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Flannery O'Connor's Georgia
Succinct text from photographer Barbara McKenzie and a foreword by Robert Coles provide context for this moving collection of photographs of the middle Georgia Flannery O'Connor depicted in her fiction. Whether capturing highway signs proclaiming Christ or a restaurant five hundred yards up the road, the frenzied motions of persons seized by the Holy Spirit, or quiet folks, black and white, sit…
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- 9780820346519
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South Street
South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internall…
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The Gothic Visionary Perspective
Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries. In these essays, she explores some of the most important moments in this Gothic visionary perspective. The author first follows the histo…
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- 9781400870554
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Samuel M. GoreBlessed with Tired Hands
Born in Coolidge, Texas, Samuel Marshall Gore was the sixth of ten children born to a Baptist preacher and a mother described as "an angel." From early childhood, Samuel Gore remembers enjoying making things, and gives credit to his mother and grandmother for his interest in art. Gore went on to be an art teacher and professor for more than fifty years, mostly at Mississippi College in Clinton,…
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- 9781628466874
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Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach
Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000. Nor is it an old town: the oldest extant building dates from about 1885, and the town itself was not incorporated until after 1900. What has granted Palm Beach its fame is the same combination of elements that made Bath famous in the 18th century: a very few clear-sighted men—they can be counte…
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- 9798216285144
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Architettura Open Source reloadedVerso una progettazione aperta
Nel Novecento l'architettura è stata spesso associata alla figura dell'architetto- eroe, che plasma da solo intere città. Oggi invece viviamo un momento di profonda trasformazione: l'approccio collaborativo emerge con forza. L'Architettura Open Source si connette ai meccanismi sia del mondo naturale sia dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. Nel Novecento, l'architettura è stata spesso associata all…
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Hoover DamThe Photographs of Ben Glaha
Hoover Dam was constructed during one of the most depressed economic climates in American history, in a remote desert canyon where temperatures ranged from single to triple digits. In order to visually document the project, the Bureau of Reclamation assigned employee Ben Glaha to photograph all aspects of the dam's construction. Glaha's photographs were used in press releases, periodicals, book…
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Entre LíneasRelecturas de la historia a través de las arquitectas en Chile
Entre líneas invita a la relectura de la historia, la arquitectura y la modernidad a través del aporte de las arquitectas en Chile desde su entrada a la universidad en los años veinte (los hombres lo hicieron en 1849). Inspira la capacidad de las jóvenes editoras para construir 'mancomunidad' con un extenso colectivo de personas e instituciones. Desde la epistemología feminista que marca l…
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- 9789561431416
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Habitação social e desenvolvimento urbano em cidades médias
O tema deste livro é a política de habitação social contemporânea em cidades médias do interior paulista. Trata-se de uma versão revisada, resumida e editada da dissertação "Políticas públicas de habitação social em cidades médias do interior paulista – 2000-2020", desenvolvida originalmente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAAC/UNESP.A política hab…
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Large Housing Estates under SocialismExperiences and Perspectives on Sustaina…
Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. What are the challenges to be overcome? How can the often mono-structural estates be altered, and how can spatial and cultural identities be reinforced? Which role does the community play in these former socialist neighborh…
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