7/5/2023 0 Comments Unwin analysing architecture![]() ![]() He describes ideas for use in the active process of design. The link between analysis and learning about the possibilities of design has been reinforced, and the bibliography of recommended supplementary reading has been expanded.Simon Unwin clearly identifies the key elements of architecture and conceptual themes apparent in buildings, and other works of 'architecture' such as gardens and cities. Many new drawings have been included, illustrating further examples of the themes explored. Beautifully illustrated throughout with the author's original drawings, examples are drawn from across the world, and from many periods architectural history (from prehistoric times to the very recent past), to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture.In this second edition the framework for analysis has been revised and enlarged, and further case studies added. Analysing Architecture offers a unique 'notebook' of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. ![]()
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![]() I love that Benedict teamed with Victoria Murray for adding authenticity to Belle’s voice as she wrestles with the costs and consequences of passing as white. Because Belle lived a private life and burned her private correspondence to guard her secret, the authors had limited primary documents and had to heavily imagine parts of Belle’s story. Readers can depend on Marie Benedict for a well-researched story. I love historical fiction when it’s based on a real person and her accomplishment(s). ![]() Writing: The Personal Librarian is told in a straightforward chronological timeline (with some childhood flashbacks) from one perspective. However, she has a well-guarded secret….she is passing as white. In addition to becoming powerful in the art and book world, Belle develops a reputation as a shrewd negotiator and earns her place in New York Society. Belle curates a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for the Pierpont Morgan Library. The Personal Librarian is the fictionalized biography of Belle da Casta Greene, personal librarian to business tycoon, John Pierpont Morgan. Thanks #NetGalley #BerkleyWritesStrongWomen #BerkleyBuddyReads for a complimentary eARC upon my request. N*This post contains Amazon affiliate links. Genre/Categories/Setting: Biographical Historical Fiction, African-American Women, the Gilded Age, New York City ![]() ![]() The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray ![]() ![]() OL213256W Page_number_confidence 94.02 Pages 554 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220728094108 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 430 Scandate 20220724010557 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5. Urn:lcp:crystalcave0000mary:epub:abcf6ff0-cb64-4e44-91d1-25d9040227f2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier crystalcave0000mary Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s22g6516zz5 Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9920 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1300169 Openlibrary_edition ![]() Last Enchantment Mary Stewart has made a. She co-founded Integrative Teaching International and is the founding editor of its primary publication. With the publication of The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and. Stewart’s work has been included in over 100 exhibitions. He heads home after bidding Galapas good-bye and for the second time in his life, he weeps. Merlin realizes the falcon is gone and Galapas tells him the bird headed south right after his dream. ![]() She also wrote many children’s books and poetry. Galapas tells him he must go and that the crystal cave will not protect him. Urn:lcp:crystalcave0000mary:lcpdf:d7080fe2-28f9-4e03-9418-b431563a7f1b Lady Stewart was a British novelist, best known for his romantic mystery genre, featuring smart, adventurous heroines. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:26:40 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40613111 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() Weston eventually realizes that he has a date with destiny and must play a critical role in stopping a great evil from the depths of time (is there any other kind?) and travel halfway around the world to stop a certain Great Old One with whom we are all familiar. The novel is thus comprised of four seemingly disparate stories related on a dark and stormy night, along with the hoary framing device of a young man sent on a quest to retrieve a MacGuffin who encounters the travelers. ![]() Before Weston can get very far in his quest, he encounters a gathering of fellow travelers who relate their own tales of past encounters with the macabre. ![]() Our story begins with the precocious Miskatonic University student, Carter Weston, tasked by one of his professors with retrieving a powerful occult tome, the Incendium Maleficarum, before it can fall into the wrong hands. Please not: spoilers follow, but only in a cursory, plot-summary sense. Talley’s THAT WHICH SHOULD NOT BE is a welcome exception. Relatively few of these works are novel-length (appropriate, I suppose, since most of Lovecraft’s work is sub-novel length), and while some rival or exceed Lovecraft’s own work, most others are less than memorable. It seems as though every week a new collection of “Lovecraftian” fiction is released, containing new and reprinted stories of the Mythos by the famous and not-so-famous. We live in a Golden Age of pastiches and new tales of H. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments NightS by Kou Yoneda![]() And I really enjoyed seeing how Nakaya's presence started to irk Kugou as his jealousy and possessiveness over Usui started to develop too! XD (I'm not sure if I needed to put this as a spoiler, but I thought perhaps some people may be shocked to find out who the main pairing will be. ![]() Kugou's feelings gradually developed due to actually spending time with Usui, so he got to see how cute Usui is (and my goodness, he is really cute ^^). Instead of any of the characters randomly falling in love after being confessed to or even raped (we all know how often that trope is used in the BL realm!), To be honest I think what I liked the most about this, is that despite only having 40-something pages, the romance was perfectly paced. I knew right from the first page that there was going to be a happy and satisfying ending, and of course I wasn't disappointed in the least. It is very predictable right from the start, (honestly if you don't automatically know what the supposed "twist" is going to be, then I seriously wonder about you), but I like that. (I just love men with pierced ears, and all 3 of the main characters do!) ![]() Of course the art is totally delicious, the characters are all good looking, manly men that have impeccable fashion sense in my opinion. ![]() As everyone else has already mentioned how great the title story is, I feel that I should stress how much I love one of the other oneshots in this (as it doesn't have it's own page here on MU), Kanjou Spectrum. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The last season by eric blehm![]() ![]() Blehm’s immersion with the Rangers is what led him to the previously untold story of an elite team of eleven Green Berets who operated in the hinterland of Taliban-held Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11 (The Only Thing Worth Dying For), as well as to Fearless (Waterbrook/Multnomah Random House), the heartrending and inspiring story of Naval Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Adam Brown, who overcame tremendous odds in his rise to the top tier of the U.S. His access into the Special Operations community and reportage set an important milestone for American war journalism two years before reporters began to gain widespread embedded status with the U.S. In 1999, Blehm became the first journalist to accompany and keep pace with an elite Army Ranger unit on a training mission. ![]() His first book, The Last Season, was the winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and was named by Outside magazine as one of the “greatest adventure biographies ever written.” He has dedicated his life to telling the stories of those who serve." Eric Blehm is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments The burning by jane casey![]() Though Maeve Kerrigan is a delight as a woman in a male-dominated profession, this premise is hardly original and is wearing a bit thin. The author does a fine job of balancing the introduction of a new character with a solidly developed murder investigation. ![]() But her colleagues think otherwise, that Maeve is diverting their investigation away from real killer. Still, Maeve can't help but believe there's far more to Rebecca's life than she's being told and thinks someone has mimicked the Burning Man's highly publicized method of murder to cover up a different crime. Everyone she questions tells her that Rebecca was a wonderful person, without faults. ![]() A fifth woman has been found, Rebecca Haworth, and though everything points to her being a victim of the Burning Man, Maeve has her doubts. There are no clues left at the scene of the crime, and all the police have to go on is a psychological profile: a man between the ages of 38 and 45 years old, but not a sexual predator his thrill comes from stalking and then killing women. The press have labeled the killer "The Burning Man" since all of the young woman murdered to date have had their bodies set on fire. ![]() Review: Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan is assigned to an on-going investigation into identifying a serial killer, but she's not convinced the latest victim fits the pattern, in The Burning, the first mystery in this series by Jane Casey. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Shattered by Dani Pettrey![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dani Pettrey’s terrific character driven series, we step into a world that while fiction is in fact, very real. Sure, I like the genre as well as the next person but it’s one I’ve drifted from since reading Dee Henderson’s O’Malley series years ago. REVIEW: It’s rare for me to be giddy over a suspense work of fiction. Shattered, by Dani Pettrey | Book Review In order to keep close tabs on her, he sticks to her side, wanting to protect the woman he has silently loved all these years. ![]() Refusing to stand by helpless, Piper determines she’ll carry out her own investigation, and Landon can do nothing to stop her. For over ten years, he has been a part of their family and Cole’s best friend but now, in order to uphold the law, he has to follow the evidence, only doing so will mean crushing Piper. BOOK REVIEW | ‘Seconds to Live’ is One Quick and Exciting New Thrillerĭeputy Landon Grainger is conflicted over the arrest of Reef McKenna. Making matters worse, the one person Piper thinks she can trust is who makes the arrest. Fiercely protective of those she loves, Piper refuses to believe that Reef would murder anyone even as the evidence mounts. Her brother’s return to Alaska is shattered when he stands accused of murder. STORY: She may be the baby of the family but Piper McKenna is one determined girl. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments The tipping point audio book![]() Social media platforms of various types – many which rose as AOL fell – constitute another set of gardens. The deeper you journey into the garden, the more invested you become and the more difficult to leave. People with Apple devices also have Apple apps and software and services, which work together very conveniently and look nice and quietly conspire to pull you further in (Apple Music Classical!). One form is the technology by which we go online – Apple being the prime example. We just notice them less, probably because in most cases we don’t pay upfront for them through an obvious AOL-ish access charge, and because walled gardens now take on such varied shapes. You’ll likely have encountered several of them within minutes of going online. Since then, online walled gardens have proliferated. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a variety of reasons, AOL’s star began to dim in the noughties and I am sure I was not alone in thinking it was because people had had enough of those walls, and a more open internet had triumphed. ![]() ![]() They are created from memory – recent and remote – and come alive through sensorimotor, limbic, and default-mode cortical activity. ![]() Proponents of neurocognitive theories of dreaming suggest that such experiences are akin to simulations of the waking world ( Foulkes, 1985 Revonsuo, 2000 Tart, 1987 see Nielsen, 2010 for a review). This position is juxtaposed by the richly embodied and immersive experiences brought about in dreams, where we feel our dreamt bodies and engage with our imagined environments. One of the logical consequences of any brain in a vat theory is that bodiless brains attached to reality simulators would still have the same experience we are having right now. In philosophy, this view is referred to as brain in a vat consciousness, whereby the brain generates experience even in the absence of physical input or outward control. ![]() Dreaming is often considered a subjective experience generated by the mind and brain, while cut off from the body and the external environment ( Brueckner, 1986). ![]() |