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Uncommon Vernacular

Author : John Crile Allen (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Vernacular written by John Crile Allen (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the picturesque borders of Jefferson County, West Virginia remain the vestiges of a history filled with Civil War battles and political rebellion. Yet also woven into the historical landscapeof this small county nestled within the Shenandoah Valley is an unusual collection of historic homes. In this fascinating architectural exploration, John C. Allen, Jr. details his expansive seven-year survey of Jefferson County's historic residences. By focusing on dwellings built from the mid-eighteenth century to the arrival of the railroad and canal in 1835, Allen unfolds the unique story of this area's early building traditions and architectural innovations. The 250 buildings included in this work - from the plantation homes of the Washington family to the log houses of yeomen farmers - reveal the unique development of this region, as Allen categorizes structures and establishes patterns of construction, plan, and style. Allen's refreshing perspective illuminates the vibrant vernacular architecture of Jefferson County, connecting the housing of this area to the rich history of the Shenandoah Valley. Varying features of house siting, plan types, construction techniques, building materials, outbuildings, and exterior and interior detailing illustrate the blending of German, Scots-Irish, English, and African cultures into a distinct, regional style. Adorned with over seven hundred stylish photographs by Walter Smalling and elegant drawings, floor plans, and maps by Andrew Lewis, Uncommon Vernacular explores and preserves this historic area's rich architectural heritage.

The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of Epigraphs

Author : Jared A. Griffin
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648896170
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of Epigraphs written by Jared A. Griffin and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of Epigraphs' is a prolegomenon to the study of epigraphic paratextuality. Building on the work of Gerard Genette’s paratextual studies, this volume contextualizes and traces the practice of epigraphy in Anglophone literary history, from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. This study explores how epigraphs are used by author-functions as a hermeneutic for their text and to establish ethos with their audience, and how that paratextual relationship changed as publishing opportunities and literacy rates grew over four centuries. The first broad-reaching study of this kind, 'Common and Uncommon Quotes' seeks to understand how epigraphs work: through their privilege on the page, their appeal to conjured ideas of the past, and their calls to citizenship.

Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine (2017)

Author : James L. Glymph (ed.)
Publisher : Jefferson County Historical Society (WV) Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine (2017) written by James L. Glymph (ed.) and published by Jefferson County Historical Society (WV) Magazine. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Membership Lists, pages 5-15, have been moved to the back of the Magazine.

The Bengal Settlement Manual, 1908

Author : Bengal (India). Revenue Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Bengal Settlement Manual, 1908 written by Bengal (India). Revenue Department and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Photography and Italy

Author : Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898843
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Photography and Italy written by Maria Antonella Pelizzari and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated book Maria Antonella Pelizzari traces the history of photography in Italy from its beginnings to the present as she guides us through the history of Italy and its ancient sites and Renaissance landmarks. Pelizzari specifically considers the role of photography in the formation of Italian national identity during times of political struggle, such as the lead up to Unification in 1860, and later in the nationalist wars of Mussolini’s regime. While many Italians and foreigners— such as Fratelli Alinari or Carlo Ponti, John Ruskin or Kit Talbot—focused their lenses on architectural masterpieces, others documented the changing times and political heroes, creating icons of figures such as Garibaldi and the brigands. Pelizzari’s exploration of Italian visual traditions also includes the photographic collages of Bruno Munari, the neorealist work of photographers such as Franco Pinna, the bold stylized compositions of Mario Giacomelli, and the controversial images created by Oliviero Toscani for Benetton advertising in the 1980s. Featuring unpublished works and a rare selection of over one hundred images, this book will appeal to art collectors and students of art history and Italian culture.

American Folklore

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578788
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book American Folklore written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-24 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The preliminary history to the election of Eadward the Confessor. 1867

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The preliminary history to the election of Eadward the Confessor. 1867 written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inspections and Reports on Dwellings

Author : Philip Santo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136021302
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Inspections and Reports on Dwellings written by Philip Santo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspections and Reports on Dwellings is a three-volume series that comprehensively explores the process of independent professional home assessment required for the purchase of residential property. This fully updated second edition of Inspecting retains a focus on the needs of the surveyor to recognise and interpret the significance of observations on site, whilst updating the market context within which surveyors and valuers are operating. Inspecting includes a consideration of the important benchmarking by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) of three distinct survey service levels for independent surveyors and a review of the wider choice of survey options professional surveyors can now offer to potential clients in addition to the RICS Home Survey range. There is additional content on preparing for the inspection and on reporting, and there are expanded or completely new sections on a variety of subjects such as conservatories, renewable energy technologies, and innovative techniques and forms of construction. With over 500 colour illustrations and an enhanced structure, the new edition reflects the very latest approach to inspecting and reporting on services, risk and legal matters. This book is essential reading for all those engaged in inspecting dwellings, whether experienced, newly qualified or studying for appropriate qualifications to become members of professional institutions.

Six Days to Zeus: Alive Day (Based on a True Story)

Author : Samuel Hill
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1632638053
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Six Days to Zeus: Alive Day (Based on a True Story) written by Samuel Hill and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alive Day" is currently optioned by Phoenix Pictures to become a blockbuster movie. Watch for the rest of the series as it becomes available! Based on a true story. On August 6, 2003, Task Force Arc Angel is 30 minutes from extraction after 26 months on a covert operation deep in denied territory. The highly classified organization known as “the Activity,” answerable only to the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States, is mistaken for an Iraqi unit, and attacked by friendly forces. Of the seven members of the team, only one, Chief Warrant Officer Samuel Hill, made it out alive. During the subsequent investigation, Chief, now paralyzed and homeless, is charged with six counts of premeditated homicide. This is Chief’s story. "Alive Day" is currently optioned by Phoenix Pictures to become a blockbuster movie. Watch for the rest of the series as it becomes available!

Crazy Funny

Author : Lisa A. Guerrero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429885210
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Funny written by Lisa A. Guerrero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional instability complicates the ways in which we think about racialized identity formation and the limits of socially accepted definitions of (in)sanity, it concentrates on the unique ability of the genre of black satire to make knowable not only general qualities of mental illness that are so often feared or ignored, but also how structures of racism contribute a specific dimension to how we understand the different ways in which people of color, especially black people, experience and integrate mental instability into their own understandings of subjecthood. Drawing on theories from ethnic studies, popular culture studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory to offer critical textual analyses of five different instances of new millennial black satire in television, film, and literature – the television show Chappelle’s Show, the Spike Lee film Bamboozled, the novel The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty, the novels Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett, and the television show Key & Peele – Crazy Funny presents an account of the ways in which contemporary black satire rejects the boundaries between sanity and insanity as a way to animate the varied dimensions of being a racialized subject in a racist society.

Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine (2011)

Author : James L. Glymph (ed.)
Publisher : Jefferson County Historical Society (WV) Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine (2011) written by James L. Glymph (ed.) and published by Jefferson County Historical Society (WV) Magazine. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Washingtons. Volume 1

Author : Justin Glenn
Publisher : Savas Publishing
ISBN 13 : 194066926X
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Washingtons. Volume 1 written by Justin Glenn and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the initial volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This volume continues the story of John and Anne’s family for a total of seven generations, collecting over 5,000 direct descendants. Future volumes will trace eight more generations with a total of over 63,000 descendants. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. The Washingtons includes the time-honored John Wright line which in recent years has been challenged largely on the basis of DNA evidence. Volumes one and two will form a set, with a cumulative bibliography appearing at the end of volume 2. Volume two will highlight the most notable descendants and spouses from the later volumes, including such luminaries as General George S. Patton, the author Shelby Foote, and the actor Lee Marvin. All of the volumes, now estimated at fourteen in all, are virtually complete and are scheduled for release over the course of the next year.

The Next Generation of Testing

Author : Hong Jiao
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681233096
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book The Next Generation of Testing written by Hong Jiao and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Race To The Top (RTTP) federal education policy fostered a new generation of state tests. This policy advocated adopting common core standards which set a higher level of learning targets for students in the US K?12 education. These standards are intended to assess higher order thinking skills and prepare students ready for college and career. In the meantime, they are aligned with those for international assessments which keep US students abreast of their international peers. Furthermore, the new generation of state tests requires the use of technology enhanced items to align student assessments with student learning environment. Computer technology is indispensable to accomplish this goal. Computer based tests related to common core standards are different from previous state computer based tests in two important aspects, one is that the current version requires accurate assessment of students along all ability levels and the other is that it promotes the use of an efficient test delivery system, essentially the use of computerized adaptive assessment in K?12 state testing programs. In addition to providing summative information about student learning, the new common core tests add formative assessment component in the whole assessment system to provide timely feedback to students and teachers during the process of student learning and teacher instruction. As with its predecessor, the new assessment policy also holds teachers and schools accountable for student learning. With the requirements by the new federal education policy, states formed two consortia: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter?Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) to develop assessments in alignment with the new common core standards. This book is based on the presentations made at the Thirteenth Annual Maryland Assessment Research Center’s Conference on “The Next Generation of Testing: Common Core Standards, Smarter?Balanced, PARCC, and the Nationwide Testing Movement”. Experts from the consortia and nationwide overviewed the intention, history and the current status of this nationwide testing movement. Item development, test design, and transition from old state tests to the new consortia tests are discussed. Test scoring and reporting are specially highlighted in the book. The challenges related to standard setting for the new test, especially in the CAT environment and linking performance standards from state tests with consortium tests were explored. The issues of utilizing the consortium test results to evaluate students’ college and career readiness is another topic addressed in the book. The last chapters address the critical issue of validity in the new generation of state testing programs. Overall, this book presents the latest status of the development of the two consortium assessment systems. It addresses the most challenging issues related to the next generation of state testing programs including development of innovative items assessing higher order thinking skills, scoring of such items, standard setting and linkage with the old state specific standards, and validity issues. This edited book provides a very good source of information related to the consortium tests based on the common core standards.

Lamplighter

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399246395
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Lamplighter written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Rossamèund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him. Includes glossary.

Professional Ethics in Construction and Surveying

Author : Greg Watts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000379329
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Professional Ethics in Construction and Surveying written by Greg Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook responds to the increasing demand for practical, industry aligned, ethical practices in quantity surveying, construction management and related AEC professions. Professional Ethics for Construction and Surveying addresses how existing ethical standards can be pragmatically applied to both private and contracting practice, with case studies aligned with the ethical requirements of the main professional bodies. After an introduction to ethics, the authors present real-world situations where the minimum legal and contractual requirements necessitate the combination of professional judgement and ethical decision-making. They outline how such situations arise, then address how decisions can and should be made that are in keeping with the moral, contractual and CSR requirements, with cases covering the building lifecycle from procurement to handover. Consequently, the book brings together ethical theory, existing worldwide ethical standards and the requirements of the RICS, the CIOB and the ICES, with the authors’ experiences of examining candidates for entry into the professional bodies. The result is a professionally focused textbook aimed at vocational learners (at both undergraduate and postgraduate taught levels) and practitioners in construction, engineering, architecture and the wider built environment.

Cradle of America

Author : Peter Wallenstein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619941
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Cradle of America written by Peter Wallenstein and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.