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Polytekton,Mikesch W Muecke
A collection of color photographs that show mobile people in static spaces (museums). The book contains more than 300 images of people and art intersecting formally and informally in museum…
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When using a literal translation of the word, ‘photograph’ means ‘written light’. In this book the author offers the reader/viewer a collection of ‘textual illumination’ in no particular order. The…
Mikesch W Muecke
A collection of photographs about four weeks of travel through western Europe with a focus on the castles along the Loire in France.
Ardith Maney
About this Book and the Author
This book combines insights and methods from family history and genealogy, so that readers can chart their families' paths as they moved from one…
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Arvid Osterberg
We all fall down far too many times in our lives. We accept too many falls and injuries that should have been avoided in the first place. We endure too…
Geertje Suhr
After numerous volumes of poetry and short stories as well as two novels, Geertje Suhr presents here a special kind of poetic autobiography: very personal and razor-sharp close to her…
Duane Vorhees
A book of 129 poems that range from personal observations about human behaviour via physics and art/culture to perspectives on cites and politics.
The book is divided into ten equal-length…
J K Barclay
Betrayals and Lies: My Parents Were Spies is the intriguing, thrilling, and as-it-happened story of Jim and Alexis Barclay, who found themselves in Venezuela, South America during the most difficult…
Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb
Hobarth Manor is a building of light. Caryatids grace its marble facade, one on each side of eighteen windows. But the historic apartment building is soon to be demolished.
Percival…
Daniel J Rothman
The fact that a text, from so long ago still carries so much weight, not only in its intended area of warfare but also in business and law as well…
Mikesch Muecke
Design is always a negotiation between the private and the public. In that space of opposition between the individual and society, creative inquiry-and design is that, too-offers an antidote to…
When taken literally, a translation of the word ‘photograph’ means ‘written light’. In this book I offer the reader/viewer a collection of ‘textual illumination’ divided into categories. The accompanying short…
A collection of designs completed by polytekton between 1978 and 1989 in Germany and the United States of America.
Designs completed and papers written by polytekton between 1990 and 1997.
Hallie Baur
Time Travel is open to the public.
For a resource-depleted world, the breaking news offers a glimmer of hope as humanity disperses throughout the eras. For siblings Mia and Derek…
Tony Thompson
In America today, the fastest growing population in prison is not Blacks, Hispanics, or methamphetamine addicts; it is the mentally ill. We are criminalizing our brothers and our sisters, our…
Polytekton
This book is written to help both current runners-and those who want to become a runner-learn how to run more smoothly, more efficiently, and for longer periods of time without…
Polytekton,Miriam Zach
The pipe organ Op. 28, Emily, was designed and built by A. David Moore of Pomfret, Vermont, assisted by Thomas Bowen, John Atwood, and Thaddeus Stamps. Commissioned by Miriam Zach…
There shouldn't be poetry like this; we'll need to ban it, like Alex Jones. Down with the poets like Duane Vorhees, whose name is the same as Jason's! Yet Duane…
Miriam Zach,Mikesch Muecke
Ein Photoessay uber die Renovierung und Architektur eines Hauses von 1920 im mittleren Westen der USA. An architectural photo essay about the renovation of a 1920s house in the American…
‘We All Fall Down’ far too many times in our lives. We accept too many falls that should have been avoided in the first place. Our lack of observation skills…
Dream House on the Prairie is an architect's journey through several decades, with candid accounts of what went wrong-and what went right-in reconstructing a deteriorating century-old farmhouse in the midwestern…
Derrick E Drisdel
This book is called The Keys to Life, Volume 1, and I received the first key from my father when I was about eight years old. My father was a…
Dean S Hurliman
"A book of poetry about human relations with nature"--
Jonathan Hoke Barclay
Based primarily on the diaries by the author's mother, The Missionary's Wife is the intriguing, disturbing, and as-it-happened story of Jim and Alexis Barclay, who found themselves as citizens of…
Mikesch W. Muecke,Miriam S. Zach
Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture…
It was September 1943, and the world was again at war, when my mother, Alexis Hart Barclay, first stepped foot in Venezuela, South America. She was twenty-four, smart, sophisticated, athletic…
Beau Grosscup,Laverne Merritt-Gordon
Tell Them What You Want is an inspirational coming-of-age story of an African-American girl (Bernie) growing up amidst the immense local and national social turmoil of the 1950s to mid…
