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A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today s version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World. A compact, easy-to-read overview of world history, ideal for curriculum development, classroom preparation, and student review..
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How and where we work and spend our leisure time has changed dramatically in recent years. The increased mobility and global networking that pervade all aspects of our lives have had a considerable impact on the spaces in which we live, meet, and work.

SpaceCraft presents projects that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. On the one hand, the book features flexible, fleeting structures that only exist for a limited time; these include pavilions, art projects or exhibition spaces. On the other hand, SpaceCraft focuses on spaces that are used temporarily such as studios, offices or vacation homes. These structures, which are often used as hideouts from our hectic lives, can either blend in harmoniously with their surroundings or seem as exotic as a spaceship that has just landed.

The book documents original work by architects, artists and others that is distinguished by a playful, unconventional use of space. Many of the projects are experimental interventions within urban environments that are strongly influenced by a street art context. As SpaceCraft proves, it is this contemporary influence in particular that is currently redefining the boundaries of architecture.

SpaceCraft presents work that expresses our current modes of work and play. The book is thus inspiring both for architects and interior designers, and also for all creatives who work with space.

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Only a renaissance man could have described this glorious city in its heyday. And only Carlo Levi, writer, painter, politician and one of the last century's most celebrated talents, could depict Rome at the height of its optimism and vitality after World War II. In Fleeting Rome, the era of post war 'La Dolce Vita' is brought magnificently to life in the daily bustle of Rome's street traders, housewives and students at work and play, the colourful festivities of Ferragosto and San Giovanni, the little theatre of Pulcinella al Pincio; all vibrant sights and sounds of this ancient, yet vital city..
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The images in this book were taken in Paris over the last forty years. It features most of the great dancers and dance companies of the second half of the twentieth century, such as Rudolf Nureyev, Sylvie Guillem, Paolo Bortoluzzi, Violette Verdy, Maïa Plissetsakaïa, Carolyn Carlson, Charles Cré-Ange, Susan Farrel, Meg Stuart, and the companies of Pina Bausch, Lucinda Childs, l’Opéra de Paris and William Forsythe.

For Marion-Valentine, dance is movement, energy, drawing in space. The magic of photography allows her to pick out the isolated, unrepeatable gestures that form movement in Dance. There is a single moment during the trajectory of a leap where the dancer seems to transform into a comet or a star; this the exact moment that Marion-Valentine captures, just as a sculptor chooses a particular instant to represent movement, allowing us to imagine its origin and its end.

All types of dance are celebrated, from classical to contemporary, in a beautifully produced book of over 100 duotone photographs..
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Trapped in a marriage of convenience with an arrogant Englishman, Scottish beauty Alana MacKenzie is forced to adapt to a new life and discovers love in the most unlikely circumstances. Original..
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I'm sitting at my desk at work, bored out of my brain, and I think, Life should be more exciting than this but what can I do about it? I know! I ll make a pact to do something I've never done before, at least once a week for an entire year! So begins the hilarious, heartwarming and often times humiliating journey of a man traversing three continents, nine countries, and countless cities and towns around Australia and the world, going from helicopters to horses, to hotels, to hospital beds, to history, to heroics, to halos, to hallucinations, all in the attempt to lose his virginity 52 times. Adrenalin pumped, artistic muscles flexed, his body went beyond its limits, his embarrassment reserves were drained beyond belief, butterflies thrived, and vomit spilled around the world. In the meantime, his life changed in more amazing ways than he had even imagined. Reading this book might just change your life too..
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The tension between nature and culture, which accompanies the rise of any large society, has become a subject of great concern in our time. In this compelling study, Gunther Barth, acclaimed author of City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, identifies fleeting moments of concord between nature and culture in the course of American history. During the search for the Wilderness Passage, the progress of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the building of park cemeteries and big city parks, Americans realized that nature was not merely a force to be reckoned with, not merely a resource to be exploited, but also an integral component of their lives. Through the engineering of nature and culture in the urban environment, the energetic attempts to conserve large-scale nature in the United States emerged as an offspring of the big city. Heightening our understanding of the historical complexity of the relationship between nature and culture, and suggesting that harmony between the two is a mark of civilization, this original study will be an invaluable guide to anyone concerned with the quality of life in America, past and future..
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This book tells the story of the daily lives of women industrial workers in World War II shipyards It focuses on their struggle against the persistence of occupational segregation, the sexual and racial hierarchy of the shipyard work force, and the pervasive emphasis on female sexuality which served as a constant reminder that women were transient and marginal imposters.

In addition, Fleeting Opportunities demonstrates that despite the myth that these women yearned to return to their kitchens, in fact many wanted to continue using their wartime skills in the postwar period. However, finding themselves excluded from jobs by union and management, those who continued to work ended up in low-paying, predominantly female occupations..
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