The Challenge

The Challenge

Author: Susan Kearney

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780765348913

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In this tale of fate and passion by the "USA Today" bestselling author, a Secret Service agent is shot while protecting the President. Catapulted into the future, she awakes in the arms of a hunk who tells her she must save Earth by winning an intergalactic challenge. Original.


Perhaps

Perhaps

Author: Joshua M. McNall

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0830855211

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Christians are sometimes faced with uncertainty. But is all uncertainty bad? Theologian Joshua McNall encourages readers to reclaim the little word "perhaps" as a sacred space between the warring extremes of unchecked doubt and zealous dogmatism. Learn how to exercise a hopeful imagination, ask hard questions, return once again to Scripture, and reclaim the place of holy speculation.


Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana

Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana

Author: Marcy Gordon

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2012-11-22

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 160952053X

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Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana is the ninth book in the best-selling Travelers' Tales humor series, which began with There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled and blossomed into the now classic "underwear" women's humor series, including the top sellers Sand in My Bra and More Sand in My Bra. This laugh-out-loud collection will resonate with experienced travelers and novices alike and includes hilarious misadventures with packing, travel fashion, border crossings, language faux pas, weird encounters with exotic cuisine, and romantic overtures abroad.


The Architect's Portfolio

The Architect's Portfolio

Author: Andreas Luescher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1351226320

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The creation of a successful portfolio is a vital skill needed by architectural students and professionals alike. In a highly competitive global market the accomplished representation of the architect?s work must be able to turn opportunities into triumphs. This book offers a fresh step-by-step approach to achieving a reflective, attractive and successful representation of one?s work. Structured in four stages it takes the reader through each step needed in the creation of a successful portfolio, from understanding yourself and your market, to planning, designing and producing it. Illustrated throughout in full color, the book includes case study portfolios from the USA, UK, Europe and Asia which demonstrate the steps in the process for both practitioners and students, from sketch trials to full-colour stage lay-outs. These contributions come from architects all over the world, providing terrific insight into current practices and inspiration and ideas. This is essential reading for anyone putting together an architectural portfolio.


Strange Wonder

Strange Wonder

Author: Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2009-03-05

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0231518595

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Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished as swiftly as possible. By endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy into certainty and calculability, philosophy paradoxically secures itself at the expense of its own condition of possibility. Strange Wonder locates a reopening of wonder's primordial uncertainty in the work of Martin Heidegger, for whom wonder is first experienced as the shock at the groundlessness of things and then as an astonishment that things nevertheless are. Mary-Jane Rubenstein traces this double movement through the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida, ultimately thematizing wonder as the awesome, awful opening that exposes thinking to devastation as well as transformation. Rubenstein's study shows that wonder reveals the extraordinary in and through the ordinary, and is therefore crucial to the task of reimagining political, religious, and ethical terrain.


Strange Fascination

Strange Fascination

Author: David Buckley

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1448132479

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The Sunday Times bestseller. David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming music, style and art for over five decades. David Buckley's unique approach to unravelling the Bowie enigma, via interviews with many of the singer's closest associates, biography and academic analysis, makes this unrivalled biography a classic for Bowie fans old and new. This revised edition of Strange Fascination captures exclusive details about the tours, the making of the albums, the arguments, the split-ups, the music and, most importantly, the man himself. Also including exclusive photographic material, Strange Fascination is the most complete account of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written.


Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls

Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls

Author: Randy Johnson

Publisher: Last Gasp

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780867196221

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This is a colourful history of the carnival sideshow and its distinctive banner art. With one hundred colour photographs, the book lovingly surveys this now vanished icon of early rural America, counterpointing classic freak show art with contemporary interpretations. Fifty archival black-and-white photos of sideshows provide a historical context for the banner illustrations.