Foret: Mapping Chengde Paper (Paperback)

Foret: Mapping Chengde Paper (Paperback)
By Philippe Forêt

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The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. The site, which is on UNESCOs World Heritage List, combines the largest classical gardens in China with a unique series of grand monasteries in the Sino-Tibetan style. Mapping Chengde, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynastys multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the worlds most remarkable examples of imperial architecture. Read more

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Las Vegas Boulevard - A Photographic Series - Volume 1 (Kindle Edition)

Las Vegas Boulevard - A Photographic Series - Volume 1 (Kindle Edition)
By B. Lawrence Lowe

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Las Vegas Boulevard is a series of photographic and digital experiences being produced in celebration of the renaissance of construction, art and beauty that has reshaped Las Vegas over the past several years. Las Vegas isn’t just a Disneyland for adults any longer, it’s an amalgamation of all things pertaining to attraction, for all ages.

These books, shown through the eye of photographer B. Lawrence Lowe, pay homage to the higher values of art, design, creativity and showmanship that have permeated the everyday world of the Las Vegas Strip. They also show a sense of antiquity in the lost histories and forgotten markers that still lay present throughout the length of the strip and its surrounding areas.

100 photos in each volume will take the reader through the hidden corners and easily overlooked spots of beauty, art and wonder on a road that embodies the soul of Las Vegas; a road that is constantly creating new changes, and effectively transforming this city into a true pioneer of the 21st century modern metropolis.

On color ebook devices, tablets or laptops, the photography will display in vibrant color and resolution. Not just an ebook, on most devices the reader will also be given an interactive experience accompanying every page. Highlighted words in the captions of pictures can take the reader to a wide range of websites, with just a click. Touchscreen users can zoom in on images, enlarge to full screen and even use as digital art in the home.

With these interactive features, the reader can gain knowledge and access to the city they would have never gotten by simply looking at the pictures in a conventional book. It also gives the reader the ability to book a reservation or read a review, watch a video or read a newspaper article pertaining to the image’s subject. Take the hidden tour of Las Vegas very few ever get a chance to experience with "Las Vegas Boulevard - A Photographic Series by B. Lawrence Lowe".

*Color photos will display as greyscale on non-color devices, including the original Kindle reader.Las Vegas Boulevard is a series of photographic and digital experiences being produced in celebration of the renaissance of construction, art and beauty that has reshaped Las Vegas over the past several years. Las Vegas isn’t just a Disneyland for adults any longer, it’s an amalgamation of all things pertaining to attraction, for all ages.

These books, shown through the eye of photographer B. Lawrence Lowe, pay homage to the higher values of art, design, creativity and showmanship that have permeated the everyday world of the Las Vegas Strip. They also show a sense of antiquity in the lost histories and forgotten markers that still lay present throughout the length of the strip and its surrounding areas.

100 photos in each volume will take the reader through the hidden corners and easily overlooked spots of beauty, art and wonder on a road that embodies the soul of Las Vegas; a road that is constantly creating new changes, and effectively transforming this city into a true pioneer of the 21st century modern metropolis.

On color ebook devices, tablets or laptops, the photography will display in vibrant color and resolution. Not just an ebook, on most devices the reader will also be given an interactive experience accompanying every page. Highlighted words in the captions of pictures can take the reader to a wide range of websites, with just a click. Touchscreen users can zoom in on images, enlarge to full screen and even use as digital art in the home.

With these interactive features, the reader can gain knowledge and access to the city they would have never gotten by simply looking at the pictures in a conventional book. It also gives the reader the ability to book a reservation or read a review, watch a video or read a newspaper article pertaining to the image’s subject. Take the hidden tour of Las Vegas very few ever get a chance to experience with "Las Vegas Boulevard - A Photographic Series by B. Lawrence Lowe".

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Story As History, History As Story: The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History (Paperback)

Story As History, History As Story: The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History (Paperback)
By Samuel Byrskog

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Gteborg University (Sweden) Associate Professor of New Testament and Hermeneutics Samuel Byrskog employs models from the interdisciplinary field of oral history and insights from cultural anthropology in order to explain how oral accounts regularly interacted with written texts in early Christianity. Read more

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Constantine and Rome (Hardcover)

Constantine and Rome (Hardcover)
By R. Ross Holloway

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Constantine the Great (285-337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, Ross Holloway examines Constantine's remarkable building programme in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the Christian Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He then focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John's in the Lateran and St. Peter's, as well as the imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignatara. In a final chapter Holloway advances a new interpretation of the archaeology of the Tomb of St. Peter beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica. The tomb, he concludes, was not the original resting place of the remains venerated as those of the Apostle but was created only in 251 by Pope Cornelius. Drawing on the most up-to-date archaeological evidence, he describes a cityscape that was at once Christian and pagan, mirroring the personality of its ruler. Read more

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A Roman Villa (Inside Story) (Hardcover)

A Roman Villa (Inside Story) (Hardcover)
By Jacqueline Morley

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Illustrations and text describe life in the villa of a wealthy family situated in the countryside outside Rome during the first century A.D. Read more

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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's (Hardcover)

Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's (Hardcover)
By R. A. Scotti

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Out of the clash of genius and the caprice of popes came the most glorious monument of the Renaissance

It was the splendor—and the scandal—of the age. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe—the millenniumold St. Peter’s Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle’s grave—to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter’s spanned two centuries, embroiled twenty-seven popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists of the age—Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, and Bernini. As the basilica rose, modern Rome rose with it as glorious as the city of the Caesars. But the cost was unimaginable. The new basilica provoked the Protestant Reformation, dividing the Christian world for all time.

In this swift, colorful narrative, R. A. Scotti brings to life the artists and the popes, the politics and the passions behind this audacious enterprise. Gothic cathedrals reach up to heaven, but the basilica brings heaven to earth, and the new St. Peter’s was the defining event of the high Renaissance.

In the tradition of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Scotti turns sacred architecture into a spellbinding human epic of enormous daring, petty jealousy, and staggering genius. Read more

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Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (Paperback)

Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (Paperback)
By Rabun M. Taylor

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How were the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects carried out in practice? Each major phase of the building process is considered in the building histories of the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, and the great temples at Baalbek. New hypotheses are advanced on the raising of monolithic columns, the construction sequence of the Coliseum, and the vaulting of the Pantheon. The illustrations include archival and original photographs, as well as numerous explanatory drawings. Read more

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