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The Spirit of the Place

Author : Samuel Shem
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617020
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of the Place written by Samuel Shem and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

Spirit of Place

Author : Chad Oppenheim
Publisher : Tra Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1732297827
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Chad Oppenheim and published by Tra Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit of Place is the first monograph on the work of Chad Oppenheim and his firm, Oppenheim Architects, and features seven of the award-winning firm’s projects, with a focus on how the architectural design honors the natural elements of each site. Oppenheim Architects’ first monograph, Spirit of Place, explores seven of the award-winning architectural firm’s acclaimed projects, located in beautiful settings across the globe. The book includes 120 stunning photographs and minimal text. The projects presented range in scale and location from homes in the Bahamas and Aspen to a resort in the Jordanian desert. The images, like the architecture, focus on and celebrate the natural world, illustrating Chad Oppenheim’s design philosophy that “form follows feeling.” Through passion and sensitivity towards man and nature, the firm designs monumental yet silent work that invokes a site’s inherent power. “For thousands of years, civilization has constructed its buildings on the land. We prefer to construct our buildings with the land, where architecture recedes and becomes a frame,” writes Chad Oppenheim. The projects are categorized by each site’s predominant natural element: dune, desert, stream, river, sea, canyon, and peninsula. The volume includes text by Chad Oppenheim, Val K. Warke, Antón García-Abril, and Mark Jarzombek. This book will appeal to readers interested in architecture, photography, nature, sustainability, and the environment.

Spirits of Place

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994617637
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Spirits of Place written by Alan Moore and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories are embedded in the world around us; in metal, in brick, in concrete, and in wood. In the very earth beneath our feet. Our history surrounds us and the tales we tell, true or otherwise, are always rooted in what has gone before. The spirits of place are the echoes of people, of events, of ideas which have become imprinted upon a location, for better or for worse. They are the genii loci of classical Roman religion, the disquieting atmosphere of a former battlefield, the comfort and familiarity of a childhood home. Twelve authors take us on a journey; a tour of places where they themselves have encountered, and consulted with, these Spirits of Place.

Spirit of Place

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500775591
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Susan Owens and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2020 When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? English landscape painting is often said to be an 18th-century invention. But when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and treads a winding path up to the present day. Spirit of Place offers a panoramic view of the British landscape as seen through the eyes of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain-poet to Gainsborough, Austen, Turner and Constable; from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Guided by these distinctive voices and imagery, and with a sharp eye for an anecdote, Susan Owens elucidates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined and reshaped by generations. Each account, whether limned in a psalter, jotted down in a journal or constructed from sticks and stones, holds up a mirror to its maker and their world.

Spirit and Place

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136365249
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Spirit and Place written by Christopher Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially. Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of placemaking, and how to create places that are nourishing psychologically and physically, to soul and spirit as well as body. This book's unique arguments identify important, but often unrecognised, principles and illustrate their applicability in a wide range of situations, price-ranges and climates. It shows how to reconcile the apparently incompatible demands of environmental, economic and social sustainability; how to moderate climate to make places of delight, and realign social pressures so places both support society and maximise economic viability. Thought provoking and easy to understand, Christopher Day uses everyday examples to relate his theories to practice and our experience.

Spirit of Place

Author : Bill Noble
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1643260286
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Bill Noble and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives.” —Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble—a lifelong gardener, and the former director of preservation for the Garden Conservancy—helps gardeners answer these questions by sharing how they influenced the creation of his garden in Vermont. Throughout, Noble reveals that a garden is never created in a vacuum but is rather the outcome of an individual’s personal vision combined with historical and cultural forces. Sumptuously illustrated, this thoughtful look at the process of garden-making shares insights gleaned over a long career that will inspire you to create a garden rich in context, personal vision, and spirit.

The Spirit of Place

Author : Loren Cruden
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892815111
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Place written by Loren Cruden and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Earth’s life is interconnected and sacred. An awareness of that sacred relationship opens a direct path to spiritual understanding. These powerful techniques join mind, will, spirit, and intuition to the plants, animals, and minerals sharing our world, aligning the practitioner in a deeper relationship with life’s sacred matrix.

Maintaining the Spirit of Place

Author : Harry Launce Garnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Maintaining the Spirit of Place written by Harry Launce Garnham and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spirit of This Place

Author : Patrick Summers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609524X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of This Place written by Patrick Summers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world—from water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorism—one might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the “felt” experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts world—a world where the conversation revolves almost entirely around financial questions and whose reputation tends toward elitism—and to remind us of art’s fundamental relationship to joy and meaning. Offering a vehement defense of long-form arts in a world with a short attention span, Summers argues that art is spiritual, and that music in particular has the ability to ask spiritual questions, to inspire cathartic pathos, and to express spiritual truths. Summers guides us through his personal encounters with art and music in disparate places, from Houston’s Rothko Chapel to a music classroom in rural China, and reflects on musical works he has conducted all over the world. Assessing the growing canon of new operas performed in American opera houses today, he calls for musical artists to be innovative and brave as opera continues to reinvent itself. This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers’s belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.

Medicine Grove

Author : Loren Cruden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550377
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Grove written by Loren Cruden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine Grove is a comprehensive herbal, with listings for every common herb and many wild plants of North America. It includes descriptions of the part of the plant used, notes on preparation, lists of symptoms alleviated by the herb, and common effects. But Medicine Grove goes further, with chapters on gathering and growing wild herbs, using herbs in shamanic ceremonies or as plant allies in the wilderness, and birth, death, and dreaming herbs. Cruden combines her own first-hand experiences with a profound knowledge of indigenous traditions, enabling the reader to bring herbal lore into his or her own practice. She explains which herbs are best for seasonal ceremonies, smudging, and making offerings, and tells how to purify a sacred space. She covers topics such as vision quests, consciousness-altering, and the special connections between certain herbs and totem animals. Medicine Grove brings the concept of an herbal into sacred territory, offering guidelines for incorporating herbs into one's spiritual life, based on the author's lifetime of work with Native American practices.

Genius Loci

Author : Jaym Gates
Publisher : Tales of the Spirit of Place
ISBN 13 : 9781947659445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Genius Loci written by Jaym Gates and published by Tales of the Spirit of Place. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers by Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Laura Anne Gilman, Scott Edelman and more. Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an ancient one, found in nearly every human mythology. Genius Loci is a huge anthology of 31 all-new fantasy and science fiction stories drawing on the rich tradition of place-as-person. Within its pages, the authors present stories of sentient deserts, beneficent forests, lonely shrubs, and protective planetary spirits, highlighted by the fantastic art of Lisa A. Grabenstetter and Evan M. Jensen., and edited by Jaym Gates.

Spirit of Place

Author : Bob Krist
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780817458942
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Bob Krist and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural synergy between photography and travel is explored in these exquisite, lavishly illustrated, and instructive pages that demonstrate how artful camera use can record the true spirit of a place. On this thrilling worldwide tour, the author shows traveling nonprofessional photographers how to bring home memorable pictures of people, festivals, wildlife, architecture—even aerial and underwater shots. Directions are detailed for composing landscapes with a variety of lenses, working in both natural and artificial lilght. Valuable tips tell how to pack and carry photo equipment, deal with airport and hotel security, and prepare for various locations and weather conditions.

THE SPIRIT OF PLACE AND OTHER ESSAYS

Author : ALICE MEYNELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE SPIRIT OF PLACE AND OTHER ESSAYS written by ALICE MEYNELL and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirit of Place

Author : Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Lucy Maud Montgomery and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirit of Place

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998693194
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated and beautifully designed, Spirit of Place: Inspiration and Process is a great introduction to the thinking and philosophy of Oppenheim Architecture, an award-winning architecture, planning, and interior design firm. The book delves into how the firm arrives at its designs, taking you on a journey from research to explorations, to the spark and ultimate resolution. The book presents seven of the firm's projects, both realized and unrealized, through descriptive text, drawings, plans, renderings and photographs. While Spirit of Place is experiential and inspirational, the companion book breaks each project down analytically observing its creating from concept to completion. Oppenheim's commitment to creating environmentally conscious architecture that seeks inspiration from a project's surroundings is brought to light through a contextually diverse range of the firm's most globally recognized projects, including director Michael Bay's L.A. Villa, a spectacular private residence in California that immerses itself into the Bel Air hillside and accentuates the unprecedented views of the Los Angeles skyline and the surrounding terrain; Wadi Rum Desert Resort, an eco-resort carved into the desert stone of Jordan and inspired by the ancient civilizations that once inhabited the land; and House on a Dune, a modest and timeless private island getaway, perched on the edge of Harbour Island, whose elemental form and sincere materiality are intended to usher a transition from the Bahamas' lush tropical landscape to wide languorous ocean; to name a few.

Rising Ground

Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847086292
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Rising Ground written by Philip Marsden and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philip Marsden moved to a remote, creekside farmhouse in Cornwall, the intensity of his response took him aback. It led him to wonder why we react so strongly to certain places and set him off on a journey on foot westwards to Land's End through one of the most myth-rich regions of Europe. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions at Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay region to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, Marsden assembles a chronology of Britain's attitude to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of other enthusiasts before him - medieval chroniclers and Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his travels from further afield, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our own history but of man's perennial struggle to belong on this earth.

Spirit of Place

Author : Georgia Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of Place written by Georgia Lee and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: