A Journey Through Ruins

Author : Patrick Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191567604
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Ruins written by Patrick Wright and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles. Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise and dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development and reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years.

Author : Patrick Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199541949
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Ruins written by Patrick Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London.Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles.Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise and dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development and reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to livethrough the Thatcher years.

Author : Christopher Woodward
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307531988
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Ruins written by Christopher Woodward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruins casts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination.

Author : Michael McCloskey
Publisher : Squidlord LLC
ISBN 13 : 0983843007
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trilisk Ruins written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans study alien artifacts but haven't ever encountered live aliens. Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are studied, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can't pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life's work. But she soon learns that her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.

Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679220X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--

Author : Peter Kuper
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781914224188
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruins written by Peter Kuper and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of love, adventure, and politics--and two lives changed forever by Mexico and the monarch butterfly Samantha and George are about to launch into a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, their journey to this historic town is about fulfilling a lifelong dream; for George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. As the couple embark on their adventure, a monarch butterfly begins its arduous migration south from the United States to Mexico . . . It is a challenging journey--a flight that requires remarkable endurance and a will to survive. Beneath Oaxaca's picturesque and serene veneer--the 16th-century architecture, the nearby ruins--it is a town shaken to the core by political unrest. As the monarch butterfly makes its challenging journey south, political events threaten to change the town forever. What's more, personal events look like they will alter the paths of Samantha and George for good. Ruins masterfully captures the shadows and light of a troubled country steeped in history and culture, weaving together personal, political and natural dramas into a thrilling portrait of life south of the Rio Grande.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368180770
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Reginald Heber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bambay, 1824-1825; (With Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India written by Reginald Heber and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Heber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 written by Reginald Heber and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, with notes upon Ceylon, an account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India [ed. by A. Heber]. written by Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: