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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Temples of the Nepal valley	Sudarshan Raj Tiwari	On the architecture of temples in Nepal.	OL15301912W
Lost technologies of ancient Egypt	Dunn, Christopher	"A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments"--Provided by publisher.	OL16939433W
The art of India	Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty	History, literature, wall paintings, and architecture of Orchha, a formerly princely state in Madhya Pradesh.	OL1765694W
Prayers in Stone	Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway	The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some orname…	OL1806453W
The River of Adventure	Enid Blyton	A river cruise through ancient desert lands will be an adventure in itself, think Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack. An adventure it certainly is, especially when Bill disappears and the children, al…	OL1948162W
The River of Adventure	Enid Blyton,Rebecca Cobb	A river cruise through ancient desert lands will be an adventure in itself, think Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack. An adventure it certainly is, especially when Bill disappears and the children, al…	OL1949684W
The River of Adventure	Enid Blyton	A river cruise through ancient desert lands will be an adventure in itself, think Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack. An adventure it certainly is, especially when Bill disappears and the children, al…	OL1949959W
Madness is better than defeat	Ned Beauman	"A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short…	OL19732042W
The Parthenon	Peter Chrisp	The history of the building and use of the Parthenon - Decay and restoration - Worship on the Acropolis - Religious festivals of the Athenians.	OL20983336W
Khajuraho	Shobita Punja	Updated version of the citically-acclaimed "Divine ecstasy : the story of Khajuraho."	OL26191861W
Thebes in Egypt	Nigel Strudwick,Helen M. Strudwick	After excavating and researching the city of Thebes for many years, Nigel and Helen Strudwick here offer an in-depth introduction to it, one that will be welcomed by both armchair travellers and visi…	OL27682909W
Ancient Near Eastern temple inventories in the third and second millennia BCE : integrating archaeo…	Elisa Rossberger,Paola Paoletti,Jean M. Evans	The contributions in this volume -- resulting from an international conference held in 2016 at the Center for Advanced Studies of Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich and supported by the LMU Gradua…	OL32450569W
Chingis Khaany takhilgyn su̇m	Anthony Boucher,J. Francis McComas	Historical research on temples where Genghis Khan was worshipped.	OL32649072W
The temple	Truman G. Madsen	In his youth,Truman Madsen watched his grandparents take their large family to the temple almost every week. Decades later, a friend said, " Your spiritual life began with the temple and everything s…	OL3538306W
Karen Knorr	Karen Knorr	The extraordinary work of acclaimed photographer Karen Knorr and her poetic journey through the Indian Subcontinent.	OL4133099W
Island of Isis	William MacQuitty	Rescue of the temples of Philae from the Nile is an enterprise of imagination and skill.	OL4233825W
Abu Simbel	William MacQuitty	An appreciation in photograph and word of the Egyptian temples of Ramses II, and a description of the High Dam under construction at Aswan, its economic benefits and its threat to historical and arti…	OL4233827W
The arts of intimacy	Maria Menocal,Abigail Krasner,Jerrilynn Denise Dodds	"The Arts of Intimacy is the story of Iberia's medieval cities - Cordoba, Seville, and above all Toledo - from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries, a watershed in the making of a world reco…	OL4651255W
Śilpaprakāśaḥ	Rāmacandra Kaulācāra.	Ancient treatise on temple architecture of Orissa; Sanskrit text with English translation.	OL5862088W