Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning, Paperback - Leland M. Roth

This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western trad...

Fifty of the world’s modern architectural masterpieces, constructed between 1950 and the present, are analysed through specially commissioned drawi...

Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptua...

The world's best buildings created from 1950 to the present, dissected and analysed through specially commissioned freehand drawings.Illustrations:...

Reducere. This book is an attempt to explore various aspects of the enneagram, the symbol that G. I. Gurdjieff introduced to the modern world, and which he s...

In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosoph...

DescriptionThe Short Story of Architecture is a new and innovative guide to the subject of architecture that explores 50 key buildings, from the Gr...

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A comprehenisive introduction to architecture and architectural history. This new addition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, ...

As its teachings spread from the Indian subcontinent in all directions across Asia, Buddhism influenced every culture it touched--from Afghanistan ...

Reducere. In the sixth installment of The Photography Workshop Series, Richard Misrach--well known for sublime and expansive landscapes that focus on the rel...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and...

C.S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was an American philosopher and mathematician whose influence has been enormous on the field of semiotics. ...

In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insi...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter BrookIn Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling ...

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In this collection of strikingly original material, numerous practical as well as philosophical issues are explored. In an in-depth, wide-ranging i...

Reducere. Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river ...

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Reducere. DescriptionWe've reached a stage in the evolution of work where meaning is crucial to competition. Scientists, academics, and business consulting e...

Reducere. On October 4, 2016, Jeff Johnston received the phone call that is every parent's worst nightmare. In a single moment, their lives had changed forev...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Tamara MetzIllustration(s): 270 Halftones, black and white; 270 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 278P...

Reducere. Based on the wisdom of the old Japanese philosophy of IKIGAI (the reason/purpose of life), Frank Brueck, developed a unique model to review your ow...

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DescriptionTears are a common experience we rarely discuss, and then only in relation to pain and loss. David Runcorn draws upon a long Christian t...

Shot Psychology is an introductory body of knowledge that filmmakers can use to enhance the expressive power of their work. The book reviews over 3...

Reducere. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the traditi...

Publisher: Christian Focus Publications LtdAuthor(s): Terry L. JohnsonNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 132 x 197 x 8Cover type:...

Reducere. DescriptionIntroduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncIllustration(s): 2 Halftones, black and white; 6 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of ...

Nowadays very popular, meditation is often presented as the key Buddhist method. However, it is actually only one means of this path of liberation....

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Contributor(s): Author: Karen BaradMeeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natu...

An illustrated history of arts, crafts and design of the first peoples of South America.

An explanation of the meaning of architecture and how to understand the quality and meaning to be found in architectural images.Illustrations: clr ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): H. H. KleinmanNumber of pages: 168Collection: Perspectives in CriticismPublication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. The Catskills ( Cat Creek in Dutch), America s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land ...

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Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.