Author: Thomas Leslie File Type: pdf For more than a century, Chicagos skyline has included some of the worlds most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy Citys skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 and concludes in 1934 with the onset of the Great Depression, which brought architectural progress to a standstill. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the Marshall Field and Company Building, the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Palmolive Building, and many others rose to impressive new heights, thanks to innovations in building methods and materials. Solid, earthbound edifices of iron, brick, and stone made way for towers of steel and plate glass, imparting a striking new look to Chicagos growing urban landscape. Thomas Leslie reveals the daily struggles, technical breakthroughs, and negotiations that produced these magnificent buildings. The book includes detailed analyses of how foundation materials, framing structures, and electric lighting developed throughout the years, showing how the skeletal frames of the Rookery, Ludington, and Leiter Buildings led to the braced frames of the Masonic Temple and Schiller Building and eventually to the concealed frames of the City Opera, Merchandise Mart, and other Chicago landmarks. Leslie also considers how the citys infamous political climate contributed to its architecture, as building and zoning codes were often disputed by shifting networks of rivals, labor unions, professional organizations, and municipal bodies. Featuring more than a hundred photographs and illustrations of the citys physically impressive and beautifully diverse architecture, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 shows how during these decades, Chicagos architects, engineers, and builders learned from one anothers successes and failures to create an exceptionally dynamic, energetic period of architectural progress. -- Publishers description.

Author: Paul Poplawski File Type: pdf D.H. Lawrence remains one of the most popular and studied authors of the 20th century. This book is a comprehensive but easy to use reference guide to Lawrences life, works, and critical reception. The volume has been systematically structured to convey a coherent overall sense of Lawrences achievement and critical reputation, but it is also designed to enable the reader who may be interested in only one aspect of Lawrences career, perhaps even in only one of his novels or stories, to find relevant information quickly and easily without having to read other parts of the text.The book begins with an original biography by John Worthen, one of the worlds foremost authorities on Lawrences life and work. The chapters that follow provide separate entries for all of Lawrences works, except for individual poems and paintings, with critical summaries, discussions of characters, and details of settings. There is also a complete overview of Lawrence and film, with the most complete listing available of film adaptations of his works and of criticism relating to them. Each section of the book provides comprehensive primary and secondary bibliographical data, including citations for the most recent scholarly studies. Maps and chronologies further trace Lawrences travels and his development over time.From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This new biography by respected Lawrence scholar Worthen (D.H. Lawrence The Early Years 1885 1912) considers the writers life and career in the context of what Worthen convincingly shows to have been a lifelong, instinctive rebellion against his family, his culture, his country and the enigmas of his own body. In developing his thesis, Worthen provides perceptive links between the people in Lawrences life and his fictional characters. A stylishly written, smoothly developed analysis of Lawrences conflicted psyche illuminates his love-hate relationship with his mother, his early platonic and romantic attachments, his interaction with the writers, artists and thinkers of his generation, and his grand passion for Frieda von Richthofen Weekley, the sexually uninhibited German aristocrat who left her English husband and three children to join Lawrence in a tempestuous, sometimes unfaithful union. (Worthen has unearthed new material that contradicts Friedas version of Lawrences last days.) Their peripatetic, often penurious life together unreels with sustained suspense as Lawrences quest for the most salubrious place to unleash his creative imagination and, after his tuberculosis was diagnosed, to preserve his health. Worthen empathetically explores Lawrences charming but often exasperating persona, his commitment to investigating the body and its sexual needs, his courage in writing Lady Chatterleys Lover. Worthens fidelity to detail never slows the momentum of the tragic arc of Lawrences life and the importance of his literary legacy. 8 pages of b&w photos maps. (Nov.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From BooklistStarred Review Worthens D. H. Lawrence The Early Years (1991), the first volume in Cambridges three-volume life, remains the single best biographical work on the groundbreaking English writer, but this attempt to encompass the whole of Lawrences life in one volume finishes a close second. Worthen has too much ground to cover here to allow for the degree of psychological nuance or the extended critical analyses he brought to The Early Years, but in their place, we experience the full sweep of Lawrences utterly unconventional, often torturous, and occasionally rhapsodic life. Worthens unifying theme is Lawrences perpetual status as an outsider, first in working-class Nottinghamshire and later in the English literary world, in society at large (where he was reviled as pornographer), and, finally, in contemporary academia (where he is typically dismissed as sexist). As he follows Lawrence on his peripatetic journey through life, traveling (despite his always frail health) from continent to continent, never satisfied with his surroundings as he was never satisfied with his work, Worthen reveals his subject as a man of profound contradictions whose novels, stories, and poems achieve their greatness (and continue to befuddle their critics) in large part because they give vent to those same contrary impulses (individualism versus community mind versus body) that defined their authors personality. At the heart, too, of those contradictions was Lawrences tumultuous marriage to Frieda Weekley Worthen shows the often-battling couple in all their fury but also reveals their uncommon bond. Everything flourishes, Weekley said to Lawrence in April 1929, months before his death. Why cant you? Always the outsider. Bill Ott American Library Association. lt

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Author: Dennis Shrock File Type: pdf Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrocks Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, Choral Scores is the most thorough, and up-to-date collection of choral music available. Complete with an appendix offering literal translations of texts, as well as composer and genre indices, Choral Scores is an essential reference for choral scholars, teachers, and students alike.