The Architecture category has 52 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 44 ratings. The most-rated is The 99% Invisible City.
Prisoners of History
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Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on World War II, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it still tangibly exists within our midst. He looks at all aspects of the war, from the victors to the fallen, from the heroes to the villains, from the apocalypse to the rebuilding after devastation. He focuses on 25 monuments, including The Motherland Calls in Russia, the US Marine Corps Memorial in the USA, Italy's Shrine to the Fallen, the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, and the Liberation Route that runs from London to Berlin. Unsurprisingly, he finds that different countries view the war differently. In monuments erected in the US, Lowe sees triumph and patriotic dedications to the heroes. In Europe, the monuments are melancholy, ambiguous, and more often than not dedicated to the victims. In these differing international views of the war, Lowe sees the stone and metal expressions of sentiments that imprison us today with their unchangeable opinions. Published on the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, Prisoners of History is a 21st-century view of a 20th-century war that still haunts us today.
©2020 Keith Lowe (P)2020 Tantor
Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings
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This book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture. His selection includes many of the world’s best-known buildings that represent key or pioneering moments in architectural history, such as the Pantheon in Rome, Hagia Sophia in Turkey, the Taj Mahal in India and the Forbidden City in China. But the book also covers less obvious and more surprising structures, the generally unsung heroes of an endlessly fascinating story. Buildings like Oriel Chambers in Liverpool and the Narkomfin Apartment Building in Moscow. Dan Cruickshank has visited nearly all the buildings in the book, many in locations that are now inaccessible and under serious threat. A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings is an eloquent and often moving testimony to the power of great architecture to shape, and be shaped by, world history.
©2019 Dan Cruickshank (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Cricut for Beginners
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Are you looking for a complete and detailed guide on cricut? Then keep reading… Cricut it is not a machine that’s well known in the arts and crafts or even the baking community. I myself, who used to take pride in understanding everything there is to know about crafts, never knew about these bad boys. Obviously, I didn’t grasp as much as I initially thought, but I am glad that I discovered this brand. Now, I do not claim to know everything regarding Cricut machines, nor am I saying that I am familiar with every hack there is. Despite that, I do know enough to teach a novice, or even a more advanced Cricutter, some things. The Cricut machine really is and what it can do. There are three current models of Cricut cutters, the Explore Air, Explore Air 2, and the Cricut Maker. All three of these models are compatible with the current Circuit Design Space plugin for your computer. The Explore Air is the oldest model, but it offers a wireless or Bluetooth connection to your computer that hosts your Design Space. This machine can cut a variety of materials including paper, vinyl, fabric and more. Next in line is the Explore Air 2 machine, which is a minor upgrade from the original Explore Air offering. It added three colors to the collection; Mint Blue, Rose Anna, and Giffin Lilac. This model also offers a Fast Mode that allows users to cut vinyl, iron-on, and cardstock. The final and newest offering from Cricut is the Maker model. This model was released in August of 2017. It was designed to cut thicker materials such as Balsawood, Basswood, leather, felt, and non-bonded fabrics. The Maker model is the only Cricut machine designed to use a Rotary Blade, to cutting fabric directly, as well as a scoring wheel that has variable pressure levels to score thicker cardstock papers than the original scoring stylus previously used. All three of these machines also allow crafters an option for adding an element of writing and drawing to their creations. This is made possible loading a pen or marker into the accessory slot. When doing this, the machine will follow any design you desire. The Cricut is a proven multifaceted machine that is designed to bring a new level of versatility to any project. This book covers the following topics: What is cricut machine? Cricut machine bases - how use it Main material that can be used How to get started Simple operation first steps Complex operations Problems related to cricut machine Some ideas project to try and get practice Precautions Cricut tips and tricks Advice for beginners Tips that can help you get started Jewelry of cricut machine Beginners project ideas of cricut machine …And much more If you are using a Cricut machine for the first time, with little to no experience, it can be a bit overwhelming. When looking at the machine as a type of printer, this can help users get a better understanding of how the machine actually works. When you see a completed design created by a Cricut machine, it is hard to imagine it was not created by a professional. In fact, many long-time users of the Cricut machines have started and continue to run extremely successful creative businesses online. You too could also be on your way to earning a lucrative side income once you get the groundwork for learning how the Cricut operates.
©2020 David Cutter (P)2020 David Cutter
Lost Plantations of the South
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The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together diaries and letters and other rare documents to tell the story of 60 of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home. From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster, such as Alabama’s Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished, such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. Lost Plantations of the South explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.
©2009 University Press of Mississippi (P)2017 Redwood Audiobooks
Taj Mahal
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The Taj Mahal in Agra is arguably the most iconic image of India and is visited by eight million tourists annually. It was characterized as “pure, perfect and unutterably lovely” by the British Viceroy Lord Curzon, and in 1983, UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site of “outstanding universal value.” For centuries, the world believed that it was built by Shah Jahan in 1631 to immortalize his love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Certain mysteries and myths that surround the monument have recently come to the fore in the country, and stimulated a public debate about the place it holds as a true representation of Indian culture. Listen to stories about: the life of Mumtaz Mahal, considered the jewel of the place; the building of the Taj Mahal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; the myths, conjecture, and controversy; the 22 locked rooms in the basement; and much more! This audio presents the five main historical figures of the Mughal Empire in India during that period and the many details of how the Taj Mahal was built. It traces the events that have led to the present controversy.
©2018 Hourly History (P)2018 Hourly History
Notre-Dame (Spanish Edition)
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«La imagen de Notre-Dame en llamas me dejó aturdido y profundamente afectado. Me encontraba al borde de las lágrimas. Algo de un valor incalculable estaba muriendo ante nuestros ojos. Era una sensación desconcertante, como si la tierra hubiera comenzado a temblar.» (Ken Follett) En este breve pero fascinante libro, Ken Follett describe las emociones que sintió cuando conoció la tragedia que amenazaba con destruir Notre-Dame de París y recorre, desde los días de su construcción, los momentos históricos determinantes de un edificio que a través de los siglos ha ejercido una fascinación universal. Follett rinde homenaje así a Notre-Dame y revela además la influencia que ha tenido en las catedrales de todo el mundo y en la escritura de su más famosa novela, Los pilares de la Tierra. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2019 Ken Follett (P)2019 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
Hoover Dam
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In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken: the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West. Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life. Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam's foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers' families; the dam builders' gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor.
©1998 Joseph E. Stevens (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks
Hitler's Northern Utopia
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The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model Aryan society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian country into a racial utopia. From ideal new cities to a scenic superhighway stretching from Berlin to northern Norway, plans to remake the country into a model “Aryan” society fired the imaginations of Hitler, his architect Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders. In Hitler’s Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos provides the first major history of Nazi efforts to build a Nordic empire - one that they believed would improve their genetic stock and confirm their destiny as a new order of Vikings. Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, Hitler’s Northern Utopia tells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects far beyond the well-known German military defenses built on Norway’s Atlantic coast. These ventures included maternity centers, cultural and recreational facilities for German soldiers, and a plan to create quintessential National Socialist communities out of 23 towns damaged in the German invasion, an overhaul Norwegian architects were expected to lead. The most ambitious scheme - a German cultural capital and naval base - remained a closely guarded secret for fear of provoking Norwegian resistance. A gripping account of the rise of a Nazi landscape in occupied Norway, Hitler’s Northern Utopia reveals a haunting vision of what might have been - a world colonized under the swastika.
©2020 Despina Stratigakos (P)2020 Recorded Books
Professional Practice
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What you need to know to protect your designs and get them built as you envision them; how to get and keep clients and become their trusted advisor and professional - every architect needs the answers in this concise, thorough, and listenable guide. Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction? How do you market architectural services (get the project)? What are the basic project delivery methods? What are the forms of owner-architect and owner-contractor agreements, and what services do they cover? How should you charge for your services? How do you set up an office? What insurance, legal, and accounting issues must you consider? What is project management and who should do it? What are zoning and building codes about? Professional Practice is expertly narrated by Camille Mazant. All sample documents, charts and graphic referenced in the audiobook are included in the supplementary PDF. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2002, 2011 Paul Segal (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
The Initiation of the Pyramid
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Supreme among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects and builders, the Great Pyramid of Gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. Eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the Great Pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. Its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man. Among the shifting sands of time, it stands as a fitting emblem of eternity itself. Who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts and dimensions, the master craftsmen who supervised its construction, the skilled artisans who trued its blocks of stone?
©2020 Rolled Scroll Publishing (P)2020 Rolled Scroll Publishing
Keto Life: The Easy and Clarity Complete Guide to Daily Low Carb Meal Prep for Weight Loss, Fat Burning, and a Healthy Life for Ketogenic Diet
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Improve your everyday life! If you, like millions of other people, hope to lose weight, increase your health, or boost your athletic performance, then you will want to learn more about the ketogenic diet. While fad and crash diets regularly cause damage to a person’s metabolism, decrease nutrition, and causes weight gain in the long run, the keto diet does none of these. It may be a change from your usual way of life, but why not change for the better? In Keto Life, you will learn all you need about the science and century-long history behind the ketogenic diet, its many health benefits, how it causes maintainable weight loss, fitting it into any lifestyle, meal prep and planning, and more. By the time you finish this book, you will have all the tools you need to make a change for the better. You no longer have to live wishing you could change, you can actually make the change happen. In this book you will find: How the ketogenic diet is able to cause maintainable weight loss. A brief history of the keto diet. What ketosis is and its effects on the metabolism, health, and mind. How to counteract the keto flu for an easier transition to the keto diet. Choosing between the standard, targeted, and cyclical ketogenic diets. Tips and tricks to increase weight loss on the keto diet. A complete keto-friendly shopping list. Traveling on the ketogenic diet. How to boost your exercise performance while on keto. Answers to the most frequently asked questions And more... Now, if all of this sounds like your ideal book, then hop on over......and buy it now!
©2019 Ramos Emmerich Vogel (P)2019 Ramos Emmerich Vogel
A Rift in the Earth
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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious "art war" that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial should be built to honor the men and women who died in the Vietnam War. The story intertwines art, politics, historical memory, patriotism, racism, and a fascinating set of characters, from those who fought in the conflict and those who resisted it to politicians at the highest level. At its center are two enduring figures: Maya Lin, a young, Asian-American architecture student at Yale whose abstract design won the international competition but triggered a fierce backlash among powerful figures; and Frederick Hart, an innovative sculptor of humble origins on the cusp of stardom. James Reston, Jr., a veteran who lost a close friend in the war and has written incisively about the conflict's bitter aftermath, explores how the debate reignited passions around Vietnam long after the war's end and raised questions about how best to honor those who fought and sacrificed in an ill-advised war. "The memorial appears as a rift in the earth, a long polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth." - Maya Lin "I see the wall as a kind of ocean, a sea of sacrifice.... I place these figures upon the shore of that sea." - Frederick Hart
©2017 James Reston, Jr. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.