History
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Despina Stratigakos

Fig. 56. May 30, 1937, cover of the New York Times Magazine. On May 30, 1937, the cover of the New York Times Magazine featured a large and stunning photograph ...
( Category: Germany November 30,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Daniel Rosenberg

[11] * * * J. Pearson’s Historical and Astronomical Diagram from 1846 is marked out at regular one-year intervals from 31 BCE to 37 CE. Pearson strives to correct William ...
( Category: Historic November 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-09 | Author:Edward Hollis [Hollis, Edward]

The description of nature is intimately connected with its history; and the geologist, who is guided by the connection existing among the facts observed, cannot form a conception of the ...
( Category: History October 11,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jon Cannon

Positioned beneath steep, crocketed gables, these nodding ogees on the outer north porch at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (probably c. 1320), give the surface of the structure a swaying, rippling, ...
( Category: Religious Buildings June 17,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-20 | Author:Neal Bascomb

“John Jakob Raskob, capitalist”—so he signed one of the many documents in the purchase of the two-acre plot west of Fifth Avenue between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. Of the many ...
( Category: State & Local June 13,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:Rosemary Hill

Part Five 27 The New House and the New Palace Autumn and Winter 1844 … the age of ruins is past… – Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, 1844 At Nottingham on 27 ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers June 11,2015 )
mobi | | 2004-06-10 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

A few weeks after the McNamaras’ arrest, a tall, stooped, unkempt figure walked into their prison cells and introduced himself. The man did not look much like a beacon of ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Jens Pedersen & Daniel D. Reiff [Pedersen, Jens]

Price of one complete set of Plans, Specifications and Material List $15.00 Additional sets, each 3.00 When ordering, state if plans are to be reversed. Kindly mail remittance with order. ...
( Category: History June 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Hugh Ferriss

CROWDING TOWERS TO THE SKYSCRAPING HEIGHTS of the Future City, the popular fancy usually adds something remarkable in the way of overhead traffic avenues. Scores of drawings have been produced, ...
( Category: Architecture June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Donald A. Mackay

THE ARCHITECT: CONCEPT AND DETAIL The architect is responsible for the design concept and the procedures to be followed in the construction of the building. It is his or her ...
( Category: Design & Construction June 4,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Koolhaas, Rem [Koolhaas, Rem]

A machine for metropolitan bachelors … Madelon Vriesendorp, Flagrant délit. How Perfect Perfection Can Be: The Creation of Rockefeller Center I get so sentimental when I see How perfect perfection ...
( Category: State & Local May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Joan Breton Connelly

Death of Prokris, showing her “bird-soul” leaving her body while her husband Kephalos and father Erechtheus watch. Column krater, by Hephaistos Painter, ca. 440 B.C. (illustration credit ill.103) I would ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul J. Karlstrom

Eventually I said, “Well, okay, it’s about time to get somebody else to run the museum,” hoping that my resignation . . . would prompt the administration to find more ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-25 | Author:Keith Hopkins & Mary Beard [Hopkins, Keith & Beard, Mary]

THE PEOPLE ON PARADE It is the first rule of any spectacle that the audience is as important an element as the display itself: we go not only to watch, ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-01-28 | Author:Robert Byron

PART V PART V Shahi (c. 300 ft.), April 22nd.—The first evening of our long-planned journey. Lady Hoare and Joseph got up early to breakfast with us under the wistaria. ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )