Mansions of the Virginia gentry / by Wiencek, Henry

The country houses of Shropshire. by WILLIAMS, GARETH

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Aerodynamic characteristics of a five-jet VTOL configuration in the transition speed range / by Margason, Richard J., Gentry, Garl L.

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Low-speed wind-tunnel tests of single- and counter-rotation propellers / by Dunham, Dana Morris, Gentry, Garl L., Coe, Paul L.

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Aerodynamic characteristics of twin-propeller deflected-slipstream STOL airplane model with boundary-layer control on inverted v-tail / by Margason, Richard J., Gentry, Garl L.

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Homeplace : the making of the Canadian dwelling over three centuries / by Ennals, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Town and country housing for Ontario's gentry ;…”
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Protecting suburban America : gentrification, advocacy and the historic imaginary / by Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise

Table of Contents: “…FC ; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Framing Preservation; 2 Discovering Material Agency: Making the Preservation Homeowner; 3 Restoration Strategies, Imagining the Past, and Reconstructing Historic Meaning; 4 Historic Preservation as Cosmology: Municipal Regulations and City Dynamics; 5 Local Level Preservation and Exclusion: Traditional Elites; 6 The Gentry Move In: Education, Reform, and Advocacy; 7 Immigrant Challenges: Communicating Preservation Values across the Cultural Divide in Alhambra.…”
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The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / by Fazio, Michael W., Snadon, Patrick Alexander, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe -- Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s -- Reinventing the American house: an overview of Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country -- Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795-1798): Latrobe's first explorations of the American context -- Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807): designs for a merchant elite, countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the emergence of the rational house -- A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807-1815): houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh -- Last houses (1815-1820): Latrobe's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans -- Some perspectives on an architect's career -- Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobe's houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde.…”
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Mona Lisa : the people and the painting / by Kemp, Martin, Pallanti, Giuseppe

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER I: Old Gentry and New Money; Lisa's family; Francesco's family; CHAPTER II: Francesco and Lisa: Family and Finance; CHAPTER III: Francesco and Lisa: Patronage and Legacy; Francesco, the artists, and Vasari; After Francesco; CHAPTER IV: Coming Together: Ser Piero, the Merchant, and the Friars; Ser Piero in Florence; Santissima Annunziata; Ser Piero's heritage; Family houses in the borgo of Vinci; CHAPTER V: A Child from Vinci; Caterina's child; Local families.…”
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The country houses of Shropshire / by Williams, Gareth (Curator)

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Biophilic design : the architecture of life /

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Popular modernism and its legacies : from pop literature to video games /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Of titanics, wars, downturns, and downtons : popular modernism and its legacies / Scott Ortolano -- New visions of popular modernism -- Gentry modernism : cultural connoisseurship and midcentury masculinity, 1951-1957 / Marsha Bryant -- Modernism, operetta and ruritania : Ivor Novello's glamorous night / Nicholas Daly -- Fine art on the airwaves : radio drama and modern(ist) mass culture / Adam Nemmers -- "I'm gonna be somebody," 1930 : gangsters and modernist celebrity / Jonathan Goldman -- Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of the city / Barry Faulk -- Legacies of popular modernism -- "Catch a wave" : surf noir and modernist nostalgia / Kirk Curnutt -- Alien pleasures : modernism/hybridity/science fiction / Paul March-Russell -- Josephine Baker's contemporary afterlives : black female identity, modernist performance, and popular legacies of the jazz age / Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou -- A hitchhiker's guide to modernism : the futurist fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas Adams / Andrew McFeaters -- Resonances of popular modernism in the twenty-first century -- Smokescreens to smokestacks : true detective and the American sublime / Caroline Blinder -- Of modernist second acts and African American lives : F. …”
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Homeplace : the Making of the Canadian Dwelling over Three Centuries. by Ennals, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The Polite House -- Housing the Ruling Oligarchy of New France -- The Arrival of a British Elite -- Mercantile Prosperity and Housing in Atlantic Canada -- Town and Country Housing for Ontario's Gentry -- 3. The Folk House -- Case Study 1: French Settlement and House Building -- Case Study 2: The Transfer of English Folk Housing to North America -- Case Study 3: Transfers of Celtic Folk Building to North America -- Case Study 4: The German Contribution to Folk Housing in North America -- Case Study 5: Folk Housing in Ontario -- 4. …”
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George Heriot : Postmaster-Painter Of The Canadas. by Finley, Gerald

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