Author: Dassie Prus
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ISBN: 9781732523708
Category : Candles and lights (Judaism)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Eight colorful candles tell two children the story of the Maccabees' bravery and the miracle of the menorah that burned for eight days on only one day's worth of oil.
Author: Moshe Safdie
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 080215834X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures—from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as “Habitat” and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden and waterfall in Singapore. For Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit. Safdie always refers to the “silent client” an architect must ultimately serve: the people who live in, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie’s own experiences how an architect thinks and works—“from the spark of imagination through the design process, the model-making, the politics, the engineering, the materials.” Relating memorable stories about what has inspired him—from childhoods in Israel and Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have captured his imagination—Safdie reveals the complex interplay that underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documents from his firm’s voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects Safdie would pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the choices were his to make. A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built structure.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Author: British Association of Gas Managers
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Author: Incorporated Gas Institute, London
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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9th-39th contain list of members.
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Category : Gas manufacture and works
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Author: Charles D. Barrett
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725245450
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Proceeding from Voltaire's conclusion that "God is a comedian playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh," this book seeks to uncover some of the many instances in which biblical texts offer readers grace and insight through the divine gifts of humor, wit, and laughter. Readers are invited to take a strikingly unusual, if not unique, approach to the texts, imagining not only the voice inflections but also the body language of their narrators to capture the humorous nuances and ripples of laughter that likely attended the first telling of many biblical stories.
