Author: Ihna Thayer Frary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Early American Doorways
Author: Ihna Thayer Frary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Doorways in the Sand
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 1911440438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The most playful – and arguably most accessible – novel by the master of inventive science fiction. Humanity is not alone in the cosmos. The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of Earth: star-stone. But the harmony of the galaxy is endangered when they discover that the star-stone has disappeared. Likeable Fred Cassidy is an eternal undergraduate. All he thinks he knows about the star-stone is that it came to Earth in an interplanetary trade for the Mona Lisa and the British Crown jewels. When Fred is accused of stealing the cosmic artefact, he is pursued from Australia to Greenwich Village and beyond, by telepathic psychologists, extra-terrestrial hoodlums and galactic police in disguise. Follow him on his adventures as he enters multiple realities, flipping in and out of alien perspectives, through doorways in the sand. Praise for Doorways in the Sand: “A wonderful book from Zelazny’s best period – with a rollercoaster plot and some terrific jokes.” “If you've never read it, you really must. Come one – there’s a talking wombat. Need I say more?” “Doorways in the Sand is vintage Zelazny, which is to say it is like taking a course in philosophy while crawling about between the gargoyles on the cathedral of Life, dodging the slings and death-rays of outrageous villains, some of them bug-eyed monsters.” “If you don't like it I'm sorry to say there is something wrong with you, you may have to re-incarnate.” Editorial reviews: “Ingenious.” The New York Times “One of the highest tributes I have ever heard paid to a writer lies in the words of a young lady who said, ‘I knew, halfway through the second paragraph, that I was in good hands.’ Science fiction has produced many such hands, and I genuinely envy those who encounter Roger Zelazny.” Theodore Sturgeon, The New York Times Book Review “That rarest of creatures in science fiction, the original character, emerges in Roger Zelazny’s Doorways in the Sand.” Chicago Daily News
Publisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 1911440438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The most playful – and arguably most accessible – novel by the master of inventive science fiction. Humanity is not alone in the cosmos. The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of Earth: star-stone. But the harmony of the galaxy is endangered when they discover that the star-stone has disappeared. Likeable Fred Cassidy is an eternal undergraduate. All he thinks he knows about the star-stone is that it came to Earth in an interplanetary trade for the Mona Lisa and the British Crown jewels. When Fred is accused of stealing the cosmic artefact, he is pursued from Australia to Greenwich Village and beyond, by telepathic psychologists, extra-terrestrial hoodlums and galactic police in disguise. Follow him on his adventures as he enters multiple realities, flipping in and out of alien perspectives, through doorways in the sand. Praise for Doorways in the Sand: “A wonderful book from Zelazny’s best period – with a rollercoaster plot and some terrific jokes.” “If you've never read it, you really must. Come one – there’s a talking wombat. Need I say more?” “Doorways in the Sand is vintage Zelazny, which is to say it is like taking a course in philosophy while crawling about between the gargoyles on the cathedral of Life, dodging the slings and death-rays of outrageous villains, some of them bug-eyed monsters.” “If you don't like it I'm sorry to say there is something wrong with you, you may have to re-incarnate.” Editorial reviews: “Ingenious.” The New York Times “One of the highest tributes I have ever heard paid to a writer lies in the words of a young lady who said, ‘I knew, halfway through the second paragraph, that I was in good hands.’ Science fiction has produced many such hands, and I genuinely envy those who encounter Roger Zelazny.” Theodore Sturgeon, The New York Times Book Review “That rarest of creatures in science fiction, the original character, emerges in Roger Zelazny’s Doorways in the Sand.” Chicago Daily News
Summer Doorways
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 161902814X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation," writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty–one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape. Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer."
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 161902814X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation," writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty–one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape. Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, "an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer."
Connecticut River Valley Doorways
Author: Amelia F. Miller
Publisher: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An illustrated and annotated checklist of 220 doorways.
Publisher: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An illustrated and annotated checklist of 220 doorways.
Architectural Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
When Walls Become Doorways
Author: Tobi Zausner
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 9780307238085
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using the lives of artists as inspiration, "When Walls Become Doorways" explores the transformative power of illness and the ability of productivity and creativity to heal the soul.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 9780307238085
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using the lives of artists as inspiration, "When Walls Become Doorways" explores the transformative power of illness and the ability of productivity and creativity to heal the soul.
American Architecture
Author: Cyril M. Harris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731033
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Defines and illustrates architectural terms relating to building style, structural components, and architectural ornaments.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731033
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Defines and illustrates architectural terms relating to building style, structural components, and architectural ornaments.
Writings on American History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
There Are Doors
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Orb Books
ISBN: 1466828242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Orb Books
ISBN: 1466828242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Opening the Red Door
Author: John A. Bernbaum
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830865179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S seized the opportunity to help build a faith-based university in Moscow. Told by the school's founder and president, this is the story of the rise and fall of the first accredited Christian liberal arts university in Russia's history, offering unique insight on Russia’s post-communist transition and the construction of a cultural-educational bridge between the two superpowers.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830865179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S seized the opportunity to help build a faith-based university in Moscow. Told by the school's founder and president, this is the story of the rise and fall of the first accredited Christian liberal arts university in Russia's history, offering unique insight on Russia’s post-communist transition and the construction of a cultural-educational bridge between the two superpowers.