It ended up being a very well written book about Lowe’s rise to fame, his most recent projects (circa 2015) but mostly about his family and the relationship that he has with his two sons, the oldest of which left for college in the middle of his writing this. I enjoyed this book a...
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by Edited by Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx Read 5 Philosophy of Technology by Edited by Jan-Kyrre Berg Olsen and Evan Selinger It's easy to be impressed by the latest gadgets and comment on how much has changed since we started using them. But how often do we really take a step back...
Miłosz’s collection Ocalenie (1945; “Rescue”) contained his prewar poems and those written during the occupation. In the same year, he joined the Polish diplomatic service and was sent, after briefly working during 1946 in the Polish embassy in New York City, to Washington, D.C., as...
Kids Definition book 1 of 3noun ˈbu̇k 1 :a set of sheets of paper bound together 2 a :a long written work b :a major division of a written work 3 a :a volume of business records the company'sbooksshow a profit b plural:recordentry2sense 2b ...
I must admit I was also inspired by the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Also, I felt like if we were going all the way to Asia, we must make it worth our while, making the trip a nice long duration, and fitting in another country where I’ve never been (Although I’...
By Michael Mann While Marx considered economics to be the driving force in the evolution of societies, and Weber believed religion played a role, with his protestant ethic theory, In the Sources of Social Power, Mann identifies 4 different forces - economic, military, ideological and political -...
Professional Painted Finishesby Ina, Allen, and Robert Marx This book is dedicated to the recently revived art of “faux” or fake finishes; paint used to simulate wood, marble, granite, and other stones, including novelty effects that may not resemble anything specific. It very thoroughly...
…the human race has two books, two registers, two testaments: masonry and printing; the Bible of stone and the Bible of paper. … The past must be reread upon these pages of marble. This book, written by architecture, must be admired and perused incessantly; but the grandeur of the ed...
Marx was inspired by classical political economists such as Adam Smith andDavid Ricardo. While his own branch of economics, Marxian economics, is not favored among modern mainstream thought,Marx's ideashave greatly impacted societies, most prominently in communist projects such as those in the USSR...