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An Architect's Guide to Construction-Second Edition: Enduring Ways in the Age of ImmediacyReviewed by Sheri Hoyte for Reader Views (03/2020) "An Architect's Guide to Construction - Second Edition: Enduring Ways in the Age of Immediacy" is a practical guide for architects, written by author and architect, Brian Palmquist, who has over forty years of experience, and...
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Active Landscape Photography: Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape ArchitecturePhotographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks the complex relationship between landscape architecture and photography. It explores the influence of photographic...
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Picture Book of Stars: For Seniors with Dementia, Memory Loss, or Confusion (No Text)Picture Book of Stars: For Seniors with Dementia, Memory Loss, or Confusion (No Text) This calming picture book is designed to offer self-empowerment, hope, and dignity to people with dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or those rehabilitating after a stroke. It has 40 high quality, colorful...
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Ippolita Maria Sforza: The Renaissance Princess Who Linked Milan and NaplesIn April 1455, ten-year-old Ippolita Maria Sforza, a daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Milan, was betrothed to the seven-year-old crown prince of the Kingdom of Naples as a symbol of peace and reconciliation between the two rival states. This first full-scale biography...
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History of the Vikings and Norse CultureThe story of the Norse begins with the first ancient tribes during the early Nordic Stone Age. There originated the Nordic Ax Culture when primitive Norsemen create their first stone battle axes. An incredible evolution of an innovative and progressive culture that groomed legendary...
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Folklore in Old Norse - Old Norse in FolkloreDuring the 20th century, Old Norse philology has been strongly textually oriented. This is evident in saga scholarship, where the book-prose ideology turned the issue of the origin of individual sagas into an issue of direct influences from other written works. This focus has...
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Dialogues in Space: Wendell Burnette Architects: Boxed Limited EditionDialogues in Space: Process and Ideas in the Work of Wendell Burnette Architects is the first multi-project monograph on this American architect's selective body of work. The title alludes to the architect's view that architecture is a constructed conversation between people, things, and time....
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From Pentelicon to the Parthenon: The Ancient Quarries and the Story of a Half-Worked Column Capital of the First Marble ParthenonThis book comprises two parts: the first presents, in the form of 22 full-page drawings, the story of a doric column capital (weighing some 12 tonnes) and of the men who hewed it from the quarry and transported it to the Acropolis. The second...
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Flourishing Foodscapes: Design for City-Region Food SystemsThe idea of the foodscape refers to the social and spatial organization of networks and food supply systems, taking into account the physical places and practices of food production, processing, distribution, sales, preparation and consumption.In an age when issues of food scarcity, unequal food...
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Meister Eckhart, the German Works: 64 Homilies for the Liturgical Year. 1. de Tempore: Introduction, Translation and NotesThis volume (based on Loris Sturlese's Italian collection from the year 2014) contains the vernacular texts and English translations of 64 of Eckhart's German sermons, which can be linked with the cycle of preaching during the liturgical year (De tempore). A second volume, currently...
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The Limbourg Brothers: Reflections on the Origins and the Legacy of Three Illuminators from NijmegenIn 2005 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presented the exhibition 'The LimbourgBrothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)'. This was the first time that original miniatures fromfour manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellentopportunity to...
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Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary WorldThe interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with...
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The New Papyrological PrimerThe New Papyrological Primer is a fully revised and expanded edition of David and Groningen's 1964 standard introduction to Greek papyrological texts. The current edition contains 81 Greek texts, arranged in a chronological order, which illustrate various aspects of life in Hellenistic, Roman and...
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The Disintegration of Natural Law Theory: Aquinas to FinnisThis book focusses on conceptual shifts in the successive formulations of natural law theory by Aquinas, Suárez, Grotius, Pufendorf, and Finnis, and reveals the accumulation of problems, inherent in natural law and theory, which ultimately led to its demise.Author: WestermanPublisher: BrillPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 328Binding Type:...
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Villa Adriana Architettura Celeste: I Segreti Dei SolstiziThis is a book that all students of Hadrian's Villa will want to read and ponder. It may well open a fresh approach to understanding the layout and design of other areas of the Hadrian's Villa, especially as computer technology makes it easier to...
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La Sangre del Olimpo / The Blood of OlympusUn ej rcito de gigantes. Dos batallas a vida o muerte. Y siete h roes dispuestos a impedir el fin del mundo. Los tripulantes del Argo II han salido victoriosos de sus misiones, pero est n lejos de derrotar a Gaia, la Madre Tierra....
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Eat and Stay: Restaurant Graphics & InteriorsAfter our successful Eat and Go book, centered on the branding of takeaways, our new title Eat and Stay showcases more than 120 outstanding international branding and interior design solutions for restaurants, bars, cafes, and food shops.Author: Wang ShaoqiangPublisher: PromopressPublished: 04/05/2016Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Juan O'Gorman: Casa O'Gorman 1929Mexican architect and painter Juan O'Gorman (1905-82) had a spectacular debut as an architect, designing his own house at the age of 24. On the strength of this building, Diego Rivera commissioned O'Gorman to design a pair of studio-houses for himself and Frida Kahlo...
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Computational Design- Computational Design offers an informed overview of the impact of computational techniques on architectural design today, providing a snapshot of the latest developments in the field, drawing upon the leading experts in architectural practice and education from across the world - Publication accompanies...
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Castilla Para Isabel / Castile for Isabel«Recuerda siempre que si tu hermanastro Enrique muriera sin dejar herederos, tu hermanito Alfonso ser a rey de Castilla; y si Alfonso muriera sin dejar descendencia, t , Isabel, ser as reina de Castilla. El trono ser a tuyo por derecho, y que la...
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