The Vitruvian Time. Life is a Story - story.one

The Vitruvian Time. Life is a Story - story.one

Author: Alhasan Zaher

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-08-30

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 3711549861

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The Vitruvian Time follows the obscure story that led to the creation of the universe. It delves into the Realm of the Divine, where the incarnation of abstract concepts ambiguously comes alive. Based on a true imagination, Time will take you in this speculative historical sci-fi noir on a journey of discovering meaning, answering each question by creating another quest. Escorting you back to the origin of your design, the brilliantly ciphered reflections of each chapter will leave you doubting your own existence in Time and Space, only to take you by the heart into finding it again. The ambivalent poetic dystopian-utopian hybrid of this epic, symbolic, dreamy, nightmarish creation will leave you with one final answer: "Life is trivial when it ends without knowing why it began." Are you ready for the Bigger Bang scenario? Time promises you a new beginning only if you reach the end.


Structures Unveiled - A collection of architectural insights. Life is a Story - story.one

Structures Unveiled - A collection of architectural insights. Life is a Story - story.one

Author: ZiQing Li

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-18

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 3710856906

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One look around you, and you will find yourself amidst a chaos of construction a myriad of infrastructures captured as art in the form of architecture. But have you ever wondered where all these buildings came from? Were they derived from Vitruvius ancient design principles or inspired by Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum? Architecture is not so easily unveiled, as it boasts a complex interplay of history, politics, geography, creativity, and more. Yet, in this collection, I will be setting it simple. It begins with a journey through history, exploring the prominent architectural styles, and eventually delves into the latest masterpieces that capture our attention. By the end of this book, you will have a notion of what architecture could truly mean when fuelled with enough curiosity to explore the world around us.


The Vitruvian Heir

The Vitruvian Heir

Author: L. S. Kilroy

Publisher:

Published: 2023-07-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780990884453

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With the fate of Vitruvia resting in her hands, young Lore has decisions to make - and enemies to shake. See what happens in the second installment of this riveting trilogy as a young woman steps into the role she's both doomed and destined to play.


The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition)

The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition)

Author: Dan Roam

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-12-31

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1101565918

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The acclaimed bestseller about visual problem solving-now bigger and better "There is no more powerful way to prove that we know something well than to draw a simple picture of it. And there is no more powerful way to see hidden solutions than to pick up a pen and draw out the pieces of our problem." So writes Dan Roam in The Back of the Napkin, the international bestseller that proves that a simple drawing on a humble napkin can be more powerful than the slickest PowerPoint presentation. Drawing on twenty years of experience and the latest discoveries in vision science, Roam teaches readers how to clarify any problem or sell any idea using a simple set of tools. He reveals that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, even those who swear they can't draw. And he shows how thinking with pictures can help you discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve your ability to share your insights. Take Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, who figured out how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines with a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers. Now with more color, bigger pictures, and additional content, this new edition does an even better job of helping you literally see the world in a new way. Join the teachers, project managers, doctors, engineers, assembly-line workers, pilots, football coaches, marine drill instructors, financial analysts, students, parents, and lawyers who have discovered the power of solving problems with pictures.


Pushing Ice

Pushing Ice

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 0316462691

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Pushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine -- and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away. The Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny -- for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome.


Watching the Watchmen

Watching the Watchmen

Author: Dave Gibbons

Publisher: Titan Books (UK)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy the ultimate companion to a comics masterpiece, as award-winning artist Gibbons gives his own account of the genesis of "Watchmen" and opens his vast personal archives to reveal never-published pages, original character designs, page thumbnails, sketches, and more.


The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0698168232

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Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on—in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE THE NAVAL TREATY THE FINAL PROBLEM THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES THE CROOKED MAN THE RESIDENT PATIENT THE GREEK INTERPRETER THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE


The Ashes of London (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1)

The Ashes of London (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1)

Author: Andrew Taylor

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0008119066

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The first book in the No. 1 Times bestselling series ‘This is terrific stuff’ Daily Telegraph ‘A breathtakingly ambitious picture of an era’ Financial Times ‘A masterclass in how to weave a well-researched history into a complex plot’ The Times


Rogue Oracle

Rogue Oracle

Author: Alayna Williams

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1439182833

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THE MORE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE, THE MORE THERE MAY BE TO FEAR. Tara Sheridan is the best criminal profiler around—and the most unconventional. Trained as a forensic psychologist, Tara also specializes in Tarot card reading. But she doesn’t need her divination skills to realize that the new assignment from her friend and sometime lover, Agent Harry Li, is a dangerous proposition in every way. Former Cold War operatives, all linked to a top-secret operation tracking the disposal of nuclear weapons in Russia, are disappearing. There are no bodies, and no clues to their whereabouts. Harry suspects a conspiracy to sell arms to the highest bidder. The cards—and Tara’s increasingly ominous dreams—suggest something darker. Even as Tara sorts through her feelings for Harry and her fractured relationship with the mysterious order known as Delphi’s Daughters, a killer is growing more ruthless by the day. And a nightmare that began decades ago in Chernobyl will reach a terrifying endgame that not even Tara could have foreseen. . . .


Renaissance Fun

Renaissance Fun

Author: Philip Steadman

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1787359158

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Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.