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    Radical Normal
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    Radical Normal

    The cycle of production and consumption, artificially accelerated by advertising and marketing, has characterised our society for decades. This cycle has recently also taken hold of the architecture of the city, leading to a waste that is both...
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  • Architectural Diagrams 2
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    Architectural Diagrams 2

    In the last few decades, the "diagram" has evolved into a constitutive, generative medium for the architectural design process and is now an everyday term used in the context of design. The diagram represents an imaginative process that enables...
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    Spying on Moscow
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    Spying on Moscow

    This collector's album presents Moscow's architectural icons. With photographic precision, Denis Esakov captures the fifth facade of the largest European metropolis: roofs, domes, and cube-like buildings stacked on top of each other. By gazing through...
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    Architecture in Asmara
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    Architecture in Asmara

    The ancient city of Asmara is the capital of Eritrea and its largest settlement. Its beautiful architecture was rediscovered by outsiders in the early 1990s. In this book, the authors offer an original analysis of the colonial city, providing a history...
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  • Prefabricated Housing
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    Prefabricated Housing

    Prefabricated housing has long since ceased to mean the disfigurement of the urban landscape with monotonous grey boxes. Particularly in Central Europe and Russia, modern assembly methods and 100 years of experience in planning prefabricated buildings...
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    Architectural Guide Venice
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    Architectural Guide Venice

    Venice is undoubtedly one of the most written upon cities and certainly the most photographed one. And yet another guide on Venice? Five walking tours take you to discover the modern Venice, the less known side of the city, hidden and far away from the...
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    Behind the Iron Curtain
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    Behind the Iron Curtain

    Felix Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with the government and other participants during the creative process. He explains how Soviet design and planning institutes...
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    Berlin: City Without Form
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    Berlin: City Without Form

    Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of "automatic urbanism." More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the forces of that epoch-modernity, fascism, two world wars, Stalinism, socialism, the Cold War, revolt,...
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    Shenzhen
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    Shenzhen

    One of China's great metropolises - a boomtown without a past and hungry for the futureFounded only in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping's reforms, Shenzhen with its 12.5 million inhabitants is a young city. It's also a...
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    The Nuclear Dream

     The Nuclear Dream offers an insight into a disappearing world whose rooms and technology often appear sacred - a fitting tribute to an era of boundless energy - one whose blue glow captured a generation and proclaimed the start of a new era...
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    Moscow: Art for Architecture
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    Moscow: Art for Architecture

    Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital.While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist...
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    Beer Hiking Switzerland
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    Beer Hiking Switzerland

    The most refreshing way to discover Switzerland!Monika Saxer, the author, hiking guide and beer lover,reveals 59 routes for walking and beer drinking enthusiasts.
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  • Comment Peut-on Sortir de la Pauvret Gnrationelle?
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    Comment Peut-on Sortir de la Pauvret Gnrationelle?

    La pauvret, terme hideux dcrit un tat conomique, un tat mental limitant l'panouissement humain. La pauvret, ce cauchemar qui gche la projection vers l'avenir ; la pauvret cre, voulue et entretenue par une mentalit rtrograde encadre par des thories et des...
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  • Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering
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    Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering

    Dispelling the Darkness of Suffering is a clear and authoritative, line by line commentary upon "The Seven Points of Mind Training" a classic text of mind training practice, which contains the pith instructions that show the way in which to transform...
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  • Patrones en la vacuidad
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    Patrones en la vacuidad

    Cmo responde la enseanza de Buda a las preguntas ms profundas de nuestra existencia? Qu hace que su pensamiento sea nico entre otros sistemas de pensamiento? La respuesta se encuentra en sus enseanzas sobre el 'origen dependiente', las cuales contienen...
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  • River of Memory
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    River of Memory

    The memories, dreams and reflections of a modern lama born in the West who became heir to the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.River of Memory: Dharma Chronicles tells the remarkable story of the scholar and meditation master Lama Jampa Thaye one of the...
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  • The Buddha Meets Socrates
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    The Buddha Meets Socrates

    The Buddha Meets Socrates: A Philosopher's Journal is a first-person account of teaching and learning. In 2004, Harrison J. Pemberton embarked on a journey to teach Western philosophy to a group of young Buddhist monks in India. One scholar in particular...
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  • The Four Seals of the Dharma
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    The Four Seals of the Dharma

    Upon completing the path that led him to fully develop compassion and wisdom, Shakyamuni arrived at enlightenment, the state of Buddhahood that marks the end of suffering.Replying to the requests made of him, he transmitted three cycles of teachings to...
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  • A Taste of Buddhist Practice
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    A Taste of Buddhist Practice

    Meditation is often presented as the key Buddhist method. However, it is actually only one means of this path of liberation. Karmapa Thaye Dorje sketches out the essential points to enter on this path in a way that is both modern and accessible...
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  • Wisdom in Exile
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    Wisdom in Exile

    Wisdom in Exile provides a new insight into Buddhism's encounter with Western culture and the Western mind in the early 21st century. Jampa Thaye has trained for over 40 years with some of the foremost lamas of Tibetan Buddhism, yet is a Westerner,...
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  • A Path of Practice
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    A Path of Practice

    In Toward Awakening: The Bodhi Path Program, Knzig Shamar Rinpoche offers his vision of focused Dharma practice with the power to lead practitioners in today's world toward achieving the state of awakening. His emphasis lies in general on...
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  • Bringing Mind Training to Life
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    Bringing Mind Training to Life

    An engaging and lively exploration by Shamar Rinpoche of the frequently studied Buddhist subject called lojong, or mind training. Shamar Rinpoche bases his discussion on a classic text by the eminent sixteenth-century Buddhist teacher, the Fifth...
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    Audacity and Tradition
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    Audacity and Tradition

    The masters of a Buddhist tradition are part of a succession of successions while prolonging it. Their thoughts and teachings echo those of their lineage, but each master presents them in a new light, according to the needs of the time.This is the case...
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  • The Twittering Machine
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    The Twittering Machine

    In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcast Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor...
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  • These Bones Will Rise Again
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    These Bones Will Rise Again

    What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the spirit of a nation?In November 2017, the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military.  Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the...
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    AA Files 78
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    AA Files 78

    AA Files is the Architectural Association's (AA) journal of record. Currently under the editorship of Maria Shhrazade Giudici, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing both on the AA's own academic...
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    George Orwell

    A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been hot sellers...
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    Dive Detecting
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    Dive Detecting

    Dive into the fascinating world of underwater treasure hunting like never before. Dive Detecting was written specifically for the treasure hunter that lives within each of us. It will unite recreational and professional divers in a world of underwater...
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  • Called to Testify
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    Called to Testify

    How does a secular, non-practising Jew who has lived most of her life outside the Jewish communitysuddenly find herself in the front rows of a Nazi war crimes tribunal?In 2015, the award-winning writer Judith Kalman was invited to Lneburg to testify at...
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  • Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite
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    Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite

    Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark of American filmed comedy. Surreal, irreverent, philosophical, and riotously funny, they have maintained their power over audiences for generations and...
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  • Miss World 1970
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    Miss World 1970

    Now a film starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Greg Kinnear.Jennifer Hosten went to the 1970 Miss World pageant on a lark, representing the tiny Caribbean Island of Grenada, and came home with the crown and a place in history. What was supposed...
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  • Le chef du mais plan de cours
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    Le chef du mais plan de cours

    Un plan de lecon de l'enseignant pour approfondir le livre. Peut inclure des questions de comprhension, des activits de groupe, des amorces de conversation, des quiz, des activits d'arts du langage et des pages colorier.
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  • Send Me Into the Woods Alone
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    Send Me Into the Woods Alone

    Dispatches from modern motherhood by a reluctant suburbaniteSend Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on the joys, struggles, and complexities of motherhood.These essays touch on the major milestones...
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    Time and Tide
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    Time and Tide

    A longtime coast watcher tells the story of the beautiful and ever-changing coast of North Carolina-rich in culture, history, and landscape-with words and photographs.This gorgeous, richly illustrated book for visitors and residents alike details the...
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  • World of Warcraft: The Shattering - Prelude to Cataclysm
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    World of Warcraft: The Shattering - Prelude to Cataclysm

    Thrall, wise shaman and the warchief of the Horde, has sensed a disturbing change . . .Long ago, Azeroth's destructive native elementals raged across the world until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane. Despite the titans'...
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  • World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal
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    World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal

    The aging orc shaman Ner'zhul has seized control of the Horde and reopened the Dark Portal.Even so, disturbing questions arise. Khadgar learns of orcish incursions farther abroad: small groups of orcs who seem to pursue a goal other than simple conquest...
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  • Thot
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    Thot

    Reckon, "Black Joy: 2022 Best of Books""Those of us who have been following her work for a while have known Reid would come flying out of the gates and, well, here is the emphatic proof."-Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist for Zorrie Thotis a...
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  • Witch Wife
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    Witch Wife

    "Petrosino delights in unsettling the familiar with startling results, whether channeling Anne Sexton or William Blake. Her stylish innovation refashions traditional forms that insist on repetition." --Harryette Mullin"Petrosino is at the forefront of a...
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  • I'm Always so Serious
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    I'm Always so Serious

    "I'm Always so Seriousis brilliant."Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extendedmeditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and NewYork City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a...
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  • Team Photograph
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    Team Photograph

    In her extraordinary graphic novel - which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir - Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice...
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  • What I Was Arrested For
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    What I Was Arrested For

    Cops on bikes, undercover security in the supermarket, TSA agents wondering why there appears to be a gun in his bag, Keith Lowell Jensen has a lot of run-ins with all manner of cops. Sometimes they arrest him. Sometimes they beat him up and arrest him...
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  • Almanac of Useless Talents
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    Almanac of Useless Talents

    Fence poetry editor and rising star Michael Chang's Almanac of Useless Talents is a must-read for poetry lovers and newbies alike.This is a useless Almanac. There's no seasonal data, only poems good for leaving the club in haute couture with mid-level...
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  • Holy Doors
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    Holy Doors

    Holy Doors, Mandy Kahn's third collection of poems, is a lyrical, luminous, and highly spiritual journey exploring meditation, prayer, the afterlife, the poet's love of peace, and the ever-accessibility of grace. It is also a record of what life is like...
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    File Under: Slime
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    File Under: Slime

    What is slime? We are well acquainted with its qualities in conjunction with certain things from which we tend to recoil but to which we are also at times fervently attracted. Despite being everywhere, slime is a surprisingly unexamined cultural...
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    A Trove of Zohars
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    A Trove of Zohars

    So Lawrence Weschler was minding his own business, as all his stories begin, when he got a call from Gravity Goldberg. Gravity (her real name!) introduced herself as the Director of Public Programs and Visitor Experience at The Contemporary Jewish...
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  • The Steve Keene Art Book
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    The Steve Keene Art Book

    Steve Keene is the most prolific American painter of all time.He has produced more than 300,000 hand-painted works via his studio/chainlink fence cage where he paints more than 50 paintings at a time. Lovingly known for making affordable art, as well as...
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  • Uprooted
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    Uprooted

    Up-Rooted: Climbing Through Family Chaos details the conflict in T.J. Kyri's life, from marriage to adoption to divorce, despite being a conflict resolution professional. It describes her harrowing mission to adopt her older daughters from Ukraine and...
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  • Where's My Wine Glass?!
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    Where's My Wine Glass?!

    Where's My Wine Glass?!, Getting Your Kid to College Without Losing Your Mind is a frolicking collection of humorous essays for parents of children who are prepping for, leaving for, or attending college. As a long-time college coach, private tutor, and...
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