books about: cityscapes     books:       Cityscape (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)14 reviews Ari Marmell, C.A. Suleiman Wizards of the Coast, 2006 A Useful and Interesting Resource! As mentioned in other reviews, this is a DMs resource. This is not the book to come to if you want more base classes or advice on how to adventure in a city. As with all reviews, choose this based on what you know. If you are inexperienced and need advice on how to run urban campaigns, or if you have run urban campaigns before and merely need more ideas this is the perfect book to come to. It ...             Landscapes and Cityscapes for Artists and Craftspeople: From 19th-Century Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive ... Dover Publications, 1999 From Athens in the time of Emperor Hadrian to a bird's-eye view of the majestic dome of London's St. Paul's Cathedral; from the lush Northamptonshire countryside to rugged alpine passes, here is a magnificent assemblage of town and country scenes. Exquisitely rendered, atmospheric, and possessed of photo-like realism.             Landscapes and Cityscapes: The Digital Photographer's Handbook (Digital Photographer's Handbook)2 reviews Simon Joinson Rockport Publishers, 2002 Very practical and helpful This book, while concentrating on landscape photography, can be used as an intro guide for all kinds of digital work. Easy to use format allows you to work through a project while introducing you to techniques you can then explore further on your own. I've recommended it to several people, including a couple of very experienced film photographers, and everyone has found it to be a good resource. ...             Phnom Penh: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) Milton Osborne Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 As a one-time resident of Phnom Penh and an authority on Southeast Asia, Milton Osborne provides a colorful account of the troubled history and appealing culture of Cambodia's capital city. Osborne sheds light on Phnom Penh's early history, when first Iberian missionaries and freebooters and then French colonists held Cambodia's fate in their hands. The book examines one of the most intriguing rulers of the twentieth century, King Norodom ...             Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes9 reviews Rob Alexander Barron's Educational Series, 2006 A FINE ADDITION TO ANY FANTASY LIBRARY I dabble in fantasy art, being much better at looking at it than actually creating the stuff myself. I did enjoy this work. While I will never be as good as the work displayed in this book, I use books such as this for inspiration and motivation. This work is well done. It gives some good, basic tips in developing this particular genre of art. It would be difficult to say if this work is ...             Cityscapes of Boston3 reviews Robert Campbell, Peter Vanderwarker Mariner Books, 1994 awesome historical record -- and entertaining too!! With text by Robert Campbell and photographs (primarily) by Peter Vanderwarker, this book is not only a wonderful volume documenting the history of Boston, but a general and gentle instruction in the rise and fall and rise and fall cycles of many cities, focusing in particular on the "built environment". All photographs are in black-and-white, but this makes the comparison between old and new ...             Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) Elizabeth Nash Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos "finos y frios"-refined and cool. Once Europe's most cosmopolitan metropolis, bridging cultures of East and West and hub of a sea-borne empire, Seville was defined by Spain's great ...             Zagreb: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) Celia Hawkesworth Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 For most of its history, Zagreb was a small town to which big things happened. It has been ruled by Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, threatened by the Ottomans, and absorbed into Yugoslavia. Today it is the capital city of the newly independent Croatia. In Zagreb: A Cultural History, Celia Hawkesworth guides us through a modern city that reflects all the important trends in Central European culture, architecture, and fashion. We visit ...             Hong Kong: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) Michael Ingham Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia's World Cities, taking in its stride the territory's 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's cliched self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a ...             M City: European Cityscapes Karin Bucher, Marco de Michelis, ... Walther Konig, 2006 Description: M City inquires into medium sized European cities through a mix of hematically defined sections (Mapping, Shopping, Migration) and a sampling of six cities, including Basel, Krakow and Trieste. Artists, architects and urban theorists draw richly detailed pictures of profound transformations from core towns to sprawling conturbations, changes of interest to all who are nostalgic for the old city. Includes work from Chris Burden, Dan ...             The Elegiac Cityscape: Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments Tara S. Welch Ohio State University Press, 2005 Throughout its history, the city of Rome has inspired writers to describe its majesty, to situate themselves within its sweeping landscape, and to comment upon its contribution to their own identity. The Roman elegiac poet Propertius was one such author. This final published collection, issued in 16 BCE, has been traditionally read as an abandonment by Propertius of his earlier flippant love poems for a more mature engagement with Roman public ...             Urban Space and Cityscapes Taylor & Francis, 2007 From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of urban space and cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared concern for issues of spatiality, the essay topics are organized around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and ...             Kyoto: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)2 reviews John Dougill Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Close-up on a Country's Capital of Culture When you write a book in praise of Kyoto, it's hard to go wrong by me. This fine and refined metropolis--formerly Japan's political capital and (sorry Tokyo) always and ever its cultural capital--is in all honesty one of my favorite places on earth, and back when I lived in Japan nary a month would go by that I wouldn't visit it at least once. Back here in the States that's not really possible, ...              search for books 19th-century, archive, artists, century, cityscape, cityscapes, cordoba, craftspeople, cultural, digital, dragons, drawing, dungeons, elegiac, european, fantasy, granada, handbook, history, landscapes, meaning, monuments, painting, photographer, pictorial, propertius, roleplaying, seville, sources, supplement books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: First Alert PIR720RN Motion Sensing Light Socket we recommend awesome historical record -- and entertaining too!! home  impressum - about us