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Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

By: Jules Lubbock

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Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

By: Jules Lubbock

Recounting the biblical stories through visual images was the most prestigious form of commission for a Renaissance artist. In this book, Jules Lubbock examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives by artists of the caliber of Giovanni Pisano, Duccio, Giotto, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio. He explains how these artists portrayed the major biblical events, such as: the Sacrifice of Isaac, the Annunciation, the Feast of Herod and the Trial and Passion of Jesus, so as to be easily recognizable and, at the same time, to capture our attention and imagination for long enough to enable us to search for deeper meanings. He provides evidence showing that the Church favoured the production of images that lent themselves to being read and interpreted in this way, and he describes the works themselves to demonstrate how the pleasurable activity of deciphering these meanings can work in practice. This book is richly illustrated, and many of its photographs have been specially taken to show how the paintings and relief sculptures appear in the settings, for which they were originally designed. Seen from these viewpoints, they become more readily intelligible. Likewise, the starting point and the originality of Lubbock's interpretations lies in his accepting that these works of art were primarily designed to help people to reflect upon the ethical and religious significance of the biblical stories. The early Renaissance artists developed their highly innovative techniques to further these objectives, not as ends in themselves. Thus, the book aims to appeal to students, scholars and the general public, who are interested in Renaissance art and to those with a religious interest in biblical imagery.

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Yale University Press

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0300117272

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9780300117271

Architecture--art Or Profession?

Three Hundred Years of Architectural Education in Britain

By: Mark Crinson,Jules Lubbock

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Architecture--art Or Profession?

Three Hundred Years of Architectural Education in Britain

By: Mark Crinson,Jules Lubbock

Architects are perhaps the most important people involved in shaping the built environment, so the ideas they receive in the course of their training are a major influence upon the buildings and cities of the future. Crinson and Lubbock present a bold new perspective on the evolution of the British architect from Wren to post-modernism and beyond, and provide the first general history of architectural education, making an important contribution to current debates. The Prince of Wales' views on modern architecture and the need for a change in the way architects are trained, has attracted enormous support from the public, resulting in architects and their training being under the spotlight more than ever. The drive to define and promote the architectural profession that began in the eighteenth century and reached its apogee in the 1960s has now begun to unravel. How has this happened? What relation does an architect's education have to the built environment? What lessons are there from the past? This book will be of interest to students, lecturers and all those interested in the debates around contemporary architecture.

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Manchester University Press

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0719041724

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9780719041723

Wonderdog

The Science of Dogs and Their Unique Friendship with Humans

By: Jules Howard

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Wonderdog

The Science of Dogs and Their Unique Friendship with Humans

By: Jules Howard

A celebration of dogs, the scientists who've lived alongside them, and how canines have been key to advancements in science for the betterment of all species. Almost everywhere there are humans on planet Earth, there are dogs. But what do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? What do they think of us? Since our alliance first began on the hunt and on the farm, our relationship with dogs has evolved considerably. And with domestic dog population rising twenty per cent in the last decade alone, it is a bond that will continue to evolve. In order to gauge where our relationship with dogs goes from here, author and zoologist Jules Howard takes a look at the historical paths we have trod together, and at the many scientists before him who turned their analytic eye on their own four-legged companions. Charles Darwin and his contemporaries toyed with dog sign language and made special puzzle boxes and elaborate sniff tests using old socks. Later, the same questions drove Pavlov and Pasteur to unspeakable cruelty in their search for knowledge. Since then, leagues of psychologists and animal behaviourists have built upon the study of dogs and their much-improved methods have fetched increasingly important results: dogs have episodic memory similar to ours; they recognise themselves as individuals; and, in addition to their expert sense of smell, dogs’ noses can even detect thermal radiation. With the help of vets, ethologists, neurologists, historians and, naturally, his own dogs, Wonderdog reveals the study of dogs to be key in the advancement of compassion in scientific research, and crucial to making life on Earth better for all species.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639362630

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9781639362639

Harlequin Special Edition February 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Cindy Kirk,Jules Bennett,Joanna Sims

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An Anthology

By: Cindy Kirk,Jules Bennett,Joanna Sims

Harlequin Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Harlequin Special Edition bundle includes Fortune's Little Heartbreaker by Cindy Kirk, The Fireman's Ready-Made Family by Jules Bennett and Marry Me, Mackenzie! by Joanna Sims. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin Special Edition!

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Harlequin

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1460374800

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9781460374801

A Student's Guide to History

By: Jules R. Benjamin

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A Student's Guide to History

By: Jules R. Benjamin

This guide provides comprehensive coverage of the historians research process — from formulating a research question to how to find, evaluate, and work with sources of all types — written and nonwritten, in print and online. The writing process is explained thoroughly as advice on creating a strong thesis and writing an effective paper culminates with a model student research paper. The appendixes point students to the most helpful research resources.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319109713

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9781319109714

Harlequin Special Edition May 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Christine Rimmer,Brenda Harlen,Jules Bennett

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Harlequin Special Edition May 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Christine Rimmer,Brenda Harlen,Jules Bennett

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes Not Quite Married by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Christine Rimmer, A Forever Kind of Family by Brenda Harlen and From Best Friend to Bride by Jules Bennett. Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Special Edition!

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Harlequin

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1460391063

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9781460391068

Harlequin Desire February 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Sara Orwig,Jules Bennett,Fiona Brand

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Harlequin Desire February 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Sara Orwig,Jules Bennett,Fiona Brand

Harlequin Desire brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Desire bundle includes Her Texan to Tame by USA TODAY bestselling author Sara Orwig, Snowbound with a Billionaire by Jules Bennett and Just One More Night by Fiona Brand. Look for 6 new compelling stories every month from Harlequin Desire!

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Harlequin

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1460329821

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9781460329825

Baseball's Great Experiment

Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

By: Jules Tygiel

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Baseball's Great Experiment

Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

By: Jules Tygiel

Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195106202

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9780195106206

Unraveling the Voynich Codex

By: Jules Janick,Arthur O. Tucker

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Unraveling the Voynich Codex

By: Jules Janick,Arthur O. Tucker

Unraveling the Voynich Codex reviews the historical, botanical, zoological, and iconographic evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most enigmatic historic texts of all time. The bizarre Voynich Codex has often been referred to as the most mysterious book in the world. Discovered in an Italian Catholic college in 1912 by a Polish book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, it was eventually bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. It contains symbolic language that has defied translation by eminent cryptologists. The codex is encyclopedic in scope and contains sections known as herbal, pharmaceutical, balenological (nude nymphs bathing in pools), astrological, cosmological and a final section of text that may be prescriptions but could be poetry or incantations. Because the vellum has been carbon dated to the early 15th century and the manuscript was known to be in the collection of Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire sometime between 1607 and 1622, current dogma had assumed it a European manuscript of the 15th century. However, based on identification of New World plants, animals, a mineral, as well as cities and volcanos of Central Mexico, the authors of this book reveal that the codex is clearly a document of colonial New Spain. Furthermore, the illustrator and author are identified as native to Mesoamerica based on a name and ligated initials in the first botanical illustration. This breakthrough in Voynich studies indicates that the failure to decipher the manuscript has been the result of a basic misinterpretation of its origin in time and place. Tentative assignment of the Voynichese symbols also provides a key to decipherment based on Mesoamerican languages. A document from this time, free from filter or censor from either Spanish or Inquisitorial authorities has major importance in our understanding of life in 16th century Mexico. Publisher's Note: For the eBook editions, Voynichese symbols are only rendered properly in the PDF format.

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Springer

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3319772945

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9783319772943

Flora of the Voynich Codex

An Exploration of Aztec Plants

By: Arthur O. Tucker,Jules Janick

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Flora of the Voynich Codex

An Exploration of Aztec Plants

By: Arthur O. Tucker,Jules Janick

The Voynich Codex is one the most fascinating and bizarre manuscripts in the world. The manuscript (potentially equivalent to 232 pages), or more properly a codex, consists of many foldout pages. It has been divided by previous researchers into sections known as Herbal/Botanical/Pharmacology; Balenological/Biological; Cosmology; one page known as The Rosette; and a final Recipe section. All the sections contain text in an unknown writing system, yet to be deciphered. Cryptological analyses by modern computer programs nevertheless have determined that the language is real and not a hoax, as has been suggested by some. Despite the fact that this codex is largely an herbal, the interpreters of this manuscript with two exceptions, have not been botanists. To this end, our recent research suggests that the Voynich is a 16th century codex associated with indigenous Indians of Nueva España educated in schools established by the Spanish. This is a breakthrough in Voynich studies. We are convinced that the Voynich codex is a document produced by Aztec descendants that has been unfiltered through Spanish editors. The flora of New Spain is vast, and the medicinal and culinary herbs used by the Aztecs were equally as copious. Even though it is our hypothesis that the Voynch Codex was written as a private herbal in 16th century New Spain, many of these herbs have relevance today because they or closely related species have been noted to be medicinal or have culinary value. The Voynich Codex has an estimated 359 illustration of plants (phytomorphs), 131 in the Herbal Section (large images) and 228 in the Pharmaceutical Section (small images of plant parts). In our book “Unraveling of the Voynich Codex”, to be published by Springer this summer, Tucker and Janick have partially identified species in the Herbal Section. In this proposed work, all of the plants of the Herbal Section will be identified along with those plants of the Pharmacology Section where identification is feasible. Each plant identification will include subdivisions to include descriptors (formal botanical identification), names in English, Spanish, and Mesoamerican names where known, ecology and range, and properties (medicinal and culinary) of these and related species. Photographs of the phytomorphs and contemporary plants will be included. These identifications represent hard evidence that the Voynich Codex is a 16th Century Mexican manuscript. Exploring the herbs of the Aztecs through the Voynich Codex will be a seminal work for all Voynich researchers and also of interest to a wider audience in medicinal and culinary herbs, artists, and historians. In summary, our new book project Flora of the Voynich Codex will provide a photo-illustrated guide to complete the botanical evidence related to the Voynich Codex, one of the most valuable historic texts of the 16th century.

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Springer Nature

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3030193772

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9783030193775

The Edge of Extinction

Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands

By: Jules Pretty

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The Edge of Extinction

Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands

By: Jules Pretty

In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.

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Cornell University Press

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0801455030

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9780801455032

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

By: Jules Lubbock

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Decorative Details

Essential Ingredients for Creating the Country Look

By: Jules MacMahon

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Decorative Details

Essential Ingredients for Creating the Country Look

By: Jules MacMahon

A small touch here, a new detail there: you don't need an entire room makeover to bring decorating magic into your home! Just a few key features quickly and easily transform any space, anywhere. The secret formula is to follow your own instincts, embrace natural materials, and aim for harmony and quality. Perhaps add some "contradictions" too, such as Shaker simplicity with organized clutter; and the old with the new. The most soulless bedroom springs to life with a treasured quilt, while clinical, cold kitchens warm up with a color change and a selection of gleaming copper pans. Adorn hard surfaces like walls, floors, ceilings, and furniture with patterns; make fabrics, from linen towels to antique sheets, an integral part of a design scheme; group objects into still lifes; and make your garden a true extension of your home. With inspirational pictures and loads of practical advice.

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1855858851

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9781855858855

Crapshoot

Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency : from Adams and Jefferson to Truman and Quayle

By: Jules Witcover

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Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency : from Adams and Jefferson to Truman and Quayle

By: Jules Witcover

Examination and history of the vice presidency with behind the scenes drama from the earliest days of the republic to the present.

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0517584808

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Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

Architecture--art Or Profession?

Architecture--art Or Profession?

Wonderdog

Wonderdog

Harlequin Special Edition February 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Special Edition February 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

A Student's Guide to History

A Student's Guide to History

Harlequin Special Edition May 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Special Edition May 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Desire February 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2

Harlequin Desire February 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2

Baseball's Great Experiment

Baseball's Great Experiment

Unraveling the Voynich Codex

Unraveling the Voynich Codex

Flora of the Voynich Codex

Flora of the Voynich Codex

The Edge of Extinction

The Edge of Extinction

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

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Decorative Details

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