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Author : Robin L. Thomas
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271096608
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Palaces of Reason written by Robin L. Thomas and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin L. Thomas
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271096594
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Palaces of reason written by Robin L. Thomas and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Gaines
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0007156618
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Evening in the Palace of Reason written by James R. Gaines and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a unique moment in history where belief collided with the cold certainty of reason. Set at the tipping point between the ancient and modern world, Evening in the Palace of Reason captures the tumult of the eighteenth century, the legacy of the Reformation, and the birth of the Enlightenment in this extraordinary tale of two men.
Author : George L. Hersey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226327833
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque written by George L. Hersey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of the baroque -- a time of great strides in science and mathematics -- also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. In this book, George L. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments, explaining how the advancements of geometry and the abstractions of mathematicians were made concrete in the architecture of the day. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1524761184
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Palaces for the People written by Eric Klinenberg and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon Stewart NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION “Just brilliant!”—Roman Mars, 99% Invisible “The aim of this sweeping work is to popularize the notion of ‘social infrastructure'—the ‘physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact'. . . . Here, drawing on research in urban planning, behavioral economics, and environmental psychology, as well as on his own fieldwork from around the world, [Eric Klinenberg] posits that a community’s resilience correlates strongly with the robustness of its social infrastructure. The numerous case studies add up to a plea for more investment in the spaces and institutions (parks, libraries, childcare centers) that foster mutual support in civic life.”—The New Yorker “Palaces for the People—the title is taken from the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s description of the hundreds of libraries he funded—is essentially a calm, lucid exposition of a centuries-old idea, which is really a furious call to action.”—New Statesman “Clear-eyed . . . fascinating.”—Psychology Today
Author : Margaret F. MacDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230491
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Palaces in the Night written by Margaret F. MacDonald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Palaces in the Night", MacDonald looks at a key period in James Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. 120 illustrations.
Author : David Souden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858944234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (442 download)
Download or read book The Royal Palaces of London written by David Souden and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Royal Palaces of London' brings together the stories of these buildings and the characters, events and art that have filled their grand spaces and intimate corners from the Norman Conquest to modern times.
Author : Michael Nava
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299299139
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The City of Palaces written by Michael Nava and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of Miguel Sarmiento, a doctor, his aristocratic wife, and young son as they are caught up the Mexican Revolution and the political upheavals and chaos that follows the collapse of the old order.
Author : Brian Campbell
Publisher : White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN 13 : 9781565044692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The Order of Reason written by Brian Campbell and published by White Wolf Games Studio. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began with a cannon blast. It ended with a world in chains. Rising from the darkness, a visionary order shakes back the cloak of superstition and raises the lamp of Reason. The fires of that lamp burn the magi of these Mythic Times, and now they unite to save the future of their Arts. Across the world, magick, faith and reason grapple in the twilight, while in the distance the witch-fires grow bright and hungry. Be a wizard. Be a priest. Be a dragon or dragon-slayer. Dance to the tune of a Renaissance revel. It's a hell of a time to be alive. Expands upon the intricacies and intrigues of the various Conventions and Guilds of the Order of Reason.
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135162489X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West written by Louise Tythacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
Author : Charif Majdalani
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931487
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Moving the Palace written by Charif Majdalani and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Middle Eastern heart-of-darkness tale that flows like a dream . . . Crackling with razor-sharp humor” (The New York Times). At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and enlisting in his service. In this lush chronicle of far-flung adventure, the military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a sumptuous palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan. The protagonist soon takes charge of this hoard of architectural fragments, ferrying the dismantled landmark through Sudan, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, attempting to return to his native Beirut with this moveable real estate. Along the way, he will encounter skeptic sheikhs, suspicious tribal leaders, bountiful feasts, pilgrims bound for Mecca, and T. E. Lawrence in a tent—in this “utterly charming” novel that was a recipient of the Académie Française’s François Mauriac Prize (Library Journal). “Renders the complex social landscape of the Middle East and North Africa with subtlety and finesse . . . Yet one doesn’t need to care about the region’s history, or its present-day contexts, to enjoy Moving the Palace.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593138104
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Palace Papers written by Tina Brown and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles of Keats.”—The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Elle, Town & Country “Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specifically, there could never be “another Diana”—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen’s stoic resolve after the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and Prince Philip, her partner for seven decades, and how she triumphs in her Jubilee years even as family troubles rage around her. Brown explores Prince Charles’s determination to make Camilla Parker Bowles his wife, the tension between William and Harry on “different paths,” the ascendance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince Andrew, and Harry and Meghan’s stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy’s best efforts, “never again” seems fast approaching. Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.
Author : Simon Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937512675
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Palaces written by Simon Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John and Joey are a young couple immersed in their local midwestern punk scene, who after graduating college sever all ties and move to a perverse and nameless northeastern coastal city. They drift in and out of art museums, basement shows, and derelict squats seemingly unfazed as the city slowly slides into chaos around them. Late one night, forced out of their living space, John and Joey are driven to take shelter in a chain pharmacy before emerging to a city in full-scale riot. They find themselves the only passengers on a commuter train headed north, and exit at the final stop to discover the area entirely devoid of people. As John and Joey negotiate their future through bizarre, troubling manifestations of the landscape and a succession of abandoned mansions housing only scant clues to their owners' strange and sudden disappearance, they're also forced to confront the resurgent violence and buried memories of their shared past. With incisive precision and a cool detachment, Simon Jacobs has crafted a surreal and spellbinding first novel of horror and intrigue.
Author : Thomas Walter Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Compendious and Comprehensive Law Dictionary written by Thomas Walter Williams and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Blackstone
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849680568
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Commentaries on the Laws of England written by Sir William Blackstone and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. This is book four out of four, including more than 1700 footnotes and annotations.
Author : David Wallace
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810955431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (554 download)
Download or read book Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age written by David Wallace and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and Hollywood historian Wallace unveils 25 enchanting buildings and homes from Hollywood's glorious Golden Age. Each restored to its original grandeur, the buildings are showcased in 200 sumptuous photographs, all specially commissioned for this book, as well as rare historic shots.
Author : Sarah Zettel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544074114
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Palace of Spies written by Sarah Zettel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peggy Fitzroy is clever enough to fake her way into King George's court in London, but is she clever enough to survive in his Palace of Spies?
