Mike Fraser
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xxviii, 576 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay's India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the region today. In charting the evolution of the rich tapestry of cultures, religions, and peoples that comprise the modern nations of Pakistan, India, and...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xi, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Best Seller
In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
xv, 552 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.
Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes...
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Language
English
Description
One of the most inspired and inspiring manifestos of our art that I know. (Richard Monette, Stratford artistic director)
Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), arguably the most influential director in the history of the theater, was the founder of the renowned Moscow Art Theater. A pioneer of psychological realism and improvisation on the stage, he devoted his life to developing the performance techniques now emulated throughout the world.
In this...
Author
Series
Center for Environmental Structure volume 2
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
xliv, 1171 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the core of the book is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain 'languages', which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. 'Patterns', the units...
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Language
English
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his "Confessions" is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his...
