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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he(...)
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he(...)
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Au bonheur des dames (The ladies delight)
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.
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April 2002
April 2002
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Orwell's roses
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
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Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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October 2021
October 2021
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Lives of houses
Lives of houses
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What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on(...)
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What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on(...)
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What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.
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What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, a group of notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.
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March 2020
March 2020
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Slogans and batteries
Slogans and batteries
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Architects are a controversial bunch. Each new theory is heralded by a slogan that advertises its difference from what went before, piling complexity upon confusion. In this collection of very short essays - b he thinks of them as poems - Paul Shepheard investigates the flurries of meaning that the slogans invoke. He also looks at the Building Regulations and the Material(...)
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Architects are a controversial bunch. Each new theory is heralded by a slogan that advertises its difference from what went before, piling complexity upon confusion. In this collection of very short essays - b he thinks of them as poems - Paul Shepheard investigates the flurries of meaning that the slogans invoke. He also looks at the Building Regulations and the Material(...)
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Slogans and batteries
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Architects are a controversial bunch. Each new theory is heralded by a slogan that advertises its difference from what went before, piling complexity upon confusion. In this collection of very short essays - b he thinks of them as poems - Paul Shepheard investigates the flurries of meaning that the slogans invoke. He also looks at the Building Regulations and the Material World; and uncovers an inclusive theory of architecture, implied rather than explicit, residing in the fragments.
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Architects are a controversial bunch. Each new theory is heralded by a slogan that advertises its difference from what went before, piling complexity upon confusion. In this collection of very short essays - b he thinks of them as poems - Paul Shepheard investigates the flurries of meaning that the slogans invoke. He also looks at the Building Regulations and the Material World; and uncovers an inclusive theory of architecture, implied rather than explicit, residing in the fragments.
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December 2020
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
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Junichiro Tanizaki : Éloge de l'ombre
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
Junichiro Tanizaki : Éloge de l'ombre
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Publié pour la première fois en 1978 dans l'admirable traduction de René Sieffert, ce livre culte est une réflexion sur la conception japonaise du beau.
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June 2011
June 2011
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Myth of Sisyphus
Myth of Sisyphus
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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Myth of Sisyphus
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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March 2013
March 2013
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This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.
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This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.
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No fixed abode: ethnofication
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This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.
No fixed abode: ethnofication
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This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé’s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.
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May 2013
May 2013
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The fountainhead
The fountainhead
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This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
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This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
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The fountainhead
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This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
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This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special afterword by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rand’s own notes on the making of The Fountainhead.
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June 2013
June 2013
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Les États-Unis du vent
Les États-Unis du vent
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind(...)
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind(...)
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Les États-Unis du vent
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind tunnel des Grands Lacs, découvre les cités d'industrie perdue de la rust belt, bifurque par les pastoraux territoires amish vers les forêts de Pennsylvanie, terres d'or noir et de guerre civile. Entre travelogue et fabulation, Les États-Unis du vent est un livre aux pieds ailés, où transparaît la carte d'une Amérique invisible, nappée par la lumière des révélations.
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Fin 2010. De l'automne tardif au début de l'hiver, Daniel Canty devient chercheur de vent. À bord de la Blue Rider, un vénérable camion d'un bleu de minuit coiffé d'une girouette, il s'abandonne à une dérive entièrement dictée par la fluidité des courants aériens. L'aventure l'emporte des plaines herbeuses du Midwest à Chicago la venteuse, il s'engouffre dans le wind tunnel des Grands Lacs, découvre les cités d'industrie perdue de la rust belt, bifurque par les pastoraux territoires amish vers les forêts de Pennsylvanie, terres d'or noir et de guerre civile. Entre travelogue et fabulation, Les États-Unis du vent est un livre aux pieds ailés, où transparaît la carte d'une Amérique invisible, nappée par la lumière des révélations.
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April 2014
April 2014
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic(...)
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic(...)
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Fairy tales: when architecture tells a story
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic array of forms - from stories, to poems, memoirs, and comics - these entries bring new meaning to architecture, its value, and its place in society.
Fairy tales: when architecture tells a story
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This book brings together a collection of 24 captivating architecture fairy tales from over 300 entries to Blank Space's first "Fairy Tales" competition. "Fairy Tales" challenged entrants to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals, rewriting the way architecture communicates itself and unlocking the power of architecture through storytelling. In an eclectic array of forms - from stories, to poems, memoirs, and comics - these entries bring new meaning to architecture, its value, and its place in society.
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July 2015
July 2015
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Literature and poetry
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