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    Germain Boffrand
    Germain Boffrand ab 41.49 € als epub eBook: Book of Architecture Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans Elevations and Sections of some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Examples of Gothic Architecture
    Examples of Gothic Architecture ab 18.99 € als Taschenbuch: Selected from Various Ancient Edifices in England; Consisting of Plans Elevations Sections and Parts at Large; Cal. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 545min
    In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest man-made barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out.The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia’s steppes; learn of bizarre Spartan rituals; watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes; witness the epic siege of Constantinople; chill at the fate of French explorers; marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line; tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin; gape at Hollywood’s gated royalty; and contemplate the wall mania of our own era.A masterpiece of historical recovery and preeminent storytelling, Walls is alternately evocative, amusing, chilling, and deeply insightful as it gradually reveals the startling ways that barriers have affected our psyches. The questions this book summons are both intriguing and profound: Did walls make civilization possible? And can we live without them?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008883/bk_sans_008883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism (eBook, PDF)
    What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement-increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury-they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself. Political entities, from Percy Shelley's plans for political reform to Charlotte Smith's motley associations of strangers in The Banished Man, are progressive because they advance some version of collective utility or common good. But they simultaneously stake a claim to progress only insofar as they paradoxically solicit contending vantage points on the criteria for the very public benefit which they passionately pursue. The "majestic edifices" of Wordsworth's imagined university in The Prelude embrace members who are "republican or pious," not to mention the recalcitrant "enthusiast" who is the poet himself.
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    A New Display of the Beauties of England
    A New Display of the Beauties of England ab 36.9 € als Taschenbuch: A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices royal palaces noblemen's and gentlemen's seats and other curiosities natural or artificial in different parts of the kingdom. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
    The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific islands, have built such monumental works? No such astonishing numbers of massive statues are found anywhere else in the Pacific. How could the islanders possibly have moved so many multi-ton monoliths from the quarry inland, where they were carved, to their posts along the coastline? And most intriguing and vexing of all, if the island once boasted a culture developed and sophisticated enough to have produced such marvelous edifices, what happened to that culture? Why was the island the Europeans encountered a sparsely populated wasteland? The prevailing accounts of the island’s history tell a story of self-inflicted devastation: a glaring case of eco-suicide. The island was dominated by a powerful chiefdom that promulgated a cult of statue making, exercising a ruthless hold on the island’s people and rapaciously destroying the environment, cutting down a lush palm forest that once blanketed the island in order to construct contraptions for moving more and more statues, which grew larger and larger. As the population swelled in order to sustain the statue cult, growing well beyond the island’s agricultural capacity, a vicious cycle of warfare broke out between opposing groups, and the culture ultimately suffered a dramatic collapse. When Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo began carrying out archaeological studies on the island in 2001, they fully expected to find evidence supporting these accounts. Instead, revelation after revelation uncovered a very different truth. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be availabl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003341/bk_adbl_003341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Russian History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min
    The history of Russia is anticipated to be a commonly comprehensible and plainly structured outline of Russia's history since 1283, after the rise of Moscow. Russia was at its best in the 13th century when Moscow became a center for cultural activities. The Russian Tsardom was now a huge empire which spread from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the west to the Pacific Ocean. Succeeding governments of the 19th century retorted to such stresses with an amalgamation of unenthusiastic reform and subjugation. Serfdom in Russia was obliterated in 1861 but its abolition was attained on terms which were not favorable to the rustics and aided in increasing radical pressures. The phase between the serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, State Duma, the Stolypin reforms and the constitution of 1906 endeavored to open and slacken the Russian politics and economy but the tsars were reluctant to renounce autocratic rule or part with their supremacy. A mix of fiscal breakdown, dissatisfaction with the autocratic government and wearies of the war elicited the 1917 Russian Revolution and first brought an association of moderate socialists and liberals to power, however their unsuccessful policies led to the confiscation of their control by the Communist Bolsheviks in October 25. The crucial history of the Soviet Union is between the 1922 and 1991, effectually Russia was a state based on ideology that indelicately had the same history as it did before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Socialism was however build differently over various eras in the Russian history, from the varied society and variegated economy and ethos of 1920s to tyranny and authoritative economy of Stalin to the 1980s era of stagnation. From its initial years in March 1918, the government in the Soviet Union was grounded on the one-party rule of the Communists (this is what Bolsheviks called themselves). By the mid-1980s, with the faintness of its fiscal and administrative edifices getting se ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cyrus Nilo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062461/bk_acx0_062461_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Treasures of France and Spain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
    The history of Spain took many turns between the sixth and 15th centuries. The Visigoths of Germanic origin first claimed Spain, and they remained unchallenged for at least three centuries. The Moors, an Arabic people from northern Africa, eventually conquered Spain. They decreed capitulation under the Rule of God. At this point in time, Spain was changed forever, and to this day you can see the influence of the Moorish occupation in the ancient cathedrals, mosques, churches, and buildings that are still standing in modern Spain. In the 15th century, Spain was eventually reconquered by the Christians, and the hierarchal system was restored. The influx of French nobility and French monks significantly influenced the architectural style. This introduced a Romanesque aspect to buildings and edifices. It was then shaped once more at the start of the Inquisition when many religious inhabitants, that were not of the Christian faith, had to be exiled from Spain or forced to convert to Christianity. This really set back the Moorish influence in Spanish architecture. One type of architectural work that sets Spain apart is the ironwork after the 16th century. The wrought ironwork in particular, starting from the 16th century, is stunning, and its craft is the combination of Moorish and Christian influence. The Romanesque style which was later introduced includes rich iron ornamentations and decorations. This gave rise to famous architects of the Mudejar and Romanesque styles such as Antoni Gaudi. The abundant use of iron in Spain later spread throughout Europe, and shortly thereafter into much of the other parts of the world. Spain is still considered today as one of the architectural and artistic capitals of the world. Today, Spain is a country that still boasts many of the magnificent ancient cathedrals, churches, and mosques that were unique to that part of the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lance Hamilton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074432/bk_acx0_074432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tiwanaku: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Pre-Colombian Site in the Heart of the Andes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
    Tiahuanaco is not a very large village, but it is celebrated for the great edifices near it, which are certainly things worth seeing. Near the buildings, there is a hill made by the hands of men on great foundations of stone. Beyond this hill, there are two stone idols of the human shape and figure, the features very skillfully carved, so that they appear to have been done by the hand of some great master. They are so large that they seem like small giants, and it is clear that they have on a sort of clothing different from those now worn by the natives of these parts. - Cieza de Léon, 1883 Few ancient ruins capture the imagination like the mighty holy site of Tiwanaku, located on the high Andean altiplano plateau outside of La Paz, Bolivia. Unlike some ancient sites, such as Machu Picchu in neighboring Peru or Chichen Itzá in Mexico, Tiwanaku has never been "lost"; on the contrary, it has been marveled over for centuries by Incan nobles, Spanish Conquistadores, modern backpackers, and UFO fanatics alike. Despite this history of amazement, Tiwanaku has remained something of an enigma until recently, but it appears that this would have probably been pleasing to its creators. It was created to be a mysterious, sacred, and beautiful place, one with many secrets and a public face characterized by PT Barnum-like showmanship. Skillful modern archaeology has allowed people to look behind the facade and see, for the first time in many, many centuries, some of the secrets behind it. The story is fascinating, complex, and thoroughly human. The modern visitor arriving to Tiahuanaco finds him or herself in, as Cieza de Léon noted almost 130 years ago, a not very notable, dusty, chilly settlement south of Lake Titicaca. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091212/bk_acx0_091212_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fascinating Germany
    Germany in the heart of Europe stretches from the coastline of the North and Baltic seas to the mighty Alps, from the Lower Rhine to the Oder, its diverse natural and cultural landscape ranging from the unique habitat of the mud flats and the popular islands of Sylt and Rügen to the North German flatlands, from the low mountains of the Eifel and Elbsandsteingebirge to the highest point in the land: the summit of the Zugspitze.Ancient Roman sites, imperial Romanesque cathedrals, medieval walled cities and ultramodern edifices in Berlin and beyond are just some of the architectural and historical highlights to be found en route.This and much more is illustrated by the many beautiful photographs depicted in this book.Als ein Land im Herzen Europas erstreckt sich Deutschland von den Küsten der Nord- und Ostsee bis zu den mächtigen Alpen, vom Niederrhein bis zur Oder und bietet die unterschiedlichsten Natur- und Kulturlandschaften: Von dem einzigartigen Lebensraum des Wattenmeeres undden beliebten Inseln der Nord- und Ostsee wie Sylt und Rügen, über das Norddeutsche Tiefland und die Mittelgebirgsschwelle, die von der Eifel bis zum Elbsandsteingebirge reicht, hin zu dem höchsten Punkt Deutschlands, dem Gipfel der Zugspitze. Von der reichen und wechselvollen Vergangenheit Deutschlands zeugen seine beeindruckenden Metropolen, aber auch malerische Städtchen und alte Dörfer mit ihren Baudenkmälern. Spuren der Römer, die romanischen Kaiserdome, mittelalterliche Stadtkerne wie Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Lübeck oder Wernigerode und moderne Architektur nicht nur in der Hauptstadt Berlin bieten zahlreiche kultur- und kunsthistorische Höhepunkte.Brandenburger Tor und Schloss Neuschwanstein, Hamburger Hafen und Münchner Oktoberfest, Dresdner Zwinger und fränkische Fachwerkdörfer, der Kölner Dom und unzählige weitere Kirchenbauten, über 20 000 Burgen und Festungen sind nur Facetten des faszinierenden Ganzen, das es zu entdecken gilt. Große Dichter und Denker, Baumeister und Maler haben Schätze deutscher Kunst und Kultur geschaffen, die umgeben sind von einzigartigen Naturschönheiten. Doch auch das Feiern hat Tradition. In den verschiedenen Regionen hat sich altes Brauchtum erhalten, das bei Festen oft noch im Tragen der Trachten seinen Ausdruck findet.Dies und viele weitere Facetten von Deutschland zeigen die zahlreichen Fotografien diese Bildbandes.In dieser zeitlos gestalteten Reihe sind folgende Titel erschienen: Ägypten, Andalusien, Australien, Bayern, Berlin, Bretagne, Deutschland, Finnland, Franken, Gardasee, Griechische Inseln, Haiwaii, Hurtigruten, Indien, Irland, Island, Israel, Italien, Jakobsweg, Kanada, Karibik, Kuba, Leipzig, London, Mallorca, Neuseeland, New York, Norwegen, Österreich, Austria, Oman und die vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Ostpreußen, Paris, Prag, Provence, Rom, Schlesien, Schottland, Schweden, Schweiz, St. Petersburg, Südafrika, Südtirol, Thailand, Toskana, USA, Nationalparks der USA, Venedig, Vietnam Weimar und Wien.In englischer Sprache sind in gleicher Ausstattung lieferbar: Bavaria, Berlin, Germany, Weimar, Austria, Switzerland und Vienna.Die Reihe Faszination ist ein ideales Geschenk, auch für sich selbst!
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