Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology

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Six remarkable churches built by Nicholas Hawksmoor from 1712 to 1731 still stand in London. In this book, architectural historian Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey examines these designs as a coherent whole—a single masterpiece reflecting both Hawksmoor's design principles and his desire to reconnect, architecturally, with the "purest days of Christianity."

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Inelegant, ill-written and unreliable........2001-05-19

Having read Kerry Downes' standard monographs on Hawksmoor, Du Prey's "Architecture and Theology" is very disappointing. Du Prey does not, to begin, bring the book to its logical conclusion; despite commencing with a gushing account of Anglican Divines in Augustan England (Atterbury and Aldrich, though not, rather surprisingly, Sacheverall), the way in which contemporary religious thought might have conditioned the form of the churches built is inconclusive and not argued with the conviction that made an old article on the matter by Du Prey himself (ie., 'The Basilicas of the Primitive Christians') worthwhile. Furthermore, broad, out-of-context and misleading generalisations (such as a description of the Tory party of 1711 as 'right-wing') mixed with pockets of narrative make the book extremely irksome to read. As if that were not bad enough, Du Prey proves himself a brazen and misguided name-changer: St. George-in-the-East becomes 'St. George's-in-the-East', whilst St. Alfege, Greenwich, is nicely modernised as St. Alphege (which is, in fact, in dioscean records, a completely different church!). These observations might seem pedantic, but such mistakes are quite surprising from a Professor of Architectural History. Du Prey does not mention the churches of Gibbs (St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Martin-in-the-Fields), Archer (St. John Smith Square, Westminster, St. Paul, Deptford) or John James (St. George Hanover Sqaure), even though the latter collaborated on St. John Horselydown and St. Luke Old Street with Hawksmoor himself! Neither of the churches, not surprisingly, are studied at all. This is a flaw which Kerry Downes highlighted in a review of the book; it ought to have elicited a little caution on my part, because "Architecture and Theology" is definately not worth the asking price.

Fascinating book on fascinating architect.......2000-09-13

There is so little available on the architecture of the eccentric architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, that this book on his wonderful parish churches in London would be welcome in any case. But the book is a gem--well written, elegant...and goes far in explaining the theological and cultural issues behind Hawksmoor's odd choices in designing these buildings. The book also served as a very useful guide as I traveled around London in search of Hawksmoor projects.

Lively, involving, informative, illustrated, reader friendly.......2000-09-04

This survey of architecture and theology examines London church structures built by Hawksmoor from 1712-1731. From a review of the architect's education and designs to church politics and issues in structures, Hawksmoor's London Churches: Architecture and Theology provides a lively, involving account with plenty of color photos.

Hawksmoor. .(Hawksmoor's London Churches -- Architecture and Theology)(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Architectural Science Review

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Hawksmoor. .(Hawksmoor's London Churches -- Architecture and Theology)(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Architectural Science Review

Manufacturer: University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DMK98
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Hawksmoor. .(Hawksmoor's London Churches -- Architecture and Theology)(Book Review) (book review)
Publication: Architectural Science Review (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture
Volume: 46 Issue: 2 Page: 210(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Lavish and Beautiful.......2001-08-23

This book truly captures the spirit and ideology of what makes Italy so wonderful. Filled with pictures and articles, you will appreciate "La Dolce Vita" even more after you examine this work of art. Highly recommended.

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Winner in 1997 of Ruben, Eisner, and Harvey Awards, and widely regarded as one of the greatest living cartoonists, Sergio Aragones proves again that a picture paints a thousand words, and a one-page strip is good for a million laughs! If you don't know Sergio Aragones's unique brand of humor, join the millions of readers who have for decades enjoyed his silent but deadly jibes at society. And if you grew up on it, take a look at his latest work, and remember what it feels like to laugh out loud!

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Pantomimic Ecstasy.......2004-02-01

Sergio Aragones's finest work is together in a MUST HAVE book, Universal humor, that people in China and Mexico can understand.
Some of the sketches make you laugh out loud....
This is Pantomimic Ecstasy

comic genius.......1999-10-07

Aragones has long been my favourite comic writer. He bringswit to all of those buttock clenching moments we've all experienced -from the classic gag of the kid seeing a preganant woman and imagining one baby inside her, to the fat woman and the kid imagining twenty babies.

Having collected all Aragones work, from his days at MAD magazine to Groo and Bogey Man, this is arguably his finest so far. Louder Than Words is the perfect way to pass a sunny afternoon outside with a beer, and gauranteed good laughs.

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A Codger's review

Wonderous Words

If'n ya'll likes yer book lernin', then this here's a book fer you

Very good book by Aussie author

If only the pronunciation was included...

The Superior Person's Book of Words (Book 1)
Peter Bowler
Manufacturer: David R Godine
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The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover

ASIN: 087923556X

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A dictionary for those who perceive a difference, a handbook for Superior Persons who love words.

Are you an Anglophile? (Stout fellow!) Just stand at this springboard and leave the fields of popinjay jabber and tongue-stumped battology behind forever! Step up for big dividends in the giddy heights of superior speech. Are you a rasorial searcher after words? Are nouns your bread? Adjectives your butter? Verbs your little salad? Adverbs your house dressing? Well, then, this is the book to shiver you futtocks! Put an end to fopdoodly speech; amaze your friends, baffle your enemies, write interoffice memos to end all discussion! Peter Bowler will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exultation. A Superior Person is not defined by income, class, or sex. A Superior Person uses Superior Speech. And, if Aristotle's definition of art as something both entertaining and edifying is still toasted with glee, then there's art a-chock-a-block in Mr. Bowler's dictionary - a funny, useful, and elevating little book.

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A Codger's review.......2006-08-14

No not really a Codger, but someone who has volumes 1 to 3 in the 'Superior Person's book of words' series.
All of them contain words that are lost to us as the standard dictionary use's only the most popular 200,000 words or so.
'Kakistocracy' e.g. Government by the worst citizens! A word NEVER used to describe the British Government, full of ministers claiming the most personnel expense's, changing planning laws to suit their own areas or taking back-hander's for favour's!
A good read, with a good drink, tucked up in bed!
Try as an additional book 'The endangered English Dictionary' by David Grambs ISBN 0-393-03623-5 and add to your arsenal of words to astound and amaze your friends and colleges.

Wonderous Words.......2006-07-12

Peter Bowler is hilarious. As a confirmed logophile, I always laugh out loud when reading this and the subsequent books. The drawings are droll and perfect, illustrating with black humor.
And I DO use these words to confound, confront and confuse my public!
Buy this book and enjoy in private -- those viewing you crying with laughter may be tempted to put you in an oubliette!
AMS

If'n ya'll likes yer book lernin', then this here's a book fer you.......2005-12-16

Hoooooo weee, this here book sure is full of words--most of 'em nobody's never heard tell of. If you want to be highfalutin' and/or want to put on some airs, run right out and buy this darn thing.

You'll notice most of the other reviewers are showing how dang funny they are by usin' as many words from this book as they can fit in. See how dilly-dippin' smart they look? You can have people think yer smart too.

Just imagine that you are ringing up customers at Wal Mart and you could say something like "wow, four gallons of milk...you must have quite the galactophage on your hands" the customer will just stare at you, but you can bet it'll crack 'em up in the break room! Or when someone comes through your line buying both cookies and diet Coke you might say "I may need to get a price check on antipodes" What a knee-slapper!

If you can read, this book is fairly easy to get through--and if you can remember what you read you will have the ability to make anyone at any tractor pull, demolition derby or NASCAR race look like a dolt in comparison. After all, fun at other people's expense is the best fun you can have.

Very good book by Aussie author.......2004-12-23

I have enjoyed and used this book for many years. It is a marvellous source of strange, bizarre, obsolete and very useful words. The word 'facinorous' is probably one of the most useful - especially for describing modern right wing politicians and CEOs.

This book is not jejune in any way. Peter Bowler is one Australia's finest sons!

If only the pronunciation was included..........2004-11-14

I was thrilled when I found this book. I have enjoyed it immensely.

However, when learning new words to try out on friends, it strikes me that I'd like to be sure I'm pronouncing them correctly. Nothing like using a fabulous new word, only to mispronounce it. Peter, if you are out there - I'm faithfully awaiting a revision that includes the phonetic pronunciation of each word. Cheers!

The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words

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The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words
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fun.......2001-12-14

i thought this was gonna be the stuffy book of fancy words.... not so. it's really fun. i bought it for a friend, and read it first. enjoyed it.

The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words

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An hilarious joy
I Reached Kalopsia* Within Minutes of Opening The Cover
Are You A Gynotikolobomassophile?
Fun, but not always wondrous

The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words
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Like its predecessor, this useful, funny, and edifying little volume will give you the right words for any occasion. This second collection contains 600 outlandish (and thoroughly useful) words that will help readers, in the words of the author, "more readily assert a fitting ascendancy over their fellows at the traffic lights of life."

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An hilarious joy.......2006-09-17

I bought Peter Bowler's first "Superior Person's Little Book of Words" years ago, and read it so often that it fell apart. I bought another. Then came newer editions. Of all the "word books" to emerge in recent years ( and I've read many of them) this is written with the most wit and style. You might read through his book once, then you'll keep going back anytime you want a smile or a laugh. Not only does he love interesting and unusual words, he's damned funny writing about them, with hilarious examples of using them. I pray that this man keeps exploring the riches of our language, and writing about them!

I Reached Kalopsia* Within Minutes of Opening The Cover.......2006-03-29

I've read this book cover to cover and often use it for reference, so I obviously do like it very much. In fact, it's wonderful for casually spicing your next letter, story, or term paper with one or two words that you KNOW the reader will have to look up. It's also better than a dictionary because Bowler's "definitions" describe how each word is used conversationally, not just what it means. Furthermore, the words offered are good ones, neither too onerable nor too simple.

My only problem with this book is that for what it is, it's very overpriced. I hate to be a cheapskate, but for what you get, this should at most be $8. After all, it should also be indexed in the back to guide you to the "superior" words from the basic word or thought the reader is looking for. It's nice to learn that "Numinous" means "divine," for example, but why not list the word "divine" in an index with pages on which related words - like Numinous - appear? That would make it much easier to do the previously-mentioned "spicing."

So...I suggest you get the best of both worlds. Buy the book, because it's fun and educational and can make you look smarter, but buy it Used from one of the Amazon partner stores for the lower price that it deserves.

* An emotional state in which things appear to be more beautiful than they really are.

Are You A Gynotikolobomassophile?.......2005-01-12

I learned a lot from this wonderful book, which was a well-considered Christmas gift from my extremely exoptable best friend. One thing I learned is that I am rather devoted to gynotikolobomassophilia, as long as it is with the right person, of course! Unfortunately, on the down side, I occasionally suffer from bouts of onychophagy when under stress. (Sometimes I bite my nails.)

This book is an absolute treasure trove of exotic vocabulary. Prior to reading this book, I knew what maybe ten percent of these words meant. To say that I have been enlightened and broadened is somewhat of an understatement. I did not know, for instance, that "fabiform" means "bean-shaped." Likewise I was surprised to discover that "interbastation," which sounds positively naughty, actually means "quilting."

Also amusing to me is the discussion of the typeface, a normally boring affair. Perhaps one reason I liked this book so much is because it is set in Galliard, "a type of solid weight, it possesses authentic sparkle that is lacking in most current Garamonds."

This is a great book. The entries are universally witty and obscure, and will be sure to please the bibliophile in your life. I could not recommend this book more highly.

Fun, but not always wondrous.......1998-12-02

Bowler has compiled another interesting collection of words, with amusing commentary on them. While there is some repetition of common-root words (e.g., morology, morosis), and not all of these words seem particularly arcane (e.g., natatorium, zeitgeist), this book would be of use to the RUPTUARY aspiring to TAPINOSIS, and enjoyable for the rest of us.

The Superior Person's Books of Words (Boxed Set)

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Not too seriously
Not a dictionary but lots of fun!

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This special collection gathers into one affordable, attractive package all three of the invaluable volumes that comprise Mr. Bowler's timeless trilogy. The author's purpose in compiling these small, elegant, and edifying works is to give readers "a more finely tuned engine of the language they speak, so they may more readily assert their linguistic superiority over their fellow travelers at the traffic stops of life."

The Superior Person's Books of Words offers a panoply of 1,800 arcane but totally plausible words that neither you nor your loved ones has ever heard, plus textual advice on how to use them to confound your friends, irritate your enemies, and impress your superiors. There's yet more: anecdotes of eccentric scholars, the unbelievable and irrevocable mistakes of the rich and famous, examples of idiotic concepts, and further oddities and curiosities of the so-called intellectual life.

From The Superior Person's Book of Words:

Thelyphthoric: n. That which corrupts women. The author's sources do not, unfortunately, identify the object so described; if any reader has one, perhaps he would be kind enough to send it to the author, enclosed in a plain brown wrapper.

From The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words:

Catachresis: n. Misapplication of a word. In using the lore and learning contained in this book, you will undoubtedly be found guilty of this. In your defense, you can at least say (a) that you are aware of your lapse, and (b) that you know what it is called.

From The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words:

Ustion: n. The act of setting fire to something, or the state of being set fire to. From the Latin ustus, past participle of urere, to burn. Pronounced "usch'n." Always to be preferred to its longer synonym, combustion.

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Not too seriously.......2007-01-03

This is a great book for lover's of vocabulary. As you can infer from the title, it doesn't take itself too seriously, and pokes fun at itself. It is a virtual treasure trove of wonderful nuanced words with clearly defined meanings, explained in a non-traditional, fun, and interesting way. Recommended.

Not a dictionary but lots of fun!.......2004-11-09

This box set includes the first, second and third books of words for the Superior Person. Each book contains a collection of unusual words arranged alphabetically with definitions and example sentences, many of which are humorous and a bit tongue-in-cheek. I love these books because they're easy to read in little snippets but entertaining enough to keep you occupied for longer periods of time.

Some of the words, especially in the first and second books, are not quite as rare and unusual as they might have been when the books were first written, and thus may not be quite as useful for impressing people and/or surreptitiously insulting them. The books also do not include pronunciation guides or etymologies; you'll have to go to a real dictionary for that. However, as an entertaining read for those who want to expand their vocabularies with some weird and wondrous words (or for those who have a lexicographer's sense of humor and are looking for a laugh), this box set is a wonderful gift.

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Superior Person's Second Book Of Weird & Wondrous Words

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