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Architecture and beauty
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop,(...)
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop,(...)
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop, Peter Cook, Odile Decq, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe, Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop, Peter Cook, Odile Decq, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe, Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.
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June 2010
June 2010
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Architectural Theory
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Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s reinvention of the traditional atlas, examines the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants.
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Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s reinvention of the traditional atlas, examines the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants.
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November 2010
November 2010
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Infinite city: a San Francisco atlas
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Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s reinvention of the traditional atlas, examines the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants.
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Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s reinvention of the traditional atlas, examines the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants.
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This publication gathers writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the worldrsquo;s leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a(...)
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This publication gathers writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the worldrsquo;s leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a(...)
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Terror and wonder: architecture in a tumultuous age
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This publication gathers writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the worldrsquo;s leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability.
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This publication gathers writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the worldrsquo;s leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability.
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October 2010
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Architecture, means and ends
Architecture, means and ends
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In this book, Vittorio Gregotti argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, the designer will produce a practical aesthetic as well as an ethical solution.
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In this book, Vittorio Gregotti argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, the designer will produce a practical aesthetic as well as an ethical solution.
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Architecture, means and ends
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In this book, Vittorio Gregotti argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, the designer will produce a practical aesthetic as well as an ethical solution.
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In this book, Vittorio Gregotti argues that by making symbolic expression a primary objective in the design of a project, the designer will produce a practical aesthetic as well as an ethical solution.
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November 2010
November 2010
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Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at how today’s trademark architectural individualism stretches beyond the well-known works and ultimately extends to the entire built environment. Glendinning examines how the global empire of the current modernism emerged—particularly in relation to the excesses of global capitalism—and explains its key organizational and architectural(...)
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Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at how today’s trademark architectural individualism stretches beyond the well-known works and ultimately extends to the entire built environment. Glendinning examines how the global empire of the current modernism emerged—particularly in relation to the excesses of global capitalism—and explains its key organizational and architectural(...)
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Architecture's evil empire: The triumph and tragedy of global modernism
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Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at how today’s trademark architectural individualism stretches beyond the well-known works and ultimately extends to the entire built environment. Glendinning examines how the global empire of the current modernism emerged—particularly in relation to the excesses of global capitalism—and explains its key organizational and architectural features, placing its most influential theorists and designers in a broader context of history and artistic movements.
Architecture's evil empire: The triumph and tragedy of global modernism
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Architecture’s Evil Empire, looks at how today’s trademark architectural individualism stretches beyond the well-known works and ultimately extends to the entire built environment. Glendinning examines how the global empire of the current modernism emerged—particularly in relation to the excesses of global capitalism—and explains its key organizational and architectural features, placing its most influential theorists and designers in a broader context of history and artistic movements.
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October 2010
October 2010
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A culture of stone
A culture of stone
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and(...)
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and(...)
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November 2010
November 2010
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A culture of stone
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry.
A culture of stone
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry.
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In this publication, Daniel Purdy surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than(...)
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In this publication, Daniel Purdy surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than(...)
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On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought
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In this publication, Daniel Purdy surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum. Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings.
On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought
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In this publication, Daniel Purdy surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum. Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings.
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December 2010
December 2010
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Si on comprend aisément que les concepteurs de formes et d’espaces aient quotidiennement recours aux figures de l’analogie pour imaginer leurs projets, on sait moins que de nombreuses théories et doctrines de l’architecture lui sont tout autant redevables. Sorte de secret mal gardé, l’analogie serait de fait une des grandes matrices de l’architecture. Examinant(...)
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Si on comprend aisément que les concepteurs de formes et d’espaces aient quotidiennement recours aux figures de l’analogie pour imaginer leurs projets, on sait moins que de nombreuses théories et doctrines de l’architecture lui sont tout autant redevables. Sorte de secret mal gardé, l’analogie serait de fait une des grandes matrices de l’architecture. Examinant(...)
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Analogie et théorie en architecture : de la vie, de la ville et de la conception, même
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Si on comprend aisément que les concepteurs de formes et d’espaces aient quotidiennement recours aux figures de l’analogie pour imaginer leurs projets, on sait moins que de nombreuses théories et doctrines de l’architecture lui sont tout autant redevables. Sorte de secret mal gardé, l’analogie serait de fait une des grandes matrices de l’architecture. Examinant rigoureusement la portée pratique et théorique de cette hypothèse, les études d’histoire critique rassemblées dans ce premier ouvrage se consacrent à trois registres de la modernité qui éclairent l’architecture contemporaine : les conceptions de la vie et de la biologie (des images du corps aux principes de la génétique),les conceptions de la ville (en reconstituant les contours et les enjeux de ce que l’architecte Aldo Rossi appelait une « ville analogue »), et les conceptions mêmes de la conception (dont les modèles analogiques permettent de rendre compte des circonvolutions de l’imagination et de la réflexion architecturale).
Analogie et théorie en architecture : de la vie, de la ville et de la conception, même
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Si on comprend aisément que les concepteurs de formes et d’espaces aient quotidiennement recours aux figures de l’analogie pour imaginer leurs projets, on sait moins que de nombreuses théories et doctrines de l’architecture lui sont tout autant redevables. Sorte de secret mal gardé, l’analogie serait de fait une des grandes matrices de l’architecture. Examinant rigoureusement la portée pratique et théorique de cette hypothèse, les études d’histoire critique rassemblées dans ce premier ouvrage se consacrent à trois registres de la modernité qui éclairent l’architecture contemporaine : les conceptions de la vie et de la biologie (des images du corps aux principes de la génétique),les conceptions de la ville (en reconstituant les contours et les enjeux de ce que l’architecte Aldo Rossi appelait une « ville analogue »), et les conceptions mêmes de la conception (dont les modèles analogiques permettent de rendre compte des circonvolutions de l’imagination et de la réflexion architecturale).
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August 2010
August 2010
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Technics & civilization
Technics & civilization
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Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 —before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its(...)
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Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 —before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its(...)
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Technics & civilization
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Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 —before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, this book was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years — and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today.
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Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 —before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, this book was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years — and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today.
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October 2010
October 2010
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The first six books of the elements of Euclid : facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847
The first six books of the elements of Euclid : facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847
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Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to(...)
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Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to(...)
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The first six books of the elements of Euclid : facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847
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Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to distinguish his edition from all others: "The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners." Byrne is not content to trust solely in the supposed intuitive "logical" structure of Euclid's axioms and theorems – who doesn't know the first famous sentences of Euclid's Elements: "I. A point is that which has no parts. II. A line is length without breadth"? –, but translates them into colourful diagrams and symbols. He thereby thinks in terms of the school classroom : he compares his colours to the dyed chalks in which figures are drawn on the blackboard.
The first six books of the elements of Euclid : facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847
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Red, yellow, blue – and of course black – are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to distinguish his edition from all others: "The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners." Byrne is not content to trust solely in the supposed intuitive "logical" structure of Euclid's axioms and theorems – who doesn't know the first famous sentences of Euclid's Elements: "I. A point is that which has no parts. II. A line is length without breadth"? –, but translates them into colourful diagrams and symbols. He thereby thinks in terms of the school classroom : he compares his colours to the dyed chalks in which figures are drawn on the blackboard.
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July 2010
July 2010
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