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The Great Indoors

Author : Emily Anthes
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374716684
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Great Indoors written by Emily Anthes and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships? In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance, how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems, and how cafeteria design affects what—and how much—we eat. Along the way, Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors, a school designed to boost students’ physical fitness, and a prison designed to support inmates’ psychological needs. And she previews the homes of the future, from the high-tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3D-printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon. The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world—one room at a time.

Chic-tionary

Author : Stephanie Simons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629149020
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Chic-tionary written by Stephanie Simons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chic-tionary is a darling little dictionary of fashion and beauty words you never knew existed. It takes its inspiration from the peculiar and amusing language of fashion people like Tyra Banks (smize), Man Repeller (arm party), and André Leon Tally (dreckitude), and contains more than two hundred made-up acronyms, abbreviations, and afflictions that are certain to leave an indelible glitter stain on the English language. Have you ever tried something on at a department store without bothering to hang it back up (fit it then quit it)? Or been saved by a Sephora when a last-minute invitation strikes and you’re without makeup (serendipretty)? Are you a dark-haired maiden who’s tired of letting blondes believe they have more fun (brunetiquette)? Other terminally chic terminology includes: accessorcism What needs to happen when you feel possessed to wear every piece of jewelry you own, all at once. bangover The morning-after remorse that occurs after getting bangs that are too short and don’t behave. dresspassing When another woman invades your territory by showing up in the same dress as you. fête-abolism The phenomenon in which calories consumed while standing and making small talk at a fête don’t count. ideal body weight Bradley Cooper on top of you. prisoner of wardrobe What you become when you turn down an invitation. . . . And more!

Design for Living

Author : Vicente Guallart
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638409536
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Design for Living written by Vicente Guallart and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia calls its 8th Advanced Architecture Contest titled “Design for Living,” an opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats where 126 proposals from all around the world help to shape our understanding of contemporary design and architecture. This effort offers the opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats, at a time when the fight for life and climate allows us to consider how we would like to live in the coming decades. We like to think that each person’s life begins at home, which is the center of their universe and the origin of their social interactions. During the pandemic, we had been confined to our homes and they have become microcities where we live, work and rest, connected to the world through information networks. So, after this experience, how do we imagine the future for our living environment? The contest encourages participants to propose a design related to their way of life, at the scale that most interests them from our bodies to the city, anywhere in the world, and that reflects different cultural, environmental, economic or social conditions. In total, the competition received 193 proposals from all around the world and the book includes all the rules and results of the competition, the 33 members of the international jury and the images and information of 126 selected projects. Seen as a whole, this effort serves to build a contemporary vision of the conditions that are currently shaping design and architecture and will continue to shape it in the following years.

Wrap it as a Gift

Author : Ralf Charles Kircher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Wrap it as a Gift written by Ralf Charles Kircher and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seriously, Norman!

Author : Chris Raschka
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545388465
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Seriously, Norman! written by Chris Raschka and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka's dazzling fiction debut. Now that the whole thing is over (and we all survived!), I can tell you what happened. Picture this for a second. Rock wall six inches on my left. Sheer cliff hundreds of feet down on my right, my best friend Norman in front of me, mumbling something, and my mom behind me saying, "Step, step, step." EEEEEEYAAAAAH! Next time my mom bugs me about sitting in front of the computer too much, I'm going to say, "Thanks, I prefer it where the near-death experiences are virtual!" No, seriously, this story is about Norman and about how he grows and learns stuff. Uses his imagination. Observes things. Like his dad, who is so devoted to . . . money! Like how his dad is mixed up with weird creeps of the underworld. All over the world! Why, why are grown-ups so insane? That's exactly the question that Norman, Anna and Emma (the twins), and I, Leonard, try to answer. And with the help of Norman's new tutor, Balthazar Birdsong (also fairly nuts), we nearly do it, too. Praise for SERIOUSLY, NORMAN! A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK "Appealingly quirky and adventurous; a celebration of the power of thinking outside the box."--KIRKUS REVIEWS "This rousing tale contains strong wordplay and a lot of humor."--HORN BOOK "A visual, loopy, absurdist experience."--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Wilderness

Author : B. E. Jones
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472127951
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Wilderness written by B. E. Jones and published by Constable. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Soon to be a major TV series on Amazon Prime Video, starring Jenna Coleman* __________________________________________ LOVE CAN HURT. BETRAYAL CAN KILL. Shattered by the discovery of her husband's affair, Liv knows they need to leave the chaos of New York to save their marriage. Maybe the road trip they'd always planned, exploring America's national parks - just the two of them - would help heal the wounds. But what Liv hasn't told her husband is that she has set him three challenges on their trip - three opportunities to prove he's really sorry. If he fails? Well, it's dangerous out there in the wilderness; accidents happen all the time. And if it's easy to die, then it's also easy to kill. __________________________________________ What readers are saying about Wilderness . . . 'Fast paced and totally twisted. THIS IS A MUST READ' 'A dark, addictive thriller everyone should read this summer' 'Absolutely gripping' 'Superb . . . tension that oozes off the pages as you read' 'A MUST READ!!!' 'I absolutely devoured it! Lots of twists to keep you on your toes!' 'Addictive' 'If you enjoyed Gone Girl, you'll love this' 'A terrific page-turner' 'I loved every little surprise, twist and reveal' 'Edge of the seat' 'A brilliant page-turner! Loved it' 'One of the best and most surprising endings I've read in quite a long time' 'I loved this book' 'A dark story of obsession, revenge and forgiveness!'

Dead Serious

Author : Eli J. Knapp
Publisher : Torrey House Press
ISBN 13 : 1948814412
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Dead Serious written by Eli J. Knapp and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD INDIES BRONZE WINNER, ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT "Diverting descriptions of flora and fauna lead into captivating lessons about biological principles, all of which are embellished with humor. A rousing read." —FOREWORD REVIEWS Through personal stories of mishap and adventure, historical vignettes, and scenic detours, professor Eli J. Knapp dissects eighteen critical forces that lie behind the earth's sixth extinction. Drawing from experiences across the globe, Knapp peeks into odd and overlooked corners of natural history, showing how ocean–going tortoises and ghost deer can both instruct and inspire. Full of humor, hope, and self–effacing scientific savvy, Knapp's exploration of our home planet provides welcome respite in a deadly serious subject. ELI J. KNAPP, PhD, has had a fascination with wildlife ever since obsessively counting deer on his bus rides to school as a kid. His wildlife interests have put him into kayaks, hot air balloons, dilapidated land rovers, and many pairs of hiking boots in search of new species and experiences. When not watching birds, Eli teaches courses in conservation biology, wildlife behavior, human ecology, and Swahili at Houghton College in western New York, where he is a tenured professor of intercultural studies and biology. His research interests spawn out of a three–year stint living in Serengeti National Park, where he studied the coexistence of people and wildlife around protected areas. Eli now enjoys sharing nature with his wife and three children, and has chronicled his adventures in The Delightful Horror of Family Birding: Sharing Nature with the Next Generation.

Unrooted

Author : Erin Zimmerman
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1685890709
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Unrooted written by Erin Zimmerman and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evolutionary botanist Zimmerman discusses her passion for plants and inveighs against sexism in the sciences in her marvelous debut memoir...Throughout, Zimmerman’s enthusiasm and expertise make the science accessible even to those without a background in the subject. The results are as edifying as they are galvanizing." - Publishers Weekly STARRED Review "Erin Zimmerman has exposed a rooted gender failure in science. Her book is important not for this alone. Her work is essential for understanding the future resilience of all flora on this planet." -Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees An exploration of science, motherhood, and academia, and a stirring account of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads . . . Growing up in rural Ontario, Erin Zimmerman became fascinated with plants—an obsession that led to a life in academia as a professional botanist. But as her career choices narrowed in the face of failing institutions and subtle, but ubiquitous, sexism, Zimmerman began to doubt herself. Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science is a scientist’s memoir, a glimpse into the ordinary life of someone in a fascinating field. This is a memoir about plants, about looking at the world with wonder, and about what it means to be a woman in academia—an environment that pushes out mothers and those with any outside responsibilities. Zimmerman delves into her experiences as a new mom, her decision to leave her position in post-graduate research, and how she found a new way to stay in the field she loves. She also explores botany as a “dying science” worth fighting for. While still an undergrad, Zimmerman’s university started the process of closing the Botany Department, a sign of waning funding for her beloved science. Still, she argues for its continuation, not only because we have at least 100,000 plant species yet to be discovered, but because an understanding of botany is crucial in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss. Zimmerman is also a botanical illustrator and will provide 8 original illustrations for the book.

Prescription and Tradition in Language

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783096527
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Prescription and Tradition in Language written by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language persist (or shift) amid language change, linguistic variation and multilingualism. The volume explores issues of standardisation and the sociolinguistic phenomenon of prescription as a formative influence on the notional standard language as well as the interconnections between these in a wide range of geographical contexts. It balances the otherwise strong emphasis on English in English language publications on prescriptivism and breaks new ground with its multilingual approach across languages and nations. The book will appeal to scholars working within different linguistic traditions interested in questions relating to all aspects of standardisation and prescriptivism.

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Author : Bryn Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250074134
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book All the Ugly and Wonderful Things written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--

Food for the Future

Author : John Brueggemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666930725
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Food for the Future written by John Brueggemann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people in the stories. John Brueggemann interviewed dozens of farmers, chefs, non-profit managers, consumers, teachers, and healthcare providers. He argues that their individual stories point towards larger patterns that have shaped the alternative agro-food movement, and that other factors, including the environmental movement, farms, lifestyle movements, and consumers have all played a crucial role in its rise. The author concludes that the alternative agro-food movement is providing a countervailing force relative to mainstream market culture, and that instead of efficiency, profit, consumption, individualism and short-term thinking, the alternative agro-food movement emphasizes meaning, need, creation, community, and long-term thinking.

Male Endorsers in Advertisements

Author : Miho Hongo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Male Endorsers in Advertisements written by Miho Hongo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

GCSE English Language for AQA Progress Plus Student Book

Author : Lindsay McNab
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110745297X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book GCSE English Language for AQA Progress Plus Student Book written by Lindsay McNab and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 GCSE English Language qualifications. Endorsed for the AQA GCSE English Language specification for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book is designed for students working from grades 5 to 9. With progress at its heart, this differentiated resource covers a range of 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century texts and has spelling, punctuation and grammar support integrated throughout. The Student Book includes in-depth guidance to help students develop the skills necessary to write about an unseen text, as well as a dedicated spoken language section. An enhanced digital version and free Teacher's Resource are also available.

When Mystical Creatures Attack!

Author : Kathleen Founds
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609382838
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book When Mystical Creatures Attack! written by Kathleen Founds and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman’s high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, “a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that would be interesting were it not so ill-informed,” and Cody Splunk, an aspiring writer working on a time machine. Following a nervous breakdown, Ms. Freedman corresponds with Janice and Cody from an insane asylum run on the capitalist model of cognitive-behavioral therapy, where inmates practice water aerobics to rebuild their Psychiatric Credit Scores. The lives of Janice, Cody, and Ms. Freedman are revealed through in-class essays, letters, therapeutic journal exercises, an advice column, a reality show television transcript, a diary, and a Methodist women’s fundraising cookbook. (Recipes include “Dark Night of the Soul Food,” “Render Unto Caesar Salad,” and “Valley of the Shadow of Death by Chocolate Cake.”) In “Virtue of the Month,” the ghost of Ms. Freedman’s mother argues that suicide is not a choice. In “The Un-Game,” Janice’s chain-smoking nursing home charge composes a dirty limerick. In “The Hall of Old-Testament Miracles,” wax figures of Bible characters come to life, hungry for Cody’s flesh. Set against a South Texas landscape where cicadas hum and the air smells of taco stands and jasmine flowers, these stories range from laugh-out-loud funny to achingly poignant. This surreal, exuberant collection mines the dark recesses of the soul while illuminating the human heart.

A Sideways Look at Clouds

Author : Maria Mudd Ruth
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 168051119X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book A Sideways Look at Clouds written by Maria Mudd Ruth and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Written by a critically-acclaimed natural-history author • Shares author’s fun journey to understanding clouds • Written for the curious—but non-science—minded Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. When she moved to the soggy Northwest a decade ago, Maria assumed that locals would know everything there was to know about clouds, in the same way they talk about salmon, tides, and the Seahawks. Yet in her first two years of living in Olympia, Washington, she never heard anyone talk about clouds—only the rain. Puzzled by this lack of cloud savvy, she decided to create a 10-question online survey and sent it to everyone she knew. Her sample size of 67 people included men and women, new friends in Olympia, family on the East Coast, outdoorsy and indoorsy types, professional scientists, and liberal arts majors like herself. The results showed that while people knew a little bit about clouds, most were like her—they had a hard time identifying clouds or remembering their names. As adults, they had lost their curiosity and sense of wonder about clouds and were, essentially, not in the habit of looking up. A Sideways Look at Clouds acknowledges the challenges of understanding clouds and so uses a very steep and bumpy learning curve—the author’s—as its plot line. The book is structured around the ten words used in most definitions of a cloud: “a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth.” A captivating story teller, Maria blends science, wonder, and humor to take the scenic route through the clouds and encourages readers to chart their own rambling, idiosyncratic course.

A DOG WITH NO NAME

Author : Yu Wang
Publisher : American Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1631816047
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A DOG WITH NO NAME written by Yu Wang and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a first-person narrative, this novel mainly portrays the adopted life of a stray dog that passed its days roaming in the suburbs, interspersed with daily compromises and absurd twists and turns of life which allow room for all the human-like experiences and socially-oriented reflections. Starting from the doubt, curiosity and self-examination of a dog, the novel keeps broadening its introspective vision of the entire world and universe, as it transcends the general sentiments to a higher plane of theoretical deduction and philosophical inquiry, attempting to discover a slight chink between the contemporariness, the artistic value and the ethic of modern fiction so as to take a little step forward in an uncharted territory of literature.

Shy, Vol. 1

Author : Bukimi Miki
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1975352386
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Shy, Vol. 1 written by Bukimi Miki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when superpowered defenders from each country have brought peace to the world, Japan’s representative is a timid young girl known as “Shy.” She may be embarrassed by the mere thought of slipping into spandex, but she’ll prove that despite it all, she still has the heart of a hero!