Architectural Styles Margaret Fletcher, Robbie Polley
2021, 2020, 2021-01-26
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A hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout history Architectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an ...architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts—from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting—along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.Comprehensive and authoritative, Architectural Styles is an essential resource for architects and designers and a must-have illustrated guide for anyone interested in architecture or drawing.
In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people's struggle to survive. In that struggle the country's links with Europe provided a life line. Members of ...religious orders, with their international roots, played an important role. Among them were the Irish Jesuits, who adapted to a variety of situations - from quiet work in Irish towns to serving as an emissary for Hugh O'Neill in the south of Ireland and in the courts of Rome and Spain, and then founding seminary colleges in Spain and Portugal from which young Irishmen returned to keep faith and hope alive. In the seventeenth century persecution was more haphazard. There were opportunities for preaching and teaching and, at time, especially during the Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s, for the open celebration of one's religion. This freedom gave way to the savage persecution under Cromwell, which resulted in the killing of some Jesuits and others being forced to find shelter in caves, sepulchres, and bogs, the Jesuit superior dying alone in a shepherd's hut on an island off Galway. There followed a time of more relaxed laws during which Irish Jesuits publicly ran schools in New Ross and, for Oliver Plunkett, in Drogheda, but persecution soon resumed and Oliver Plunkett was arrested and martyred. At the end of the century, as the forces of King James II were finally defeated, some Jesuits lived and worked through the sieges of Limerick and then nerved themselves to face the Penal Laws in the new century.
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, ...giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures.
A woolly mammoth probably won't come thundering through your vegetable garden any time soon. But if one did, this would be the book to keep on your windowsill next to the binoculars. It covers all the main groups of fossil mammals, discussing taxonomy and evolutionary history, and providing concise accounts of the better-known genera and species as well as an up-to-date family tree for each group. No other book presents such a wealth of new information about these animals-what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. In addition, this unique guide is stunningly illustrated throughout with full-color reconstructions of these beasts-many never before depicted-along with photographs of amazing fossils from around the world.
Provides an up-to-date guidebook to hundreds of extinct species, from saber-toothed cats to giant mammothsFeatures a wealth of color illustrations, including new reconstructions of many animals never before depictedDemonstrates evolution in action-such as how whales evolved from hoofed mammals and how giraffes evolved from creatures with short necksExplains how mass extinctions and climate change affected mammals, including why some mammals grew so huge
Birds of Stone Chiappe, Luis M; Qingjin, Meng
2016, 2016-11-01
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When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal ...incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the world began to collaborate with Chinese colleagues as new and wondrous fossil-related discoveries became regular events. The pages of National Geographic and major scientific journals described the intricate views of feathers as well as food still visible in the guts of these ancient birds. Now, for the first time, a sweeping collection of the most interesting of Jehol’s avian fossils is on display in this beautiful book. Birds of Stone makes visible the unexpected avian diversity that blanketed the earth just a short time (geologically speaking) after a dinosaur lineage gave rise to the first birds. Our visual journey through these fossils is guided by Luis M. Chiappe, a world expert on early birds, and Meng Qingjin, a leading figure in China's natural history museum community. Together, they help us understand the meaning of each fossil by providing straightforward narratives that accompany the full-page photographs of the Jehol discoveries. Anyone interested in the history of life—from paleontologists to inquisitive birders—will find Birds of Stone an irresistible feast for the eyes and mind.
A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of
the color red throughout the ages The color red has
represented many things, from the life force and the divine to
love, lust, and anger. Up ...through the Middle Ages, red held a place
of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not
just one color of many but rather the only color worthy
enough to be used for social purposes. In some languages, the word
for red was the same as the word for color. The first color
developed for painting and dying, red became associated in
antiquity with war, wealth, and power. In the medieval period, red
held both religious significance, as the color of the blood of
Christ and the fires of Hell, and secular meaning, as a symbol of
love, glory, and beauty. Yet during the Protestant Reformation, red
began to decline in status. Viewed as indecent and immoral and
linked to luxury and the excesses of the Catholic Church, red fell
out of favor. After the French Revolution, red gained new respect
as the color of progressive movements and radical left-wing
politics. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau,
the acclaimed author of Blue , Black , and
Green , now masterfully navigates centuries of symbolism
and complex meanings to present the fascinating and sometimes
controversial history of the color red. Pastoureau illuminates
red's evolution through a diverse selection of captivating images,
including the cave paintings of Lascaux, the works of Renaissance
masters, and the modern paintings and stained glass of Mark Rothko
and Josef Albers.
Mars Alfred S. McEwen; Candice Joy Hansen-Koharcheck; Ari Espinoza
06/2017
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HiRISE is the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet, showing us Mars in astonishing detail. Featuring an outstanding and never-before-published collection of HiRISE high-resolution color ...images with explanatory captions in twenty-four languages, this book offers a unique volume produced from an active NASA mission.Mars enthusiasts will appreciate these perfect snapshots of our current understanding of Mars, with soon-to-be classic pictures that have come to define our vision of the Red Planet. These images and their interpretations will be held as a yardstick for future exploration as we learn more about the surface and geologic processes of the fourth planet from the Sun.With tantalizing and artistic glimpses at actively eroding slopes, impact craters, strange polar landscapes, avalanches, and even spectacular descent pictures of probes like the Phoenix Lander and the Mars Science Laboratory, we see what researchers are seeing.Through vivid and beautiful images, this book underscores the need for such a camera on future orbiters, especially as more landing missions are planned.Mars: The Pristine Beauty of the Red Planetprovides a stunning keepsake of one of humanity's greatest accomplishments in space travel.
