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Corporate Medievalism II
PreviewGail Fenske has shown that the skyscraper was intended as a trademark: a visual motif that would advertise the Woolworth Company in the United States and. in his foreword to a guidebook published by Edwin A. Cochran, Yhe Cathedral of ...
The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the ...
Gail Fenske38 Guy Kirkham, “Cass Gilbert, Master of Style,” Pencil Points 15 (November 1934): 541. 39 Alexander B. Trowbridge, “The Architectural League of New York Has Lost a Valued Member by the Death of Thomas R.Johnson,” May 16, 1915, ...
Slapstick Comedy
Preview... Cinema and Its Context (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 81–90. Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd, Harold Lloyd: Master Comedian (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002), 90–99. Tafuri, “The New Babylon,” 177. Gail Fenske, “ The ...
The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940
PreviewGail Fenske I Deryck Holdsworth The steel-framed office building dramatically altered the urban character of New York at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The dimensional changes it effected in the city's ...
A Global History of Architecture
Mark M. Jarzombek... Anthony Vidler, Arindam Dutta, Gail Fenske, Maha Yahya, Sibel Bozdogan, Alfred B. Hwangbo, Jonghun Kim, Hadas Steiner, Annie Pedret, Jorge Otero- Pailos, Reinhold Martin, Franz Oswald, Brian McLaren, Kyoko Tokuno, Patricia Ebrey, ...
Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings
PreviewMerwood-Salisbury, “The Gothic Revival and the Chicago School,” pages 88– 111 in this volume. 18. See Gail Fenske, “Medievalism, Mysticism, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century New York: Cass Gilbert's 'Skyscraper Gothic,'” pages ...
Gender, Class, and Shelter
PreviewGunter Gad and Deryck W. Holdsworth, "Corporate Capitalism and the Emergence of the High-Rise Office Building," Urban Geography 8 (3) (1987): 212 -31; Gail Fenske and Deryck W. Holdsworth, "Corporate Identity and the New York Office ...
Secret Words: Arcana Verba
Craig Wickersham“Agent, this is Gail Allen,” Norm began. “I need to step out for a few minutes. Gail is going to talk with Detective Felling.” “Understood,” the agent replied. “I'll be back in a few minutes, Gail.” “Okay. I'll be right here. And good luck with the glass ...
More Virtual Field Trips
Gail CooperCopyright © 1999 Gail Cooper and Garry Cooper All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cooper, Gail, 1950- More virtual field trips / by Gail Cooper and Garry Cooper. xv, 146 p.
The Purple Glove Murders: Two Gail Brevard Mysteries
Mary Wickizer BurgessIn THE PURPLE GLOVE MURDERS, Gail and her companion and law partner, Conrad "Connie" Osterlitz, are relaxing at their Southern California mountain hideaway when Gail hears of a nearby tragedy.
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
Dolores Hayden49. James T. Rojas, "The Enacted Environment of East Los Angeles," Places 8 ( Spring 1993), 42-53. 50. See Gail Lee Dubrow, "Property Types Associated with Asian/Pacific American Settlement in Washington State," in Gail Lee Dubrow, Gail ...
Santa Who?
Gail GibbonsIn telling the rich history of the Christmas gift-giver, Gail Gibbons draws upon many cultures.
Rough Cut:
Gail SinclairGail Sinclair. “Keep the gun with you,” he said. “Hide it in your clothes. But if anyone bothers you, shoot to kill. Do you understand?” His voice was harsh. More demands were shouted across the clearing. He ignored them. “I want you to go ...
Seeing Is Deceiving: A Gail Brevard Mystery
Lionel WebbWhen an heiress is found murdered, corporate attorney Gail Brevard is assigned the case, despite her lack of experience in trying criminal matters.
Dark Song
Gail GilesIn this controversial novel about a good-girl-gone-wrong, Gail Giles returns to the fast-paced, chilling writing that attracted so many fans to What Happened to Cass McBride?
Swordplay
Preview... one which gives birth to a world of men. My descendants will spread without number across all the land and become a great people.” “Yes, they will,” the demon said, smiling. “I will be waiting.” The Devil's Blade Gail Selinger Gail Selinger is ...
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Gail DinesProfessor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades.
Aktiv zuhören für Dummies
Gail EvansGail Evans erklärt Ihnen, wie Sie als 'zuhörender Helfer' Ratsuchende unterstützen können und dabei Ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse nicht vernachlässigen.
Mystery Date
Preview... with awe and reverence, touched our future. The truth, so help me, gods. And raise a glass with me now to that future. May he reign as well as his father, King Tuck. Huzzah! WITH ADMIRATION Gail Selinger Gail Selinger is a writer, college.
Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and ...
Gail MarshallGail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and ...
Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works
Lianne MoyesBorn in Ottawa, Gail Scott's early childhood was spent in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg; from the age of eight until leaving home, she lived in a bilingual community in Eastern Ontario, about 90 miles from Montreal. Her maternal grandparents ...
Tool Book
Gail GibbonsWhat are tools? How do they help us make things? For busy toddlers keen on building, Gail Gibbons presents the answers to those questions in this cheerful board book introduction to tools and what they do.
Dreams Of Speaking
Gail JonesIn Dreams of Speaking, prize-winning author Gail Jones paints with grace and skill the experience of needing to belong despite wanting to be alone.
The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in ...
Gail KligmanGail Kligman's chilling ethnography—of the state and of the politics of reproduction—is the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life.
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
Gail JarrowGAIL JARROW merges biology and history in her third medical mystery about deadly diseases in early twentiethcentury America. Her books have received numerous awards and distinctions, including a YALSA Award Nomination for ...
The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician
Gail JarrowImage Credits Private collection of Gail Jarrow: 66, 70, 72, 74. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division: LC-USZ6279474: 12 (left); LC-USZ62- 113665: 16; LC-USZ62-76951: 20, LCUSZ62-104792: 21; Lot 7933H: 50, 58, 88 –89; ...
Pirates of New England: Ruthless Raiders and Rotten Renegades
Gail SelingerPiracy historian Gail Selinger brings these tales of mayhem and villainy to life while also exploring why New England became such a breeding ground for high seas crime and how the view of piracy changed over time, from winking toleration to ...
Advances in the Mathematical Sciences: Research from the ...
PreviewResearch from the 2015 Association for Women in Mathematics Symposium Gail Letzter, Kristin Lauter, Erin Chambers, Nancy Flournoy, Julia Elisenda Grigsby, Carla Martin, Kathleen Ryan, Konstantina Trivisa. Gail Letzter Editor-in-Chief ...
The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic ...
Gail RadfordIn The Rise of the Public Authority, Gail Radford recounts the history of these inscrutable agencies, examining how and why they were established, the varied forms they have taken, and how these pervasive but elusive mechanisms have molded ...
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