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Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style

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Zon in Volume II is not a short story, but, the introduction states, part of a never-finished novel. This is set in a strange primitive world with widely varying cultures. One brief passage indicates that this is all post-apocalyptic. I like what is here, but this is too brief to give a good idea of how the novel might have been. These stories frequently had surprise endings. They are competent stories that would not stand out from the other stories in those magazines. For some peculiar reason, Goodreads (which seems to me to be getting more cranky and less accurate) currently (in 2023) lists these two books as by a different "Avram Davidson," one who only published these two books. How ads work — and how you can work them — is a complicated business. There are many advertising platforms and few can actually provide good results. It’s too easy to be lured into bad “advertising opportunities” and make the wrong decisions — which is why we recommend hiring a book marketer to help you find your way. Every reference to Davidson seems to refer to him as a "Jewish author." He was Jewish by birth, of course, lived for a time in Israel, and often wrote of matters connected to Jews and Judaism. But in the 1970s, he reportedly converted to Tenrikyo. Wikipedia states:

Some of the entries that I like best (at the moment that I am writing this, at least; I keep revising this list in my mind): A sneaky in-joke from "Vergil and the Dukos": Sicharbus the Sidonian is visiting Vergil. They are discussing painting houses. Sicharbus is speaking: even if you can't live in one of these abodes, at least you can have a small piece of it on your coffee table."--Fortune Magazine I would love to comment on each item here, but it would take me forever and I doubt that anybody would find it particularly interesting. So I will discuss things of particular interest to me.Architectural Digest At 100: A Century Of Style Is A Must-Have Book!"-- "Interior Design Magazines" A survey of how Americans have lived--and how American life has changed--over the past 100 years." -- Los Angeles Times Overall, this is a very accessible introduction to the art, and the cultural and political history, of the period. It is eminently readable; pitched to the undergraduate student (including an immensely useful updated bibliographical guide), it is approachable enough for the general reader, and would likely be the kind of book I would recommend to an enthusiastic sixth-former. The illustrations are well-chosen, and the supplementary material is an added bonus: several maps of the empire at the beginning, and a detailed timeline at the end are hugely valuable assets for any ancient historian or classicist. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. Different forms of digital advertising have proven to work well for selling books. Here are some of the platforms to consider:

This is the second edition of what has become a standard work on Roman art, and covers the period described as the Second Sophistic – a time that saw a seismic transformation in the art and architecture of the empire. Some of the illustrations and a chapter examining the influence of Roman art beyond the empire are new, but the older material has lost none of its relevance and power. Many of the science fiction writers from the 50s and 60s were Jewish, but Davidson was unusual because he frequently wrote explicitly Jewish science fiction stories. He enjoyed playing with trying to fit his ancient religion into classic science fiction settings.If you have never read an Avram Davidson story put this book down immediately and buy a copy of The Avram Davidson Treasury . Start there. Why do I mention this? Because the oft-repeated phrase "Jewtsh author" seems to me to make it sound like Davidson's range was much smaller than it really was. Walt Whitman wrote of himself: "I am large, I contain multitudes." So did Avram Davidson. Another of the longest entries in Volume II is " Caravan to Illiel," in which Corydon, son of Corydon, robbed of his magical purse and his mighty sword, must perforce find employment outside the city of Styr. He travels as a rear guard guardsman on a caravan to the great city of Illiel, along the way encountering dangers from men, beasts, and forces of nature. Written in the elevated quality that only the editors of Architectural Digest can master so well, [this] is the world's newest guide to the best and brightest designs to inspire your next big home project." -- The Editorialist Perhaps even more interesting, a gilded plate from Iran (5th-7th century AD), showing a female deity drawn on a chariot, is quite clearly a copy of a second or third century gilded silver plate, also from Iran. The earlier version, however, depicts a male deity, combining classical iconographic schemes of Dionysus and Hercules. The readiness with which Greek religious art is incorporated into a Sassanid domestic context, and then refigured for a later audience, shows the flexibility with which both craftsmen and audience were able to reimagine old material for new circumstances. This latter example comes from a new chapter (‘The Eurasian Context’) written for this second edition, which maps the interconnectedness of cultures from Western Europe all the way to China and India. It is one of the clearest and most concise introductions to this topic I have come across, and is a necessary corrective to the often Eurocentric vision of the classics.

Well, no wonder it sounded familiar to Vergil. The actual Virgil was the author of the phrase, " Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes," commonly translated into English as "I fear the Greeks, even when bearing gifts." This was a warning by the Trojan Laocoön not to bring that damned big horse inside the walls of Troy. [I took six years of Latin including two years studying Virgil. This is pretty much all that I remember.]) I don't think that these are all the best stories here or that other readers will necessarily like them; they are just some of the ones that I like. (I have a feeling that "Knox's 'Nga," for one example, would not be universally loved.)

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Snuff," not surprisingly, is about snuff, a subject of very little interest to me. It is okay. My review of " The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead" is posted here on Goodreads. " Doing the Lambeth Walk" is about a strange quirk in British law; the Archbishop of Canterbury has the authority to grant degrees equivalent to academic ones. He can, for example, proclaim that someone is a doctor of medicine and the recipient of that degree will then be empowered to practice medicine, even with no training in that field. We all know what advertising is: paying a fee to have your product placed in front of potential customers. But how can ads help new authors find readers? And once an author is established, how can ads help grow a reading audience over time? Captain Patch," " Skinny," " The Stone That the Builders Rejected," " The French Key," " No Fire Burns," " The Tenant," " A Note for the Milkman," " Blood Money," " The Invasion," " Doing the Lambeth Walk" Indeed, the book is a must-read for students of the history of Christianity. The siting of churches on top of martyrs’ graves in cemeteries outside the city walls led to the decline of the urban centre, but inspiration in how the religion was expressed came from existing forms. Churches adopted the shape of the basilica and round buildings like the Pantheon, and pagan art was reinterpreted to fi t the scriptural canon: the image of the Virgin and Child may trace its roots to earlier Egyptian depictions of Isis and the infant Horus. Examples like this are key to the book’s central argument. The author describes the process that transformed the cultural landscape of the period as one of repetition, reconfiguration, and appropriation of artistic concepts, or the reworking of the past until the new emerged – a case of evolution, not revolution. The world of advertising is not an easy one to navigate. As you can see, there are many different advertising platforms, with endless targeting possibilities. You can go through the steep learning curve yourself, but it will cost you time and money — potentially a lot of money.

As he go into the 1960s, Davidson began to experiment. He wrote some longer stories. He wrote some hard-edged fantasy and some science fiction. By the end of this volume, we can see the classic Davidson starting to emerge. Written in the elevated quality that only the editors of Architectural Digest can master so well, AD at 100: A Century of Style is the world’s newest guide to the best and brightest designs to inspire your next big home project.”— The EditorialistThis volume, as the editor points out, is not the place to start. The stories are arranged chronologically from 1947 to 1967. The first few stories are tales of Jewish life in and around New York. A few are almost fables. Throughout the fifties Davidson wrote solid crime stories for magazines like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Manhunt, Bizaare Mystery Magazine etc. A survey of how Americans have lived—and how American life has changed—over the past 100 years.” — Los Angeles Times

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