Guide to Cleveland Architecture
Guide to Cleveland Architecture

Author: Robert C. Gaede

Publisher: Amer Inst of Architects

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9780962874215

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This detailed guide to Greater Cleveland's most significant architecture covers urban commercial avenues and towering buildings, opens up neighborhood streets and historic districts, and touches on significant architectural activity in the city's suburban perimeters. This second edition has been meticulously updated and includes all of Cleveland's most recent buildings, such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Gateway sports complex, and the new Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library.

Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0870999079

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"The Egyptian Old Kingdom (c. 2650-2150 BC) was an era of extraordinary artistic achievement-the period that gave us the Sphinx and the pyramids as well as a rich legacy of private tombs, wall paintings, reliefs, statuary, jewelry, and decorative arts. This book, the companion volume to a major traveling exhibition organized by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris, showcases the most impressive assemblage of Egyptian art and artifacts since the Tutankhamun exhibition of the late 1970s. Scholarly essays and 650 illustrations bring to life a remarkable panoply of Old Kingdom objects-temple and tomb reliefs, striking gold jewelry, handsome stone vessels, monumental statues, stelae, and exquisite statuettes. Together, text and images create a stunning tribute to the world of the Pharaohs"--Publisher's description.

Progressive Men of Minnesota
Progressive Men of Minnesota

Author: Marion Daniel Shutter

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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Published by The Minneapolis Journal, this 1897 work offers brief biographical sketches of men from business, politics, and other professions who were considered by the Journal to have taken leading roles in the development of Minnesota. The book also includes historical and descriptive sketches of the state.

A History of Place in the Digital Age
A History of Place in the Digital Age

Author: Stuart Dunn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1315404443

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A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research. Providing a historical and methodological discussion of place in the most important primary materials which make up the human record, including text and artefacts, the book explains how these materials frame, form and communicate location in the age of the internet. This leads in to a discussion of how the World Wide Web distorts and skews place, amplifying some voices and reducing others. Drawing on several connected case studies from the early modern period to the present day, the spatial writings of early modern antiquarians are explored, as are the roots of approaches to place in archaeology and philosophy. This forms the basis for a review of place online, through the complex history of the invention of the internet, in to the age of the interactive web and social media. By doing so, the book explores the key themes of spatial power and representation which these technologies frame. A History of Place in the Digital Age will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in a variety of humanities disciplines with an interest in understanding how technology can help them undertake research on spatial themes. It will be of interest as primary work to historians of technology, media and communications.

Beyond The Mafia
Beyond The Mafia

Author: Alan Balboni

Publisher: Shepperson Nevada History

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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When Beyond the Mafia first appeared in 1996 it was hailed as a significant contribution to the history of Las Vegas and of ethnic minorities in America. Author Alan Balboni traces the history of Italians in Las Vegas from the founding of the city in 1905, recording their activities in the fledgling settlement. As Las Vegas grew, Italian Americans participated in every aspect of the city’s society and economy, including construction, retail establishments, hotels, and—after the statewide legalization of gambling in 1931—the casino industry. Basing his research on well over a hundred interviews, as well as the records of Italian American organizations, public agencies, and other sources, Balboni has produced a sparkling and thoroughly documented account of the history of one of Las Vegas’s most progressive and productive ethnic minorities. This new paperback edition includes an afterword by the author that brings the story of Las Vegas’s Italian Americans up to the present.

Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces
Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces

Author: Miroslav Bárta

Publisher: New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781781794098

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Ever since Herodotus, it has been observed that Egypt - that is, ancient Egyptian civilisation - was a gift of the Nile. However, only recently have Egyptologists come to appreciate that Egypt was as much a gift of the desert as a gift of the water, at least as regards its very beginnings. To understand the civilisation that originally settled along the Nile Valley and in the Delta, we must study not only the remains of ancient monuments, excavated artefacts and reconstructed texts, but take proper account of the landscape, conditions and environment that shaped Egypt's culture, religion and ideology. This volume addresses various aspects of how the world was perceived in the minds of Egyptians, and how Egyptians subsequently reshaped their surrounding landscape in harmony with their view of geography and cosmological ideas. Profane landscape and sacred space thus blend into one multi-faceted concept.

Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead

Author: Foy Scalf

Publisher: Oriental Institute Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781614910381

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Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.