The Art of Eric Gill

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Koopman in Freiburg. Toccata, D minor, BWV 565 by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

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Exploring the world series. Chile : Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, and Valparaiso

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Exploring the world series. Mexico : Intro to Cuernavaca

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Exploring the world series. Mexico : Puebla

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David Starkey's Music & monarchy. 4, Re-inventions

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Exploring the world series. Mexico : intro to Mexico City & Vera Cruz

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A companion to medieval Toledo : reconsidering the canons

Table of Contents: “…Al-Maʹmūn of Toledo : a warrior in the palace garden / Michelle Hamilton -- Prestige to power : Toledo's cathedral chapter and assimilated identity / Patrick Harris -- Evolución de las fortificaciones medievales en la Península Ibérica : el caso de Toledo / Fernando Valdés Fernandez -- Old Hispanic chant manuscripts of Toledo : testimonies of a local or of a wider tradition? …”
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Burn and dodge by Dolin, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Meunier, Captain of the Guard, P.S. 119 Brooklyn -- Ghazal without the Man -- Barbarous Thing -- O Indigo -- The Poem for Envy I Cannot Write -- Sonnet/Ghazal to Sleep -- At the Reception, 1963 -- Ode to Ginger -- On Not Being Lynn Emanuel -- Ode to Fernando Pessoa -- Your Only Music: Sonnet/Ghazal Starting with a Line from Keats -- Tai Chi in Fog -- IV -- Clare-Hewn -- V -- Cullet -- Cloakroom Wit -- A Pact with Ezra Pound -- Passing -- Slatch -- Jealousy -- Forms of Address -- Envy Ghazaled -- I Have -- Door Litotes -- Uncentered @ the Cathedral Rose Garden -- Hot Springs Cinquains -- Object Memory -- VI -- Riding Out a Monday Afternoon Funk I Read Charles Wright and Tu Fu Over a Cup of Green Tea -- Letter to 700-Year-Old Invidia in the Scrovegni Chapel to Be Folded in the Shape of a Snake Swallowing Its Tail -- Burn and Dodge: A Sonnet/Ghazal -- Cursed Anger Sing -- On the Death of Someone Reviled (Schadenfreude) -- Pandora and the Summer Au Pair -- Lick-Over -- The Unwritten Poem -- Obsesspool -- Impatience Scolding -- Sin-O-Mints -- Either / Or -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.…”
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Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer by Raisin, Ross, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Introduction: The Seed; Chapter One: First steps; Exploration; Planning; Research; Method; Form; Extract: 'Swimming in Egypt'; Extract: 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler'; Chapter Two: Technique; The Opening; Extract: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'; Extract: 'Pereira Maintains'; Characters; Extract: 'The Beggar Maid'; Extract: 'A Mother', from 'Dubliners'; Extract: 'The Parting Gift', from 'Walk the Blue Fields'; Extract: 'Where I'm Calling From', from 'Cathedral'; Place; Extract: 'The Return of the Native'; Extract: 'The Carhullan Army'; Extract: 'May We Be Forgiven'…”
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Architecture and Heritage Buildings in George Town, Penang. by Ahmad Sanusi, Hassan

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; HISTORIC GEORGE TOWN; Historic City; Heritage Buildings in George Town; RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS; Acheh Street Jamek Mosque; Kapitan Keling Mosque; Benggali Mosque; Madrasah Hamidi Arabi; Nagore Durga Sheriff Shrine; Noordin Family Tomb; Cathedral of the Assumption; St. George's Church; Khoo Kongsi; Moey She Kah Meow; Cheah Kongsi; Carpenters' Guild (Loo Pun Hong); Chung Keng Kwee Temple and Kongsi; Toi San Nin, Yong Hui Kwan and Wu Ti Meow; Seri Mahariamman Temple; GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION BUILDINGS.…”
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August Macke (1887-1914) by Macke, August, 1887-1914, Cohen, Walter, 1880-1942

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Burn and dodge by Dolin, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Meunier, Captain of the Guard, P.S. 119 Brooklyn -- Ghazal without the Man -- Barbarous Thing -- O Indigo -- The Poem for Envy I Cannot Write -- Sonnet/Ghazal to Sleep -- At the Reception, 1963 -- Ode to Ginger -- On Not Being Lynn Emanuel -- Ode to Fernando Pessoa -- Your Only Music: Sonnet/Ghazal Starting with a Line from Keats -- Tai Chi in Fog -- IV -- Clare-Hewn -- V -- Cullet -- Cloakroom Wit -- A Pact with Ezra Pound -- Passing -- Slatch -- Jealousy -- Forms of Address -- Envy Ghazaled -- I Have -- Door Litotes -- Uncentered @ the Cathedral Rose Garden -- Hot Springs Cinquains -- Object Memory -- VI -- Riding Out a Monday Afternoon Funk I Read Charles Wright and Tu Fu Over a Cup of Green Tea -- Letter to 700-Year-Old Invidia in the Scrovegni Chapel to Be Folded in the Shape of a Snake Swallowing Its Tail -- Burn and Dodge: A Sonnet/Ghazal -- Cursed Anger Sing -- On the Death of Someone Reviled (Schadenfreude) -- Pandora and the Summer Au Pair -- Lick-Over -- The Unwritten Poem -- Obsesspool -- Impatience Scolding -- Sin-O-Mints -- Either / Or -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.…”
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With God On Their Side by Chandler, Timothy

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Natural trouble by Hightower, Scott

Table of Contents: “…""The Garum Pits of Baelo""""Cusp and Tether""; ""Tacking""; ""Cathedral Plaza""…”
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St. Oswald of Worcester : life and influence

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Ordering chaos : the self and the cosmos in twelfth-century Latin prosimetrum by Balint, Bridget K.

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Out of the cloister : scholastic exegesis of the Song of Songs, 1100-1250 by LaVere, Suzanne

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Mary, music, and meditation : sacred conversations in post-Tridentine Milan by Getz, Christine Suzanne, 1957-

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Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests. by Bradbury, Ray

Table of Contents: “…Go Not With Ruins in Your Mind -- God Is a Child -- Put Toys in the Tomb -- God for a Chimney Sweep -- We Are the Carpenters of an Invisible Cathedral -- Part One: The Reasons Why We Should Go to Space -- Part Two: Blueprints for Light-and-Sound at Canaveral -- How to Do it -- Which Shall It Be? …”
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Coming to Pass : Florida's Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change. by Cerulean, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Passing of a Palm Cathedral; PART 1 Origin Stories; 1 Sand Supply; 2 Front Beach; 3 Relict Ridges; 4 Middens and Lagoons; 5 The Passes; 6 Upland: Where the Beach Used to Be; PART 2 Territory; 7 The First People; 8 Beach Badges; 9 Claiming a Space on the Sand: Willets; 10 What the Eagle Calls Home; 11 The Rights of Birds; PART 3 Diminishing Islands; Direct Take; 12 The Ways We Fish; 13 Oystercatchers; 14 Robbing the River; Habitat Loss; 15 Evolution's Larger Concerns: Beach Mice; 16 Counting Christmas Birds; Pollution; 17 Stealing the Dark from Sea Turtles…”
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Real-life X-files : investigating the paranormal by Nickell, Joe

Table of Contents: “…-- Legend of the "miraculous stairway" -- Flying saucer "dogfight" -- A study in clairvoyance -- The Kennedy curse -- Riddle of the circles -- Cult of the "UFO missionaries" -- The electronic poltergeist -- The Silver Lake serpent -- Miraculous rose petals -- Paranormal Lincoln -- The Roswell legend -- Investigating police psychics -- Ghostly photos -- The Lake Utopia monster -- Memory of a past life -- Photographing the aura -- Mystery of the Holy Shroud -- The giant frog -- The alien likeness -- In search of "snake oil" -- The haunted cathedral -- Miracle photographs -- The gypsies' "great trick" -- Magnetic Hill -- Phantom ship -- The cryptic stone -- Communicating with the dead? …”
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Visible Exports / Imports : New Research on Medieval and Renaissance European Art and Culture

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch and Giotto in Padua : identity and friendship / John Richards -- A Florentine in Romagna : Giotto and the Programme of Decoration in the church of San Francesco in Rimini / Jill Farquhar -- Lippo di Dalmasio, the Madonna of Humility and painting in Pistoia in the late trecento / Flavio Boggi -- Matteo di Giovanni and the civic patrons of southern Tuscany / Sandra Cardarelli -- The cathedral façade : Papal politics and religious propaganda in medieval Orvieto / Pippa Salonius -- Political tapestries of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, dukes of Burgundy / Katherine Anne Wilson -- Devotional and artistic responses to the cult of Mary Magdalen in Trentino-Alto Adige, c. 1300-1500 : the case of Cusiano / Joanne Anderson -- Venice, the sea and the cult of St Nicholas / Anastasia Kanellopoulou -- The man of sorrows and the symbols of the passion -- aspects of the image in the Passional of Abbess Cunegund / Jennifer S. …”
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Architecture as experience : radical change in spatial practice

Table of Contents: “…Dixon -- From medieval sacred place to modern secular space : changing perspectives on the cathedral and town of Chartres / Laura H. Hollengreen -- Paths of empowerment : ritual reinscription of meaning on the plan of Amsterdam, 1886-1914 / Nancy Stieber -- Caput mundi? …”
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Burial in later Anglo-Saxon England c. 650-1100 AD

Table of Contents: “…Cemetery diversity in the mid to late Anglo-Saxon period in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire / Jo Buckberry -- Engenderedd bodies and objects of memory in final phase graves / Howard Williams -- Burial practice in seventh-century Hampshire: St Mary's stadium in context / Nick Stoodley -- "Such a resting-place as is necessary for us in God's sight and fitting in the eyes of the world": Saxon Southampton and the development of churchyard burial / Annia Kristina Cherryson -- An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Worcester Cathedral / Christopher Guy -- Material symbolism and death: charcoal burial in later Anglo-Saxon England / James Holloway -- Differentiation in the later Anglo-Saxon burial ritual on the basis of mental or physical impairment: a documentary perspective / Sally Crawford -- Burying the socially and physically distinctive in later Anglo-Saxon England / D.M. …”
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Twenty first century blues by Cecil, Richard, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Lament for the makers -- Catechism -- Albi cathedral -- Limbo -- Let's pretend -- Anti ode to autumn -- Discuss "divine justice in The Inferno" -- Fool's gold -- The funeral director : against cremation -- The worst day of the year -- Portrait of five women and a cat -- The writing requirement -- To the poet who skipped my reading & died -- A letter to William Butler Yeats -- Package tour -- There's no place like home -- Almost an apartment in Antibes -- Evolution in Indiana -- Heaven -- As you like it -- Let's go! …”
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People and places of nature and culture by Giblett, Rodney James

Table of Contents: “…-- PART II: Landscape Aesthetics -- Chapter 3: Nature's Fairest Forms: Aesthetics of Nature -- Chapter 4: Pleasing Prospects Revista'd: The Gentleman's Park Estate -- PART III: Colonial Country -- Chapter 5: Home in the Wilds: Wild(er)ness as a Cultural Category -- Chapter 6: Riding Roughshod Over It: Mateship Against the Bush -- PART IV: National Parklands -- Chapter 7: Nature Sanctuarized: 'Our' National Parks as Modern Cathedrals -- Chapter 8: Sites and Rights of Enjoyment: Nature and Native Title in National Parks -- PART V: Industrial Land Use -- Chapter 9: Eating Earth: Mining and Gluttony -- Chapter 10: Kings in Kimberley Watercourses and Wetlands: Sadism and Pastoralism -- PART VI: Land Symbiotics -- Chapter 11: 'We are the Land Ourselves': Aboriginal Country is a Cultural Landscape -- Chapter 12: Home is Here: Livelihood, Bioregion and Symbiosis.…”
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On the margins of religion

Table of Contents: “…On the margins: an introduction / João Pina-Cabral and Frances Pine -- Homeless spirits: modern spiritualism, psychical research and the anthropology of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / João Vasconcelos -- The abominations of anthropology: Christianity, ethnographic taboos, and the meanings of "science" / Simon Coleman -- Religious logistics: African Christians, spirituality, and transportation / Thomas Kirsch -- Contested spaces: temple building and the re-creation of religious boundaries in contemporary urban India / Ursula Rao -- Bosnian neighborhoods revisited: tolerance, commitment, and Komšiluk in Sarajevo / Cornelia Sorabji -- Revival of Buddhist royal family commemorative ritual in Laos / Grant Evans -- Centres and margins: the organisation of extravagance as self-government in China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Allies and subordinates: religious practice on the margins between Buddhistm and shamanism in southern Siberia / Galina Lindquist -- On celibate marriages: conversion to the Brahma Kumaris in Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska -- Elders' cathedrals and childrens' marbles: dynamics of religious transmission among the Baga of Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Geomancy, politics, and colonial encounters in rural Hong Kong / Rubie S. …”
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Koopman in Freiburg. Chorale, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

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Inside the factory XL. Series 7, episode 1, Diggers

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Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major, Op. 97. by (1810), Robert Schumann

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Koopman in Freiburg. Chorale, Nun komm', der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

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Mosè : sacred melodrama in semi-scenic version by Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868

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David Starkey's Music & monarchy. 3, Great British music

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Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman : an Anthology of His Religious Verse. by Gardner, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Sunday Afternoon Service in St Enodoc Church5 Vanity and Hypocrisy in the Church; Hymn; Electric Light and Heating; The Friends of the Cathedral; Not Necessarily Leeds; St Barnabas, Oxford; Exchange of Livings; Blame the Vicar; The Parochial Church Council; Diary of a Church Mouse; Guilt; Bristol and Clifton; St. …”
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Universal principles of design by Lidwell, William

Table of Contents: “…80/20 Rule -- Accessibility -- Advance Organizer -- Aesthetic-Usability Effect -- Affordance -- Alignment -- Anthropomorphic Form -- Archetypes -- Area Alignment -- Attractiveness Bias -- Baby-Face Bias -- Biophilia Effect -- Cathedral Effect -- Chunking -- Classical Conditioning -- Closure -- Cognitive Dissonance -- Color -- Common Fate -- Comparison -- Confirmation -- Consistency -- Constancy -- Constraint -- Contour Bias -- Control -- Convergence -- Cost-Benefit -- Defensible Space -- Depth of Processing -- Design by Committee -- Desire Line -- Development Cycle -- Entry Point -- Errors -- Expectation Effect -- Exposure Effect -- Face-ism Ratio -- Factor of Safety -- Feedback Loop -- Fibonacci Sequence -- Figure-Ground Relationship -- Fitts' Law -- Five Hat Racks -- Flexibility-Usability Tradeoff -- Forgiveness -- Form Follows Function -- Framing -- Freeze-Flight-Fight-Forfeit -- Garbage In-Garbage Out -- Golden Ratio -- Good Continuation -- Gutenberg Diagram -- Hick's Law -- Hierarchy -- Hierarchy of Needs -- Highlighting -- Horror Vacui -- Hunter-Nurturer Fixations -- Iconic Representation -- Immersion -- Inattentional Blindness -- Interference Effects -- Inverted Pyramid -- Iteration -- Law of Prägnanz -- Layering -- Legibility -- Life Cycle -- Mapping -- Mental Model -- Mimicry -- Mnemonic Device -- Modularity -- Most Advanced Yet Acceptable -- Most Average Facial Appearance Effect -- Normal Distribution -- Not Invented Here -- Nudge -- Ockham's Razor -- Operant Conditioning -- Orientation Sensitivity -- Performance Load -- Performance Versus Preference -- Personas -- Picture Superiority Effect -- Priming -- Progressive Disclosure -- Propositional Density -- Prospect-Refuge -- Prototyping -- Proximity -- Readability -- Recognition Over Recall -- Red Effect -- Redundancy -- Rosetta Stone -- Rule of Thirds -- Satisficing -- Savanna Preference -- Scaling Fallacy -- Scarcity -- Self-Similarity -- Serial Position Effects -- Shaping -- Signal-to-Noise Ratio -- Similarity -- Stickiness -- Storytelling -- Structural Forms -- Symmetry -- Threat Detection -- Three-Dimensional Projection -- Top-Down Lighting Bias -- Uncanny Valley -- Uncertainty Principle -- Uniform Connectedness -- Veblen Effect -- Visibility -- Visuospacial Resonance -- von Restorff Effect -- Wabi-Sabi -- Waist-to-Hip Ratio -- Wayfinding -- Weakest Link.…”
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Putting science in its place : geographies of scientific knowledge by Livingstone, David N., 1953-

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The Idea of a Theater : a Study of Ten Plays, the Art of Drama in Changing Perspective by Fergusson, Francis

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Christians and Moors in Spain, Volume I. by Smith, Colin

Table of Contents: “…The Cid takes Murviedro (1098); 26. The Cid endows the Cathedral of Valencia (1098); 27. St James frees a captive (1100); 28. …”
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Medieval monastic education

Table of Contents: “…The changing face of tradition: monastic education in the Middle Ages / George Ferzoco -- Training for the liturgy as a form of monastic education / Susan Boynton -- Besides the book: using the body to mould the mind-Cluny in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Isabelle Cochelin -- A medieval novice's formation: reflection on a fifteenth-century manuscript at Downside Abbey / Aidan Bellenger -- The scope of learning within the cloisters of the English cathedral priories in the later Middle Ages / Joan Greatrex -- University monks in late medieval England / James G. …”
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