![]() Architecture is complex, subtle, frustrating. ![]() Works of architecture are instruments for managing, orchestrating, modifying our relationship with the world around us. The ‘Select Bibliography’ has been expanded and the ‘Index’ revised. Two new examples – a Mud House from Kerala, India and the Mongyo-tei (a tea house) from Kyoto, Japan – have been added to the ‘Case Studies’ at the end of the book. Three new chapters have been added to the section on ‘Themes in Spatial Organisation’, covering ‘Occupying the In-between’, ‘Inhabited Wall’ and ‘Refuge and Prospect’. Notably, the chapter on ‘Basic Elements of Architecture’ has been enlarged to discuss the ‘powers’ various architectural elements offer the architect. This new edition of Analysing Architecture is revised and expanded. ![]() With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it also offers those in disciplines related to architecture (from archaeology to stage design, garden design to installation art), a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. Now in its fourth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. So begins The Black-Eyed Blonde, a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe-yes, that Philip Marlowe. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere." The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. "It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career ![]() ![]() ![]() Individuals or companies using Mercer data for consulting services or commercial purposes are subject to different rates. ![]() Need data sooner? 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The global online subscription includes 12 months' access starting with your purchase date for up to 5 users including access to Excel download files, PDF reports, and all updates during that period. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rousseau advocated an educational method which consisted of removing the child from society (i.e., to a country home) and alternately conditioning him through changes to environment and setting traps and puzzles for him to solve or overcome. ![]() But, due to the malign influence of corrupt society, they often fail to do so. This differed from Locke's tabula rasa in that it was an active process deriving from the child's nature, which drove the child to learn and adapt to its surroundings.Īs Rousseau wrote in his book Emile, all children are perfectly designed organisms, ready to learn from their surroundings so as to grow into virtuous adults. This was an intrinsic, natural process, of which the primary behavioral manifestation was curiosity. Rousseau also had a different theory of human development-where Plato held that people are born with skills appropriate to different castes (though he did not regard these skills as being inherited), Rousseau held that there was one developmental process common to all humans. Rousseau (1712-78), though he paid his respects to Plato's philosophy, rejected it as impractical due to the decayed state of society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listenersīorn a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world’s wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. ![]() Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson’s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. ![]() ![]() It is also one of my favourites amongst the ten finalists. It is book one in the Scarlet Star Trilogy and an entry in the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. The 13-tonne Big Ben bell was largely silenced for five years while a major restoration of the Elizabeth Tower took place, with the so-called 'bongs' finally resuming regular service in November 2022. Bloodrush by Ben Galley merges alternate history and fantasy into an accomplished coming-of-age story infused with magic (or should that be magick) and mythology. "Clock mechanics worked quickly to rectify the issue and the clock is now functioning as normal." ![]() ![]() "We are aware that the clock dials on the Elizabeth Tower were temporarily displaying the incorrect time on Wednesday afternoon," a spokesperson for parliament's lower house, the House of Commons, said. By 1:47 p.m., the hands were moved forward again to show the right time. Half an hour later, the clock hands were moved forward but the clock was still running about five minutes late, according to Reuters witnesses. (1155 GMT), leaving the bells silent at 1 p.m. The four clock dials, one on each side of the 96-metre-tall Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben and four other bells, stopped at 12:55 p.m. ![]() LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - London's famous Big Ben bell failed to chime on Wednesday when the dials of the Great Clock at Britain's Houses of Parliament briefly stopped working. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its genre, however, is difficult to identify with precision, having elements of children’s literature but also transcending the normal bounds of that field. ![]() It is often seen as the masterpiece of Kipling’s fiction for its descriptive richness. Kim’s reception has been robust but mixed. Kipling kept writing until his final years in the 1930s, though none of his later pieces achieved the same level of popularity as the works he produced at the peak of his career. In 1910 he produced a volume of poetry that contained “If-,” a short piece that has earned a spot as one of the most beloved poems of all time. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, Kipling turned most of his attention to writing poetry and short stories, genres that had also dominated his early career in India. Kipling described it as an indulgent fancy, a work of beautiful imagery and compelling descriptions, but largely plotless. Kim, however, was unique among his works. By the time Kipling produced Kim in 1900-1901, he was already one of the most popular novelists of his day. Kipling’s writing career took off over the subsequent six years, and by 1889 he had saved enough money to relocate to London and pursue a literary life. ![]() He was sent back to England for schooling from age six to 16 but then returned to India, taking up a job as a journalist in Lahore, where his father worked as the curator of the cultural museum. Kipling had deep personal connections to India, having been born and raised in Mumbai (formerly called Bombay) until he was five years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, he examines the impact of cultural assimilation on the relationships between Indian women and Indian men. Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century. When Johnson passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas - lead singer of the rock-and-roll band Coyote Springs - a magical odyssey begins that will take the band from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly reappears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938. In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. Winner of the American Book Award and a critically acclaimed national best seller, Reservation Blues continues to find new and adoring readers in academic and popular circles alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() So Malik is trying to kill her, Karina is trying to kill him, and all the while a thousand-year evil is stirring back to life. Malik enters a competition to win Karina’s hand in marriage to get close enough to kill her, not knowing she’s hosting this entire competition to murder the winner for the spell. Meanwhile, Karina’s mother the queen has just been assassinated, and she needs the heart of a king in order to perform a forbidden spell to bring her back to life. When Malik’s younger sister is abducted by a vengeful spirit, he strikes a deal to win her freedom by murdering the crown princess of Ziran. Of course! A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN is a dual-POV YA fantasy novel inspired by West African folklore, and it follows two protagonists: a refugee named Malik and a princess named Karina. Let’s get started!įirst, can you tell us about your book, A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN? We can’t wait to dive into the book, her writing, and the process. It’s already on the New York Time’s Bestseller list and has received so much buzz. ![]() Brown here to discuss her debut novel, A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN. Welcome to the Children’s Book Review! We’re so excited to have Roseanne A. ![]() The Children’s Book Review Roseanne A Brown ![]() ![]() ![]() Roughing It (1872) is the lighthearted account of Mark Twain's actual and imagined adventures when he escaped the Civil War and joined his brother, the recently appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. ![]() Out of the book emerges the first full-dress portrait of Mark Twain himself, the breezy, shrewd, and comical manipulator of English idioms and America's mythologies about itself and its relation to the past. The result is a hilarious blend of vaudevillian comedy, actual travel guide, and stinging satire, directed at both the complacency of his fellow American travelers and their reverence for European relics. In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and "frauds," and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe-to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. ![]() |