Landscape with Invisible Hand

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763697230
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape with Invisible Hand by : M. T. Anderson

Download or read book Landscape with Invisible Hand written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem classic Earth culture (doo-wop music, still life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want.

Landscape Narratives

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471124863
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape Narratives by : Matthew Potteiger

Download or read book Landscape Narratives written by Matthew Potteiger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-03-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers the most popular types of landscapes designed today, from garden and park design, historic preservation and restoration, to community and regional planning.

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219801
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by : César Aira

Download or read book An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter written by César Aira and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.

Landscape as Story

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Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504303504
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape as Story by : Tricia Reust

Download or read book Landscape as Story written by Tricia Reust and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricia has been an innovative user of our products and it is good to see her putting this information in book form Jim Cobb, Owner and Founder Chroma, www.chromaonline.com Fans of Tricias popular DVDs will be thrilled to find her informative teaching is now also available in this inspiring book Peter Watts, Director, Pulsar Productions Pty Ltd, www.pulsarproductions.com.au . Tricia is well recognized for her art and teaching ability and the knowledge you gain from this book will be invaluable Mark Lutz, Owner of Art House Reproductions, www.arthousehq.com. Tricia has been a great supporter and a highly innovative user of our Australian made Art Spectrum colours. This book gives you an insight into her creative spirit and her love and understanding of the (Australian) landscape. David Keys, Director - Art Spectrum, www.artspectrum.com.au .

Across the Great Barrier

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545033438
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Across the Great Barrier by : Patricia C. Wrede

Download or read book Across the Great Barrier written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate frontier America, Eff must travel beyond the Great Barrier and come to terms with her magic abilities--and those of her twin brother--to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.

Topographical Stories

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229260X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Topographical Stories by : David Leatherbarrow

Download or read book Topographical Stories written by David Leatherbarrow and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike. Here, David Leatherbarrow offers an entirely new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives. Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt, but also traces of practical affairs, by means of which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions. This rigorous argument is supported by nearly 100 illustrations, as well as examples of topography from the sixteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, through the heroic period of early modernism, to more recent offerings. A number of these studies revise existing accounts of decisive moments in the history of these disciplines, particularly the birth of the informal garden, the emergence of continuous space in the landscapes and architecture of the modern period, and the new significance of landform or earthwork in contemporary architecture. For readers not directly involved with either of these professions, this book shows how over the centuries our lives have been shaped and enriched by landscape and architecture. Topographical Stories provides a new paradigm for theorizing and practicing landscape and architecture.

Landscape for a Good Woman

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813512587
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape for a Good Woman by : Carolyn Steedman

Download or read book Landscape for a Good Woman written by Carolyn Steedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told about it.' Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her daughter and two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis and feminism. 'Provocative and quite dazzling in its ambitions. . . Beautifully written, intellectually compelling'.' Judith Walkowitz 'Carolyn Steedman's 1950s South London childhood was shaped by her mother's longing: "What she actually wanted were real things, real entities, things she materially lacked, things that a culture and a social system withheld from her... When the world didn't deliver the goods, she held the world to blame." When Carolyn Steedman grows up and begins to look for reflections of her and her mother's lives in history, theory, and literature, she finds that "the tradition of cultural criticism that has employed working-class lives, and their rare expression in literature, has made solid and concrete the absence of psychological individuality - of subjectivity." Through an in-depth comparison of personal experience and prevailing political and social science theory on the psychology and attitudes of working-class people, Landscape for a Good Woman challenges an intellectual tradition that denies "its subjects a particular story, a personal history, except when that story illustrates a general thesis." In this poignantly written and thoroughly researched work, the common theoretical conclusion that the survival struggles of working-class people precludes the time necessary for more genteel "elaboration of relationships" is shot full of delightfully life-affirming holes.' - --From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen.

Landscape with Traveler

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609805003
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape with Traveler by : Barry Gifford

Download or read book Landscape with Traveler written by Barry Gifford and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel. In print for the first time in fifteen years, Landscape with Traveler is written as the protagonist's diary—inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon’s pillow book—and structured as three acclaimed short novels bound into one volume. The book recounts the deep friendship between a middle-aged gay man and a young straight man through vignette-like entries, all the while tracing a history of the US from the 1930s through 1970s. Laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: a winsome, beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history—the novel tells an honest story of a male homosexual life.

Eating the Landscape

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816530114
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Eating the Landscape by : Enrique Salm—n

Download or read book Eating the Landscape written by Enrique Salm—n and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines historical and cultural knowledge of traditional Indigenous foodways that are rooted in an understanding of environmental stewardship.

What Is Landscape?

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029898
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis What Is Landscape? by : John R. Stilgoe

Download or read book What Is Landscape? written by John R. Stilgoe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.

Girl in Landscape

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307791777
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Girl in Landscape by : Jonathan Lethem

Download or read book Girl in Landscape written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to a virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community and the ancient inhabitants, known only as archbuilders. Girl in Landscape finds Jonathan Lethem twisting forms and literary conventions to create a dazzling, completely unconventional tale.

Thirteenth Child

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Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606150149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Thirteenth Child by : Patricia C. Wrede

Download or read book Thirteenth Child written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit and wonder, #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Wrede creates an alternate history of westward expansion in an amazing new trilogy about the use of magic in the Wild West.

Death by Landscape

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593767161
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Book Synopsis Death by Landscape by : Elvia Wilk

Download or read book Death by Landscape written by Elvia Wilk and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinction In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self. Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen. What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass? Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal and literary world-building projects—medieval monasteries, solarpunk futures, vampire role plays, environments devoid of humans—bridging the micro and the macro and revealing how our relationship to narrative shapes our relationships to the natural world and to one another.

A Landscape with Dragons

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490129
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis A Landscape with Dragons by : Michael D. O'Brien

Download or read book A Landscape with Dragons written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.

Becoming a Landscape Architect

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470640014
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Becoming a Landscape Architect by : Kelleann Foster

Download or read book Becoming a Landscape Architect written by Kelleann Foster and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore exciting options for a career in landscape architecture Blending aesthetics and environmental consciousness, landscape architecture is one of the fastest growing fields, according to the US Department of Labor. Becoming a Landscape Architect gives you a comprehensive survey of the field as it is practiced today, and explains how to get started and how to succeed in this exciting, creative, and in-demand profession. Featuring more than thirty-five interviews with leading landscape architects and more than 250 illustrations, the guide covers everything an aspiring landscape architect needs to know- from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job in residential, ecological, commercial, and parks design. Complete guide to the profession of landscape architecture, one of today's fastest growing fields More than thirty-five interviews with leading landscape designers and educators give you an idea of what it's really like to work as a landscape architect Over 250 striking illustrations and a lively interior make the book visually appealing as well as informative Explains different educational paths and their prerequisites and requirements Author Kelleann Foster is Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head, Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University and Managing Partner, Visual Interactive Communications Group

Victoria Sambunaris

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ISBN 13 : 9781934435632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Victoria Sambunaris by : Barry Holstun Lopez

Download or read book Victoria Sambunaris written by Barry Holstun Lopez and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade, Victoria Sambunaris (born 1964) has crossed the United States with her five-by-seven wooden field camera and sheets of color negative film. Traveling seemingly every road nationwide, Sambunaris has described herself as having "an unrelenting curiosity to understand the American landscape and our place in it." This first monograph on Sambunaris' work consists of two handsome hardback volumes. The first includes a retrospective selection of her images from 2000 to 2013; the second documents the artist's collected professional ephemera as a photographer and researcher. Included in this fascinating assortment of documents are images of books on geology and history, maps, artifacts such as mineral specimens, journals and road logs, as well as her small photographic sketches. An essay from MOCP Director Natasha Egan provides an insightful overview of this ardent chronicler of contemporary America.

The Federal Landscape

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545146
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis The Federal Landscape by : Gerald D. Nash

Download or read book The Federal Landscape written by Gerald D. Nash and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vastness of the American West is apparent to anyone who travels through it, but what may not be immediately obvious is the extent to which the landscape has been shaped by the U.S. government. Water development projects, military bases, and Indian reservations may interrupt the wilderness vistas, but these are only an indication of the extent to which the West has become a federal landscape. Historian Gerald D. Nash has written the first account of the epic growth of the economy of the American West during the twentieth century, showing how national interests shaped the West over the course of the past hundred years. In a book written for a broad readership, he tells the story of how America’s hinterland became the most dynamic and rapidly growing part of the country. The Federal Landscape relates how in the nineteenth century the West was largely developed by individual enterprise but how in the twentieth Washington, D.C., became the central player in shaping the region. Nash traces the development of this process during the Progressive Era, World War I, the New Deal, World War II, the affluent postwar years, and the cold-war economy of the 1950s. He analyzes the growth of western cities and the emergence of environmental issues in the 1960s, the growth of a vibrant Mexican-U.S. border economy, and the impact of large-scale immigration from Latin America and Asia at century’s end. Although specialists have studied many particular facets of western growth, Nash has written the only book to provide a much-needed overview of the subject. By addressing subjects as diverse as public policy, economic development, environmental and urban issues, and questions of race, class, and gender, he puts the entire federal landscape in perspective and shows how the West was really won.