Welcome to our book review site www.go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Finishing in Architecture
Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture. Finishing is essential to all human practices and concepts of time, yet simultaneously it is largely impossible to identify an entirely finished state of being. As mortals, we organize our worlds into beginnings and endings, starts and finishes. Architecture’s temporality, however, may contain something of both the mortal and immortal within it – a desire for permanence combined with lamentation over its impossibility. While many approaches to finishing construct two opposed ontological conditions (...
Colonel William Prescott
Colonel William Prescott’s leadership at Bunker Hill exemplified American resilience, shaping the Revolutionary War’s course. In America, before the United States was established, there were a small number of select people and events that made such an impact on the great issues of the day that they changed the course of history. One such event was colonial Boston’s battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775. And, indisputably, the most important actor in that event was Massachusetts native Colonel William Prescott. Prescott was a humble and noble man of high integrity, a descendent of one of America’s earliest families, and an ardent patriot beloved by those who knew him best. The brave and ...
Washington's Lieutenants
Meet the bold, the brilliant, and the blundering—Washington’s Lieutenants tells the untold story of the generals who won and lost the Revolutionary War. As commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, George Washington developed the strategy that won the Revolutionary War, but while Washington directed some battles, his strategy for the most part was carried out—and most battles were won or lost—by his subordinates, major and brigadier generals of varying background, experience, and ability. In the spirit of the best military history and biography, Washington’s Lieutenants tells the story of the generals who served under Washington from 1775 to 1781. Based on extensive research in a...
Diversity in America
Fully updated and expanded, the fifth edition of Diversity in America offers a comparative, sociohistorical analysis of diversity in the United States. Drawing from the latest data and research and incorporating recent developments such as the Black Lives Matter movement, Parrillo gives a detailed and multifaceted portrait of intergroup relations. Parrillo takes a chronological approach and uses intergenerational comparisons to highlight demographic shifts and changing perceptions of diversity within different periods of American history. The tensions between the processes of assimilation and pluralism are explored throughout with reference to debates surrounding immigration, the perceived t...
