Jean Ward was an American and alive in the twentieth century. Janette was a French sixteenth-century ghost haunting an old manor house, protecting a hidden secret, but to this she needed help of the living, Jean. Knowing that Jean had seen her, Lord Terrington and Jeans fianc, Stuart, could see what was happening but could do nothing to prevent it. Willingly or not, Jean is transfixed, caught in the whirlwind that propels Jeanette to her purposeto release her from her purgatory. The only means of detecting Jeanette was the smell of lavender, which accompanies her through the rooms.
Niki, a restaurateur in California, owned several restaurants. She had a young son and a stepdaughter of eighteen and shared her home with her brother, his wife, and their daughter. Niki hated living in the house; it gave her the creeps. There was an upstairs wing, but she couldnt find the doors. A barn at the back of the house, full of junk, including a rocking horse, and a stone sarcophagus. When Damian Roberts, his son, and a friend arrived to stay, strange things began to happen, inducing them to find a horrific scene that had been hidden for years.
Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the interests of tourists but fail to nourish the cultural interests of Indigenous stakeholders; and places for vibrant community gathering that fail to garner the economic and politic support to remain viable. Indigenous cultural centres are rarely static. They are places of ‘emergence’, assembled and re-assembled along a range of vectors that usually lie beyond the gaze of architecture. How might the traditional concerns of architecture – site, space, form, function, materialities, tectonics – be reconfigured to express the complex and varied social identities of contemporary Indigenous peoples in colonised nations? This book, documents a range of Indigenous Cultural Centres across the globe and the processes that led to their development. It explores the possibilities for the social and political project of the Cultural Centre that architecture both inhibits and affords. Whose idea of architecture counts when designing Indigenous Cultural Centres? How does architectural history and contemporary practice territorialise spaces of Indigenous occupation? What is architecture for Indigenous cultures and how is it recognised? This ambitious and provocative study pursues a new architecture for colonised Indigenous cultures that takes the politics of recognition to its heart. It advocates an ethics of mutual engagement as a crucial condition for architectural projects that design across cultural difference. The book’s structure, method, and arguments are dialogically assembled around narratives told by Indigenous people of their pursuit of public recognition, spatial justice, and architectural presence in settler dominated societies. Possibilities for decolonising architecture emerge through these accounts.
This volume reports on excavations in advance of the development of a site in Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire close to the line of the main Roman road running from the crossing point of the River Derwent near Malton Roman fort to York. This site provided much additional information on aspects of the poorly understood ‘small town’ of Delgovicia.
Profiling the best places to eat and stay on any budget, this handbook includes a language guide with useful words and phrases in seven languages. Travelers will find all the transportation options from the Channel Tunnel to Rhine cruises. of color photos. 192 maps.
From Albania to Yugoslavia, this comprehensive reference gives the lowdown on accommodations in 40 countries. Includes a first-time traveler's chapter with advice on everything from packing to staying on a budget. of color photos. 178 maps.
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