John Hill

Portable Wire Antennas

Michael Shapiro

Jason Langer

Julia Dolan

"Three years ago, the artist James Drake (born 1946) began the ambitious project of creating 1,242 drawings that would trace and reference all of the developments of his multifaceted career. Known as both a sculptor and video artist, Drake has always considered draftsmanship to be a key to his process, and this body of drawings does not disappoint. It is both a fascinating tour of Drake's creative thinking and a testament to the simple power of graphite and ink on paper in the hands of a master of the craft. The volume is published to accompany a touring exhibition (titled The Anatomy of Drawing and Space) opening at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in July 2014--the largest show of Drake's work to date"--Publisher's website.

Twenty Years

The second book version of what Good Holiday Guide calls: The world's best-value ski guide. All you need to know about skiing / boarding / wintersports in Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, North America, Southern Hemisphere and Korea and Japan.

World Ski and Wintersports Guide

The essential walking companion to more than two hundred cutting-edge buildings constructed since the new millennium. The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new—and architecturally cutting-edge—residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the boom now waning, this guidebook is perfectly timed to take stock of the city’s new skyline and map them all out, literally. This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium—The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Park Visitors Center, by Toshiko Mori Architect; and One Bryant Park, by Cook + Fox, to name just a few. Projects are grouped by neighborhood, allowing for easy, self-guided tours, with photos, maps, directions, and descriptions that highlight the most important aspects of each entry.

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

W. John Hill

Martin McLoone

This work features contributions from academics and media professionals who ask: what is the history of involvement between film and television in the US, Europe, Britain and Ireland; what are the sources of television finance for film; and what are the consequences for the type of film made?

The Relations Between Film and Television

Big Picture, Small Screen

Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discussions of films justly regards as important, alongside those unjustly ignored. The extensive filmography which accompanies Sex, Class and Realism will also prove to be an invaluable reference source in the teaching of British cinema history.

British Cinema 1956-1963

Sex, Class and Realism

"45 skyscrapers are examined for their pioneering technology, sustainability, and other characteristics that set them apart. Each building is presented with a large photograph with cross-section drawings plus fact boxes listing location, year of completion, height, stories, primary functions, owner/developer, architect, structural engineer, and construction firm. The buildings examined are distributed over the world's most developed regions of North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia."--

How to Build a Skyscraper

Recumbent Stone Circles are a distinctive architectural style of British stone circle. Built circa 2500 BC, they dominated the Late Neolithic landscape of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This book discusses their archaeology and, using experimental archaeology, explains how the original builders went about building these magnificent stone circles. Sharing the results of the authorâ (TM)s unique experiments, the book demonstrates how measured ropes were used to set out the geometrical design of the stone rings, as well as dictate the dimensions of the circleâ (TM)s respective orthostats. Moreover, given the bookâ (TM)s provision of instructions on to repeat these experiments, the reader will be able to explore how these circles not only captured their corresponding astronomy, but how they were also positioned in the landscape so that they were astronomically aligned towards each other, creating a network of inter-aligned stone circles that enabled the prehistoric communities to synchronise both time and space across the vast regions of Aberdeenshire.

Archaeology, Design, Astronomy and Methods

The Recumbent Stone Circles of Aberdeenshire

Recumbent Stone Circles are a distinctive architectural style of British stone circle. Built circa 2500 BC, they dominated the Late Neolithic landscape of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This book discusses their archaeology and, using experimental archaeology, explains how the original builders went about building these magnificent stone circles. Sharing the results of the author’s unique experiments, the book demonstrates how measured ropes were used to set out the geometrical design of the stone rings, as well as dictate the dimensions of the circle’s respective orthostats. Moreover, given the book’s provision of instructions on to repeat these experiments, the reader will be able to explore how these circles not only captured their corresponding astronomy, but how they were also positioned in the landscape so that they were astronomically aligned towards each other, creating a network of inter-aligned stone circles that enabled the prehistoric communities to synchronise both time and space across the vast regions of Aberdeenshire.

Der Schlaf der Pflanzen und die Ursache der Bewegung an dem Fühlkraut

A satire on the Royal Society (Great Britain) and the Académie royale des sciences (France).

In Three Letters from a Nobleman on His Travels, to a Person of Distinction in Sclavonia. Containing an Account of an Assembly of a Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, a Description of a Meeting of a Royal Society in London, and a Coffee-house Conversation. With Explanatory Notes

A Dissertation on Royal Societies

The Long Sleep

Containing Descriptions of All the Substances Used in Medicine ...

A History of the Materia Medica

With Their Virtues and Uses, as Far as Hitherto Certainlt Known, in Medicine and Mechanics: Illustrated by a General Review of the Knowledge of the Ancients, and the Discoveries and Improvements of Later Ages in These Studies. Including the History of the Materia Medica, Pictoria, and Tinctoria, of the Present and Earlier Ages. As Also Observations on the Neglected Properties of Many Valuable Substances Known as Present; and Attempts to Discover the Lost Medicines, &c. of Former Ages, in a Series of Critical Enquiries Into the Materia Medica of the Ancient Greeks. With a Great Number of Figures, Elegantly Engraved

A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions of the Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, of the Different Parts of the World;

Songs and Verses

With Their Virtues and Uses, as Far as Hitherto Certainly Known, in Medicine and Mechanics: Illustrated By a General Review of the Knowledge of the Ancients, and the Discoveries and Improvements of Later Ages in These Studies : Including The History of the Materia Medica, Pictoria, and Tinctoria, of the Present and Earlier Ages ; As Also Observations on the Neglected Properties of Many Valuable Substances Known at Present; and Attempts to Discover the Lost Medicines, Etc. of Former Ages, in a Series of Critical Enquiries Into the Materia Medica of the Ancient Greeks. ¬A History Of Plants

A General Natural History: Or, New and Accurate Descriptions Of The Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Of the Different Parts of the World

The Conduct of a Married Life: Laid Down in a Series of Letters ... to a Young Lady ... Lately Married

The Inspector. ...

Containing Descriptions of the Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects, of the Several Parts of the World, and Including Accounts of the Several Classes of Animalcules, Visible Only by the Assistance of Microscopes ...

An History of Animals

Containing Descriptions of All the Substances Used in Medicine; Their Origin, Their Characters when in Perfection, the Signs of Their Decay, Their Chymical Analysis, and an Account of Their Virtues, and of the Several Preparations from Them Now Used in the Shops ...

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