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“vergil e noble”

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  • The Reconstructed Past

    Reconstructions in the Public Interpretation of Archaeology and History

    by Marion Blockley, Marley R. Brown III, Karen A. Brush, Edward A. Chappell, Robert Daniels-Dwyer, Joe Distretti, Peter J. Fowler, Bruce W. Fry, John H. Jameson, Ann E. Killebrew, Carl Kuttruff, Donald W. Linebaugh, Barry Mackintosh, Susan Mills, Haryold Mytum, Lynn A. Neal, Vergil E. Noble, Dwight Pitcaithley, Rodd L. Wheaton, Esther C. White, Ronald F. Williamson ...
    To reconstruct or not to reconstruct? That is the question facing many agencies and site managers throughout the world. While reconstructed sites provide a three-dimensional pedagogic environment in which visitors can acquire a heightened sense of the past, an ethical conflict emerges when on-site reconstructions and restorations contribute to the damage or destruction of the original ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    by Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • How Buildings Learn

    What Happens After They're Built

    by Stewart Brand ...
    A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.When a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In Small Things Forgotten

    An Archaeology of Early American Life

    by James Deetz ...
    A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical ... Read more

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  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • HTO

    Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets

    Edited by Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Series series uTOpia
    Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Concise History of Candian Architecture

    Edited by Harold Kalman ...
    As in the original work, Harold Kalman presents a panorama of Canadian building as rich as it is vast, from the dwellings of pre-contact Native peoples and the first European settlers to the revolutionary structures of the Modernist period and the renewed apprediation of the past that marks much of the architecture created on the eve of the new millennium. Emphasizing social and cultural contexts, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • It Was Dark There All the Time

    Sophia Burthen and the Legacy of Slavery in Canada

    by Andrew Hunter ...
    “My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long — it was dark there all the time.”Sophia Burthen’s account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • USA

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Gwendolyn Wright ...
    Series series RB-Modern Architectures in History
    From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture

    by Paul Oliver ...
    The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution. In this book, vernacular architecture specialist Paul Oliver brings together a wealth of information that spans over two decades, and the whole globe. Some previously unpublished papers, as ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Inside the Lost Museum

    Curating, Past and Present

    by Steven Lubar ...
    Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors’ interactions with ... Read more

    $25.19 USD