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New Organic Architecture is a manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to be met. The organic approach to architecture has an illustrious history, from Celtic design, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, to the work of Antoni Gaudí and Frank Lloyd Wright. Today there is a response to a new age of information and ecology; architects are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the natural environment. In the first part of his book, David Pearson provides a history and assessment of organic architecture. The second part comprises statements from thirty architects from around the world whose work is based on natural or curvilinear forms rather than the straight-line geometrics of modernism. Each statement is accompanied by full-color illustrations of one or several of the architects' built projects.
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Organic Life.......2007-08-26
It is very difficult to find books or articles regading organic architecture. The David's book is very complete and update. The research to find World wide examples is a great source of inspiration and understanding.
the defiant wave.......2007-04-05
Well, 1st of all, this is a beautiful and amazing compendium of range and depth of an international movement flowing over our globe, the organic school of architecture. That, for many; lived only in the hearts and lives of Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff, the precursors to this movement. David Pearson's coverage is monumental, one of the most diverse and broadly scoped visions capturing many of the finest; not all, but many from around the world. To include everyone would have been a volume so massive, the thought of merely lifting it would have been staggering. People so often forget, that an organic architect still needs a voliatile, creative and compassionate client base in order to bring this ideas into fruition. Sadly, that, more than creative designers are lacking in our conscious world. This is one of the best publications in print displaying the range of perception in organic architecture today, and sits alongside the volume of Alan Hess's Hyperwest, not specifically an organicist besed volume.
A good overview of different organic shaped buildings.......2005-08-02
A good book with nice graphic design and layout. A lot of pictures. Cover a lot organic architects although I miss buildings from e.g. Peter Vetch and other sculptured architecture with architecture. Easy to read but don't give deep insights.
Regards,
Martijn, Bladel Netherlands
Cutting Edge Architecture........2004-04-23
What I liked about this book is that it has introduced me to some new architects that I have not heard about previously in any other of the many books I have read.
What I don't like about this book is that it shows very little of each architects projects and some of the photo's where done using a very poor resolution camera, making for some very grainy pictures.
If your interested in the organic style of architecture then I would recommend adding it to your library. There is some very original stuff inside this book that just might spark some new ideas in your own practice.
New Organic Architecture.......2002-02-13
Some of the 28 architects who have contributed to this stimulating anthology might be surprised by the company they are in, which ranges from the cool rationalism of Tadao Ando to the romantic nationalism of Imre Makovecz. However, the eclecticism of Pearson's choice is justified, for organic architecture has always been the province of defiant individualists, from Wright on. Sensuous curves and fractal geometries, primitive and sophisticated technologies, earth and steel are all embraced by architects united only by their desire to break out of the box. Pearson emphasizes the spiritual dimensions and the affinities between natural and man-made forms, as well as the feminine side of design-though only one woman shows up on his list.
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Ocean Waves Breaking and Marine Aerosol Fluxes (Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library)
Stanislaw R. Massel
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The energy flow from the atmosphere to the ocean generates an aerodynamically rough ocean surface. If the energy flow is sufficiently strong, in some points of the surface, waves loose their stability and eventually break in the form of whitecaps of various scales. The turbulence associated with the breakers produce the aerosols in the form of jet and film drops from the bursting of air bubbles. The aerosol droplets transfer water vapour, heat, pollutants and bacteria through the air-water interface. They are easily transported by wind over large distances. In this way, marine aerosols influence the optical features of the atmosphere, which are of fundamental importance for the remote sensing of the surface and they play an important role in climate variations.
The amount of marine aerosols rising from the sea surface depends on the coverage of the sea by breaking waves or whitecaps, and the rate of intensity of breaking. Much of the uncertainty in sea aerosols production and gas transfer arises from weaknesses in the parameterization of wave breaking and related processes.
This book describes the mechanisms of wave breaking, based on the theoretical and experimental achievements published in literature as well as on the author's experience. Special attention is paid to selection of the wave breaking criteria, and to development of the wave breaking probability and estimation of the energy dissipation due to breaking.
Secondly, the book examines the relationships between wave breaking and marine aerosol fluxes and gas transfer from the sea surface. In general, an amount of marine aerosol rising from the sea surface depends on the coverage of the sea by breaking waves or whitecaps, and on the rate of intensity of breaking. The wind speed, commonly used in prediction of the whitecaps coverage, is only one of the factors determining the wave energy and probability of the breaking occurrence. It is more appropriate to find the linkage between the percentage of sea surface covered by whitecaps and the sea state characteristics (i.e. the significant wave height and spectrum peak frequency) and the amount of energy dissipated during wave breaking and its relationship with the aerosol fluxes.
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CASUALTIES OF WAR.......2005-03-13
Nevil Shute's gentle and very clever way of telling a story really shines here. This one sneaks up on you as you slowly find yourself caught up in the emotions of the characters, all of whose lives have been forever shaped and scarred by their experiences in WWII. Masterfully told in partial flashback, the mystery of the suicide of a parlourmaid at an Australian sheep station turns out to have profound implications for everyone involved in her life. A deeply moving and haunting novel, Mr. Shute deftly shows us how "Like some infernal monster, still venemous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over."
This is a stunning novel by a master storyteller. Highly recommended.
NOTE: This is also published as 'Requiem For A Wren'
Don't miss out on this magnificent novel!.......2002-06-26
The story of Alan Duncan begins with his homecoming to Coombargana, a sheep farming station in the Western District of Australia. On the day before his return, the trusted parlor maid on the station, of whom his parents were very fond, died in her room unexpectedly; coincidence?
Beginning with the pursuit of a law degree at Oxford University, the years of Alan's absence from family and homeland taught him much, very quickly. Not surprising: he is drawn into the World War-II effort as a fighter pilot, risking all he has in life, just like his younger brother Bill.
Also like his brother, he is attracted to the English girl, Janet Prentice, a WREN on active duty, assigned to maintenance of ordinance used in preparation of the D-Day invasion. The terrible war has left each one with terrible losses, of which the consequences carry the reader through Alan's quest to find Janet in the years that follow its end in 1945.
Janet's friend, Viola Dawson, is Alan's greatest source of information to lead him towards the end of his search but is she successful? Where will he ultimately find Janet in this world where distance both separates and binds together those on opposite sides of the globe?
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Breaking the waves
Lars von Trier
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A great script and more.......1998-01-22
This is the script, written by the film's Danish director Lars von Trier. A wonderful preface by Swedish film writer Stig Bjorkman, an article by photographer Per Kirkeby, and an introduction by Von Trier. Photos and film info, even the locations list. The story is compelling, obsessional, intensely carnal, heart-breaking, and critical of doctrinaire religion. Von Trier claims that, quite simply, it is a story about "good." He even advances the theory that love -- physical, sexual love -- can heal. Not a welcome notion in Calvinist Northern Scotland (or many other places, for that matter), the setting for the story. It was interesting to see how von Trier's much-touted (by the actors) commitment to improvisation allowed last-minute script changes -- and there were many. The book is beautifully assembled, translated gracefully from the original Danish. It's definitely great.
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A350514. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Observations of the temporal evolution of ripples are analyzed in terms of geometry, migration, crest orientation, and their predicted geometry by models using wave orbital velocities. Two weeks of bedform data were obtained in the surf zone during the RIPEX/SBE in April, 2001. Bed sediment consists of medium- to coarse-grained sand (D50=0.43mm). Models capture temporal trends in ripple geometry, but regression analyses show that they do not handle the range in forcing characteristics and geometries in the surf zone well. Transport models of bedload and total load formulated under uni-directional flows qualitatively capture the temporal evolution of observed transport by ripples, suggesting that under low to moderate forcing, bed load and suspended load occur mostly within the bed-following bottom boundary layer, and are measurable by ripple migration alone. Models predict large transport rates when flat beds were observed, so that at higher forcing ripples cannot be used to measure total sediment transport. Using a two-dimensional probability density function (PDF) of vector displacement peaks, a new ripple analysis model is proposed, incorporating a hierarchy of forcing complexity that includes such physical processes as directional spreading, axis rotation, orbital asymmetry, superimposed currents and infragravity wave velocities. The two-dimensional PDF's are compared with concurrent three-dimensional bed maps and are found to assist in describing ripple sizes, types, orientations, and migration velocities.
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This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical findings of an investigation into the spatio-temporal characteristics of the gravity of breaking waves and the foam activity in open sea by methods and instruments of optical and microwave remote sensing.
The study of physical and electrodynamics' properties of the gravity wave breaking processes and the foam spatio-temporal activity is an important facet of satellite oceanography, ocean engineering, air-sea interaction and ocean remote sensing. In particular, the contribution of foam formations of various types to the mean and the spatio-temporal variations of radio emission, back-scattering, IR and optical parameters of the disturbed sea surface is highly significant. The statistical characteristics of wave breaking and attendant foam forming are very important to ocean wave dynamics. The study and measurement of spatio-temporal characteristics of wave breaking and sea foam formations are of fundamental importance in ocean remote sensing.
Much emphasis is placed on the physical aspects of breaking processes necessary to measure the possibilities and limitations of remote sensing methods in specific observation cases of an oceanic surface. Numerous practical applications and illustrations are provided from air-borne, ship-borne and laboratory up-to-date experiments.
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In the latest in the oversize Disinformation Guide series of anthologies, editor Preston Peet assembles an all-star cast to lay to rest the specious misinformation peddled by prohibitionists who depend upon the "War on some drugs and users" for their livelihood and power.
Drug users and abusers describe their feelings and fears for freedom, not only for themselves but for all their fellow citizens in the United States and the rest of the world, detailing the Constitution-shredding War on some drugs and users.
Despite the antidrug hysteria promoted by prohibitionists, drugs have been an inseparable aspect of life for thousands of years-curing disease, calming stress, easing pain, enhancing intelligence, opening the doors of perception and altering consciousness. So why is the "War on some drugs and users" underway? The answers can be found in Under the Influence.
Decades of spending trillions of dollars while waging war on neighbors, friends and families have done nothing to eradicate drug use and abuse, but it has succeeded in overthrowing governments, tearing apart families and communities, and ensured the rise of international criminal cartels. Under the Influence explains how we came to this state of affairs and how we can bring about real reform.
Bestselling writers, professional researchers, degenerate drug users and just plain folk offer fact-based alternatives to the propaganda of prohibitionist anti-drug warriors. Contributors include Tom Robbins, Paul Krassner, Rick Doblin, Mike Gray, Lonny Shavelson, Daniel Forbes, Steve Wishnia, Cynthia Cotts, Russ Kick, Dr. Stanislav Grof, Daniel Pinchbeck, Paul Armentano, Jacob Sullum, Peter Dale Scott and Robert Anton Wilson.
Preston Peet is a writer, editor, photographer, musician, actor, DJ, activist and adventurer. A regular contributor to High Times magazine and website, the editor of the controversial website DrugWar.com, and a columnist for the New York Waste, he lives in Manhattan with his other half and 10 rescued cats.
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Just Say Know.......2005-02-01
Anyone who can put aside the preconceived notions of mainstream political discourse can see that the "war on drugs" is a hypocritical, expensive, heavy-handed, and nonsensical failure. The drug war is not about public health but about social control, and this book from Disinformation collects far-flung thought and knowledge on such matters. For example, small-time recreational users of comparatively harmless cannabis (which has never killed a single person) get excessive jail time, while the producers of the more addictive and hazardous tobacco (which kills hundreds of thousands of people) enjoy life in the corporate and political mainstream. Naturally occurring opiates are the subjects of multi-billion dollar wars and police state tactics, while corporate-controlled products like Ritalin, which is designed specifically to chemically alter the brains of children, are promoted by the establishment. Completely prohibited illicit substances are easier to obtain than lightly regulated alcohol. With a little independent thought, one can see that the drug war is about suppressing dissent from certain non-mainstream populations and perpetuating the prison-military-industrial complex, under simplistic sloganeering about health and crime.
Like all of the compendiums from Disinfo (I have reviewed three of the previous volumes here), the essays herein are of widely disparate quality, from hard-hitting investigative reports to whiny conspiracy theories. This particular book also has the added disadvantage of extreme repetition. While the various authors approach the concept through different specific events or issues, almost all of them repeat, ad nauseam, the basic counter-cultural thoughts on the drug war's problems, which I just did far more efficiently in the last paragraph. This adds up to 300 pages (which is effectively 600 pages given the book's large physical size and small typeface) of different authors preaching to the choir. That makes the reading of this book quite tiresome.
As for the particular essays, the subject matter can be fascinating and effective, and I can say that the entries by various authors and thinkers in the "Reform and Politics" and "For Medicinal Use" sections, and a fair amount of the essays in the rest of the book, are strongly researched with compellingly realistic observations and recommendations. However, that old lack of editorial control by the Disinfo folks has also resulted in a damaging number of clunkers, like the pointless and sensationalistic conspiracy theories of Dan Russell (law enforcement as treason) and Catherine Austin Fitts (narcodollars pervading every aspect of the world economy), and multiple writers who fail to make a convincing argument through legal and constitutional precedents for the "cognitive liberty" concept. The Disinfo philosophy is to keep an open mind when exploring controversial subjects, and that works reasonably well here, but having an open mind is a double-edged sword. With an open mind you'll also see that this book, through repetition, inflammatory language, and conspiracy theorizing, tends to sink the strong arguments of its more levelheaded contributors, who deserve to be surrounded by better material. [~doomsdayre520~]
Raise Consciousness, Not Weapons.......2004-12-09
I first tried LSD many years ago when I was relatively very young. I have always found it near impossible to describe the mystical-religious experience that ensued. It was the most spiritual and religious, in the most impersonal, non-Christian sense of those terms, I have ever known. For one split second during the trip there was a seeing, feeling and being of oneness with the Universe, all light, wisdom and bliss. It was beyond words, already shadows of the realities they represent, which are by their very nature full of dualities - subject, object; speaker, spoken to - that that experience taught me are illusions. Maya as the Hindus call this vale of tears.
I always considered my drug use to be a search to enhance and expand consciousness, not smother and sedate it. Marijuana, LSD, MDA, Ecstasy were my drugs of choice for just this reason, an attempt, to a certain degree, achievement, but also abject failure, of recreating that singular experience. Rather than an institutional and cultural framework of support for such a breathtaking discovery, there was the most mendacious dissembling around the issue of (some) drugs. Other than a few close friends, I was groping alone in the dark.
True religious freedom to me would be an exploring and attempt at recreating these kinds of states of consciousness. Understanding the potentialities and limitations of integrating them into everyday life. The freedom to create some kind of cultural and institutional framework to give them legitimacy as religious ritual. But there is no religious freedom in America. The word "religion" in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution might just as well be replaced by the word "Christianity."
Because several of the writers in Under the Influence examine seriously this religious/mystical aspect of the drug policy issue, the call for reform takes on a much more urgent and fundamental dimension. Drug prohibition is really, says Richard Glen Boire, who holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from UC Berkeley, "a war on consciousness itself - how much, what sort we are permitted to experience, and who gets to control it. More than an unintentional misnomer, the government-termed `war on drugs' is a strategic decoy label; a sleight-of-hand move by the government to redirect attention away from what lies at ground zero of the war - each individual's fundamental right to control his or her own consciousness."
Why are entheogenic-induced states of consciousness prohibited while those prompted by the constant advertisements and come-ons to buy consumer crap, vacuous television-watching, endlessly grinding it out on a soul-destroying job, and a permanent wartime economy, to take just several egregious examples of a culture empty and superficial through and through, considered acceptable? I believe because the powerful and privileged are afraid of the alternate realites these substances can show us.
Boire adds significantly: "Those who have never experienced the mental states that are now prohibitied do not realize what the laws are denying them." Mary Jane Borden calls opposition to drug prohibition part of the "age-old fight against bigotry." She maintains that the struggle against "chemical bigotry" is part and parcel of the ageless struggles against the bigotries of racism, sexism, colonialism, and imperialism, and for democratic rights.
Dr. Stanislav Grof's interview with Albert Hofmann, the accidental discoverer in 1943 of LSD's singularly potent properties, is fascinating. Hofmann was a chemist at Sandoz Laboratories in Germany innocuously attempting to derive a drug analogue useful in obstetrics from alkaloids of ergot, a fungus that grows on rye bread. While conducting chemical synthesis experiments, he unknowingly and accidentally ingested a tiny amount of one of these analogues through the pores of his skin. He had a powerful and bewildering response. Hofmann explores the work this led him to be interested in in other cultures with similar substances like the magic mushroom of the Mazatec Indians in Mexico, ololiuqui, a derivative of morning glory seeds, and salvia divinorum. Other essays look at the Native American Church, whose rite of religious use of ceremonial peyote has been upheld by the Supreme Court, and ayahuasca, a vine that contains DMT, which has been used in Amazonia to induce religious visions for thousands of years.
Initially Hofmann considered LSD to be his wonder child. He deeply laments it becoming a problem child with its rise as a drug of abuse in the early 1960s that put an immediate surcease into any further research into its psychotherapeutic applications, which until that time had been quite substantial. The pendulum is swinging arduously back the other way and there is again halting but significant steps being made in this direction. They face constant official resistance. Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, glimpses into the slight thawing of policy respecting the potential of psychedelics in psychotherapy and examines the issue of medical marijuana. Several other essays also examine this latter topic.
This book, like the drug-policy reform movement itself however, is in the great bulk on the defensive. The many negative arguments alone against prohibition as ineffective and counterproductive ought to prevail and prompt radical change. Cigarettes kill 430,000 Americans every year, alcohol tens of thousands more, but they are sanctioned, even heavily advertised. Marijuana, which has never been blamed for a single fatality, is outlawed. Many so-called drug crimes are actually drug law-related. Drug prohibition artificially and exponentially inflates the price of drugs. It is the mountains of money to be reaped dealing drugs, the battles for turf and the like, rather than drugs and the states of mind they engender, that prompt so much violence. It is also this that encourages a never-ending flow of dealers willing to risk their huge profits. Several writers note that the illicit drug trade is part and parcel of every modern day military enterprise, including those of the United States. Legalization, medicalization would by itself reduce armed insurgencies around the world. If drugs were legalized no individuals would sell them for there would be no profit. Users wouldn't have to commit crimes to obtain them.
This book contains too many reasons for drug legalization and medicalization to list. Its reminding me of the almost lost knowledge of that split second in eternity all those years ago renewed my hope momentarily that life could be something other than just the wartorn battlefield it is.
Wide Ranging and Informative........2004-11-23
I found this book to be surprising when I first opened it. I had been waiting for its release, having heard that Preston Peet was looking for people with a history and/or knowledge of what Prohibition and "The War On Drugs" is all about.
I suppose, for some reason, I was expecting a rehash of the statistics that all add up to show what a dismal failure the War On Drugs really is; stats which are contained and which most certainly do show. But what surprised me most I guess, was the amount of personal experience contained within the pages. There are any number of glimpses and personal insights into "The War" and into the lives led by the contributors during these oppressive decades. There are numerous personal anecdotes; some quite chilling, many of them humorous, all of them thought provoking. These are told by people of whom many of us will have already heard.
But there is also good representation from people on the periphery, or at least persons not normally associated with righting the wrong that we know of by it's more formal name-----The War on Drugs; perhaps the greatest hoax of the 20th century, something that the contributors to this book make quite clear.
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