HB Design: Selected Architectural Works
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This photo-rich architectural design book is a fascinating profile of one of Asia's most successful...
HLM 50+ Towards a Social Architecture
Edward Denison and Anthony John Monk
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Since its sudden and dramatic formation upon winning the competition to design Paisley Civic Centre...
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
Randy Martin, Rebekah J. Kowal and Gerald Siegmund
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In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be...
Napoleon Hill's : Think and Grow Rich
Business and Productivity
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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development...
The System of the World
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The System of the World by Isaac Newton. The process of writing that first edition of the Principia...
Cori June (3033 KP) rated Voyage of the Fox Rider (Mithgar (Chronological) #2) in Books
Feb 26, 2019
about 3/4ths of the book is on a ship. Voyage is in the title... this is important.. VOYAGE is in the title. There are a lot of slow parts of the ship hasn't gotten to a destination what will we do? Talk philosophy , plann and descriptions of the ship. Heaps and Heaps of ship descriptions.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Agent of Chaos in Books
Apr 1, 2019 (Updated Apr 2, 2019)
Obviously the book is unintended comedy gold for UK readers nowadays, but as something you might actually want to read for pleasure, or for any other reason, it is quite hard work: the plot is hackneyed, the characterisation thin, and much of the book is taken up with lengthy discussions of chaos and order and anarchy and so on. This has given the book a cult following, although I think it depends on how old you are when you first read it. If you're not into radical philosophy and not amused by the doings of Boris Johnson, there's not much else here to enjoy.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) in Movies
Feb 13, 2018 (Updated Feb 13, 2018)
Old enemy from the TV show is rediscovered, vows revenge on Kirk; many rousing space battles and well-handled character moments ensue. Ricardo Montalban really goes for it as Khan; William Shatner gives a proper movie leading man performance. Relatively low budget is artfully concealed.
Benefits considerably from being willing to acknowledge that everyone has aged since the original TV show; Kirk has to confront the consequences of choices he made as a young man (later movies disregarded the fact the crew were becoming increasingly geriatric). The essential Trek philosophy of optimistic liberal humanism somehow gets a bit lost along the way, but you really don't care as the rest of it is so much fun. Almost unreasonably well-written when you consider the script was done in less than a fortnight.
James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Days of War, Nights of Love in Books
Oct 29, 2019
Crimethinc take you away from the false idea of anarchy if safety pins and riots and show it as an intellectual intelligent philosophy in being a more positive human being. It changed the way I think and live and I hope I've managed to bring others more happiness because of it. And after all, like the books says, is there anything more anarchic and radical than falling in love? It goes against all conventions of reality and is irrational and yet something we live for.
My only criticism is Crimethinc's ideas often act on the fringe of an existing society instead of bringing everyone with us.
The Notebooks of Edward Bond: v. 2
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This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama...