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Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina WarnerExamines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
PreviewDivided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs's writings and activism on the city, the professions ...
Urban Spaces
PreviewThe Urban Land Institute has again cooperated with Visual Reference Publications to co-sponsor this third volume titled Urban Spaces No. 3, which showcases more than 140 outstanding urban/mixed use design projects by leading architects, ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina WarnerThe night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Robin BlaetzIn Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Urban economic development
Richard D. BinghamUrban Economic Development, Volume 27 of the Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, discusses the effectiveness of various policies which aim to stimulate private sector activity in urban areas.
Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through ...
PreviewRonald. David. Glass. and. Pia. Lindquist. Wong. Features of the Urban Landscape for America's Children Thus far, we painted a picture of urban ... Urban districts have historically served a large number of pupils, and they have operated ...
Revitalizing Urban Historic Quarters
Steve TiesdellBy examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters, this book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration.
Revitalising Historic Urban Quarters
Tim HeathThis book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters.
Joan Robinson
G. HarcourtThis section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
The Urban Order: An Introduction to Urban Geography
John Rennie ShortThis is a comprehensive guide to the latest scholarship in urban studies.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate
Deborah A. Fraioli(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth
Dirk Arend BerentsThe appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
Urban Tree Management: For the Sustainable Development of ...
PreviewWith this book you will learn: fundamentals, methods and tools of urban tree management state of the art in the fields of urban forestry and tree biology positive effects and uses of urban trees features, requirements and selection criteria ...
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc
PreviewI am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in ...
Urban Regeneration and Ethnic Minority Groups: Training and ...
Taner OcDespite a widespread recognition of race as a central part of the urban debate, government urban policy has often failed to adequately address this issue.
Shark Island
Joan DruettPraise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
Urban Gardening For Dummies
The National Gardening AssociationUrban Gardening 101 — get an overview of urban gardening, including soil preparation, planting, choosing urban-friendly plants (including edibles), and plant placement Dig in — discover everything you need to know about soil, from ...
The New Urban Paradigm: Critical Perspectives on the City
Joe R. FeaginThis book assesses urban questions from the "new urban sociology" perspective that has developed since the 1980s.
Urban Meyer vs. College Football: The Case for College ...
Ben AxelrodAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Making of Urban Meyer A Kid from Ashtabula Getting Back to the Gridiron Climbing the Coaching Mountain The Florida Years The Reinvention of Urban Meyer Part II. Urban Meyer vs. His Rivals ...
Richard Wright
Joan UrbanFrom an impoverished childhood to worldwide acclaim as an author, Wright was a formidable author frequently conveying the fears and despair of an entire population, both black and white, in his novels, the most renowned of which was Native ...
Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of ...
Johanne SloanUrban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:
Joan Scott CurtisShe didn't. by Joan Scott Curtis © 2013 Joan Scott Curtis All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any ...
Creating Urban Agricultural Systems: An Integrated Approach ...
Gundula ProkschAndré,Viljoen, Katrin Bohn, and J. Howe. Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities (Oxford: Architectural Press, 2005). 4. Katrin Bohn and André Viljoen, Second Nature Urban Agriculture: ...
Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast
PreviewChapter 6 Urban and Community Forestry Planning and Design Steven Strom 1. Planning the Urban Forest Most communities have not planned their urban forest; it has just happened. This does not mean that communities do not plan.
Urban Design Reader
Steve TiesdellEssential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts.
The Urban Section: An analytical tool for cities and streets
Robert ManthoIn uniquely dealing with both the historic and contemporary description and analysis of urban ‘streets’ around the world, the work is of both academic and professional interest to architects, urban planners and designers, highway ...
Paris Under Construction: Building Sites and Urban ...
Jacob PaskinsParis Under Construction gives voice to the witnesses of—and participants in—urban transformation who are usually excluded from architectural and urban history.
Wild Urban Woodlands: New Perspectives for Urban Forestry
PreviewAnna Jorgensen, James Hitchmough, Nigel Dunnett Department of Landscape, Sheffield University Introduction Relevance and context of the study This research investigated urban dwellers' experience of living in a woodland setting on a ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina Warnerclothing, see knight, Joan of Arc as: clothing; transvestism cult of [after her death] attempted suppression of, 4 centered on Domremy, 237 early promoters of, 181 growth of, 19th cent, 181 see also Joan of Arc: veneration of death of, see death: ...
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