The Biographies include profiles on twenty-five men and women who attained some form of notoriety during this period in history. They include King Richard the Lionheart of England, the Muslim warrior Saladin, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Urban II, Pope Innocent III, Peter the Hermit, Frederick I of Germany, Stephen of Cloyes and others.. The text also includes more than forty-five images.
Ferocious and funny, penetrating and exuberant, Theft is two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's master class on the things people will do for art, for love . . . and for money.
Card's latest installment in his Shadow subseries (Ender's Shadow, etc.), which parallels the overarching series that began with Ender's Game (1985), does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult. The imminent death of Bean, a superhuman 20-something Battle School graduate who suffers from uncontrolled growth due to a genetic disorder, leaves little time for Peter the Hegemon, Ender's older brother, to set up a single world government and for Bean and his wife and former classmate, Petra, to reclaim all their stolen children.
The Darling children's amazing adventure begins when Peter Pan flies into their nursery and whisks them off to his Neverland. There they meet Peter's friends, the Lost Boys. But James Hook, the cruel captain of the pirates, soon captures them. Can Peter Pan save them before Captain Hook makes them walk the plank?
Architecture Beyond Architecture - Creativity and Social Transformations in Islamic Cultures
This volume features the projects entered for the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. An introductory chapter discusses the award and explores spirituality in buildings and contemporary society. The book includes descriptions of the winning designs in Yemen, Tunisia, Pakistan, Senegal and India. Contributors include Charles Jencks, Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry.
