Автор: Stewart, Rachel Название: Town house in georgian london ISBN: 0300152779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300152777 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 4950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book takes a fresh look at a familiar building type - the town house in eighteenth-century London - and investigates the circumstances in which individuals made decisions about living in London, and particularly about their West End house. It uncovers what occupants of town houses thought about their property, why and how they chose or built it, paid for it, used it, decorated it and sold or bequeathed it, and what uses it had for them beyond simply accommodation. For the first time, this book takes as a starting point the houseowner, occupant or architect's client, and through extensive and original use of anecdotal evidence, opens up a wealth of unforeseen values, uses and connections attaching to the house. It offers a serious analysis of clients' wants and needs, and describes the house's function within and impact upon people's lives, concerns and aspirations.Stewart shows how the use of the house comprised much more than how life was lived in it on a day-to-day basis, or even how it served special occasions, and included how it functioned in the context of family relations, financial, legal and property transactions, and the market, as well as in the construction of personal identity. At the same time as exploring private perceptions and expectations, Stewart reveals the negative press attention the town house received in its own time. The house unsettled many eighteenth-century observers, and Stewart analyses an unprecedented range of evidence, to demonstrate how the house was associated with notions of transience, changeability, imperfection, luxury, and selfishness, which resulted in its characterization as inconsequential, inconstant, insubstantial, intemperate and ultimately emasculate.By stepping away from conventional tales of economics, materials, or style, and into the previously unexplored world of the houseowner, the book offers an entirely original reading of a familiar building.
Автор: Jeremy Melvin, Stephen Mullin, Peter Stewart Название: Place and Home: The Search for better housing PRP Architects ISBN: 1904772668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904772668 Издательство: Black Dog publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 5767.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: PRP is one of the successful housing practices. Peter Phippen, Peter Randall and David Parkes founded the practice in 1963. This work comprises essays by Phippen, Randall and Parkes, Barry Munday and Chris Rudolph on PRP`s work, as well as texts by commissioned writers on the topics of `place`, `building technology` and `home` in architecture.
Автор: Smith, Starr Название: Jimmy stewart ISBN: 0760328242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780760328248 Издательство: Quarto Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Phadelphia Story in 1940, had enlisted several months earlier.
Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles his long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat. Author Starr Smith, the intelligence officer assigned to the movie star, recounts how Stewart's first battles were with the Air Corps high command, who insisted on keeping the naturally talented pilot out of harm's way as an instructor pilot for B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators. By 1944, however, Stewart managed to get assigned to a Liberator squadron that was deploying to England to join the mighty Eighth Air Force. Once in the thick of it, he rose to command his own squadron and flew twenty combat missions, including one to Berlin. "My father would feel honored by this book." --Kelly Stewart Harcourt, daughter of Jimmy Stewart "We would have made Jimmy a group commander equivalent to an army regiment] if the war had lasted another month." - General Jimmy Doolittle.
"An excellent biography of a distinguished airman and fine human being." - Roger Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth: A History of the U.S. 8th Air Force.
"How wonderful it is that Starr Smith has finally directed a literary light on the personal history of Jimmy Stewart. . . . I welcomed Starr's book. It is needed and wanted. Bravo " - Gay Talese.
"This is a very well researched and written book. . . . It fills a place in history about no mere actor but a courageous and selfless man, Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, USAF." - General Michael E. Ryan, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
"I have met a few movie stars, but of them all, I think that Jimmy Stewart was most like those modest heroes he portrayed. Now journalist Starr Smith has raised the curtain on Stewart's gallant service as a bomber pilot and air combat commander in World War II." --Walter Cronkite, from the Foreword
Автор: Green, Michael Stewart, Greg Название: Humvee at war ISBN: 0760321515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780760321515 Издательство: Rockport/Rotovision Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When it entered army service in 1985, AM General`s high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle - better known as the Humvee - quickly assumed the status the World War II jeep enjoyed among an earlier generation of soldiers. This book showcases this iconic vehicle in the many roles and configurations it has taken on over the years.
Автор: Bill Stewart Название: Packaging Design (pb) ISBN: 1856695255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781856695251 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 1898.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: States that packaging design became established as a specialist discipline in the 1960s. This book describes the design process from concept creation to production, including the important considerations of brand development and the designers obligations and responsibilities to the environment.
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