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Princeton Architectural Press's Reprint Series was established in 1981 to make rare volumes on architecture available to a wider audience. The books' beautiful reproductions and finest quality printing and binding match those of the originals, while their 9-by-12-inch format makes them accessible and affordable. New introductions bring a modern voice to these classic texts, updating them to become invaluable contemporary resources. These critically acclaimed books are an essential addition to any library.
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Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems.
With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.
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The Renaissance of Italian Gardens
Lorenza De'Medici
Manufacturer: Fawcett
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ASIN: 0449904415
Release Date: 1990-10-07 |
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- A must-have well-illustrated overview of italian villas
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Italian Villas and Gardens: A Corso Di Disegno (Architecture)
Paul Van Der Ree ,
Gerrit Smienk , and
Clemens Steenbergen
Manufacturer: Prestel Pub
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Gardens of Italy
ASIN: 3791311816 |
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A must-have well-illustrated overview of italian villas.......2000-11-02
This book is the best all-around overview of the design of Italian Villa Gardens I have found to date. This is largely due to the strength of the analytical diagrams that carefully disect the spatial organization of the villa, and faithfully explore the house-garden relationship that is the essence of these places. If you are an architecture or landscape architecture student interested in the Italian villa, the diagrams are some of the best published sources available. The text is very concise, almost too short...but this also makes the topic useful for the student with more interest in the topic than time. Fortunately the authors know their topic well enough to focus their commentary with great precision.
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The Italian Garden
Judith Lennox
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The Dark-eyed Girls
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All My Sisters
ASIN: 0312098103 |
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UNFORGETABLE!!.......2004-01-15
I first read a copy of this book five years ago and have been looking for a copy of my own ever since. I searched in every used book that I came upon, to no avail.
I am so glad that I have discovered Amazon's used marketplace and will now be able to put this book on my own bookshelf, where it belongs.
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The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art
Paul Barolsky
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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ASIN: 0271013036 |
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Inspiration but no perspiration.......2000-11-29
Garden Architecture in Europe is full of full color photographs and drawings of European gardens. It is full of magnificent inspiration for garden lovers, particularly if you enjoy formal parterres, colannades, terraces and water fountains.
The text mainly comprises historical prose with annecdotal comments, however, these is very little information in relation to designing, building or maintaining the type of garden pictured.
Ideal as a coffee table accessory or waiting room "magazine", this book provides an ejoyable wander through some truly superb classic gardens. It is not suitable for the student.
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Start To Learn Oil: The First Steps to Get Started in Oil Painting
Arco Editorial Team
Manufacturer: Atrium Publishers Group
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ASIN: 8481852309 |
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This book presents the basics of oil painting with succinct and concise technical explanations backed up by illustrations and many step by step exercises.
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No one knows more about comedy than Steve Allen. For decades as a writer, performer, and keen observer of the social scene, he has looked into every aspect of who's funny, what's funny, and why. Now he shares his discoveries in a book designed to help every reader develop his or her special talent for funniness. For anyone who wants to be a more amusing conversationalist, a more effective public speaker, or just more fun to be around, HOW TO BE FUNNY is as foolproof as a Steve Allen punch line.
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A pretty average book..........2005-10-16
The book is better than Jon Macks' book of the same name, yes. But still, the content looks dated, and covers more theoretical aspects than real world techniques. But still, the techniques are useful to some extent. You may try the more practical/simple book which is Stanley Lyndon's How to be funny (...). But considering everything, all 3 books are good and cover the various points on being the everyday funny person. My advice is that you buy all three as they don't cost that much together.
Have fun!
Rogers.
Won't help you be funnier.......2002-04-16
I found this book to be very disappointing. It is very poorly written and organized. Though the book claims to be written in 1998, it was clearly written in the early 1980s, so all of the references are extremely dated. For example, it still talks about how Joan Rivers as a hot young comedienne. There are pages and pages of transcripts from old Steve Allen bits that aren't funny at all in writing, and are so dated that they contain many references and words I didn't understand.
As the title implies, I expected it to help me develop a better sense of humor by providing analysis on why things are funny and instructing how to apply those techniques. It does very little of this. It mainly focusses on the improvisational wordplay techniques that Steve Allen developed and used in his career, which if I used I think people around me would find very annoying. Very little of the information in the book can be applied to everyday life. For example, I had no use for the sections on writing comedic television scripts, being a talk show host, doing stand up comedy, or how to sell jokes to established comedians.
This Book Ruined A Vacation.......2002-01-28
Thank God Steve Allen is dead, to save me the trouble of beating his skull in with this useless pile of puffery. Did you know that Steve Allen invented every comedy technique known to man? Talk about about a bitter has-been. Seems that the guy rambled into a tape recorder and some jack-ass typed it up. My problem is that I must finish a book once I start it. Steve Allen, you owe me.
A definite "Must Have" for anybody who needs something!.......2000-11-02
HOW TO BE FUNNY is a book unlike any other. How else would we tell them apart?
Steve Allen's contribution to students of comedy and wit is a wonderful one indeed. Allen and his co-author have a book-long conversation about what is funny, what isn't, and more importantly *why* some things are funnier than others. Whether you want to write funny, talk, walk, or think funny, Steve Allen includes page after page of examples from his radio and television career. My copy is well-worn --albeit slightly small and tight around the waist -- with passages highlighted and underlined.
If you aren't funny (or funnier) after reading this book, well, then try eating it. That will definitely make you feel funny for a little while.
Good book for comic writers, not for conversations........2000-09-07
Originally I bought this book to become funnier in my conversations with others. The title seemed to imply that this would happen, but after reading the book, I found it to be a beginer's book for the comic writer and stand-up comedian. Very little was mentioned about how to develop a funny personality. A total of 10 pages out of 290 were devoted to formulas of why things are funny and this list of reasons was lacking in comprehensiveness. Although I do not doubt Steve Allen's ability to write funny material, I feel he lacks when it comes to writing analytical material. This book should have been titled "How to be a Comic Writer."
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Tintin: Descubro Los Animales/ Tintin: Discovering Animals (Imagenes En Accion)/ Spanish Edition
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Tintin: descubro los transportes/ Tintin: Discovering Transportation (Imagenes En Accion)/ Spanish Edition
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ASIN: 1594970645 |
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- You Will be funnier After reading this book !!
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How to Be Funny: Discovering the Comic in You
Steve Allen , and
Jane Wollman
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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ASIN: 0879757922 |
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You Will be funnier After reading this book !!.......1997-07-18
I purchased a lot of books to develop my stand-up act. I thought I was losing my natural sense of humor that I developed much earlier in my life. Steve Allen's book had me throwing out one liners three hours into it. Following his examples, I found it easy to reverse thoughts, change meanings and come up with new ideas.
Although Steve's book starts out slow with a long definition of what is funny, once you get past Steve's ramblings, the book picks up momentum and puts your brain on receptive.
I reccommend this book highly for anyone who wants a beginning book to help develop their sense of humor.
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Discovering Comics (Discovering Series)
Dennis Gifford , and
Denis Gifford
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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Discovering Mattie
Philip Marks
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Discovering the Comic
George McFadden
Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Pr
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ASIN: 0691064962 |
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Discovering the Comic in Don Quixote (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)
Laura J. Gorfkle
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Tintin: 123 Descubro Los Numeros (Imagenes En Accion) / Discovering Numbers/ Spanish Edition
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