The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

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In this book, completed shortly before his death, Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, and drawing and building.

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must buy.......2006-03-13

While Translations from Drawing to Building is perhaps Evans' more often referenced publication, The Projective Cast is even better.

A must read!.......2001-07-04

This book is a must read for any architect interested in the geometries and shapes of buildings (which I hope is every architect) If you have second thoughts about buying it, buy it... it is informative, entertaining the diagrams and pictures are beautiful and it will take 2 (amazing) months to go through it.

Typical Evans. Clear, breath takingly obvious........1999-07-28

Robin Evans has a knack of getting right to the point of many a subject with expertise. Extremely versatile and knowledgable, he uses this base to write profoundly. Evans takes criticism to another level by getting to 'the obvious' quickly, then building on pre conceived theory with frightening clarity to form an original alternative view. This is a marvelously laid out book with fantastic illustrations and plates from Renaissance history to Eisenman. He is not caught up in the hype of self-preserving discourse or traditional methods of interrogation. The book has a wealth of information that acts like a reference book. So easy to read and so refreshing in opinion. RIP Robin, this is a classic work.

The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Eunice D. Howe
Manufacturer: Renaissance Society of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 588 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries.
Author: Eunice D. Howe
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v50 Issue: n3 Page: p936(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

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The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries
Robin Evans
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQCCDI

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The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries
Robin Evans
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQGHTI

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“Serves as an introduction to the art...begins with a long look at the craft, plus detailed discussion of tools and selecting wood....Individual chapters are devoted to various types of carving, including foliage, moldings, bowls, animals, human figures, and busts and lettering. Discussion of artistic theory is featured in chapters on stylization and abstract carvings.”—Woodshop News.

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A truly wonderful book for bringing a smile to your face

By far and away one of the finest laughs you'll ever have

Add this to your library !

Life Laughs Last: 200 More Classic Photos from the Famous Back Page of America's Favorite Magazine
Philip B. Kunhardt
Manufacturer: Fireside
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Life Smiles Back

Life: 100 Events That Shook Our World : A History in Pictures from the Last 100 Years

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In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits

ASIN: 0671687972

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For many years, America's favorite magazine signed off with an amusing -- often outrageous -- photograph designed to leave the reader laughing. LIFE Laughs Last collects more than 200 of these hilarious photographs -- every one guaranteed to warm your heart and tickle your funny bone.

Continuing in the zany, whimsical tradition of the best-selling LIFE Smiles Back, here is more from LIFE's lighter side: people and pets by the score, caught by the camera in surprising, side-splitting poses. These rib-tickling photographs were submitted over the years by LIFE's loyal readers, and are assembled here by one of LIFE's most renowned editors.

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A truly wonderful book for bringing a smile to your face.......2006-10-16

This book goes extremely well with "Life Smiles Back." Both will put a smile on your face and help you relax and enjoy life when things get rough.

By far and away one of the finest laughs you'll ever have.......2002-08-24

Some of the greatest photos you've ever imagined and a whole lot more. Need a housewarming gift that can't be duplicated? Get this and "Life Smiles Back." You'll be invited to every get-together from the presentation day until you die. They're great!

Add this to your library !.......2000-03-10

This is a wonderful ,entertaining joy of a book. The whole family will love it. All generations will crack up. Give to a friend who needs a pick me up. "Life Smiles Back", too, will make you crack a smile....not just one. For all those times in life when we couldn't help but laugh and smile !

Life Laughs Last: 200 More Classic Photos from the Famous Back Page of America's Favorite Magazine

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Life Laughs Last: 200 More Classic Photos from the Famous Back Page of America's Favorite Magazine
Philip B. Kunhardt
Manufacturer: Fireside
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P41IGG

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Welcome to Noonaville, the figment of renowned Sunday Times Style cartoonist Stephen Bolton's brilliantly warped imagination. Noonaville is a kind of suburban open jail for the criminally strange. A fictitious every town of suburban weirdness. A place in the middle of everything and the centre of nothing. Nothing, that is, apart from a few well meaning and quirky inhabitants struggling with the daily issues of life, love, work, death and Atomic Brand Laundry Powder Syndrome.

This is the second book in the Noonaville cartoon series. It's a bit like the first one but it smells nicer.

Stephen Bolton was born in 1966 in the lush green suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand. The early part of his life was taken up with going to the beach, looking in the fridge, riding bikes, learning to swim, fighting with his brothers, eating pizza, mowing lawns and going to school. After that it’s all a blur.

He works as a cartoonist, illustrator and painter. His work appears in The Sunday Times’ Style magazine, Good Housekeeping, Media Week, The New Zealand Listener and elsewhere. His paintings can be seen in a number of pleasantly appointed lounge rooms in Auckland.

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A parallel universe in cartoons for connoisseurs of day-glo surrealism. Noonaville is the cartoon sensation from the Sunday Times Style Magazine, each week it transports Style readers to a quirky alternative world somewhere between Twin Peaks, Royston Vasey and Brookside Close. In the book, the weirdness can be relived again and again with approximately 160 cartoons on themes of love, work, death, fashion and fun, plus a running narrative linking all the sections. Noonaville is set to be the humour book that people read under their desks, in front of the telly, in their lunch breaks & before they go to bed. It is bright, fun and funny and has cult status written all over it.

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Noonaville.......2006-07-23

Hi. I'm Stephen Bolton, the author and cartoonist of the Noonaville books. I'm glad you're looking at this page and reading this review. This of course in not a review in the real sense. Rather it's me talking about my cartoon work. I wanted to do cartoons about simple, everyday sometimes inglorious lives of everyday people. Lives like my own and those of my friends and family I suppose. With the Noonaville books and stories I really wanted to look and life in a medium sized town which is the kind of town I am from. I wanted to look at the people and what they do. How they act and what they say. The parties and barbeques, squabbles, square dances and shops. The type of accidents and incidents that happen everyday when people are together. The books are going well in the UK where I live and do most of Newspaper and magazine work, but I'd love to do better in the States which is really the right place for my stuff. So buy the book(s), it's cool and you'll like it (the second one is out in September). Or if you'd like to stay in touch with what's happening in Noonaville and my other cartoon work, you can visit my site. Just type my name into Yahoo or Google and my site will come up and from there you can contact me by email.

Thanks and I hope you like the books,
Stephen.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Cool book!.......2005-07-24

This is a really cool book, the cartoons and the story are great! I grew up in a town just like this. I couldn't stop laughing.

L. Brewlow
Brooklyn. NY.

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Where does a single, twentysomething girl go for adventure when she’s been raised among Manhattan artists, drag queens, and intellectuals threatening to move to Cuba? If that girl is Kyle York Spencer, an aspiring newspaper reporter, she heads south, to North Carolina, to cut her chops at the Raleigh News & Observer.

Setting up shop in the Tar Heel state, Spencer finds herself interviewing everyone from skeet-shooting cowboys and Christian Rockers to the Human Carver--a serial killer--and the Smallest Woman in the World. Embraced by a sassy group of husband-hunting southern belles, she wonders whether sleeping with a Jesse Helms supporter is really part of the grand plan or if Mark, her best friend whose calls from LA provide a lifeline, is really the one. Picking up some valuable wisdom along the way, she learns that finding Mr. Right is far less important than surrounding yourself with the right people–and that making a home ultimately involves more than just deciding where to live.

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Things don't always work out the way you hope..........2007-03-22

I knew this family when Kyle Spencer was a child, 7 to 10 years old. I used to work with her stepmother, "Shelby" (not her real name) and she and I also became friends. I know that "Shelby" had high hopes for her marriage to Kyle's father, and for her new found family, and had put a lot of energy into making it work. She and Kyle had also been very close when Kyle was a child. I finished up this book feeling very sad for my friend, because of the way things had turned out. The writing style itself will hold your attention, although I did see two writing errors which the proofreader should have caught and corrected before the book went to press.

She needs to make up her mind!.......2004-11-29

Kyle Spencer, an aspiring newspaper reporter, leaves New York City to work at the Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer.

I think Spencer couldn't make up her mind what book she wanted to write, "A New York Journalist Goes South", "My Dysfunctional Family", or "How to Find a Man". So she tried to put all three together, and doesn't quite pull it off, resulting in an uneven quality to the book.

Despite the "Dysfunctional Family Tree" at the start of the book, which was amusing, those parts of the book were the least interesting, and seemed almost tacked on. I would very much have liked to have had more about her experiences at the News & Observer, and the exploits of the Ten Thousand Angels Committee (four women looking for men for themselves and each other) were pretty funny.

She's a good writer, but she needed someone to force her to choose among three good themes.

Kyle is Vile.......2002-09-10

The premise of this book is ridiculous -- since when is Raleigh, North Carolina, the "heart of Dixie"? But even more ridiculous: the notion of a memoir in which the author "made stuff up." Why did she have to do that? Because the truth wasn't interesting enough? In truth, even this exaggerated memoir isn't interesting enough, in large part because Kyle Spencer is too young to be writing a memoir and because she takes herself way too seriously and thinks way too highly of herself. Her delusions of grandeur are embarrassing to read. ("I pictured myself leaping onto some carpeted auditorium stage, preparing to accept the third consecutive Pulitzer of my young career.") And her writing is just plain bad. ("I thanked Susan B. Anthony for getting the women's lib ball rolling.") Her attempts at self-depracation ring false. Get over yourself, Kyle!

What's the point.......2002-08-24

I was interested in reading what a Northerner had to say about Raleigh. I wasn't too offended by her representations of Raleigh, but was very offended by her needless and painful descriptions of her family and of her own behavior. I don't think I'd want to speak to her if I were one of the family members she chose to excoriate.

In the end, though slightly amused occasionally, I couldn't figure out what her point was in writing this book. Also, I was very interested to read in another review of this book that she graduated from the journalism school at Chapel Hill. Not exactly culture shock to move to Raleigh.

blah.......2002-07-03

Didn't like the ethics it portrayed. It was breezily written, however.

She's Gone Country - Dispatches From A Lost Soul In The Heart Of Dixie - Based On A True Story

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She's Gone Country - Dispatches From A Lost Soul In The Heart Of Dixie - Based On A True Story
Kyle Spencer
Manufacturer: Vintage Books / Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K0AZ1O

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Offers practical help for each stage in building a step-family. --Booklist Provides solid, heart-felt advice. --Library Journal

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No "psycho-babble" here!.......2005-08-11

The previous reviewer is correct: This book does not contain therapeutic jargon, clinical speculation or theories about causal roots of blended family problems. That is precisely why I recommend it! Rather, Artlip et. al have crafted a real-world book, from actual accounts, providing a balanced approach to recognizing (and dealing with) blended family problems. If you are considering taking the "blended family step," this book will give you an unvarnished snapshot of the good, bad and ugly (and also joyful) aspects of blended family life. It was not the authors' intent to provide clinical answers, but rather tools that regular folks in the trenches can use. As a blended family dad, I'm glad they did!

dedicated, helpful - and ignores 4 major hazards.......2004-08-18

I have specialized in providing professional education and therapy to divorced, courting, and re/wedded couples since 1981. I am (a) 66, (b) a stepgrandson, stepson, and ex-stepfather and stepbrother, (c) an invited Board member of the Stepfamily Association of America, (d) a contributing editor to 'Your Stepfamily Online,' and (e) the author of six personal-growth and family-relations books.

I recommend this diligent book to readers who want a survey-based introduction to U.S. stepfamily life, and useful questionnaires to raise reader self-awareness. I do not recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the core reasons most US stepfamilies are significantly stressful and why millions redivorce or endure daily agony.

Like most stepfamily authors, the Artlips and Dr. Saltzman omit explanation and advice on these universal stepfamily stressors:

1) why and how to assess and reduce co-parents' psychological wounds from childhood (vs. divorce). Most divorced and stepfamily adults appear to be significantly wounded - and don't (want to) know it;

2) the origin and impacts of blocked grief in adults and kids, and how to spot and reduce it. All stepfamilies follow (and cause) a series of profound losses (broken bonds);

3) co-parent unawareness of, and/or indiference to, five key topics: (a) normal personality formation, composition, and function; (b) keys to high-nurturance families and relationships, (c) effective communication skills, (d) healthy 3-level grief, and (e) stepfamily realities, norms, implications, and hazards. And...

4) the implications of little effective re/marital and co-parenting help (i.e. courtship coaching, classes, informed counseling, co-parent support groups) available in most communities and the media.

In my clinical experience since 1981, these factors combine to promote needy, love-dazed courting co-parents to commit to the wrong people (mate, stepkids, and "other parent/s"), for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time. Then the factors inhibit co-parents from identifying and resolving these core personal, role, and relationship problems:

http://sfhelp.org/10/problems.htm

For more perspective on this review, see

http://sfhelp.org/11/choose_bks.htm

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During the Civil War, few outside Abraham Lincoln's immediate circle of family, friends, and advisors had as much access to the president as young California journalist Noah Brooks, who first met Lincoln in Illinois. As the Washington correspondent for the Sacramento Daily Union during the Civil War, Brooks met with Lincoln nearly daily between 1862 and 1865 and was privy to many of the president's decisions and thoughts. Brooks's dispatches, letters, and personal reminiscences -- collected here for the first time by noted Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame -- offer an intimate portrait of Abraham Lincoln himself as well as an engrossing account of life and politics in wartime Washington.

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As the leading Muslim political spokesman and intellectual, Izetbegovic was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government in 1983 for a 14-year sentence. During the six years he served in prison, Izetbegovic wrote notes on life issues, religion and culture, and politics and political philosophy. These reflections were smuggled out of prison and edited for publication along with a selection of letters from his family. After describing prison life, Izetbegovic has organized his reflections into sections. From his first note "When I lose the reasons to live, I shall die," Izetbegovic provides a provocative collection of reflections that will interest scholars and researchers of contemporary Balkans, European Islam, and life during the last days of Communist Yugoslavia.

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Notes from Prison.......2002-10-08

I think that the book glorifies Alija Izetbegovic way too much....

Passionate, with verve.......2002-01-02

Written by Izetbegovic while he was imprisoned for campaigning against the Communist dictatorship in Yugoslavia. Includes an analysis of the most powerful ideologies in 20th century Europe, Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, and their relationship to Islam.

Highly recommended. Worth every penny.

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Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Notes from Prison, 1983-1988
Alija Izetbegovic
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORCS3Q

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rick and Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA fifty years ago marked one of the great turning points in the history of science. Biology, immunology, medicine, and genetics have all been radically transformed in the succeeding half-century, and the double helix has become an icon of our times. Published in association with Nature, this fascinating explora-tion of a scientific phenomenon provides an engaging account of the background and context for the discovery, its signifi-cance, and its enduring afterlife. A series of essays by leading scientists, historians, and commentators offers unique perspectives on DNA and its impact on modern science and society.

The DNA Saga ; 50 Years of the Double Helix

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The DNA Saga ; 50 Years of the Double Helix
Biman Basu
Manufacturer: Vigyan Prasar
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8174800999

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