Authors:Kenneth A. Breisch, Alison K. Hoagland,
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Keywords: vernacular, perspect, architectu, architecture, building, perspectives, environments
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1572334401
ISBN-13: 9781572334403

Author: Amy M. King
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: novel, english, vernacular, botanical, bloom
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-10-23
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0195161513
ISBN-13: 9780195161519

Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned--natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany’s prurience--this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, it provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel’s role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultura

Author: John Brinckerhoff Jackso
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: landscape, vernacular, discovering
Number of Pages: 165
Published: 1986-09-10
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0300035810
ISBN-13: 9780300035810

Author: Liangyan Ge
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: fiction, vernacular, chinese, rise, margins
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2001-09
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0824823702
ISBN-13: 9780824823702

The novel "Water Margin" ("Shuihu zhuan"), China’s earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the 16th century. The tale of 108 bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its novelized form, it played a pivotal role in the rise of Chinese vernacular fiction, which flourished during the late Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods. Liangyan Ge’s multidimensional study considers the evolution of "Water Margin" and the rise of vernacular fiction against the background of the vernacularization of premodern Chinese literature as a whol

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: wesleyan, poetry, poems, selected, vernacular, new, neon
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1993-03-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0819512117
ISBN-13: 9780819512116

In addition to 12 moving new poems, Neon Vernacular (winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) samples broadly from Yusef Komunyakaa’s acclaimed collections Dien Cai Dau, Copacetic, and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. Poems from Komunyakaa’s earlier books show that while his style has evolved from a soul-bare blues to an intellectually syncopated jazz, his core obsessions remain. His poems provide gritty testimony of the Vietnam War, a history of community and loneliness in African America, and, elusively, a complex document of human consciousness. Like his predecessor in

Author: Vincent Joseph Monteleone
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: lingo, underground, vernacular, slang, criminal
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2004-02
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1584773006
ISBN-13: 9781584773009

Monteleone, Vincent J. Criminal Slang: The Vernacular of Underworld Lingo. Revised Edition. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1949. 292 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002043283. ISBN 1-58477-300-6. Cloth. $75. Monteleone was a police officer with thirty-two years of service throughout the United States. He compiled this collection of words and phrases used by the "gangster, tramp or hobo" over the course of a career that spanned the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Both instructive and amusing, it contains hundreds of entries relating to criminal matters of

Author: Kingston Wm. Heath Ph.D.
Publisher: Architectural Pre
Keywords: process, environmental, response, cultural, design, architecture, regional, vernacular
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-04-29
List price: $80.95
ISBN-10: 0750659335
ISBN-13: 9780750659338

Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. ’Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design’ defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international case studies, it examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of tactics to achieve culturally and environmentally appropriate design solutions.. Shows that architecture and design are inextricably linked to social and environmental processes, and are not just technical or