Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Shakespeare's Tutor: The Influence of Thomas KydShakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd adds to the critical and scholarly discussion that seeks to establish the early modern playwright Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon, and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare's drama through influence, collaboration, revision and...
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Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western HemisphereCoinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in...
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Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory PalamasSt. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk, abbot, and later Metropolitan...
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Controlling London's Growth: Planning the Great Wen, 1940 - 1960The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis that, faced with an urgent need to rebuild its war-damaged central areas while still at war, prepared a notable set of...
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Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic RitualFascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is...
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Fatal CureAn aspiring DEA agent has one goal in life: to dismantle the drug organizations that destroyed her family. A drug kingpin has two rules that keep him alive: never get caught and never fall in love. Too bad for him, she's about to break...
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Medieval Dublin XIX: Volume 19Contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin's medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison & René Gapert re-examining skulls found on the site of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Thomas Street. Paul Duffy presents the findings of his excavation...
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Co-Curating the City: Universities and Urban Heritage Past and FutureA significant contribution to knowledge about university spatial development in urban contexts. Co-Curating the City explores the role of universities in the construction and mobilization of heritage discourses in urban development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study sites ranging from...
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Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human NatureA fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and...
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Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide: A Classroom GuideA multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the European Renaissance. Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide provides both educators and students the tools they need to discuss race in the European Renaissance both in its unique historical contexts and...
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The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey: The Arms and Armour of DeathGround-breaking new studies of Henry V's chapel, tomb and funeral service have new revelations and insights into the time. Before Henry V set out in 1415 on the campaign which culminated in victory at Agincourt, he made a will laying down precise instructions for...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of EmpiresIn the competition for remarkable queens, Eleanor of Aquitaine tends to win. In fact her story sometimes seems so extreme it ought to be made up. The headlines: orphaned as a child, Duchess in her own right, Queen of France, crusader, survivor of a...
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The Modern Memory of the Military-religious Orders: Engaging the Crusades, Volume SevenThis volume examines the pervasive and persistent appropriations of the military orders across a broad chronology and several regions, including Mexico, Brazil, and Greece, areas beyond the traditional focus of prior research in medievalism. Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights, the military orders are among...
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Building the Classical World: Bauforschung as a Contemporary ApproachThis multiauthor volume presents thirteen case studies that showcase the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings that is known in German as Bauforschung. Written by established and emerging experts in this field, the chapters focus on the architecture of the Classical...
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A History of Western Architecture Seventh EditionIn this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the late twentieth century. For this seventh edition, revising author Owen Hopkins provides a new introduction contextualizing Watkin's approach. The final...
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Medieval Canon LawIt is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its findings in light...
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CABLE...Getting EvenA RANCHER WHO IS NEAR SUICIDE FROM A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT THE HANDS OF A MOTORCYCLE GANG FINDS HIS SOLACE IN HELPING ANOTHER RANCHER SAVE THEIR SPREAD, BUT THIS BRINGS THE WRATH OF THE SAME GANG DOWN ON THEM ALL.Guzzling alcohol as a way...
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The Handbook of Home Design: An Architect's Blueprint for Shaping Your HomeA TV architect brings you inspiring architectural ideas and design solutions for updating your home without breaking the bank. Packed with architectural solutions and designs, this book will guide you on how to best optimize the spaces in your home without spending a fortune....
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LincolnThe village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska's first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load...
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Studio Indigo: Architecturally Creative InteriorsA stunning portfolio of residential and commercial projects from award-winning internationally renowned design house Studio Indigo Founded in London in 2005 by architect and creative director Mike Fisher, Studio Indigo is a multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary collective of architects, interior designers, technical experts, and project managers,...
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