St. Bartholomew's, the grand Episcopal church located on Park Avenue at 50th Street, is one of New York's most distinctive buildings--"a jewel in a monumental setting," as Christine Smith calls it. One of the few low, spacious buildings remaining on an avenue crowded with office towers, the church is a prime example of eclecticism in architecture and houses one of the finest sculptures outside of Florence, the Stanford White portal dedicated to Cornelius Vanderbilt. In this book, beautifully illustrated with 116 photographs--including 28 stunning original color plates by the Italian photographer Raffaello Bencini--Smith examines the history of the parish, the checkered history of the church's construction, the background and ideas of the architect, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and the various elements of its design and decoration, including a discussion of its historical sources. Goodhue based the structure on San Marco, the eleventh-century Venetian church, and incorporated elements of both Romanesque and Gothic architecture. Among the many outstanding features it now includes are beautiful mosaics by Hildreth Meire as well as the White portal--all splendidly captured in the accompanying photographs. This book is must reading for all who love St. Bartholomew's and will especially appeal to anyone interested in architectural history and the history of the city of New York.

St. Bartholomew's Church in the City of New York

Arts & Photography

Smith, Christine

Architecture

Oxford University Press

The impact of early Italian humanism on the development of Quattrocentro architecture has received much attention in recent years. In these essays, Smith focuses instead on the place of architecture in humanist thought--on the ways that works of architecture or architectural imagery became important vehicles for the expression of the humanist's ethical, political, and cultural concerns. The essays in the first part focus on the thought of Leon Battista Alberti and his circle, covering topics ranging from Alberti's use of architectural imagery as allegory for the ideal moral state of spiritual tranquillity to how the rhetorical, philosophical, and theological ideal of varietas influenced the design of Pienza. In the second part, the emphasis shifts to the impact of Byzantine scholarship on Quattrocento humanists' attitudes toward architecture.

Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Eloquence, 1400-1470

Nursing older people is often considered the 'Cinderella' service. This ground-breaking new book seeks to rectify that, bringing discussion of elderly care to the forefront of research and critical practice. Based on the author's own ethnographic research, it explores the gap between theory (what nurses know) and practice (what nurses actually do), including:? key theories of older people's nursing? day-to-day practices on an elderly care ward? the essential skills of caring, nurturing and supporting? the importance of critical reflective practice. Researching Older People's Nursing links the realities of practice with the key principles from 'on the ward' research. It is a fascinating read for nursing students, practitioners and researchers alike.

Researching Older People's Nursing: The gap between theory and practice

Medical Books

Nursing

Red Globe Press

xvi 375p green hardback, fresh and clean copy, text reproduced from typescript, very good indeed

Integrated Multiregion Models for Policy Analysis: An Australian Perspective (STUDIES IN REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS)

Business & Money

Economics

North-Holland

God's Little Instruction Book for Mums (God's Little Instruction Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Marshall Pickering

Good Children's Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Step-by-step instructions for drawing nine different dinosaurs.

How to Draw Dinosaurs (Art Smart)

Children's Books

Gareth Stevens Pub.

Provides simple instructions for drawing nine different pets, including a fish, a kitten, and a foal.

How to Draw Pets (Art Smart)

Step-by-step instructions for drawing several different types of trucks and cars.

How to Draw Trucks and Cars (Art Smart)

Step-by-step instructions for drawing nine different wild animals.

How to Draw Wild Animals (Art Smart)

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