Summary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Summary: "By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had...
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Summary: TRAV Travel writer Barnes has done an outstanding job of capturing a moment in the history of our national parks when architects, builders, artists, and even park officials dreamed big but knew there was no way they could surpass the natural beauty surrounding their edifices. The author brings to life the grandeur and majesty of archaic lodges such as the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite; Prince of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. West, Inc. 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Studio 1996
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Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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Summary: Traces the history of architecture in the American colonies, describing the influence of existing styles and the needs of environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2000
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Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003
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Summary: Dell Upton's revolutionizing interpretation examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In giving particular attention to indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, Brooklyn Bridge, and native American houses, in addition to the great monuments of traditional histories such as Jefferson's Monticello and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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Summary: At the celebration dinner for the completion of the manuscript for The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, dean of architectural historians Henry-Russell Hitchcock pointedly told me that Frank Lloyd Wright would drive him through the streets of Evanston, River Forest and Oak Park, and Hyde Park, and would point to a building and often say, "I did that, but nobody will ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winewright Media 2016
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Summary: Presents a guide to homemade shelter, featuring images and ideas culled from across the globe, and includes bottle homes in the Nevada desert, tree houses on the South China Sea, and Japanese stilt houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Publications 2004