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Book Living Monuments

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. B. Rosenburg
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2001-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780807849552
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Living Monuments written by R. B. Rosenburg and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cau

Book Conservation of Historic Stone Buildings and Monuments

Download or read book Conservation of Historic Stone Buildings and Monuments written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Care of Ancient Monuments

Download or read book The Care of Ancient Monuments written by Gerard Baldwin Brown and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Treatment and Preservation of Monuments in Churches

Download or read book The Treatment and Preservation of Monuments in Churches written by Central Council for the Care of Churches (Church of England) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quit Like a Woman

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  • Author : Holly Whitaker
  • Publisher : Dial Press
  • Release : 2019-12-31
  • ISBN : 1984825062
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Quit Like a Woman written by Holly Whitaker and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30 co-founder and CEO The founder of the first female-focused recovery program offers a groundbreaking look at alcohol and a radical new path to sobriety. We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity—in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink. It is a qualifier for belonging and if you don’t imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some kind of magic elixir, though it is anything but. When Holly Whitaker decided to seek help after one too many benders, she embarked on a journey that led not only to her own sobriety, but revealed the insidious role alcohol plays in our society and in the lives of women in particular. What’s more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before. Fueled by her own emerging feminism, she also realized that the predominant systems of recovery are archaic, patriarchal, and ineffective for the unique needs of women and other historically oppressed people—who don’t need to lose their egos and surrender to a male concept of God, as the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous state, but who need to cultivate a deeper understanding of their own identities and take control of their lives. When Holly found an alternate way out of her own addiction, she felt a calling to create a sober community with resources for anyone questioning their relationship with drinking, so that they might find their way as well. Her resultant feminine-centric recovery program focuses on getting at the root causes that lead people to overindulge and provides the tools necessary to break the cycle of addiction, showing us what is possible when we remove alcohol and destroy our belief system around it. Written in a relatable voice that is honest and witty, Quit Like a Woman is at once a groundbreaking look at drinking culture and a road map to cutting out alcohol in order to live our best lives without the crutch of intoxication. You will never look at drinking the same way again.

Book Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage

Download or read book Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage written by Henry Cleere and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-08-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes a comparative study of the history and development of legislative and administrative systems in operation today for the protection of archaeological monuments. With the exception of Scandinavia and the United Kingdom, no country adopted a positive policy towards the protection and conservation of its archaeological and historical heritage until the twentieth century. Moreover, it was not until the middle of that century, under the threat of wholesale devastation from extensive schemes for social and economic development, that the accelerating disappearance of the sites and monuments of Antiquity became the object of intensive study and legislation. Since then systems of cultural resource management have developed throughout the world. A range of countries (from Europe, America, Asia and Africa) representing a diversity of political and ideological systems - capitalist, socialist and ex-colonial - have been selected as being broadly representative of the variety of these systems. The case studies have been written by distinguished archaeologists and provide critical evaluations of the objectives and shortcomings of these systems.

Book From Monuments to Traces

Download or read book From Monuments to Traces written by Rudy Koshar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text constructs a framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than half a century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. Beginning with national unification in 1870-71 it follows through to reunification in 1990.

Book The Past in the Past  the Re use of Ancient Monuments

Download or read book The Past in the Past the Re use of Ancient Monuments written by Richard Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Conservation of Historic Buildings

Download or read book Conservation of Historic Buildings written by Bernard Feilden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume on the subject to be published. This third edition revises and updates a classic book, including completely new sections on conservation of Modern Movement buildings and non-destructive investigation. The result of the lifetime's experience of one of the world's leading architectural conservators, the book comprehensively surveys the fundamental principles of conservation in their application to historic buildings, and provides the basic information needed by architects, engineers and surveyors for the solution of problems of architectural conservation in almost every climatic region of the world. This edition is organized into three complementary parts: in the first the structure of buildings is dealt with in detail; the second focuses attention on the causes of decay and the materials they affect; and the third considers the practical role of the architect involved in conservation and rehabilitation. As well as being essential reading for architects and others concerned with conservation, many lay people with various kinds of responsibility for historic buildings will find this clearly written, jargon-free work a fruitful source of guidance and information.

Book Report of the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee

Download or read book Report of the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee written by Great Britain. Ancient monuments advisory committee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Committee on Preservation of Historic Monuments and Scenic Beauties

Download or read book Report of the Committee on Preservation of Historic Monuments and Scenic Beauties written by American Institute of Architects. Committee on Preservation of Historic Monuments and Scenic Beauties and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and early statement on the importance of historic preservation in a report prepared by the A.I.A. Committee on Preservation of Historic Monuments and Scenic Beauties, possibly a predecessor to the Committee on Preservation of Historic Buildings. The committee members outline the current state of historic preservation in America, with regional summaries for New England, New York, South Atlantic States, New Orleans, Chicago, and the Pacific Coast. They note that the preservation of buildings and monuments often falls to local and regional organizations such as the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, based in New York. The A.I.A. Committee argues that its own function lies "(i) where monuments of really national importance are threatened, either with destruction, or with harmful modification. Other fields for its activity lie (ii) in the initiation and support of policies which may be of general benefit; and (iii) in the conduct of a campaign of education both of architects and of the public as to the proper methods of treatment of old buildings."

Book A Public Empire

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  • Author : Ekaterina Pravilova
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-22
  • ISBN : 0691180717
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book A Public Empire written by Ekaterina Pravilova and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights.

Book Report

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  • Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 906 pages

Download or read book Report written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Governors Island National Monument

Download or read book Governors Island National Monument written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: