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The Caryatids

Author : Bruce Sterling
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345512715
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Caryatids written by Bruce Sterling and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is to receive a dispatch from a time traveler. Now, with The Caryatids, Sterling has written a stunning testament of faith in the power of human intellect, creativity, and spirit to overcome any obstacle–even the obstacles we carry inside ourselves. The world of 2060 is divided into three spheres of influence, each fighting with the others over the resources of fallen nations and an environment degraded almost to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in Los Angeles, where entertainment and capitalism have fused with the highest of high-tech. There is the Acquis, a Green-centered collective that uses invasive neurological technology to create a networked utopia. And there is China, the sole surviving nation-state, a dinosaur that has prospered only by pitilessly pruning its own population. Products of this monstrous world, the daughters of a monstrous mother, and–according to some–monsters themselves, are the Caryatids: the four surviving female clones of a mad Balkan genius and wanted war criminal now ensconced, safely beyond extradition, on an orbiting space station. Radmila is a Dispensation star determined to forget her past by building a glittering, impregnable future. Vera is an Acquis functionary dedicated to reclaiming their home, the Croatian island of Mljet, from catastrophic pollution. Sonja is a medical specialist in China renowned for selflessly risking herself to help others. And Biserka is a one-woman terrorist network. The four “sisters” are united only by their hatred for their “mother”–and for one another. When evidence surfaces of a coming environmental cataclysm, the Dispensation sends its greatest statesman–or salesman–John Montgomery Montalban, husband of Radmila, and lover of Vera and Sonja, to gather the Caryatids together in an audacious plan to save the world.

The Hall of Singing Caryatids

Author : Viktor Pelevin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811219426
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Hall of Singing Caryatids written by Viktor Pelevin and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far-out, far-fetched, and fiendishly funny story about a strange nightclub and its outrageous entertainment.

Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture

Author : Ian Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023888
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Greek Architecture and Its Sculpture written by Ian Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.

Kevin R. Brine

Author : Kevin R. Brine
Publisher : Artemis IV LLC
ISBN 13 : 0977154408
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Kevin R. Brine written by Kevin R. Brine and published by Artemis IV LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kevin R. Brine is represented by Jason McCoy, Inc"--T.p. verso.

Handbook of Ornament

Author : Franz Sales Meyer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486155269
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Ornament written by Franz Sales Meyer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent collection of historic decorative ornament contains 3,000 examples ranging from the cultures of the Greeks and Romans through the Victorians: chairs, thrones, crowns, heraldic emblems, altars, armor, architecture, and more.

Harvard Psychological Studies

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Harvard Psychological Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pantheon

Author : William Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674010192
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Pantheon written by William Lloyd MacDonald and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated book, MacDonald analyzes the original design and construction of one of the grand architectural statements of all ages, discusses the technology that made it possible, and explores its metaphorical meaning.

Study of the Orders

Author : Frank C. Brown
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582187347
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Study of the Orders written by Frank C. Brown and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study of The Orders is a simple but comprehensive treatise on "The Five Orders of Architecture". It provides clear, concise description of the Classic Orders and the system of proportions to which the Orders were reduced by the Renaissance architects. Originally offered to students of the American School of Correspondence in Chicago, this volume contains the three instruction papers and accompanying plates as well as photographs of noted examples of Classic and Renaissance Architecture. The architectural use of the classical orders continues unabated, yet there are limited sources for formal study. The Study of the Orders offers complete and detailed instruction on their history and use.

Women and the City in French Literature and Culture

Author : Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786834332
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Women and the City in French Literature and Culture written by Siobhán McIlvanney and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city has traditionally been configured as a fundamentally masculine space. This collection of essays seeks to question many of the idées reçues surrounding women’s ongoing association with the private, the domestic and the rural. Covering a selection of films, journals and novels from the French medieval period to the Franco-Algerian present, it challenges the traditionally gendered dichotomisation of the masculine public and feminine private upon which so much of French and European literature and culture is predicated. Is the urban flâneur a quintessentially male phenomenon, or can there exist a true flâneuse as active agent, expressing the confidence and pleasure of a woman moving freely in the urban environment? Women and the City in French Literature and Culture seeks to locate exactly where women are heading – both individually and collectively – in their relationships to the urban environment; by so doing, it nuances the conventional binaristic perception of women and the city in an endeavour to redirect future research in women’s studies towards more interesting and representative urban destinations.

Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134365098
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion written by Matthew Dillon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both erotic and pain-relieving purposes, and far more besides. Clear and comprehensive, this volume challenges many stereotypes of Greek women and offers unexpected insights into their experience of religion. With more than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from contemporary texts, this is an essential resource for the study of women and religion in classical Greece.

A Cyclopædia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant

Author : William Pitt Preble Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book A Cyclopædia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant written by William Pitt Preble Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture

Author : William Pitt Preble Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture written by William Pitt Preble Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images

Author : Stijn Bussels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350205354
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images written by Stijn Bussels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the grand Classicist façade, the delightful horror of the sculptures in the Tribunal, and the magnificence of the huge Citizens' Hall. In the period of its construction, many artists and writers tried to capture the overwhelming impact of the building by, among other comparisons, relating it to the ancient Wonders of the World and by stressing its splendour, riches, and impressive scale. In doing so, they constructed the Town Hall as the ultimate wonder, thus offering a silent, but very powerful testimony to the power and position of the City of Amsterdam and its rulers as equals of the other European regimes. To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to other, impressive buildings of the same period-the palace of the Louvre, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Banqueting House-and their visual and textual representations. Thus, this book gives a broad audience of readers new insights into the agency of magnificent buildings. The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images does not restrict itself to a national scope or a purely architectural analysis, but clarifies how artists and writers all over Europe presented buildings as wonders of the world. This book is pioneering in its analysis of seventeenth and eighteenth-century paintings, prints, drawings, poems, and travel accounts and offers a new understanding of how the wondrous character of these grand buildings was constructed.

Art and Archaeology

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Art and Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Architectural Theory

Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568980102
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book History of Architectural Theory written by Hanno-Walter Kruft and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Power and Place

Author : Gregory Stevenson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110170085
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Power and Place written by Gregory Stevenson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, and historical research is used to illuminate the meaning and function of temples in both Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures. This evidence is then brought into a dialogue with a literary analysis of how the temple functions as a symbol in Revelation.

Elements of Architecture

Author : Pierre von Meiss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136737448
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Architecture written by Pierre von Meiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This internationally significant book analyzes architectural elements, drawing general principles from the prevailing pluralism of architectural approaches. Von Meiss expertly bridges the gap between history and contemporary work by pinpointing the constant factors that exist in all architecture. A comprehensive analysis of the whole architectural phenomenon, this valuable book will prove especially useful to modern practitioners who need to make constant reference to buildings of the past. Staying away from the ineffectual arguments on styles that dominate today's architectural literature, this is the first recent book to attempt such a synthesis of architectural history and contemporary work. As such, it is unique.