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| Author | : Aldo Rossi |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2010-01-29 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0262514389 |
A lyrical memoir by one of the major figures of postmodernist architecture; with drawings of architectural projects prepared especially for the book. This revealing memoir by Aldo Rossi (1937–1997), one of the most visible and controversial figures ever on the international architecture scene, intermingles discussions of Rossi's architectural projects—including the major literary and artistic influences on his work—with his personal history. Drawn from notebooks Rossi kept beginning in 1971, these ruminations and reflections range from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual.
| Author | : Aldo Rossi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Architects |
| ISBN | : |
Postscript by Vincent Scully Based on notebooks composed since 1971, Aldo Rossi's memoir intermingles his architectural projects, including discussion of the major literary and artistic influences on his work, with his personal history. His ruminations range from his obsession with theater to his concept of architecture as ritual. The illustrations-photographs, evocative images, as well as a set of drawings of Rossi's major architectural projects prepared particularly for this publicationwere personally selected by the author to augment the text.
| Author | : Diana Kormos Barkan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2011-03-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521176298 |
A 1999 biography of one of Germany's most important scientists (active 1890-1933) and an historical examination of physics and chemistry.
| Author | : Neil McAleer |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Arthur C. Clarke has been a household name since 1968, when the film 2001: A Space Odyssey rocketed him to popular fame. McAleer explores Clarke's personal vision and career as one of the 20th century's most popular and influential writers and reveals the life experiences and creative forces that have shaped the man behind the legend. 30 photographs.
| Author | : J. Paul Getty |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2003-06-26 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780892367009 |
In his candid and witty autobiography, famed tycoon J. Paul Getty invites readers to glimpse the twentieth century from the vantage point of a man who lived, as he puts it, "through the most exciting and exhilarating - and most turbulent and terrible - eight decades of human history." Whether describing how he amassed his staggering fortune, recounting conversations with intriguing personalities of the day, or frankly discussing his marriages and liaisons, J. Paul Getty sets the record straight - once and for all. He even speaks honestly about his notorious stinginess and the bizarre problems faced by the impossibly wealthy.
| Author | : Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 1989-07-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0679722130 |
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.
| Author | : Abraham Pais |
| Publisher | : OUP UK |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2005-08-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0192806726 |
Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding of Einstein's work with personal recollections from their years of acquaintance, illuminating the man through the development of his scientific thought.Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader. Pais also fills many gaps in what we know of Einstein's life - his interest in philosophy, his concern with Jewish destiny, and his opinions of great figures from Newton to Freud. This remarkablevolume, written by a physicist who mingled in Einstein's scientific circle, forms a timeless and classic biography of the towering figure of twentieth-century science.
| Author | : Aldo Rossi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780500510209 |
Presents a collection of the architect's drawings, which were done between 1990 and his death in 1997.
| Author | : Richard Goldschmidt |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 1982-01-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780300028232 |
An eminent geneticist examines the Darwinian theory of evolution, analyzes the hereditary differences that produce new species, and suggests changes in evolutionary theory based on his biological research
| Author | : Reggie Jackson |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2014-09-23 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307476804 |
A soul-baring, brutally candid, and highly colorful memoir of the two years--1977 and 1978--when Reggie Jackson went from being an outcast to a Yankee legend. In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player on the Oakland A's dynasty teams, he was the first big-money free agent wooed by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees. But, as Reggie writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, until his initial experience with the Yankees, "I didn't know what alone meant." Persevering against an alcoholic manager, ostracism from teammates, and negative stereotypes in the New York City press, Jackson fought against the odds to become "Mr. October." Filled with revealing anecdotes about the notorious "Bronx Zoo" Yankees of the late 1970s, bluntly honest portrayals of his teammates and competitors, and especially of manager Billy Martin, Becoming Mr. October is a revelatory self-portrait of a baseball icon at the height of his public fame and private anguish.
