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Glorious Mud
Author | : Gus W. Van Beek,Ora Van Beek |
Publsiher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781935623359 |
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Invented about 13,000 years ago, mud architecture has since been one of the most common, economical, useful, and widespread forms of building. It has been--and is still being--used for grand palaces and temples as well as simple shops and homes. Research conducted over the last several decades has enabled archaeologists and architects to understand how now-ruined, ancient mud structures were originally built. Gus and Ora Van Beek describe mud-construction techniques from Southwest Asia, the Near East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States, paying specific attention to problems involving foundations, wall and roof construction, cooling and heating, water erosion, and earthquake damage. Glorious Mud! is not only the definitive reference work on one of the world's most important forms of architecture but also a powerful study of the human past.
Spectator Politics
Author | : Niall W. Slater |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0812236521 |
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Spectator Politics is the first major study of metatheatre, or theatrically self-conscious performance, in Aristophanes. Using a reception-based performance criticism, Niall Slater elucidates the comic effectiveness of the earliest surviving comedies in the Western tradition. Slater demonstrates that Aristophanes employed metatheatre not simply to entertain but also to teach his audience how to read and interpret performance in other key public venues of the ancient democracy of Athens, such as performances in the political assembly and law courts. Aristophanes was, Slater contends, the first performance critic. Spectator Politics shows how Aristophanes' comedy served the Athenians by helping them to become active political participants, teaching them to see through deceptive performances, whether on stage or in the political sphere. His comedies use self-conscious performance to encourage the public to move out of the role of passive consumers of spectacle and to reengage the political process. Aristophanes' critique of performance prefigures much in the performance-dominated culture of the modern American political scene. Throughout, detailed readings of the original stagings illuminate the plays for today's audiences and performers, while Slater's cultural critique provides much for those interested in Athenian democracy and its lesson for the contemporary political scene. Spectator Politics offers a salutary demonstration of the power of art to expose and resist the performance powers of would-be demagogues.
I ve Got a Poem for You
Author | : John Foster |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0192762567 |
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A collection of poems to perform. Where most anthologies of performance poetry concentrate on modern writing, this collection has a wonderful mix of old favourites, new discoveries, and specially written poems. John Foster has produced many best-selling poetry anthologies. He is also well known as a performer of poetry, and is the perfect anthologist for this book.
How to Talk Like a Local
Author | : Susie Dent |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2010-03-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781409061946 |
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'Susie Dent is a national treasure' RICHARD OSMAN 'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' PAM AYRES __________________________________________ Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy? Do you know how to recognise a tittamatorter? And would you understand if someone called you a culchie? How to Talk Like a Local gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country and digs down to uncover their origins. From dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides a fascinating insight into the history of the English language. If you're intrigued by colourful words and phrases, if you're interested in how English is really spoken, or if you simply want to find out a bit more about the development of our language, How to Talk Like a Local is irresistible - and enlightening - reading. __________________________________________________ 'Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent and nobody writes about it more entertainingly' GYLES BRANDRETH 'It's an interesting and, at times, hilarious read. One for word-lovers' THE SUN
Nation s Favourite Comic Poems
Author | : Griff Rhys Jones |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781448140497 |
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This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky' to lesser known and forgotten gems such as Gelett Burgess's 'The Purple Cow', Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a poetic tour of witty, nonsensical and plain laugh-out-loud funny poems. The selection brings together poets from every age and every walk of life, from Shakespeare to Victoria Wood and from Keats to Benjamin Zephaniah. There is Roald Dahl's cunning variation on 'Little Red Riding Hood', Spike Milligan's brilliantly ridiculous 'On the Ning Nang Nong' as well as several entries from the ever-elusive Anon, including one delightfully succint 'Peas'. Remembered, half-remembered, cherished or written on a tea towel, here are some of the nation's favourite comic poems.
A Canoe Quest in the Wake of Canada s Prince of Explorers
Author | : John Donaldson |
Publsiher | : John Donaldson |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0973616180 |
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"Key words and phrases: canoe, kilometres, Bella Coola, Lake Winnipeg, Avoch, Ottawa River, La Loche, Saskatchewan, Buffalo Narrows, Grease Trail, Thunder Bay, North West Company, Hudson Bay Company, Williston Lake, Mackenzie River, Terrace Bay, Beaufort Sea, Ojibwa, Seaforth Highlanders, metres"--GoogleBooks.
Bootstrap Geologist
Author | : Gene Shinn |
Publsiher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813047492 |
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In Bootstrap Geologist Shinn enthusiastically shares the highs and lows of his remarkable life. Taking readers around the globe as well as below the ocean, he recounts the painstaking process of data gathering that can lead to paradigm-breaking discoveries. He emphasizes the importance of field science and pointedly addresses the use and abuse of scientific research and the emergence of market-funded research.
To the Long Pond
Author | : Ken Regelous |
Publsiher | : Larks Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : King's Lynn (England) |
ISBN | : 094840082X |
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