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Who Killed Buster Sparkle?A 2020 Nominee of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, John W. Bateman's Who Killed Buster Sparkle? is more than a must-read....it's a must-be in the modern canon of literature.When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost...
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The Architecture of Point WilliamShim-Sutcliffe's masterful work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield over two decades. Found conditions and new buildings are interwoven and choreographed to create a rich spatial experience moving between...
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The Kingdom of Rus'As scholarship continues to expand the idea of medieval Europe beyond "the West," the Rus' remain the final frontier relegated to the European periphery. Examining a wide range of medieval sources, and through an innovative analysis of medieval titles, The Kingdom of Rus' challenges...
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Lessons from the Lawn: The Word Made Flesh: Dialogues Between Citizens and StrangersThis project demonstrates the utility of heuristic thinking serving as an introduction to the central core of the book: the primer of spatial and material elements, which guides individuals and groups to analyze, engage, and initiate the constructed environment. It provides a broad overview...
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Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a 15th-Century ArtIn the Middle Ages, wrestling was practiced as both pastime and self-defense by every level of society - nobles, townsman, and peasants alike - and was regarded as the foundation of all other martial arts. And no medieval wrestler's name looms as large as...
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The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future"You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Universal Exhibition ... The city center unfolds before you, an architectural miracle that is to twentieth-century urban planning what...
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A Companion to Medieval Scottish PoetryA full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions collected here, by leading...
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Digital Media Series: RhinocerosDevelopments in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) continues to influence the nature of architectural design practice. As a communication and design tool, CAD software not only supports the practical operations of architectural design practice but also introduces design theories that are unique to the medium. As...
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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American UrbanismReporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher: VersoPublished: 11/06/2018Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 7.60h x 7.70w...
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Westminster Abbey - a tour of the Nave with a differenceWestminster Abbey is primarily a working church and is set up as such; not as a museum. Yet the majority of visitors are not worshippers. They are there to wonder at the magnificence of the building and its history as told by the artefacts...
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A Viking AdventureWhen the Histronauts travel back in time to the Viking era they'll need your help to uncover the secrets of the past. Join them on their journey as they forage for food, decipher runes, build beautiful burial boats, and hear all about a Viking...
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Art Deco TulsaTransformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation's most talented architects, including Bruce Goff, Francis Barry Byrne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph R. Koberling Jr.,...
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A History of Lake Norman: Fish Camps to FerrarisJournalist and historian Chuck McShane traces the triumphs and troubles of Lake Norman from the region's colonial beginnings to its modern incarnation.On a muggy September day in 1959, North Carolina governor Luther Hodges set off the first charge of dynamite for the Cowan's Ford...
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Bernard Trainor: Ground Studio LandscapesBernard Trainor's newest book celebrates the wild and elemental landscapes of California, from the craggy coasts of Big Sur to the fertile hills of Sonoma wine country. His award-winning work combines an awareness of regional context with materials, collaboration, and deep connection to the...
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Tom Kundig: WorksThe book offers not only gorgeous studies of Kundig's signature details and integration with natural landscapes, but also a record of his refreshingly straightforward voice.--Archinect The book is beautifully designed and produced: a match for its content, and a joy to browse.--Form Tom Kundig:...
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Gatekeeper: World of FollyHunt Slonem is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker well known for his exotic and eclectic works. His homes in Louisiana and upstate New York have been featured in The New York Times and Interview magazine. The Watres Armory, built in 1900-01 and listed...
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Jewels of the RenaissanceThe fascination of jewels is rooted not only in their ability to please the eye but also in their power to express the range of human emotions and ambitions--love, friendship, religious devotion, superstition, dynastic pride. Renaissance jewels are among the most alluring manifestations of...
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Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a GeniusLeonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician--the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but...
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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western CivilizationFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to visit cities like Baghdad or Antioch. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and...
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Small HousesSo long McMansions and rambling square footage...small homes are in Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times, small houses are gaining popularity in the housing market after nearly 60 years of trending up in size. Small Houses capitalizes on this shift...
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