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The Case Against Reality
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world around us' Steven Pinker 'Is reality virtual? It's a question made even more interesting by this book' Barbara Kiser, Nature Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. The objects we see around us are not u...
Cranbrook
The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of the University of Washington in Seattle, Rice University in Houston, and Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks at three of America's finest campuses, revealing the stories behind the historic and contemporary buildings, gardens, and works of public art. The community of Cranbrook, designed by Eliel Saarinen, combines modernism with arts-and-crafts and art deco impulses; more recently, Steven Holl, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and Rafael Moneo have made contributions to Cranbrook's campus.
Blackjacking
Today, it is almost impossible to do business without a cell phone and a BlackBerry or PDA. These devices are the lifeline for companies large and small—and nobody knows this better than a hacker. Traditionally, security for mobile devices has held a low priority. Now, a certified ethical hacker explains in this book why this must change and how to change it. Packed with sobering examples of actual attacks, this unique resource shows you how to mount your counterattack.
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Makes You Stop and Think
A collection written over fifty years, Makes You Stop and Think is the latest work from the accomplished and renowned poet Daniel Hoffman. The sonnet... is a sacred // vessel, it takes a civilization/to conceive its shape or know / its uses, the poet Louise Bogan told a crowd of bearded youths and rumpled girls. Hoffman's harvest of half a century's sonnets shows the richness and power of their form. These poems revel in exploring memory and feeling: For reality is vintage and delicious Especially when you taste it while it brews Because it comes as love comes, heart-skip sudden, Yet long as a lifetime in a once past wishes, A gift you couldn't have the wit to choose.
Installations by Architects
Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. Like architecture, many of these temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers' experience of the environment. An installation is usually the end product for an artist, but for architects it can also be a preliminary step in an ongoing design process. Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social ...
The Hollow
Steven's Hollow is the last place Kathleen Mitchell wants to be. She vowed years ago to never set foot there again, and she is not returning now by choice. She's been summoned by a lawyer who discovered a problem with her long-ago divorce. Life's been good for Kathleen...until now. But everything seems to be falling apart. What's going on? Is she divorced, or still married? There's a secret she's been harboring in her heart for years. Her teenage son knows nothing about his biological father...not even his name. And the ex-husband Kathleen hasn't seen since before their divorce doesn't know he has a son...a son whose birth she kept secret from him. Just when she thinks things can't possibly get worse, they do. The first person Kathleen sees when she arrives at Steven's Hollow is the man she thought she'd never see again: Rob McKenzie, once the love of her life. They react to each other with bitterness and anger, at first...but the spark is still there. Rob McKenzie is the man Kathleen never forgot. Kathleen Mitchell is the woman Rob never got over. After fourteen years apart, can they overcome the past and start again?
Learning by Building
Learning by Building challenges today’s architects and students to experience the energy and creativity of construction. Based on the example of famous architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, who considered construction an integral part of the design process, "design-build" is standard practice in growing numbers of today’s architecture firms. Architect and professor William J. Carpenter explores ways to integrate construction into architectural education, bridging the gap between theory and practice—between designing and building. Mr. Carpenter traces the history of construction in architectural education, from medieval times, to Jefferson’s Monticello, to the German...
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe is the exploration by a distinguished American poet and critic of his own lifelong fascination with the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Examining Poe’s achievement as poet, as aesthetician, as inventor of the modern detective and science fiction genres, and as master of the psychological tale of terror, Hoffman revels in his subject. The result is a comprehensive, arresting interpretation of the oeuvre and a compassionate, personal portrait of its creator.
What We Can and Can't Afford
Bill Ehrhart's experiences in the Vietnam War have defined his life--first as an enlisted member of a Marine infantry battalion, then as an author, poet and teacher who has spent fifty years explicating the war and its consequences in books, lectures and interviews. In these essays he explores a diverse range of topics. They include gun violence and the Second Amendment, American politics and the accelerating destruction of civil society, Afghanistan and other foreign policy misadventures, Israel and Palestine, the nature of patriotism, history as fact and mythology, the blessings of technology, the vast mystery of the universe, the attraction of Grand Tour bicycle racing, the much misunderstood writer Stephen Crane, poets you should know about but probably don't. And more.
