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Book Scratching the Surface

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Harvey Ovshinsky and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of one of Detroit's most creative and prolific storytellers.

Book Scratching the Surface

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  • Author : Enakshi Dua
  • Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780889612303
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Enakshi Dua and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together 14 anti-racist feminists who examine ways in which race and gender interact to shape the lives of women of colour in Canada. This collection of articles covers a broad range of topics such as the impact of colonialism and its associated discourses on First Nations and other groups of colonised women; racism in the Canadian labour movement; the impact of globalisation on women of colour; the ways in which the institution of the nuclear family shapes racism; sexism in communities of colour; and the ways in which the women's movement can create an anti-racist praxis. The book not only provides exciting new insights into how women of colour experience Canadian society, but also provides instructors with a textbook that integrates anti-racist and feminist approaches.

Book Scratching the Surface

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  • Author : Michael Hosaluk
  • Publisher : North Light Books
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Michael Hosaluk and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the beauty of natural wood surfaces through designs of elegant form and balance. Works by more than 100 acclaimed artists.

Book Scratching the Surface

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Jeff Greenwald and published by Regent Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about visits to far-flung corners of the world - from the bazaars of Iran to the Authors' Wing of Bangkok's legendary Oriental Hotel; from a refugee camp on the Thai/Cambodian border to a kava ritual in Fiji.

Book Scratching the Beat Surface

Download or read book Scratching the Beat Surface written by Michael McClure and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sandfuture

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  • Author : Justin Beal
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 0262367181
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Sandfuture written by Justin Beal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.

Book Sally Maxwell

Download or read book Sally Maxwell written by Todd Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph covers the life and career of wildlife artist Sally Maxwell, a pioneer in scratchboard painting. Maxwell is credited with advancing a medium that had been for years relegated to illustrators and children. Because of her persistence and determination, thousands of artists today use scratchboard, and not only for monochromatic drawings; many have learned to add color and dimension through demonstrations and videos created by Maxwell through Ampersand. With more than one hundred plates, Maxwell's career and the evolution of scratchboard come to life. The text includes a foreword by acclaimed wildlife artist John Banovich and an astute essay by Todd Wilkinson.

Book Scratch the Surface

Download or read book Scratch the Surface written by Susan Conant and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of a popular series of cat mysteries, Felicity Pride turns sleuth when she finds a cat and a corpse on her doorstep, investigating suspects that range from an avid pet-hater and a highbrow professor to her primary rival in the field.

Book Scratching the Surface

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Andrew Watts and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New architecture in London presents a richly facetted range of contemporary urban designs. Social and political forces require more than just cosmetic packaging for new buildings. The façade as a public face plays a complex role here. While facades used to perform a static, representative guide, the requirements today focus on communication and interactivity. “Scratching the Surface” surveys the current state of affairs and documents today’s technical possibilities. The book – which can be used as a guide due to its handy format – shows state-of-the-art façade construction. Its detailed technical renderings are meant to appeal to architects, planners and architecture students as well as civil engineers interested in architecture.

Book Scratching the Surface

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  • Author : Dr Adam de Paor-Evans
  • Publisher : Squagle House/Rhythm Obscura
  • Release : 2023-03-10
  • ISBN : 1527266583
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Dr Adam de Paor-Evans and published by Squagle House/Rhythm Obscura. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scratching the Surface: Hip Hop, Remoteness, and Everyday Life presents the encounters of a young, rural teenager growing up in Devon, in the south-west corner of the UK as he engages with the evolution of hip hop, told through 28 particular and detailed memories drawn from the experience of the author. The book is divided into four parts, and situated between 1983 and 1986, explores the emotional growth, contextual questioning, and at times, naïve journey of the protagonist as he reflects on such minutiae as the price tags on record sleeves, the LED display on cassette players, and the zips on tracksuit tops. The author of Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism returns with a quirky contextual novella which unearths a less canonical hip hop history of the 1980s and expresses the innocence and obsessions of an only child growing up in the sticks, as he strives to make sense of his personal history, identity, and place in the world, through the often dialectic relationship between Devonian life and hip hop culture. This is the first publication in the new Rhythm Obscura/Headz Projects series which seeks to uncover the hidden histories of music cultures in Britain. Adam de Paor-Evans is an independent creative practitioner, ethnomusicologist and spatio-cultural theorist and was previously Reader in Ethnomusicology at University of Central Lancashire, UK. His research is focused on the relationship of the non-obvious, societal and regional-rural phenomena within music cultures. He leads the scholarly research project 'Rhythm Obscura: Revealing Hidden Histories Through Ethnomusicology, Practice Research and Material Culture' and has been an actively involved in British hip hop culture since 1983. Between 1989-1992 he was a member of pioneering Devon hip hop crew Def Defiance as Project Cee. He also performs original 45-only DJ shows under the pseudonym RARE~GRILLS.

Book Graphic Life  Michael Gericke

Download or read book Graphic Life Michael Gericke written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A small selection of projects covered in the book include: One World Trade Center (SOM), Marina Bay Sands (Safdie), Hudson Yards (KPF), The Vessel (Heatherwick), Post 9/11 installations at the WTC site, New York's new Penn Station (SOM), Jewel Changi Airport (Safdie), Rockefeller Center, City Point (a hip new Brooklyn center), Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (DSR), The Skyscraper Museum - NY, New York's iconic 42nd St Public Library, Mumbai's International Airport (SOM), Toronto's Pearson Airport (Safdie & SOM), GSK's North American Headquarters (Stern), Hotel Hankyu, Japan, Cornell Tech's Manhattan campus (Morphosis & SOM), Arizona Cardinals NFL football stadium (Eisenman)Michael Gericke is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world today. This much anticipated monograph covers four decades of work by the acclaimed graphic designer and Pentagram partner. Lavishly illustrated throughout at close to 500 pages, the book is driven by a celebration of places, telling stories, and making images and symbols - predominantly through Gericke's work with projects for buildings, civic moments, exhibitions and visual identities, including for posters, magazines, New York's AIA chapter (America's largest) and the Center for Architecture that, through graphics and images, continues to portray the spirit of architecture and design in New York City today. Prefaced by the prize-winning architect Moshe Safdie, with commentary by Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and educator Paul Goldberger, this encyclopedic compilation is a must for all collectors and aficionados of contemporary design, branding, and visual identity. Michael Gericke's design work lies at the intersection of image making, communications, and the built environment, and

Book Advancements in the Philosophy of Design

Download or read book Advancements in the Philosophy of Design written by Pieter E. Vermaas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design. With contributions originating from philosophy and design research, and from product design to architecture, it gives a rich spectrum of state of the art research and brings together studies on philosophical topics in which design plays a key role and design research to which philosophy contributes. Coverage zooms in on specific and more well-known design disciplines but also includes less-studied disciplines, such as graphic design, interior architecture and exhibition design. In addition, contributors take up traditional philosophical issues, such as epistemology, politics, phenomenology and philosophy of science. Some essays cover philosophical issues that emerge in design, for instance what design can do in addressing societal problems, while other essays analyze main-stream philosophical issues in which design is part of the argument, as for instance abduction and aesthetics. Readers will discover new research with insightful analyses of design research, design thinking and the specificity of design. Overall, this comprehensive overview of an emerging topic in philosophy will be of great interest to researchers and students.

Book Experimental Jetset

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  • Author : Erwin Brinkers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-01
  • ISBN : 9788887469103
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Experimental Jetset written by Erwin Brinkers and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Medical History of Skin

Download or read book A Medical History of Skin written by Kevin Patrick Siena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Book Scratching of Materials and Applications

Download or read book Scratching of Materials and Applications written by Sujeet K. Kumar Sinha and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surface characterizations of engineering materials effects their scratch/abrasion/Mar resistance, coating adhesion/strength, and abrasive wear mechanism. Scratching of Materials and Applications has chapters devoted to direct industrial application and contains some of the important works that are being conducted. Scratch testing of materials has grown extensively since the earlier days of the Mohs Scale for ranking minerals according to their relative scratch resistance. This test has been used on metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers and coatings of various types and thicknesses.The chapters are grouped according to the type of the engineering materials used. The beginning chapters relate mostly to bulk polymers, which are followed by different types of coatings (hard wear resistant to the diamond-like carbon coatings) and finally, chapters on the application of scratching technique to metals and ceramics are included at the end of the book. Thus, the book covers a fairly wide spectrum of engineering materials which are useful to engineers and researchers. * Balances theoretical science with practical application* Demonstrates real-life applications within industry* Written experts in the fields of materials, tribology and surface mechanics

Book Scratching The Surface

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  • Author : Dr. Will Boyd
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1257013025
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Scratching The Surface written by Dr. Will Boyd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scratching the Surface

Download or read book Scratching the Surface written by Fahmi Natour and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In following the fictitious life of Frank Gardner, Scratching the Surface exposes, compares, and contrasts the orientations, cultures, and attitudes of people in the Middle East with people in the United States. Frank provides the link among the multitude of events covering the various aspects of life in both the United States and the Middle East during the 1970s and up to the late 1990s. Frank internalizes the American experience, first as an outsider and a foreign student, then as an American citizen and active participant in the American dream. But when Frank returns to Israel at the most challenging stage of its history, he experiences fear, mistrust, and absence of personal security amidst a world that has spun dangerously out of control. After surviving a vicious bombing attack in a nearby mall, Frank meets his fate on his way to a peace rally in Tel Aviv.