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The hidden roof (野屋根, noyane) [note 1] is a type of roof widely used in Japan both at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. It is composed of a true roof above and a second roof beneath, [ 1 ] permitting an outer roof of steep pitch to have eaves of shallow pitch, jutting widely from the walls but without overhanging them. [ 2 ]
Jiří Weil (IPA: [jɪr̝iː vaɪl] ⓘ; 6 August 1900, Praskolesy – 13 December 1959, Prague) was a Czech writer of Jewish origin and Holocaust survivor. [1] His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star (Život s hvězdou), and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof (Na střeše je Mendelssohn), as well as many short stories, and other novels.
Pointed Roofs, published in 1915, is the first work (she called it a "chapter") in Dorothy Richardson's (1873–1957) series of 13 semi-autobiographical novels titled Pilgrimage, [1] and the first complete stream of consciousness novel published in English.
Roof Over Heaven (1953) That Was the Hour (1956) White Moonlight (1957) Husky Be My Guide (1957) – travel book; No Rainbow in the Sky (1959) Press on Regardless (1960) – travel book; Beyond the Rainbow (1961) Destination Spain (1962) – travel book; A Mountain for Monique (1964) Shall Come a Time (1967) Sky Full of Thunder (1968) No Love ...
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof is a novel by Jiří Weil written in 1959 and first translated into English by Marie Winn in 1991. The book took 15 years to write. It is an exploration of the many forms of corruption in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and embeds historical events, such as the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942, among fictional stories concerning the Holocaust, Nazi ...
The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (2000) is a collection of short stories by Russell Banks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It consists of a total of thirty-one previously published stories, including twenty-two stories that appeared in earlier short story collections, along with nine that were previously uncollected.
The Hidden Connections is a 2002 book by Fritjof Capra, in which the author proposes a holistic alternative to linear and reductionist world views. He aims to extend system dynamics and complexity theory to the social domain and presents "a conceptual framework that integrates life's biological, cognitive and social dimensions".
An example of Taking the roof off in written form can be found in Schaeffer's work entitled Death in the City. [23] Nancy Pearcey also describes two books by Schaeffer, Escape From Reason and The God Who Is There in this way: In these books, Schaeffer explains the history of the two-story division of knowledge, often referred to as the fact ...