Author: Brian H. Word
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146342051X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Catalogue of William J. Jenks's Collection of American and Foreign Coins & Medals, Ancient and Modern: Including a Great Variety of fine American Gold. 06/25/1883
Author: Elliot. Woodward
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Augustus and the Desert
Author: Le Grand
Publisher:
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Augustus and his family have a grand adventure as they travel through the Arizona desert searching for gold, meeting prospectors, tourists, Native Americans, and visiting ancient Pueblo Indian ruins.
Publisher:
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Augustus and his family have a grand adventure as they travel through the Arizona desert searching for gold, meeting prospectors, tourists, Native Americans, and visiting ancient Pueblo Indian ruins.
The Universe in the Landscape
Author: Charles Jencks
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711232341
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for human use or making new use of excess earth - they are a pleasure to walk over and through. In this collection of his recent work, Charles Jencks explains his particular approach to the landform. Like the prehistoric earthworks of Britain that have been an inspiration, such as Stonehenge, his landforms contain cosmic symbolism, and they draw together sculpture, epigraphy, water, gardens, scrap metal and architecture. They address perennial themes - identity, patterns of nature, death and the power of life - but in a contemporary way, based on the insights of science. So Jencks portrays universal aspects of DNA, the spacetime warp of a black hole, the extraordinary way cells divide and unite and some basic forms of life. Other designs include sharp comments on recent events: a water garden of war in France critiques the 2003 invasion of Iraq using 'waterpults' and 'hose-guns' among other interactive features; a white garden made from birch trees, flying bones and computer graphics deals with some fatal consequences of modernity. Jencks addresses, with wit and irony, some of the strange possibilities that arise with extra-large landforms. Northumberlandia, perhaps the largest human figure ever made, presents the question of which body parts one can walk on safely, which are dangerous and which need to be suppressed. What became perhaps the heaviest work of art in the world, at 20 million tons, was also the opportunity to transform a large open-cast mine into a dynamic landscape of giant mounds and sculpted lakes. As in his The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, to which this book is a sequel, Jencks seeks to define a new landscape iconography based on forms and themes that may be eternal, in the sense that they crystallise nature's laws, some of which have been recently discovered. To see a world in a grain of sand was a poetic quest of William Blake and, in a different sense, to find the universe in a ritual landscape was a goal of prehistoric cultures. Jencks allies these spiritual affinities with the view of science that stresses the common patterns that underlie all parts of the cosmos, thus making them like our home planet, and the universe in a landscape.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711232341
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Landforms are a fast-developing art form that enjoy a wide following today, because of their multiple uses and their enveloping beauty. As formal landscapes that often arise from necessity - recycling a coal site for human use or making new use of excess earth - they are a pleasure to walk over and through. In this collection of his recent work, Charles Jencks explains his particular approach to the landform. Like the prehistoric earthworks of Britain that have been an inspiration, such as Stonehenge, his landforms contain cosmic symbolism, and they draw together sculpture, epigraphy, water, gardens, scrap metal and architecture. They address perennial themes - identity, patterns of nature, death and the power of life - but in a contemporary way, based on the insights of science. So Jencks portrays universal aspects of DNA, the spacetime warp of a black hole, the extraordinary way cells divide and unite and some basic forms of life. Other designs include sharp comments on recent events: a water garden of war in France critiques the 2003 invasion of Iraq using 'waterpults' and 'hose-guns' among other interactive features; a white garden made from birch trees, flying bones and computer graphics deals with some fatal consequences of modernity. Jencks addresses, with wit and irony, some of the strange possibilities that arise with extra-large landforms. Northumberlandia, perhaps the largest human figure ever made, presents the question of which body parts one can walk on safely, which are dangerous and which need to be suppressed. What became perhaps the heaviest work of art in the world, at 20 million tons, was also the opportunity to transform a large open-cast mine into a dynamic landscape of giant mounds and sculpted lakes. As in his The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, to which this book is a sequel, Jencks seeks to define a new landscape iconography based on forms and themes that may be eternal, in the sense that they crystallise nature's laws, some of which have been recently discovered. To see a world in a grain of sand was a poetic quest of William Blake and, in a different sense, to find the universe in a ritual landscape was a goal of prehistoric cultures. Jencks allies these spiritual affinities with the view of science that stresses the common patterns that underlie all parts of the cosmos, thus making them like our home planet, and the universe in a landscape.
Law Office Computing
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Category : Law offices
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
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Category : Law offices
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Peregrine Pultuney
Author: Sir John William Kaye
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Author: Charles Jencks
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711225381
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711225381
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book tells the story of one of the most important gardens in Europe, created by the architectural critic and designer Charles Jencks and his late wife, the landscape architect and author Maggie Keswick. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a landscape that celebrates the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory and consists of a series of metaphors exploring the origins, the destiny and the substance of the Universe. The book is illustrated with year-round photography, bringing the garden's many dimensions vividly to life.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Graveyard of the Lakes
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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The Electrical Engineer
Author:
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description