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Trainee Guide, (02103-05) [Bok / Häftad]

This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape architectural practice and discourse worldwide. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition, Kenneth Frampton has added a new section that explores in detail the modernist tradition in architecture across the globe in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He examines the varied ways in which architects are not only responding to the geographical, climatic, material and cultural contexts of their buildings, but also pursuing distinct lines of approach that emphasize topography, morphology, sustainability, materiality habitat and civic form. It remains an essential book for all students of architecture and architectural history.

Digital Republic - On Freedom And Democracy In The 21st Century [Bok / Häftad]

<p><b>'AN IMPORTANT READ FOR ANYONE IN NEED OF OPTIMISM' BILL GATES</b><br/><b><br/>'DAZZLING AND DEEPLY REPORTED' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS<br/></b><b><br/>'HIGHLY READABLE . . . ENGAGING STORIES OF PEOPLE BEHIND SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVANCES IN RECENT DECADES' PILITA CLARK, <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><br/><br/><b>It's now cheaper to save the world than destroy it.</b><br/><br/>Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it.<br/><br/>On a journey across five continents, <i>Climate Capitalism</i> tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a reality than Elon Musk, to the Danish students who helped to build the world's longest-operating wind turbine, or the American oil executive building the technology that can reverse climate damages, we meet the people working to scale technologies that are finally able to bend the emissions curve.<br/><br/>Through stories that bring people, policy and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter.</p>

<DIV><DIV><B>&ldquo;If you really want to learn the basic principles of practical alchemy, Frater Albertus&rsquo; <I>Alchemist&rsquo;s Handbook </I>is literally is worth its weight in gold.&rdquo;&mdash;from the foreword by Israel Regardie, author of <I>The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order</I></B><br/><br/><I>The Alchemist&#39;s Handbook </I>has long been considered&#160;<B>a modern-day classic on the actual practice of alchemy</B> since its first publication in 1960. The book still stands as a groundbreaking work presenting in clear, concise language <B>a practical manual</B> of working knowledge that was <B>formerly handed down only under oath of secrecy</B>.<br/><br/>The scope of alchemical work is to provide both a means to synthesize all the other sciences and the necessary training of the intellectual and spiritual faculties. &ldquo;Hermetic philosophy, with its practical arcanum,&rdquo; writes Frater Albertus, &ldquo;repeats itself over and over again in the ancient axiom <B>&lsquo;As above, so below. As below, so above.&rsquo;</B>&quot;<br/><br/><I>The Alchemist&#39;s Handbook</I>&#160;discusses in detail:</DIV><ul><li>The basic fundamental principles of alchemy.</li><li>A guide to the formation of an inexpensive home laboratory with illustrations of the necessary equipment.</li><li>Step-by-step instructions for the work of the Lesser Circulation, the alchemical transformation within the plant kingdom.</li></ul>&#160; <DIV>&ldquo;The teachings of Frater Albertus are part of a lineage that traces back to Rosicrucian sources and much earlier and <I>The Alchemist&rsquo;s Handbook</I> is still the best introduction to that lineage. If you feel the call of Alchemy and want real information on the subject, this is definitely the book you will want to read, reread, and read again. It may just turn out to be the book that changes your life.&rdquo;&mdash;<B>From the foreword by Robert Allen Bartlett, author of <I>Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy</I></B><br/><br/>First published by Weiser Books in 1974, this new Weiser Classics edition <B>includes a new foreword by Robert Allen Bartlett, author of&#160;<I>Real Alchemy</I>.</B></DIV></DIV>

<DIV><B>Celebrate and Rediscover the Restorative Power of Childhood</B><br/>&#160;<br/>It&rsquo;s easy to sometimes feel that our lives have become dull and stagnant. Now, in<I> Forever Young</I>, psychologist William Crain invites us to consider how six great individuals were able to call upon the powers of childhood to restore their spirits and nurture their creativity.<br/>&#160;<br/>Explore the remarkable biographies of Henry David Thoreau, Albert Einstein, Charlotte Bront&euml;, Howard Thurman, Jane Goodall and Rachel Carson, and discover how each one revived childhood qualities such as a sense of wonder, playfulness and a feeling for nature, and in the process overcame personal roadblocks and expanded our understanding of the world.<br/>&#160;<br/>Following these inspiring stories, Crain also offers practical suggestions for how we too can reclaim the spirit and strengths of childhood to help us uncover meaning and purpose in our own lives.<br/>&#160;</DIV>

<DIV><DIV><B>A beautiful and powerful memoir of coming of age and coming out bisexual, <I>Swinging on the Garden Gate</I> describes a period of time in award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew&rsquo;s life where she came to know her bisexuality as an embodied manifestation of divinity.</B><br/><br/>Every story begins with a word. As a young woman, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew carried a word within her so potent that it spread through every artery and vein. But she carried it in secret until she was shown a different way and the word inside her turned restless and eager.<br/><br/>A beautiful and powerful memoir of coming of age and coming out bisexual, <B><I>Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit</I></B> describes a period of time in award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew&rsquo;s life where she came to know her bisexuality as an embodied manifestation of divinity. Andrew not only reconciles her Methodist faith with her sexuality but realizes that her body is holy, her sexuality is holy, and the word she carried within her has always been holy.<br/><br/>The spark of spirit Andrew identifies in her body she also finds throughout the solid matter of life&mdash;in childhood, nature, creativity, loss, death, and especially the coming out process. In addition to being a personal journey through memory, Andrew brings a distinctly queer feminist lens to Christian teachings and answers the question hundreds of young people have posed to her over the years, &ldquo;Is it possible to be both queer and spiritual?&rdquo; The act of bringing hidden, personal truths to light is transformational, and for Andrew, a universal calling.<br/><br/>This stunning second edition includes a new note from Andrew as she looks back on its twenty-year history.</DIV></DIV>