Bicycle, the history
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This illustrated book tells the extraordinary history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. Recounting a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities, David Herlihy shows us why the bicycle captured the public's imagination and the myriad ways it has reshaped our world.
Bicycle, the history
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This illustrated book tells the extraordinary history of the bicycle, an invention that precipitated nothing short of a social revolution. Recounting a story replete with disputed patents, brilliant inventions, and missed opportunities, David Herlihy shows us why the bicycle captured the public's imagination and the myriad ways it has reshaped our world.
Engineering Structures
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Italo Calvino cast his lofty thoughts toward the pending millennium long before the rest of us. Now that the zeitgeist has caught up with him, it seems a good time to revisit his Six Memos for the Next Millennium, an investigation into the literary values that he wished to bequeath to future generations.
Six memos for the next millennium
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Italo Calvino cast his lofty thoughts toward the pending millennium long before the rest of us. Now that the zeitgeist has caught up with him, it seems a good time to revisit his Six Memos for the Next Millennium, an investigation into the literary values that he wished to bequeath to future generations.
Architectural Theory
Paul Graham: films
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Graham presents us a timely tribute to the passing of film. The grains, color dye clouds, the black and white silver crystals, make images of stunning beauty, simplicity and scientific record. Part wistful homage, part farewell, part visual wonder, Films is a book for anyone who engaged with photography in the 20th century.
Paul Graham: films
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Graham presents us a timely tribute to the passing of film. The grains, color dye clouds, the black and white silver crystals, make images of stunning beauty, simplicity and scientific record. Part wistful homage, part farewell, part visual wonder, Films is a book for anyone who engaged with photography in the 20th century.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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As Detroit's middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs.
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre: ruins of Detroit
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As Detroit's middle class continues to abandon the city center for its dispersed suburbs, and its downtown high-rises empty out, these astounding images, which convey both the imperious grandeur of the city's architecture and its genuinely shocking decline, preserve a moment that warns us all of the transience of great epochs.
Photography monographs
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Improbable Libraries offers a breathtaking tour of the places that bring us together and provide education, entertainment, culture, and so much more. From the rise of the egalitarian Little Free Library movement to the growth in luxury hotel libraries, the communal book revolution means you’ll never be far from the perfect next read.
Improbable librairies: a visual journey to the world's most unusual librairies
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Improbable Libraries offers a breathtaking tour of the places that bring us together and provide education, entertainment, culture, and so much more. From the rise of the egalitarian Little Free Library movement to the growth in luxury hotel libraries, the communal book revolution means you’ll never be far from the perfect next read.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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America's most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city's history from its founding through statehood.
The accidental city : improvising New Orleans
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America's most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested, hurricane-battered swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked their lives to succeed in colonial America, the site became a crossroads for the Atlantic world. Powell gives us the full sweep of the city's history from its founding through statehood.
History until 1900, North America
A philosophy of walking
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In A Philosophy of Walking, Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B — the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble — and reveals what they say about us. He also draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice.
A philosophy of walking
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In A Philosophy of Walking, Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B — the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble — and reveals what they say about us. He also draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice.
Journeys
The Plant issue 18
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Issue 18 cover story features Fumiko Imano standing out amongst orange poppies. Flowers continue to inspire in pop artist Lily van der Stokker’s interview. Fashion designer Simone Rocha brings us on her family walk in Cap Ferrat. And dealing with the last mass extinction, Sam Rock visits the area where an asteroid hit the Earth.
The Plant issue 18
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Issue 18 cover story features Fumiko Imano standing out amongst orange poppies. Flowers continue to inspire in pop artist Lily van der Stokker’s interview. Fashion designer Simone Rocha brings us on her family walk in Cap Ferrat. And dealing with the last mass extinction, Sam Rock visits the area where an asteroid hit the Earth.
Magazines
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If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
Disfigured: On fairy tales, disability, and making space
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If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
Social
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Thomas Struth, recently celebrated by a major travelling exhibition in the US, had his breakthrough in the early 90s with his series 'Museum photographs.' Since then, Struth has expanded this series that is presented in its entirety in this volume, along with pictures he took of European master paintings at their sites across the world.
Photography monographs
January 1900, Munich
Thomas Struth : museum photographs
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Thomas Struth, recently celebrated by a major travelling exhibition in the US, had his breakthrough in the early 90s with his series 'Museum photographs.' Since then, Struth has expanded this series that is presented in its entirety in this volume, along with pictures he took of European master paintings at their sites across the world.
Photography monographs