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Author : Nick Ashton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stories in Stone written by Nick Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Keister
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423611004
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Stories in Stone written by Douglas Keister and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2004-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain symbols abound in modern Western culture that are instantly recognizable: the cross signifies Christianity, the six-pointed Star of David is revered by Jews, the golden arches frequently means it's time for lunch. Other symbols, however, require a bit of decoding-particularly those found in cemeteries. Cemeteries are virtual encyclopedias of symbolism. Engravings on tombstones, mausoleums and memorials tell us just about everything there is to know about a person- date of birth and death as well as religion, ethnicity, occupation, community interests, and much more. In the fascinating new book Stories in Stone: The Complete Guide to Cemetery Symbolism by noted author Douglas Keister, the secrets of cemetery symbolism are finally revealed. For instance, did you know that it is quite rare to see a sunflower on a tombstone? Did you know that the human foot symbolizes humility and service since it consistently touches the earth? Or the humble sheaf of wheat-while it is often used to denote someone who has lived a long and fruitful life, do you know other meanings it might carry? Stories in Stone provides history along with images of a wide variety of common and not-so-common cemetery symbols, and offers an in-depth examination of stone relics and the personal and intimate details they display-flora and fauna, religious icons, society symbols, and final impressions of how the deceased wished to be remembered. Douglas Keister has created a practical field guide that is compact and portable, perfect for those interested in family histories and genealogical research, and is the only book of its kind that unlocks the language of symbols in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand manner. Douglas Keister has photographed fourteen award-winning, critically acclaimed books (including Red Tile Style: America's Spanish Revival Architecture, The Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Home, and Storybook Style: America's Whimsical Homes of the Twenties) earning him the title "America's most noted photographer of historic architecture." He also writes and illustrates magazine articles and contributes photographs and essays to other books, calendars, posters, and greeting cards. Doug lives in Chico, California, and travels frequently to photograph and lecture on historic architecture and photography.
Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746475
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Stories in Stone written by David B. Williams and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.
Author : Douglas Keister
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423621026
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Stories in Stone New York written by Douglas Keister and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a folded comprehensive cemetery gazetteer to the cemeteries in all five New York boroughs and southern Westchester County, glued to the inside back cover.
Author : Emily Williams
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890555
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation written by Emily Williams and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.
Author : Mike Mason
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525512218
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Jesus: His Story in Stone written by Mike Mason and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus: His Story in Stone is a reflection on still-existing stone objects that Jesus would have known, seen, or even touched. Each of the seventy short chapters is accompanied by a photograph taken on location in Israel. Arranged chronologically, the one-page meditations compose a portrait of Christ as seen through the significant stones in His life, from the cave where He was born to the rock of Calvary. While packed with historical and archaeological detail, the book’s main thrust is devotional, leading the reader both spiritually and physically closer to Jesus.
Author : Xiang Ji
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811956308
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Liangzhu’s Story of Stone written by Xiang Ji and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the walls of Liangzhu City were made from bedding stones and mud, with the total area of bedding stones covering roughly 290,000 square meters. Based on ongoing research and studies, the book tells the story of how these stones were collected from the surrounding mountains and how their mining and use required massive manpower and material resources, indicating what a tremendous undertaking the construction of Liangzhu City was. The book also shares insights into the process of discovering and researching the city wall, as well as the stoneware at the Liangzhu historical site complex.
Author : Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Publisher : Creative Teaching Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574718805
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book The Story of Stone Stew written by Rozanne Lanczak Williams and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice st blend sounds with a story about pretending to make stew.
Author : Joan Wyatt
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780174006145
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Stone Soup and Other Stories written by Joan Wyatt and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1992-07-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Way, renowned for its phonic focus and success with generations of children, has always been committed to a balanced phonic approach.
Author : Rusty Clark
Publisher : Dog Pond Press
ISBN 13 : 0975536222
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Stories Carved in Stone written by Rusty Clark and published by Dog Pond Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agawam Massachusetts - Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark is a fascinating collection of tales based on Colonial headstones found in the picturesque cemeteries of Agawam, Massachusetts. The book features information on early New England gravestone carvers, and includes over two hundred photos and illustrations, with over one hundred photographs of this Yankee folk art. It also contains historical and genealogical information about the pioneers who settled in the Connecticut River Valley. Take this field guide along as you visit these ancient burial grounds.
Author : Judith E. Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532673884
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Stones and Stories written by Judith E. Anderson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are interpreters. •When, what, and how do we interpret? •Which is more reliable: literal information or symbolic expression? •What consequences—in school and in all of life—are attached to our interpretative judgments? We find answers to these questions in stories. Beginning with the question “What do these stones mean?” in Joshua 4, Stones and Stories examines the elements, purposes, and effects of storytelling and story-writing. Written for high school students, Stones and Stories is filled with questions, writing suggestions, sample essays, and drawing exercises to promote meaningful engagement with Scripture and with literature in general. Its questions are suitable for individual reflection and group study and discussion.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026836030
Total Pages : 3500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Complete O. Henry Short Stories (Rolling Stones + Cabbages and Kings + Options + Roads of Destiny + The Four Million + The Trimmed Lamp + The Voice of the City + Whirligigs and more) written by O. Henry and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 3500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete O. Henry Short Stories (Rolling Stones + Cabbages and Kings + Options + Roads of Destiny + The Four Million + The Trimmed Lamp + The Voice of the City + Whirligigs and more)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early 20th century. Many take place in New York City and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses, etc. O. Henry's work is wide-ranging, and his characters can be found roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the con-man, or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York. O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work is contained in Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories each of which explores some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town, while advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Stories in Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336843750X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Stones of Venice written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ruskin, one of the most influential art critics of the 19th century, wrote more than half a million words on Venice. This is an abridged version of his opus, which still contains the essence of his original work, for those who would appreciate Venice, architecture and Ruskin's fine writing.
Author : Wisconsin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Appendix to the Assembly Journal written by Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141912812
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Stone: The Warning Voice (Volume III) written by Cao Xueqin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which The Warning Voice is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main characters, Bao-yu and Dai-yu, are set against a rich tapestry of humour, realistic detail and delicate poetry, which accurately reflects the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life. But over and above the novel hangs the constant reminder that there is another plane of existence - a theme which affirms the Buddhist belief in a supernatural scheme of things.
