Houses of Power

Author: Simon Thurley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780593074947
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were and what went on inside their walls? Who slept where and with whom? Who chose the furnishings? And what were their passions? The Tudors ruled through the day, throughout the night, in the bath, in bed and in the saddle. Their palaces were genuine power houses - the nerve-center of military operations, the boardroom for all executive decisions and the core of international politics. 'Houses of Power' is the result of Simon Thurley's 30 years of research, picking through architectural digs, and examining financial accounts, original plans and drawings to reconstruct the great Tudor houses and understand how these monarchs shaped their lives.

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs

Author: Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877352
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these complex relationships clarifies how present associations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve.

Smaller Houses of the 1920s

Author: Ethel B. Power
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486460495
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
From a peak era in domestic architecture comes this survey of modern and traditional buildings. Its 130 captioned illustrations offer a full perspective on the buildings' architectural ingenuity and originality.

Houses built on sand

Author: Simon Mabon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526126486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description

Houses of Healing

Author: Robin Casarjian
Publisher: Lionheart Foundation
ISBN: 9780964493308
Category : Church work with prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

House of Houses

Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549028
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat Mora’s House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand.

Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome

Author: Hannah Platts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore multisensory experience – auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and visual – in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations, from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the home, as well as their sociological implications. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome will appeal to all students and researchers interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.

In Hollow Houses

Author: Gary A. Braunbeck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786916368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
As an unspeakable evil stirs beneath the streets of the nation's capital, threatening to open a gateway to a world of terror, the members of the Hoffman Institute may hold the key to protecting Washington from the uncontrolled horror that may be unleashed. Original.

Over the Plain Houses

Author: Julia Franks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938235214
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
A Depression-era Appalachian farm wife is branded as a witch by her fundamentalist husband when she bonds with a USDA agent who has traveled to the North Carolina mountains to instruct regional families on how to modernize their homes and farms.

In the Houses of the Holy

Author: Susan Fast
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198033591
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
This volume examines the powerful ways in which identity can be shaped by rock music. Through the music, imagery and discourse surrounding one of the most innovative and commercially successful rock bands ever, Susan Fast probes such issues as constructions of gender and sexuality, the creation of myth and the use of ritual, the appropriation of Eastern musics and the blues, the physicality of the music, and the use of the body in performance. The band's influence is examined through socially-situated musical analysis, as well as an ethnographic study of Led Zeppelin fans. Fast draws on academic and journalistic writing as well as a new interview with band member John Paul Jones. Specific pieces examined include "Dazed and Confused," "Kashmir," "Stairway to Heaven," and "Whole Lotta Love."