Toward an Architecture

Toward an Architecture
Author: Le Corbusier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780892368990

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

The Forgers

The Forgers
Author: Bradford Morrow
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802191924

A brutal murder incites paranoia in the rare-book world in a “brilliantly written . . . lethally enthralling” novel of literary suspense (Joyce Carol Oates). The bibliophile community is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam’s sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will—a convicted if unrepentant literary forger—struggle to come to terms with the incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters, seemingly penned by Henry James and A. Conan Doyle, he’s drawn into a web of deception with which he’s unnervingly familiar. Yet this time, it’s putting his own life in jeopardy. “From its provocative opening line . . . [The Forgers] takes on a knowing, nourish tone, like a crime movie by the Coen brothers” (The Miami Herald), while “quite skillfully, paying homage to one of Agatha Christie’s most famous whodunits. Yet even then, [Morrow] offers a few twists of his own and will keep all but the most astute mystery aficionado guessing . . . until the end” (The Washington Post).

Timetable

Timetable
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1918
Genre:
ISBN:

The Metropolis of Tomorrow

The Metropolis of Tomorrow
Author: Hugh Ferriss
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486139441

The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.

Social Problems

Social Problems
Author: Maxine P. Atkinson
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1544358644

Wake up your social problems classes! Social Problems: Sociology in Action helps your students learn sociology by doing sociology. Social Problems will inspire your students to do sociology through real-world activities designed to increase learning, retention, and engagement with course material.