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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to today's complex energy issues -- how to think clearly and logically about what is possible and what is …
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- 9780262283847
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Weather as medium :toward a meteorological art
In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the "big picture systems view" and a grou…
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- 9780262353441
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- 1 online resource (xl, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some colour)
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The historiography of modern architecture
"Tournikiotis argues that the history of modern architecture tends to be written from the present, projecting back onto the past our current concerns, so that the "beginning" of the story really functions as a "representation" of its end. In this book the buildings are the quotations, while the texts are the structure." "Tournikiotis focuses on a group of books by major historians of the twenti…
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- 9780262285100
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- 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations
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Toward a minor architecture
A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300278
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Histories of the immediate present : Inventing Architectural Modernism
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.
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Art power /
Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function.…
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The Open hand :essays on Le Corbusier
This is one of the first sizeable works containing original research on Le Corbusier to appear in English. The fourteen essays are by Russell Walden, Paul Turner, Patricia Sekler, Maurice Favre, Brian Taylor, Charles Jencks, Anthony Sutcliffe, Robert Fishman, Martin Purdy, John Winter, Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, Madhu Sarin, and Stanislaus von Moos.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262367882
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 484 pages) :illustrations
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Verbal complexes
In this book Hilda Koopman and Anna Szabolcsi propose a unified analysis of restructuring constructions in Hungarian, Dutch, and German that involves only overt phrasal movement and derives variation from the varying sizes of pied piping constituents.Restructuring verbs in Hungarian exhibit three patterns: the will begin up-climb and the up will begin climb orders common in Dutch and the up-cli…
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- 9780262277433
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- 1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of Early Modern Women's Writing
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production in the period stretching from the English Reformation to the Restoration. Chapters work together …
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The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
An exploration of transformations in the nature of the art object and artistic authorship in the last four decades. In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-produced elements, impermanent materials, and appropriated imagery, have incorpora…
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