4 White Walls
Title | 4 White Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Storm Sage |
Publisher | StormSage Central |
Total Pages | 27 |
Release | 2010-04-27 |
Genre | Poetry |
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Poetry, Haiku and Quotes by StormsageA mixed bag of emotions are visually brought to life within the written words of '4 White Walls' by Australian Author, StormSage.
White Walls
Title | White Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Batalion |
Publisher | Berkley |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0451473116 |
Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk, obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity - one made of order, regimen and clean white walls. Until, one day, she found herself enmeshed in life's biggest chaos: motherhood. Told with heartbreaking honesty and humour, this is Judy's poignant account of her trials negotiating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that mothers and daughters make on each other's lives.
White Walls, Designer Dresses
Title | White Walls, Designer Dresses PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Wigley |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture, Modern |
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This work attempts to provide a new understanding of the historical avant-garde by analyzing the "clothing" of modern architecture. The author examines the relationships between architectural surfaces and clothing fashions and colour.
White Walls
Title | White Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Tatyana Tolstaya |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 2016-10-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681371723 |
“Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” –Time Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair—established her in the 1980s as one of modern Russia’s finest writers. Since then her work has been translated throughout the world. Edna O’Brien has called Tolstaya “an enchantress.” Anita Desai has spoken of her work’s “richness and ardent life.” Mixing heartbreak and humor, dizzying flights of fantasy and plunging descents to earth, Tolstaya is the natural successor in a great Russian literary lineage that includes Gogol, Yuri Olesha, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. White Walls is the most comprehensive collection of Tolstaya’s short fiction to be published in English so far. It presents the contents of her two previous collections, On the Golden Porch and Sleepwalker in a Fog, along with several previously uncollected stories. Tolstaya writes of lonely children and lost love, of philosophers of the absurd and poets working as janitors, of angels and halfwits. She shows how the extraordinary will suddenly erupt in the midst of ordinary life, as she explores the human condition with a matchless combination of unbound imagination and unapologetic sympathy.
Four Walls and a Roof
Title | Four Walls and a Roof PDF eBook |
Author | Reinier de Graaf |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 529 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0674982762 |
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year “Sharp, revealing, funny.” —The Guardian “An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.” —The Economist Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof turns this fiction on its head, offering a candid account of what it’s really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from the corridors of wealth in London, Moscow, and Dubai to the demolished hopes of postwar social housing in New York and St. Louis. We meet ambitious oligarchs, developers for whom architecture is nothing more than an investment, and layers of bureaucrats, consultants, and mysterious hangers-on who lie between any architect’s idea and the chance of its execution. “This is a book about power, money and influence, and architecture’s complete lack of any of them... Witty, insightful and funny, it is a (sometimes painful) dissection of a profession that thinks it is still in control.” —Financial Times “This is the most stimulating book on architecture and its practice that I have read for years.” —Architects’ Journal
Valley Walls
Title | Valley Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Glen Denny |
Publisher | Yosemite Conservancy |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2016-05-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 193023869X |
Half a century ago a rag-tag group of innovators was building a foundation for modern American rock climbing from a makeshift home base in Yosemite. Photographer Glen Denny was a key figure in this golden age of climbing, capturing pioneering feats on camera while tackling challenging ascents himself. In entertaining short pieces enlivened by his iconic black-and-white images of Yosemite's big wall legends, Denny reveals a young man's coming of age and provides a vivid look at Yosemite’s early climbing culture. He relates such precarious achievements as hauling water in glass gallon jugs up the east face of Washington Column, nailing the 750-foot Rostrum in a punishing heat wave, and dangling overnight on El Capitan’s Dihedral Wall in a lightning storm. Each true tale captures the spirit of historic Camp 4, where Denny and others plan the next big climb while living on the cheap and dodging park rangers.
White Walls
Title | White Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Ostrovecky |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 2017-05-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781545197745 |
Vanessa's story follows a young woman's journey through the mental health system after her plan to attempt suicide is intervened. It encompasses all the benefits and downfalls of psychiatric centers and mental health hospitals as well as addresses societal issues that individuals with mental health diseases face on a daily basis. This is a common story that, often times, is not told enough.