Bøger af Vincent Scully

It's 2028. Eight years earlier, blond-haired Victor Triumph had lost the American Presidential election to actor Leonardo DiCarpaccio after it was discovered that Victor Triumph was actually Julio Rumpero, an illegal alien from Honduras. But claiming the election rigged, he broke up America into four new nations, with him as President of the southern states now called the Triumphant States of America. Along with that catastrophe, coastal cities around the world were flooded by rising ocean levels, and millions of refugees needed a new home. Enter the planet Freeport, an alien world run by humans descended from an 18th century British Navy squadron, with climate change technology and vast open spaces. But when the delegates from Earth first visit Freeport, Midwest President Mark Schillings disappears into the planet's alien brothel world. Triumph calls it a kidnapping and invades, promising "No More Illegal Aliens!" Can the plucky Brits, with their ancient cannons and single shot muskets, defeat Triumph's fleet with all its modern firepower? Thankfully, Emmie Bahtia, an Olympic fencer from San Francisco arrives for a party weekend but ends up saving Wyckham and Freeport, thanks to her skills with a blade and her adept use of social media. Just like the first two books, it's another wild romp, with lots of action, humorous aliens, crude sailors, the amorous Fireflies, shocked Royal Navy officers, and a dose of modern politics-all the craziness you've come to expect in this over-the-top series. This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to actual people is purely confidential.

For twenty-six years in all Blessed John lived as a secular priest in Brussels. Content with his modest chaplaincy in the Church of St. Gudule, and with his holy companions Hinckaert and van Coudenberg continuing happily in apostolic simplicity and poverty the Common Life on which he had entered a mere child, Ruysbroeck passed his days in peaceful retirement and almost uninterrupted prayer and contemplation. A characteristic episode of this period reveals to us the man as in a flash, his mean garb, his emaciated figure, his absorbed demeanour, his utter abandonment in God. He was passing through a square of Brussels one day, silent and recollected, as was his wont, when two laymen remarked him. "My God," exclaimed one, "would I were as holy as that priest!" "Nay, for my part," returned the other, "I would not be in his shoes for all the wealth of the world. I should never know a day's pleasure on earth.

A Mediaeval Mystic; A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

The seminal guide to sacred Greek architecture by North Americäs preeminent architectural historian

A classic of American architectural and urban planning history

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. This illustrated volume talks about Scully's incalculable contribution. It selects twenty essays that reveal the Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s.