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Even when Modernism dimmed interest in the work of classical architects, Palladio's opus never ceased to attract attention. This book sets Pallado in his contemporary context, discusses the theory of the orders, proportions, space composition, façade design, and presents this material in a way accessible to practicing architects and students, so that the ideas can be applied in their architectural work.

The city of Tyros is attacked by a force from the Imidos planet, and the ruler, the Tyro, is old. Damar becomes Tyro during the war and struggles to find a way for the people of Tyros to survive. Some of his people escape into the desert, but he remains behind to be captured. Tyro and his aids are taken aboard an old space ship. When Tyros explodes, the Imido Commander has to protect himself with a creative story. He destroys those below on th...

This is part cookbook, part how-to for non-Republicans, part payback ("Thanks, Mom, for all the swell tricks with Lipton Onion Soup Mix"), and part sheer revenge, as in for one horrifying night when the author was invited to dinner by a coven of Democrats under the pretext of eating a decent whole roasted prime tenderloin and was cruelly served a whole roasted baby tuna. Her date, a Republican fish-hater (a Republican redundancy, by the way, s...

Maria had a shocking childhood in France before her mother brought her to the United States. After her mother remarried their life was good, until her mother's death. Maria's stepfather, a scientist, went to Africa and vanished. When no one else would, Maria went by herself to find him in a country about which she knew nothing. Of course there is the cannibal tribe! Maria and a prince are drawn together by extreme dangers. How do they end up i...

Throughout, the young Deputy is surreptitiously aided and abetted by a mysterious and sometimes mischievous energy source - Bull Durham.

A few months later, Sgt Harris found her whereabouts, she was not but her past written in four-short stories where she explained all her past and set it where Sgt Harris might find it because she was sure that he was on the road after her. At this time he had a portrait of her past, but clues to move on. Instead of her, Sgt Harris found six corpses all of who were fugitives from Roamoak, the town they lived. Nancy Anderson, one her ten names, ...

Offering further evidence of his astounding range as a novelist, the bestselling author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and The Navigator of New York crafts a hilarious and moving paean to the dawn of the television age. Henry Prendergast grew up on television—not merely watching it, but starring in the wildly popular children's show "Rumpus Room.” Cast in the roles of Bee Good and Bee Bad by his mother Audrey, the show's creator, Henry cam...

In his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his life--from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a "New York Times" bestselling author.

For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight.In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismis...

Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.Mamet's Faustus—like Marlowe's and Goethe's before him—is a philosopher whose life's work has been the pursuit of "the secret engine of the world.” He is also the distracted father of a small, adori...

Ursula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible. He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his origina...

Exploitation adjourned is a murder mystery that begins with an unidentified corpse and then moves back to the past with Margaret, a woman who was elated over her chance to marry well. Margaret gradually discovers that she is involved with a man she doesn't know at all and in a marriage that is more nightmarish than dream. And then she does something about it. She begins creating a maze of deception and finds herself on the run with an aging fa...

Stella descends, over and over, in the course of this haunting novel. She falls from the womb, since her mother gives birth standing up, she falls for Martin, who delivers her new green sofa and refuses to leave, she falls ill and eventually recovers, but her biggest fall, the descent that suffuses her story, is a plunge to her death off a nine-story building. Memories and observations related by Stella's adolescent daughter, her curmudgeonly ...

In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British investigating officer, while Mark seeks solace in the exotic colors and contours of the Middle Eastern landscape. Each of the three has come to Palestine to escape grief, and yet—caught in the cro...

Have you heard the most recent near death experience? This book makes it clear that our final destiny is not a story of hope or doubt, but can be clearly understood and known. This assurance is so strong that doubt is completely erased with an earnest down payment for our mansion over the last hilltop of life. New age thinking says that there are many ways to gain this assurance, but this book tells the certain pathway to take for an eternal e...

The question is: Why to read this book? The author had asked himself before he wrote this unique world record: Where can the limits of human possibilities reach? Is a man able to write a book which has its artistic value and has what to say to people, in 24 hours? All people who heard it laughed at him and thought he was off his head. In spite of that fact the author tried it and he wrote a test version in 18 hours. But the totalitarian commun...

Karen is 52 years old. Like many women her age, she is risk adverse. She is comfortable in her life and has accomplished quite a bit, raising two boys, maintaining a household, and teaching English for nearly 30 years. But Karen is also very competitive and rather strong-willed (stubborn) . It was this combination of traits that provided part of the motivation for her to learn how to ride a motorcycle. This book is an account of Karen's experi...

Journey of A Young Man is a story of a thirteen-year old Chinese emigrant named Ken Lee and his experiences of growing up into adolescence in America. The here's Journey begins in rural China in 1951 during the turbulent times of the Korean War. He comes by way of Hong Kong to join his father, uncle and aunt in New York, while leaving his mother alone in China. Once in America Ken struggles against overwhelming odds in life, longing for his mo...