Architecture
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Archival and Special Collections Facilities: Guidelines for Archivists, Librarians, Architects, and EngineersAuthor: Michele F. PacificoPublisher: Society of American ArchivistsPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.42dISBN: 9780838910627
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Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933With the growth of the garden club movement in the South during the early years of the twentieth century, interest also developed in identifying and recording the region's important gardens and landscapes. In 1933 Atlanta's Peachtree Garden Club produced Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933...
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Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in Savannah and BeyondThis is a fascinating book that shifts perception of Oglethorpe's Savannah plan dramatically from that of a beautiful but essentially limited example of utopian design to an urban model fully representative of mainstream eighteenth-century intellectual thought. -Jack Williams, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University, author of...
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Poems of the Elder EddaThe great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius....
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The University & Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the StreetsIn the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others...
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The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by FireThe second volume of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the Hundred Years War. ""This will become the standard account of the War.""--Choice ""A classic of sharp scholarship and dust-dispelling energy. . . . Throughout his vigorous narrative,Author: Jonathan SumptionPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublished: 09/28/2001Pages:...
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Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient HomesThe need for shelter is one of mankind's most basic, and mankind has been inventive in creating homes to fill this need. This book looks at the principal types of wooden and stick frame structures built around the world, and examines how their shape...
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RAISE Your ValueRAISE Your Value is the ultimate guide to elevating your A&E firm out of the trap of commoditization.Your staff are navigating difficult conversations around fees and pricing every day. Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees often force your team to...
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John Pawson WorksJohn Pawson is one of the foremost proponents of Minimalism in architecture and design. Already known to designers for his austere yet luxurious interiors, he has attained immense public acclaim for his high-profile retail projects such as the Calvin Klein flagship store in New...
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Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark FantasyTales from H. G. Wells, Frank R. Stockton, Lord Dunsany and more "The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared to meet with an unusual amount of incredulity and scorn..." ' Between horror and fantasy...
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Inventing the Middle AgesINVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyIn this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was...
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern EuropeBoth highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.Author: John BoswellPublisher:...
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The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in--the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance--to life and is "simply unputdownable" (New York Times Book Review).The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance...
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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568This is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the key events in European history. Unlike previous studies it integrates historical and archaeological evidence and...
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The Atlantic Slave TradeThis survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs....
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women Volume 1In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata...
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VilletteBereft of family and friends, Lucy Snowe flees her empty life in England to seek independence and fulfillment. Her gambit takes her to the Belgian town of Villette, where she secures a job teaching English to the fractious girls of Madame Beck's boarding school....
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The Secrets of Architectural CompositionWell arranged, logical, and aptly illustrated, this classic survey covers every aspect of the design process. It addresses architectural principles as well as their practical application, examining general questions of scale, balance, proportion, and symmetry and presenting detailed treatments of doors, windows, walls, stairways,...
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Medieval Fashions Coloring BookFrom the humble garb of peasants to the elaborate styles of the nobility, this meticulously researched coloring book offers expertly rendered illustrations of medieval costumes. Both colorists and fashion devotees will adore these lovingly detailed images of lords and ladies decked in regal attire,...
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Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's ArchitectureMay be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography. -- New York Times Book ReviewDespite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail to...
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