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A world history of architecture / by Fazio, Michael W.(CARDINAL)515165; Moffett, Marian.(CARDINAL)734123; Wodehouse, Lawrence.(CARDINAL)147050;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-575) and index.Introduction -- The beginnings of architecture -- The Greek world -- The architecture of ancient India and southeast Asia -- Traditional architecture of China and Japan -- The Roman world -- Early Christian and Byzantine architecture -- Islamic architecture -- Early Medieval and Romanesque architecture -- Gothic architecture -- Indigenous architecture in the Americas and Africa -- Renaissance architecture -- Baroque architecture -- The eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century developments -- The twentieth century and modernism -- Modernisms in the mid- and late-twenty-first [i.e. twentieth] century and beyond."In about 40 B.C.E. the Roman architect and engineer vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas - firmness, commodity, and delight - to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East India, Russia, China, and Japan. Written in a clear and engaging style, the text encourages readers to examine closely in photographs and line drawings the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Architecture is discussed in various contexts - artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological - so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations." "This book also examines the unique methods of great architects past and present. Among them are Alvar Aalto, Robert Adam, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Gustave Eiffel, Peter Eisenmain, Antonio Gaudl, Frank Gehry, Walter Gropius, Imhotep Le Corbusler, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Michelangelo, Glenn Murcutt, Andrea Palladio, Eero Saarinen, Koca Sinan, Louis Sullivan, Christopher Wren, and Frank Eloyd Wright.

Subjects: Architecture;

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The complete idiot's guide to learning Latin / by Harwood, Natalie,author.(CARDINAL)703699;

Latin lives! The latest edition of our comprehensive Latin primer, this covers basic vocabulary, grammar, and construction in an approachable format that offers a refreshing alternative to the standard, stuffy texts

Subjects: Problems and exercises.; Programmed instructional materials.; Latin language; Latin language;

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Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science / by Belting, Hans.(CARDINAL)161969;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Describing a Culture: Blickwechsel (Shifting Focus / Exchanging Glances) -- Pt.1. Perspective as a Question of Images: Paths between East and West -- What Is a Symbolic Form? -- Arab Mathematics and Western Art -- Geometry and Decorative Art: The Arabesque -- The Globalization of Perspective -- Blickwechsel: Orhan Pamuk and Perspective as a "Betrayal" -- Pt.2. The Taming of the Eye: Criticism of Seeing in Islam -- Religion and the Prohibition of Images -- Images as a Betrayal of the Living Creation -- The Koran as Scripture and Script -- Under the Gaze of Allah: Pictures as Narrative -- Blickwechsel: Pictures with a Living Gaze -- Pt.3. Alhazen's Measurement of Light and the Arab Invention of the Camera Obscura -- Alhazen's Book of Optics, the Perspectiva -- Distance from Ancient Visual Culture -- Pathways of Light and Properties of Objects -- Mathematics and Geometry in Islamic Art -- Blickwechsel: Kepler Rediscovers the Camera Obscura -- Pt.4. Perception and Knowledge: A Theory of Vision Becomes a Theory of Pictures -- Scholasticism and the Conflict over Perception and Epistemology -- Before Perspective: The Gaze in Giotto's Painting -- Pelacani's Invention of Mathematical Space -- Ghiberti's Commentaries and Piero's Mathematical Art -- Blickwechsel: Alhazen or Euclid? The Option for Vitruvius -- Pt.5. Brunelleschi Measures the Glaze: Mathematical Perspective and Theater -- Two Inventors in Florence -- Physical Space: The Architecture of the Gaze -- "Prospects" on the Stage -- Panoramas in Urbino -- Blickwechsel: The Geometry of the Muqarnas -- Pt.6. The Subject in the Picture: Perspective as a Symbolic Form -- Stealing an Emblem: The Eye as Representative of the Gaze -- Nicholas of Cusa and the Sovereignty of God's Gaze -- The Subject as New Narcissus -- The Horizon and the View through aWindow -- Blickwechsel: The Mashrabiyya as a Symbolic Form -- Conclusion: Comparing the Gaze in Different Cultures

Subjects: Aesthetics, Comparative.; Art, Renaissance; Optics; Perspective;

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The book of books : 500 years of graphic innovation / by Lommen, Mathieu.(CARDINAL)766749; Universiteit van Amsterdam.Bibliotheek.Bijzondere Collecties.(CARDINAL)493405;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-459) and index.Introduction -- The invention and spread of printing -- Nicolas Jenson -- Gheraert Leeu -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Bonino de Boninis -- Jacob Bellaert -- Nuremberg chronicle -- Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- The sixteenth century -- Wolfgang Hopyl & Henri Estienne I -- Aldus Manutius -- Luca Pacioli -- Henri Estienne I -- Complutensian polyglot -- Johann Froben -- Theuerdank -- Vitruvius -- Ludovico degli Arrighi -- Albrecht Dürer -- Geoffroy Tory -- Marco Fabio Calvo -- Decoration and illustration -- Hans Holbein the Younger -- Robert Estienne -- Andreas Vesalius -- Simon de Colines -- Jacques Kerver -- Michael Isingrin -- Michel de Vascosan -- Jean de Tournes -- Robert Granjon -- Christoffel Plantin -- Plantin polyglot -- Henri Estienne II -- Giovan Francesco Cresci -- The Dutch golden age -- Willem Barentsz --Jan van den Velde -- Vincenzo Scamozzi -- Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn -- The Elzeviers -- Joan Blaeu -- Joseph Moxon -- The eighteenth century -- Cornelis de Bruijn -- Charles Plumier & Imprimerie royale -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Martin-Dominique Fertel -- Mark Catesby -- George Bickham -- Giovanni Battista Piranesi -- Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert -- John Baskerville -- Pierre-Simon Fournier -- Johannes Enschedé -- Louis-René Luce -- Joaquín Ibarra -- François-Ambroise Didot -- Giambattista Bodoni -- Thomas Bewick -- Redouté & Didot le Jeune -- Imprimerie impériale -- Nineteenth-century graphic techniques -- Alois Senefelder -- William Savage -- Vincent Figgins -- Jean Midolle -- John Gould -- Gottlieb Haase Söhne -- Chiswick Press -- John Sliegh & Birket Foster -- Victorian gift book -- Julius Klinkhardt -- Eadweard Muybridge -- James McNeill Whistler -- Gerrit Dijsselhof -- Private presses and traditional book typography -- William Morris -- Théo van Rysselberghe -- Lucien & Esther Pissarro -- Theodore Low De Vinne -- Count Harry Kessler & Emery Walker -- Rudolf von Larisch -- Doves Press -- Henry van de Velde -- Peter Behrens -- American Type Founders Company -- Avant-garde and new typography -- Francesco Cangiullo -- Fernand Léger -- Bruce Rogers -- El Lissitzky -- Rudolf Koch -- Francis Thibaudeau -- Theo van Doesburg & Käte Steinitz -- Karel Teige -- H.N. Werkman -- W.A. Dwiggins -- Wierner Werkstätte -- Count Harry Kessler & Edward Gordon Craig -- A.M. Cassandre -- John Heartfield -- Jan Tschichold -- Eric Gill -- Piet Zwart -- Jan van Krimpen -- Pierre Faucheux -- Modernism and Swiss typography -- Richard Paul Lohse -- Jan Tschichold -- Herbert Bayer -- Willem Sandberg -- Marie Neurath -- Robert Massin -- Lester Beall -- Paul Rand -- Karl Gerstner -- Max Huber & Giovanni Pintori -- Willy Fleckhaus -- Rémy Peignot & Adrian Frutiger -- Wim Crouwel -- Quentin Fiore -- Christian Chruxin -- Wolf Vostell -- Katy Hepburn -- Massimo Vignelli -- Helmut Brade -- Postmodernism -- Irma Boom -- Paula Scher -- Bruce Mau -- Rudy VanderLans & Zuzana Licko -- Derek Birdsall -- Stefan Sagmeister -- Joost Grootens -- Irma Boom -- Postscript.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Universiteit van Amsterdam. Bibliotheek. Bijzondere Collecties; Book industries and trade; Graphic design (Typography); Printers; Printing; Printing; Printing; Type and type-founding;

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Vintage reading : from Plato to Bradbury : a personal tour of some of the world's best books / by Kanigel, Robert.(CARDINAL)753816;

On everyone's list of literary classics: Look homeward, angel / Thomas Wolfe -- The portrait of a lady / Henry James -- As I lay dying / William Faulkner -- Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë -- Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- Alice's adventures in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Justine / Lawrence Durrell -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- A passage to India / E. M. Forster -- My Ántonia / Willa Cather -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- On many a list for burning (Heretics, subversives, demagogues): Stories / Dorothy Parker -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- Nana / Emile Zola -- Ten days that shook the world / John Reed -- Native son / Richard Wright -- Books that shaped the western world: Essays / Montaigne -- Dialogues / Plato -- The wealth of nations / Plato -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus -- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon -- The origin of species / Charles Darwin -- The histories / Herodotus -- The Federalist Papers / Hamilton, Madison, Jay -- The annals of imperial Rome / Tacitus -- The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Making hard work easy (The great popularizers): Only yesterday / Frederick Lewis Allen -- Microbe hunters / Paul de Kruif -- Selected works / Cicero -- Coming of age in Samoa / Margaret Mead -- The outermost house / Henry Beston -- The amiable Baltimoreans / Francis F. Beirne -- What to listen for in music / Aaron Copland -- Gods, graves, and scholars / C.W. Ceram -- The stress of life / Hans Selye -- The Greek way / Edith Hamilton -- Not Robinson Crusoe, not Brave new world: A journal of the plague year / Daniel Defoe --The doors of perception / Aldous Huxley -- Elective affinities / John Wolfgang von Goethe -- Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell -- Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud -- Arrowsmith / Sinclair Lewis -- Roughing it / Mark Twain -- Lighter fare: A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The song of Hiawatha / H.W. Longfellow -- The rise of David Levinsky / Abraham Cahan -- Java head / Joseph Hergesheimer -- Mr. Pottermack's oversight / R. Austin Freeman -- A bell for Adano / John Hersey -- The martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury -- Gentleman's agreement / Laura Z. Hobson -- But I know what I like: The ten books of architecture / Vitruvius -- The lives of the most eminent Italian architects, painters, and sculptors / Giorgio Vasari -- The seven lamps of architecture / John Ruskin -- The nude: a study in ideal form / Kenneth Clark --The elements of style / Strunk and White -- One-of-a-kinds: A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- The American language / H.L. Mencken -- The little prince / Antoine de Saint Exupery -- The education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams -- Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neal Hurston -- A mathematician's apology / Godfrey H. Hardy -- My life / Isadra Duncan -- The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn -- The realm of the spirit: Gilgamesh / Babylonian epic -- Confessions / Saint Augustine -- The golem / Gustav Meyrink -- The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham -- The seven storey mountain / Thomas Merton -- Death be not proud / John Gunther -- Ecclesiastes / Old Testament -- Lost horizon / James Hilton -- The bhagavad gita / Sanskrit poem -- Night / Elie Wiesel -- The varieties of religious experience / William James.

Subjects: Best books.; Books and reading.; Literature;

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The American Vitruvius : an architect's handbook of civic art. by Hegemann, Werner,1881-1936.(CARDINAL)195495; Peets, Elbert,1886-1968.(CARDINAL)770583;

Subjects: Public buildings.; City planning.; Architecture.; Public facilities.;

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