Böcker av James Burke

A distinctively designed, beautifully photographed interior design book that showcases the incredible spaces and stories of creative desert dwellers by writer-photographer duo Molly Mandell and James Burke From tips on cultivating the unpretentious, highly functional aesthetic environment synonymous with the desert to images evoking mindful living, the book is both a celebration of a uniquely inspiring climate, its spaces, and most memorable personalities as well as a manual for adopting elements of this lifestyle-no matter your location-through intentional design. Desert by Design explores the spaces and stories of those who live in the desert, from Marfa, Texas, residents and writer-photographer duo Molly Mandell and James Burke. From West Texas and Southern California to Chile, South Africa, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates and more, this comprehensive, global look at desert living offers insight into extraordinary architecture and interiors, while exploring the vibrant creative communities that have formed in these distinctive climates. The desert-with its incomparable vistas, sounds, flora, and fauna-is a landscape filled with equal parts mystery and beauty that has always attracted artists, architects, designers, and any creative looking for inspiration and independence. Authors Mandell and Burke felt the pull of the desert themselves, moving to the artistic desert community of Marfa, Texas, and now display their impeccable eye for design and extensive connections in the design community to present a wide-ranging, nuanced view. Interior tours-private homes, independent hotels, and projects like Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti and James Turrell's Roden Crater-are the heart of Desert by Design. In addition, archival profiles look into the preserved spaces of famed desert dwellers, such as architects Albert Frey and Frank Lloyd Wright, artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Donald Judd, and fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (see below for a list of the locations and personalities featured). In-depth analysis and interviews are paired with original images shot by the authors, ranging from portraiture to candid and, of course, interior shots, bringing desert life into full view. These spaces are all more than the objects that inhabit them-they are intimate and tangible accounts of their creators and encouragement for those who aspire to curate their own oasis.

The dominant theme of these poems reflects what happens to people long after their war has ended. People deal with PTSD in various ways. Some have flashbacks, some turn to alcohol and drugs, some go a little crazy, while others seem to not be affected at all. Hopefully, but probably not, there will someday be peace. If not for nations, then maybe, at least, a feeling of inner peace for the ones that Made it Back, Mostly Intact.

* Subtitle: HOW RENAISSANCE WATER GARDENS MADE THE CARBURETTOR POSSIBLE AND OTHER JOURNEYS THROUGH KNOWLEDGE. Phew!!

I'm not of your world, but I had a front-row seat to a little-known drama that nearly brought about your demise. Truth be told, I've actually been wanting to tell you about this saga for some time.It's a short tale, relatively speaking. It does, though, begin before the birth of Christ. There's a man named Quintus at the heart of it. First, he was a Roman Centurion, that is, until he ended up in China where he learned a thing or two from an old Taoist.Fast forward to today, and he still walks among you. You should know what he did through history wasn't done for himself, it was done for you, and it was done in the face of the greatest evil known to mankind.(A second and improved version of the novel was published in July 2023.)

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Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future.Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in the modern world.Twin Tracks pinpoints the myriad ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. For instance, in "e;The Marriage of Figaro to Stealth Fighter,"e; Burke's twin tracks start with the composer of the opera and the French spy from whose play he stole the plot. The tracks then encompass, among other things, freemasonry, the War of Independence, Captain Cook, jellyfish, Jane Austen, and audio tape. Ultimately, the convergence of the two Figaro tracks sets the stage for the development of Gulf War Stealth aircraft.Wonderfully accessible and lucidly written, Twin Tracks offers an amusing and instructive new view of the past and the future.

In THE KNOWLEDGE WEB, James Burke takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history.

"A detailed, original and persuasive reading of cultural and intellectual history."—Los Angeles Times. "A genuine tour de force."—San Francisco Chronicle.