Author : Barbara Glickman
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0881509825
Provides an illustrated tour of over thirty gardens in the Washington D.C. area, profiling such sites as Dumbarton Oaks, Rock Creek Park, the Smithsonian Gardens, and Mount Vernon.
Author : Marco Formisano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110245426
Although the paradoxical reality of warfare may elude definition, since antiquity war has been a constitutive element of Western culture; seen from a historical perspective, it gives access to a broad array of tensions between various models of knowledge and different kinds of tradition. The essays in this volume approach the phenomenon of war from antiquity to Clausewitz from the perspective of a variety of disciplines. Particular attention is given to texts, images, and their interaction.
Author : Lawrence Vale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134729286
The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
Author : Rosemary Clement-Moore
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375893695
Can love last beyond the grave? Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship. Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’ s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand. Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well? "Lush with Southern atmosphere, The Splendor Falls expertly weaves together romance, tension, and mystery. Haunting and unforgettable!" --Carrie Ryan, bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth "Sylvie's voice is sharp and articulate, and Clement-Moore . . . anchors the story in actual locations and history. . . . Her ear for both adolescent bitchery and sweetness remains sure, and her ability to write realistic, edgy dialogue without relying on obscenity or stereotype is a pleasure."-Publishers Weekly "Long, satisfying and just chilling enough, this will please a wide audience and leave readers hoping for more."-Kirkus Reviews
Author : Jose Junquera y Matos
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2004-06-12
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : 9780847826261
From Aragon, Galicia, and the Basque regions in the north to the central cities of Madrid and Toledo, from the fabled Andalusian cities of Seville and Granada in the south to the Catalan capital, Barcelona, more than thirty enchanting and historically significant properties are visited in this landmark volume. The lavish illustrations depict the wide range of design styles embraced by Spaniards over the centuries, reflecting the fascinating motifs of the numerous cultures that have contributed to the Spanish aesthetic. Imposing medieval castillos, fabulously detailed Moorish-influenced country casas, and beautifully furnished, art-filled city palacios are included in this tour of the country's grand and historic private residences and buildings
Author : Mary Clemmer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Travel
ISBN :
In her introduction the author describes this book as being a full account of the many marvels and interesting sights of Washington; of the daily life at the white house, both past and present; of the wonders and inside workings of all our government departments; and descriptions and revelations of every phase of political, public, and social life at the nation's capital.
Author : Michael E. Allsopp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556127601
Pope John Paul II's encyclical Vertatis Splendor is an historic document: the first extensive analysis of the foundations of morality by a pope. It stands alongside the new catechism as a major statement about Christian morality, the role of reason in the moral life, and the vision of life for the disciple of Jesus.
Author : afterwards AMES CLEMMER (afterwards HUDSON, Mary)
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Harold North Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Sculpture
ISBN :
Author : John Blofeld
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1570626375
In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
