the first to explore fully the so-called 'Contemporary' style that dominated architecture and design from the late s and throughout the s. It was an era of optimism and confidence, where new ideas in architecture and design flourished alongside the emergent consumer culture. Mainly emanating from the USA, the 'Contemporary' style was fresh and liberating, manifesting itself in the picture window and the open plan; in new forms of furniture from Scandinavia and stylish light fittings from Italy; and most tellingly in the 'Contemporary' kitchen with its fitted units and 'mod con' appliances. The book examines the fresh and liberated design ideas of this buoyant era. By far the best book on the subject.' (Daily Telegraph) 'Provides a searching examination of the social, political and economic changes of the exuberant post-war years and the illustrations are excellent. This is an informative book whose presentation accurately reflects the era's colour and confidence.' (Design Review) Phaidon now publishers some of the finest designed and illustrated books on period styles. And this is another.' (World of Interiors)

Art & Architecture Egypt

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Seidel, Matthias / Schulz, Regine, PUBLISHER: Ullmann Publishing, Travel Guide and Art Guide in one. Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated.

Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Libeskind, Daniel / Crichton, Sarah, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, More than a memoir. An autobiography of architecture, culture, and people. One of the most influential architects of our time recounts an extraordinary life-from his childhood in post-war Poland as the son of Holocaust survivors to his controversial and dramatic recounting of the designing of the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center.

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