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This book presents OFFICE projects through a critical analysis based on archive documents. It also reconstructs the influence of OFFICE's creative principles among the new generations of architects. The OFFICE projects appeared in the early 2000s and gained prominence as new forms of digital collage with a cultural engagement. The author traces the evolution of their early ideas developed as paper architecture to the current buildings of a sig...

Learn all the top tips and tricks to capture nature's beauty in easy-to-follow steps with hit acrylic landscape artist Sarah Johnston. Through unique projects, Sarah guides her readers through deep forests, craggy mountains, open skies and reflective waters. Her detailed instructions help readers paint everything from brilliant sunsets to moody skies, sun-blinded snow tops to evergreen foliage. She even explores the nuances of mood and color t...

An enticing and entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of powerful forces beyond human control. Little wonder that they continue to fascinate readers thousands of years after they were first told. Gods and Mortals is a major new telling of ancient Greek myths by one of the world's preeminent e...

Nach einem unglücklichen Unfall stürzen sich Ralph und seine quirlige Freundin Vanellope ins Internet, um dort nach einem wichtigen Ersatzteil für Vanellopes Videospiel zu suchen. Dabei schauen sie nicht nur hinter die Kulissen des World Wide Webs, sondern begegnen auch allerhand schrägen Figuren, die es nicht immer gut mit unseren liebenswerten Helden meinen. Und wo sollen sie überhaupt in dieser unübersichtlichen und sich ständig verändernde...

Nach einem unglücklichen Unfall stürzen sich Ralph und seine quirlige Freundin Vanellope ins Internet, um dort nach einem wichtigen Ersatzteil für Vanellopes Videospiel zu suchen. Dabei schauen sie nicht nur hinter die Kulissen des World Wide Webs, sondern begegnen auch allerhand schrägen Figuren, die es nicht immer gut mit unseren liebenswerten Helden meinen. Und wo sollen sie überhaupt in dieser unübersichtlichen und sich ständig verändernde...

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In a grade school classroom, furnished sparingly with a potbellied stove and several pull-down maps, and long before smart phones and Google, Lila and Violet discovered that they could communicate silently across the Ethernet with no notes or wires needed. Lila, bright and earnest, lived by the book and was held in place by earth's magnetic spin while Violet, with her captivating smile, soared among the stars. They completed each other and tog...

In a grade school classroom, furnished sparingly with a potbellied stove and several pull-down maps, and long before smart phones and Google, Lila and Violet discovered that they could communicate silently across the Ethernet with no notes or wires needed. Lila, bright and earnest, lived by the book and was held in place by earth's magnetic spin while Violet, with her captivating smile, soared among the stars. They completed each other and tog...

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A unique period in Irish history is conveyed in this authoritative and comprehensive look at the development of Dublin across the medieval period. Previously published as "Dublinia".

Excerpt from Lineage Book, 1902, Vol. 40: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 39001-40000The title page of such a catalogue of names and deeds of our Revolutionary ancestors, should honestly strive to convey a full and true conception of the contents of the volume to which it is pre fixed.In reality, the subjects herein treated require a much closer attention than we dare claim from our manner of treating them.About t...

From the author of "Descent"--a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people. "(A) gripping thriller and page-turner but also a masterwork of mood and language--a meditation on memory and time. "--Ivy Pochoda, author of "Wonder Valley."eous hardcover.

Excerpt from Lineage Book, 1903, Vol. 42: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 41001-42000This volume records the names and ancestry of one thousand Daughters who came into the Society in 1903. Its pages are en riched with a large amount of hitherto unpublished genealogical material. It is a priceless addition to the literature of early Ameri can families and of the Revolutionary period.Had the Daughters of the America...

Excerpt from Lineage Book, 1903, Vol. 42: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 41001-42000This volume records the names and ancestry of one thousand Daughters who came into the Society in 1903. Its pages are en riched with a large amount of hitherto unpublished genealogical material. It is a priceless addition to the literature of early Ameri can families and of the Revolutionary period.Had the Daughters of the America...

Sarah Iles Johnston argues that the nature of myths as gripping tales starring vivid characters enabled them to do their most important work: sustaining belief in the gods and heroes of Greek religion. She shows how Greek myths-and the stories told by all cultures-affect our shared view of the cosmos and the creatures who inhabit it.

Excerpt from Lineage Book, Vol. 31: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 30001-31000, 1900This volume contains the National Numbers 30001 to 31000, members who entered the Society in 1900.It is gratifying to me that the Lineage Book has become valu able as a work of reference to Genealogical and Historical Socie ties. My interest dates from the time when as Librarian General in. 1897, I aided and was closely associated...

Excerpt from Lineage Book, 1901, Vol. 36: 35001-36000It cannot be counted a small enterprise in the field of letters, nor as one scarce worth while, to thus preserve with the true mem ory of today the memorable things Of yesterday.The voice Of the past may sound all too indistinct as it comes to us thus through names and dates alone, of heroes and events in which they participated, but even here silence is significant and eloquent when vitaliz...