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“Patterns” of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah: Investigating the Relationship Between the Public Spaces and Residential Units (Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South)
by Basma Massoud“Patterns” of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while at the same time revisiting Christopher Alexander’s theory in his canonical 1977 book, A Pattern Language. This book questions and analyses “patterns” relating to the cultural, social, and environmental particularities of Jeddah, with special attention paid to the effect of gender segregation in the city’s urban configuration. It discusses the extension that has been undertaken through testing a concept from the urban design theory of the West (the United States and Canada) and applying it to an Islamic city to find patterns in four different scales, which form the basis of the investigation (body, building, street, and city). Empirical methods have been used in the context of historical Jeddah, through which patterns are investigated using different approaches for the different scales. The book aims to explore the meaning of threshold spaces in old Jeddah. Furthermore, it shows that there are eighteen patterns of threshold spaces in the old town: patterns that are solely related to this specific case study, as well as modified patterns to the ones explored by Christopher Alexander. This book shall allow not only a better understanding of the relationship between housing and the historical city but also an exploration of the role of the threshold space in shaping the old city of Jeddah. It will be of interest to researchers, students of architecture, urban planning and anthropology studies, and people involved in cultural heritage, both academics and practitioners.
“Skygirl On Cloud 9”
by Sharon Birlson Kirkham"Skygirl On Cloud 9" is an entertaining narrative of the amazing globe-trekking adventures of fllight attendant Sharon Birlson Kirkham. Each amusing account recalls one of the exciting opportunities Sharon and her husband Cary have experienced through-out her career, and since. While she says they've done their best to see as much as possible, "the world is a really big place. There are hundreds more trips to be taken and stories to be written, 'but' there are only 365 days in a year...."
“Soapy”: An Authorized Biography of Earnest O. (Soapy) Gillam
by C. A. Sellers Earnest O. GillamFirst published in 1958, this book is a biography of Fort Worth businessman Earnest O. (Soapy) Gillam, who rose from humble beginnings to become America’s best known independent soap manufacturer.“‘Every generation or so, someone should sit down and sum up the history of a family so it can be passed down to future generations.’“The man who spoke these words early in 1957 was Earnest О. Gillam, the subject of this book. His words are the reason for this book, written at his request to “sum up” his life and times and to put into permanent record all that is known of his ancestors“There was a note of urgency in Gillam’s decision to publish this book He is the last of his family likely to bear the name of Gillam. His sisters gave birth to boys, but he and his brothers have no male lineage to perpetuate the Gillam name. So his branch of the Gillam family will end with his death. At least, the part of family bearing the name of Gillam will end.“The remarkable history of the Gillams in general, and E. O. Gillam in particular, made this publication a must—a must for a permanent history of this remarkable family, and a must to emphasize once again that Horatio Alger-type men are still to be found in our land. For Gillam started life during the hardest times imaginable—on the frontier of Kansas—and by tireless” efforts of body and mind, managed to accumulate a fortune.“He spent years gathering information for this book, a lifetime in fact….”—C. A. Sellers
“The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876–1915
by M. Elizabeth Boone"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality" delves beneath the traditional "English-only" narrative of U.S. history, using Spain’s participation in a series of international exhibitions to illuminate more fully the close and contested relationship between these two countries.Written histories invariably record the Spanish financing of Columbus’s historic voyage of 1492, but few consider Spain’s continuing influence on the development of U.S. national identity. In this book, M. Elizabeth Boone investigates the reasons for this problematic memory gap by chronicling a series of Spanish displays at international fairs. Studying the exhibition of paintings, the construction of ephemeral architectural space, and other manifestations of visual culture, Boone examines how Spain sought to position itself as a contributor to U.S. national identity, and how the United States—in comparison to other nations in North and South America—subverted and ignored Spain’s messages, making it possible to marginalize and ultimately obscure Spain’s relevance to the history of the United States.Bringing attention to the rich and understudied history of Spanish artistic production in the United States, "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality" recovers the "Spanishness" of U.S. national identity and explores the means by which Americans from Santiago to San Diego used exhibitions of Spanish art and history to mold their own modern self-image.
„Beyond the Wall”: Game of Thrones aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
by Thomas Müller Anna GamperDieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ferner die (kunst-)historische, psychologische und theologische Perspektive. Die Beiträge zeigen auf, dass die Serie reiche Anknüpfungspunkte für die wissenschaftliche Forschung unterschiedlichster Fachrichtungen bietet, die auch dazu anregen, sprichwörtlich „beyond the wall“ zu denken. Das Buch spricht dabei sowohl ein interdisziplinäres wissenschaftliches Publikum als auch sonstige Fans der Serie an.
„als wären wir geschichtslos“: Das Geschichtstheater bei Elfriede Jelinek (Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft)
by Anna LenzDieses Buch interpretiert die Themen Geschichte, Subjektivität und Verantwortung im Theater Elfriede Jelineks. Jelinek ergründet dramatische und historische Deutungskonventionen, greift sie aber gleichzeitig immer wieder und auch kritisch auf (Figur, Subjektivität, Geschichte). Eine Auseinandersetzung mit europäischer Geistesgeschichte (u. a. Hegel, Hölderlin, Freud) ist zentral, um sich auf sie zu beziehen, sie zu hinterfragen und sich auch von ihr abzuwenden. Die Arbeit analysiert fünf Stücke, darunter „Wolken.Heim.“ und „Am Königsweg“, und beleuchtet historische und subjekttheoretische Brüche sowie Genderaspekte in Jelineks Geschichtstheater.
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大人の塗り絵帳
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by Bernard Levine Zachary Wattsこの本の本は、あなたがギターを弾いているかどうか、歌う方法を学ぶか、スポーツを初めて試みるかなど、初めて学ぶことができる奇妙なことについて語っています。さまざまな方法があります あなたが初めて何か新しいことを学ぶことができます。 だから常に最初に何か新しいものをあきらめないように気をつけてください。 "あなたが成功するまで毎日練習を続けてください"