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Amidaji: Emperor Antoku's Mortuary Temple and Its CultureHow do you reconstruct a tradition of religious art wiped out by another religion? Naoko Gunji takes up this challenging question in Amidaji. Amidaji was a Buddhist temple in western Japan that, from the twelfth century onwards, overlooked the strait of Dannoura and commemorated...
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Descartes in the Classroom: Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern AgeThe volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes's philosophy in the early modern age, across the borders of countries, and confessions, both within and without the university setting - public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter.Author: Davide Cellamare, Mattia...
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Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern ItalyThis book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during...
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Watteau - Kolonial: Herrschaft, Handel Und Galanterie Im Frankreich Des Régence(Bilingual Edition: English / German): What were the early visions of Empire in Regency France? The book offers a interpretation of Jean-Antoine Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717) by framing it in the context of French colonial expansion in the years of...
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Emscher 20 21+: Die Neue Emscher Kommt: Sozial-Ökologischer Umbau Einer Regionalen StadtlandschaftFor a long time, the Emscher was Germany's dirtiest river. Now, however, it runs clear again. This volume documents the social and ecological restoration of the Emscher, which flows through the northern Ruhr area for 81 km. Used as a mining wastewater system during...
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Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and WarwickOn August 22, 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious. His disparate army vanquished the forces of Richard III and, according to Shakespeare over a century later, brought 'smooth-faced peace, with smiling aplenty and fair prosperous days' back to England. Yet,...
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Ageing in Medieval Jewish CultureThis is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched and accessibly written, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines as well as to the broader public. While...
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Robin Hood: Legend and RealityDetailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the "real" Robin Hood. For over a century and a half scholars have debated whether or not the legend of Robin Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so, when and...
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A+u 22:01, 616: Feature: Dwelling Studies and Japan's Women Architectsa+u's January issue traces the extraordinary achievements by women architects in Japan and examines dwelling studies as a unique approach to the design of environments, centered upon living and relationship among people. The field began as a curriculum on "clothing, food, and housing" established...
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D'Arcy Jones Architects: 12 BuildingsD'Arcy Jones Architects: 12 Buildings presents the work and methods of this highly-regarded Vancouver firm. These buildings emerge from a dialogue between concept and situation, material and function. Each project develops "from the inside out," through an iterative design process centered around human comfort...
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THink: Pen Zen DiariesThe book is the recording of the interactive genesis of the poetic and the factual in architecture, generated by targeted intuition, so the tangible, materially manifestable result would be really the testimony of its opposite, the ephemeral, infinite space. This genesis is easily readable...
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Our Little LifeIt's 1676 and 'spirits' are stalking the kingdom. When eight-year-old Penny is kidnapped outside Whitehall Palace and taken away to the West Indies, how can Susannah and Raphael hope to save her?Arriving in Jamaica, they reunite with Sam Carter - Penny's natural father -...
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Il Percorso Museale Dell'ospedale Santa Maria Nuova Di FirenzeThe ancient Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova is a multi-faceted structure, within which the medical activities comes to merge with the religious, economic-political, and cultural roles. This guide to the new museum itinerary, inaugurated in 2019, is the overview of a treasure of...
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Architectural Documentation: Built Environment, Modernization, and Turkish NationalismAgainst the backdrop of building a new country, this study explores and evaluates the documentation culture in early republican Turkey. Having fought the Turkish War of Independence (1919-22) against the Allied Powers, the revolutionaries led by legendary leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) came to...
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Making a House a Home: Designing Your Interiors from the Floor UpSusanna Salk's latest book is a passionate primer on how to transform an empty space, whether it's an apartment or a house, into a home. Full of beautiful interiors and pro tips from star designers, Making a House a Home is an inspiring and...
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The BlackhouseFrom the author of the "dark and devious...beautifully written" (Stephen King) Mirrorland comes a richly atmospheric thriller set on an isolated Scottish island where nothing is as it seems and shocking twists lie around every corner.A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who...
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One California Architect, Irving J. GillOne California Architect, Irving J. Gill, is an update and republication of Esther McCoy's groundbreaking chapter on Gill in her seminal 1960 work Five California Architects. It gives a comprehensive look at Gill's life from his youth in Syracuse, New York, to his apprenticeship...
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Portland's Good Life: Sustainability and Hope in an American CityIconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sustainable cities. In Portland's Good Life, R. Bruce Stephenson examines how Portland, the one city in America that adopted Mumford's vision, became a model...
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Great English InteriorsThis special edition revives an acclaimed work. Exquisite photographs showcase England's finest buildings, guiding the reader through five centuries of English architecture and interior design. In this new, special edition of a cult classic work, photographer Derry Moore and interior designer David Mlinaric take...
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Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical TraditionGregory's festal orations are foundational for Byzantine literature. This book shows how besides his priestly role, Gregory plays that of a rhetor performing philosophy for a festival audience, channeling traditions of Classical philosophy and the Second Sophistic into Christian culture.Author: Byron MacdougallPublisher: BrillPublished: 07/28/2022Pages:...
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