Architecture
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Behavioral Formation: Volatile Design Processes and the Emergence of a Strange SpecificityEmergent processes of formation create intensive, volatile, intricate, complex phenomena. These processes have come to define our contemporary understanding of the nature of becoming, which stands in contrast to established notions of architectural design and authorship. The design research of Roland Snooks is a...
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Gensler Research Catalogue Volume 2This is the second in Gensler's Research Catalogue series, and the first to be made available for public sale. Volume 1 received significant praise from academic, business, and design audiences - both for the insights it contained and for its design. Volume 2 builds...
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Flowers of Battle, Volume III: Florius de Arte LuctandiThe warriors of medieval Italy practised a complex and complete martial art, which included the wielding of sword, axe and spear with wrestling, knife-fighting and mounted combat. In the waning years of the 14th century, Fiore dei Liberi was a famed master of this...
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Captain of the Guild: Master Peter Falkner's Art of Knightly DefenseIn the late 14th century, the German swordsman Johannes Liechtenauer developed and codified a system of armed combat with sword, spear, and dagger that spread through the Holy Roman Empire and dominated German martial arts for nearly 300 years. By the end of the...
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Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo HuntersAward-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than...
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New Hampshire Covered BridgesNew Hampshire's Covered Bridges**Color Edition** A Source book for Travelers, Photographers, Explorers** Descriptions to all of New Hampshire's 54 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as color photos of each one. **GPS Positions**Written Driving Directions**Instructions for Self-Guided Tours which include tours of Carroll County,...
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR HydeThis small novella tells the tale of two impossibly intertwined gentlemen living in Victorian London---the friendly and sociable Dr Jekyll, and the monstrously deformed, obviously dangerous Mr Hyde. As Mr Hyde's crimes gain the attention of the police, the manhunt is on; but every...
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Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British MuseumThis illustrated volume reproduces and describes effectively every early modern German color print held at the British Museum, one of the world's most significant collections of these rare milestones of cultural heritage and technology. New photography reveals 150 impressions in jaw-dropping detail, some of...
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In Distant Lands: A Short History of the CrusadesIn the late fall of 1095 Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what...
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King Stakh's Wild HuntKing Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys' line,...
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Junkspace with Running RoomJunkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in...
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Dark Dance: Book One of The Blood Opera SequenceRachaela has never known her father - he was a taboo subject as far as her mother was concerned. All Rachaela's mother had ever said was 'Keep away from the Scarabae', her father's tribe. Were they bad people, or simply disapproving of the woman...
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Older Scots: A Linguistic ReaderA full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in...
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Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Providing Energy Efficient HomesThis book is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It takes the form of an annotated details book, with photos taken from live construction sites, with the content based around diagrams, drawings and...
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Mantegna and BelliniAn innovative study of the relationship between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini, two masters of the Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the...
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F.L. Griggs (1876-1938): The Architecture of DreamsF.L. Griggs was acclaimed as one of the finest etchers of his time. Griggs' work links that of Turner, Blake and Palmer with the Neo-Romantics Graham Sutherland and John Piper. This is a scholarly account of Griggs' life and work.Author: Jerrold Northrop MoorePublisher: Clarendon...
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Simply Scandinavian: 20 Stylish and Inspirational Scandi Homes'Simply Scandinavian' is an inspirational survey of 20 outstanding homes, ranging from tiny cabins to elegant apartments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark. 'Simply Scandinavian' is an inspirational survey of 20 outstanding homes, ranging from tiny cabins to elegant apartments in Sweden, Finland, Norway,...
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The the Gaelic Finn Tradition IIThe Gaelic Finn tradition encompasses literature and lore centered on the figure of Finn Mac Cumaill. The essays in this volume cover, as with those in the earlier volume, The Gaelic Finn tradition (2012), numerous aspects of this tradition, including texts both medieval and...
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Samurai Women 1184-1877Ever since the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerged from Japan's rich history. Using material that has never been translated into English before, this book presents the story of...
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Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life CourseAn examination of daily life in the Middle Ages which reveals the intimate relations between age groups, between the living and the dead, and between people and things. An important and timely volume... an elegant summary of complex theory, and synthesis of an impressive...
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