Charles A. Birnbaum's Books

Experiencing Olmsted

The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes

By: The Cultural Landscape Foundation,Charles Birnbaum,Dena Tasse-Winter,Arleyn Levee

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Experiencing Olmsted

The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes

By: The Cultural Landscape Foundation,Charles Birnbaum,Dena Tasse-Winter,Arleyn Levee

200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved green spaces, including national, state, and city parks, suburban neighborhoods, and academic campuses. He is most famous for creating New York’s Central and Prospect Parks, Stanford University’s campus, and the Capitol Grounds. What is less known and surprising about his legacy is that he worked widely across North America. By highlighting 200 iconic landscapes, many of which are still open to the public today, Experiencing Olmsted brings a fresh approach to the firms’ work and philosophy. It highlights not only grand city parks, but also other public venues born out of a desire for social equity. Olmsted was an early voice for parks as democratic spaces that could be reached on foot by a large percentage of any city’s populace. He viewed parks as restorative places—what he termed “the lungs of a city.” Brimming with contemporary and archival photography as well as original drawings and plans, this truly remarkable record brings these places to vivid life.

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851

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Timber Press

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ISBN 10

1643261916

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9781643261911

The Cloisters Cross

Its Art and Meaning

By: Elizabeth C. Parker,Charles T. Little

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The Cloisters Cross

Its Art and Meaning

By: Elizabeth C. Parker,Charles T. Little

The subject is an extraordinary 12th-century carved walrus-ivory cross that came into the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters collection in 1963 and is today the centerpiece of the collection. The authors explore its construction, imagery and inscriptions, the context for its exceptional style and iconography, its theological setting and use in the liturgy, and its place in English Romanesque art. Includes numerous color and black and white photos taken especially for the book. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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334

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0810964341

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9780810964341

Lyapunov Theorems for Operator Algebras

By: Charles A. Akemann,Joel Anderson

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Lyapunov Theorems for Operator Algebras

By: Charles A. Akemann,Joel Anderson

In 1940 Lyapunov proved that the range of a nonatomic vector-valued measure is compact and convex. In the present memoir we take this theorem apart and perturb each hypothesis, thereby extending and generalizing Lyapunov's result in many directions.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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082182516X

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9780821825167

Children's Books in Children's Hands

An Introduction to Their Literature

By: Charles A. Temple

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Children's Books in Children's Hands

An Introduction to Their Literature

By: Charles A. Temple

Offers a comprehensive approach to teaching children's literature by providing appropriate depth, and using full-color illustrations from outstanding children's books. Unlike books that simply describe a great many children's books, this book takes the reader inside the workings of children's literature, focusing on ways literature elicits responses from young readers, genre by genre and book by book.

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610

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Prentice Hall

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0205169953

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9780205169955

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Experiencing Olmsted

Experiencing Olmsted

The Cloisters Cross

The Cloisters Cross

Lyapunov Theorems for Operator Algebras

Lyapunov Theorems for Operator Algebras

Children's Books in Children's Hands

Children's Books in Children's Hands

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