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    I, Caesar: Ruling the Roman Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
    I, Caesar takes a fascinating look at the public and private lives of six men who ruled the Roman Empire. Starting with Julius Caesar, Phil Grabsky charts the rise and fall of Roman power over 600 years. He tells the stories of six Caesars and the politics of a society whose legacy is the very backbone of western civilization today. The careers of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Constantine and Justinian were made up of bloody battles and tactical bribery, stunning innovation and profound corruption, dazzling rhetoric and vicious back-stabbing - and together they form a picture of the most sophisticated highs and most brutal lows of the Roman Empire's inception, heyday and decline. Stretching at its peak from the north of England to southern Egypt and from the west coast of Spain to Syria in the east, the Roman Empire included within its boundaries myriad peoples, cultures and climates. The task of ruling it seems, is an imposing one, even with today's communication technology. So how was it achieved two thousand years ago? And why has ancient Rome had such a profound influence on western civilization ever since? Whether your interest is the Caesars' brilliant military manoeuvring, Rome's astonishing statuary and architecture or the all-too-familiar political strategies behind Imperial power, Phil Grabsky's book offers an accessible introduction to the subject. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Grabsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sapr/000002/bk_sapr_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Allure of Charleston: Houses, Rooms, and Gardens
    The Allure of Charleston celebrates this historic city's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century styles and demonstrates how they continue to be employed and updated by design professionals today. Anyone who loves houses and interiors loves Charleston. The Allure of Charleston shows why by delving into the architecture and interiors of the past and present. Exploring the question of what makes Charleston so distinct, Sully demonstrates why the language of its architecture, interior design, and gardens is so versatile and enduring. Examples of Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival architecture and of rooms containing an array of English, European, and American decorative details convey the complex harmony that characterizes the city's houses. Featuring historic masterpieces including Drayton Hall, the Nathaniel Russell House, and Middleton Place, this volume also offers a look at present-day residences, among them a new house built faithfully to colonial style, a charming eighteenth-century dwelling with modern updates, a stunning Georgian town-house with a contemporary addition, and a sophisticated Federal home. The Allure of Charleston also includes a visual lexicon presenting the individual elements-wrought iron gates, garden statuary, pastel plaster walls, refined porcelain-that comprise the city's style, making this exquisite book both informative and inspiring.
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    The Flaw in the Fabric: A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min
    Raymond Kidd is a time traveller. Only he doesn't want to be. He has no say in when or where he goes, or to which time. Plus, he has to die to do it. In The Flaw in the Fabric, the first book in Jim Lindsey's trilogy A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls, a shortcut through a cemetery during a hurricane takes Raymond Kidd the long way around through another century and another identity. In 1860 Halifax, he's ship's captain Oliver Cole, just released from the madhouse. While he's away from 2003, the ghosts of two brothers who died in 1860 come back to life in Raymond's house in the future. What ensues is a tragi-comic romance of errors that involves wives and lovers from different lives and results in a spiritual showdown with a rock demon. Minor characters? Swamp spirits, a queen who lives in a castle in a tree trunk and lures people in to become her statuary, a cemetery guardian who would also like to be reincarnated but must first satisfy an agreement with a certain dark power, a mad Tibetan monk wandering in India who hexes Captain Oliver with a truth he cannot fathom, and two magical instruments he cannot master. There's a flaw in the fabric of time and space. The two appear to be wearing out. It's Raymond's job, ultimately, to find out why. He doesn't like it at all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim T. Lindsey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002779/bk_acx0_002779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sculpture Of The Exposition Palaces And Courts
    Sculpture Of The Exposition Palaces And Courts ab 19.99 € als Taschenbuch: Descriptive Notes On The Art Of The Statuary At The Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco (1915). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Ancient Egyptian Metaphysical Architecture , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min
    This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and the mystical application of numbers in Egyptian works. The book explains in detail the harmonic proportion of about 20 Ancient Egyptian buildings throughout their recorded history. This book is divided into three parts containing a total of 13 chaptersPart I: Architectural Concepts - Function and From consists of five chapters - 1 through 5: Chapter 1: The Architectural Canon Chapter 2: The Metaphysical Structure of the Universe Chapter 3: Visitation Sites of the Lower Heavenly Court Chapter 4: The Sealed Pharaohs' Tombs Chapter 5: Egyptian Temples of The Divine Forces Part II: The Physical Manifestation of Metaphysical Concepts consists of five chapters - 6 through 11: Chapter 6: Architectural Constituent Forms of Metaphysical Functions will cover the various architectural forms as manifestation of their corresponding functions [both physically and metaphysically] for "false doors", recessed wall panels, columns and pillars, capitals of columns, porticoes, peristyles, colonnade formations at four different locations, obelisks, statuary images of various roof forms (flat, gable, corbelled, arch & vaulted), stylistic architectural details (architrave, cornice, and torus) and stylistic ornamentation and decoration such as starry ceilings, floral, geometric, figurative, a combination of two or all three, guilloche (misnamed as the Tuscan border), chevron, and scroll pattern. Chapter 7: The Primary Geometrical Shapes/Forms Chapter 8: The Generative Square Root Rectangles - "Irrational numbers" Chapter 9: The Arithmetic Generative Progression Chapter ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Hennessy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166107/bk_acx0_166107_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Antiquities of Constantinople
    The Antiquities of Constantinople ab 1.93 € als epub eBook: With a Description of its Situation the Conveniencies of its Port its Publick Buildings the Statuary Sculpture Architecture and other Curiosities of that City. With Cuts explaining the Chief of. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray: Full Version (Annotated) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min
    The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Literary Classics collection, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of the Literary Classics collection:   New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars   Biographies of the authors   Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events   Footnotes and endnotes   Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work   Comments by other famous authors   Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations   Bibliographies for further reading   Indices & glossaries, when appropriate   The Literary Classics collection pulls together a constellation of influences - biographical, historical, and literary - to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.   Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment.  Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am; Lord Henry what the world thinks me; Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps."  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerry O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116326/bk_acx0_116326_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mississippian culture
    Mississippian culture ab 18.49 € als Taschenbuch: Thunderbird Mobilian Jargon Mississippian culture pottery Iowa archaeology Mississippian stone statuary Southeastern Ceremonial Complex List of Mississippian sites Southeastern tribes Black drink Stone box grave Chilhowee. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The True Life of the World’s Greatest Showman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1405min
    Original 1888 Edition of The Life of P.T. Barnum"The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama, which entrances empires and secures for the gifted artist a world-wide fame which princes well might envy. Men, women and children, who cannot live on gravity alone, need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is in a business established by the Author of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission, and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. " (PT Barnum) Phineas Taylor Barnum came from humble means to revolutionize the entertainment industry of his time and lay the foundation of the entertainment industry we know today. His visionary ability to create and market new and innovative acts transformed the world and moved society forward towards a new era of understanding and inclusiveness. His marketing skill and shrewd business skills transformed common and mundane acts into "must see" cultural events. Barnum skill as a showman included marketing such unique features as educated dogs, industrious fleas, automatons, jugglers, ventriloquists, living statuary, tableaux, gypsies, albinos, fat boys, giants, dwarfs, rope-dancers, live "Yankees," pantomime, instrumental music, singing, and dancing in great variety, dioramas, panoramas, models of Niagara, Dublin, Paris, and Jerusalem; Hannington's dioramas of the Creation, the Deluge, Fairy Grotto, Storm at Sea; the first English Punch and Judy in this country, Italian Fantoceini, mechanical figures...these, among others, entertained audiences by the tens of thousands and made Barnum a fortune and made his name synonymous with show business. But Barnum's genius was not limited to parlor tricks and freak shows, although this was a common criticism of his shows. His well-earned title of the World's Greatest Showm ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stan Chandler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160861/bk_acx0_160861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: The History and Legacy of the Reunification of Egypt and Egyptian Civilization , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
    Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world's first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it's no wonder that today's world has so many Egyptologists. What makes the accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians all the more remarkable is that Egypt was historically a place of great political turbulence. Its position made it both valuable and vulnerable to tribes across the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and ancient Egypt had no shortage of its own internecine warfare. Its most famous conquerors would come from Europe, with Alexander the Great laying the groundwork for the Hellenic Ptolemy line and the Romans extinguishing that line after defeating Cleopatra and driving her to suicide. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization was its inception from the ground up, as the ancient Egyptians had no prior civilization which they could use as a template. In fact, ancient Egypt itself became a template for the civilizations that followed. The Greeks and the Romans were so impressed with Egyptian culture that they often attributed many attributes of their own culture - usually erroneously - to the Egyptians. With that said, some minor elements of ancient Egyptian culture were, indeed, passed on to later civilizations. Egyptian statuary appears to have had an initial influence on the Greek version, and the ancient Egyptian language continued long after the pharaonic period in the form of the Coptic language. Although the Egyptians may not ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081878/bk_acx0_081878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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