The Holocaust: a history
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''Holocaust'' illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. It is a story of all Europe, of Nazis and their allies, the experience of wartime occupation, the suffering and strategies of marked victims, the failure of international rescue, and the success of individual rescuers. ''Holocaust'' uniquely makes(...)
The Holocaust: a history
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''Holocaust'' illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. It is a story of all Europe, of Nazis and their allies, the experience of wartime occupation, the suffering and strategies of marked victims, the failure of international rescue, and the success of individual rescuers. ''Holocaust'' uniquely makes use of oral histories recorded by the authors over fifteen years across Europe and the United States, as well as never-before-analyzed archival documents, letters, and diaries; it contains in addition seventy-five illustrations and sixteen original maps, each accompanied by an extended caption.
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In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way(...)
Eugenic design: streamlining America in the 1903's
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In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way eugenicists approached bodies.
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Parmi les stigmatisations formulées par l'Internationale situationniste, l'urbanisme occupe une place spécifique en tant que forme spatiale de domination de la marchandise ou comme décor naturel du capitalisme. Ses diatribes et attaques constituent une véritable déclaration de guerre contre l'idéologie dominante du fonctionnalisme et du modernisme, entendue comme voie(...)
February 2008, Paris
Le grand jeu à venir: textes situationnistes sur la ville
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Parmi les stigmatisations formulées par l'Internationale situationniste, l'urbanisme occupe une place spécifique en tant que forme spatiale de domination de la marchandise ou comme décor naturel du capitalisme. Ses diatribes et attaques constituent une véritable déclaration de guerre contre l'idéologie dominante du fonctionnalisme et du modernisme, entendue comme voie royale du progrès économique et social. Nulle part mieux que dans les transformations de l'art de bâtir, la prégnance de cette nouvelle doxa n'est manifeste. En dépit de quelques travestissements culturels, l'architecture renoue avec sa fonction politique d'inscrire la division de la société dans l'espace, imposant à chaque classe sociale sa place.
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
March 2008, London
Daniel Buren
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This volume collects recent works by the French conceptualist known for his site specific installations involving stripes--on land, air and sea. From New York's Guggenheim Museum to Beijing's Temple of Heaven, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the gardens of Versaille, Buren's interventions create amazing complex appropriated spatial structures.
Lights out for the territory
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Walking the streets of London Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and divining hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In "Lights Out for the Territory" he gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and(...)
October 2003, London, New York
Lights out for the territory
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Walking the streets of London Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and divining hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In "Lights Out for the Territory" he gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and utterly unique picture of modern urban life. And in the process he reveals the dark underbelly of a London many of us did not know existed.
Great kid's spaces
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This clear and concise compendium of guidelines, expert advice and proven solutions for designing play spaces includes all the phases in the design process: from the preliminary layouts to the smallest details of each element. The varying demands or preferences inherent in designing for a wide range of users have been broken down by age, with additional focus on children(...)
Great kid's spaces
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This clear and concise compendium of guidelines, expert advice and proven solutions for designing play spaces includes all the phases in the design process: from the preliminary layouts to the smallest details of each element. The varying demands or preferences inherent in designing for a wide range of users have been broken down by age, with additional focus on children with reduced mobility or special needs. Explanatory texts are further clarified by simple and precise illustrations; and the measurements, materials and functions of each piece of play equipment are explained in detail, with particular emphasis given to safety issues and accessibility.
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La vie après le pétrole
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Alors que les quantités mondiales de pétrole consommées sont de plus en plus importantes, celles qui sont découvertes le sont de moins en moins: actuellement, nous découvrons chaque année deux à trois fois moins de pétrole que nous en consommons. Cette tendance ne peut se prolonger indéfiniment... Et si le pétrole a déjà connu plusieurs crises, il semble que celle qui(...)
La vie après le pétrole
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Alors que les quantités mondiales de pétrole consommées sont de plus en plus importantes, celles qui sont découvertes le sont de moins en moins: actuellement, nous découvrons chaque année deux à trois fois moins de pétrole que nous en consommons. Cette tendance ne peut se prolonger indéfiniment... Et si le pétrole a déjà connu plusieurs crises, il semble que celle qui nous attend soit d'une ampleur inédite et arrive bien plus tôt que nous ne l'imaginons généralement... Comment la situation peut-elle évoluer? Quand risquons-nous d'être confrontés à une pénurie? Qu'est-ce que le pic de production du pétrole? Et surtout, comment et avec quelles énergies alternatives appréhender, anticiper et vivre cet "après-pétrole"? Voici les questions auxquelles La vie après le pétrole tente de répondre de manière didactique et accessible grâce notamment à des graphiques, des tableaux commentés et des encadrés.
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On photography
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"On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato’s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
January 2001, New York
On photography
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"On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato’s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
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In the history of medecine, hospital are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of archtiecture.
February 2008, Minneapolis
Medicine by Design: The architect and the modern hospital, 1893-1943
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In the history of medecine, hospital are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of archtiecture.
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In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. "Loose space" explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the(...)
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December 2006, London, New York
Loose space : possibility and diversity in urban life
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In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. "Loose space" explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban space loose continue to give cities life and vitality. The book examines physical spaces and how people use them. Contributors discuss a wide range of recreational, commercial and political activities; some are conventional, others are more experimental. Some of the activities occur alongside the intended uses of planned public spaces, such as sidewalks and plazas; other activities replace former uses, as in abandoned warehouses and industrial sites. The thirteen case studies, international in scope, demonstrate the continuing richness of urban public life that is created and sustained by urbanites themselves
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