Author: Peter Levi
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Author: Peter Levi
Publisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9780002712040
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Author: Marie Rutkoski
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429930004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Marie Rutkoski's startling debut novel, the first book in the Kronos Chronicles, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism. Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock. Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home – blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn't know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father's eyes back. Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father's clock has powers capable of destroying their world. The Cabinet of Wonders is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author: Vincent Scully
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595341773
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, understands the temples as physical embodiment of the gods in landscapes that had for the Greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations. He explores the meanings inherent in the calculated interaction between man-made sculptural forces and the natural landscape, and he relates this interaction to our understanding of Greek culture from the pre-Greek Aegean to the Hellenistic period. Years of research and travel were devoted to The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods. Scores of sites were restudied on the spot, including many lesser-known sanctuaries throughout the Hellenic world. The study includes reconstruction drawings, plans, and maps along with its richly illustrated, detailed discussions of major sites.
Author: Judith Swaddling
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292777514
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the mythological and religious origins of the games and describes the events, religious ceremony, and celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. The book also features a large, detailed model of the site of ancient Olympia, where, alongside religious and civic buildings, there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool, and a race course. For this revised edition, three new chapters have been added, covering the diet and medical treatment of athletes; sponsorship, patronage, and propaganda; and revivals of the games. Superbly illustrated with vases, sculpture, and other works of ancient art, and with new views of the site, the new edition of this indispensable account of Ancient Olympia and the games now includes color reproduction for over half the illustrations, as well as many additional pictures.
Author: Edward Norman Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: Willem Jacob Verdenius
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085350
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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This volume contains word-for-word commentaries on Pindar's Olympian Odes 3, 7, 12, 14. Emphasis is placed on the explanations of peculiarities of grammar and idiom, but due attention is paid to figures of style and problems of poetic structure. The interpretations proposed by the author - many of them which are new - are documented as fully, but at the same time as concisely, as possible. This documentation, which includes a critical examination of other views, has been made more easily accessible by detailed indexes. The poems discussed do not have special similarities or interrelationships. On the other hand, they may be considered representative of the poet's art. From this point of view, the present selection may serve as an introduction to the study of Pindar's work. Vol. II will contain commentaries on Olympians 1, 10, 11, Nemean 11, and Isthmian 2. A third volume on Pythians 1, 8, 10 is inteded to conclude the series.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1909496731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3408
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For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the largest collection of journals available to eReaders. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Thoreau’s life and works * Concise introductions to the books and other texts * All 5 books, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete essays – with rare works often missed out of collections * The complete poetry, with special chronological and alphabetical contents tables * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * Includes Thoreau’s letters – spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence * Features over 2,000 pages of Thoreau’s journals * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Thoreau’s personality and contribution to literature * Features a bonus biography by the author’s close friend Ralph Waldo Emerson – discover Thoreau’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to copyright restrictions we are unable to offer the complete journals. However, the collection provides a generous sample of Thoreau’s journals, offering the complete journals for 1837-1847, a detailed example of the ‘middle’ journals for 1855-1856 and the complete last year of Thoreau’s life, as well as a generous selection from all of the other journals. CONTENTS: The Books A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS WALDEN, OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS THE MAINE WOODS CAPE COD A YANKEE IN CANADA The Essays AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS THE SERVICE NATURAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS A WALK TO WACHUSETT SIR WALTER RALEIGH DARK AGES A WINTER WALK THE LANDLORD PARADISE (TO BE) REGAINED HOMER. OSSIAN. CHAUCER. HERALD OF FREEDOM WENDELL PHILLIPS BEFORE THE CONCORD LYCEUM THOMAS CARLYLE AND HIS WORKS ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE WALKING LOVE CHASTITY AND SENSUALITY SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE AUTUMNAL TINTS A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN MARTYRDOM OF JOHN BROWN THE LAST DAYS OF JOHN BROWN THE SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES WILD APPLES NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT HUCKLEBERRIES The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Translations PROMETHEUS BOUND OF ÆSCHYLUS TRANSLATIONS FROM PINDAR The Letters FAMILIAR LETTERS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU The Journals THOREAU’S JOURNALS The Criticism HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS by Robert Louis Stevenson BROOK FARM AND CONCORD by Henry James Extracts from AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE FORESTER by Amos Bronson Alcott A FABLE FOR CRITICS by James Russell Lowell HENRY D. THOREAU by Elbert Hubbard THOREAU by Virginia Woolf ANOTHER WORD ON THOREAU by John Burroughs The Biography THOREAU: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473346509
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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This is volume V of "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau". Entitled "Excursions, and Poems", it is primarily a collection of poetry and travelling accounts, although also included are a number of his translations. This book will appeal to all lovers of poetry and nature writing, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Thoreau's wonderful work. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American poet, philosopher, essayist, abolitionist, naturalist, development critic, and historian. He was also a leading figure in Transcendentalism, and is best known for his book "Walden", a treatise on simple living in a natural environment. Other notable works by this author include: "The Landlord" (1843), "Reform and the Reformers" (1846-48), and "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854). Contents include: "A Yankee In Canada", "Natural History Of Massachusetts", "A Walk To Wachusett", "The Landlord", "A Winter Walk The Succession Of Forest Trees", "Walking", "Autumnal Tints", "Nature", "Inspiration", "The Aurora Of Guido", "To The Maiden In The East", "To My Brother", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.