Download or read book Quest for Quimper written by Barbara Walker and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the journey from the flea markets of Paris to the city of Quimper to find hundreds of examples of beautiful Quimper pottery, some of it quite unique and rare. Learnthe history, art, and spirit of the Breton people. More than 800 photographs cover the region and the pottery. Alphabetically-ordered pieces are presented in photos and text, with price ranges listed.
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.
Download or read book Breaking Ground written by Lynda V. Mapes and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest Indian village sites ever found in the region. Yet the state continued its project, disturbing hundreds of burials and unearthing more than 10,000 artifacts at Tse-whit-zen village, the heart of the long-buried homeland of the Klallam people. Excitement at the archaeological find of a generation gave way to anguish as tribal members working alongside state construction workers encountered more and more human remains, including many intact burials. Finally, tribal members said the words that stopped the project: "Enough is enough." Soon after, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe chairwoman Frances Charles asked the state to walk away from more than $70 million in public money already spent on the project and find a new site. The state, in an unprecedented and controversial decision that reverberated around the nation, agreed. In search of the story behind the story, Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes spent more than a year interviewing tribal members, archaeologists, historians, city and state officials, and local residents and business leaders. Her account begins with the history of Tse-whit-zen village, and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century impacts of contact, forced assimilation, and industrialization. She then engages all the voices involved in the dry dock controversy to explore how the site was chosen, and how the decisions were made first to proceed and then to abandon the project, as well as the aftermath and implications of those controversial choices. This beautifully crafted and compassionate account, illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, illuminates the collective amnesia that led to the choice of the Port Angeles construction site. "You have to know your past in order to build your future," Charles says, recounting the words of tribal elders. Breaking Ground takes that teaching to heart, demonstrating that the lessons of Tse-whit-zen are teachings from which we all may benefit.
Download or read book Daughters of the House written by Michèle Roberts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets and lies linger in the house in which two cousins grow up after the war. Intrigued, the girls weave their own fantasies and unintentionally reveal the village secret, a deep shame that will come to haunt them as adults.
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts Labhardt to Zwischengoldglas Index written by Gordon Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information drawn from Grove Art Online and new material written by G. Campbell. Cf. Preface.
Download or read book The Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cohousing Communities written by Charles Durrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a groundbreaking and holistic new approach to designing community-first neighborhoods In Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods, distinguished architect and affordable housing advocate Charles Durrett delivers a complete, start-to-finish guide for designing anything where the emphasis lies with the community. This book describes the consequential role that architecture and a healthy design process can play in the success of neighborhoods, churches, towns, and more. It’s an inspiring collection of ideas that prioritize high-functioning neighborhoods. In the book, the author draws on the success of hundreds of community-first projects to show readers how to design a project that addresses both timeless and modern challenges—from aging to climate change and racism—in its architecture and urban design. He compiles facts and concepts that are essential to the design of a high-functioning community, where people can participate in a way that reflects their values, improves their social connections, and retain their autonomy and privacy. Readers will also find: Ideas for town planning, street planning, and other town altering improvements Discussions of how developers can make better multifamily housing Explorations of how planners and politicians can make high-functioning neighborhoods a cornerstone of their community In-depth treatments of families who want to confirm that they’re choosing the right neighborhood Perfect for university students and professors who strive to see new ways to create neighborhoods, Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods will also appeal to universities planning new neighborhoods for retired alumni or new housing for students and faculty. Praise for Charles Durrett and Cohousing Communities: “...Get and read Cohousing Communities... Read it from the front cover to the back cover. It’s The Bible of Cohousing. And, like The Bible, it needs to be STUDIED not just read. Mark it up w/ your questions. Highlight, underline, write in the margins, fold the corners... This way you will gather your understanding how building cohousing gets “done," create your pathway to “Getting It Built”... and, most importantly get everyone on the same page for working together.” -- Ann Zabaldo, Executive Director, Mid Atlantic Cohousing
Download or read book The Idler written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Antiqueus written by M. E. Hale and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dearkin, a 352-year-old wizard takes his three charges... Eric, 18, Amanda, 14 and Harry 11 back to Antiqueus, the homeland he had left 112 years earlier. Being located in the mid Atlantic, the vast continent is the home of the legendary city of Atlantis. Aboard Dearkin's flying sailboat, the Mazzergast, they pass through a time rift exiting into present day Antiqueus six hours, eight minutes and four seconds into the future. Completely cloaked from our world by the time differential Antiqueus has existed, separate from our world, for nine thousand years when a massive crystal meteorite struck the continent thrusting it into the future. Besides exploring the stunning wonders of Atlantis, the fanciful landscapes of Antiqueus and the diverse mix of species, Dearkin and his crew increase in number as they track down the crazy wizard who fled with parts of the life-giving Crystal, causing destructive Time Querks and advancing the Crystal towards its inevitable annihilation destroying all of Antiqueus. Not only fighting the Time Querk's bizarre phenomena, the protagonists must fend off the vile hoard of Psychnaughts: bat-winged creatures who, seeing the young Amanda as the fulfillment of prophesy, seek to kidnap and sacrifice her life for the fruition of the Crystals destruction. Through their continental quest of finding the crazed wizard and replacing the stolen crystals the philosophy of the Wizardry is revealed, a young romance is started as another long-term one is renewed and all of Antiqueus is rocked to its core fighting a climactic battle between good verses bad and destruction verses creation. Accompanied by 35 illustrations, 12 maps and an expanded Glossarium, Antiqueus, Quest of the Mazzergast is a compilation of over fifteen years of research, writing and art. It has, at times been the bane of my life, but all in all, getting the chance to share my story with readers, young and old has been the most rewarding joy my life.
Download or read book Globalization or Empire written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit of global primacy is based upon a complex melding of neoliberal economics and hegemonic politics. Do alternate capitalisms offer viable alternatives to the American way? Globalization or Empire? looks at globalization with acuity and thoughtfulness and uncovers its underlying dramas.
Download or read book The Idler written by Jerome Klapka Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Tetradoxy written by Cometan and published by Astronist Institution. This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tetradoxy is a short philosophical disquisition and the fourth disquisition of The Omnidoxy by Cometan and consists of a series of discourses that are particularly focused on the ethics surrounding equality, manners, good deeds, and other actions that are applicable to justice and patience as areas of contemplation. The Tetradoxy, similar to each of the other disquisitions of The Omnidoxy, is designated with its own inclusive discipline known as equitology which encompasses all of the concepts, disciplines of study, beliefs, theories, terms, and notions introduced and categorised as part of tetradoxical study within the Astronic philosophical tradition.
Download or read book A Vacation in Brittany written by Charles Richard Weld and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laennec written by Roger Kervran and published by Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laennec, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe.
