Architecture
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Where Are the Women Architects?A timely and important search for architecture's missing women For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects...
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The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of IslamAmid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's...
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Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did NotWhy Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialized from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth...
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So You Want to Be a VikingKate, Eddie, and Angus are dazzled by pictures of Viking warriors' deadly axes and blingy swords in their library books. But when they're transported back in time to Scandinavia in 991 CE, they must figure out if they have what it takes to become...
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The Metropolis of TomorrowIn 1916, New York City enacted zoning laws that mandated the building of "set-back" structures so that light and air would be more freely admitted into the streets below. This concept was first proposed by Louis Sullivan in his 1891 article, "The High-Building Question"...
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The Divine Comedy Selected Cantos: A Dual-Language BookBegun about 1307 and completed in 1321, Dante's sublime poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is one of the world's great works of literature. It comprises an extraordinarily vivid and imaginative account of the poet's allegorical journey through the afterlife. Complementing its depiction of the...
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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic RecordOriginally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the...
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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's ToolkitAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a...
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The Wars of the RosesLancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the English throne. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The...
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Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live inToday's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time....
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Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence Part IThe Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in...
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Dante's Inferno, the Indiana Critical EditionThis new critical edition, including Mark Musa's classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dante's masterpiece.Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Indiana University PressPublished: 06/22/1995Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.11w x 1.07dISBN: 9780253209306Review Citation(s): Library Journal...
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The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the RenaissanceThe Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200-1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to...
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The Golden Age of Botanical ArtGlobal in scope, this beautifully illustrated book explores the evolution and diversity of botanical art. It tells the stories of intrepid explorers and professional artists who recorded the flora they encountered in lands ranging from Russia to South America. Special features cover key figures...
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic TraditionPlacing Bruno--both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake--in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay--and conflict--with magic and occult practices. Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth...
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Satires and EpistlesExuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and his pervasive humanity. Boasting famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse and the grotesque dinner party...
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The House of the Seven GablesThe sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven...
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The Nibelungenlied: Prose TranslationA story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the...
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Grace Is GoneFrom the bestselling author of If You Knew Her comes this harrowing tale of suspense--a story ripped from today's headlines--of a tight-knit English community, who's rocked by the murder of a mother and the mysterious disappearance of her daughter, and the secrets that lie...
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Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the VaticanEngagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close-up "view from the scaffolding" of some of the greatest Renaissance wall paintings at the Vatican. Beginning in the late 1400s, the greatest artists of Renaissance Italy were summoned to Rome, where they decorated...
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