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True Life
"Effortless" and "inevitable" are architect Steven Harris's two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Steven Harris Architects designs spaces that are custom-tailored to their clients' daily lives and experiences. His dining rooms are not aggrandizements of tradition, they are places to eat, to gather, or even work; his entry halls are not the primary places of arrival, but rather the final segments of a long trajectory that begins when the resident turns off the main road or exits the elevator. True Life, the firm's first monograph, showcases an exceptional range of residential work from the past twenty-five years. Organized by the activities that propel their designsdine, lounge, study, play, sleep, and so onit focuses on people rather than objects. The firms spaces are not meant to set lifestyle changes into motion, but rather cater to those routines already in progress. Herein lies the genius of the work: they let the client speak for the house, not the house for the client. A foreword by writer A.M. Homes places Steven Harris Architects in the context of contemporary architecture and speaks to the understated elegance of the firm's designs.
House & Site
Whether woven into a Croatian seaside cliff, snuggled in the sand dunes of Malibu, or tucked away in the hills of upstate New York, Steven Harris's houses are all highly empathetic to their locations. They respond to the unique qualities of their sites, which include stunning views, challenging terrain, and unusual boundary conditions. The follow up to his gorgeous collection True Life, House+Site showcases fourteen jaw-dropping residences in New York, New Jersey, California, and international locations, such as Mexico and Croatia. Celebrating thirty years of practice, House+Site explores the residences through drawings and photographs, providing an intimate look at the understated elegance of the houses of Steven Harris Architects.
Reign Falls Down
Reign Falls Down is a fictional Christian crime story. While Harrison Marks's relationship with his father was always a challenge, it plunges into further despair when he discovers his father has been accumulating wealth using illegal business methods. Harrison's worst fears come true on September 6th when he learns his father is on the run from the law. And, because of his relationship, he and his pregnant wife become targets in the largest fraud case in the United States. Harrison's freedom from government authorities place him and his family on an undesirable path facing charges and financial ruin. The struggle, however, can't end until he can find a way to maintain his innocents, be the anchor his family needs, and forgive his estranged father who doesn't think he's done anything wrong. Most importantly, if the raging spiritual battle within Harrison is not won, it stands to tear his marriage apart. Those who have been hurt by family and struggle to offer forgiveness will enjoy this dramatic fictional crime story with a spiritual twist.
Great Eastern Buildings
As London embraced the sounds of the 60s and pirouetted to the sounds of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Motown, 'the buildings' or Great Eastern Buildings as was their proper name, stood proud in remembrance of Victoriana. At a time of economic optimism, liberalism, post war enthusiasm, freedom and rebuilding, there they stood, reminders of harsher times, a link between those of 'Eastend-past' who had been desperately poor and ill educated and the people of the 60s - the 'Eastend present' - who continued to have little despite the rapidly modernizing and wealthier face of London. The buildings were undoubtedly slums, leftovers of a Victorian working class existence, but the spirit of th...
A Moment When Grasses Spoke
How poetry brought a brain-injured boy into life.
Fiction Burns
There are two types of short story collections; those that have stories loosely related by theme and those that are completely stand alone one from another. steven harris' "Fiction Burns" falls into the former type. Twenty-four stories, many involving love and relationships, but framed in an ever-shifting world of realities and perception itself.
Communism on Tomorrow Street
This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev’s thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon. Harris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the khrushchevka, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local...
The Happiness Trap
A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness th...
Eustace
Poor Eustace is not very well. Convalescing in bed, a victim of the coughs and hiccups that rack his frail body, his world is confined to the four spare walls of his grand and gloomy room, in a tall house in London. His days are spent in wild imaginings, punctuated by the occasional visit from his mother, from prune-faced Mrs Perichief, who serves an unvarying menu of watery soup, and from a legion of cannibalistic Aunties, who fuss and smother poor Eustace with their bosoms and kisses. Relief comes from the odd behaviour and antics of his wicked uncle who is soon a regular fixture in Eustace's bedroom, emerging from under the bed in a cloud of pipe smoke, accompanied by a swelling cast of p...
