Well known as an exponent of good architecture in his own work, Richard Rogers is equally famous for promoting architectural quality and campaigning for the revival of the modern city. This first volume, covering the period 1961–88, features all of Rogers’s early work with Norman Foster and Team 4, his partnerships with Su Rogers and Renzo Piano, through to the ethos and philosophy of his present practice, the Richard Rogers Partnership. The author’s interviews with key figures build up a portrait of the teamwork involved in producing the buildings of Rogers’s expansive career. Each project, from Creek Vean in Cornwall (1966), through the Rogers and Piano collaboration at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (1971–7), to Lloyd’s of...
ISBN: 0714837466
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Read by millions, this timeless book holds that the key to success lies in the secrets of the ancients. Based on the famous "Babylonian principles," it s been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning.
ISBN: 9780451205360
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: февраль 2008
Ricky Martin is a great entertainer. He`s acted on television, appeared on Broadway and sold millions of records. He started singing in a band when he was fourteen and now he is one of the most successful pop stars in the world. Ricky was born in Puerto Rico and he sings in Spanish and English. Read about his exciting life, his family and his music.
ISBN: 978-0-582-34435-8
Издательство:
Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex and daunting task for the modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile upon mile of rigging, over 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce the rigging in scale and yet retain an accurate representation is a formidable undertaking. This follow-up to Lennarth Petersson s highly successful Rigging Period Ship Models does for fore-and-aft rig what his earlier book did for square rig. Taking as examples a French eighteenth-century lugger, an English cutter, and an American schooner, Petersson demonstrated in beautifully drawn diagrams how each item of both the standing and running rigging is fitted, led and belayed. A must for all period modelers and all those with...
Gussie Fink-Nottle`s knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for the wide open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels that the stars are God`s daisy chain, his tongue is tied in reef-knots. And his chum Tuppy Glossop isn`t getting on much better with Madeline`s delectable friend Angela. With so many broken hearts lying about him, Bertie Wooster can`t sit idly by. The happiness of a pal - two pals, in fact - is at stake. But somehow Bertie`s best-laid plans land everyone in the soup, and so it`s just as well that Jeeves is ever at hand to apply his bulging brains to the problems...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951374-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The curious and intrepid editor of Edinburgh`s Review of Applied Ethics returns, this time to ponder the philosophical implications of love. In this third outing for Isabel Dalhousie in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, her American cousin introduces her to Dallas bigwig Tom Bruce and his fiancée. Isabel cannot suppress her intuition that the girl is marrying Tom for his money, and begins snooping in spite of herself. Should Isabel say something - especially since Tom seems to have taken a fancy to her - or is she ethically obliged to mind her own romantic house, and her growing feelings for her friend Jamie?
ISBN: 978-0-375-42300-0
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: январь 2012
Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent `h`? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story of English spelling, David Wolman takes us on a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he pickets with spelling reformers outside the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium, not England, where the first English books were printed, and takes a road-trip with the boss at Merriam-Webster Inc. The journey is punctuated by spelling battles waged by the likes of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and the...
This work contains an Introduction by Elliot. The sixteenth-century Puritan Solomon Kane has a thirst for justice which surpasses common reason. Sombre of mood, clad in black and grey, he `never sought to analyse his motives and he never wavered once his mind was made up. Though he always acted on impulse, he firmly believed that all his actions were governed by cold and logical A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, and avenge all crimes against right and justice`. Immune to the attractions of the opposite sex, he seems drawn by some psychological distress beacon to places where he knows only that he will be called upon to defend the helpless or (more often) exact retribution on...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-611-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
