There was a time when the people of Egypt worshiped animal-headed gods & built mighty tombs at the command of their pharaoh That time ended 1500 years ago Now Egypt is a Muslim nation ruled by a sultan from the new city of Cairo The Guild of Seekers have the sultan&s blessing to dig up the land&s ancient treasures To the South Nubia is a Christian country protected from Muslim armies by an ancient treaty The empire of Ethiopia is resurgent its Christian ruler inspired by his pilgrimage to Jerusalem Follow the Nile The lands of the Nile hold some of the oldest cultures in the world no less vigorous in the medieval period than in the ancient past This book

Includes:: rules for Egyptian tombs & their treasures the forbidden corpse magic of Nubian pyramids & the wonders of Nubian alchemy Play as natives or visitors from Europe Use the setting as somewhere for your characters to be from or as a destination for adventure Lands of the Nile adds color to your Ars Magica Fifth Edition saga

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Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past present & future have met in debates over questions of national identity disputes over history & modernity & ideals of citizenship & the body Landscape & Englishness is extensively illustrated & draws on a wide range of material
- topographical guides health manuals paintings poetry architectural polemic photography nature guides & novels The author first examines the inter-war period showing how a vision of Englishness & landscape as both modern & traditional urban & rural progressive & preservationist took shape around debates over building in the countryside the replanning of cities & the cultures of leisure & citizenship He concludes by tracing out the story of landscape & Englishness down to the present day showing how the familiar terms of debate regarding landscape & heritage are a product of the immediate post-war era & asking how current arguments over care for the environment or expressions of the nation resonate with earlier histories & geographies
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This intimate glimpse into the private sketchbooks of the world's leading landscape & garden designers reveals a dazzling array of insights & ideas that will inspire the amateur & practitioner alike Thirty-seven international designers carefully selected by the design critic behind the Chelsea Fringe have opened their sketchbooks specially for this publication Featuring hundreds of drawings & illustrations as diverse as their creators Landscape & Garden Design Sketchbooks is a continual source of inspiration for planting design elements colour schemes & materials encouraging weekend gardeners design professionals & students to draw their ideas by hand ...

What is landscape? How does it differ from &land&? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured a scene? When & why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is &nature&? Is it everything that isn&t art or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas & images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance Using a thematic structure many issues are examined for instance landscape as a cultural construct; the relationship between landscape as accessory or backdrop & landscape as the chief subject; landscape as constituted by various practices of framing; the sublime & ideas of indeterminacy; landscape art as picturesque or as exploration of living processes These issues are raised & explored in connection with Western cultural movements & within a full international & historical context Many forms of landscape art are included painting gardening panorama poetry photography & art The book is designed to both take stock of recent interdisciplinary debates & act as a stimulus to rethinking our assumptions about landscape ...

Aimed at prospective & new students this book gives a comprehensive introduction to the nature & practice of landscape architecture the professional skills required & the latest developments After discussing the history of the profession the book explains the design process through principles such as hierarchy human scale unity harmony asymmetry colour form & texture It looks at how design is represented through both drawing & modelling & through digital techniques such as CAD & the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) This is followed by an examination of project management & landscape management techniques Finally the book explores educational & employment opportunities & the future of the profession in the context of climate change & sustainability Illustrated with international examples of completed projects Landscape Architecture provides an invaluable one-stop resource for anyone considering study or a career in this field ...

The landscape is unique among subject matter
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Supported by Visit Britain & Network Rail the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition is the brainchild of Charlie Waite one of today's best-known landscape photographers The winners are chosen by a panel of respected judges from thousands of entrants across four categories
- Classic Urban Your View & Living
- & there's a special class for photographers under 17 years old Like the others before it the 10th edition features everything the varied British landscape is renowned for
- classic shots of verdant countryside rugged lochs mountains & moorland & stark urban industrial scenes capturing the beauty & diversity of Britain in the 21st century With an introduction by Charlie Waite giving an insight into current photography trends & a helpful technical section detailing the cameras techniques & equipment used to create the stunning images Landscape Photographer of the Year Collection 10 is a must for everyone with an interest in photography as well as anyone who appreciates the British countryside


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Phenomenology Materiality Cybernetics Palimpsest Cyborgs Landscape Urbanism Typology Semiotics Deconstruction
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As leading radical writer on art John Berger celebrates his ninetieth year he brings a lifetime's engagement with the ideas artists & thinkers that have shaped his thinking Walter Benjamin Rosa Luxemburg & Bertolt Brecht among them In Landscapes Berger allows us to see the evolution of his own way of seeing He explores the relationship between creativity & politics & the revolutionary potential of art through a series of different forms As always in this book Berger pushes at the limits of art writing demonstrating beautifully how his painter's eyes lead him to refer to himself only as a storyteller A landscape is to John Berger like a portrait an animating liberating metaphor rather than a rigid definition Landscapes offers a tour of the history of art but not as you know it Landscapes brings together Berger's most penetrating insights into how we may engage with both art & the artist in society ...

What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us but most of us know very little about how they have developed what goes on in them & how they react to changing climates tectonics & human activities Examining what landscape is & how we use a range of ideas & techniques to study it Andrew Goudie & Heather Viles demonstrate how geomorphologists have built on classic methods pioneered by some great 19th century scientists to examine our Earth Using examples from around the world including New Zealand the Tibetan Plateau & the deserts of the Middle East they examine some of the key controls on landscape today such as tectonics & climate as well as humans & the living world They also discuss some key 'landscape detectives' from the past including Charles Darwin who did some important but often overlooked research on landscape Concluding with the cultural importance of landscape & exploring how this has led to the conservation of much 'earth heritage' they delve into the future & look at how we can predict the response of landscapes to climate change in the future ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...