The Century Cube
The Century Cube

Author: Bo Boswell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781979770958

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"Exciting adventure into the future" Turner and Weston are brothers who constantly bicker and fight with each other, but they can agree on one thing: they both enjoy games that challenge Turner to speed-solve the Rubik's Cube. During a visit to a small country town in Tennessee, the boys discover a mysterious gemstone puzzle cube. Like any respectable cuber, Turner figures out the puzzle's solution and performs the algorithms to solve it. The boys suddenly find themselves trapped one hundred years in a future world, stranded amidst crumbling buildings with scorched walls, and surrounded by technologies that are amazing, but dangerous. With the assistance of new friends, they must work together to escape a monstrous threat they never thought possible on a journey across the exciting land in search of the one who can help them fix the cube and get back home. A wild, gripping tale full of action and mystery that's fun for all ages.

Inside the White Cube
Inside the White Cube

Author: Brian O'Doherty

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780520220409

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These essays explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art, seeking to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based.

New Dimensions/cube of Space
New Dimensions/cube of Space

Author:

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published:

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781609254421

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Hidden in a secret book of cosmology, written in the ancient Hebrew tongue, long forgotten but not lost by mankind, is a description of a mysterious cube formed from the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This cube of letters is constructed of a center, three interior dimensions, six faces, and twelve edges. These twenty-two components form the cube, and also reveal a map that clearly shows where we have come from, where we are now, and where we are going in our evolutionary journey toward complete spiritual awakening. In New Dimensions for the Cube of Space, David Allen Hulse explains that this cube of letters cannot reveal its deepest secrets until it is clothed in the cards of the tarot, creating a map of the cosmos referred to as the Cube of Space. Then, and only then, can this mystical cube speak directly to our souls and show us the way, or the true path of initiation we all must eventually travel. He presents a fascinating description of how he attained his insights along with a clear exposition of the Cube of Space as a path of initiation. Hulse illustrates his insights using the original B.O.T.A. tarot deck, designed by Paul Foster Case. The clear and simple imagery of this deck is very helpful for understanding every nuance of the symbolic material in the story of the soul's journey around the six faces of the cube. However, the popular Waite deck, or any other Tarot deck can be used in studying the Cube of Space. Included is the material needed for the construction of a model of the Cube of Space and Hulse recommends that the reader assemble this model, as it will greatly facilitate a clear understanding of the symbolic meaning behind each of the of the twenty-two directions of space delineated by the cube. Includes a color insert for construction of your own Cube!

Beyond the Cube
Beyond the Cube

Author: Jean-François Gabriel

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1997-08-12

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780471122616

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Diese Sammlung von Beitragen anerkannter Autoren zur Architektur, die uber den Quader hinausgeht, ist das einzige derzeit am Markt befindliche Referenzwerk auf diesem Gebiet. Theoretische und praktische Aspekte der Konstruktion von Vielflachnern und raumlichen Gebilden werden anhand von uber 480 Zeichnungen und zahlreichen Fotographien anschaulich erlautert. (02/98)

The Cube and the Cathedral
The Cube and the Cathedral

Author: George Weigel

Publisher: Gracewing Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780852446485

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Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral" Notre Dame, Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe's soul.

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

Author: Blair Braverman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0062311581

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A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north. By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a “tough girl”—a young woman who confronts danger without apology—she slowly developed the strength and resilience the landscape demanded of her. By turns funny and sobering, bold and tender, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube brilliantly recounts Braverman’s adventures in Norway and Alaska. Settling into her new surroundings, Braverman was often terrified that she would lose control of her dog team and crash her sled, or be attacked by a polar bear, or get lost on the tundra. Above all, she worried that, unlike the other, gutsier people alongside her, she wasn’t cut out for life on the frontier. But no matter how out of place she felt, one thing was clear: she was hooked on the North. On the brink of adulthood, Braverman was determined to prove that her fears did not define her—and so she resolved to embrace the wilderness and make it her own. Assured, honest, and lyrical, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube paints a powerful portrait of self-reliance in the face of extraordinary circumstance. Braverman endures physical exhaustion, survives being buried alive in an ice cave, and drives her dogs through a whiteout blizzard to escape crooked police. Through it all, she grapples with love and violence—navigating a grievous relationship with a fellow musher, and adapting to the expectations of her Norwegian neighbors—as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land. Weaving fast-paced adventure writing and ethnographic journalism with elegantly wrought reflections on identity, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube captures the triumphs and the perils of Braverman’s journey to self-discovery and independence in a landscape that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving.

In the Cube
In the Cube

Author: David Alexander Smith

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780812523744

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Twenty-first-century Boston serves as the gateway to Earth for aliens and has become a technological marvel where humans and aliens mix, struggling to create a new society while coping with greed, immense wealth, and murder. Reprint.

Cubed
Cubed

Author: Nikil Saval

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0345802802

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A New York Times Notable Book • Daily Beast Best Nonfiction of 2014 • Inc. Magazine's Most Thought-Provoking Books of the Year “Man is born free, but he is everywhere in cubicles.” How did we get from Scrooge’s office to “Office Space”? From bookkeepers in dark countinghouses to freelancers in bright cafes? What would the world be like without the vertical file cabinet? What would the world be like without the office at all? In Cubed, Nikil Saval chronicles the evolution of the office in a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is. Drawing on the history of architecture and business, as well as a host of pop culture artifacts—from Mad Men to Dilbert (and, yes, The Office)—and ranging in time from the earliest clerical houses to the surprisingly utopian origins of the cubicle to the funhouse campuses of Silicon Valley, Cubed is an all-encompassing investigation into the way we work, why we do it the way we do (and often don’t like it), and how we might do better.

Century of the Child
Century of the Child

Author: Juliet Kinchin

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0870708260

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The book examines individual and collective visions for the material world of children, from utopian dreams for the citizens of the future to the dark realities of political conflict and exploitation. Surveying more than 100 years of toys, clothing, playgrounds, schools, children's hospitals, nurseries, furniture, posters, animation and books, this richly illustrated catalogue illuminates how progressive design has enhanced the physical, intellectual, and emotional development of children and, conversely, how models of children's play have informed experimental aesthetics and imaginative design thinking.