Download or read book Parasite Paradise written by Liesbeth Melis and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasites are flexible and temporary structures, designed by artists or architects, that feed off of existing infrastructure. Parasite Paradise documents 23 projects that respond on their own terms to new and unforeseen demands. Many of these parasites have settled in the government-designated "Vinex" district of Leidsche Rijn near Utrecht, turning a district almost exclusively concerned with dwelling into a more urban entity. What do these small, mobile architectural interventions mean for our strictly regulated society and for the planning of architecture and urbanism? What sense (or nonsense) is there in mobile architecture from a historical perspective? How much of it is art and how much is architecture? Parasite Paradise encourages us to consider a new approach to planning, one where not everything is fixed beforehand. This makes it required reading for architects, urban planners, and artists whose concern is designing urban space. With projects by Shigeru Ban, Atelier van Lieshout, Vito Acconci, Alicia Framis, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Martial Galfione, Kathrin B+hm & Stefan Saffer with Andreas Lang, Attila Foundation, Winter/H+rbelt, and others.
Download or read book Parasite Paradise written by Sangre Samson and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people deserve what's coming to them, but this punishment. . . is beyond worse than hell itself. There's some scum out there in this world, that desperately need to be scrubbed from this land. Lynch John and Tony will experience the treasure that is their stay at Paradise. Locked within Paradise, these three men will try to survive the night in this black blood oozing nightmare. Booze, ultimate Luxury and exotic cuisines, will leave you fearing for more, so good it's to die for. You'll freeze with joy; you'll shake with anticipation. It'll scare you. . . and rot you so right. No senses have been left out of your experience. So, be ready to face an ungodly amount of indulgence, Welcome, and enjoy your stay, at Paradise.
Download or read book 21st Century House written by Jonathan Bell and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at diverse visions of the modern house, before placing them in the context of the technological and aesthetic concerns of architects, this text features illustrations and architectural drawings for every project, covering various aspects of contemporary house architecture.
Download or read book The Parasite written by Michel Serres and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought.
Download or read book Power Sharing written by Elizabeth Keating and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What allows certain individuals and groups to maintain control over the actions and lives of others? Linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating went to the island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, and studied how people use language and other semiotic codes to reproduce and manipulate status differences. The result is this inside view of how language works to create power and social inequality. This book challenges widely held theories on the nature of social stratification, including women's roles in creating hierarchy.
Download or read book The Avian Brood Parasites written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolutionary, ecological and behavioral questions posed by obligate brood parasites are among the most intriguing of all contemporary ornithological topics. Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and may be a major contributing factor driving several species of songbirds to near extinction. As one of the first books to present a comprehensive overview of this fascinating phenomenon, this work discusses the comparative biology and co-evolutionary adaptations exhibited by the five families of birds that engage in such behavior. Several chapters dealing with the comparative biology of both intraspecific and interspecific brood parasites, are followed by individual accounts of all known species--nearly 100 altogether, primarily cowbirds and cuckoos. Some of the more remarkable behavioral and structural adaptations of these birds include egg mimicry, juvenile mimicry, elimination by starvation or actual attack of other nestlings or host eggs, and even the learning and partial mimicry of host song traits. An extended glossary, a list of Latin names, 400 literature citations and range maps of all parasitic species discussed are also included. Detailed line drawings by the author enhance this synthesis of biological and ecological information.
Download or read book A Parasite s Paradise written by Harrison Kemp and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What follows is my life story. The story of a man who moved ever closer to freedom without ever truly attaining it. What you are about to read is the story of X, a man who lived his life under the parasitic grasp of a master." Join us in the story of X as he embarks on a journey through America in the 1700s as he explores, learns, and aims to achieve the freedom he craves.
Download or read book Yearbook Dutch Design 03 04 written by Aad Krol and published by episode publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parasite in Paradise a Mystery Novel written by Len Webster and published by Summerland, B.C. : Valley Pub.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What s Eating You written by Eugene H. Kaplan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever wanted to know about parasites but were too horrified to ask In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite. Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe exploring oceans and jungles, and incidentally acquiring parasites in his gut. Here, he leads readers on an unforgettable journey into the bizarre yet oddly beautiful world of parasites. In a narrative that is by turns frightening, disgusting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Kaplan describes how drinking contaminated water can cause a three-foot-long worm to burst from your arm; how he "gave birth" to a parasite the size and thickness of a pencil while working in Israel; why you should never wave a dead snake in front of your privates; and why fleas are attracted to his wife. Kaplan tells stories about leeches feasting on soldiers in Vietnam; sea cucumbers with teeth in their anuses that seem to encourage the entry of symbiotic fish; the habits of parasites that cause dysentery, river blindness, and other horrifying diseases--and much, much more. Along the way, he explains the underlying science, including parasite evolution and host-parasite physiology. Informative, frequently lurid, and hugely entertaining, this beautifully illustrated book is a must-read for health-conscious travelers, and anyone who has ever wondered if they picked up a tapeworm from that last sushi dinner.
Download or read book The Gift and its Paradoxes written by Olli Pyyhtinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving. In addition to exploring the conditions of possibility and impossibility of the gift, the book draws on the thought of figures such as Derrida, Serres, Simmel, Cixous, Irigaray and Heidegger to argue for the relevance of the phenomenon of the gift to broader issues in contemporary social sciences. It takes up questions concerning the constitution of community and the processes by which people are included in or excluded from it, gender relations, materiality, the economy, and the possibility that death itself could be a gift, in the form of euthanasia or self-sacrifice. A rigorous yet accessible examination of the phenomenon of the gift in relation to a range of contemporary concerns, The Gift and its Paradoxes will appeal to scholars and students within sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political theory and film and literature studies.
Download or read book On Food written by David Schildberger and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the opposite, the notion of scarcity. The limits of nature act as an inevitable necessity. In his book, David Schildberger adopts a novel approach to the subject of resources, with the help of intelligent instruments that introduce new foods, such as chocolate made from cocoa cell cultures, and even a fruit-bearing vine raised far from a vineyard. With his imagined scenarios, the author invites the reader to dare stretch their intellectual imaginations and ultimately presents nature as a contingent. Conceptual models on the subject of nature and alternative ways of producing food Recommended reading for architectural IT specialists New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parasite written by Daniel M. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of a literary experiment into creativity, plagiarism, individual consciousness, personal identity and the nature of ‘reality’ itself. Parasite straddles the borderline between reason and delirium, dreaming and the waking mind, and undermines the distinction between serious and popular culture. Parasite promises to be more ambitious than it can possibly deliver, guaranteeing disappointment at every twitch of the tail.
Download or read book The Flying Zoo written by Michael Stock and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My work as a scientist who studies bird parasites causes me to wonder about the hidden part of the drama unfolding before my eyes: the flying zoo that makes each bird what it is. As I gaze out at my favourite birds, I wonder what role their parasites have played in shaping their fascinating behaviours and alluring appearance.” — From Chapter 1 In The Flying Zoo, Michael Stock gives readers an enthusiastic tribute to birds and the parasites that live in and on them. From the Crozet Archipelago and the Galapagos Islands to our own backyards, parasites—fleas, lice, ticks, and flukes—live in a sinister yet symbiotic relationship with their host birds. With a scientist’s exuberance, Stock reveals a co-evolutionary dance among an astounding cast of creatures living in a complex and paradoxical co-habitation. Following in the footsteps of Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos, this contemporary classic deserves a place on the shelves of students and teachers of biology, natural history buffs, and birders.
Download or read book Curating Sydney written by Jill Bennett and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when artists are asked the questions usually addressed to planners and administrators? In Curating Sydney artists, architects, writers, designers and curators come together to reimagine the city. In a series of cutting-edge art and design projects they envisage a future where public art plays a vital role in the life of the city – from quirky installations to architectural innovations and works that focus on environmental health and sustainability. Highly illustrated with visionary concept drawings and public artworks, Curating Sydneyoffers a new view on the future of the city – one that draws on the inspiration of our best creators in art and design.
Download or read book Purple Jars of Rice written by Ankhesen Mié and published by Ankhesen Mié. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purple Jars of Rice is a collection comprising a short story, a novella, and several poems. The first tale, "Murder in the Whorehouse," recounts the lives of four sisters who have experienced one disappointment in life after the other and seemingly begin to exist in a world apart. The second story, "Sunrise over Juju Mountain," is a fictionalized memoir of a cynical young girl whose overly eccentric (and slightly perverse) father attempts to balance Old World culture with modern day distractions. And finally, the poems echo the thoughts and comments of various young students on their roles in society.
