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Author | : Tom Scott-Smith |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2024-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1503640299 |
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Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay. Governments and charities have adopted a range of strategies in response to this need. Some have sequestered refugees in massive camps of glinting metal. Others have hosted them in renovated office blocks and disused warehouses. They often end up in prefabricated shelters flown in from abroad. This book focuses on seven examples of emergency shelter, from Germany to Jordan, which emerged after the great "summer of migration" in 2015. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, the book reflects on their political implications and opens up much bigger questions about humanitarian action. By exploring how aid agencies and architects approached this basic human need, Tom Scott-Smith demonstrates how shelter has many elements that are hard to reconcile or combine; shelter is always partial and incomplete, producing mere fragments of home. Ultimately, he argues that current approaches to emergency shelter have led to destructive forms of paternalism and concludes that the principle of autonomy can offer a more fruitful approach to sensitive and inclusive housing.
Author | : Ivars Peterson |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2008-05-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0470341122 |
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A visual journey to the intersection of math and imagination, guided by an award-winning author Mathematics is right brain work, art left brain, right? Not so. This intriguing book shows how intertwined the disciplines are. Portraying the work of many contemporary artists in media from metals to glass to snow, Fragments of Infinity draws us into the mysteries of one-sided surfaces, four-dimensional spaces, self-similar structures, and other bizarre or seemingly impossible features of modern mathematics as they are given visible expression. Featuring more than 250 beautiful illustrations and photographs of artworks ranging from sculptures both massive and minute to elaborate geometric tapestries and mosaics of startling complexity, this is an enthralling exploration of abstract shapes, space, and time made tangible. Ivars Peterson (Washington, DC) is the mathematics writer and online editor of Science News and the author of The Jungles of Randomness (Wiley: 0-471-16449-6), as well as four previous trade books.
Author | : Fred First |
Publisher | : Slow Road Home |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0977939510 |
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First pens a celebration of the mystery and allure of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the daily discipline of immersing himself in the discoveries to be found there.
Author | : Megan Miranda |
Publisher | : Crown Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399556729 |
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Even though she thinks Caleb's mom blames her for his accidental death two months ago, Jessa agrees to pack up her ex-boyfriend's bedroom, but every item she touches makes Jessa question what she knows about his death, his family, and their year-long relationship.
Author | : Monique Lisbon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Adult child sexual abuse victims |
ISBN | : 9780646573090 |
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Author | : Lean Galvez Octavio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : |
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This thesis explores the meaning of Filipino identity through the architecture of the home in its many forms. With emphasis on the culture of the Philippines and its long colonial history, the thesis recognizes the complexity of the house in a cross-cultural context where traces of submission and resistance to colonization are present up to this day. The thesis tells a narrative through architectural allegory to discover and reveal the different fragments of home. Four houses are conceptualized, to represent a story particular to the cultural and physical landscapes of history, identity, memory and becoming.
Author | : Meena Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781643620121 |
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In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592-1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketches of memoir about her childhood in Kerala, the subject of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines. The writings are accompanied by a series of sumi ink drawings by Alexander and an afterword by Leah Suffrant.
Author | : Fernando Pessoa |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2017-08-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811226948 |
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For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.
Author | : Donald P. Gregg |
Publisher | : New Acdemia+ORM |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-09-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0990447189 |
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“Donald Gregg’s career . . . would make a great spy novel. This autobiography makes an even better book.” —Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and bestselling author of Enemies Pot Shards is a memoir, based on the author’s unforgettable experiences. He served as a CIA agent on the island of Saipan, during ten years in Japan, and a tour in Burma. He then spent four years tied up in the Vietnam War, two tours in Korea, the second time as ambassador, and spent ten years in the White House, where he worked for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. “Don Gregg is that authentic and admirable thing: a great American. He spent most of his life serving his country: in the CIA, at the White House and as a US ambassador. He has stories to tell, many of them gripping, and they are beautifully and movingly recollected here in this memoir of a splendid life.” —Christopher Buckley “A personal witness to decades of largely hidden intelligence and diplomatic history, Donald Gregg recounts his unlikely and amazing career as a CIA officer, national security advisor, and US diplomat. His adventures and insider knowledge of US relations with East Asian nations over many decades make for a lively narrative, entertaining for the general reader and useful for serious scholars alike. Through it all, Ambassador Gregg expresses a natural warmth and concern for humanity that makes his story a truly personal journey.” —Nicholas Dujmovic, PhD, CIA Staff Historian, Center for the Study of Intelligence
Author | : Colin McFarlane |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520382242 |
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Pursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.