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Singapore's Park System Master Planning A Nation Building Tool to Construct Narratives in Post-Colonial Countries

Singapore's Park System Master Planning A Nation Building Tool to Construct Narratives in Post-Colonial Countries
Singapore's Park System Master Planning: A Nation Building Tool to Construct Narratives in Post-Colonial Countries by Raffaella Sini
English | EPUB | 2020 | 381 Pages | ISBN : 9811367442 | 161.27 MB
This book traces the evolution of Singapore's parks system, from colonial to present times. Further, it contextualizes the design and planning of parks in the general discourse on western and eastern traditions: early twentieth century western conceptions 'imported' during colonialism; modernism; postmodernism, and the contemporary ecological debate.

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Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins

Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins edited by Richard G. Newhauser, Susan Ridyard
English | October 18, 2012 | ISBN: 1903153417 | True PDF | 358 pages | 30 MB
The tradition of the seven deadly sins played a considerable role in western culture, even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant Reformation, as the essays collected here demonstrate.

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Ships In The Desert

Ships In The Desert
Ships In The Desert by Jeff Fearnside
English | August 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1951631153 | True EPUB | 136 pages | 0.6 MB
In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in Kazakhstan. Peeling back the layers of culture, environment, and history that define the country and its people, Fearnside creates a compelling narrative about this faraway land and soon realizes how the local, personal stories are, in fact, global stories. Fearnside sees firsthand the unnatural disaster of the Aral Sea-a man-made environmental crisis that has devastated the region and impacts the entire world. He examines the sometimes controversial ethics of Western missionaries, and reflects on personal and social change once he returns to the States.

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Shaping a nation twentieth-century American architecture and its makers

Shaping a nation  twentieth-century American architecture and its makers
Shaping a nation twentieth-century American architecture and its makers By Carter Wiseman
1998 | 412 Pages | ISBN: 0393045641 | PDF | 30 MB
Wiseman focuses to a large extent on its makers - the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability have indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry among many others. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts of building by money, theory, and abstraction; the American proclivity to approach art with a certain amount of suspicion, amplified by the conflict between partisans of the countryside and the city; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community - these are just some of the issues Wiseman addresses with a scholar's learning, a journalist's flair and a critic's firm and often witty judgment.

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Sex, Tech, and Faith Ethics for a Digital Age

Sex, Tech, and Faith Ethics for a Digital Age
Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics for a Digital Age by Kate Ott, Mihee Kim-Kort
English | ISBN: 0802878466 | 207 pages | EPUB | August 16, 2022 | 0.91 Mb
A values-based, shame-free, pleasure-positive discussion of Christian ethics in response to a range of pressing issues in the digital age-including online pornography, dating apps, sexting, virtual-reality hookups, and sex robots.

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Self and Story in Early Childhood Children's Developing Minds Revealed by Parent-led Research

Self and Story in Early Childhood Children's Developing Minds Revealed by Parent-led Research
Hugh Crago, "Self and Story in Early Childhood: Children's Developing Minds Revealed by Parent-led Research"
English | ISBN: 1032014644 | 2022 | 318 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Our children grow up into a world of stories―in books, on screens―but what do they make of the stories we offer them? What do they think and feel as they listen to a parent read a picture-book? What if a story confuses or upsets them?

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Selections from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds

Selections from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
Selections from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds By Charles Mackay
2022 | 122 Pages | ISBN: 1032301309 | PDF | 87 MB
This selection, first published in 1973, compiles a fascinating study of crowd psychology as it examines the moral epidemics and fits of madness that have bewitched the cities of Europe and their citizens from the dark ages to modern times. Among the selections are tales of thieves and poisoners, demons and poltergeists mingled with all the crazes, fantasies, divinations and prophecies that have stunned the critical faculties.