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If walls could speak : my life in architecture / by Safdie, Moshe,1938-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures-from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as "Habitat" and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden and waterfall in Singapore. For Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit. Safdie always refers to the "silent client" an architect mustultimately serve: the people who live, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works-"from thespark of imagination through the design process, the model-making, the politics, the engineering, the materials." Relating memorable stories about what has inspired him-from childhoods in Israel and Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have captured his imagination-Safdie reveals the complex interplay that underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documentsfrom his firm's voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects Safdie would pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the choices were his to make. A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built structure"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Safdie, Moshe, 1938-; Architects;
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Mississippi blood / by Iles, Greg,author.;
"#1 New York Times Bestselling Author The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi--Greg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present. Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn's experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations--preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son. During forty years practicing medicine, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved physician in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern figure has secrets known only to himself and a handful of others. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of an 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner. It is Viola who has been murdered, and her bitter son--Penn's half-brother--who sets in motion the murder case against his father. The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi's violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between his father and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell of the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets shared by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. The surviving Double Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of some of the most influential men in the state, they seek to ensure that Dr. Cage either takes the fall for them, or takes his secrets to an early grave. Tom Cage's murder trial sets a terrible clock in motion, and unless Penn can pierce the veil of the past and exonerate his father, his family will be destroyed. Unable to trust anyone around him--not even his own mother--Penn joins forces with Serenity Butler, a famous young black author who has come to Natchez to write about his father's case. Together, Penn and Serenity--a former soldier--battle to crack the Double Eagles and discover the secret history of the Cage family and the South itself, a desperate move that risks the only thing they have left to gamble: their lives. Mississippi Blood is the enthralling conclusion to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making--one that has kept readers on the edge of their seats. With piercing insight, narrative prowess, and a masterful ability to blend history and imagination, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in a highly atmospheric and suspenseful novel that delivers the shocking resolution his fans have eagerly awaited"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Cage, Penn (Fictitious character);
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Jacky in the Kingdom of Women. by Sattouf, Riad,film director.; Gainsbourg, Charlotte,actor.; Bourdon, Didier,actor.; Hazanavicius, Michel,actor.; Lacoste, Vincent,actor.; Under the Milky Way (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Michel Hazanavicius, Vincent LacosteOriginally produced by Under the Milky Way in 2014.In the Kingdom of Bubunne, women are in power while men wear veils and do domestic tasks. Jacky, a lovely young man who dreams of marrying the 'Colonelle' has to struggle like a Cinderella to realize his dreams.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Science fiction.; Motion pictures--France.; Satire.; Science fiction films.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Calvaire. by du Welz, Fabrice,film director.; Lahaie, Brigitte,actor.; Berroyer, Jackie,actor.; Couchard, Jean-Luc,actor.; Lucas, Laurent,actor.; Nahon, Philippe,actor.; Yellow Veil Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Brigitte Lahaie, Jackie Berroyer, Jean-Luc Couchard, Laurent Lucas, Philippe NahonOriginally produced by Yellow Veil Pictures in 2004.A traveling entertainer falls victim to a dangerously unhinged innkeeper determined to keep him captive.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Cult films.; Motion pictures--France.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Luz. by Singer, Tilman,film director.; Bluthardt, Jan,actor.; Benecke, Johannes,actor.; Riedler, Julia,actor.; Lorenz, Lilli,actor.; Velis, Luana,actor.; Stübiger, Nadja,actor.; Yellow Veil Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Jan Bluthardt, Johannes Benecke, Julia Riedler, Lilli Lorenz, Luana Velis, Nadja StübigerOriginally produced by Yellow Veil Pictures in 2018.Fleeing from the grasp of a possessed woman, a distressed cabdriver begins a confession in a rundown police station that endangers everyone who crosses her path.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Motion pictures--Germany.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Rebel. by El Arbi, Adil,film director.; Fallah, Bilall,film director.; Bensaihi, Aboubakr,actor.; Azabal, Lubna,actor.; Abboud, Tara,actor.; Bouab, Younes,actor.; Yellow Veil Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Aboubakr Bensaihi, Lubna Azabal, Tara Abboud, Younes BouabOriginally produced by Yellow Veil Pictures in 2022.When Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, he leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. But, having arrived, he is forced to join ISIS and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Musicals.; War.; Syria.; Islam.; Action films.; Families.; Action and adventure films.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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