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Author : Helen Auty
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326088947
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Sir Gordon Russell written by Helen Auty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life of the twentieth century design pioneer, Sir Gordon Russell
Author : Gordon Conway
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466105
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book One Billion Hungry written by Gordon Conway and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further challenges.In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security. He expands the discussion begun in his influential The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the essential combination of increased food production, environmental stability, and poverty reduction necessary to end endemic hunger on our planet. Conway addresses a series of urgent questions about global hunger: • How we will feed a growing global population in the face of a wide range of adverse factors, including climate change? • What contributions can the social and natural sciences make in finding solutions?• And how can we engage both government and the private sector to apply these solutions and achieve significant impact in the lives of the poor?Conway succeeds in sharing his informed optimism about our collective ability to address these fundamental challenges if we use technology paired with sustainable practices and strategic planning.Beginning with a definition of hunger and how it is calculated, and moving through issues topically both detailed and comprehensive, each chapter focuses on specific challenges and solutions, ranging in scope from the farmer's daily life to the global movement of food, money, and ideas. Drawing on the latest scientific research and the results of projects around the world, Conway addresses the concepts and realities of our global food needs: the legacy of the Green Revolution; the impact of market forces on food availability; the promise and perils of genetically modified foods; agricultural innovation in regard to crops, livestock, pest control, soil, and water; and the need to both adapt to and slow the rate of climate change. One Billion Hungry will be welcomed by all readers seeking a multifaceted understanding of our global food supply, food security, international agricultural development, and sustainability.
Author : Jeremy Myerson
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gordon Russell written by Jeremy Myerson and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Gordon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750994428
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Cotswold Arts and Crafts Architecture written by Catherine Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1930, Arts and Crafts architecture proliferated within the Cotswolds. The range and quality of the buildings was exceptional as the region provided the perfect environment for the Movement's ideals and principles. Arts and Crafts architects relished the robust vernacular precedent as it channelled their ideas and stimulated their imaginations. Its rational basis and dependence on craft skills had lasting value, and it was no coincidence that the most influential aspect of their work was its emphasis on conservation. The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds has attracted much interest in recent decades, the appeal of the simple life and of traditional values detached from the pressures of modern society having as much allure now as it did a century ago. Most of these studies have referred to the work of architects in the region, but the subject has not received the specialist attention it deserves. Until now. This book examines the impact of the Movement on the Cotswold landscape, on the survival of its building traditions and on modern attitudes to building conservation. After an introductory section which outlines the Movement's origins and beliefs and its architectural principles, the main part of the book provides a guide to the general characteristics associated with Arts and Crafts building in the Cotswolds. There are separate chapters on the various types of new commission that were undertaken, from small and large country houses and cottages to village halls and almshouses, not to mention the numerous repair and remodelling jobs on existing buildings that had become derelict following the social and economic upheavals of industrialisation. The final chapter looks at the late flowering of architectural work in the region during the interwar period and beyond, and the legacy of this important body of work at a local and national level.
Author : Leyla Daybelge
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849945985
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain written by Leyla Daybelge and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question 'How do we want to live now?' it was England's first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain. This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930. The book is beautifully illustrated with largely unseen archive photography, and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive. In Spring 2018, the Isokon building and Breuer, Gropius and Moholy-Nagy were honoured with a Blue Plaque from English Heritage.
Author : Geoffrey Rayner
Publisher : Acc Us Distribution Book Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jacqueline Groag written by Geoffrey Rayner and published by Acc Us Distribution Book Title. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Czech-born Jacqueline Groag (1903-1985) was an incredibly adept textile designer who trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna during the 1920s under Franz Cisek and Josef Hoffmann. She produced textile designs for the Wiener Werkstatte and some of the Parisian fashion houses while she lived in Vienna. She married the architect and interior designer Jacques Groag - they made a successful team. However, in 1939 they were compelled to emigrate to the UK. Jacqueline Groag continued to produce textile design work for the British market, and after the war her designs could be seen at numerous outlets such as David Whitehead, Grafton, John Lewis and Liberty. For more than 20 years she worked as a freelance designer, supplying designs for carpets, greetings cards, laminates, plastics, textiles, wallpapers and wrapping papers to many firms including Bond-Worth Carpets, British European Airways, the British Overseas Airways Corporation, Dunlop, ICI and London Transport. In 1984 she became a Fellow of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. She was a prodigious and successful designer to the end of her life. Along with Lucienne Day and Marian Mahler she is seen as central to a new and exciting development in textile design in the 1950s. Together their work is featured in a major exhibition 'Designing Women' which begins in Colorado Springs in September 2008. This is a ground breaking publication on the work of this highly important and influential designer.
Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721777
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Sybil & Cyril written by Jenny Uglow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts—streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow’s Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war.
Author : Gavin Ambrose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474269982
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Fundamentals of Graphic Design written by Gavin Ambrose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing students to the field of graphic design through inspirational examples and clear, practical advice, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design has been fully updated to reflect the changes in today's technologies and graphic design practice. With a new section expanding the coverage of digital design tools and new material on social media, apps plus more on design for the Web, the book gives students a unique overview of what graphic designers do and how they work, historical influences on the field, and coverage of design thinking and the production process.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rifle Brigade Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832240
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Riddley Walker written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190292350
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Stephen Spender written by John Sutherland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator--and close friend of some of the best-know creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating biography, John Sutherland paints a vivid portrait of Spender and of the glittering literary world of which he was a part, drawing on exclusive access to Spender's private papers. This briskly paced, compelling narrative illuminates the vast range of Spender's literary, political, and artistic interests. We follow Spender from childhood to his days at Oxford (where he first became friends with W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Isaiah Berlin); to his meteoric rise as poet in the 1930s, while still in his twenties; to his later years as cultural statesman, at home in both Britain and America. We witness many of the century's defining moments through Spender's eyes: the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Cold War, the 1960s sexual revolution, and the rise of America as a cultural force. And along the way, we are introduced to many of Spender's accomplished friends, including Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Cecil Day-Lewis, Joseph Brodsky, Lucian Freud, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot. Perhaps most important, Sutherland has been granted exclusive access to Spender's private papers by his wife Natasha Spender. Thus he is able to provide a far more intimate look at the poet's personal life than has appeared in previous biographies. Featuring 36 unpublished photographs, Stephen Spender: A Literary Life throws light not only on this supremely gifted writer, but also on the literary and social history of the twentieth century.
Author : Judith Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756649064
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Art Deco written by Judith Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, all-color guide for any Art Deco enthusiast. Showcasing over 1,000 individually priced items and with up-to-date tips and advice from bestselling expert Judith Miller, this glorious guide will show you all you need to know about Art Deco. Art Deco contains affordable collectables and classic pieces, and showcases popular Art Deco collecting fields. From Clarice Cliff to Chanel, an array of styles are covered here, with historical information, collectors' tips and price guides. A must-have for all Art Deco collectors.
Author : Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Armorial Families written by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612325041
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Witness written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1010 pages
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