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Touchstones of Design

2010 Airport buildings
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Release : 2010
Genre : Airport buildings
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Book Rating : 822/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Touchstones of Design by : C. W. Fentress

Download or read book Touchstones of Design written by C. W. Fentress. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the world leader in designing iconic public architecture, Curtis Fentress is redefining the art of civic buildings. In Touchstones of Design: Redefining Public Architecture, Fentress features many of his most innovative and inspiring works. This includes a new vision for LAX that embodies a design philosophy learned through time and experience. Best known for flipping the design of Denver International Airport upside down, Fentress introduces drama and beauty to the spaces communities use everyday. North-Carolina born Fentress left his position with I.M. Pei and Kohn Pedersen Fox to found his own firm in 1980 in Denver and began designing major projects.

Touchstones

2011-01-18 Fiction
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Release : 2011-01-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Touchstones by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book Touchstones written by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book was released on 2011-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.

Archaeology of Touchstones

2017 Birka Site (Sweden)
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Release : 2017
Genre : Birka Site (Sweden)
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Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Archaeology of Touchstones by : Martin Ježek

Download or read book Archaeology of Touchstones written by Martin Ježek. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century? Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with archaeologists' ideas about the spiritual world of the society in question.0The book introduces a recently discovered phenomenon that accompanied mankind from his discovery of the uses of metal all the way through to the Middle Ages - that is the importance of touchstones, tools used to determine the nature and test the nature and value of non-ferrous metals. Of the hundreds of thousands of such finds, which have most often been regarded as 'whetstones', the author has made a selection of specimens that cast light on the role of touchstones in the culture of ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual.

The Touchstone

2014-07-07 Fiction
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Release : 2014-07-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Touchstone by : Edith Wharton

Download or read book The Touchstone written by Edith Wharton. This book was released on 2014-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains Edith Wharton's first novella and the second book she ever wrote, 'The Touchstone'. This narrative follows Stephen Glennard, a young man whose destitution leads him into a dubious money-making scheme which he embarks on so that he can afford to marry the woman he loves. After seeing an advertisement seeking any papers or correspondences related to a recently deceased author that he had been in communication with, he snaps up the opportunity. A tale of how social strata, money, and self-deprecation can impact love, 'The Touchstone' is well worth a read and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wharton's prolific work. This classic text has been chosen for its immense literary value, and we are proud to republish it here, complete with a new introductory biography of the author. Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning

2019-09-06 Education
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Release : 2019-09-06
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning by : Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles

Download or read book Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning written by Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles. This book was released on 2019-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on socioecological learning through the touchstone concepts of the Anthropocene, the Posthuman and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux. The editors and contributors explore, situate and interrogate social learning through transdisciplinary positionings, exemplars and theories. The eclectic and cohesive chapters unfold as a journey that may inspire innovative and unique understandings of the socioecological learner: insights that will surely be paramount as we careen towards the 22nd century and all of its as-yet-unknown challenges. Offering tangible and nuanced practice for educational leadership in socioecological learning, this pioneering book will be of interest and value to researchers and educators at all levels. This volume is sure to appeal to students and scholars of socioecological learning as well as the Anthropocene and the Posthuman.

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