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1761) Sky color
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Creatrilogy volume 3
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Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But how can Marisol make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream.
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Its time for your charity to embrace and embed environmental sustainability into your organization. This book will walk you through a proven process that was successfully, embedded into one of North America's largest and oldest charities, the YMCA. It will help to proactively navigate obstacles, source funding and help provide tools and tips you need. I will help move your organization to become Sustainably Green.
Charities and Not-For-Profits (NFPs)...
1764) Twisted
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Twisted documents and explores an eleven-story garment factory building in Shantou, China, for the fashion label Lafayette 148. The book presents the building as an artifact of architecture, with detailed documentation of images and drawings. The book also presents essays that offer a series of distinct but interrelated responses to the many questions that arise when building a garment factory facility in contemporary China. Issues addressed range...
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Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries. In Things Japanese: Everyday Objects of Extraordinary Beauty and Significance, author Nicholas Bornoff and photographer Michael Freeman examine over 60 traditional objects that are uniquely Japanese, deftly illustrating their beauty and significance. • Beautifully crafted samurai swords • Elegant wooden tansu chests •...
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East Timor (Timo Leste) History, Government and Politics, People, Culture and Religion. From the 16th century onwards, East Timor was a Portuguese colony known as Portuguese Timor. The rest of the island of Timor, and the other islands that were later to become Indonesia, were colonised by the Dutch between the 17th and 19th centuries, and were known as the Dutch East Indies. Portugal largely neglected the colony, using it mainly as a place to exile...
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An unusual investigative reporter's account of the transfer of the downtown Kansas City, Missouri, library collection from a decrepit building in the so-called Compassion Zone to a historic bank building owned by the Kemper family as part of the city's grand revitalization plan. That zone was so-named for its provision of food and shelter to homeless persons and the efforts to keep them within the zone, where the main jail was located as well. The...
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One World Trade Center, an enormous skyscraper in New York City, was built in the wake of terrorist attacks that destroyed the original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Engineering One World Trade Center looks at how architects designed the building, how the skyscraper incorporates many new safety features, and how workers built the tower in the middle of a bustling city. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers...
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The essence of a vibrant, growing, and changing Calgary is captured over the life of its development. Calgary is a typical boom-and-bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or construction. It is a city that leaps ahead eagerly to new futures and rarely looks back., but Calgary can also be an unsentimental city, discarding its ideas, plans,...
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The newly built Mas d'Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture's role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution, and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. "Mas d'Enric" is a new penitentiary that overturns preconceptions and posits architecture...
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This classic sourcebook of decorative motifs contains 100 plates of royalty-free Gothic designs, meticulously reproduced from rare 19th-century engravings. Many are floral and foliate designs rendered from panels, capitals, borders, brackets, friezes, grotesques, and other decorative elements from such architectural landmarks as New College Chapel at Oxford and Rouen Cathedral.
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Distinguez deux objets d'étude bien distincts à l'aide de ce livre.
Cet ouvrage se focalise sur deux objets distincts : l'entrée en ville, en tant que configuration spatiale, et l'arrivée en ville, en tant qu'expérience urbaine singulière.
Un ouvrage de référence qui s'appuie sur l'histoire de l'architecture, adressé à tous ceux qui s'intéresse de près ou de loin à l'urbanisme.
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De la porte urbaine à l'aéroport, de la gare...
1773) Boundaries
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Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook-a unique view into her artwork and philosophy.
Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead....
1774) Le Voyage de Sparte
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Extrait : "Au lycée de Nancy, en 1880, M. Auguste Burdeau, notre professeur de philosophie, ouvrit un jour un tout petit livre: —Je vais vous lire quelques fragments d'un des plus rares esprits de ce temps. C'étaient les Rêveries d'un païen mystique. Pages subtiles et fortes, qui convenaient mal pour une lecture à haute voix, car il eut fallu s'arrêter et méditer sur chaque ligne. Mais elles conquirent mon âme étonnée."
1775) A House by the Sea
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Many wine drinkers wish they knew more without having to understand every nuance or go to expensive wine tastings. In her new book, Jancis Robinson, the leading international authority on wine, grants the wishes of would-be wine experts the world over. With The 24-Hour Wine Expert, anyone can learn all that is really important about wine in a single day. In her pithy, approachable, comprehensive guide, Robinson shares her expertise with authority,...
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Inside this book, you will discover exactly what shipping container homes are, what the benefits are, what permits you need to build one, and how to get started.
Utilizing shipping containers in your building design doesn't only provide you will a unique looking house. They can also reduce cost, building time, and even make your home even more, eco-friendly! This book takes you step by step through the building process, and highlights the different...
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Shipping container homes
Shipping container homes are a newly popular method of sustainable housing. Essentially it involves taking a new (or used) shipping container, and turning it into a home, office, or other type of liveable space!
There are a huge range of designs that can be created, and multiple shipping containers can be joined together to create a truly unique structure.
These shipping container homes are not only a lot cheaper than...
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Pour chroniquer l'évolution du monde qui se construit et se transforme sous la pression des grandes transitions, l'INTA a demandé à Jean-Yves Chapuis de puiser dans son expérience d'élu aménageur et de partager ses analyses et points de vue sur ces ruptures qui inquiètent l'humanité. Porté par une vision et un sens de la mission et avec une passion d'aller à la rencontre de l'autre, cet essai relate à la fois l'expérience vécue de praticien...
1780) Easter Island
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In this book, early fluent readers will marvel at Easter Island while learning about its history, location, uses, and architecture. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the landmark's cultural history.
A Take a Look! infographic aids understanding, sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an At a Glance recap offers a map and quick stats on the landmark. Children...
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