After The Ruins

Author : Mark Klett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520245563
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006 written by Mark Klett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays accompany this collection of photos of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, juxtaposed with photos of the city today.

Author : Hugh Clout
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780859894913
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Ruins written by Hugh Clout and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War. The book contains illustrations and many detailed maps and makes use of both official reports and unofficial critical commentaries.

Author : Scott Smith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307266044
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruins written by Scott Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

Author : Martha Sherrill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101118024
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruins of California written by Martha Sherrill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie, a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves, at once bold and innocent, creative and chaotic, obsessed and liberating.

Author : Laura Samuelson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 9781512702323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Ruins written by Laura Samuelson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Ruins is the raw and transparent account of a couple's journey to piece their broken marriage back together after sexual sin and adultery left them in devastation. This compelling journey will bring you hope, and equip you with practical gear, necessary to successfully make the trek to a restored marriage. Laura addresses the battle that plays out in her mind as she strives to move away from the shambles of her heart. Rather than wallow in self pity, she describes the determined steps that God directed her choose. She relates her husband's battle with attitudes and actions that changed his heart towards her as well. These resolute and life-giving principles shaped the course of their marriage from that of wreckage, to a strong foundation of love. Creatively told in story form, nuggets of truth are inter-woven into their journey of healing, in an easy-read format that you will find refreshing. Whether gleaning truths for your own marriage or for the healing of someone else, "Out of Ruins" will call you back to review the heart-healing directives tucked inside.

Author : Giano Cromley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998632551
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Build Upon the Ruins: And Other Stories written by Giano Cromley and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning short story collection about love and loss and longing.

Author : M. Aurel Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108077528
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruins of Desert Cathay written by M. Aurel Stein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1912 two-volume work, Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein describes his second expedition to the deserts of Chinese Turkestan.

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1789097401
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Ruins written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado and more. WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding from the monsters on the other side of the wall, can we turn the cataclysm into an opportunity? Featuring new and exclusive stories, as well as classics of the genre, Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond, to the things that are created after. Calling on the finest traditions of post-apocalyptic fiction, this anthology asks us what makes us human, and who we will be when we emerge out of the ruins? Featuring work from China Miéville, Emily St John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern, Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso, Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas and D.R.G. Sugawara.

Author : Jeanette Bicknell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135138063X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials written by Jeanette Bicknell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past. The recent destruction of cultural heritage in war and controversies over Civil War monuments in the US have foregrounded the importance of artifacts that embody history. The book invites us to ask: How do memorials convey their meanings? What is our responsibility for the preservation or reconstruction of historically significant structures? How should we respond when the public display of a monument divides a community? This anthology includes coverage of the destruction of Palmyra and the Bamiyan Buddhas, the loss of cultural heritage through war and natural disasters, the explosive controversies surrounding Confederate-era monuments, and the decay of industry in the U.S. Rust Belt. The authors consider issues of preservation and reconstruction, the nature of ruins, the aesthetic and ethical values of memorials, and the relationship of cultural memory to material artifacts that remain from the past. Written by a leading group of philosophers, art historians, and archeologists, the 23 chapters cover monuments and memorials from Dubai to Detroit, from the instant destruction of Hiroshima to the gradual sinking of Venice.

Author : John Ashurst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750664290
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation of Ruins written by John Ashurst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing international awareness of the presence and significance of ruined buildings and archaeological sites, these sites continue to be at risk across the globe. This book defines and describes these risks, which range from neglect, to destructive archaeology, and even well-meaning intervention in the name of tourism.