Why we live where we live
$17.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Geography, topography, climate, landscape, food security, politics, economics, and more all play a role in how we choose the place we call home. This book takes readers on a tour of the various ways humans adapt to our environments — or change them to suit our needs. It considers the big picture — we live on Earth because it has a breathable atmosphere — right down to the(...)
Why we live where we live
Actions:
Price:
$17.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Geography, topography, climate, landscape, food security, politics, economics, and more all play a role in how we choose the place we call home. This book takes readers on a tour of the various ways humans adapt to our environments — or change them to suit our needs. It considers the big picture — we live on Earth because it has a breathable atmosphere — right down to the little things, like friendly neighbors, that simply make us happy.
Children's Books
$37.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Many experts agree that energy is the defining issue of this century. Economic recessions, foreign wars, and foreclosures are only a few of the results of America’s dependence on oil. In Terra Nova, ecologist Eric Sanderson elucidates the interconnections between oil and money, cars and transportation, and suburbs and land use. He then charts a path toward renewed(...)
Terra nova: the new world after oil, cars, and suburbs
Actions:
Price:
$37.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Many experts agree that energy is the defining issue of this century. Economic recessions, foreign wars, and foreclosures are only a few of the results of America’s dependence on oil. In Terra Nova, ecologist Eric Sanderson elucidates the interconnections between oil and money, cars and transportation, and suburbs and land use. He then charts a path toward renewed economic growth, enhanced national security, revitalized communities, and a sustainable environment: a new form of the American Dream.
Green Architecture
books
Description:
volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, maps ; 31 cm
St. John's : Newfoundland Book Publishers, [©1937]-
The book of Newfoundland / editor, Joseph R. Smallwood ; associate editor, James R. Thomas.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, maps ; 31 cm
books
St. John's : Newfoundland Book Publishers, [©1937]-
Design for flooding: Architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to climate change
$102.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Design for Flooding presents practices and lessons to create buildings and communities that are more resilient in the face of severe weather, climate change, and the prospect of rising sea level. It covers technical and institutional issues—along with new design and business opportunities—built upon fundamentals of climate and weather, stormwater and floodplain(...)
Design for flooding: Architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to climate change
Actions:
Price:
$102.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Design for Flooding presents practices and lessons to create buildings and communities that are more resilient in the face of severe weather, climate change, and the prospect of rising sea level. It covers technical and institutional issues—along with new design and business opportunities—built upon fundamentals of climate and weather, stormwater and floodplain management; best practices of flood-resistant design and adaption to sea level rise; multidisciplinary design that integrates sound ecological and engineering principles; and innovative design and construction to protect and improve water security.
Gardens
$17.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York’s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic, acerbic director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello, to the curators who have a deep knowledge and passionate appreciation of their collections, from the security guards to the(...)
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
December 2008, London
Museum: behind the scenes at the Metropolitain museum of art
Actions:
Price:
$17.50
(available to order)
Summary:
Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York’s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic, acerbic director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello, to the curators who have a deep knowledge and passionate appreciation of their collections, from the security guards to the philanthropists who keep the museum’s financial life blood flowing, Danziger brings to life this extraordinary world through the words of those who are devoted to making the Met the American institution it surely is.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
Radical Philosophy 148
$13.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Commentaries: Looking back on May '68 Articles: Art and Immaterial Labour Maurizio Lazzarato: Art, Work and Politics in Societies of Security Judith Revel: Against Idealism and New Vitalisms Franco Berardi/Bifo: Conjunction/Connection Antonio Negri: Concerning Periodization in Art Review: Knox Peden on Bourg's May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought Peter(...)
Radical Philosophy 148
Actions:
Price:
$13.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Commentaries: Looking back on May '68 Articles: Art and Immaterial Labour Maurizio Lazzarato: Art, Work and Politics in Societies of Security Judith Revel: Against Idealism and New Vitalisms Franco Berardi/Bifo: Conjunction/Connection Antonio Negri: Concerning Periodization in Art Review: Knox Peden on Bourg's May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought Peter hallward on Alain Badiou on Sarkozy Gail Day on Marxism and the History of Art Steve Edwards on John Roberts's The Intangibilities of Form Andrew Chitty on David Leopold's The young Karl Marx Fabian Säfer on Re-politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy
Magazines
Hijacking sustainability
$27.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Parr looks closely at five examples of the hijacking of sustainability: corporate image-greening by such companies as British Petroleum (BP) and Wal-Mart; Hollywood activism by Leonardo DiCaprio and other movie industry figures; the autonomy of communal ecovillages vs. the military-like security of gated communities; the greening of the White House (and its de-greening:(...)
Hijacking sustainability
Actions:
Price:
$27.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Parr looks closely at five examples of the hijacking of sustainability: corporate image-greening by such companies as British Petroleum (BP) and Wal-Mart; Hollywood activism by Leonardo DiCaprio and other movie industry figures; the autonomy of communal ecovillages vs. the military-like security of gated communities; the greening of the White House (and its de-greening: Ronald Reagan famously removed solar panels installed by Jimmy Carter); and the incongruous efforts to achieve a "sustainable" army. Parr then examines key challenges to sustainability— waste disposal, disaster relief and environmental refugees, slum development, and poverty.
Green Architecture
$38.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimize safety and security, lighting also has another principal task creating emotions. Light and color can be used to achieve the most varied and astonishing effects. These effects are dependent on the project and spatial environment, but they also depend in large measure on cultural context. This study is(...)
Light and emotions: exploring lighting cultures
Actions:
Price:
$38.95
(available to order)
Summary:
In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimize safety and security, lighting also has another principal task creating emotions. Light and color can be used to achieve the most varied and astonishing effects. These effects are dependent on the project and spatial environment, but they also depend in large measure on cultural context. This study is based on forty-seven interviews with lighting designers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. This publication explores in a systematic fashion what aesthetic, emotional, and atmospheric tasks a good lighting design can accomplish.
Materials and Lighting
$40.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Covering(...)
Bound for glory : America in color, 1939-43 : FSA / OWI collection, the Library of Congress
Actions:
Price:
$40.00
(available to order)
Summary:
The photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures. Covering countryside and city, farm and factory, work and play, the images in this book reveal a world that we have always seen in our mind's eye exclusively in black and white.
Photography Collections
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of people and the damage of the long Civil War. In ''Walker Evans'', renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers(...)
Walker Evans: Starting from scratch
Actions:
Price:
$39.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of people and the damage of the long Civil War. In ''Walker Evans'', renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers explores how Evans made his distinctive photographs. Delving into a lavish selection of Evans’s work, Alpers uncovers rich parallels between his creative approach and those of numerous literary and cultural figures, locating Evans within the wide context of a truly international circle.
Theory of Photography