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Author : S. F. Walker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold written by S. F. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Frej
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578639215
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Maya Ruins Revisited written by William Frej and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning, substantial volume documents William Frej's forty-five year search for remote Maya sites primarily in Guatemala and Mexico, inspired in large part by his discovery of the work of German-Austrian explorer Teobert Maler, who photographed them in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many of Frej's magnificent photographs are juxtaposed here with historic photographs taken by Maler, and reveal the changes in the landscape that have occurred in the intervening century. This unique pairing of archival material with current imagery of the same locations will be a significant addition to the literature on this ancient civilization that continues to captivate scholars and general readers alike. The book provides extended captions for all of the photographs, including their historical context in relation to Maler's images, which are archived at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, Brigham Young University, the University of New Mexico, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The author's introduction covers the challenges of finding and photographing remote Maya sites. Alma Durán-Merk and Stephan Merk contribute a biographical sketch of Teobert Maler, while Khristaan Villela addresses the historic role of photography as a tool for documenting and presenting the history of significant Maya sites. Jeremy Sabloff provides essential background on the Maya and their built environment, and a chronology of the principal periods of Maya culture. The book includes a listing of all the sites featured and their locations as well as two maps. Maya Ruins Revisited offers an engaging and stimulating visual journey to many remote and seldom-seen Maya sites, and also will serve as valuable documentation of places that are rapidly being overcome by forces of nature and man.
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ISBN 13 : 9780243657445
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Ruins Revisited written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Augustus Shook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cumorah Revisited written by Charles Augustus Shook and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Frye Walker
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497994393
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Ruins Revisited and the World-Story Retold written by Samuel Frye Walker and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.
Author : S F Walker
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019211250
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold written by S F Walker and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679220X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330394557
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (945 download)
Download or read book The Ruins Revisited written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ruins Revisited: And the World-Story Retold Six thousand years ago our fathers were a million million miles farther away from the stars of Hercules than we are now. We are entering a region more thickly studded with stars and stellar systems than that through which they were unconsciously hurled at the rate of 160,000,000 miles a year. But we will not reach Hercules. Our journey is to be around Alcyone, and a return to this part of the stellar arena at some later era. It is asserted that this vast system to which our earth belongs was once a single nebulæ; and there are nebulous stars now in sight as large as the orbit of Neptune. There are maelstroms of stellar matter called spiral nebulæ; one is in Canes. Another class resemble planetary disks; one of which is seen in the Southern Cross. Several others have perfectly the appearance of rings, and are called annular nebulæ. Others again are connected in pairs, like binary stars. Most of the smaller nebulæ have each a nucleus enveloped in a nebulous veil, the nucleus sometimes concentrated as a star and sometimes diffused, the enveloping veil sometimes circular, sometimes elliptical, with every degree of eccentricity between a straight line and a circle. Some have great branching arms; others no regular form. The one in Andromede is visible to the naked eye. The Magellanic clouds are nebulous tracts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Russell A. Olsen
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610604997
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Route 66, Lost & Found written by Russell A. Olsen and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[The] text and photos make this . . . more than a pretty coffee-table book, Route 66 aficionados will want to add this descriptive tome to their collections.” —Ruidoso News (New Mexico) Much more than a ribbon of crumbling asphalt, Route 66 is a cultural icon revered the world over for its nostalgic value—an east-west artery pointing America toward all the promise that the great West represented. But as stretches of Steinbeck’s “Mother Road” were bypassed and fell into disuse, so too did most of the bustling establishments that had sprouted up from Illinois to California to cater to weary travelers and hopeful vacationers alike. Motor courts, cafes, main streets, filling stations, and greasy spoons—all are represented in this second volume of Lost & Found images from photographer Russell Olsen. As with its predecessor, Route 66 Lost & Found (2004), this new installment presents dozens of locations along Route 66’s entire 2,297 miles, showing them both as in their heydays in period photographs and postcards and as they appear today. Each site is accompanied by a capsule history tracing the locale’s rise and fall (and sometimes rebirth), as well as an exclusive map pointing out its location along Route 66. “Author Russell Olson has unearthed old photos and postcards of various buildings, landmarks and towns which he carefully researches and then rediscovers and takes pictures of them as they are today.” —Auto Aficionado “I could barely put this down.” —Daily Express (UK) “A good read for fans of roadside architecture.” —Classic and Sports Car (UK)
Author : Peter Kuper
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781914224188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Ruins written by Peter Kuper and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of love, adventure, and politics--and two lives changed forever by Mexico and the monarch butterfly Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, their journey to this historic town is about fulfilling a lifelong dream; for George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. As the couple embark on their adventure, a monarch butterfly begins its arduous migration south from the United States to Mexico . . . It is a challenging journey--a flight that requires remarkable endurance and a will to survive. Beneath Oaxaca's picturesque and serene veneer--the 16th-century architecture, the nearby ruins--it is a town shaken to the core by political unrest. As the monarch butterfly makes its challenging journey south, political events threaten to change the town forever. What's more, personal events look like they will alter the paths of Samantha and George for good. Ruins masterfully captures the shadows and light of a troubled country steeped in history and culture, weaving together personal, political and natural dramas into a thrilling portrait of life south of the Rio Grande.
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365352945
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Ruins Revisited written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ruins Revisited: And the World-Story Retold No wonder that the ancients fancied them portents of pestilence and war, and that the nations are yet filled with fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Western Galaxy written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Gosling
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250759145
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Before the Ruins written by Victoria Gosling and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best New Book of 2021 (so far) by Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub and Bustle A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David—charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game—half treasure hunt, half friendly deception—begins. But the Game becomes much bigger than the necklace, growing to encompass years of secrets, lies, and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal. Meticulously plotted and gorgeously written, Before the Ruins is a page-turner of the highest order about the sealed-off places in our pasts and the parts of ourselves waiting to be retrieved from them.
Author : R. R. Reno
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441241868
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book In the Ruins of the Church written by R. R. Reno and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the postmodern Western church is in ruins and that to be in the church is to embrace a "broken way of life"
Author : James Madge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134189672
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Narrating Architecture written by James Madge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume. Covering a wide range of topics of central importance to architecture today, the papers also address the related topics to which architecture and architectural studies are inextricably linked. The invited authors draw on sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and the sciences to round out the collection and highlight the breadth and vitality of modern architectural studies, offering perspectives from different disciplines as well as different corners of the globe.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810108233
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Journals written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents Melville's three known journals. Unlike his contemporaries Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Melville kept no habitual record of his days and thoughts; each of his three journals records his actions and observations on trips far from home. In this edition's Historical Note, Howard C. Horsford places each of the journals in the context of Melville's career, discusses its general character, and points out the later literary uses he made of it, notably in Moby-Dick, Clarel, and his magazine pieces. The editors supply full annotations of Melville's allusions and terse entries and an exhaustive index makes available the range of his acquaintance with people, places, and works of art. Also included are related documents, illustrations, maps, and many pages and passages reproduced from the journals. This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as his difficult handwriting permits. It is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Vision written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
