Category: Contemporary

By Maja Ivanic, pela Kuhar

ISBN-10: 3211768440

ISBN-13: 9783211768440

ISBN-10: 3211768475

ISBN-13: 9783211768471

Slovenian structure draws massive curiosity around the globe. institution building, a concern in Slovenia for many years, has received designated importance as a result of state s monetary upswing. the college constructions awarded within the e-book "Contemporary university structure in Slovenia" have been all developed after 1991, following the institution of the Republic of Slovenia. as well as the creation by way of the 2 authors Maja Ivanic and Spela Kuhar, the ebook comprises interviews at the topic with 5 architects. The historic standpoint is conveyed in an essay, and the documented initiatives are graphically presented.

By Daniel Pinchbeck

ISBN-10: 0767907434

ISBN-13: 9780767907439

A surprising paintings of non-public travelogue and cultural feedback that levels from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and that means of the psychedelic experience.

While psychedelics of every kind are demonized in the US this present day, the visionary compounds present in vegetation are the religious sacraments of tribal cultures around the globe. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, those crops are sacred simply because they wake up the brain to different degrees of awareness--to a holographic imaginative and prescient of the universe.

Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and occasionally rashly own inquiry into this deep department. On one point, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the tale of the encounters among the fashionable attention of the West and those sacramental components, together with such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a brand new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and philosophers. it's also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging research with those outlaw compounds, together with a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night come across with the grasp shamans of the South American rain woodland; and a document from a psychedelic utopia within the Black Rock barren region that's the Burning guy Festival.

Breaking Open the Head is courageous participatory journalism at its most sensible, a shiny account of psychic and highbrow reviews that opened doorways within the wall of Western rationalism and accomplished Daniel Pinchbeck's own transformation from a jaded big apple journalist to shamanic start up and thankful citizen of the cosmos.

By Ron Goulart

ISBN-10: 0879974516

ISBN-13: 9780879974510

Classic paperback

By James White

ISBN-10: 0345220285

ISBN-13: 9780345220288

By Emilie Richards

ISBN-10: 0778322521

ISBN-13: 9780778322528

An artist's unexpected blindness is clinically determined as mental trauma-but what's it she does not are looking to see? An blameless guy is published after 9 years in penal complex for a homicide he did not devote. In a neighborhood of millionaires and the folks who serve them, a drama of scandal, secrets and techniques and homicide is set to be uncovered. . . Daughter of a mythical Virginia hunt grasp and aristocrat, Julia Warwick grew up in an international the place Thoroughbreds and fox looking are passions, no longer interests. Julia came upon her personal ardour in Christian Carver, a skilled younger horse coach. but if a stunning heiress is murdered and Christian is convicted of the crime, a pregnant, determined Julia marries a pal who deals solace. Now, although blindness darkens her international, it opens her eyes to hidden truths. approximately her husband, her family members, her pals and the guy she enjoyed. and because the tale starts off to emerge, a forgotten reminiscence starts off to come back, a secret involves gentle. . .and enthusiasts torn aside by means of forces they could not keep an eye on face one another as soon as and for all.

By Diana Palmer

ISBN-10: 0373086709

ISBN-13: 9780373086702

By Nick Corbett

ISBN-10: 1859461603

ISBN-13: 9781859461600

Towns could be reworked via larger caliber public house and Revival within the sq. explains tips on how to do it. In a transparent and available manner, it offers an perception into how layout thoughts for public areas can revive our towns. The publication is predicated on actual event and gives a good bridge among procedure and motion at the floor. recommended by means of Richard Rogers, foreign architect and leader adviser to the Mayor of London and via Jon Rouse, leader govt of the Housing company, Revival within the sq. is extremely suitable to somebody drawn to the position of public squares in city regeneration. The booklet demonstrates how uncluttered and joined up public areas will be outfitted to advertise civic values and advertisement competitiveness and the way squares can carry humans jointly for a extra confident, shared event of city dwelling. It supplies functional information on growing the prime quality public house that's required for an city renaissance. totally illustrated all through with overseas examples of top perform, Revival within the sq. is a crucial contribution that hyperlinks procedure and layout to the supply of a higher outfitted atmosphere. Revival within the sq. demonstrates how town sq. has constantly been on the middle of public city lifestyles. In today?s global, as towns compete within the worldwide industry position, their photograph and caliber of existence are more and more vital. Governments all over the world are encouraging urban experts to paintings with the non-public area to take a position in regeneration and concrete layout - and new urban squares are delivering a spotlight for this job. many of the governmental, specialist and advertisement businesses concerned with the layout, improvement and administration of public house have commonly been divided into separate disciplines, leading to a fragmented process characterised via conversation gaps among the most stakeholders. remodeling towns: Revival within the sq. explains the right way to shut the gaps via strategic management, administration, and top of the range layout - all aiding the supply of an city renaissance. The publication has major subject matters. to start with, it truly is approximately how the decision-making infrastructure will be more desirable; secondly, it really is concerning the actual layout and administration required to create and retain sustainable public areas. The publication exhibits that if everyone is to concentrate on the complexity and diversity of the society they're a a part of, and in the event that they are to understand notions of civic id and admire for others, there needs to be a spot they could sometimes see and adventure a various move part of that society - and this can be one of many key features of the town sq..

By Helen Dunmore

ISBN-10: 0425200191

ISBN-13: 9780425200193

Approximately thirty years in the past, a mom laid her baby child in a shoebox and left it within the yard of an Italian eating place. Now the infant, Rebecca, is a mom herself. a toddler of nobody and nowhere, she has created her personal unorthodox yet smooth kinfolk. Then this hopeful existence is dealt a blow which could shatter even the most powerful of ties. Now, Rebecca needs to face the longer term by means of delving into her mysterious prior. Dunmore's so much formidable paintings up to now, Mourning Ruby is a meditation on reminiscence and history-both own and public. it truly is an unforgettable story of affection, loss, and the transcendent energy of storytelling itself.

By Peter Abelard

ISBN-10: 1406503967

ISBN-13: 9781406503968

This scarce antiquarian e-book is a facsimile reprint of the unique. as a result of its age, it will possibly include imperfections comparable to marks, notations, marginalia and incorrect pages. simply because we think this paintings is culturally very important, we now have made it on hand as a part of our dedication for safeguarding, maintaining, and selling the world's literature in reasonable, prime quality, smooth variants which are actual to the unique paintings.

By Ahlberg

ISBN-10: 1137479221

ISBN-13: 9781137479228

In chosen 20th- and twenty-first-century texts, starting from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads modern narratives, fairly "transatlantic literature", because it imagines and navigates ultra-modern digital areas. finally, Ahlberg's argument empowers the reader to reimagine a destiny for narrative within the details Age.