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Sacred Doorways: A Beginner's Guide to Icons
When Linette Martin, a student at Oxford University, asked her art history tutor if there were any good books on icons for the ordinary reader, he replied that there were books by Orthodox theologians from an theological perspective and books by art history professors from an art history perspective, but nothing for the ordinary reader. Martin, herself an Anglican, set out to fill the gap by writing Sacred Doorways: A Beginner's Guide to Icons. Martin explains that she was initially captivated by the beauty and mystery of icons, but did not understand their "language." Her goal for Sacred Doorways was to write their alphabet, thereby helping others to understand this ancient Byzantine art form. Icons, Martin explains, are meant to convey Christian truths in a visual form, as a complement to the written Bible. Sacred Doorways is an ideal book for the Orthodox to pass along to their non-Orthodox friends. For Catholics and Protestants, it will serve as a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to help to increase understanding and appreciation of Orthodox spirituality. For the general reader, Sacred Doorways provides an essential guidebook to one of the most ancient religious art forms in the world..
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Doorways, Windows & Transoms Stained Glass Pattern Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
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Doorway to Freedom: The Story of David Kaufmann: Merchant-Benefactor-Resuer
How it all began: Dr. Benjamin M. Nachman, a retired Omaha dentist and long-time Holocaust researcher, `discovered' David Kaufmann while interviewing a survivor for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. In 1969, Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, who of?ciated at the funeral of Mr. David Kaufmann, learned that Mr. Kaufmann was "Mr. Grand Island" and that he had been, throughout his life, a role model for cherished Jewish values and had demonstrated that wealth is truly held only in stewardship. It is deeds, generosity and courage that counts! David Kaufmann was born in Germany in 1875. He was educated and then began his professional life in merchandising and retail in Berlin, and other cities near Bonn and Cologne. At the age of 28, in 1903, he left Germany for America. He started working at A & S Department Store in Brooklyn, NY, but Mr. S.N.Wolbach, a Grand Island, Nebraska, merchant was so impressed by him that he encouraged him to come to Nebraska. And that was the beginning..
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Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices, and Other Elements (v. 1)
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The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse
Another world awaits you.... Moose juice. A bear with one green ear. Broccoli that "stalks" its prey. A dragon that plays the piano and kazoo. A kite-flying werewolf Trees that sneeze. Sound unbelievable? It all becomes reality when you step through The Paper Doorway New York Times best-selling author Dean Koontz has created a wickedly fun book of poems, accompanied by fanciful black-and-white drawings, that takes readers on a wild romp through the twists and turns of the imagination. .
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Doors of the World
From a sandstone portal in Morocco to a bamboo-lined aperture in China, an exploration of door forms in vivid color.Charged with a certain mystery—at once enclosing and exposing an interior space—the door is a primal yet intricate architectural component. Capturing the sheer variety of entryways worldwide, this book shows the harmony achieved by their diverse proportions, designs, materials, and colors and discloses how doors reflect geography. 231 color illustrations..
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Summer Doorways: A Memoir
America today is a mobile society Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. “Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but when I first went such departure was still surrounded with an atmosphere of adventure and improvisation, and my youth and inexperience and my all but complete lack of money heightened that vertiginous sensation,” writes W. S. Merwin. Twenty-one, married and graduated from Princeton, the poet embarked on his first visit to Europe in 1948 when life and traditions on the continent were still adjusting to the postwar landscape. Summer Doorways captures Merwin at a similarly pivotal time before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952 for his first book, A Mask for Janus—the moment was, as the author writes, “an entire age just before it was gone, like a summer.” .
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