“…At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. …”

“…In The Master of Us All, Mary Blume tells the remarkable story of the man and his house through the eyes of the woman who knew him best. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kritzer -- The ethics of constructing truth : the corporate litigator's approach / Kimberly Kirkland -- Transnational lawyering : clients, ethics, and regulation / John Flood -- The ethics of in-house practice / Sung Hui Kim -- The ethical lives of securities lawyers / Patrick Schmidt -- Scientists at the bar : the professional world of patent lawyers / John M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rowe and Abigail Harrison-Moore -- The architectural plates from the "Encyclopedie" / Denis Diderot -- The plates of the Encyclopedia / Roland Barthes -- From The Archaeology of Knowledge / Michel Foucault -- PART I: KNOWLEDGE, TASTE, AND SUBLIMITY, c. 1750-1830: Introduction / Abigail Harrison-Moore -- Palladian permeation: the villa / John Summerson -- The country house: form, function, and meaning / Dana Arnold -- Plans and elevations for the Villa of Lord Mansfield at Kentwood / Robert and James Adam -- From The Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture / Sir John Soane -- From A Description of the Villa / Horace Walpole -- Thomas Jefferson / James Ackerman -- From A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful / Edmund Burke -- On architecture and buildings / Sir Uvedale Price -- From An Analytical Inquiry into the Principle of Taste / Richard Payne Knight -- Iconography and landscape / Stephen Daniels and Denis Cosgrove -- The plans and elevations of John Nash / John Summerson -- Architecture, Essay on Art / Etienne-Louis Boullee -- The sphere: reading a gender metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity / Susanne von Falkenhausen -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel / David Watkin and Tilman Millinghoff -- Reading architectural herstories: the discourses of gender / Dana Arnold -- PART II: URBANISM, REFORM, AND REVIVAL, c. 1830-1910: Introduction / Abigail Harrison-Moore and Dorothy C. …”
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“…Going on to found his own fashion house in 1961, Saint Laurent created his famous "le smoking" trouser suit, brought the leather jacket to the mainstream and astounded the fashion world with his blend of elegance and artistic drama.Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent documents the talent of a visionary creative in a perfect gift for any lover of fashion -- Amazon…”

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“…From childhood, the four sisters complete each other, expecting that their family will always be intact.When Julia falls in love with William Walters, a history student and college sports star, she's delighted by the way her plans for adulthood are coming together. A husband, a house, a family. But when darkness from William's past begins to block the light of his future, it is Sylvie, not Julia, who steps in to help. …”

“…Dallegret's own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the 'A Home Is Not a House' collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; 'ironique' villas and light installations.0Exhibition: Architectural Association Gallery, London (05.11.2011-14.12.2011)…”