Reissued in a new format, with a new introductory essay by Paul Barolsky (University of Virginia) and an expanded portfolio of illustrations compiled by Henry Hope Reed, who wrote the foreword to the
In addition to her fame as a novelist, Edith Wharton has now been recognized as an arbiter of taste and correct usage in the making of domestic interior rooms, and Odgen Codman, Jr., has achieved rec
This classic survey addresses principles as well as practical applications of scale, balance, proportion, and symmetry. It presents detailed treatments of doors, windows, walls, stairways, columns, an
This compact volume presents the argument that a distinct combination of factors made the 1960s a watershed era. Heale (American history, Lancaster U.) describes the political events of the period an
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Challenging the reduction of religious fundamentalism to a paranoid, xenophobic faith, Melling (American studies, U. of Wales-Swansea) argues that it draws on a long tradition of evangelical and mille
