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Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens
hidden lives / secret gardens is a synthetic history about gardens and human sexuality. Written in an accessible style for the garden enthusiast, the serious landscape designer, and those interested in the lives of international celebrities, the book explores the very roots of Modernism as begun in Florence, Italy in the very first year of the twentieth century. For the past twenty-years, R. Terry Schnadelbach, FAAR, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, has researched the Modernist era in landscape architecture. He authored a book, Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, on the Florentine landscape architect, who brought to America both the form...
Ferruccio Vitale
His unique rationale designs and guiding philosophy, which challenged the then-dominant naturalesque mode of landscape architecture, have influenced generations of followers down to the present day.".
The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture
Settled in the nineteenth century, a period of national liberation, this book presents facts about the contribution of women to Serbian culture. The story is, however, of an equal contemporary as well as of historical relevance: work of these authors remained hidden as they were neither adequately evaluated in school curriculums and textbooks, nor recognized by the general public. Does the absence from textbooks and literary histories imply their literature is not worth reading? Or, that the histories of literature are simply biased and inadequate? The answers to these questions are elaborated in this book. The author carefully investigates the strategies of historians and official politics ...
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger Activists such as Chico Mendes Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.
A Kulák Fia
Julius Gyula Fábos a zöldello magyar vidéken nott fel abban a biztos tudatban, hogy egy nap o fogja majd irányítani a családi gazdaságot. De az 1947-es kommunista hatalomátvétel után oket – csakúgy, mint a többi keményen dolgozó magyar nagygazdát – kulákként, a nép ellenségeként megbélyegezték és üldözték. Fábosékat meghurcolták, a szerzot és édesapját letartóztatták, megkínozták, börtönbe vetették, munkatáborba küldték. A lenyugözo memoárban Fábos nem csak saját drámai történetét, a békés falusi gyerekkorból a II. világháború veszélyein, az 1956-os forradalomhoz vezeto növekvo sztálinista elnyomás rettenetén és kockázatos disszidálásán át az amerikai új élet és egzisztencia megteremtéséig tartó viszontagságokat írja le, hanem a kulákok jobbára homályban maradt szenvedését is. Fábos az átélt megpróbáltatásokon keresztül azt mutatja meg, hogy kello bátorsággal és elszántsággal az ember a körülményekkel dacolva is megvalósíthatja álmait.
Art Deco Chicago
An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode o...
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