Architecture
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Sand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the GameSand and Golf: How Terrain Shapes the Game explores what makes golf, and golf course architecture, so special on sandy terrain. Golf was born on sandy ground and the features of the game are a direct product of that terrain. Fairways and greens were...
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The Long HomeIn a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any...
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Everything That's UnderneathEverything That's Underneath, Kristi DeMeester's debut powerful horror collection, is full of weird, unsettling tales that recall the styles of such accomplished storytellers as Laird Barron and Tom Piccirilli.Crawl across the earth and dig in the dirt. Feel it. Tearing at your nails, gritty...
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1668: The Year of the Animal in FrancePeter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied "animal moment" in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At...
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Art Deco New York Map: Guide to Art Deco Architecture in New York CityAn original guide to New York City's celebrated Art Deco architecture, this two-sided map, including photographs and details of over fifty buildings, features examples of the style's vibrant colors, eclectic influences, and geometric patterns from the tip of Manhattan to the Bronx. Edited by...
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Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life, Death, RebirthAt first glance, there may appear to be more to separate Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Bill Viola (born 1951) than to unite them: one, the great master of the Italian Renaissance; the other, the creator of state-of-the-art immersive sound and video installations. And yet, when...
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ViviaShe took the rose and lifted it. It had a strange hot smell in the cold of the cave. It brushed her mouth and broke. She felt the burning blood go over her lips and down her chin. It had no taste, and yet......
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Guide to the Crystal Palace and ParkFacsimile of 1856 edition of official Guide published by the Crystal Palace Company. Detailed descriptions and many illustrations make this Guide a comprehensive overview, together with descriptions of the special courts and galleries. It also offers a walking tour around the park's thematic gardens....
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Imagine Moscow: Architecture Propaganda RevolutionThe Soviet city that was never built: six visions of Moscow from the great architects of modernist RussiaAfter the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin moved the Russian capital from the imperial, westward-looking city of St. Petersburg back to Moscow, the traditional heart of Russia....
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Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's TomorrowThe past's visionary future of domestic design, from Alison and Peter Smithson to SuperstudioThe "home of the future" has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the...
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Saladin: Hero of IslamThe extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the Richard the Lion...
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Interior Design: A Critical IntroductionThe practice of interior design has become ever more specialised as new technologies have expanded how designers can use light, space, colour and decoration. At the same time, the study of the interior - private, public and corporate - has become a complex field....
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Deed of MurderThe enthralling new Burren mystery . . . April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is celebrating the christening of her son when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning, one of them is...
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Textiles and Clothing, C.1150-1450A model of clarity... It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those interested in the tools and equipment used. TOOL AND TRADES HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER [Linda Woolley, curator of early and medieval textiles...
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The Quest for the Holy GrailThe Quest of the Holy Grail adds a spiritual dimension to the adventures of Arthur's knights. Galahad replaces Lancelot as the central figure, though he appears and disappears so often that many of the knights are engaged in a quest to find him rather...
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The Modulor by Le Corbusier 1943-54. Revised and Extended Edition.This book is a revised and extended version of the article that I wrote and published in 1996, 22 years ago now, which for some time I have felt the need to update. Some parts of the text have been modified, others removed and...
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Shed Style: Decorating Cabins, Huts, Pods, Sheds & Other Garden RoomsIn Shed Style, Selina Lake reveals how even the smallest garden can be home to an outdoor retreat. From the traditional gardener's potting shed to a writer's cabin to an artist's studio, Selina explores sheds, cabins, huts, greenhouses, pods, and all manner of garden...
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Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce and DevotionIn this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400-1570). She explains how artists and patrons from the regions north of the Alps - the Low Countries, France, England, Germany - responded to...
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The Medieval ClothierA clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England. Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes themselves, and found markets for their finished cloth, selling...
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Text and Image in René d'Anjou's Livre Des Tournois: Constructing Authority and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Court CultureAn illustrated manual showing how a medieval tournament was organised, here presented in three volumes with essays on various aspects of the manuscript. René d'Anjou's Livre des tournois is famous as the most substantial account of the organisation of a medieval tournament that has...
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