Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the captivating story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Fascinating period views and original plans and drawings, many previously unpublished, are complemented by Miller's breathtaking new photographs, which reveal the restored park in all its glory

The book introduces the splendid bronze culture of ancient China with clear and vivid description

China has long been a "country of jade" that shines in world civilization history. The Chinese nation has respected, honored, revered, loved and cherished jade for a history of over 8,000 years

Characters, the symbol of human civilization, first appeared in the East. Like the ancient languages of Sumer, Egypt and India, all of which belong to the category of pictographs, the Chinese characters were first created in the shape of "drawings"

This work sets out to investigate the Chinese conception of space. It attempts, to discover the underling mechanism of reasoning, the way in which mental constructions of space lead to formal structures, which carries meanings

Yearbook of Czech architecture aims to inform both the professional and general public of current developments in the field, provide inspiration and trigger public debate

It includes pictures and photos of China

This book is about czech architecture and bildungs project

Conflict across Cultures is written by a new generation of conflict resolution scholars from four part of the world: Canada, South Africa, Japan and the US. They discribe processes and help build the skills necessary for successful conflict resolution. Here is a new framework for understanding others - a map for making - progress through differences that can otherwise overwhelm us. Conflict across Cultures offers hope in countering the view that differences must divide us

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