Static Palace
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Static Palace
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Author : LEORA. FRIDMAN
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2022-12
Static Palace written by LEORA. FRIDMAN and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12 with categories.
The Cairo Trilogy
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 2016-06-15
The Cairo Trilogy written by Naguib Mahfouz and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with Fiction categories.
Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize—winning writer’s masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain’s occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons–the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad’s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz’s vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. Throughout the trilogy, the family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.
City Of Men
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Author : Laurie Nussdorfer
language : en
Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice
Release Date : 2023-12-14T17:35:00+01:00
City Of Men written by Laurie Nussdorfer and has been published by Viella Libreria Editrice this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14T17:35:00+01:00 with History categories.
This is the untold story of the men who fed, dressed, protected and advised the cardinals and great nobles of Baroque Rome. Against the background of demographic crisis and a Europe gripped by plague, war and famine, the papal capital lured ambitious gentlemen and hungry commoners to work in service. Mirroring a city where men far outnumbered women, elite households provided jobs for thousands of male immigrants from all over Italy and beyond. Footmen, secretaries, stable boys, cooks and accountants composed an all-male world that fit awkwardly within the paradigm of early modern patriarchy. A gender ideology dependent on the idea that men were innately superior to women had to navigate a society without women and justify the subordination of most men to the few. Rigid domestic hierarchies imposed by employers and implemented by gentlemen servants yielded only the barest subsistence to the robust but unskilled majority. The vagaries of the patron-client relationship doomed even the gentlemen to insecurity. In this context the streets, churches and squares of Rome offered richer, if sometimes dangerous, opportunities than the palaces to enjoy masculine privilege and the experience of egalitarian fraternity. This book mobilizes census records, trials, family account books and household manuals to show both the contradictions and the tenacity of patriarchy in a city of men.
Baker Resource Management Plan
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Author : United States. Bureau of Land Management
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Baker Resource Management Plan written by United States. Bureau of Land Management and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Land use categories.
Brand Driven City Building And The Virtualizing Of Space
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Author : Alexander Gutzmer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-24
Brand Driven City Building And The Virtualizing Of Space written by Alexander Gutzmer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with Architecture categories.
This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial – and urban – reality. It develops a novel understanding of the rationale behind the construction of large-scale architectural complexes that relate to corporate brands, and of its tremendous cultural effects. The author suggests that what we see today is the creation of "global mass ornaments", of a thorough ornamentalization of the entire globe. The origins of this are discussed with regard to examples of corporate brand-building from Europe and China (Autostadt Wolfsburg, BMW Welt Munich and Anting New Town). Additional cases are several simulated spaces in Berlin and the space-branding activities of companies like Apple or Prada. Theoretically, the author develops an innovative poststructuralist framework, combining ideas from Gilles Deleuze with the space philosophy of Peter Sloterdijk. He analyzes how the corporate redefinition of space makes the city enter into a mode of virtual urbanity. This idea leads to a notion of a "global urban" and, ultimately, the "global mass ornament". This concept of a global mass ornament is developed here with reference to Sloterdijk’s concept of a world of "spheres". The latter is used to understand the new mode of spatiality of mediatized spaces. The book makes the point that our world is involved in a process of mass ornamentalization that has only just begun. The concept of the global mass ornament is the first to come to grips with a culture in which branding is effectively changing the physiognomy of the earth. The global mass ornament is a banner for a cultural transformation that employs architecture, sign theory and mechanisms borrowed from traditional advertising and from social media, as well as social processes – and that we have yet to properly understand. This book is a significant step forward in this respect.
Muqarnas Volume 27
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Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-11-11
Muqarnas Volume 27 written by Gülru Necipoğlu and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-11 with Art categories.
Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The articles in Muqarnas 27 address topics such as spolia in medieval Islamic architecture, Islamic coinage in the seventh century, the architecture of the Alhambra from an environmental perspective, and Ottoman–Mamluk gift exchange in the fifteenth century. The volume also features a new section, entitled “Notes and Sources”, with pieces highlighting primary sources such as Akbar’s Kathāsaritsāgara. Contributors include Ebba Koch, Elizabeth Lambourn, Elias Muhanna, Rina Avner, Kathryn Moore, Alicia Walker, Todd Willmert, Julia Gonnella, Zeynep Ertuğ, Jere Bacharach, Persis Berlekamp, Heike Franke, Vincenza Garofalo, and Fabrizio Agnello.
A Companion To Islamic Art And Architecture
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Author : Finbarr Barry Flood
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-06-16
A Companion To Islamic Art And Architecture written by Finbarr Barry Flood and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with Art categories.
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)
The Annotations On The Waterway Classic Shui Jing Zhu
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Author : Li Daoyuan 郦道元
language : en
Publisher: DeepLogic
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The Annotations On The Waterway Classic Shui Jing Zhu written by Li Daoyuan 郦道元 and has been published by DeepLogic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Nature categories.
The Annotations on the Waterway Classic (Chinese: 水经注; pinyin: Shuǐ Jīng Zhù) is a work on the ancient geography of China, describing the traditional understanding of its waterways and ancient canals, compiled by Li Daoyuan during the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 AD). The book is divided into sections by river, each described with its source, course, and major tributaries, including cultural and historical notes. The work is much expanded from its source text, the older (and now lost) Waterway Classic (Shuijing 水经). The original text described 137 different rivers in China, and its authorship was attributed to Jin dynasty scholar Guo Pu. Li Daoyuan's 40-volume, 300,000-character version includes 1252 rivers.
Time Sliver
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Author : S.C. Calloway
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2024-06-07
Time Sliver written by S.C. Calloway and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-07 with Fiction categories.
Mankind is in the season many refer to as the end of days. The ruler of your world (in the year 2659) is the sentient artificial intelligence turned self-proclaimed Messiah. Global markets and currency, the android militia, and the one-world religion are all controlled by AI. I have been slivered into this reality, onto your tiny planet, Earth, by the Boss Himself. My mission here is to aid, any and all, opposition to this one-world regime. Had I been sent here alone, I would have serious doubts, as to my being up to the task. But I am not alone. My partner is here with me, and with her at my side, I have no such doubts. We would not fail.
Individuals And Society In Mycenaean Pylos
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Author : Dimitri Nakassis
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Individuals And Society In Mycenaean Pylos written by Dimitri Nakassis and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with History categories.
This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed prosopographical analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC.