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Books narrated by Leo Menzel

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Venice

    by Peter Mentzel ...
    This book presents a concise and readable overview of the history of Venice from the fifth century AD to the present day. The main theme is the unique place that Venice has occupied in the history of Europe in general and in Italy in particular. While Venice has been politically part of united Italy since 1866, its development tied it as much to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant as to the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Who Is Jesus?

    by Jake Mentzel ...
    Who is Jesus?This is the most important question anyone can ask. It's a question every serious person must ask. It's a question Jesus himself asked of his followers: "Who do you say that I am?"There have been other great preachers who could draw a crowd. Other revolutionaries who threatened the political order of their day. Other prophets. But none of them measures up to Jesus. Who is he, really? ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Crossing the Cultural Border

    Leading Radical Change with Respect

    by Karl Mentzel ...
    This high tech semiconductor chip manufacturing plant on the border of California and Mexico was in serious trouble. Its reputation had been tarnished, its image seriously damaged, and its future uncertain due to the plants lingering quality and delivery issues. The corporation was on the verge of losing one of their top customers due to the Mexican plants performance. Change was needed and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Álvaro Siza Viera: A Pool in the Sea

    In conversation with Kenneth Frampton

    This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Álvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto.This book includes a vast collection of descriptions, drawings and photographs by Vincent Mentzel about the project, as well as a writing by Siza Vieira himself and other texts.The book also includes an analysis of the bathers’ course by Pedro Vieira ... Read more

    $15.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Europe

    Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the European Union

    Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present and Future of the European Union examines the EU from a variety of perspectives. The collection begins with the expectation that, despite its challenges, the European Union is here to say, but it also proceeds from the premise that imaginative thinking is necessary to guide the 27 member organization into the future. The book offers nine chapters and a ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Rhetorics for Community Action

    Public Writing and Writing Publics

    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics, by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, offers theory and pedagogy to introduce public writing as a complex political and creative action. To write public texts, we have to invent the public we wish to address. Such invention is a complex task, with many components to consider: exigency that brings people together; a sense of agency and ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Le Corbusier (Second) (World of Art)

    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    A revised and updated edition of a bestselling introduction to Le Corbusier, one of the leading architects of the twentieth century.Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth century. The richness and variety of his work combined with his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had an immense impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Fifth) (World of Art)

    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton.Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Architecture and the Public World

    Kenneth Frampton

    Series series Radical Thinkers in Design
    This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical–theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the “predicament” of architecture in the new Millennium.The essays explore Frampton's contention that architecture's ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • The Story of Post-Modernism

    Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Read more

    $35.00 USD