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The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during(...)
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Bicycle design: an illustrated history
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The bicycle ranks as one of the most enduring, most widely used vehicles in the world, with more than a billion produced during almost two hundred years of cycling history. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's technical and historical evolution, from the earliest velocipedes (invented to fill the need for horseless transport during a shortage of oats) to modern racing bikes, mountain bikes, and recumbents. It traces the bicycle's development in terms of materials, ergonomics, and vehicle physics, as carried out by inventors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturers.
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Au regard des usages, le parking possède des qualités insoupçonnées. N’est-il pas marqué par la présence des habitants qui le traversent, y séjournent et s’y adonnent à des travaux de mécanique ou de bricolage, bref qui l’investissent ? Aussi convient-il de se demander s’il n’associe pas les qualités du logement à celles de l’espace public, et ne peut en retour participer(...)
Le parking dans les grands ensembles
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Au regard des usages, le parking possède des qualités insoupçonnées. N’est-il pas marqué par la présence des habitants qui le traversent, y séjournent et s’y adonnent à des travaux de mécanique ou de bricolage, bref qui l’investissent ? Aussi convient-il de se demander s’il n’associe pas les qualités du logement à celles de l’espace public, et ne peut en retour participer à la requalification des espaces – public et privé – entre lesquels il s’inscrit.
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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of 1984.
Down and out in Paris and London
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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of 1984.
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Tokyo infra-ordinaire
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Vous souhaitez explorer la boutique de sanitaires TOTO, partir en balade avec une coccinelle, poursuivre une méditation sur le temps grâce aux horloges Daimyo ou flâner dans les jardins japonais : tout cela est possible grâce à Tokyo infra-ordinaire. Durant le temps d’un livre et d’une ligne de métro circulaire dont il fait le tour, Jacques Roubaud repart dans une(...)
Tokyo infra-ordinaire
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Vous souhaitez explorer la boutique de sanitaires TOTO, partir en balade avec une coccinelle, poursuivre une méditation sur le temps grâce aux horloges Daimyo ou flâner dans les jardins japonais : tout cela est possible grâce à Tokyo infra-ordinaire. Durant le temps d’un livre et d’une ligne de métro circulaire dont il fait le tour, Jacques Roubaud repart dans une exploration du monde et de sa mémoire en ordonnant comme il peut ses pensées grâce à une arborescence des paragraphes pleine de couleurs et de numéros.
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Au service de la consommation du monde, le tourisme suppose, non seulement une sensibilité particulière, mais aussi une réalité organisée autour de lieux modélisés selon des principes gestionnaires. Désinvesti de son territoire d’origine, le touriste nourrit l’espoir confus de trouver ailleurs ce qui lui manque chez lui: le goût de vivre une existence conviviale sur un(...)
L'usure du monde: critique de la déraison touristique
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Au service de la consommation du monde, le tourisme suppose, non seulement une sensibilité particulière, mais aussi une réalité organisée autour de lieux modélisés selon des principes gestionnaires. Désinvesti de son territoire d’origine, le touriste nourrit l’espoir confus de trouver ailleurs ce qui lui manque chez lui: le goût de vivre une existence conviviale sur un territoire encore chargé de sens et de vie. Mais par sa présence même, il détruit ce qu’il est venu chercher.
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Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary. Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a(...)
On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes
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Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary. Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things...
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Traveling in Place presents the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art.
Traveling in place: a history of armchair travel
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Traveling in Place presents the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art.
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This publication brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. It examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.
The tourist: a new theory of the leisure class
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This publication brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. It examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.
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This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.
The folklore of the freeway: race and revolt in the modernist city
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This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.
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In The Appian Way, Robert A. Kaster brings a lifetime of studying Roman literature and history to his adventures along the ancient highway. A footsore Roman soldier pushing the imperial power south; craftsmen and farmers bringing their goods to the towns that lined the road; pious pilgrims headed to Jerusalem, using stage-by-stage directions we can still follow—all come(...)
The Appian way: ghost road, queen of roads
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In The Appian Way, Robert A. Kaster brings a lifetime of studying Roman literature and history to his adventures along the ancient highway. A footsore Roman soldier pushing the imperial power south; craftsmen and farmers bringing their goods to the towns that lined the road; pious pilgrims headed to Jerusalem, using stage-by-stage directions we can still follow—all come to life once more as Kaster walks (and drives—and suffers car trouble) on what’s left of the Appian Way.
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