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Roof Life

Author : Svetlana Alpers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300182750
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Roof Life written by Svetlana Alpers and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated art historian who has spent a lifetime looking at art writes about looking as a way of being in the world This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and records of herself seen in photographs, drawings, and paintings made by others. In solving the question of her father's place and date of birth, she reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. It was Roof Life that made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. In addition, it refers to the way one's attention is heightened and sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers assembles in these pages descriptions of things that mattered in a life that began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued in Berkeley, California, and is now lived in New York City. The experience of Europe informs it all.

A View from the Roof

Author : Calvin Mackie Ph D
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975481035
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book A View from the Roof written by Calvin Mackie Ph D and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A university professor. A restaurateur. A Hollywood leading man. The Mackie Men of New Orleans have made success a family tradition. In A View from the Roof, Presidential Award-winning speaker Dr. Calvin Mackie reveals just how they did it. Through a slideshow of poignant stories involving the Mackie brothers' tough-as-nails roofer dad Willie, readers will learn the hands-on, humorous lessons that propelled Calvin and his brothers to the top of their professions. From the hot gable rooftops of New Orleans to the set of a Spike Lee film, this book will leave readers with a view they'll always remember.

Street Life under a Roof

Author : Emily Margaretten
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097696
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Street Life under a Roof written by Emily Margaretten and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa. Condemned and off the grid, the five-story apartment building is nonetheless home to a hundred-plus teenagers and young adults marginalized by poverty and chronic unemployment. In Street Life under a Roof, Emily Margaretten draws on ten years of up-close fieldwork to explore the distinct cultural universe of the Point Place community. Margaretten's sensitive investigations reveal how young men and women draw on customary notions of respect and support to forge an ethos of connection and care that allows them to live far richer lives than ordinarily assumed. Her discussion of gender dynamics highlights terms like nakana--to care about or take notice of another--that young women and men use to construct "outside" and "inside" boyfriends and girlfriends and to communicate notions of trust. Margaretten exposes the structures of inequality at a local, regional, and global level that contribute to socioeconomic and political dislocation. But she also challenges the idea that Point Place's marginalized residents need "rehabilitation." As she argues, these young men and women want love, secure homes, and the means to provide for their dependents--in short, the same hopes and aspirations mirrored across South African society.

Around the House

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Villard Books
ISBN 13 : 9780679456551
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Around the House written by David Owen and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous collection of essays on home ownership, renovation, and improvement.

Roof Octopus

Author : Lucy Branam
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1684520088
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Roof Octopus written by Lucy Branam and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When Nora hears a soft "tap, tap, tap" at her bedroom window she never expects it to be the tentacle of a very large octopus, but that's exactly what it is--an octopus on her apartment building. The octopus turns out to be a very neighborly sort of octopus, helping the residents to wash their cars or weed the window boxes, and Nora makes fast friends with him. But one morning, the octopus is nowhere in sight. Has he moved on already? And just when Nora wanted to bring him for Show and Tell!

Grass Roof, Tin Roof

Author : Dao Strom
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547972830
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Grass Roof, Tin Roof written by Dao Strom and published by HMH. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnamese family flees its war-torn home and resettles in California, in a novel that offers a “brilliant exploration of exile, loss, and identity” (Robert Olen Butler). Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance—but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family, as the children, for whom the war is now a distant shadow, struggle to understand the world around them on their own terms. In delicate, innovative prose, Strom’s characters experience the collision of cultures and the spiritual aftermath of war on the most visceral level. Grass Roof, Tin Roof is “an affecting study on the slippery nature of home” (Los Angeles Times). “[Strom] explores the mysteries of loss, culture and identity, with skill, poignancy and imagination.” —Detroit Free Press

The Tin Roof Blowdown

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548505
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Tin Roof Blowdown written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

Country Life

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mississippi Memories: Nights Under a Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi

Author : James A. Autry
Publisher : Yoknapatawpha Press
ISBN 13 : 9780916242848
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Memories: Nights Under a Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi written by James A. Autry and published by Yoknapatawpha Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi Memories is a collection of 77 poems from Nights Under A Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi. The author, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, newspaper reporter, national magazine editor and Fortune 500 executive, returns to his Mississippi roots to examine the forces which shaped him. Autry's narrative verse focuses on the rhythms of rural southern life, an odyssey of country funerals, weddings, church revivals, family reunions, and courtships drawn from a unique American heritage. "The landscape of Autry's memories is familiar to anyone who has heard the voice of the whippoorwill or the baying of hounds in the night or who has savored the smell of fresh-turned earth." (The Atlanta Journal) "Autry writes of farm life, of revival meetings and teenage romance, of weddings and reunions and funerals, in vivid, sensuous detail. His sure hand moves with gentleness through his material." (The Richmond News Leader)

Home Is a Roof Over a Pig

Author : Aminta Arrington
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468304194
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Home Is a Roof Over a Pig written by Aminta Arrington and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] down-to-earth memoir chronicling her family’s stint in the Chinese province of Shandong on the eve of the Beijing Olympics” (Publishers Weekly). When Aminta Arrington moves with her husband and three young children (including a daughter adopted from China) from suburban Georgia to Tai’an, a city where donkeys share the road with cars, the family is bewildered by seemingly endless cultural differences large and small. But with the help of new friends, they soon find their way. Full of humor and unexpectedly moving moments, Home Is a Roof Over a Pig recounts a transformative quest with a freshness that will delight. “A brutally honest and fascinating peek at life for an American family living in a foreign country. I was engrossed in the story as Arrington used her humor, and ultimately understanding and flexibility to survive, realize, and eventually love the contradictory land of China.” —Kay Bratt, bestselling author of Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage “The power of Aminta Arrington’s Home Is a Roof Over a Pig is you can see both sides of the ‘China coin’ from it—something most people won’t get just by traveling through, or only by hearing about China in Western languages. Read it, it will help you dip into the real China.” —Xinran, author of The Good Women of China “A military wife turned ESL instructor’s sharp-eyed account of how the adoption of a Chinese baby girl led to her family’s life-changing decision to live and work in rural China . . . Candid and heartfelt.” —Kirkus Reviews

Army Roof Management and Improvement Opportunities

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428911936
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Army Roof Management and Improvement Opportunities written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Roof

Author : Josh Katz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050002491X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Roof written by Josh Katz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This view of a life-altering moment in our history—captured from one photographer’s Brooklyn rooftop—is a testament to human hope and resilience, and what we’ve learned about living in community. The roof of a New York apartment building, like some New York neighbors, can be elusive—you could live there for years and never see it. The unique constraints of 2020’s quarantine drove photographer and Brooklyn transplant Josh Katz up to his Bushwick rooftop and introduced him to both. What he discovered there astonished him. Families, lovers, dogs, meditators, artists, exercise fanatics, daredevils, drinkers, dancers—in this strange time the world below had found a way to continue ticking on up above, subject to new patterns and distances. And then, there were the pigeon fanciers, who had been up there for decades, watching the neighborhood change around them. Josh reached for his camera. The project grew from a man’s attempt to cope with his own isolation to a tender portrait of his community—captured entirely from his own roof—and a resonant chronicle of how some of us found new hope and space in a life-altering year. Characters as heartfelt as any in the now-classic Humans of New York accompany Josh’s keen observations on urban space, human interaction, and new ways of city living we can bring down from the roof to apply in a post-quarantine world.

Roof watching

Author : Edmund W. Jupp
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1841508373
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Roof watching written by Edmund W. Jupp and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might. The first was Bridge Watching, and when this was put ''on the Net'' it produced, to the surprise of the author, such a pleasant flood of e-mail that another was written, called Water Watching. This, too, was kindly received. So it was tempting to continue with the theme. Roof Watching is an invitation to look at the top covering of buildings! Our eyes are set in our faces so that they look horizontally. Hence, in the ordinary way, people mostly look straight ahead, and don't look up as much as they might. If they did this too much they might not see objects at ground level, and so bump into things, of course; on the other hand, there is a good deal above eye level that is worth seeing. It is not only the outside of a roof that is of interest. Inside they're all sorts of intriguing things. If you hadn't thought much about it before, you may be surprised at what goes on inside the roof space, and what holds it all up. So, inside and outside, the roof is worth some attention, not only when complete, but during its construction, too. A building site can be worth a visit at any stage of the construction. It is particularly so when the roof is being built. The variety of shapes, textures, and colours of the covering provides a fascinating display to delight the eye and enchant the enquiring mind. Knowing something of the ''why'' and the ''how'' can add much to the absorbing pastime of just looking at roofs.

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

Author : Sheila Williams
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 034544874X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Dancing on the Edge of the Roof written by Sheila Williams and published by One World. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a life of crime and poverty in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, forty-two-year-old Juanita Lewis, craving a simpler life, drops everything, including her three grown, deadbeat children, to move to Montana. Reprint.

Green Roof Systems

Author : Susan Weiler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118174461
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Green Roof Systems written by Susan Weiler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure. It offers brief coverage of the entire process, including planning and collaboration, and focuses on the technical aspects of these roof systems, their components, and their applications.

Factory

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Factory written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 24, no. 3-v. 34, no. 3 include: International industrial digest.

A Guide to Maximizing the Life of Your Roof Through Preventive Roof Maintenance

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Maximizing the Life of Your Roof Through Preventive Roof Maintenance written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: