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Book Rinzen Presents Neighbourhood

Download or read book Rinzen Presents Neighbourhood written by Rilla Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rinzen Presents Neighbourhood

Download or read book Rinzen Presents Neighbourhood written by Rinzen and published by Victionary. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neighbourhood project, initiated by the Australian design collective Rinzen, brings artists and designers from all around the world together for an elaborate modern-day version of the game exquisite corpse. Twenty featureless hand-made toys were initially created and then sent out for progressive rounds of re-working, resulting in a sequence of characters which morphed as the toys were embellished and reconstructed by the designers who at times made strong sweeping changes and at other times gently evolved the characters' designs and shapes. The participants were free to use a myriad of techniques stitching, painting, drawing, limb removal/addition, accessorizing, etc. to create their version of the toy. Upon completion, the toys were returned for photographic documentation and then passed on to the next participant for an ensuing round. The end result is a triumph through the international postal service with 80 characters emerging complete with their own names and personalities.

Book Fully Booked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Klanten
  • Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Fully Booked written by Robert Klanten and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn-around book with one side focusing on cover art and the other revealing experimentation with the creation of book design as artistic objects.

Book A Bear Sat on My Porch Today

Download or read book A Bear Sat on My Porch Today written by Jane Yolen and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to do if a rather insistent bear squats on your porch today? Followed in short order by a shaggy squirrel, a spraying skunk, a playful possum, and a bevy of forest critters large and small? This hilarious cumulative tale of reluctant hospitality and generous inclusivity will leave readers chanting, "OKAY. OKAY! YOU CAN STAY." But watch out! That porch is starting to sway. . . . Jane Yolen's uproarious chant-aloud story is brought to life by Rilla Alexander's dazzling retro-hip illustrations in an exuberant collaboration sure to take its place alongside such cumulative classics as This is the House that Jack Built and There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

Book A Memoir of the Rev  John Keble  M A   Late Vicar of Hursley

Download or read book A Memoir of the Rev John Keble M A Late Vicar of Hursley written by Sir John Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anatomy of Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Heller
  • Publisher : Rockport Publishers
  • Release : 2009-03-01
  • ISBN : 1610601580
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Anatomy of Design written by Steven Heller and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnatomy of Design dissects fifty examples of graphic design piece by piece, revealing an array of influences and inspirations. These pieces represent contemporary artifacts that are well conceived, finely crafted, and filled with hidden treasures. Some are overtly complex. Others are so simple that it is hard to believe there’s a storehouse of inspiration hidden underneath. The selections include all kinds of design work including posters, packages, and more. Each exhibit is selected for its ubiquity, thematic import, and aesthetic significance, and every page shows howgreat work is derived from various inspirational and physical sources, some well-known, some unknown./div

Book The Mystic Test Book of  The Hindu Occult Chambers

Download or read book The Mystic Test Book of The Hindu Occult Chambers written by Lauron William De Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haiku Guy

    Book Details:
  • Author : David G. Lanoue
  • Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
  • Release : 2001-05
  • ISBN : 9781893959132
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Haiku Guy written by David G. Lanoue and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the first novel to take as its subject the appreciation and crafting of haiku, this is the story of Buck-Teeth, a provincial poet and fictitious student of the Japanese classical haiku master Issa, who, in the course of his training, travels to ancient Edo and contemporary New Orleans, falls in and out of love, considers the many schools of haiku, and ultimately learns what it is to be a poet. Along the way we are offered gentle lessons on haiku and what we might put into it, how it and we got this way, and what it all might mean.

Book Mechatronic Systems

Download or read book Mechatronic Systems written by Clarence W. de Silva and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechatronics has emerged as its own discipline over the past decade, yet no reference has lived up to the demands of being a working guide for designing and implementing the new generation of mechatronic systems. Uniting an international team of leading experts, Mechatronic Systems: Devices, Design, Control, Operation and Monitoring rises to the ch

Book What is Yoga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
  • Publisher : Divine Cool Breeze Books
  • Release : 2013-12-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book What is Yoga written by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi and published by Divine Cool Breeze Books. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is yoga? "In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit." In this magazine, yoga and other topics are defined and explained by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. She tells us about the Yuva Shakti, opening the heart, how to please, changing vanity into pride and the twenty-two objects that created Life Eternal Trust.

Book Eat the Buddha

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Demick
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 0812998766
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Eat the Buddha written by Barbara Demick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy “A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”—The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Sehgal, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The Economist • Outside • Foreign Affairs Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first places where the Tibetans and the Chinese Communists encountered one another. In the 1930s, Mao Zedong’s Red Army fled into the Tibetan plateau to escape their adversaries in the Chinese Civil War. By the time the soldiers reached Ngaba, they were so hungry that they looted monasteries and ate religious statues made of flour and butter—to Tibetans, it was as if they were eating the Buddha. Their experiences would make Ngaba one of the engines of Tibetan resistance for decades to come, culminating in shocking acts of self-immolation. Eat the Buddha spans decades of modern Tibetan and Chinese history, as told through the private lives of Demick’s subjects, among them a princess whose family is wiped out during the Cultural Revolution, a young Tibetan nomad who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirti, an upwardly mobile entrepreneur who falls in love with a Chinese woman, a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance, and a Tibetan schoolgirl forced to choose at an early age between her family and the elusive lure of Chinese money. All of them face the same dilemma: Do they resist the Chinese, or do they join them? Do they adhere to Buddhist teachings of compassion and nonviolence, or do they fight? Illuminating a culture that has long been romanticized by Westerners as deeply spiritual and peaceful, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century, trying to preserve one’s culture, faith, and language against the depredations of a seemingly unstoppable, technologically all-seeing superpower. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking.

Book Rinzen Presents RMX Extended Play

Download or read book Rinzen Presents RMX Extended Play written by Rilla Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an impressive line-up of participants (Designers Republic, E-boy, Designershock, Matt Owens and many more) RMX aims to draw out the secret child in all of us. Initiated by prestigious design group Rinzen and based, in the broadest sense, on the principle of Chinese Whispers, this collection of 12 chapters exploits the tendency for spontaneous reinvention and thriving network character of the design community.

Book Why Gender Matters

Download or read book Why Gender Matters written by Leonard Sax and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted pediatrician and child psychologist looks at the controversial question of biologically based gender differences, arguing that these variations are a biological reality and that they play a key role in the development of personality traits and intellectual and social skills. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Book The Visualization of a Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Jenkins
  • Publisher : Legenda
  • Release : 2021-08-30
  • ISBN : 9781781884195
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Visualization of a Nation written by Emily Jenkins and published by Legenda. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 23 March 1981, Jordi Pujol, President of the Catalan regional government, gave a speech about an art exhibition, Catalunya Avui. Embracing the artistic wealth of Catalonia, Pujol reminded the audience that when they hear of Tàpies, Miró, Dalí, and even Picasso they ought to remember their Catalan heritage. Pujol's inclusion of Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) in this company shows the mark Tàpies had already made as a celebrated artist. In a very different Presidential address, as Artur Mas spoke to the press about the 2014 independence referendum, Tàpies's enormous painting Les quatre cròniques (1990) loomed in the background - an image that took on new meanings under very different sociopolitical circumstances. In this fascinating and thought-provoking investigation, Emily Jenkins explores both Tàpies's extraordinary style and his journey through Catalonia's turbulent modern history. Despite his complex relationship with the Spanish state, and having shown bold acts of political protest through his art, Tàpies has been fêted as one of Spain's most successful modern artists. With support from both local and regional governments, the artist opened a museum dedicated to his work in Barcelona in 1990, helping to establish Tàpies as a major visual artist in a resurgent Catalonia. Emily Jenkins studied art history at Rhodes College and history at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She is now an independent scholar in Cantabria.

Book Boys Adrift

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonard Sax
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 0465040810
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Boys Adrift written by Leonard Sax and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard at school and getting A's, her brother Justin is goofing off. He's more concerned about getting to the next level in his videogame than about finishing his homework. In Boys Adrift, Dr. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on more than twenty years of clinical experience to explain why boys and young men are failing in school and disengaged at home. He shows how social, cultural, and biological factors have created an environment that is literally toxic to boys. He also presents practical solutions, sharing strategies which educators have found effective in re-engaging these boys at school, as well as handy tips for parents about everything from homework, to videogames, to medication.

Book Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon

Download or read book Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon written by Katie Hickman and published by Phoenix House. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhutan is the remote kingdom in the Himalayas, isolated from the outside world for three centuries. The western part has been opened to limited tourism, but the eastern part remains closed. Katie Hickman is one of only a handful of foreigners ever to penetrate these eastern lands. Her trip to Bhutan with photographer Tom Owen Edmunds took a year to set up. They journeyed from the capital Thimphu in the west to the easternmost borderlands and the remote mountain-top retreat of the barbarous Bragpa people. They lived as Bhutanese, they met merchants, abbots, wandering priests, lamas, hermits, a reincarnation of the Buddha and a sorceress. Katie Hickman's account contains all the unexpected and humorous aspects of travel, but, above all, it is about the people of Bhutan.