Dear Architecture
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world -(...)
Dear Architecture
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world - the open letters challenge architects and designers to think deeply about the profession they are participating in.With a special cover designed by Irena Gajic, this book includes the three winning entries, and 12 honorable mentions to the competition, as well as a selection of additional noteworthy entries.
Littérature et poésie
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies(...)
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Remèdes littéraires : se soigner par les livres
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies telles que : abandon, alcoolisme, calvitie, rage de dents, mal de dos, harcèlement, hémorroïdes, insomnie, jalousie, ménopause, obésité, rhume des foins, solitude… et bien d'autres !
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he(...)
Au bonheur des dames (The ladies delight)
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.
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Kingdom come
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A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge. One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel. Now he is driving out to Brooklands, the apparently peaceful town on the M25 which has at its heart(...)
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A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge. One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel. Now he is driving out to Brooklands, the apparently peaceful town on the M25 which has at its heart the shining shoppers’ paradise where the shooting happened – the Metro-Centre. Richard, determined to unravel the mystery, starts to believe that something deeply sinister lurks behind the pristine facades of the labyrinthine mall, its 24-hour cable TV and sports club. In this, his final novel, Ballard holds up a mirror to Middle England, reflecting an unsettling image of suburbia and revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism.
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Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the(...)
The carrier bag theory of fiction
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Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota, where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.
Littérature et poésie
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Les discours sur le Nord se caractérisent souvent par une certaine « simplification ». Dans cet admirable recueil, traversé par le silence, mais également par les discours scientifique, littéraire, écologique et anthropologique, la poésie se glisse dans les brèches du discours savant, humanise et complexifie l’étude de l’espace nordique. La poète, temporairement « en(...)
Notes de terrain pour la toundra alpine
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Les discours sur le Nord se caractérisent souvent par une certaine « simplification ». Dans cet admirable recueil, traversé par le silence, mais également par les discours scientifique, littéraire, écologique et anthropologique, la poésie se glisse dans les brèches du discours savant, humanise et complexifie l’étude de l’espace nordique. La poète, temporairement « en résidence » dans la toundra du Yukon, tente de sonder le territoire. Son regard demeure empreint d’une fascination distanciée, mais conscient de sa propre incapacité à cerner la complexité du Nord.
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Devenir chevreuil
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Durant le confinement du printemps 2020, Tony Durand prend l’habitude de partager ses repas en famille dans son jardin normand pour profiter du temps exceptionnellement ensoleillé. Dans un élan d’euphorie devant le printemps naissant, et pour distraire ses filles, il s’abandonne, un matin, à la rêverie et s’imagine jeune chevreuil, dévorant avec gourmandise les premiers(...)
Devenir chevreuil
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Durant le confinement du printemps 2020, Tony Durand prend l’habitude de partager ses repas en famille dans son jardin normand pour profiter du temps exceptionnellement ensoleillé. Dans un élan d’euphorie devant le printemps naissant, et pour distraire ses filles, il s’abandonne, un matin, à la rêverie et s’imagine jeune chevreuil, dévorant avec gourmandise les premiers bourgeons qui apparaissent alors sur les arbustes environnants. Et telle n’est pas sa surprise quand, quelques jours plus tard, un jeune chevreuil bondit au-dessus de la haie pour se retrouver face à lui… Ce livre a pour point de départ ce hasard, cette coïncidence, ce rendez-vous entre l’imaginaire et la réalité. Au-delà de nous conter les délices de la vie d’un jeune cervidé dans une nature en plein éveil, Durand fait littéralement corps avec lui, se projette avec empathie et humour dans les sensations et les aspirations de son double animalier. En autant de petites touches qu’il y a de bourgeons dans les arbres, l’auteur nous emporte dans son admiration pour la vivacité et la liberté de ce chevreuil fascinant, et nous ouvre en grand les portes du vivant et des imaginaires qu’il peut susciter.
Littérature et poésie
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In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better(...)
Burning questions: Essays and occasional pieces 2004-2021
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In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
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Catching the light
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In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Composed of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh(...)
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In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Composed of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory—in both the private, individual journey and as a vehicle for prophetic, public witness. Harjo insists that the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen. At the crossroads of this brokenness, she calls us to watch and listen for the songs of justice for all those America has denied. This is an homage to the power of words to defy erasure—to inscribe the story, again and again, of who we have been, who we are, and who we can be.
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We are living in the Anthropocene—an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In ''Tomorrow’s parties,'' science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even thrive through the advancing(...)
Tomorrow's parties: Life in the Anthropocene
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We are living in the Anthropocene—an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In ''Tomorrow’s parties,'' science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even thrive through the advancing Anthropocene. In ten original stories by writers from around the world, an interview with celebrated writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and a series of intricate and elegant artworks by Sean Bodley, ''Tomorrow’s parties'' takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair. In these stories—by writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and Australia—a young man steals from delivery drones; a political community lives on an island made of ocean-borne plastic waste; and a climate change denier tries to unmask ''crisis actors.'' Climate-changed life also has its pleasures and epiphanies, as when a father in Africa works to make his son’s dreams of ''Viking adventure'' a reality, and an IT professional dispatched to a distant village encounters a marvelous predigital fungal network. Contributors include Pascall Prize for Criticism winner James Bradley, Hugo Award winners Greg Egan and Sarah Gailey, Philip K Dick Award winner Meg Elison, and New York Times bestselling author Daryl Gregory.
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