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INSIDE GLASS TOWERS

Author : Jackie Lynaugh
Publisher : Southern Soul Novels
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book INSIDE GLASS TOWERS written by Jackie Lynaugh and published by Southern Soul Novels. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of luxury on a captivating private island in Palm Beach, Florida. A place with deep pockets and gorgeous views. Eve had always been the attention-getter. The big sister who was ahead of her time, and never just the girl next door. Gab, the little sister, always felt she had to catch up with Eve to find her way until she graduated from college. Life caught up with both sisters. Will secrets derail their chance to find love? Danger lurks nearby, and it forever changed their life when Alva McGyver, a Navy SEAL alpha male, enters their lives. ***** "A heart-wrenching and riveting story. I was hooked from the very first page." Read to Getaway “INSIDE GLASS TOWERS will take you deep into other people's homes and lives. You will become captivated by their darkest secrets. Along the way, you applaud for the antagonist to live, and transfixed in who wins in a love triangle." — NiaJDaniels "Amazing journey, many light bulb moments throughout the book, that reached beyond the pages. Family comes first and the story takes you through trauma, survival, and love at all cost." Highly Recommend "What a great book from cover to cover! Once you start reading it, you can't put it down. I experienced a lot of emotions throughout the book. It is a story that should definitely be made into a movie. Every character is interesting and unforgettable. The author does a phenomenal job in writing and with explicit details. I saw everything that she wrote. I felt like I was living there with them. I had an amazing journey which won't be forgotten for years to come." Anne

The Glass Tower

Author : J. B. Hughes
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0956862004
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Tower written by J. B. Hughes and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sino and Gideon are sitting pretty. A generation ago, they would have been condemned to a life of menial labour in their native China and South Africa. Today, both are embedded in a global conglomerate, on the fast-track to management greatness. The problem is, the more they think about what's on offer, the more they want to go home, even if life in their own emerging cultures can still be nasty, brutish and short and the state the biggest criminal of all. For their American boss, Sam, this attitude is a problem. He needs a steady stream of ambitious, malleable graduates to staff his operations around the world, otherwise he won't be able to keep the profits coming in. Sam's other problems are mounting, too. Chinese competitors are squeezing his businesses and regulators are breathing down his neck. Even his old European stepmother, who used to turn a blind eye as long as the profits kept rolling in, is starting to lose faith in his ability to hold things together. The Glass Tower is a wry and ruthless portrait of a weakened western elite struggling to remain relevant as the emerging world powers forward into the future.

Glass Towers

Author : Adler Holt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481844369
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Glass Towers written by Adler Holt and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful small-town interior decorator Danielle Austen-Pyne has finally rid herself of her charismatic two-timing husband Bradley Pyne. While she has sworn off men, Danielle secretly retains her romantic ideals about love and marriage.HARRISON TOWERS, an enigmatic mega mogul, however, has turned his own romantic loss into a coldly cynical attitude about relationships and women. This sexual master has vowed to keep his relationships strictly physical with no strings attached.This powerful business tycoon is about to break all of Danielle's rules and his own, as they embark on an intensely erotic and passionate, no-strings attached relationship.As Danielle gets closer to Harrison Towers, she quickly learns being in Harrison's world is not all glamour when power, lust, money, greed and danger present themselves at every angle and threatens to tear them apart.

Tower of Dawn

Author : Sarah J. Maas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1681195801
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Tower of Dawn written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious empire. A desperate quest. An ancient secret. The search for allies extends to a new land in the sixth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent, whose vast armies are Erilea's last hope. But they have also come to Antica for another purpose: to seek healing at the famed Torre Cesme for the wounds Chaol received in Rifthold. After enduring unspeakable horrors as a child at the hands of Adarlanian soldiers, Yrene Towers has no desire to help the young lord from Adarlan, let alone heal him. Yet she has sworn an oath to assist those in need, and she will honor it. But Lord Westfall carries his own dark past, and Yrene soon realizes that those shadows could engulf them both. Chaol, Nesryn, and Yrene will have to draw on every scrap of their resilience to overcome the danger that surrounds them. But while they become entangled in the political webs of the khaganate, long-awaited answers slumber deep in the mountains, where warriors soar on legendary ruks. Answers that might offer their world a chance at survival . . . or doom them all. The final battle looms in this sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series.

Great Glass Buildings

Author : Peter Hyatt
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864701128
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Great Glass Buildings written by Peter Hyatt and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Great Glass Buildings", Peter and Jennifer Hyatt present fifty exemplary modern projects that explore a number of theories about the nature, mystique and attraction of glass in the architecture of recent years. Variously performing roles that include giftwrap, lightweight armour, transmitter and insulator, glass began its re-emergence as an architectural force during the 1990s, as a symbol of new modernism. Advances in glass-making and construction technology and the advent of structural glazing, fixing systems, glass coatings and waterproof connections have transformed the ambitious dreams of the past into reality. Including projects by Foster and Partners, Murphy Jahn, Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano and many others, this book reveals the complex nature of glass in today's architecture. SELLING POINTS: - The latest in Images Designing With/For Series - A unique focus on the work of renowned contemporary architects from around the world showcasing their projects designed with glass Exceptional full-colour photographs

Gothiniad

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138726656X
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Gothiniad written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.

From Ivory Tower to Glass House

Author : Andrew Policano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997336207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book From Ivory Tower to Glass House written by Andrew Policano and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education is facing unprecedented stress. The combined effects of rising tuition, growing student debt and a challenging job market are raising serious concerns about the value of a college degree. At the same time, global competition and technological innovations are disrupting traditional educational models. Universities are under intense scrutiny as students, parents and legislators demand a more efficient, lower cost educational platform. No longer can universities expect to receive support with little accountability. Indeed, the insular ivory tower existence long cherished by universities is rapidly disappearing. This environment requires a radically different strategy, one that is guided by multifaceted leaders who not only understand academic culture but who also have a keen sense of business acumen. The purpose of this book is to both identify and analyze current challenges facing higher education and then to develop the requisite skill set for academic leaders to address them.Today's university requires leaders who not only understand and appreciate academic values, but who are also well versed in strategy, finance, human resources, external relations and fundraising. Some universities are looking outside academia to find leaders who possess the required background and experience. Faculty members strongly resist this external intervention but who among them is capable and willing to assume a leadership role? Most faculty members do not have the training, experience or even empathy to take on a leadership role, especially one confounded by the current mounting pressures. The discussion analyzes the tradeoffs facing a faculty member who is considering a leadership path and examines the strategies required to succeed in this rapidly changing environment.

Literature and the Glocal City

Author : Ana María Fraile-Marcos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317682165
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Glocal City written by Ana María Fraile-Marcos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits. This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is increasingly perceived as the state-of-the-art literary paradigm, and the city. These are two significant axes of contemporary culture and identity that were previously disregarded by a critical tradition built around the importance of space and place in Canadian writing. Yet, as relevant as the turn to the city and to globalism may be, this collection’s most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of ‘glocality’, that is, the intermeshing of local and global forces to representations of subjectivity in the material and figurative space of the Canadian city. Dealing with oppositional discourses as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, feminism, diaspora, and environmentalism this book is an essential reference for any scholar with an interest in these areas.

The Glass State

Author : Annette Fierro
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262062336
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Glass State written by Annette Fierro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1988 as part of Francois Mitterand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buidings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions.

Tall Buildings of China

Author : Georges Binder
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1864704128
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Tall Buildings of China written by Georges Binder and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breathtaking new book, compiled by tall buildings specialist, Georges Binder, showcases more than 100 of the tallest buildings in China across more than 25 cities, including those towering over the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and emerging supercities, such as Chengdu, Guangzhou and Tianjin. Georges Binder summarises the history of the Chinese tall building landscape from the 1930s to the present day, and features the best in contemporary design, including emerging architectural trends, showcasing each project with beautiful imagery and detailed plans. The book also delves into the hard architectural statistics and buildings’ features with gritty detail. These skyscrapers are a fitting symbol of China’s new-found prosperity, ambition and architectural flair.

Glass Construction Manual

Author : Christian Schittich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 303461554X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Glass Construction Manual written by Christian Schittich and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glass offers a wide variety of possible applications for the realization of even the most ambitious designs in architecture, and in the past two decades it has experienced an unparalleled burst of innovation. For planners, this means working constantly with this high-performance material. In compact and appealing form, the completely revised Glass Construction Manual presents the current state of the art on planning and building with glass, from the history through the technical foundations all the way to the most innovative applications. Astonishing perspectives on thermal insulation and solar protection and the addition of thoughtfully selected new practical examples round off this comprehensive reference work.

101 of the World's Tallest Buildings

Author : Georges Binder
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1864701730
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book 101 of the World's Tallest Buildings written by Georges Binder and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat."

The Gentleman Bastard Books One and Two

Author : Scott Lynch
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 1473205085
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman Bastard Books One and Two written by Scott Lynch and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the long-awaited release of THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES upon us, now is the perfect time to go back and see where it all began, in the first two books of the GENTLEMEN BASTARD series. THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA: They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight. They say he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. They say he's part man, part myth, and mostly street-corner rumor. And they are wrong on every count. Only averagely tall, slender, and god-awful with a sword, Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn, and the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit and cunning. He steals from the rich - they're the only ones worth stealing from - but the poor can go steal for themselves. What Locke cons, wheedles and tricks into his possession is strictly for him and his band of fellow con-artists and thieves: the Gentleman Bastards. RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES: Escaping from the attentions of the Bondsmagi Locke Lamora, the estwhile Thorn of Camorr, and Jean Tannen have fled their home city. Taking ship they arrive in the city state of Tal Varrar where they are soon planning their most spectacular heist yet; they will take the luxurious gaming house, The Sinspire, for all of its countless riches. No-one has ever taken even a single coin from the Sinspire that wasn't won on the tables or in the other games of chance on offer there. But if anyone can, it is Locke and Jean...

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

Author : John Hill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393733262
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture written by John Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential walking companion to more than two hundred cutting-edge buildings constructed since the new millennium. The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new—and architecturally cutting-edge—residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the boom now waning, this guidebook is perfectly timed to take stock of the city’s new skyline and map them all out, literally. This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium—The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Park Visitors Center, by Toshiko Mori Architect; and One Bryant Park, by Cook + Fox, to name just a few. Projects are grouped by neighborhood, allowing for easy, self-guided tours, with photos, maps, directions, and descriptions that highlight the most important aspects of each entry.

The Story of Architecture

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300246064
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Architecture written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic, and social changes--and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi's Duomo to living spaces such as the Katsura Imperial Villa and the Alhambra, national icons such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Sydney Opera House, and skyscrapers such as the Seagram Building and Beijing's CCTV headquarters. Rybczynski's narrative emphasizes the ways that buildings across time and space are united by the human desire for order, meaning, and beauty. Engaging and accessible, this is a coherent story of architecture's physical manifestation of the universal aspiration to celebrate, honor, and commemorate, and an exploration of the ways that each building is a unique product of individual patrons, architects, and builders. Firm in opinion, even-handed, and rooted in scholarship, this book will delight anyone interested in understanding the buildings they use, visit, and pass by each day.

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006420
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives written by Stefan Al and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global boom in skyscrapers—why it’s happening now, how they’re made, and what they do to cities and people. We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the “supertall”: megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Cities around the world are racing to build the first mile-high building, stretching the limits of engineering and design as never before. In this fascinating work of urban history and design, TED resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect—explores the factors that have led to this worldwide boom. He reveals the marvelous and underappreciated feats of engineering that make today’s supertalls a reality, from double-decker elevators that silently move up to 50 miles per hour to the sophisticated blend of polymers and steel fibers that enables concrete to withstand 8,000 tons of pressure per square meter. Taking readers behind the scenes of the building and design of remarkable megastructures, both from the past (the Empire State Building, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower) and the present (Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, London’s Shard, Shanghai Tower), Al demonstrates the impact of these innovations. Yet while the supertall is undoubtedly a testament to great technological victories, it can come at an environmental and social cost. Focusing on four global cities—London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore—Al examines the risks of wealth inequality, carbon emissions, and contagion that stem from supertalls. And he uncovers the latest innovations in sustainable building, from skyscrapers made of wood to tree-covered buildings, that promise to yield a better urban future. Featuring more than thirty architectural drawings, Supertall is both a fascinating exploration of our greatest accomplishments and a powerful argument for a more equitable way forward.

AIA Guide to Chicago

Author : Laurie McGovern Petersen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156029087
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book AIA Guide to Chicago written by Laurie McGovern Petersen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and updated, AIA Guide to Chicago, Second Edition is the liveliest and most wide-ranging guide ever written about Chicago's architecture. More than a thousand individual buildings are featured, along with more than four hundred photos-many taken expressly for this volume-and thirty-five specially commissioned maps. The book is arranged geographically so that the user, whether Chicago citizen or visitor, can tour each area of the city as conveniently as possible. Building descriptions focus on the illuminating-but easily overlooked-details that give the behind-the-scenes, often unexpected story of why a building took the shape it did. And in the best Chicago tradition, this guide does not shy away from opinions where opinions are called for. Comprehensively researched, meticulously written, and more than thorough.