Will Jones

Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this is the ultimate field guide to understanding modern architecture.
 
This eighth entry in Rizzoli's popular How to Read… series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world's iconic modern buildings: an indispensable pocket-sized guide to the architecture of the modern era.
 
This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognize them in the buildings. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts through Bauhaus, the International Style, and Modernism to today's environmental architecture and the rise and fall of the "starchitect", all the major architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day are traced through their classic buildings. Examining the key architectural elements and hidden details of each style, we learn what to look for and where to look for it.
 
Filled with detailed drawings, plans, and photographs, this book is a fascinating architectural history-a must-read for anyone with an interest in architecture, urbanism, and modern design.

A Crash Course in Architecture of the Modern Era

How to Read Modern Buildings

A beautifully illustrated guide to building a cabin in the wilderness, packed with practical advice and insights into of the history of cabin culture around the world Throughout history, people around the world have built cabins as homes, retreats, and even follies. In recent times, many have been drawn to cabin-building by a yearning to connect with nature and spend time in the wilderness. From the homes of indigenous peoples and the settlers in North America to contemporary Nordic summer homes and artists' retreats everywhere, the emotive lure of cabin-building has deep roots and shows no sign of abating. In 2010, journalist and author Will Jones gave up London life to move to rural Canada with his young family. His dream was to build a remote cabin in the woods that would be a silent retreat from the world. This is the story of how he created the ultimate hideaway, inspired by cabin-building practices from around the world. In this book, Jones explores the history and romance of cabin-building and delves into the architectural styles, vernacular idiosyncrasies, and tools and techniques of historical and modern builders. Weaving the personal story of his cabin build with illustrated practical know-how on everything from deciding on site and orientation to foundations and interior design, Jones's essential book is full of inspirational ideas. The urge to escape the city and live in nature has never been stronger. Part story, part history, and part practical guide, this is the ultimate read for anyone dreaming of building a cabin of their own.

How to Build a Retreat in the Wilderness and Learn to Live with Nature

Cabin

Illustrated throughout with detailed line drawings and full-color photographs, this pocket-sized field guide to domestic architecture explains the aesthetics of house forms and provides a visual vocabulary to help readers recognize house types, materials and parts in a wide range of architectural styles. Original.

A Crash Course in Domestic Architecture

How to Read Houses

Original Poems written during Pandemic lockdown of 2020

And Other Pandemic Poems

Burn Pile

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With a Preface by Jam. Sherman

Memoir of Rowland Hill

Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this is the ultimate field guide to understanding modern architecture. This eighth entry in Rizzoli’s popular How to Read… series is a one-stop guide to understanding the world’s iconic modern buildings: an indispensable pocket-sized guide to the architecture of the modern era. This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognize them in the buildings. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts through Bauhaus, the International Style, and Modernism to today’s environmental architecture and the rise and fall of the “starchitect”, all the major architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day are traced through their classic buildings. Examining the key architectural elements and hidden details of each style, we learn what to look for and where to look for it. Filled with detailed drawings, plans, and photographs, this book is a fascinating architectural history—a must-read for anyone with an interest in architecture, urbanism, and modern design.

David Littlefield

'Great Modern Structures' is a compendium of 75 remarkable engineered structures built between 1900 and the present day. From buildings and bridges to monuments and telecoms towers, the book illustrates the best and most technically challenging work of engineers, builders and architects around the world.

100 Years of Engineering Genius

Great Modern Structures

Alexander Betts

Over half the world lives under authoritarian regimes. For these people, the opportunity to engage in politics moves outside the state's territory. Mobilising across borders, diasporas emerge to challenge such governments. This book offers an in-depth examination of the internal politics of transnational mobilisation. Studying Rwandan and Zimbabwean exiles, it exposes the power, interests, and unexpected agendas behind mobilisation, revealing the surprising and ambivalent role played by outsiders. Far from being passive victims waiting for humanitarian assistance, refugees engage actively in political struggle. From Rwandans resisting their repatriation, to Zimbabweans preventing arms shipments, political exiles have diverse aims and tactics. Conversely, the governments they face also deploy a range of transnational strategies, and those that purport to help them often do so with hidden agendas. This shifting political landscape reveals the centrality of transnationalism within global politics, the historical and political contingency of diasporas, and the precarious agency of refugees.

How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism

Mobilising the Diaspora

Bob Dixon

30 seconds and a gun is all that is needed to change more then one life A Tough Call is the true life story of Will Jones, a football player from the south side of St. Petersburg Fl. who earns a scholarship to play at Delaware State University. In his first year there, Will is chasing his dream of eventually playing in the NFL. His hopes all ride on the team's star receiver who goes by the name of Machete. Machete has caught the NFL scouts' attention and is projected to go high in the draft after his senior season. As Machete is all but guaranteed a spot in the NFL, Will pins his hopes on one of the scouts taking notice of him during practice and remembering him come draft day. But Will's hopes and dreams are about to be shattered. One night during an off campus incident, Will and some of his teammates go to some nearby apartments to help a teammate who is in a confrontation with Machete and some of his gang members. As words are exchanged between the football team and the gang, a gun is brought out and Will is shot nine times on Machete's orders, and left to die. Will is fortunate enough to survive the attack but his football days at Delaware state are over. Will returns home and starts the recovery process. As for Machete, he accepts a plea deal and serves six months in prison. Will fights daily with his anger and thoughts of revenge, reliving that fateful night in his dreams over and over. Six years later, Machete is out of prison, with a book deal from a major publisher about his life and an upcoming movie in the works. Both the book and the movie based on it are titled War of the Bloods in My Veins. But what about Will? Can he move past his lost dreams to offer his former friend forgiveness...or will he seek revenge for the night that changed everything?

A Tough Call

"Tolkien meets Spinal Tap!"Bass Instinct is the fourth book in The Banned Underground collection of comic fantasy books. Each is a stand-alone novel, needing no previous acquaintance with the characters.The Banned Underground are a dwarf rhythm-and-blues band, led by a luminous green, saxophone playing bog troll with a passion for mushrooms, beer and pizza ... and more beer ... and for playing jazz, blues and rock 'n' roll, of course. The latest addition to the group is a bright red Welsh dragon that plays bass guitar. But he's in trouble.Dai the Drinking Dragon has been kidnapped by the Dark Lord for nefarious purposes, and by the Dark Lord's dragon receptionist for even less reputable reasons. Without their bass player, the Banned Underground are now in deep trouble with their record label. They have to produce a set of recordings for an album, and someone has stolen the tapes from the last gig. Can they make some more recordings, or will Freya, the renegade dwarf bass player hired by the Dark Lord, distract the boys whilst the Dark Lord's evil schemes come to fruition?The Dark Lord has found some thugs to help him in his latest plan to invade the underground Dwarf Mansion he would like to own (as an alternative to his garden shed as a place to hide from his wife), but they have other things on their minds - like looting and pillaging the locals - and it's all going wrong for him again.Described on The Guardian newspaper's book review pages as 'Lord of The Rings as written by stand-up comic Milton Jones to the soundtrack of Led Zeppelin IV', The Banned Underground series is an underground hit, full of both crackling one-liners and more subtle jokes.

Bass Instinct

Let Me Tell You 'Bout This... is a collection of stories, true stories from both men and women from where I call "The Battlegrounds of Love and Friendship." Again, all the stories are true. All of the names of the characters and the locations have been changed to protect the innocent...And the guilty.

Let Me Tell You 'Bout This B*tch/A**hole

This book will tell you what the fake media never will: our society is like a bus about to go over a cliff. You can hope that someone else will stop it, or you can stop it yourself. This is addressed to the few heroes who will do whatever is necessary to save our society and civilization. Forget congressmen and parliamentarians. They are just managers who are stuck to the status quo, not leaders. The kind of leader we need is called the One- o-clock man, a tough, principled, and driven male. If you are one of these heroes, this book is for you. Will Jones is a creative engineer. He believes that engineering is the highest form of art because it conforms to truth. For example, Newcomen's steam engine, Telford's bridge, the Wright brothers plane, Tesla's induction motor, all worked magnificently. They weren't hype or wishful thinking. Politics in our time, on the contrary, has become the art of the lie. Our civilization will never work magnificently without a revolution that makes it conform to the truth.

The One O'Clock Man

Collects pages from the private sketchbooks of architects and studios from around the world, and includes comments from the artists as well as details on how they use sketching to evolve inspirations and concepts into more developed ideas.

Architects' Sketchbooks

A rich and varied glimpse into the creative processes of a broad array of contemporary architects.

New Architects' Sketchbooks

Making Marks

Here is an alphabetically presented, richly illustrated guide to 88 of the most creative bicycle makers working today, includes established names such as Achielle, Cielo Cycles and Corima and new kids on the block such as Art & Industry, Bondi Beach Cruisers and Foffa, as well as product designers (Torkel Dohmers, Marc Newson). Todays cyclists are seeking increasingly custom-made bicycles as reflections of their personalities whether a Danish-style cargo bike, a recumbent, a cyclocross trainer or a randonneur. Often working in tiny studios and workshops in hidden parts of our cities, the master craftsmen featured in these pages produce pieces that are highly personal and sought after and rarely seen.

The Bicycle Artisans

How to Read New York uncovers and illuminates the rich architectural language of one of the world's truly great cities, from its celebrated skyscrapers to its lesser-known treasures. Charting both the key technical developments and aesthetic movements that have influenced architecture in the Big Apple, this accessible guide.

A Crash Course in Big Apple Architecture

How to Read New York

This book shows how diasporas are mobilised to challenge authoritarian governments - by whom, for what purposes, and with what consequences.

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