5/24/2023 0 Comments Strange maps by frank jacobs![]() ![]() ![]() Strange Maps, an Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities. Other Atlases (Historical, Economical, Fantasy, etc. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonk by Ken Jennings is a good. Published 2014 by Lonely Planet Publications Published 2010 by The Software MacKiev CompanyĮducational: School Atlases, Children Atlases Children’s World Atlasĭigital/Mobile Versions for Tablets, Touch Lonely Planet Kids: Amazing World Atlas Sometimes, you come across a stunning atlas book, a DVD or a website, or even a good idea for an atlas tool… Please give us a hint! National / Regional / City Atlases Atlas of Switzerlandĭigital Version Desktop Application for Windows 64-bit Topographic / Environmental Atlases Atlas of Remote Islands We are collecting good Atlas examples in order to share them with others. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Graphic Icons by John Clifford![]() "In this fun, fast-paced introduction to the most iconic designers of our time, author John Clifford takes you on a visual history tour that's packed with the posters, ads, logos, typefaces, covers, and multimedia work that have made these designers great. Cassandre William Addison Dwiggins Jan Tschichold - Midcentury modern : Lester Beall Alexey Brodovitch Alex Steinweiss Herbert Matter Ladislav Sutnar Alvin Lustig Cipe Pineles - Collecting graphic design : Bradbury Thompson Erik Nitsche Josef Müller-Brockmann Paul Rand Saul Bass Georg Olden Will Burtin - Late modern/postmodern : Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar Yusaku Kamekura Herb Lubalin - Gastrotypographicassemblage : Seymour Chwast Milton Glaser George Lois Wim Crouwel Walter Landor Otl Aicher Michael Vanderbyl Peter Saville - Digital era : April Greiman Rudy Vanderlans and Zuzana Licko Edward Fella Muriel Cooper Steven Heller Stephen Doyle Paula Scher Michael Bierut John Maeda Stefan Sagmeister Synopsis: Who are history's most influential graphic designers In this fun, fast-paced introduction to the most iconic designers of our time, author John Clifford takes you on a visual history tour that's packed with the posters, ads, logos, typefaces, covers, and multimedia work that have made these designers great. ![]() ![]() 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrationsĮarly modern : Lucian Bernhard Hans Rudi Erdt Ludwig Hohlwein Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Edward McKnight Kauffer El Lissitzky Alexander Rodchenko Stenberg Brothers Theo Van Doesburg - The Bauhaus : Herbert Bayer A.M. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Inheritance katharine mcgee![]() ![]() ** Avery's story continues in The Hawthorne Legacy and The Final GambitĪ New York Times and Indiebound BestsellerĮdgar Award Nominee, Best Young Adult Mystery Caught in a world of wealth and privilege with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. ![]() His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. ![]() This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. ![]() The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES!ĭon't miss this New York Times bestselling "impossible to put down" (Buzzfeed) novel with deadly stakes, thrilling twists, and juicy secrets - perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out.Īvery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. ![]() ![]() Which is exactly what she wanted, right? Wrong. The novel does a good job of pointing out how fucking stupid she is, at least, by revealing that not only did she unsuccessfully commit suicide since she survived the ordeal, she has no irreparably damaged her heart and she’ll be dead within a few days anyway. She’s a selfish brat who has no reason to want to kill herself but she decides to anyway because she’s bored. Literally, Veronika has nothing to complain about. Veronika just doesn’t want to be alive anymore because she thinks she’s reached her prime and after this (she’s twenty-four, by the way), her life is only going to get worse and she can’t possibly be around to watch herself become unhappy. She isn’t upset about anything, she hasn’t gone through any violent or traumatic ordeal and she isn’t sick and dying of some terminal illness. The book centres around a young woman who is just done with life. I read it again recently, and boy do I have a different opinion of it now than I did when I was sixteen. ![]() ![]() I did some research, bought the book, and read it. I remember hearing about it for the first time because of the Billy Talent song called Saint Veronika which is loosely based on the book. This is actually the only Coelho novel I’ve read. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The circle by dave eggers![]() ![]() ![]() There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. ![]() The story of one woman's ambition and idealism becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.īook Synopsis INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives-a "compulsively readable parable for the 21st century" ( Vanity Fair). About the Book Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ancestor trouble book review![]() ![]() Newton’s maternal grandfather, raised during the plight of the Great Depression in Texas, was believed to have 13 wives, one of whom he shot to death. Prompted by her own fascinating and troubling family, Newton was inspired to explore her genetic history. … The stories we tell ourselves about our ancestors have the power to shape us, in some ways nearly as much as our genetics do.” Newton confronts the question head-on that many people struggle with daily: Will the predetermined genetic history of my family follow me into adulthood and beyond? Early in her debut nonfiction book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, Maud Newton writes, “The alchemy between our genes and our individuality is a mystery we keep trying to solve. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Saving Ren by Sloane Kennedy![]() ![]() ![]() Tough as nails former soldier and mercenary Jagger Varos has returned to Seattle after years of running from his past and he’s hoping that joining Barretti Security Group will help him finally call the city he left behind home. And even though there’s no future for them, keeping Ren safe is all that matters and Declan will risk anything to make that happen. But even though the Ren who has come home isn’t the one who left, all of Declan’s feelings come rushing back to the surface and he steps in to help the only man he’s ever truly wanted. Police Detective Declan Hale has felt an undeniable pull towards the very straight Ren Barretti since the day Ren’s brother married Declan’s younger sister more than a dozen years earlier. The life his older brothers have brought him home to doesn’t exist for him anymore and to keep them and their loved ones safe from the rage and pain that consume him, Ren needs to disappear. But he can’t escape the nightmares that torment him or the guilt that he was the only one to walk away. Ren Barretti has finally come home after a year of being held captive by the terrorists who slaughtered his entire Special Forces team. Three men brought together by circumstance who found something none of them knew they needed… I am hoping to release it some time in October. ![]() Making progress on Ren, Declan & Jagger's story. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Before Bethlehem by James Flerlage![]() He and James witness abhorring violence at the hands of the Romans, and outlandish abuses of power by their own religious leaders. Joseph fights to maintain his spiritual integrity while trying desperately to keep his family together and his farm alive. By accepting the Rabbi’s request, Joseph unknowingly thrusts himself and his family into a bitter and emotionally draining life-or-death conflict. With crisp prose, tangible description and thought-provoking insights, Before Bethlehem takes readers on a vivid journey to the dusty Galilean village of Nazareth, where Joseph is summoned by Rabbi Boethus, a Sadducean high priest, to marry an orphaned virgin in Jerusalem. ![]() This spellbinding work of historical fiction offers the eyewitness account of 15-year-old James, son of Joseph bar Jacob, and the dangerous and heartrending choices they must make in the days leading up to Joseph’s relationship with Mary, and the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. ![]() ![]() The Pinnacle of History, Through the Eyes of a Boy ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ecotopia emerging![]() ![]() This classic utopian novel helped frame and inspire the growing interest in appropriate technology, sustainability, and green lifestyles. Inspired by the first Earth Day in 1970, he began to study and write about environmental issues and human values and social habits, leading to the publication of his best-known work, Ecotopia, in 1975. He got a job at UC Press, where he worked until 1991, editing the Natural History Guide series and Film Quarterly, among other projects. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Callenbach moved to California in 1955 with his first wife. ![]() The author of 10 books and a longtime UC Press editor, Callenbach grew up in the small hamlet of Boalsberg, Pennsylvania, in the hills near Penn State University, where his father was a professor of poultry science. As we prepared this article for the magazine in April, we were saddened to learn that environmental pioneer Ernest “Chick” Callenbach passed away at home in Berkeley with his family at his side. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments One last stop august![]() ![]() ![]() After being turned down twice by Jane, August finds a picture of Jane on the wall at Billy’s. August grandparents are rich but her mother left them because they didn’t look for Auggie and they don’t stay in contact. August has a rocky relationship with her mother who has used her to hunt down Uncle Auggie (August’s uncle). ![]() On the Q train, she meets Jane, a Chinese-American lesbian woman who always wears a leather jacket, listens to cassette tapes and has tattoos. She moves in with Myla (a Black-Chinese engineer grad) and her boyfriend Niko (psychic and transman), and Wes (trust-fund baby who was disowned after he quit architecture school). Twenty-three-year-old August isn’t sure what to expect from New York but it’s most certainly not an eclectic group of roommates, a job at the pancake diner and the attractive woman on the train who she may or may not be falling in love with.Īugust moves to New York to study at a university. ![]() |