Book Description
Tells how ideological division between South and North Koreas wreaks tragic consequences upon a family for three generations.
Author : Chang-sun Son
Publisher : Homa & Sekey Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Incest
ISBN : 1931907188
Tells how ideological division between South and North Koreas wreaks tragic consequences upon a family for three generations.
Author : Joe Quirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 145169928X
In these “thought-provoking visions of the future” (The Wall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality. Our planet has been suffering from serious environmental problems and their social and political consequences. But imagine a vast new source of sustainable and renewable energy that would also bring more equitable economies. A previously untapped source of farming that could produce significant new sources of nutrition. Future societies where people could choose the communities they want to live in, free from the restrictions of conventional citizenship. This extraordinary vision of our near future as imagined in Seasteading attracted the powerful support of Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel—and it may be drawing close to reality. Facing growing environmental threats, French Polynesia has already signed on to build some of the world’s first seasteads. Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman show us how cities built on floating platforms in the ocean will work, and they profile some of the visionaries who are implementing basic concepts of seasteading today. An entrepreneur’s dream, these floating cities will become laboratories for innovation and creativity. Seasteading “offers hope for a future when life on land has grown grim” (Kirkus Reviews), proving the adage that yesterday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
Author : Joanne Marie Ferraro
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781139539661
Author : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher : Penguin Press HC
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594204166
The best-selling author of Gang Leader for a Day takes his next sociological study to Manhattan, where he travels through the underground economy utilized by prostitutes, madams, drug dealers, immigrants, hedge fund traders, hipster artists and nannies.
Author : Marshall Thomas Savage
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780316771634
A visionary blueprint for exploring and colonizing space combines science, technological sophistication, and fact-based speculation for building self-contained environments in space
Author : Kerri Sakamoto
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345809904
From the prize-winning author of The Electrical Field comes Citizen Kane reimagined: a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountai n internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. After the war, Frankie tries his luck in Toronto, where possibility awaits in the form of a patron who teaches him how to turn effort into money, and a starry-eyed architect who teaches Frankie something harder to come by: the ability to dream big. Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.
Author : Tasha Alexander
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250011035
The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it! Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. There's no one Emma can turn to for help but Emily, who leaves at once with her husband, the dashing Colin Hargreaves, for Venice. There, her investigations take her from opulent palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos. Emily soon realizes that to solve the present day crime, she must first unravel a centuries old puzzle. But the past does not give up its secrets easily, especially when these revelations might threaten the interests of some very powerful people.
Author : Ann L. Buttenwieser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1501716026
Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in New York Harbor. When Buttenwieser decided something needed to be done to help revitalize the New York City waterfront, she reached into the city's nineteenth-century past for inspiration. Buttenwieser wanted New Yorkers to reestablish their connection to their riverine surroundings and she was energized by the prospect of city youth returning to the Hudson and East Rivers. What she didn't suspect was that outfitting and donating a swimming facility for free enjoyment by the public would turn into an almost-Sisyphean task. As she describes in The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser battled for years with politicians and struggled with bureaucrats as she brought her "crazy" scheme to fruition. From dusty archives in the historic Battery Maritime Building to high-stakes community board meetings to tense negotiations in the Louisiana shipyard, Buttenwieser retells the improbable process that led to a pool named The Floating Pool Lady tying up to a pier at Barretto Point Park in the Bronx, ready for summer swimmers. Throughout The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser raises consciousness about persistent environmental issues and the challenges of developing a constituency for projects to make cities livable in the twenty-first century. Her story and that of her floating pool function as both warning and inspiration to those who dare to dream of realizing innovative public projects in the modern urban landscape.
Author : Xi, Xi
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Wiltshire
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1992-01-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780718134877
A number-one bestseller in England this past spring, Floating Cities is a collection of fabulously detailed drawings of the great cities of the world by the 16-year-old autistic genius Stephen Wiltshire (described by Sir Hugh Casson as "the best child artist in Britain".) 125 drawings. ABC-TV profile on 20/20 to air in January.