On a December day in 1957, schoolteacher Louise Copeland and her six-year-old daughter, Lyra, come home to discover that Louises gentle war-hero husband has sud

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The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last h

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The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other d