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  • François Baucher
    HILDA NELSON
    François Baucher (1796-1863) was the center of one of the most famous controversies in the development of modern equitation. Baucher introduced the one tempi flying changes at the canter, but in nineteenth century France his circus performances and methods of haute école training were attacked. Attempts to introduce his theories to the French Cavalry were blocked, although he i...
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    52,41 €

  • Ptsd and Me
    Dennis James Williams
    When Dennis James Williams returned home after fighting in Iraq, he had a hard time fitting back into society. He was under financial stress and could not communicate with his wife. Much of his time was spent trying to find a place to work so he could provide for his family. But what turned out to be his worst problem was something he didn’t want to admit he had-post-traumatic ...
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    33,35 €

  • Ptsd and Me
    Dennis James Williams
    When Dennis James Williams returned home after fighting in Iraq, he had a hard time fitting back into society. He was under financial stress and could not communicate with his wife. Much of his time was spent trying to find a place to work so he could provide for his family. But what turned out to be his worst problem was something he didn’t want to admit he had-post-traumatic ...
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    21,95 €

  • Ohio’s Covered Bridges
    Harold Stiver
    A Source book for Photographers and Explorers.Descriptions to all of Ohio’s 146 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as over a hundred photographs of them. GPS Positions and written directions. Photo tips for each bridge.A short history of Covered Bridges in North America and a review of the various Truss Types and information on the important bridge builders of Indiana....
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    24,29 €

  • The Story of the Roman People
    Eva March Tappan
    This early work by Eva March Tappan was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Story of the Roman People: An Elementary History of Rome’ is an educational work that discusses the history of Rome as a Kingdom, a republic, and an empire. Eva March Tappan was born on 26th December 1854, in Blackstone, Massachusetts...
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    18,55 €

  • Contrasts
    A. W. Pugin / AWPugin
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    39,24 €

  • Visuality for Architects
    Branko Mitrovic
    What is more important in architectural works--their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same way as do architects?For the greater part of the twentieth century it was common to respon...
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    32,16 €

  • Siculo-Norman Art
    Carla Quartarone / Eliana Mauro / Ettore Sessa
    Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily illustrates how the great artistic and cultural heritage of the Arabs who ruled the island in the 10th and11th centuries was assimilated and reinterpreted during the Norman reign that followed, achieving its acme in the resplendent age of Ruggero II in the 12th century. Spectacular coastal and mountain landscapes provide the backdrop for visit...
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    32,42 €

  • Eastern Iowa’s Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures
    Deb Schense
    Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowa’s landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa’s historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 250 photographs from the author’s research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the John...
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    24,44 €

  • Six Temples at Thebes
    Flinders Petrie
    This early work by the British archaeologist, Flinders Petrie, was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Six Temples at Thebes’ is a scholarly study on archaeological findings and ancient civilisations. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born on 3rd July 1853 in Kent, England, son of Wlilliam Petrie and Ann née Fl...
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    17,76 €

  • The Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers in England and America (1620-1685)
    Martin S. Briggs / Martin SBriggs
    This is a wonderful resource that analyzes the history of the Pilgrim settlers through an understanding of the architectural heritage that binds them to England and Holland, where the exiles sought refuge before they came to the New World. By weaving in the architectural history, the author literally shows us how New England was built. Most of us enjoy visiting old houses and h...
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    30,76 €

  • Aspasia - Volume 7
    In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme section in this volume of Aspasia: women’s auto-biographical writing and correspondence. Articles in this section examine women’s ...
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    133,68 €

  • Domestic Interiors
    Georgina Downey
    In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities.Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values, and considers how we see modern individuals in the process of making themselves ’at home’. Scholars from the US, UK ...
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    209,63 €

  • Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
    Anne M Myers
    Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up.Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are 'documents' of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern ...
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    76,00 €

  • Hope Town
    Richard LSeaberg
    In his book ' Hope Town: Reality of a Dream' Richard L. Seaberg explores through a fictitious story, historical facts and his own ink drawings the architectural development of a special place called Hope Town in the Bahamas. In Part 1 of the book 'Sarah and The Goat', the reader is brought back to the late 1700's when the Islands of the Bahamas were first settle...
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    29,74 €

  • Hope Town
    Richard LSeaberg
    In his book ' Hope Town: Reality of a Dream' Richard L. Seaberg explores through a fictitious story, historical facts and his own ink drawings the architectural development of a special place called Hope Town in the Bahamas. In Part 1 of the book 'Sarah and The Goat', the reader is brought back to the late 1700's when the Islands of the Bahamas were first settle...
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    18,27 €

  • The Divine Blueprint
    Freddy Silva
    A fresh and insightful account of the origin of ancient temples and the role played by sacred sites in raising human consciousness.Can a temple transform an ordinary person into an extraordinary being?Ancient texts refer to temples as living beings, intermediaries between matter and spirit that serve to transform people “into gods, into bright stars.”They also describe a global...
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    29,46 €

  • Dressage in the French Tradition
    Dom Diogo de Bragance
    Nuno Oliveira said of the author: ' I have the honor to declare that Dom Diogo de Bragança has been one of my best students and that I consider him as one of the rare riders I know who is capable of taking on the greatest difficulties of Equestrian Art with the greatest finesse.' Dom Diogo de Bragança, an eclectic mind who studied languages, music composition and law, is one of...
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    44,69 €

  • Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages
    George Edmund Street
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    48,95 €

  • L’architecture et les pratiques funéraires dans l’Égypte romaine
    Gael Cartron
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    160,48 €

  • L’architecture et les pratiques funéraires dans l’Égypte romaine
    Gael Cartron
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    155,15 €

  • In a Contested Realm
    Allan Langdale
    Allan Langdale's guide to the archaeology and historical architecture of northern Cyprus surveys the remarkable history of one of the most culturally rich regions in the world. Given the area's isolation, especially since 1974, such a book is a welcome resource as more people discover this virtually lost quarter of the Mediterranean. One can explore the ruins of ancient towns d...
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    32,54 €

  • HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI
    Esteban Alejandro Cruz
    PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS ONLY THE 2ND HALF OF ONE SINGLE BOOK. IN ORDER TO HAVE A COMPLETE TEXT, READERS ARE SUGGESTED TO CONSIDER ALSO VOLUME I, AVAILABLE HERE http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0081451017/default.aspx AFTER YEARS OF FIELD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS A SECOND BOOK OF WHAT SEEMS TO BECOME A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS. THE INTENT IS TO RECONSTRUCT ...
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    121,26 €

  • The South Builds
    Edward Waugh / Elizabeth Waugh
    This is a brilliant demonstration in text and picture of the fact that the South is responding to its industrial revolution with a contemporary architecture that may in time recapture the graciousness that had been lost by the beginning of this century in the sterile repetition of old forms. The body of the book is a carefully chosen selection of modern southern architecture.Or...
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    52,27 €

  • Early European Castles
    Oliver Creighton
    Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period’s very essence. Looking at above and below-ground evidence and examining a wide variety of sites - from towering donjons to earth and ti...
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    44,92 €

  • The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776
    John L. Kessell
    The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico-still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776-an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony. 'The Missions of New Mexico, 1776,' impeccably translated and edited by distingui...
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    26,75 €

  • HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI
    Esteban Alejandro Cruz
    PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS ONLY THE 1ST HALF OF ONE SINGLE BOOK. IN ORDER TO HAVE A COMPLETE TEXT, READERS ARE SUGGESTED TO CONSIDER ALSO VOLUME II, AVAILABLE HERE http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0114664017/default.aspx AFTER YEARS OF FIELD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS A SECOND BOOK OF WHAT SEEMS TO BECOME A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS. THE INTENT IS TO RECONSTRUCT...
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    132,90 €

  • My Father had this Luger ... A true story of Hitler’s Greece
    Evangelos Louizos
    World War II seen with a 21st-century sensibility. An enthralling, moving and true story of the Nazi occupation of Greece,it reads with the speed of a compelling novel as it sweeps you vividly through the war with unflagging narrative pace. It leaves you with a fresh understanding of the war and of the indomitability of the human spirit. It delivers suspense, endless surprises ...
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    27,66 €

  • End of an Era
    Sparky Witte
    This is the true story of the History of the Demolition of the 2 Cooper River bridges . The Grace was complete in August,1929 and the Pearman was completed in 1966. They allowed traffic to flow between Charleston, South Carolina and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Grace was built in 18 months, was a toll bridge and shortly after it was completed the country went into a deep...
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    34,31 €

  • Style and Composition in Architecture - An Exposition of the Canon of Number Punctuation and Inflection
    A. Trystan Edwards / ATrystan Edwards
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    38,51 €