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Vintage Alexandria

Author : Michael Haag
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774161926
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Vintage Alexandria written by Michael Haag and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums, this book brings to life the world of that vanished Alexandria, a vibrant, stylish, and cosmopolitan city, the largest port in the Mediterranean, that was the prosperous gateway between Egypt and the world. Seen here in the setting of their homes and gardens, and on the city's streets and beaches, the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks, Italians, Jews, and all those others from around the Mediterranean whose energy and expertise helped modernize and develop Egypt, and who planted their family roots in the city. This was the luxuriant and evocative city celebrated by Constantine Cavafy, E.M. Forster, and Lawrence Durrell, and they too are included in these pages along with photographs of scenes and people that were familiar to them. Vintage Alexandria traces the development and growth of the city, follows its story through the dramatic events of two world wars, and above all provides a background to the city's place in twentieth-century cultural history, through the eyes of Alexandria's cosmopolitan citizens themselves. Those citizens and others who passed through the city and appear in these pages included Antony Benaki (the Greek cotton trader whose collection formed the basis of the famous Benaki Museum in Athens), Robert Koch (who isolated the cholera virus and developed a vaccine in an Alexandria laboratory), the Greek children's writer Penelope Delta, Claude Vincendon (the third wife of Lawrence Durrell), King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Eve Cohen (the second wife of Lawrence Durrell, and the model for "Justine"), Safinaz Zulfikar (later married to King Farouk as Queen Farida), Rudolph Hess (Hitler's deputy, who attended school in Alexandria), Jean de Menasce (the "best translator" of T.S. Eliot), Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron), the Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine, the Egyptian and international film star Omar Sharif, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhona Haszard (the post-impressionist painter), Ahmed Hassanein Pasha (the Egyptian explorer and diplomat), and Noel Coward (the English writer and wit, who sang at the Fleet Club in Alexandria and was mobbed by sailors).

Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Street by Street

Author : Ethelyn Cox
Publisher : E P M Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780939009183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Street by Street written by Ethelyn Cox and published by E P M Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Alexandria Foundation. This record of a famous port's architectural life includes 375 photographs of more than 500 buildings dating from 1749 to the mid-19th century.

Levant

Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176228
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Levant written by Philip Mansel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.

Journal

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell

Author : Bruce Redwine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527578925
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell written by Bruce Redwine and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Durrell’s position as one of the twentieth century’s leading novelists is continually being enlarged and revised. This book presents unusual and unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing, his family relationships, his biographer Michael Haag, and his affinity with such diverse writers as Rilke and Virgil. In particular, it offers an insight into Durrell’s emotions and sensibilities in elaborating his Sicilian Carousel and a penetrating and totally unique reading of Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet in the light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.

Alexandria Antiqua: A Topographical Catalogue and Reconstruction

Author : Amr Abdo
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699444
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Alexandria Antiqua: A Topographical Catalogue and Reconstruction written by Amr Abdo and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandria Antiqua aims to catalogue the archaeological sites of Alexandria, from the records of the French Expedition (1798-99) to the present day, and to infer the urban layout and cityscape at the time of its foundation (4th century BC), and then through the successive changes which took place up to the Arab conquest (7th century AD).

Durrell and the City

Author : Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611474531
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Durrell and the City written by Donald P. Kaczvinsky and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his early novels to Avignon during World War II in his last great series, while focusing on the place that made him famous--the city of Alexandria--in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

Official Catalogue illustrated with Engravings published by Order of the Royal Italian Commission

Author : [Anonymus AC07081946]
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Official Catalogue illustrated with Engravings published by Order of the Royal Italian Commission written by [Anonymus AC07081946] and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Geographic Traveler: Washington D. C.

Author : John Milliken Thompson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426202254
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Traveler: Washington D. C. written by John Milliken Thompson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the history, culture, and comtemporary life of the city and offers detailed walking tours of historic areas and complete visitor information.

Official catalogue

Author : Dublin international exhibition, 1865
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Official catalogue written by Dublin international exhibition, 1865 and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Traces Remain

Author : Charles Nicholl
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014192229X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Traces Remain written by Charles Nicholl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time.His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in 1960s Malaya, from the boyhood of Christopher Marlowe to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, from the remnants of a lost Shakespeare play to the last days of the poet-boxer Arthur Cravan in a Mexican fishing port.Full of insights, curiosities and unexpected discoveries, these thirty pieces written over two decades show the author of The Lodger and Leonardo da Vinci at his inquisitive best.

House Beautiful Style 101

Author : Lisa Cregan
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1588169200
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book House Beautiful Style 101 written by Lisa Cregan and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to change your home? Baffled by all the available design choices? House Beautiful helps you define your style--and get the look you love in every room. With advice and insider tips from dozens of designers, this entry in the magazines popular pocket guide series (which includes Colors for Your Home and Fabrics for Your Home) simplifies all your decorating decisions. A fun visual quiz helps you get started. Then an overview of hallmark elements and designers for five distinct decorating styles leads into room-by-room insider advice on selecting everything from furnishings and colors to carpets, window treatments, and lighting. Its a fresh approach to decorating!

Heat, a History

Author : On Barak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520403924
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Heat, a History written by On Barak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an unrelenting barrage of record-breaking temperatures dominating the headlines, an enigma arises--despite the flames licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and mechanisms grant us the capacity to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Heat: A History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility all served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all these measures have ultimately fuelled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific abstractions and economic and cultural forces that have numbed our responses this book charts a way forward out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action"--

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

Author : John Parker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667544
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History written by John Parker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social, and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred years. Since African history first emerged as a serious academic endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this ground-breaking study of Africa's past.

Queer and Bookish

Author : Jason Edwards
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685710247
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Queer and Bookish written by Jason Edwards and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Book Artist represents the first book-length study to explore the intersections of Sedgwick's critical writing, poetry, and, most importantly, book art, making the case that her art criticism, especially her meditations on domestic and nineteenth-century photography, and "artist's book" projects are as formally complex and brilliant, conceptually significant and life-changing, as her literary criticism and theory. In addition, the book represents a significant intervention into recent debates about reparative reading, surface reading, and the descriptive turn across the humanities, because of its sustained, positive accounts on Sedgwick's books as visual, textural, and material objects. The book ranges across Sedgwick's published output, from The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (1980) to the posthumously published The Weather in Proust (2011), and features her meditations on a wide variety of art-historical topoi, including Judith Scott's queer/crip fiber art; the anality of Polykleitos's Doryphorus; queer Modernist typography; Piranesi's punitive space; Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell's queer holy family; Manet's frontality and thalassic aesthetics; fat and thin aesthetics of various stripes; and the queer photography of Anna Atkins, Clementina Hawarden, and Julia Margaret Cameron; Baron De Mayer, Eugene Atget, and P.H. Emerson; as well as David Hockney, Ken Brown, and her own father, a NASA lunar photographer. The book climaxes with two chapter-length explorations of Sedgwick's own late-life book-art practice: her panda Valentine alphabet cards (c. 1996) and her Last Days of Pompeii/Cavafy unique artist's book (c. 2007). Jason Edwards is a Professor of Art History at the University of York, where he works at the intersections of queer and vegan theory, and on British art history in its global contexts in the period from c.1760-1940. He is the author of the Routledge Critical Thinkers volume on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Routledge, 2009) as well as the editor of Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick As a Poet (punctum books, 2017), which includes Sedgwick's uncollected poems. In addition, Jason is also the author of Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism (Ashgate 2006), and the co-editor of special issues of journals and edited collections on Grinling Gibbons, Joseph Cornell, the British School of Sculpture c.1760-1832, Victorian sculpture in its global contexts, the Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic interiors, and homoeroticism, art and aestheticism in Victorian Britain. Jason has also co-curated exhibitions on Turner's whaling imagery, Alfred Gilbert, and Victorian sculpture more broadly, at Tate Britain, the Yale Center for British Art, Hull Maritime Museum, Lotherton Hall, and the Henry Moore Institute for the Study of Sculpture, in Leeds. Jason's forthcoming book Queer Craft deals with Sedgwick's work as a fiber artist.

Washington Wines and Wineries

Author : Paul Gregutt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520272684
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Washington Wines and Wineries written by Paul Gregutt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the thirty-five years wine critic and writer Paul Gregutt has lived in the state of Washington, its wine industry has ballooned from a mere half dozen wineries to nearly five hundred. Washington Wines and Wineries offers a comprehensive, critical, and accessible account of the nation's second largest wine-producing region.

Disability and Christian Theology

Author : Deborah Beth Creamer
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195369157
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Disability and Christian Theology written by Deborah Beth Creamer and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework for a new theology of disability which begins with the notion that limits are an unsurprising element of human life. This profoundly challenges common sense categories of disabled and non-disabled and offers significant new images and possibilities for theological reflection and action