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 Maintenance Architecture By Hilary Sample 2016 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0262034972 | PDF | 12 MB An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance of architecture, yet architects for the most part treat maintenance with indifference. The discipline of architecture values the image of the new over the lived-in, the photogenic empty and stark building over a messy and labored one. But the fact is: homes need to be cleaned and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and architecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. Although architects have seldom choose to represent maintenance―imagining their work only from conception to realization―artists have long explored subjects of endurance and permanence in iconic architecture. Sample explores a range of art projects―by artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles―to recast the problem of maintenance for architecture. How might architectural design and discourse change as a building cycle expands to include "post-occupancy"?Sample looks particularly at the private home, exhibition pavilion, and high-rise urban building, giving special attention to buildings constructed with novel and developing materials, technologies, and precise detailing in relation to endurance. These include Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House (1929), the Lever House (1952), the U.S. Steel Building (1971), and the O-14 (2010). She considers the iconography of skyscrapers; maintenance workforces, both public and private; labor-saving technology and devices; and contemporary architectural projects and preservation techniques that encompass the afterlife of buildings. A selection of artworks make the usually invisible aspects of maintenance visible, from Martha Rosler's Cleaning the Drapes to Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's The Kiss.  MUSIC READING COURSE FOR GUITAR VOLUME 2 by Luca Mancino English | October 10, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09HPWDFJ6 | 88 pages | PDF | 72 Mb Music Reading Course for Guitar is a complete reading method divided into 2 volumes. The first volume begins with the study of the first up to the 10th position, while the second volume starts from the twelfth to the twenty-first position, obviously in all shades. Both volumes conclude with targeted exercises on individual strings to memorize the notes on the fretboard in the best possible way.  MUSIC READING COURSE FOR GUITAR VOLUME 1 by Luca Mancino English | October 10, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09HP6RK6Q | 97 pages | EPUB | 9.42 Mb Music Reading Course for Guitar is a complete reading method divided into 2 volumes. The first volume begins with the study of the first up to the 10th position, while the second volume starts from the twelfth to the twenty-first position, obviously in all shades. Both volumes conclude with targeted exercises on individual strings to memorize the notes on the fretboard in the best possible way.
 Lost to Desire: The École Psychomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not thrive By Wolfgang Lassmann 2021 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1032132612 | PDF | 29 MB This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of opératoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners - close to the École Psychosomatique de Paris - over a period of some sixty years. As a "skin for thought" it facilitated change while preserving coherence, gradually beginning to attract further considerations. Important themes have included: the early groundwork necessary for the configuration of fantasy, the importance of a shared imaginary, the role of denial and obliterated memories as a bond between people, emergency measures of a Me cut off from revitalisation, the effects of the rhythms and atmosphere at the workplace on family life, and the consequences of a crisis suppressed for lack of a holding frame. As psychoanalytic discourse adapted to the challenges, the original perspective changed aspect, moving from a systematic evaluation of what the patients did not produce to what the analyst had to fill in to make sense of the situation. Clashing with the terrain, French psychoanalysts raised important problems about psychic anaemia that are stimulating and deserve cross-cultural discussion. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training who wish to learn more about this ground-breaking work on memory and trauma, and how to apply it to their own practice.  Tracie Miles, "Living Unbroken: Reclaiming Your Life and Your Heart after Divorce" English | ISBN: 0830780955 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 325 KB Unlike other books on divorce, Living Unbroken takes a deep dive into understanding and overcoming the emotional toll divorce, separation, and the loss of a serious long-term relationship has on a woman's well-being. As someone who has walked this path, Tracie Miles leads women on a powerful, life-changing journey that provides much-needed hope, encouragement, and practical guidance for living their best life even if it's not the life they once imagined. Her biblically sound approach teaches readers how to trust in God's promises and restore their self-confidence and hope for the future.  Live Coding: A User's Manual (Software Studies) by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Thor Magnusson English | November 22nd, 2022 | ISBN: 0262544814 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 63.83 MB The first comprehensive introduction to the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding.  Katya Kazbek, "Little Foxes Took Up Matches" English | 2022 | ISBN: 1953534023 | 350 pages | EPUB | 1.8 MB A VOGUE, Debutiful, and Secular Times Best Book of 2022
 Leading in a Non-Linear World: Building Wellbeing, Strategic and Innovation Mindsets for the Future by Jean Gomes English | November 30th, 2022 | ISBN: 1119672724 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 6.57 MB Unlock the full potential of your organization in a rapidly transforming world with this explosive resource  Laurie Anderson's Big Science By S. Alexander Reed 2021 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0190926023 | PDF | 8 MB Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the strange questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when our identities are digitallydistributed? Does technology bring us closer together or further apart? Can we experience the stillness of "now" when time is always moving? How does our experience become memory?Laurie Anderson pioneered new techniques and aesthetics in performance art, becoming its first and most enduring superstar. In this book, author S. Alexander Reed dives into the wonderfully strange making and meanings of this singular album and of its creator's long artistic career. Packed withscrupulous new research, reception history, careful description, and dizzying creativity, this book is an interdisciplinary love letter to a record whose sounds, politics, and expressions of gendered identity grow more relevant each day.
 David G. Hunter PhD MD, Constance E. West MD, "Last-Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction, and Contact Lenses" English | 2010 | ISBN: 1556429274 | 144 pages | True PDF | 1.4 MB The popular optics review manual, Last-Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction, and Contact Lenses, has been revised and updated into a Second Edition. This unique resource boils down the overwhelming subject matter of clinical optics and refraction, helping the ophthalmologist cover the essentials in a single review manual. The content is based upon the practical experience of two clinically active experts who lecture on ophthalmic optics around the world. |
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