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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Where We Want to Live

By :"Ryan Gravel"
Published on 2016-03-15 by St. Martin's Press

Category :"Architecture"

After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity), divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for how we can change this. Cities have the capacity to create a healthier, more satisfying way of life by remodeling and augmenting their infrastructure in ways that connect neighborhoods and communities. Gravel came up with a way to do just that in his hometown with the Atlanta Beltline project. It connects 40 diverse Atlanta neighborhoods to city schools, shopping districts, and public parks, and has already seen a huge payoff in real estate development and local business revenue. Similar projects are in the works around the country, from the Los Angeles River Revitalization and the Buffalo Bayou in Houston to the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Underline in Miami. In Where We Want to Live, Gravel presents an exciting blueprint for revitalizing cities to make them places where we truly want to live.

Lenght : 256

Language : en

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

How to Steal the Mona Lisa

By :"Taylor Bayouth"
Published on 2016-03-01 by Perigee Books

Category :"Humor"

A step-by-step guide for the craft of high stakes thievery In How to Steal the Mona Lisa , author Taylor Bayouth meticulously describes seven heists of priceless art and artifacts: the Hope Diamond, the \

Lenght : 224

Language : en

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Unruly Cities?

By :"Chris Brook","Gerry Mooney","Steve Pile"
Published on 2006-02-01 by Routledge

Category :"Science"

The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Dispatches from Pluto

By :"Richard Grant"
Published on 2015-10-13 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"Travel"

Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 (The Clarion-Ledger) A New York Times Bestseller In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining. On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters—blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta’s lingering racial tensions. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Yet even as he observes major structural problems, he encounters many close, loving, and interdependent relationships between black and white families—and good reasons for hope. Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. It’s lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writer’s flair for in-depth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race. It’s also a love story, as the nomadic Grant learns to settle down. He falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. Mississippi, Grant concludes, is the best-kept secret in America.

Lenght : 320

Language : en

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword unruly places

Power Cubed #4

By :"Paul Tobin"
Published on 2016-01-06 by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Category :"Comics & Graphic Novels"

Humans in hot rods, zombies in raucous roadsters, and plants perched in radical racers! The car-filled competition for Neighborville is underway, and Crazy Dave and Dr. Zomboss are neck and neck! Paul Tobin (Bandette, Colder) and Ron Chan (Star Wars, The Guild) return to deliver another hilarious zombie battle to your burg! Artist Ron Chan and colorist Matthew J. Rainwater [do] an excellent job of capturing the bright, cheery art style of the PvZ games and generally creating an energetic, vibrant cartoon landscape.�-IGN

Lenght : 32

Language : en

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword cubed

Power Cubed #2

By :"Aaron Lopresti"
Published on 2014-10-22 by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Category :"Comics & Graphic Novels"

If, on your birthday, you could make a wish, _any_ wish, before you blew out your candles, what would it be? On his eighteenth birthday, Kenny got something better than one wish. He was given alien technology that lets him create literally anything he can wish for! How about a flying robot or a life- sized T. rex? To keep it, and also stay, you know, _alive_, he'll have to outwit the persistent government agent Claire Covert and a Nazi mad scientist. On top of that, when Kenny's father is abducted by some old friends, Kenny will have to use every ounce of imagination to save him! * A weird and wonderful adventure from the atomic mind of Aaron Lopresti (_Wonder Woman_, _Detective Comics_).

Lenght : 32

Language : en

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword cubed

hpa: The Story of Ho & Partners

By :
Published on 2011 by Images Publishing

Category :"Architecture"

Arkitektfirmaet Ho & Partner Architects projekter præsenteres med fotografier, modeller og tegninger

Lenght : 233

Language : en

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword the story of buildings

Lost Minnesota

By :"Jack El-Hai"
Published on by U of Minnesota Press

Category :

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword the story of buildings

The Island at the Center of the World

By :"Russell Shorto"
Published on 2005-04-12 by Vintage

Category :"History"

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Drawing on this remarkable archive, Russell Shorto has created a gripping narrative–a story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattan–that transforms our understanding of early America. The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Russell Shorto's Amsterdam.

Lenght : 416

Language : en

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

Indentured

By :"Joe Nocera","Ben Strauss"
Published on 2016-02-16 by Penguin

Category :"Sports & Recreation"

“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?” In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those ques\u00adtions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men’s bas\u00adketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune—at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organiza\u00adtion that puts their interests dead last. For about 5 percent of top-division players, college ends with a golden ticket to the NFL or the NBA. But what about the overwhelming majority who never turn pro? They don’t earn a dime from the estimated $13 billion generated annually by college sports—an ocean of cash that enriches schools, conferences, coaches, TV networks, and apparel companies . . . everyone except those who give their blood and sweat to entertain the fans. Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its “student-athletes” while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out be\u00adcause their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook. Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss take us into the inner circle of the NCAA’s fiercest enemies. You’ll meet, among others . . . ·Sonny Vaccaro, the charismatic sports marketer who convinced Nike to sign Michael Jordan. Dis\u00adgusted by how the NCAA treated athletes, Vaccaro used his intimate knowledge of its secrets to blow the whistle in a major legal case. ·Ed O’Bannon, the former UCLA basketball star who realized, years after leaving college, that the NCAA was profiting from a video game using his image. His lawsuit led to an unprecedented antitrust ruling. ·Ramogi Huma, the founder of the National Col\u00adlege Players Association, who dared to think that college players should have the same collective bargaining rights as other Americans. ·Andy Schwarz, the controversial economist who looked behind the façade of the NCAA and saw it for what it is: a cartel that violates our core values of free enterprise. Indentured reveals how these and other renegades, working sometimes in concert and sometimes alone, are fighting for justice in the bare-knuckles world of college sports.

Lenght : 320

Language : en

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

The Liar's Ball

By :"Vicky Ward"
Published on 2014-10-06 by John Wiley & Sons

Category :"Business & Economics"

Inside the world of the real Great Gatsby of New York real estate Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real estate world, and Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's famous GM building and put almost no money down, landing the billion-dollar transaction that made him the poster child for New York's real estate royalty. Listen in on the secret conversations, back-door deals, and blackmail that put Macklowe and his cronies on top—and set them up for an enormous fall. Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward skillfully paints the often scandalous picture of the giants who owned the New York skyline until their empires came crumbling down in the 2008 financial crisis. Based on more than 200 interviews with real estate moguls like Donald Trump, William Zeckendorf, Mort Zuckerman, and David Simon, Liar's Ball is the never-before-told story of the egomaniacal elites of New York City. Read about: The epic rise and fall of one of the richest American real estate barons Outlandish greed and cravings for power, attention, and love Relationships built and destroyed by vanity and gossip The bursting of the real estate bubble and its aftermath This is no fiction—this is a real life tale of extravagance, ambition, and power. Harry Macklowe ruthlessly clawed his way to the top with the help of his loyal followers, each grubbing for a piece of the real estate pie. Liar's Ball reveals their secrets and tells the tale of business as usual for this group—lying, backstabbing, and moving in for the kill when things look patchy. From the bestselling author of The Devil's Casino comes an expos??? on the real estate elite that you'll hardly believe.

Lenght : 256

Language : en

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword house of outrageous fortune

Vocabularies Of Public Life

By :"Gerhard R Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion Robert Wuthnow","Robert Wuthnow"
Published on 2002-09-11 by Routledge

Category :"Social Science"

A collection of original essays advancing the study of culture from a sociological perspective. Exploring and extending recent studies of culture with both qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book focuses on the ways in which contemporary cultural products function as vocabularies of public life. The contributors cover a wide range of topics; these include the symbolic structure of religion, science and the arts. The book is unified with a common concern - the concrete manifestations of culture and the importance of understanding its internal structure. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in the sociology of culture, religion and the arts.

Lenght : 280

Language : en

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword how to study public life

A Public Faith

By :"Miroslav Volf"
Published on 2011-08-01 by Brazos Press

Category :"Religion"

Covering such timely issues as witness in a multifaith society and political engagement in a pluralistic world, this compelling book highlights things Christians can do to serve the common good. Now in paperback. Praise for the cloth edition Named one of the \

Lenght : 192

Language : en

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword how to study public life

The Question of Hermeneutics

By :"Timothy Stapleton"
Published on 2012-12-06 by Springer Science & Business Media

Category :"Philosophy"

by Pierre Kerszberg Joseph J. Kockelmans: A Biographical Note Joseph Kockelmans was born on December I, 1923, at Meerssen in the Netherlands. In 1951 he received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the Institute for Medieval Philosophy, Angelico, Rome. Earlier on, he had earned a \

Lenght : 496

Language : en

This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword the parthenon enigma

The Socratic Enigma

By :"Herbert Spiegelberg"
Published on 1964 by

Category :

Lenght : 334

Language : en

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword the parthenon enigma

The Golden Ratio

By :"Mario Livio"
Published on 2008-11-12 by Broadway Books

Category :"Mathematics"

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as \

Lenght : 304

Language : en

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword the parthenon enigma

Confronting the Classics

By :"Mary Beard"
Published on 2013-03-07 by Profile Books

Category :"History"

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.

Lenght : 310

Language : en

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword the parthenon enigma

The Emperor of Paris

By :"CS Richardson"
Published on 2012-10-11 by Portobello Books

Category :"Fiction"

Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But, also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away, Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre, trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores and the stories she reads. The two might never have met, but for a curious chain of coincidences involving an impoverished painter, a jaded bookseller, and a book of fairytales, lost and found... Evocative, romantic, and wise, this is a magical novel about the power of stories - to help us find enchantment, freedom, and sometimes even love.

Lenght : 288

Language : en

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword the paris architect

Design and Plan in the Country House

By :"Andor Gomme","Alison Maguire"
Published on 2008 by Yale University Press

Category :"Architecture"

The way a man thinks about his day-to-day living and the needs of his household reveals a great deal about his ambitions, his idea of himself, and his role in the community. And his house or castle offers many clues to his habits as well as those of the members of his household. This intriguing book explores the evolution of country house plans throughout Britain and Ireland, from medieval times to the eighteenth century. With photographs and detailed architectural plans of each of the 180 houses under discussion, the book presents a whole range of new insights into how these homes were designed and what their varied plans tell us about the lives of their residents. Starting with fortified medieval tower houses, the book traces patterns that developed and sometimes repeated in country house design over the centuries. It discusses who slept in the bedchambers, where food was prepared, how rooms were arranged for official and private activities, what towers signified, and more. Groundbreaking in its depth, the volume offers a rare tour of country houses for scholar and general reader alike.

Lenght : 338

Language : en

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword compact houses

Compact Houses

By :"Gerald Rowan"
Published on 2013-10-28 by Storey Publishing

Category :"House & Home"

Discover the huge possibilities of a small house! Whether you’re building from scratch or retrofitting an existing structure, these 50 innovative floor plans will show you how to make the most of houses measuring 1,400 square feet or less. Gerald Rowan presents creative and efficient layouts that use every inch of space, with tips on fully maximizing closets, porches, bathrooms, attics, and basements. From reorganizing a small storage area to building a brand-new home, you’ll find a detailed design to fit your family’s needs.

Lenght : 208

Language : en

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword compact houses

Atonement

By :"Ian McEwan"
Published on 2009-03-19 by Vintage Canada

Category :"Fiction"

From the Booker Prize winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By day's end, their lives will be changed – irrevocably. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not imagined at its start. And Briony will have witnessed mysteries, seen an unspeakable word, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone… Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of love and war and class and childhood and England, An Atonement is a profound – and profoundly moving – exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and of the possibility of absolution. From the Hardcover edition.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword the english country house

The English Country House

By :"James Peill","Julian Fellowes"
Published on 2013 by

Category :"Architecture, Domestic"

Ranging from Kentchurch Court, a former fortified medieval manor house that has been the seat of the Scudamore family for nearly 1,000 years, to a delightful Strawberry Hill-style Gothic house in rural Cornwall to a ducal palace (Badminton) to car-crazed Goodwood House, this beautifully illustrated book showcases ten outstanding British country houses all still in the hands of descendents of the original owners. James Peill recounts the ups and downs of such deep-rooted clans as the Cracrofts, landowners in Lincolnshire since the twelfth century, whose late 18th-century Hackthorn Hall is a perfect example of the kind of house Jane Austen describes in her novels (indeed, she appears on their family tree), as well as the relatively newly arrived Biddulphs, who constructed Rodmarton, an Arts & Crafts masterpiece, in the first decades of the last century. James Fennell has once again provided superb photographs of a wealth of gardens, charming interiors, bygone sporting trophies, fine art collections and fanciful family memorabilia, making The English Country House a delicious treat for Anglophiles and lovers of old houses.

Lenght : 224

Language : en

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword the english country house

Princess Diana

By :"Jon King","John Beveridge"
Published on 2001 by SP Books

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

Was Princess Diana murdered? Or was she just the victim of a tragic traffic accident? If she was murdered, who did it? Who ordered the assassination and what were the motives behind it? Were the same powers behind England's recent \

Lenght : 408

Language : en

This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword the hidden white house

The Marriage of Jesus

By :"Maggy Whitehouse"
Published on 2007 by Axis Mundi Books

Category :"Body, Mind & Spirit"

Whitehouse puts forward the theory that Jesus married at the age of 14 and the 'missing years' in the Bible are those he spent as a husband raising his family. Given that the average life-span of women then was 27 years, Jesus probably became a widower. So what happened to Jesus' wife, this most forgotten woman?

Lenght : 184

Language : en

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword the hidden white house

Enabling Acts

By :"Lennard J. Davis"
Published on 2015-07-14 by Beacon Press

Category :"Social Science"

The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known. In this riveting account, acclaimed disability scholar Lennard J. Davis delivers the first behind-the-scenes and on-the-ground narrative of how a band of leftist Berkeley hippies managed to make an alliance with upper-crust, conservative Republicans to bring about a truly bipartisan bill. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players involved including legislators and activists, Davis recreates the dramatic tension of a story that is anything but a dry account of bills and speeches. Rather, it’s filled with one indefatigable character after another, culminating in explosive moments when the hidden army of the disability community stages scenes like the iconic “Capitol Crawl” or an event some describe as “deaf Selma,” when students stormed Gallaudet University demanding a “Deaf President Now!” From inside the offices of newly formed disability groups to secret breakfast meetings surreptitiously held outside the White House grounds, here we meet countless unsung characters, including political heavyweights and disability advocates on the front lines. “You want to fight?” an angered Ted Kennedy would shout in an upstairs room at the Capitol while negotiating the final details of the ADA. Congressman Tony Coelho, whose parents once thought him to be possessed by the devil because of his epilepsy, later became the bill’s primary sponsor. There’s Justin Dart, adorned in disability power buttons and his signature cowboy hat, who took to the road canvassing fifty states, and people like Patrisha Wright, also known as “The General,” Arlene Myerson or “the brains,” “architect” Bob Funk, and visionary Mary Lou Breslin, who left the hippie highlands of the West to pursue equal rights in the marble halls of DC. Published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ADA, Enabling Acts promises to ignite readers in a discussion of disability rights by documenting this “eyes on the prize” moment for tens of millions of American citizens.

Lenght : 296

Language : en

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword the hidden white house