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Frank Furness

Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines

By: George E. Thomas

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Frank Furness

Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines

By: George E. Thomas

Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together the historic styles he referenced in such eclectic buildings as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania Library. To others, he was merely a regional mannerist creating an eccentric personal style that had little resonance and modest influence on the future of architecture. By placing Furness in the industrial culture that supported his work, George Thomas finds a cutting-edge revolutionary who launched the beginnings of modern design, played a key part in its evolution, and whose strategies continue to affect the built world. In his sweeping reassessment of Furness as an architect of the machine age, Thomas grounds him in Philadelphia, a city led by engineers, industrialists, and businessmen who commissioned the buildings that extended modern design to Chicago, Glasgow, and Berlin. Thomas examines the multiple facets of Victorian Philadelphia's modernity, looking to its eager embrace of innovations in engineering, transportation, technology, and building, and argues that Furness, working for a particular cohort of clients, played a central role in shaping this context. His analyses of the innovative planning, formal, and structural qualities of Furness's major buildings identifies their designs as initiators of a narrative that leads to such more obviously modern figures as Louis Sullivan, William Price, Frank Lloyd Wright and eventually, the architects of the Bauhaus. Misunderstood and reviled in the traditional architectural centers of New York and Boston, Furness's projects, commissioned by the progressive industrialists of the new machine age, intentionally broke with the historical styles of the past to work in a modern way—from utilizing principles based on logistical planning to incorporating the new materials of the industrial age. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes more than eighty black-and-white and thirty color photographs that highlight the richness of his work and the originality of his design spanning more than forty years.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812294831

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9780812294835

University of Pennsylvania

An Architectural Tour

By: George E. Thomas

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University of Pennsylvania

An Architectural Tour

By: George E. Thomas

Benjamin Franklin, founder of America's first university, the University of Pennsylvania, hoped that its students would learn "everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental." The same might be said of the architecture of its campus, both useful and ornamental. The newest title in our highly acclaimed Campus Guide Series takes readers on an insider's tour of this historic school, unique in the Ivy League for its single urban campus. The guide presents architectural walks of a campus that is distinguished by landmark buildings. Thomas traces the university's rich history from its founding in 1749 to the present wave of construction on the modern campus. Hand-colored maps and detailed descriptions of the buildings guide to readers on their tour.

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224

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Princeton Architectural Press

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ISBN 10

1568983158

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9781568983158

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The Very Best Coaching & Study Course

By: Mel Friedman,Lina Miceli,Robert Bell,Michael Lee,Sally Wood,Adel Arshaghi,Suzanne Coffield,Michael McIrvin,Anita Price Davis,Research & Education Association,George DeLuca,Joseph Fili,Marilyn Gilbert,Bernice E. Goldberg,Leonard Kenner

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The Very Best Coaching & Study Course

SAT with CD-ROM - The Very Best Coaching & Study Course. 본 SAT 시험 대비서에서는 핵심적인 주제별 리뷰를 통해 고득점에 도움이 되도록 하였으며, 강점과 약점을 정확하게 짚어낼 수 있는 진단 평가를 수록하였다. 본 시험대비서는 수험생들이 원하는 점수를 얻는데 큰 도움이 되어줄 것이다. CD-ROM 1장 포함. (Paperback/영어원서/가로 21cm x 세로 27.5cm)

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886

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738600911

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9780738600918

Building America's First University

An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania

By: George E. Thomas,David B. Brownlee

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Building America's First University

An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania

By: George E. Thomas,David B. Brownlee

More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice

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414

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812235150

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9780812235159

William L. Price

Arts and Crafts to Modern Design

By: George E. Thomas

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William L. Price

Arts and Crafts to Modern Design

By: George E. Thomas

Price, a disciple of Frank Furness who practiced in Philadelphia from 1883 to 1916, established the character of two of the nation's greatest resorts, Atlantic City and Miami, thus shaping the architecture of the Roaring Twenties.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568982208

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9781568982205

Frank Furness: The Complete Works

By: George E. Thomas,Jeffrey A. Cohen,Michael J. Lewis

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Frank Furness: The Complete Works

By: George E. Thomas,Jeffrey A. Cohen,Michael J. Lewis

This encyclopedic book is the first complete monograph of Furness's work. More than 670 projects are presented through 700 photographs and drawings.

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404

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568980949

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9781568980942

The publications of The Barleian Society

Vol. 4

By: George William Marshall

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The publications of The Barleian Society

Vol. 4

By: George William Marshall

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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250

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338211920X

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9783382119201

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made

By: Domenic Vitiello,George E. Thomas

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The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made

By: Domenic Vitiello,George E. Thomas

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made recounts the history of America's first stock exchange and the ways it shaped the growth and decline of the city around it. Founded in 1790, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, its member firms, and the companies they financed had profound impacts on the city's place in the world economy. At its start, the exchange and its members helped spur the development of the early United States, its financial sector, and its westward expansion. During the nineteenth century, they invested in making Philadelphia the center of industrial America, raising capital for the railroads and coal mines that connected cities to one another and built a fossil fuel-based economy. After financing the Civil War, they underwrote the growth of the modern metropolis, its transportation infrastructure, utility systems, and real estate development. At the turn of the twentieth century, stagnation of the exchange contributed to Philadelphia's loss of power in the national and world economy. This original interpretation of the roots of deindustrialization holds important lessons for other cities that have declined. The exchange's revival following World War II is a remarkable story, but it also illustrates the limits of economic development in postindustrial cities. Unlike earlier eras, the exchange's fortunes diverged from those of the city around it. Ultimately, it became part of a larger, global institution when it merged with NASDAQ in 2008. Far more than a history of a single institution, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made traces the evolving relationship between the exchange and the city. For people concerned with cities and their development, this study offers a long-term history of the public-private partnerships and private sector-led urban development popular today. More generally, it traces the networks of firms and institutions revealed by the securities market and its participants. Herein lies a critical and understudied part of the history of metropolitan economic development.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812242246

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9780812242249

The Descendants of George Little, who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640

By: George Thomas Little

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The Descendants of George Little, who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640

By: George Thomas Little

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385482933

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9783385482937

Hell's Highway

A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September–November 1944

By: George Koskimaki

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Hell's Highway

A Chronicle of the 101st Airborne Division in the Holland Campaign, September–November 1944

By: George Koskimaki

The author of The Battered Bastards of Bastogne does a “superb job of telling the history the 101st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden” (Kepler’s Book Reviews). Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the Screaming Eagles’ part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands. Koskimaki is an expert in weaving together individual recollections to make a compelling and uniquely first-hand account of the bravery and deprivations suffered by the troops, and their hopes, fears, triumphs, and tragedies, as well as those of Dutch civilians caught up in the action. There have been many books published on Operation Market Garden and there will surely be more. This book, however, gets to the heart of the action. The “big picture,” which most histories paint, here is just the context for the real history on the ground.

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Open Road Media

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1480406597

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9781480406599

The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific

Every Campaign of World War II

By: George B. Clark

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The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific

Every Campaign of World War II

By: George B. Clark

In the island battles of World War II, the United States Marine Corps came into its own. From a force previously numbering 55,000, the ranks of the Marines swelled to 480,000. With Pacific theater command essentially divided geographically between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, these forces found themselves under the command of the Army or Navy depending on their particular location. On land and at sea, the contribution which the six Marine divisions made to the Allied victory in the Pacific cannot be ignored. Concentrating on the infantry units, this volume provides a brief history of each of the six Marine divisions which took part in the Pacific conflict. Beginning with a chronology of the war in the Pacific, it succinctly describes each campaign through the eyes of a specified division, focusing on the division's exact movements and actions. Some battles and operations are covered from different perspectives because of the presence of multiple divisions. An initial section contains brief biographical sketches of key players in the Pacific arena. Extensive maps and photographs are also included.

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McFarland

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0786427698

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9780786427697

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Frank Furness: The Complete Works

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The publications of The Barleian Society

The publications of The Barleian Society

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made

The Descendants of George Little, who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640

The Descendants of George Little, who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640

Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway

The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific

The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific

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