Product Description: Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It examines the historical role of the cultural in architectural production and expression, looking at meaning and communication, tracing the formations of cultural identities...read more
9780415783408 | Routledge, March 5, 2012, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas.
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9780415783415 | Routledge, March 2, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas.
Product Description: For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory...read more
9780375867323 | Schwartz & Wade Books, January 10, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret.
Product Description: This fast-paced, high-energy picture book tells the true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who at age nineteen disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Civil War. She took the name Frank Thompson and joined a Michigan army regiment to battle the Confederacy...read more
9780810997356 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This fast-paced, high-energy picture book tells the true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who at age nineteen disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Civil War.
Product Description: Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown...read more
9780810937987 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures.
Product Description: How does a cookie-baking Rat named Bob save his tail from being gobbled by two hungry cats? By serving them cookies and telling themfantastic fairy tales about his family, of course. There's the story about great-grand uncle Mustard who upgrades his family to a lovely three-bedroom brick house...read more
9781439593769 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.50 | About this edition: How does a cookie-baking Rat named Bob save his tail from being gobbled by two hungry cats?
Product Description: Here's an ingenious historical fiction picture book about the 16th president of the United States. It’s a tale of two boys who get themselves into more trouble than bear cubs in a candy store. The year is 1816. Abe is only seven years old, and his pal, Austin, is ten...read more
9780375837685, titled "Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)" | Schwartz & Wade Books, September 9, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Here's an ingenious historical fiction picture book about the 16th president of the United States.
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9780375937682, titled "Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)" | Schwartz & Wade Books, September 9, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Here's an ingenious historical fiction picture book about the 16th president of the United States.
Product Description: A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes. When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston...read more
9780060742386 | Greenwillow, February 1, 2005, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
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9780060742409, titled "The Giant Rat of Sumatra: Or Pirates Galore" | Reprint edition (Greenwillow, August 1, 2006), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
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9780060742393 | Greenwillow, February 1, 2005, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
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9781435252769, titled "The Giant Rat of Sumatra: Or Pirates Galore" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog.
9781417699377, titled "Giant Rat of Sumatra or Pirates Galore" | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
Product Description: Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts examines philosophical structures of Plato in their structural, spatial, and architectonic implications. It examines elements of Plato’s philosophical systems in relation to other philosophical systems, including those of Anaximander, Plotinus, Proclus, Nicolas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida...read more
9780820471105 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 17, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts examines philosophical structures of Plato in their structural, spatial, and architectonic implications.
Product Description: Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Artsexplores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists—principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino—and more contemporary philosophers—Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer...read more
9780820471112 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Artsexplores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists—principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino—and more contemporary philosophers—Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer.
Product Description: History and Culture in Italy is a scholarly, introductory survey of the history and culture of Italy, focusing on art and architecture, literature and philosophy, politics and historical events, and observations of daily life in modern Italy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780761826286 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 1, 2003, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: History and Culture in Italy is a scholarly, introductory survey of the history and culture of Italy, focusing on art and architecture, literature and philosophy, politics and historical events, and observations of daily life in modern Italy.
Product Description: Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structuresexamines architectural and architectonic forms as products of philosophical and epistemological structures in selected cultures and time periods, and analyzes architecture as a text of its culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780820467269 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 2003, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structuresexamines architectural and architectonic forms as products of philosophical and epistemological structures in selected cultures and time periods, and analyzes architecture as a text of its culture.
Product Description: This work introduces a new interpretation of the work of Borromini and of architecture in general in its analysis of the relation between architectural forms and philosophical structures, often literally translated in Borromini's work through philosophical diagrams and symbols circulating in 17th century Rome in texts by writers such as Nicolas Cusanus and Athanasius Kircher...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780773469952 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: This work introduces a new interpretation of the work of Borromini and of architecture in general in its analysis of the relation between architectural forms and philosophical structures, often literally translated in Borromini's work through philosophical diagrams and symbols circulating in 17th century Rome in texts by writers such as Nicolas Cusanus and Athanasius Kircher.
9780773469853 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss Neoplatonism and its relationship with the arts in Italy.
Product Description: With exciting original artwork, creative orders of worship, and a wealth of educational material, including sermons and intergenerational activities, CELEBRATE ADVENT is a valuable resource for local church leaders, regardless of the size of the congregation or experience with the season...read more
9781573121804 | Smyth & Helwys Pub, February 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: With exciting original artwork, creative orders of worship, and a wealth of educational material, including sermons and intergenerational activities, CELEBRATE ADVENT is a valuable resource for local church leaders, regardless of the size of the congregation or experience with the season.