Architecture as Experience - Radical Change in Spatial Practice
This book investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it with theoretical sophistication.
'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those millions caught up in the nightmare crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat.
Shakespeare and the Varieties of Human Experience Lecturers, Dennis Huston and Peter Saccio Teaching Company, Chantilly, VA, 1992 A series of 8 45-minute lectures on various aspects of the characterizations and human relationships in some of Shakespeare's plays.
Cannae - The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War
On a hot and dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Massively outnumbered, the Carthaginians nevertheless won an astonishing victory - one that left more than 50,000 men dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling study considers the reasons that led the two armies to the field of battle, and why each followed the course that they did when they got there. It explores in detail the composition of the armies, and the tactics and leadership methods of the opposing generals.
Teaching Teenagers: Model Activity Sequences for Humanistic Language Learning
This book shows how teachers can motivate teenage language learners, encourage them to communicate in a real way and teach humanistically while following a predetermined school syllabus. It gives 9 sequences of activities which provide an account of the authors' experience of addressing these problems and the techniques which they used.
