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Anthropologists have long drawn on insights from ethnographic inquiry to challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place. In this collection, key articles are presented for students and researchers in anthropology, environmental psychology, sociology, architecture, and urban planning.
The current environmental crisis calls for a unified practice of landscape and architecture that would allow buildings and landscapes to perform symbiotically to heal the environment. Over the past ten years, a diverse group of architects, landscape architects, and artists have undertaken groundbreaking projects that propose an integration of landscape and architecture, dissolving traditional distinctions between building and environment. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture examines twenty-five projects, on an international scale, that consider landscape and architecture as true reciprocal entities. Groundwork divides the projects into three design directions: Topography, Ecology, and Biocomputation. Topographic designers create projects that manipulate the ground to merge building and landscape as in Cairo Expo City in Egypt (Zaha Hadid Architects), Island City Central Park Grin Grin in Fukuoka, Japan (Toyo Ito & Associates) and the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Eisenman Architects). Ecologic designers develop environments that address issues such as energy climate and remediation, such as I’m Lost In Paris in France (R&Sie(n)), Turistroute in Eggum, Norway (Snøhetta) and Parque Atlántico in Santander, Cantabria, Spain (Batlle i Roig Arquitectes). Biocomputation designers use digital technologies to align biology and design in projects such as the Grotto Concept (Aranda/Lasch), North Side Copse House in West Sussex, England (EcoLogicStudio) and Local Code: Real Estates (Nicolas de Monchaux.) What these projects all have in common is a desire to pay attention and homage to the liminal space where indoors and outdoors meet. The critical connection between natural and synthetic, exterior and interior space, paves the way toward a more inclusive—and indeed more alive—conceptualization of the physical world.
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc.
This book is concerned with the alleged capacity of the human mind to arrive at beliefs and knowledge about the world on the basis of pure reason without any dependence on sensory experience. Most recent philosophers reject the view and argue that all substantive knowledge must be sensory in origin. Laurence BonJour provocatively reopens the debate by presenting the most comprehensive exposition and defence of the rationalist view that a priori insight is a genuine basis for knowledge. This important book will be at the centre of debate about the theory of knowledge for many years to come.
Focusing on one of Matisse's greatest bodies of work and his last artistic creations, this flexi edition of essays and reproductions provides scholarship on this important period. (www.amazon.co.uk)
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«Nous commencerons par discuter les points de vue pris sur la femme par la biologie, la psychanalyse, le materialisme historique. Nous essaierons de montrer ensuite positivement comment la «realite feminine» s'est constituee, pourquoi la femme a ete definie comme l'Autre et quelles en ont ete les consequences du point de vue des hommes. Alors nous decrirons du point de vue des femmes le monde tel qu'il leur est propose ; et nous pourrons comprendre a quelles difficultes elles se heurtent au moment ou, essayant de s'evader de la sphere qui leur a ete jusqu'a present assignee, elles pretendent participer au mitsein humain».
Dans ce second volume, Simone de Beauvoir entreprend " d'etudier avec soin le destin traditionnel de la femme ", c'est a dire de " situer " la femme. " Comment la femme fait-elle l'apprentissage de sa condition, comment l'eprouve-t-elle, dans quel univers se trouve-t-elle enfermee, quelles evasions lui sont permises, voila ce que je chercherai a decrire. " D'abord sa formation : dans l'enfance, dans l'adolescence, dans l'initiation sexuelle, tout semble dispose, agence, pour creuser davantage le fosse naturel qui la separe de l'homme, pour transformer des differences en inegalite, et cette inegalite en inferiorite. Ensuite sa situation : Simone de Beauvoir decrit la femme dans le mariage, avec ses premisses, ses traditions, ses consequences ; dans la maternite ; dans la prostitution, dans la societe ; dans le vieillissement et la vieillesse. Enfin elle envisage les problemes qui se posent aux femmes qui " heritant d'un lourd passe, s'efforcent de forger un avenir nouveau ".
This book is full of spectacular, yet simple, cakes using luscious, gelato colours that are sure to delight all children. Cakes include gorgeously girly ideas such as a fairy cake, a handbag and a castle cake. For the boys, there are daring cakes from a baby jumbo jet to a bright red fire engine. Children will love turning the pages of this gorgeous new book to select the cake they want to celebrate their special day, and parents will be happy with how easy and simple it is to make a tasty and completely personal cake at home.
A young woman with a new degree in Japanese studies and plenty of youthful idealism and can-do spirit accepts a job as the first American trainee at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. Her image of Japanese corporate life is dramatically challenged on her first day at work when she is issued a blue polyester uniform;a uniform worn only by women! From menial beginnings serving tea to executives and cleaning the boss's desk, to a stint in public relations, to developing training classes for Japanese associates going to America, Laura Kriska recounts her struggle to adapt to;and ultimately thrive in;the culture of a traditional Japanese company. Shortly before her departure, she travels full circle by introducing a successful campaign to make women's uniforms optional. Now with a new foreword by the author, The Accidental Office Lady is a vivid and valuable firsthand account not only of corporate Japan and the gender inequality that persists within it, but of an outsider's successful attempt to work within cultural boundaries to affect organizational change.
Bamboo has been used for thousands of years in China. With its many tributes and strengths, bamboo was blended into China's Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist thinking to give birth to a uniquely Chinese cultural phenomenon that has since spread far and wide. This beautifully illustrated book presents a vivid history of bamboo in China, including its many uses in daily life--from musical instruments to architecture, hydraulic engineering to military applications.
The Grelliers and the Schapens are two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a hundred and fifty years, their lives connected through the generations by history and geography. Gina Haring, bringing with her the liberal air of the big city, moves into a dilapidated house near both families' properties. Gina has secrets, her own reasons for being in the Kansas countryside, and they're not necessarily what the people around her imagine. Susan's involvement with her stirs up the wrath of the Schapen clan - and has cataclysmic results for her own family.Sara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas, and graduated from the state university with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, entitled The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War, and finally earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968.The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclectic personality defies easy categorization. She drinks Johnnie Walker Black Label, breaks into houses looking for clues, and can hold her own in a street fight, but also she pays attention to her clothes, sings opera along with the radio, and enjoys her sex life.Paretsky is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work.
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Ingouvernables ? Les très grandes métropoles, de 5 à 20 millions d'habitants, se multiplient ; la majorité d'entre elles se situent dans les pays émergents, accroissant les défis : peut-on dès lors gouverner de vastes ensembles complexes et divisés par des inégalités ? La recherche a souvent répondu par la négative. Cet ouvrage développe une approche de la ville matérielle et de ses institutions. La prise en compte des réseaux urbains et des institutions qui permettent de les piloter montre que, sans élaborer de grande théorie, les responsables urbains ont inventé les mécanismes d'un gouvernement ordinaire. Ils l'ont fait à partir de la résolution de problèmes pratiques et irrépressibles : fournir de l'électricité, de l'eau potable, assainir, permettre les déplacements, etc. Trois résultats ressortent : les réseaux techniques contribuent à structurer les villes et font office de dispositifs de cohérence. Les métropoles sont d'autant plus gouvernables qu'il existe un pouvoir légitime de rang supérieur capable de faire des arbitrages. Enfin, l'urbanisation anarchique trouve ses causes dans les régimes de propriété foncière, dans une insuffisante planification urbaine et dans les pratiques des promoteurs et des acteurs locaux qui s'enrichissent par la production du bati. Par la nouveauté de ces hypothèses et la précision des analyses conduites à Shanghai, Mumbai, Le Cap et Santiago du Chili, ce livre s'adresse à tous ceux qui travaillent sur la ville : élus, fonctionnaires territoriaux et fonctionnaires d'Etat, cadres des firmes urbaines, citoyens et étudiants.
Despite Dusan Siminek's distinctive, deliberate and sophisticated aesthetic, and despite occasional solo shows, his art photography has rarely been presented as such. Perhaps that's because he's better known for (and busier with) journalism, advertising, fashion and portraiture--work that attracts considerable attention of its own.
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′Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.′ The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels with the King Agamemnon. Attributed to Homer, The Iliad, along with The Odyssey, is still revered today as the oldest and finest example of Western Literature.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.' Still considered one of the most important and groundbreaking works of science ever written, Darwin's eminently readable exploration of the evolutionary process challenged most of the strong beliefs of the Western world. Forced to question the idea of the Creator, mid-nineteenth century readers were faced with Darwin's theories on the laws of natural selection and the randomness of evolution, causing massive controversy at the time. However, Darwin's theories remain instrumental in providing the backbone to modern biology today.
′Bear you well in this new spring of time,Lest you be cropp′d before you come to prime.′King Richard II rules England in a wasteful and short-sighted way, spending money unwisely and selecting his counselors foolishly. His manner ostracises him from his people and his country and it′s not long before both commoners and noblemen feel Richard has gone too far.When Richard seizes land that rightfully belongs to his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke retaliates by invading England while Richard is at war in Ireland. More popular with the commoners, Henry is eventually crowned King Henry IV.One of Shakespeare′s ′history plays′, Richard II explores the notion of the shadow that is cast over a king′s reign if the throne is gained in underhand ways.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.' Arguably the greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet continues to touch modern audiences with its passionate depiction of the tragic romance between two young lovers. With a bitter feud between their respective families, Romeo and Juliet's love is troubled from the start, and through their relationship, Shakespeare shows the fine line between love, hatred, comedy and tragedy.
′Though this be madness, yet there is method in′t.′Considered one of Shakespeare′s most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge the murder of his father by his brother Claudius is both powerful and complex. As Hamlet tries to find out the truth of the situation, his troubled relationship with his mother comes to the fore, as do the paradoxes in his personality. A play of carefully crafted conflict and tragedy, Shakespeare′s intricate dialogue continues to fascinate audiences to this day.
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