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Mediterranean Mood Food: What to Eat to Help Beat Depression and Anxiety and Live a Longer, Healthier Life85 delicious recipes to improve your mental health, boost your mood, and lower your risk of developing cognitive disorders It is well established that a Mediterranean style diet can reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. Now, new evidence suggests that...
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So You Want to Be a Knight?Have you ever dreamt of swapping your backpack for a suit of armor and riding o to join your fellow knights on a quest? King Arthur superfans Kate and Eddie long to do just that. One weekend, while exploring the towers and corridors of...
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Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a Social and Ecological UrbanismA plea for the social efficacy of the neighborhood and its ecologyThe pressure is on: people move to cities in ever-growing numbers. So we build new neighborhoods, we transform old industrial areas and renew the existing city. Right now, the focus lies on energy-neutral...
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Contemporary Houses. 100 Homes Around the WorldDesigning private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The...
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The Italian Wars: Volume 2 - Agnadello 1509, Ravenna 1512, Marignano 1515The League of Cambrai was an alliance stipulated in December 1508 between the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the major conflicts in the Italian wars: it lasted...
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My House Is Better Than Your HouseThe house is commonly used as a vehicle to get at larger architectural debates. Such is the case in this book, with a dialogue between Nader Tehrani and Preston Scott Cohen whose collaboration in academia has often resulted in two very different approaches to...
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Make Yourself at HomeHave you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a tree house? Or how cozy it must be to sleep in an igloo? Have you noticed that some houses are extremely old and were built centuries ago and other houses can...
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The Camelot BetrayalThe second book in a new fantasy trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, exploring the nature of self, the inevitable cost of progress, and, of course, magic and romance and betrayal so epic Queen Guinevere remains the most famous queen...
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The Homes We Build: A World of Houses and HabitatsLearn how humans have built dwellings to suit all kinds of habitats.Adapting themselves to all kinds of landscapes and climates, over the centuries humans have used their architectural ingeniousness to build amazing dwellings: find them here, from houses on stilts and igloos to tree...
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The Luminous GroundChristopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature...
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José Zanine CaldasA handsomely produced survey on Brazilian design polymath Jos Zanine CaldasOne of the most important figures in Brazilian material culture, Jos Zanine Caldas (1919-2001) left behind a diverse legacy in architecture, design and art. His oeuvre includes maquettes built for architecture, industrial and handcrafted...
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Connective Tissues: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001-2016This is not another treatise on the heroic nature of the Jeffersonian imagination. Rather, it offers another reading generated by Joseph Campbell's reluctant hero in The Hero of A Thousand Faces as offered by Jeffrey Hildner in his prescient Epilogue "Labyrinth R.U.N." It is...
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The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about ItIf you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall? From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel...
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ForemostA second princess. Another key to the treasure. And a cruel king desperate to squelch the growing rebellion. Raised in an isolated abbey, Lady Maribel desires nothing more than to become a nun and continue practicing her healing arts. She's carefree and happy with...
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Never Have I Ever"Wonderful--suspense and surprises, real characters, and a scary, ominous backbeat. This feels like the book Jackson was born to write." --Lee Child, New York Times bestselling authorNamed a Best Book by USA Today - People - The Wall Street Journal - Time - Entertainment...
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Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical TraditionIn Thinking Being, Perl articulates central arguments and ideas regarding the nature of reality in Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Thomas Aquinas, thematizing the indissoluble togetherness of thought and being, and focusing on continuity rather than opposition within this tradition.Author: PerlPublisher: BrillPublished: 02/06/2014Pages: 228Binding...
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Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār Al-Warrāq's Tenth-Century Baghdadi CookbookPaperback edition. This English translation of al-Warraq's tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix, and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general...
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Weak and Diffuse Modernity: The World of Projects at the Beginning of the 21st CenturyIn Weak and Widespread, modernity stands as a contrasting operative practice when compared to that of the 20th century, which was based on finding definitive solutions to old and new problems of industrial society. Today's architecture and urban planning tends to operate through reversible...
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Landscape and ArchitectureThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located twenty miles north of Copenhagen, Denmark, is famous for its enchanting seaside setting, distinctive architecture and welcoming, unpretentious atmosphere. Constructed around a park, the museum occupies the grounds of a nineteenth-century estate, Louisiana, established by a beekeeping...
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Albert FreyL'architecte Albert Frey (1903-1998) a fait vivre l'utopie moderniste dans le désert. Né à Zurich, il a suivi l'enseignement de Le Corbusier en Europe avant d'émigrer aux États-Unis en 1930, convaincu que l'avenir de l'architecture s'y jouait. En visite à Palm Springs, il tombe...
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