The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original intepretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume 1 maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation and ...
Roman Britain is portrayed in this detailed story - a woven narrative of a family struggling to come to terms with new customs and with reconciling their cultural differences. Set in busy York, in the late years of the reign of Hadrian, the story follows the life of the heroine Senovara.
This incisive and visionary book is for those executives, companies and students of business who realise that they need to welcome new views of both the future and themselves if they are to learn the real lessons that will affect business management, in its broadest sense, in the coming decades. From the time that he first went into business, to ...
It's Nina's birthday and she's going to have the best birthday party ever. But someone or something is trying to scare Nina and her party guests. Did one of the classroom ghosts follow her home? Or is Nina's birthday party being haunted by something much scarier than a Ghostville ghost? Nina and her friends can't be sure. But they know one thing: ...
This edition is based on the latest discoveries and chronicles the lives, habits and thoughts of women in Britain over four centuries. Diversity of backgrounds, traditions and tastes lies at the heart of the book - displaying the cosmopolitan nature of Romano-British society. The author also attempts to explore the unique archaeological record for ...
This book offers an introduction to the daily life of the population living in Britain from the end of the Iron Age to the end of the Roman occupation of the country. Although a few details of the history of Roman Britain are well-known (Boudicca's Revolt, for example), surprisingly little has been published on everyday life in this far-flung ...
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For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihucan (c150BCE--750CE) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequent cultures including our own. This book engages the subject of the unity and diversity of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by focusing on the classic heritage of this ancient city. Includes the history of religions, ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: St Andrews University
Date Published: 1991
Description: AS NEW. Proceedings of a symposium held at the University of St Andrews, May 19th, 1990. Papers Include: Continental Influence on Furniture Designs of R S Lorimer; Significance of the Folk House; George Walton's Rivival of Scottish Furniture Types; Continental Solution to the Planning of Lunatic Asylums 1900-1940; Ebenezer MacRae and Reformed Tenement Design 1930-1940, the Nordic Virus; Scotland and Paris 1874-1887. 98 page. read more
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Description: 1984. Plume Press. First. Book-VG. D/j-Fine. 9x5.5. 211pp. 483g. John Christie was a schoolmaster who made a deep and lasting impression upon all whom he taught. A brilliant, modest, retiring man he yet had what today we call charisma to a degree not often given to those who teach. This selection from John Christie's papers and talks is the first to be published in book form. It displays the reflection of an original and penetrating mind and, incidentally, JTC's marvelous command of the English ... read more
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Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala
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Matthew Restall (Editor), Lisa Sousa (Editor), Kevin Terraciano (Editor)
