Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media By Robin Wilson
2015 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1472414438 | PDF | 8 MB
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The Architectural Review, 1940, an early project by French architects Lacaton & Vassal published in the journal 2G, 2001, and recent photography by Hisao Suzuki for the Spanish journal El Croquis. At the intersection of image and text the book also reveals the role of the utopian impulse within the architectural media, drawing on theories of utopian discourse from the work of the French semiotician and art theorist Louis Marin, and the American Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Through this it builds a fresh theoretical approach to journal studies, revealing a hitherto unexplored dimension of "latent" or "unconscious" discourse within the media portrait of architecture. The purpose of this enquiry is to highlight moments where a different type of critical voice emerges on the architectural journal page, indicating the possibility of a more progressive engagement with the media as a platform for critical and speculative thinking about architecture, and to rethink the journals' role within architectural history.

Icelandic Utopia in Victorian Travel Literature By Dimitrios Kassis
2016 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 1443890871 | PDF | 2 MB
This book focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country's national framework. In particular, it investigates the ways in which five nineteenth-century travellers define their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland during the Victorian period, during which European nationalism emerges as an idea of paramount importance. Owing to the gradual contemplation of this peripheral word as the cradle of the Germanic nations, Victorian travel writers endeavoured to reconstruct the image of Iceland in accordance with the racial theoretical framework that underlay the nineteenth-century British nation-building agenda.

Richard Lewis, "Iceberg Slim: A Biography of America's Most Notorious Pimp"
English | ISBN: 1098634349 | 2019 | 130 pages | EPUB | 213 KB
Immerse yourself in the role of one of the most famous and proliferous pimps of 20th century America.

Karyn Sharp, "Hunting Caribou: Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest"
English | ISBN: 0803274467 | 2015 | 344 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist specializing in First Nations Studies and is Denésuliné, also observed countless hunts. Over the years the father and daughter realized that not only their personal backgrounds but also their disciplinary specializations significantly affected how each perceived and understood their experiences with the Denésuliné.

Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031207254 | 1068 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 89 MB
In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth's surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth return.

Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367702207 | 135 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we?

Human Development and the Path to Freedom: 1870 to the Present by Leandro Prados de la Escosura
English | July 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1108477348, 1108708587 | 250 pages | azw3 | 10 MB
How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing countries compare to developed countries? Do social systems matter for wellbeing? Are there differences in the performance of developing regions over time? Employing a capabilities approach, Human Development and the Path to Freedom addresses these key questions in the context of modern economic growth and globalization from c.1870 to the present. Leandro Prados de la Escosura shows that health, access to knowledge, standards of living, and civil and political freedom can substitute for GDP per head as more accurate measures of our wellbeing.

How to Begin Planting a Flower Garden: Steps for Novices: To Begin a Flower Garden, Follow These Steps. by William Donohoo
English | December 27, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BR5QF3N8 | 85 pages | EPUB | 8.05 Mb
Make the floral garden of your dreams a reality.

David Clarke, "How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth"
English | ISBN: 1781313032 | 2015 | 320 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
A history of the various manifestations and shifting meaning of the Twentieth Century's single great contribution to mythology: the UFO.

Prof. Barry Marshall, "How To Win A Nobel Prize"
English | ISBN: 1786075245 | 2019 | pages | EPUB | 6 MB
A time-travelling adventure for budding young scientists, by Nobel Prize winning Barry Marshall Mary has always wanted to win a Nobel Prize and loves running her own science experiments at home. One day Mary stumbles on a secret meeting of Nobel Prize winners. Dr Barry Marshall agrees to travel with her through time to learn the secrets behind some of the most fascinating and important scientific discoveries. They talk time and space with Albert Einstein, radiation with Marie Curie, DNA with Crick, Watson and Wilkins - and much more. Featuring famous Nobel prize-winners: Albert Einstein Marie Curie Guglielmo Marconi Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins Alexander Fleming Tu Youyou Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Gertrude Elion Norman Borlaug Rita Levi-Montalcini Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa Barry Marshall and Robin Warren