Course No. 146 By Seth / SETI Institute Shostak (Author)
Our Place in the Cosmos Aliens in the Neighborhood - Fiction and Fact Prospects for Life in the Solar System - Mars, Europa, Titan Other Worlds - The Search for Habitable Planets Interstellar Travel and Colonization Why aren't the Aliens Everywhere Why UFOs are Bunk What is E.T. Made Of Alien Appearance and Motivation - Can Science Tell us Anything Searching for E.T - Modern Techniques Estimating the Number of Civilizations - The Drake Equation
Downsizing Your Home with Style: Living Well In a Smaller Space
When you're moving a lifetime's accumulation of belongings from a larger home into a jewel box, the task can seem overwhelming—and so can your emotions. How do you decide what to pack and what to part with? How can you use the things you have so that they function well and look right? Downsizing Your Home with Style answers these questions and more. From the initial evaluation of your new home to one year after you have settled in, interior designer Lauri Ward takes you through every step with detailed tips, lists of good buys, tricks of the trade, photographs, and anecdotal examples, so that achieving spectacular results is simple and affordable, whatever your style or budget.
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Music for Torching
As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the good life become nearly hallucinogenic.Laying bare th foundations of a marriage, flash frozen in the anxious entropy of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine spin the quit terors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens out of control. From a strange and hilarious encounter with a Stepford Wife neighbor to an ill-conceived plan for a tattoo, to a sexy cop who shows up at all the wrong moments, to a housecleaning team in space suits, a mistress calling on a cell phone, and a hostage situationat a school, A.M. Homes creates characters so outrageously flawed and deeply human that thery are entriely believable.
The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded contemplation of the notion of "knowing a place," it is about both the existence and the possibilities of architecture and the city. .
This is a survey of winning projects of The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, spanning the period 1977-1986. It includes both new buildings and historic site developments.
