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Blood Red HorseYou need three things to become a brave and noble knight: A warhorse. A fair maiden. A just cause. Will has a horse-a small chestnut stallion with a white blaze in his brow. Ellie is a fair maiden, but she's supposed to marry Will's...
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Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style HouseA celebration of the uniquely vibrant architecture and interiors of classic and new Spanish-style houses in the southwestern and southern United States, Mexico, and Spain. Casa Bohemia showcases a collection of some of the most beautifully preserved Spanish style houses, from restored haciendas in...
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The Lucky OnesThey called themselves "the lucky ones" They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by their parents and chosen by legendary philanthropist and brain surgeon Dr. Vincent Capello to live in The Dragon, his almost magical beach house on the Oregon Coast. Allison was...
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The Measure of the West: A Representation of TravelIn 1984, Giovanni Chiaramonte photographed Álvaro Siza's building in Berlin, on whose façade some young people had written Bonjour Tristesse. The image was published on the cover of the magazine Lotus International. The following year, Siza and Chiaramonte met in Évora, on the occasion...
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The Crusades: Islamic PerspectivesAt the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes designed to highlight how...
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The Third WitchIn this stirring debut novel, Rebecca Reisert enters the world of Shakespeare's Macbeth, in which a young woman's search for vengeance plunges her into a legendary tale of deceit, murder, and retribution.... I have made my life an arrow, and His heart is my...
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The 1964-1965 New York World's FairThe 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States.More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as the Billion-Dollar Fair. With the...
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Chicago Skyscrapers in Vintage PostcardsThe skyscraper has changed the face of urban architecture--and it all started in Chicago. Born out of the ashes of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871, the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building located at the northeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets, was completed...
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Ellis IslandThe United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island.Through Ellis Island's halls and corridors more than twelve million immigrants-of nearly every nationality and race-entered the country on their way to...
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Living in the Desert: Stunning Desert Homes and HousesA carefully curated and beautifully photographed selection of 50 architect-designed houses that reflects contemporary concerns about the unique challenges presented by life in the desert's sensitive environmentThe desert provides a sense of mystery and rugged beauty that attracts architects, home owners, vacationers, and anyone...
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The Northern RenaissanceThis book comprises a rigorous and enchanting exploration of a highly innovative and exciting period of art following the careers of artists such as Van Eyck, Dürer and Holbein. Jeffrey Chipps Smith analyses key conceptual aspects of that period, such as the Protestant Reformation...
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Secret Houses of the CotswoldsA personal tour of twenty of the UK's most beguiling houses in this much loved area of western England. Author and architectural historian, Jeremy Musson, and Cotswolds-based photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas, offer privileged access to twenty houses, from castles and manor houses, as well...
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Ajax. Electra. Oedipus TyrannusSophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic...
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Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus"This is an absolute triumph--ideas, lives, and the dramas of the twentieth century are woven together in a feat of storytelling. A masterpiece."--Edmund de Waal, ceramic artist and author of The White Road The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings--Fagus...
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Harvard: An Architectural History (Revised)Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard's architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting, author of Houses of Boston's Back Bay. The book examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H. H. Richardson's Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected...
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AthensRevered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has...
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Passive Annual Heat Storage: Improving the Design of Earth Shelters (2013 Revision)Still the World's Most Advanced Text on Earth Sheltering and Passive Solar Design Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a method of collecting heat in the summertime, by cooling the home naturally, storing it in the earth naturally, then returning the heat to the...
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La Batalla del Laberinto (the Battle of the Labyrinth)For use in schools and libraries only. When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy hurries to Camp Half Blood, from where he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth while the war between the Olympians and the evil...
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The Art Museum from Boullee to BilbaoArt museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never been more popular, their direction and values are now being contested as never before--both in the media and in the art world...
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the VikingsWho are the Europeans? Where did they come from? New research in the fields of archaeology and linguistics, a revolution in the study of genetics, and cutting-edge analysis of ancient DNA are dramatically changing our picture of prehistory, leading us to question what we...
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