Author: Alfred Znamierowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435118386
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Stephen Slater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846812668
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Stephen Slater
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754817802
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty and the choices we make that define us for life, from the author of the Giller Prize finalist Summer Gone A young man travels to Paris in 1968, where a series of unlikely events take him to a tiny village in Italyâe"and the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boyâe(tm)s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole. Oliver Hughson falls in love with wild, bohemian Anna over the course of one glorious summer in Italy. Bound by a sense of responsibility to his adoptive parents back home in Canada, however, he leaves her, an act he will regret for the rest of his life. Narrated by the daughter he never knew he had, The Figures of Beauty is a love story of mythic proportions. Through luck, fate and great good fortune, Oliver found the one place and the one woman he should never have left. This is the story of him trying to find his way back.

Author: Alfred Znamierowski
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754834809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A comprehensive reference to flags including a fascinating history , with over 1400 illustrations and newly updated in a special large-format edition.

Author: Peter Spurrier
Publisher: Blanford
ISBN: 9780713727081
Category : Devices (Heraldry)
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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With an introductory account of the origins and history of heraldry, this text contains the ground rules and individual elements that constitute heraldic art. It is illustrated throughout, with a colour section.

Author: Stephen Slater
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754834601
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Comprehensively covers every aspect of the history, language and use of heraldry.

Author: Alfred Znamierowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780681602809
Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Includes the origin and development of flags, government, military, navy ensigns and more.

Author: Michel Pastoureau
Publisher: New Horizons S.
ISBN: 9780500300749
Category : Devices (Heraldry)
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Heraldry is a living survival of the great medieval world of European chivalry. First introduced as a means of identification in battle and in tournaments, it gradually spread to society as a whole. Today the knights-in-armour and many of the families who bore these coats of arms have disappeared, but the heraldic tradition survives in the royal arms, flags, emblems, road signs, sports badges and corporate logos of the modern world.

Author: Whitney Smith
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780070590946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Reviews the flags and arms of the 174 nations of the world, presenting each country's flag and insignia according to official specifications of color, proportion, and design, outlining their history, and analyzing their symbolism

Author: Terence Wise
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780966261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who later came to be styled gentlemen. In some countries the use of arms spread even to merchants, townspeople and the peasantry. From the mundane to the fantastic, from simple geometric patterns to elaborate mythological beasts, this fascinating work by Terence Wise explores the origins and appearance of medieval heraldic devices in an engagingly readable style accompanied by numerous illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Richard Hook.