Resultados para "The Tower" en Arte y entretenimiento

Designed for both the tarot beginner and the more advanced student or listener in mind. We are excited to release this book to all interested in Tarot. It's uncertain if anyone knows everything that is included in this book—but you will!

Smith's edgy and funny The Watts Towers Project focuses on Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building his towers: only to walk away from them, never to return. Smith blends his own childhood, the life of Rodia, and the last quarter-century of L.A. history to create (in the words of Back Stage West) a "wonderfully eclectic piece".

Rockin' in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s.

The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown jewel of his professional career; In essence, he created a skyscraper on stilts. The building was a modern marvel—until it was revealed that it had a one in sixteen chance of collapse.

In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his dealings with the unknown, and the worlds of the dead....Jarrem Lee - ghost hunter.... Meet Jarrem Lee, ghost hunter (or as he prefers to call it, a psychical detective). With the help of college student Arthur Bennett, he embarks on a series of spine-tingling and exciting adventures in the world of the dead.

Improve your performance on stage with this insightful collection of essays by world renowned actors, directors, and theater practitioners, including Michael Chekhov, Sofya Giatsintova, and Constantin Stainislavski himself.

おなじみ喬太郎の描く“へんてこキャラ”が東京タワーを舞台にはじける爆笑編。 久しぶりのデートに舞い上がる30代の独身男、青森から上京する若いキャピキャピ娘と東京タワーに行くことになった。何だかちょっと変わったキャラの女の子に振り回されながらも“ラブストーリー”(?)が進行するが、さあどうなることやら。喬太郎落語には幾通りもの特異なキャラクターが登場するが、この登場人物たちの暴走ぶりにも目が離せなくなること請け合い。 落語協会新作落語台本大賞応募作。

Experience the atmospheric history of Paris through an engineering marvel that sparked outrage before winning the world. Perfect for an immersive commute or armchair travel daydreaming, this vivid narrative transports you directly to the muddy Champ de Mars in 1889. Feel the awe-inspiring...

Step inside the ultimate fortress of royal power, where gripping British history intersects with dark political treason. Perfect for a deep-focus commute or an immersive walk, this atmospheric narrative reveals how a single stone stronghold dictated a millennium of empire building, religious...

Discover the fascinating European history behind an architectural engineering flaw that defied gravity for centuries. Perfect for your daily commute, this awe-inspiring narrative transports you to medieval Italy's bustling seaports and cutthroat rivalries. Satisfy your historical curiosity as...

Uncover the European history and engineering blunders behind the world's most beloved architectural failure. Perfect for your morning commute, this engaging narrative transports you to the Piazza dei Miracoli to experience eight centuries of medieval politics, shifting soil, and human ingenuity...

Experience the inspiring history of engineering defiance that transformed a despised temporary exhibit into a global icon. Perfect for your daily commute or armchair travel, this evocative journey plunges you into late nineteenth-century Paris during an era of intense industrial competition...

Uncover how a condemned architectural experiment survived scheduled demolition to become a beloved European history icon. Whether you are fueling an educational morning commute or preparing for a Parisian getaway, this inspiring narrative transports you straight into a city desperate to prove...

Step inside Britain's darkest fortress to experience the medieval history and royal executions that shaped a nation. Walk the bloodstained courtyards and opulent palace halls where power, fear, faith, and myth violently collided. From the brutal aftermath of the Norman Conquest to its modern...

Discover how a disastrous medieval engineering failure transformed into history’s most celebrated architectural wonder. Born from the soaring ambition of an ancient maritime republic, this flawed bell tower was built on treacherous ground. What began as a humiliating civic secret quickly...

When Willow witnesses her animal-loving father, Silas, get kidnapped by a group of foxes and a huge wolf-like creature, she pursues them into the woods. There she meets wolves who tell her they know her father. Together they boldly enter the enormous tower the foxes have built deep in the forest. In the tower Willow discovers the dark project of the chief fox, Reynard, to create new life forms from magical clay buried in the Deep Forest where few can enter.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country. 'Two on a Tower' is Hardy's ninth novel and contains perhaps his most complete treatment of the theme of love across the class and age divide, and also the fullest...

A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement...

Featuring an enlightening introduction by the book's translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, providing generational and cultural context for Kandinsky and his work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art gives testimony to the mind and creative expression of Kandinsky and other artists of his generation. This seminal and thought-provoking book exploring the heart of the artistic endeavor belongs in the library of every serious artist and student of modern art.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's Ten Books on Architecture is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture from antiquity and for hundreds of years influenced major buildings around the world. Dating to the first century BC, the Ten Books on Architecture are not only an excellent historical reference into ancient construction methods and aesthetics but also a manual providing much that can be applied to modern architecture. Today's architect will find much of interest in this fully illustrated reproduction of the 1914 edition translated by Morris Hicky Morgan.