North Michigan Avenue
Author | : John W. Stamper |
Publisher | : Pomegranate |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780764933820 |
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Author | : John W. Stamper |
Publisher | : Pomegranate |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780764933820 |
Author | : Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales |
Publisher | : Council on Foreign Relations |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 0876093489 |
In this important report, a distinguished group of Canadian, Mexican, and American experts explore key issues including economics, regulatory policy, security, the developing gap, and tri-national institutions. It also offers a vision for the relationship among the three countries for the next ten years. French and Spanish versions included.
Author | : Daniel Maudlin |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2016-03-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1469626837 |
Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.
Author | : Paula Kay Lazrus |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469653400 |
Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical challenge but it is also a philosophical one. The project takes place at an important time for Florence. The city is transitioning from a High Medieval world view into the new dynamics and ideas and will lead to the full flowering of what we know as the Renaissance. Thus the competition at the heart of this game plays out against the background of new ideas about citizenship, aesthetics, history (and its application to the present), and new technology. The central challenge is to expose players to complex and multifaceted situations and to individuals that animated life in Florence in the early 1400s. Humanism as a guiding philosophy is taking root and scholars are looking for ways to link the mercantile city to the glories of Rome and to the wisdom of the ancients across many fields. The aesthetics of the classical world (buildings, plastic arts and intellectual pursuits) inspired wonder, perhaps even envy, but the new approaches to the past by scholars such as Petrarch suggested that perhaps the creative classes are not simply crafts people, but men of ideas. Three teams compete for the honor to construct the dome, a project overseen by the Arte Della Lana (wool workers guild) and judged by them and a group of Florentine citizens who are merchants, aristocrats, learned men, and laborers. Their goal is to make the case for the building to live up to the ideals of Florence. The game gives students a chance to enter into the world of Florence in the early 1400s to develop an understanding of the challenges and complexity of such a major artistic and technical undertaking while providing an opportunity to grasp the interdisciplinary nature of major public works.
Author | : David Alton |
Publisher | : Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2013-05-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0745957684 |
How much do you know about North Korea? Depending on whom you ask, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is an international laughing-stock, a terrifying nuclear-powered war machine, or a humanitarian crisis of nightmarish proportion. For David Alton, the DPRK is Asia's tragic and prodigal son, long overdue 'coming in from the cold' and returning to the embrace of the international community. The obstacles are gigantic and the record of human suffering is almost beyond description, yet there is still hope for a better future, if only the political and military powers have the courage to seize it. In this book, David Alton and Rob Chidley paint a practical and compassionate picture of North Korea, from the earliest history to the tragic division and right up to the present day. In doing so, they present a North Korea that we can understand, approach, and reach out to with a glimmer of hope.
Author | : Colin Richards |
Publisher | : Windgather Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1909686131 |
Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.
Author | : Tracey Deutsch |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807833274 |
An examination of the history of food distribution in the United States explores the roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores.
Author | : Elbert Floyd Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Architecture and climate |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Crimethinc Ex-Worker's Collective |
Publisher | : Crimethinc |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780998982212 |
"Why do people cross the border without documents? How do they make the journey? Whose interests does the border serve--and what has it done to North America? Every year, thousands of people risk their lives to cross the desert between Mexico and the United States. Drawing on nearly a decade of solidarity work along the border, this book uncovers the true goals and costs of US border policy--and what to do about it."--Back cover.
Author | : Gregg Brazinsky |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2009-09-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1458723178 |
Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. He contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled South Korea's stunning transformation. Expanding the framework of traditional diplomatic history, Brazinsky examines not only state-to-state relations, but also the social and cultural interactions between Americans and South Koreans. He shows how Koreans adapted, resisted, and transformed American influence and promoted socioeconomic change that suited their own aspirations. Ultimately, Brazinsky argues, Koreans' capacity to tailor American institutions and ideas to their own purposes was the most important factor in the making of a democratic South Korea.