The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Vol. 1, Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of Religious Architecture (Religions of the World)

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The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original interpretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume One maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation, and comparison of architecture. Volume Two, an exercise in comparative morphology, offers a comprehensive framework of ritual-architectural priorities by looking at architecture as orientation, as commemoration, and as ritual context.

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Not just about the sacred.......2006-03-12

This excellent book provides a careful and scholarly account of architecture, ancient and modern, drawing on the hitherto under-deployed insights of the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer on the theme of interpretation. The book fits within a series titled Religions of the World, to which it is no doubt an outstanding contribution. But I wish to alert potential readers to the applicability of the text to architecture in general: how we experience and interpret architecture, even outside of sacred contexts. The book makes ample reference to contemporary architecture, and contemporary theorists and critics, from Venturi to Tschumi, and provides a wealth of commonsense, but rarely celebrated, insights and their consequences.

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Published to complement the exhibition "Paris: Capital of the Arts" at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, this superb collection of photographs, expertly reproduced in duotone plates, examines the side-by-side development of photography and the city of Paris from the turn of the last century through the tumultuous days of 1968. During these remarkable decades, Paris witnessed massive industrialization, two world wars, and social upheaval. The ever-advancing medium of photography captured every aspect of the changes.

Organized chronologically, and supported by Stallabrass's authoritative text, Paris Pictured includes some 120 photographs by luminaries such as Atget, Brassaï, Kertesz, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Ronis, Capa, Lartigue, Man Ray, and Moholy-Nagy, making it essential for all lovers of Paris and great photography.

Beautiful & Very Thin Barbara Hutton, American Heiress Pictured in White Tennis Clothes & Sweater in 1946 with Entourage in Paris outside Front Door of Hotel Ritz with assistant manager ( B/W Photograph Page From Vintage Magazine Measures approx 10 1/2
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The first edition of Critical Issues in Tourism provided a much-needed geographic perspective on how the production and consumption of tourism are reshaping human and physical environments. The second edition builds on this, updating the original material to reflect the substantial changes that have taken place within tourism geography in recent years, and adding whole new sections.New material includes: a chapter on tourism and the environment, reflecting the complexities of sustainable approaches; a more detailed discussion of how tourism is signified in the landscape; and new material on gender and migration. Debates on the economic geography of tourism and the importance of the political economy perspective have been revisited, and discussion of lifestyles, social access and tourist typologies extended. In addition, the reference material, examples, and empirical information have been fully updated and new case studies added, covering both developed and developing economies. There is also a new section on key web sites for tourism information.As interest in tourism studies and the geography of tourism grows, this text continues to offer vitally important discussion of the problems and issues facing tourism today.

Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective (second edition).(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Geographical Journal

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Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective (second edition).(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Harold Goodwin
Manufacturer: Royal Geographical Society
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008IS6MS
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 442 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective (second edition).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Harold Goodwin
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 169 Issue: 4 Page: 385(2)

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Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
David Weaver
Manufacturer: American Geographical Society
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ASIN: B00093UM06
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 1995. The length of the article is 704 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective. (book reviews)
Author: David Weaver
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1995
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v85 Issue: n2 Page: p243(3)

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Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective.(Brief Article): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Erlet Cater
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096JSZ8
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on March 1, 1996. The length of the article is 471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective.(Brief Article)
Author: Erlet Cater
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1996
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v162 Issue: n1 Page: p101(2)

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Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He is often referred to as a sophisticated 'value-free' sociologist. This new critical introduction argues that Weber's sociology cannot be divorced from his political standpoint. Weber saw himself as a `class conscious bourgeois' and his sociology reflects this outlook. Providing clear summaries of Weber's ideas - concentrating on the themes most often encountered on sociology courses - Kieran Allen provides a lively introduction to this key thinker.

Kieran Allen explores Weber's political background through his life and his writing. Weber was a neo-liberal who thought that the market guaranteed efficiency and rationality. He was an advocate of empire. He supported the carnage of WW1 and vehemently attacked German socialists such as Rosa Luxemburg. Weber's most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, ignores the bloody legacy associated with the early accumulation of capital. Instead, he locates the origins of the system in a new rigorous morality. Using a political framework, Kieran Allen's book is is ideal for students who want to develop a critical approach.

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Going beyond slogans and superficial explanations, the authors analyze the reasons why so many jobs disappeared from the Canadian economy in the 1990s.

Drawing on the results of a major three-year research project, the authors offer 25 case studies of Canadian companies from five key sectors of the economy. Included are examples from the resource sector, manufacturing, the low-wage service sector, information services and the public sector. Their findings permit them to suggest concrete steps that can be taken to remedy job losses.

Vanishing Jobs is an in-depth study of Canadian business and labour-market trends in the 1990s.

The German Army at D-Day: Fighting the Invasion (Battle Gear)
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A useful German Army source - but must be used with care

How the German Army Experienced D-Day

The German Army at D-Day: Fighting the Invasion (Battle Gear)
Blumentritt
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Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944 (Stackpole Military History)

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In June 1944 Allied troops were massing along the shores of southern England, in readiness for the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Facing them, from the Pas de Calais to Brittany, were German troops, dug in, waiting and preparing for the inevitable confrontation. This unique compilation of in-depth accounts by German commanders presents D-Day, and the events leading up to it, from the point of view of the officers entrusted with preventing the Allied landings. The accounts David Isby has selected, all written soon after the war's close for American military intelligence, cover preparations for invasion and intricately chart the development of German strategy as invasion looms. After detailing this planning stage, and the uncertain waiting, the accounts then turn to the ordeal of D-Day itself, the reactions to the first reports of troop landings, and a blow-by-blow account of the fighting. Fighting the Invasion paints a superb picture of D-Day from the German perspective, bringing home the entire experience from the initial waiting to the bitter fighting on the beaches and running battles in Normandy villages. These are first-hand accounts by German officers and commanders that have never been published before in any language.

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Good one .......2007-03-30

It is German commander report on D - Day. It is good for serious military student to know Normandy deeply and know what German thought and did. Its only disadvantage is lack of hard data with the exception of 719th infantry division. Reader should look it up in Mr Zetterling 's Normandy 1944 for hard data and informaton

Different perspective, worth a read for the serious.......2004-08-30

Fighting the Invasion: The German Army at D-Day is an interesting collection of writings and recollections of the German leaders involved in defending Fortress Europe against the Allied invasion. Aptly edited by David C. Isby, Fighting the Invasion provides a unique pespective on a famous subject. All interested in WWII and the Allied Invasion of western Europe in particular should pick up this book and add it too their repetoire (especially at the paperbook cost!). Readers should however take care to note that many of the events written about come from post-V-Day interogations of leading Wermacht players who may have tinged their memories for fear of recrimination and prosecution (this was the post-war period of war crimes trials). Also some of the authors seem to be painting a picture of D-Day events that are fantastic at best, lies at worse. The chapter by von der Heydte on the actions of the 6th FSR is a prime example - on reading this chapter any knowing nothing of the D-Day events would think the Germans had evrything under control and were driving the Allies back to sea. Yet, in some chapters important insights are given. For example, the chapter on the 352nd Division who played such a large part in the defense of Omaha, contains a telephone log (reproduced in entirely) from 0100 of the 6th of June 1944 to the edn of that first day. While it is clear that confusion existed, a quite obvious and realistic picture (if in hindsight) plays out of how badly things were going as the Allies gained a firm foothold on the continent.

Fighting the Invasion is worthy of a read by anyone serious about WWII history - solid 4 stars.

good book, could be better with a little help.......2001-12-15

This is a great book. A compilation of memoirs and first hand accounts from German Soldiers who were there. It doesn't get any better than that. In the second half of the book maps are widely used and incredibly helpful. However in the beginning of the book there are no maps. This portion of the book was dealing with where the German commanders believed the invasion would come. It would have been very helpful to have a map showing where each officer believed the invasion would come and where it actually did. I am interested to know how close their estimates were.

Not to mention that some of these little French villages are a bit obscure, and a map would be helpful. Don't get me wrong the second half of the book has a lot of maps and is a pleasure to read. A very good addition to any library concerning tactical defense of the Normandy Coast in WW II.

A useful German Army source - but must be used with care.......2000-11-20

This volume seeks to show, from the viewpoint of the German Army, one of the most decisive events of the Second World War: the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June, 1944 and the events leading up to it and those flowing from it. It consists of parts of the military studies written for the US Army by senior (lt. colonel and above) German Army officers post-war and have been used as source material in all subsequent writing on Normandy. They represent, together; the most detailed German account of the fighting.

As has often been pointed out, these documents all have to be used with caution. The earlier ones were done when the authors were prisoners of war, the later ones when they were paid employees of the US Army. Most of them - especially the earlier reports -- were done largely without reference to war diaries, war maps or official papers. While written by participants - many of whom never wrote their memoirs or other accounts in any language - while their memories were still fresh, their immediacy is not matched by attention to detail - dates and places are sometimes wrong or inconsistent - or their impartiality.

In some cases, the threat of prosecution for war crimes obviously influenced the writing. Some ended up doing hard time or the high jump. Blumentritt's admiration of his boss, Field Marshal von Rundstedt, was doubtlessly genuine. But it comes across as "my boss was a wonderful old gentlemen, a natural aristocrat, and ignorant of any atrocities. I can say this because I burned all the incriminating evidence myself". The authors also do not spend much ink on introspection and self-revelation, but self-justification and pointing the finger at others is always in order when former generals are let near a typewriter, as the recent round of Gulf War memoirs show.

A Rashomon-like quality pervades, with the same events being described by multiple writers while - even more frustrating - more significant events are ignored. The quality of the writing and the translation varies greatly.

This book certainly does not tell the complete German side of D-Day. But the documents included in this volume remain a valid part of that picture.

How the German Army Experienced D-Day.......2000-11-14

Fighting the Invasion is how the German Army experienced D-Day. It brings together accounts by those who saw it from the front-line positions and those who saw it from higher headquarters. These narratives cover D-Day: the initial Allied airborne landings that so disrupted the German defenses, the fighting on the beachheads, the start of the Allied advance inland, and, finally, the failed German counterattacks. It also covers the preparation for the invasion: the building of the Atlantic Wall, the disputes over strategy between Rommel and von Rundstedt, and the improvisation of the fighting divisions the Allies would attack on D-Day.

Since the authors are all, I believe, now dead, I have tried to pull together these accounts with minimal editorial intrusions from the accounts they originally compiled for the US Army's historians. These accounts have been a major source for all historians writing about on the German side of D-Day since then, as a check of the bibliography of any of the better books on Normandy will show. I think if it's worth while for the historians to use them, then there is value in brining access to these accounts to a wider audience.

These accounts discuss both the fighting on D-Day itself and the strategy and tactics that shaped them. The authors include members of the high command, such as General Jodl and Admiral Donitz and their respective chiefs of staff. It also includes army, corps, division and regimental commanders and chiefs of staff. General Geyr gives his estimate of the quality of each of his panzer divisions, explaining the factors that would make each one a threat on the battlefield. Baron von der Heydte describes organizing and training his Luftwaffe parachute regiment and then leading into battle against the US 101st Airborne Division in the confused and bitter fighting around Ste. Mere-Eglise on D-Day. Generals Spiedel and Blumentritt provide their unique insights, as chiefs of staff, into the generalship and personality of Rommel and von Rundstedt. Oberstleutnant Fritz Ziegelmann, assistant chief of staff of the German 352nd Infantry Division, is in my opinion the most useful source. His D-Day communications log is included in this volume along with his account of how his division ended up behind Omaha Beach on D-Day and how they managed to make it a "near run thing".

This book is aimed at those with a deep interest in the Normandy campaign. It helps to have a good idea of the general course of D-Day going in, as the authors are not all that helpful about explaining things. German generals were not used to explaining. Nor is the latest and most insightful account of the Germans on D-Day. There has been 55 years of historians' work devoted to that. But it does give you the views - self-exculpatory, buck-passing, complaining though it may often be - of some very important fighting men you are not likely to hear from elsewhere.

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Fighting the Invasion, The German Army at D-Day
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FIGHTING THE INVASION THE GERMAN ARMY AT D-DAY.
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FIGHTING THE INVASION THE GERMAN ARMY AT D-DAY.
Gunther; Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Walter Warlimont, Freiherr von Luttwitz et al; Edited by David C. Isby. Blumentritt
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