Capital Splendor: Parks & Gardens of Washington, D.C.

Capital Splendor: Parks & Gardens of Washington, D.C.
Author: Barbara Glickman
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0881509825

Provides an illustrated tour of over thirty gardens in the Washington D.C. area, profiling such sites as Dumbarton Oaks, Rock Creek Park, the Smithsonian Gardens, and Mount Vernon.

Ten Years in Washington: Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them

Ten Years in Washington: Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them
Author: Mary Clemmer
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

In her introduction the author describes this book as being a full account of the many marvels and interesting sights of Washington; of the daily life at the white house, both past and present; of the wonders and inside workings of all our government departments; and descriptions and revelations of every phase of political, public, and social life at the nation's capital.

The Splendor Falls

The Splendor Falls
Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375893695

Can love last beyond the grave? Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship. Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’ s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand. Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well? "Lush with Southern atmosphere, The Splendor Falls expertly weaves together romance, tension, and mystery. Haunting and unforgettable!" --Carrie Ryan, bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth "Sylvie's voice is sharp and articulate, and Clement-Moore . . . anchors the story in actual locations and history. . . . Her ear for both adolescent bitchery and sweetness remains sure, and her ability to write realistic, edgy dialogue without relying on obscenity or stereotype is a pleasure."-Publishers Weekly "Long, satisfying and just chilling enough, this will please a wide audience and leave readers hoping for more."-Kirkus Reviews

Architecture, Power and National Identity

Architecture, Power and National Identity
Author: Lawrence Vale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134729286

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.

Oahspe

Oahspe
Author: John Ballou Newbrough
Publisher:
Total Pages: 922
Release: 1882
Genre: Automatism
ISBN:

A Selected Prose

A Selected Prose
Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811212786

A Selected Prose represents the most wide-ranging collection to date of Robert Duncan's essays and talks and is a companion volume to the Selected Poems (1993). Editor Robert J. Bertholf has taken three core essays from Fictive Certainties (1985), an earlier prose collection that was limited to works written after 1955; to these have been added a variety of Duncan's writings on contemporary artists and such fellow poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Jack Spicer. Included as well are "Rites of Participation", an excerpt from the still unpublished "H.D. Book"; a long meditation on Edmond Jabes' The Book of Questions, and a revised version of Duncan's controversial and provocative essay of 1944, "The Homosexual in Society".