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The Greatest Christmas Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated)

Enriched edition. Silent Night, The Three Kings, Old Santa Claus, Angels from the Realms of Glory, Saint Nicholas

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Thomas Hardy0, Sara Teasdale1, William Thackeray2, James Montgomery3, Clement Clarke Moore4, Charles Kingsley5, Jayden Walsh8 ...

The anthology 'The Greatest Christmas Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated)' presents a rich tapestry of festive verse that captures the spirit and reverence of Christmas through a diverse array of voices and literary styles. The collection brings together the works of renowned poets from various literary epochs, infusing traditional and romantic styles with the celebratory essence of ... Read more

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The anthology 'The Greatest Christmas Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated)' presents a rich tapestry of festive verse that captures the spirit and reverence of Christmas through a diverse array of voices and literary styles. The collection brings together the works of renowned poets from various literary epochs, infusing traditional and romantic styles with the celebratory essence of
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The Perils of Pedagogy

The Works of John Greyson

by Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie, Thomas Waugh ...

Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider new ways that images can intervene in both political and public spheres.Emerging on the Toronto ... Read more

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Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics. Mashing up high art, opera, community activism, and pop culture, Greyson challenges his audience to consider new ways that images can intervene in both political and public spheres.Emerging on the Toronto
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Objective: Earth

Designing our Planet

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Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.Has our planet become an object of design? In today's world of geoengineering, cloud seeding and ambitious projects to control planetary ecosystems, the question seems more justified than ever ... Read more

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Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.Has our planet become an object of design? In today's world of geoengineering, cloud seeding and ambitious projects to control planetary ecosystems, the question seems more justified than ever
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Keep it Flat

A little history on flat earth

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A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.Like a giant tortoise shell, with a dome or without... the many different forms of flat earth are ... Read more

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A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.Like a giant tortoise shell, with a dome or without... the many different forms of flat earth are
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Christmas Poems & Carols - Premium Collection of the Greatest Christmas Poems in One Volume (Illustrated) (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Classic Yuletide Verses and Illustrations

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walter Scott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Thomas Hardy0, Sara Teasdale1, William Thackeray2, James Montgomery3, Clement Clarke Moore4, Charles Kingsley5, Bennett Alderwyn8 ...

This illustrated premium collection gathers Christmas verse as both sacred observance and literary occasion, tracing the season's power to join theology, folklore, childhood wonder, winter landscape, and communal song. Its range extends from hymnic carol and devotional meditation to narrative ballad, domestic lyric, comic fancy, and reflective elegy. Situated within the long tradition of English ... Read more

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This illustrated premium collection gathers Christmas verse as both sacred observance and literary occasion, tracing the season's power to join theology, folklore, childhood wonder, winter landscape, and communal song. Its range extends from hymnic carol and devotional meditation to narrative ballad, domestic lyric, comic fancy, and reflective elegy. Situated within the long tradition of English
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Speculative Everything

Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ...

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Read more

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How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to
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Not Here, Not Now

Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination

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What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby do, in this exhilarating, yet thoughtful, journey to the edges of science, philosophy, and literature to find new ways of thinking about the possible—and about the meaning, ... Read more

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What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby do, in this exhilarating, yet thoughtful, journey to the edges of science, philosophy, and literature to find new ways of thinking about the possible—and about the meaning,
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Smart Cities

A Spatialised Intelligence

by Antoine Picon ...

Series series Architectural Design Primer
As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban ... Read more

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As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban
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The Queer Art of Failure

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Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Read more

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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and
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The Hidden Habits of Genius

Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit—Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness

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Noting fourteen key traits of genius, Yale University's "Genius Course" creator explores what we can learn from brilliant minds that have changed the world.Beethoven. Picasso. Jobs. The word genius evokes these iconic figures, whose cultural contributions have irreversibly shaped society.Yet Beethoven could not multiply. Picasso couldn't pass a 4th grade math test. And Jobs left high school with a ... Read more

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Noting fourteen key traits of genius, Yale University's "Genius Course" creator explores what we can learn from brilliant minds that have changed the world.Beethoven. Picasso. Jobs. The word genius evokes these iconic figures, whose cultural contributions have irreversibly shaped society.Yet Beethoven could not multiply. Picasso couldn't pass a 4th grade math test. And Jobs left high school with a
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Ways of Being

Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

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Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few
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Time Travel

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Best Books of 2016**BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTICFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel—a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century.**James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travel—from its origins in literature and science to its influence on our ... Read more

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