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Since the book's first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emerging in both architectural philosophy and teaching. This new, revised and extended edition of this seminal work will not only inspire architects and students to design more holistic architecture, but will enrich the general reader's perception of the world around them.
The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and its impact on the experience of the world and the nature of architecture. The second examines the role of the other senses in authentic architectural experiences, and points the way towards a multi-sensory architecture which facilitates a sense of belonging and integration.
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Where the f#*k is it!!!.......2007-09-05
I shouldn't really be so harsh because I was starting to forget about it has been so long. To be honest your service has been pretty good up till now but this time its a joke I been searching around the neighbourhood and no one has heard of it, I have email and ask if you know where it is and you said it was sent. I have paid for it so I should have it.
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what has been lost in architecture and why it should be back.......2006-06-04
During my 15 years of architectural education and some years of practice (both as architect and as 'explainer' of architecture) I have not yet encountered a book on architecture which has changed my view on architecture so dramatically.
Juhani Pallasmaa's book makes an excelent argument for retrieving in architecture that which seems to have been lost for a long time: the lived intelligence of the bodilly senses. In his book Pallasmaa gives an overview of the development of the occularcentrism which is dominating architecture (and pretty much every cultural aspect) in the Western world for centuries and goes on to show how this leads to an impoverment of the architectural experience (and with that the impoverment of our daily lifes).
The mix of theory, practice and convincing examples (ranging from architecture, art, cinema to literature and poetry together with the size (80 pages) makes the book easily readable, even for the less theoretical inclined reader. My advice: read it!
For those of you who are as impressed with this book as I am: there's another book by Pallasmaa with the title 'Encounters'(published by Rakennustieto Oy Rati, June 2005). This book features a collection of essay's which were written by the author over the last 20 years. This book is also about the phenomenology of architecture but, due to its size (app. 350 pages), gives a broader overview of the thinking and writing of Juhani Pallasmaa. It seems it is not available at Amazon but I hope they will put is on there list soon!
A Must-Read.......2006-03-20
In five years of Architectural Design, I am hard-pressed to find a book that has made such an impact on my thinking and overall awareness of architecture. This is truly a must-read for any architecture student, and is extremely interesting for those non-architects out there. I highly encourage the investment.
Updated Reprint of an Old Classic.......2005-09-24
Now back in print and updated into a second edition, this little book is a masterpiece on the differences between what we see in a set of architectural plans compared with what we sense when we walk into a building.
When we actually walk into a building, we are sensing the building with all of our senses. The smell of the still drying paint, the echo's from unexpected sources and more now have an impact that wasn't there in the plans.
This book consists of two essays:
The first surveys the historical development of the eye-centric orientation of our Western culture that began with the Greeks.
The second begins to lay out a way towards a multi-sensory approach to architecture that forms a sense of belonging and integration.
Lessons for students in architecture.......2000-06-20
As a student in architecture I would recommend this book to any person involved in any way of design. Not only buildings, because architecture also includes every aspect of the designing of space. This can therefore include industrial design, automotive design, etc. The book dicusses the interaction between people and spaces(buildings) using the human senses as medium - the way we see, feel, hear and experience a space. It is a fresh and captivating book and it is a real pitty that it is out of print.
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The Complete Watercolor Pencil Set.......2006-04-20
First off - it is a Reader's Digest product which means it is top quality- a beautiful set, comes with some pencils, eraser and 2 books one on techique and the other on exersises. All in one package which closes by having magnets in the binding that locks and closes the bundle. The books are easy to understand with plenty of examples from the skech to the finished art work. A perfect first set for someone just intrested or someone more advanced, has information and exersises for both. A perfect item to get as a gift!
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Water-soluble coloured pencils and water-soluble graphite are excellent mediums for both the beginner and the experienced artist. They are user-friendly, clean, relatively inexpensive and easy to use. The coloured pencil or crayon is usually a child's first drawing tool, so when you begin to use water-soluble pencils, they already feel familiar. Add water, and you can turn your drawing into a 'watercolour' painting almost as if by magic. For the more experienced artist, water-soluble pencils are excellent for use outside - light and easily portable, they are the perfect medium for the traveller. Carole Massey demonstrates a range of techniques for drawing and `painting' with this versatile medium. Water-soluble pencils has sections on understanding colour, composition, using photographs and creating texture. In addition, a series of step-by-step projects give the reader plenty to practise and a number of Carole's graphite and coloured drawings are included for further inspiration.
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How to use water soluble pencils.......2007-03-25
This is an informative, step by step book. It takes some practice to do as well as pictures, but keep at it. Still having some difficulty blending colors but I have improved.
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The lush, seductive, nostalgic elegance of New Orleans' streets, parks, and public buildings, as well as the fanciful, nuanced interiors of some of its most beautiful private homes and gardens, are insightfully revealed in this comprehensive photographic homage to the "Venice of North America" Over 200 full-color photographs and an informative, evocative text capture the public face and the private soul of a city perennially fascinating to visitors and residents alike.
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More for those who want a great historical perspective.......2003-07-29
I have been to New Orleans millions of times and this is the best all around book. The author has really, really researched and pulled up ALL kinds of interesting tidbits.
I think that Compass guides in general are the extra travel books one buys. I wanted more than Fodor's has because I already know all the best places to go. I think that she had good choices and you could use it as your only travel guide.
I think some readers were disappointed because maybe they were taken back by the exorbitant prices hotels charge. Hotel-wise , you don't get much for your money unless you go in summer or during Christmas.
Lush and Inspiring.......2002-12-03
One of my all-time favorite books. The stuff of dreams and nightmares too.
This is an utterly luscious picture book. Chock full of photos of real interiors. Real homes of artists and the creative. Homes of people who love peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster; and especially those who love living in the midst of art works, or deeply personal collections.
The homes of people who love the humid haze, moist clay-scented New Orleans.
Lush and Inspiring.......2002-12-03
One of my all-time favorite books. The stuff of dreams and nightmares too.
This is an utterly luscious picture book. Chock full of photos of real interiors. Real homes of artists and the creative. Homes of people who love peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster; and especially those who love living in the midst of art works, or deeply personal collections.
The homes of people who love the humid haze, moist earth-scented New Orleans.
Southern style at it's best.......2002-11-08
This book has great interior pictures of some glorious New Orleans homes. Unfortunately when I've been there, I didn't have the opportunity to go inside to see the many interior styles. This book gives me the opportunity to see the beauty inside, that I've only been able to view from outside. Great book for those of us who love and appreciate the city!
Not enough on its own.......2002-01-02
We just got back from 5 days in New Orleans, and this was the only guide we took with us. It was a mistake. It's a difficult book to navigate, has limited maps, limited selection of accomodation & restaurants. If you go outside of Madi Gras & with children (two teenagers in our case) half the book is irrelevent. The restaurant '100 best' list doesn't match Zagats (always reliable). It warns against solo visits to the cemeteries (they're not safe, go on a tour), but doesn't explain why! Pity there isn't a Michelin Green Guide.
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You're a Winner, Andy Capp
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Hoot -n- a Holler.......2002-03-17
I thought this might be a collection of preachy self reflection type junk, but it wasn't--it was laugh-out-loud funny. If your a Mormon, get it. Somebody needs to make this guy a GA--quick, or at least let him talk at General Conference.
If your not a Mormon, you might not get all of the inside jokes and lingo, but there's still plenty others you'll get. I think one of the reviewers complained because it was short, but it's in bite sizes and tastes better that way.
The Steve Martin of Mormondom.......2001-02-14
"Of Curious Workmanship" is a collection of Edgar Snow's humorous writings on LDS culture. Some have compared him to Will Rogers, but he's hipper and funnier than that. He is obviously a faithful, believing member of the church, but he is also attracted to the odder elements of popular Mormon culture. If you crossed Hugh Nibley with Steve Martin you would get Ed.
"Bring Your Own Brigham" manages to be both amusing and enlightening about the different versions of Brigham Young floating about in LDS literature. "The Naked and the Darned" concerns controversies about nude artwork at Brigham Young University. In short, a people that can laugh at themselves is a healthy community. And Snow's work is heartily recommended for lovers of the seriously goofy.
Mark Twain meets Joseph Smith.......2000-03-28
Although Mark Twain characterized the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print", one would have to guess that he wouldn't have slept through an afternoon of discourse with that sacred writ's author/proprietor/translator. "Of Curious Workmanship" is the equivalent of a brisk stroll through the park with Joseph Smith and Mark Twain, and is not to be missed. My only complaint is the book's brevity (it would have been longer had Edgar made more liberal use of "and it came to pass" . . .), but that flaw can be corrected by a follow-up volume to this wonderful book.
A New Era In Mormon Humor.......2000-02-15
This books is not only hilarious and written with style, it's also smart--maybe a little too smart sometimes. And it's slender, but worth it. You'll laugh a lot reading Edgar Snow. Sneak it into church meetings.
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From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941
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Season of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)
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In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships with China's emerging revolutionary leaders. His 1938 classic, Red Star over China, strongly influenced American views of the Chinese Communists and is still in print nearly sixty years later.
This biography breaks fresh ground with its unique and extensive use of Snow's diaries of over forty years. These writings convey Snow's private hopes and fears, his moods and motivations. Thomas skillfully links them with Snow's public writings and deeds. By recreating the milieu in which Snow worked in China, Thomas provides a clearer understanding of both the man and his times.
Snow came to China devoid of any political agenda or sinological background. He returned home a politically astute China hand and famed journalist-author. His writing had taken on the nature of political action, which resulted in troubled soul-searching that Snow usually confined to his diary. Thomas's portrait of Ed Snow reveals a man caught up in an important historical moment, a man who profoundly influenced, and was influenced by, the events that swirled around him.
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A brilliant portrait of an American journalist in China........1996-12-20
I read this book a few months ago, but I just stumbled upon
this site today. When I was a college student many years ago
I read Snow's famous book, "Red Star Over China," the work
that first introduced the enigmatic leaders of the Chinese
Communist revolution to a curious Western public. Thomas
deftly places us back in that era as we embark with Snow on
his journey of discovery. I particularly enjoyed the
descriptions of Snow's personal encounters with Chairman Mao,
which I found surprisingly poignant. You sensed that they
shared a personal bond which transcended the political and
historical stage upon which they acted.....
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Edgar Snow: A Biography
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The Second World War contains vivid details of all the major events; the fall of France, the Western Desert, Hitler's fatal attack on Russia, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Victory in Europe and the defeat of Japan. This series is richly illustrated with nearly twenty thousand photographs and informative drawings and maps, which create a memorable and vivid portrait of war.
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Good Series.......2002-09-09
This series of books provides all the newspaper reports from the UK related to the topic of the volume during World War Two. There are also just a massive amount of photographs. This volume details the entry into Russia by the Germans and then the entry into Germany by the Russians. IT covers the "total war" that was inflicted on the civilian populations and a few details on the camps. There is a little coverage of what took place in China by the Japanese forces. I did think that the book is more Europe focused, but given that they are UK papers you expect that. There is also an interesting home country twist or slant to the reporting that is probably unique to any paper from a country participating. What would have been interesting is if they could have provided reports from both the UK newspaper and from an U.S. newspaper to get "both" sides of the story.
Looking back on the reporting now you can see the misleading stories that could be contributed to the fog of war or government spinning of the truth. I also found the hatred for the Germans to come through in the writing - it is hard to keep that dislike out of the reporting. I think if you are a real die-hard World War 2 buff you will get a lot out of these books, if not I would go to the library to view the books. Overall the editors did a good job of presenting the information.
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Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity -- as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun -- Harootunian seeks to expose the problematic nature of scholarly categories. In doing so, History's Disquiet presents intellectual genealogies of such orthodox notions as "field" and "modernity" and other concepts intellectuals in the East and West have used to understand the changing world around them. Contrasting reflections on everyday life in Japan and Europe, Harootunian shows how responses to capitalist society were expressed in similar ways: social critics in both regions alleged a broad sense of alienation, particularly among the middle class. However, he also points out that Japanese critics viewed modernity as a condition in which Japan -- without the lengthy period of capitalist modernization that characterized Europe and America -- was either "catching up" with those regions or "copying" them.
As elegantly written as it is controversial, this book is both an invitation for rethinking intellectual boundaries and an invigorating affirmation that such boundaries can indeed be broken down.
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Are Area Studies Worth Fighting For?.......2007-04-22
It is standard practice for an ambitious scholar to proclaim the crisis of an academic discipline, if only to disparage the works of his competitors and to present his own research as the only breakthrough capable of solving the disciplinary crisis. Considerations on the merits and demerits of academic constructs such as area studies, cultural studies or postcolonial studies cannot be separated from the fierce competition between academic disciplines for intellectual supremacy. A simple glance at the debate reveals that the intellectual arguments are strongly determined by the protagonists' position in the academic arena. Being both the player and the referee, the judge and the judged, seldom leads to a fair trial.
What strikes the reader in Harootunian's indictment of area studies is not the originality of the criticism, but rather the violence of the argument. The whole field is compared to a "dinosaur whose head can no longer support its body." Efforts to gather financial support from public and private bodies are reviled as "pimping", and the collective endeavors of professional organizations are ridiculed as a "scramble to gather funds rather than ideas." Scholarly journals have no other purpose than "terrorist denunciation"of anything that would break the "quarantine" maintained around the field. Students making the effort of learning the language and familiarizing with the culture are derided as "fulfilling their exotic and erotic fantasies for reidentification."
According to Harootunian, area studies never recovered from their original sin of having been triggered by wartime and Cold War necessities: "intellectually they are nothing more than worn-out hovels, like the corrugated Quonset huts left on American campuses by the military that served as temporary classrooms and offices well into the 1960s." The idea that science is cumulative or evolves around paradigms is derided as an illusion: seminal studies on the analogy between the Protestant ethic and religion in pre-modern Japan are ridiculed as a "worse case strategy", and the modernization theory that inspired many research on Japan and Asia well into the 1970s only had the effect of forming a "walled enclave resisting newer theoretical approaches."
Although Harootunian suggest that area studies are irretrievably doomed and that salvation can only be found outside the field, his ire also affect neighboring disciplines which are all found lacking in some way or another. Peter Novick's reflection on the historian's practice is nothing more than "high gossip", Richard Evans' In Defense of History is "well meaning" but in the end unsatisfactory, and even postmodern writers such as Hayden White "are really members of the same historiographical club." Cultural studies, although "an immense improvement", too often leads in "lavish declarations of resistance by the powerless" or become "cheerleaders for runaway globalization and its propensity for bordercrossings." Postcolonial theory's "initial splash has turned into a puddle" and has had few effects aside from "giving English literary students a new lease of life." The only area that holds promise for the future is--guess what?--the author's own line of research, centered on everyday life as it refers "to the experience of the lived reality that marks the appearance and expansion of industrial capitalism and its propensity to install similar conditions everywhere it is established."
Harootunian's savage criticism leaves many questions unanswered. Let me mention only a few. First, it is revealing that the demise of area studies occurs at a time when the United States' engagement with the world has never been as marked by unilateralism, cultural prejudice and neglect for the other's viewpoint. What Harootunian derides as a desire to "sleep with the enemy" or an "empathic immediacy" with native experience was in fact the hallmark of a unique encounter with a former enemy, Japan, where even today people consider the US occupation as having brought more good than bad. One would be at pain to discern the same empathy, or the same recognition, in Iraq or the rest of the Arab world.
Second, for a scholar who invokes the authority of social science and rigorous theorizing, it is puzzling that no attempt is made to analyze the sociological, institutional and epistemological origins of the disciplinary crisis that he predicates. No mention is made of the fluctuations in the academic job market that so much affects the distribution of power in a discipline. Likewise, it would be easy to link the crisis of representativeness of professional bodies such as the Association of Asian Studies to the lengthening of the chains of interdependence that resulted from the rise in the number of scholars and the increasing distance between the rank and files of the profession and persons in a position to exert authority. It would also have been worthwhile to recall the different strategies available for young scholars to establish their name and reputation in the profession: in order to become visible, knowledge of an empirical field now has to be complemented by theoretical deftness and a willingness to challenge intellectual boundaries.
The most revealing part is what Harootunian proposes as a solution to the crisis in area studies. In variance to his politics, which emphasizes Marxism and the overthrow of the established order, there is no mention of collective practices, no reference to a community of like-minded scholars who might advance the proposed agenda in a concerted manner, no consideration for the public at large who might use academic results for its own empowerment. The model here is not the craftsman who draws his identity from his belonging to a collective body, but the artist whose cult of individuality borders on nihilism. Prospective followers have to be convinced by the virtue of example, and their only way out of the disciplinary quandary is to replicate the tour de force scored by the master, which in the end implies a rejection of his proposed solution to the field's dead end in favor of yet another theoretical breakthrough.
The trouble with Harry's detractors.......2002-11-04
Disregard the one-star 'rating' (below) of professor Harootunian's important intervention, 'History's Disquiet;' or, better yet, read it and understand that it is a manifestation of a larger project--that is, to discredit Harry's work in order to defend the integrity of 'Japanology' or 'Area Studies,' 'fields' of inquiry which have found themselves intellectually and morally bankrupt at this point in time (yet they linger on, haunting their own graves!). The 'review' below proceeds from some assumed transcendental position wherein the 'critic' pretends to have mastery of--what?--'Critical Theory,' perhaps (for lack of a better term), thereby dismissing Harry's work as 'quasi-theoretical,' etc., etc. Rubbish! This is simply another attempt to marginalize Harry and prevent potential readers from engaging his work. Let me spell this out for those who are hard-of-thinking (and their grad students): you ignore Harootunian's work at your peril.
The importance of professor Harootunian's work can be gauged by a consideration of what was being written BEFORE he came along and what has been written AFTER he began having an impact on this piteous 'field' of Japanology. To read his work and follow his own path of critical development, bearing in mind the impact this process had/has on Japanology at every turn, is genuinely exciting--if not for Harry, Miyoshi and Najita (and their students) the study of Japan in the US would be insufferably dull and as devoid of reflexivity and significance as its [illigitament] cousin, Anthropology, has traditionally been.
Read this book, particularly if you consider yourself invloved with 'Japan' or Asia, area studies, etc. To ignore Harootunian's work is pure negligence.
The Quiet of a Quotidian History: The Trouble with Harry.......2000-10-28
This book is characteristic of Harootunian's pseudo-theoretical approach which pretends to engage seriously with "Western" theory in order to reveal to non-existent practitioners long acknowledged criticisms of Area Studies. Conflating the modern moment with the postmodern, the book takes a 1920's notion of "everydayness" and argues for an approach of "everydayness" to transcend the problems of Area Studies in the here and now. While the critique of Area Studies is worthwhile, the solution here is preposterous, presenting the present as the remedy for the Academy in 2000. This has the potential of ending in the same double bind the present as universal portended for phenomenologists in the first half of the century. The trouble with Harry is that he only reads Hayden White (who he agrees with more than his critique shows) and Edward Said not the Freddy J's _Political Unconsious_. If he did he might be aware of a distinct difference of late capitalism and his own political stance in taking up the present as viable. His nonreading of Joyce is also symptomatic (he calls Stephen the protagonist.) His claims to scream something new about modernity and Area Studies whisper meek derivative phrases to the already overbloated body of scholarship of modernity as shock. In the end we can only be shocked at the lack of originality here. And this is truly uncanny.
on rethinking the writing of history.......2000-08-11
Harry Harootunian's book, "History's Disquiet," raises important issues about the way scholars approach the writing of history, especially of nation-states like Japan. He makes pointed suggestions that the major powers in the West have used a combination of political and economic (read: capitalistic) power to construct a version of events that contains a dissonance (disquiet) with the way the people affected by these events view them. He is particularly vehement about the way the notion of area studies has segregated scholarship in certain areas on an artificially geographic basis. This is high-octane theory that raises important issues.
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Disquiet in the Land: Cultural Conflict in American Mennonite Communities
Fred Lamar Kniss
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Wie steht es mit den "Rechenkünsten" von Tieren und warum können schon Säuglinge nachweislich primitive Rechenoperationen ausführen? Dieselben Fragen hat sich auch Stanislas Dehaene gestellt. Sein Thema ist das menschliche Vermögen, mathematische Operationen auszuführen. Er nennt es den Zahlensinn, der ganz offenbar auf eine bestimmte Struktur des Gehirns zurückzuführen ist. Und wie kommt der erwachsene Mensch zu Trigonometrie, Differentialrechnung und anderen komplizierten Rechenoperationen? Die Befähigung zur höheren Mathematik beruht nach Dehaene auf der Erfindung von symbolischen Systemen, um mathematische Zusammenhänge in Wort und Schrift auszudrücken. Er sieht diese Entwicklung als fortlaufenden kulturgeschichtlichen Prozess, dessen Ergebnisse unser Gehirn aufnehmen kann. Auf der anderen Seite entfalten sich die Objekte der Mathematik so, dass sie den Zwängen unserer Gehirnstruktur entsprechen. Dehaene zeigt darüber hinaus aber auch, welche Schaltkreise im Gehirn für diese Wechselbeziehung zwischen menschlicher Gehirnstruktur und mathematischer Entwicklung verantwortlich sind. Sein Buch ist eine spannende Lektüre für alle, die nicht nur rechnen können, sondern auch wissen wollen, warum sie es können.
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