Despite the progress of the womens movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way. Updated with a new preface exploring how the authors collaboration and research developed, this tenth anniversary edition ...
Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. Based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, this book explains why.
Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. Her autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to take its place. 8 pages of photographs.
The sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean are shown here as never before. Photographer Jeffrey Becom focuses on how people live and celebrate living in the exquisite details of their humble dwellings in six Mediterranean countries. Becom's dazzling images complement his graceful narrative guide.
This comprehensive and insightful illustrated survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings provides a unique overview of the thousand-year architectural development of the United States. It examines our nation's architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie ...
40 essays by specialists examine a variety of stress-related conditions. They cover the clinical, research and theoretcal aspects of stress - the concept of stress, biological/psychological phenomena, treatment and support. New to this edition are chapters on AIDS, the burnout phenomenon, ageing, chronic illnessm the aftermath of the Holocaust, ...
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects created a spectacular three-level terminal, approximately one million square feet, to accommodate 16 million passengers each year. Readers will be thrilled and inspired with this closer look at the new Terminal that has caught the admiring eye and earned the appreciation of thousands who put it to the test each ...
This is a bestseller reissued with a great new look. It presents a collection of plays on words, visual puns, photos, puzzles, die-cuts, Braille, pages that stick together (the universal law of attraction), and dozens of other creative ways to say "I love you." When Sacha Goldberger fell in love, he made for his girlfriend a tiny book to express ...
This graduate-level text examines scattering processes and formal scattering theory, the two-body problem with central forces, scattering by noncentral forces, lifetime and decay of virtual states, more. 1964 edition.
Since starting their practice in 1986, Iranian-born, American-educated sisters Gisue and Mojgan Hariri have earned widespread praise for their ambitious body of work. Their up-to-the-minute recasting of classical modernist principles has made them a source of continuing inspiration to design students and professionals alike. Over the course of ...
Jeffrey Becom's vivid portrayal is not the hackneyed tourist attractions on perpetual display, not the well-worn monuments, not even the sweeping sea vistas of the postcards, but the houses of farmers and fishermen, the walls of back streets, the poignant, gentle, startling details of a dazzlingly varied vernacular architecture. Mediterranean ...
Philip Johnson, who died in 2005, was a towering figure in American architecture, both sensing and establishing new directions and stylistic trends. This monograph covers the last decade of his professional life, as he and partner Alan Ritchie collaborated on projects of striking creativity and originality. Ritchie, born in England, worked with ...
"An immensely valuable ocntribution. As the last generation of witnesses to the Holocaust testify to its horrors, tehy must also testify to its heroes - those who risked all to safe lives. These movingly told stories restore our faith in the human spirit." --William Shirer "The mystery of the rescue phenomenon will probably always elude us. As ...
One of today's most influential and widely emulated architects, Richard Meier began his career by designing private homes in a modernist style. A decade ago, Rizzoli published Meier's first fourteen masterful houses; this companion volume, with an in-depth essay on the early houses, picks up where the first volume left off and documents Meier's ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author chronicles the struggle over one of the most important pieces of land in one of the most important cities in the world in this story of power, politics, architecture, and culture.
Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbulent history of the twentieth century from the viewpoints of the many roles she played in it--teacher, farmer, feminist, pacifist, and political activist.
Portraits of the New Architecture celebrates the 50 architects who have reinvented architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries including Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei to SHoP and Daniel Libeskind to name just a few.
The primary purpose of this book is to prepare students for empirical research in economics. But it also equips those who plan to specialize in econometric theory and those whose empirical interests are in sociology or business. Aimed at first-year graduate students and advanced undergraduates, "A Course in Econometrics" covers the fundamentals - ...
Rising dramatically above all other skyscrapers at the tip of Manhattan, the World Trade Center symbolized New York. From any direction, the Towers were lodestars, Manhattan's local mountains. As New Yorkers desperately seek a path toward healing, following the dark events of September 11th, they have been reminiscing about the view of the Towers ...
The sixth edition of "Clinical Electrocardiography: A Simplified Approach" is an internationally acclaimed introductory text on ECG analysis. Its simple-to-follow, yet comprehensive coverage presents the ECG as it is used in the Emergency Wards, and Intensive Care Units, as well as in the day-to-day management of inpatients and outpatients. This ...
The Gwathmey Siegel design process takes the genre of the house as central to the tradition of architecture and a point of departure for all other building types, directing its investigations of modernist principles toward such prestigious architectural commissions as the addition to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Baker Library ...
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