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Mademoiselle MaupinThe story centres around Julie d'Aubigny, a historical French opera singer and swordswoman. It features her life and adventures as a vampire in the 1750s, fifty years after her public 'death'. Driven by vengeance over the death of a woman she loved during her...
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Landscape Architecture Frontiers 053: Cognitive Sciences and Landscape DesignCognitive sciences that aim at establishing scientific and explicit interpretations can diversify approaches to exploring users' feelings and experiences of a specific environment. For example, people's emotions and feelings change with their environment, closely related to people's sensory processes and brain wiring, personal experiences,...
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Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and CulturesThis pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised by migrants on the move and also by those who represent their lives...
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Time's Subjects: Horology and Literature in the Later Middle Ages and RenaissanceThere is ample evidence, from the earliest periods onwards, that mankind has sought to measure and organize temporal movement by means of intellectual theories about historical sequences and the contours of peoples' lives, as well as by practical literary instruments such as calendars, almanacs,...
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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology,...
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A History of Medieval Heresy and InquisitionThis concise and balanced survey of heresy and inquisition in the Middle Ages examines the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, tracing the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority between 1100 and 1500. Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane explores the...
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Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, Patronage and Churchgoing in England 1790-1840How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality. This book is the first comprehensive study of late-Georgian church-building. After centuries of post-Reformation inactivity, the Church of...
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Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban PlanningAn alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist...
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Augustine's Soliloquies in Old English and in LatinA new edition featuring Saint Augustine's dialogue on immortality from a tenth-century Latin manuscript, accompanied by an Old English vernacular adaptation translated into modern English for the first time in a hundred years. Around the turn of the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted...
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Dante's Multitudes: History, Philosophy, MethodA critical addition to Dante studies that illuminates the poet's disruptive impact within Italian culture and foregrounds Barolini's marked contribution to the field.In Dante's Multitudes, the newest addition to the renowned William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature, Teodolinda Barolini...
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The WidowA husband with secrets. A wife with no limits. A riveting novel of marriage, privilege, and lies by Kaira Rouda, the USA Today bestselling author of The Next Wife.Jody Asher had a plan. Her charismatic husband, Martin, would be a political icon. She, the...
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BridgesAs part of the Chinese Modern Engineering series, this fine picture book introduces important knowledge about modern bridge construction and some famous bridges in China that are making a huge impact on people's lives.Author: Rui XiaPublisher: Royal Collins Publishing CompanyPublished: 07/01/2022Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern EnglishDid you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be...
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The Yellow Wallpaper & HerlandHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will' Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman...
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The Power of Architecture: 25 Modern Buildings from Around the WorldAuthor: Annette RoederPublisher: Prestel JuniorPublished: 09/20/2022Pages: 64Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 12.62h x 9.69w x 0.52dISBN: 9783791375144Audience: Ages 9-12
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Public Aquariums: Construction and Design ManualThis is the first ever manual to systematically delve into public aquariums as an architectural typology. It examines the history of aquarium maintenance, planning parameters, and a selection of ground-breaking buildings and structures in an international context. The manual documents 30 pioneering aquariums that...
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Preserving BallardAs the first community to incorporate after Washington achieved statehood in 1890, the original city of Ballard has one of most storied histories in the state.Bordered by Salmon Bay, the famous Ballard Locks, a bascule bridge, and the Salish Sea, the longtime joke was...
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Trix + Robert Haussmann: A Life with Art and Artists"These architects, working into their '80s, should be famous." -New York TimesInternationally renowned Swiss architects and designers Trix (born 1933) and Robert (born 1931) Haussmann are well known both in Switzerland and internationally for their vast contribution to design and interiors. Living and working...
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In the Temple of the Self: The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of Art: Europe and America 1800-1948From Louis Comfort Tiffany to Kurt Schwitters: an immersive appreciation of the home as artAs locuses of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich--the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life's work of the...
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Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early ModernitySpenser's ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophy's profound transformation in the early modern era, and the English colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent 1580's and 90's. It revises a...
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