![]() Seven chapters are entirely new, including expanded coverage of recent world architecture.ĭescribed by James Ackerman of Harvard University as "immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence", this book presents a penetrating analysis of the modern tradition and its origins, tracing the creative interaction between old and new that has generated such an astonishing richness of architectural forms across the world and throughout the century. Throughout the book the author's focus is on the individual architect, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value.įor the third edition, the text has been radically revised and expanded, incorporating much new material and a fresh appreciation of regional identity and variety. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setting for the detailed examination of buildings. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals-the poet, the politician, the child prostitute-Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture.įabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies-or Roma-are among the least understood people on earth. ![]() ![]() Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan Jilly Traganou 4.08 12 ratings3 reviews The T kaid Road offers a comparative study of the T kaid road's representations during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) eras. The Tôkaidô Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan 1st Edition is written by Jilly Traganou and published by Routledge. ![]() ![]() Why call the third section, the eighties to early nineties, the Dark Ages? You split the book into four sections: the Golden Age, Silver Age, the Dark Age, and the Renaissance. It was mostly about a kind of personal take on these things. Here’s a human story in the middle of all this.” And most of my research was done from stuff that I had on the bookshelf. ![]() I really just wanted to do it as, “Here’s someone who’s absolutely immersed in this stuff. I didn’t want to do that type of book because there had been so many good academic books on the subject. They literally saved me from the horror of the atom bomb.ĭid you do a lot of research for the book? Superman can withstand an atom bomb explosion. Then I discovered superhero comics and realized that here was an idea that was bigger than the bomb. ![]() My parents were anti-nuclear activists, so the bomb was a big frightening specter in our household. What is it about superheroes that fascinates you? ![]() ![]() Vulture spoke with Grant about the future of his industry, his obsession with Batman, and his gripe with the X-Men. In September, he’ll helm DC Comics’ relaunch of that first and most famous of superheroes, Superman, in Action Comics. This week he released Supergods, a 400-page meditation on superheroes and what they tell us about ourselves. Since the eighties, Grant Morrison has been a titanic figure in comics, working on both creator-owned titles such as The Invisibles, Zenith, and We3, and more familiar industry icons like Superman, Batman, and the X-Men. ![]() ![]() ![]() We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. 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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hill's crowning achievement in Horns is its beautiful, instantly captivating structure. The answers that Hill gives, however, are at best puerile, at worst deeply objectionable. Horns is a better book-tighter, better written, more engaging-than Heart-Shaped Box, and though still primarily an entertaining rather than thought-provoking work, it delves more deeply into its central questions, which are here about issues of theology as much as they are an investigation of Hill's genre. It was a good book, but not a very interesting one, and with Horns I hoped to discover whether the writer Joe Hill wanted to be was one I would want to follow. ![]() If 20th Century Ghosts skewed towards the literary end of the genre, Hill's first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, leaned towards the pulpy end, touching only lightly and with less nuance on the questions that were at the heart of his short stories. Hill wowed me with his debut collection, 20th Century Ghosts, a work that sits alongside Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others and Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners on the shelf of essential genre collections of the last decade, whose stories were both of and about the horror genre, constantly asking what it means to write or consume a genre rooted in misery and fear. I picked up Joe Hill's second novel, Horns, with the clear understanding that it would be my make-or-break experience with this author. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is complex novel that includes the poetry of two of the characters (written by Byatt, of course). ![]() In her home and heart she is courageous and true to herself, sometimes in ways she comes to regret. Christabel is the ultimate trailblazer, but she is in camouflage, living a quiet life as a poet in Victorian London. There are multiple strong women who make this masterpiece of Byatt’s take flight, but at the centre of it all is Christabel LaMotte. ‘Equally compelling are the lives of quiet women whose stories are seldom told.’ Here, Sara shares with us 5 inspiring books with trailblazing female characters. ‘I write about women who lived in male-dominated societies, who fought for education, acknowledgement, and self-determination, often against all odds,’ said Sara. ![]() ![]() Sara’s sharp observation of this era backed by her extensive research reflects the critical issues we, especially women, face today. The novel navigates prevalent issues from illegal abortions, domestic abuse, sexual assault and racism. Her latest book, Where the Light Enters delves into the heart of 1884 New York as we follow Sophie and Anna Savard, two trailblazing female doctors as they work together to solve the mysteries behind missing wives and murdered women on the streets. A native of Chicago, she lives with her husband, daughter, and various pets between Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Sara Donati, the pen name of Rosina Lippi, is the bestselling author of the Wilderness series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like The Doctors Blackwell, her first book, Daughters of the Samurai, was a joint biography of women who were extraordinary for their time - in that case, young Japanese girls who were sent to the United States in the late 1800s to learn Western culture and bring that knowledge back to their home country. Nimura, who has a master’s in East Asian studies from Columbia, is known for her skill at archival treasure-hunting. But trading hagiography for historical fact is always a worthwhile enterprise, and Nimura’s impressively researched book, which makes liberal use of the subjects’ letters and journals, renders these nineteenth-century groundbreakers as complex, contradictory human beings. Nimura ’01GSAS, Elizabeth Blackwell - the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States - and her younger sister Emily, also a physician, have their feminist legacies slightly tarnished. In The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women - and Women to Medicine, a new biography by Janice P. History is filled with pioneering figures who, on closer inspection, are found to be seriously flawed. Elizabeth Blackwell (National Library of Medicine) and Emily Blackwell (New York Academy of Medicine). ![]() ![]() ![]() The dangers of dieting and the pressures felt by young women to fit a certain, tiny mould come through clearly in the stories of her characters, without any labouring of the message. The Dublin author understands her young adult audience and is careful never to preach. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And that maybe happiness can mean more than eradicating all the flesh from your bones. Not just about food, but about her family too. all this time spent in someone's head has got Annabel thinking. Annabel can become the voice of reason, Julia's source of strength.Įxcept. Annabel will have to get to know Julia to uncover this secret and 'fix' her. The only trouble is that whatever is causing Julia to overeat is hidden deep within her. And as her helper, Julia's problem seems pretty obvious to Annabel. Which Annabel immediately notices when she's assigned as Julia's ghostly helper (don't even think about calling her a guardian angel). Despite having strived to be 'lighter than air' back when she was alive, the consequences of that yearning haven't quite sunk in yet. ![]() What happens when you give in to the voices in your head?Īnnabel is dead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Orchids are especially well represented over 10 percent of the illustrations in this volume depict orchids. ![]() cat's-claw mimosa, Bhutan cypress, and many more.The engravings encompass a broad spectrum of plant forms: trees, shrubs, aquatic and climbing plants, evergreens, vines, brushes, herbs, various perennials, and others. Oliver, 1902.Illustrations include exquisitely detailed renderings of flowers and other plant features of exotic specimens from around the world: passionflower, baobab, spider lily, hop, quaking grass, mourning cypress, American mangrove, wayfaring tree, Christmas rose, Indian rhododendron, false indigo, winged pea, Persian walnut. ![]() Artist Carol Belanger Grafton has selected 344 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings from two notable botanical classics: Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, 1850–53 and The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution by Anton Kerner von Marilaun and F. ![]() The continual demand among graphic artists for floral and botanical illustrations, combined with the perennial popularity of the Victorian style, have inspired this practical royalty-free collection. ![]() |