At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture

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This 330-page tome contains seven essays and more than 300 illustrations. The catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, it is not a history of 20th-century architecture, per se. But there is enough information, both visual and verbal, to ground any thoroughgoing reader in the architectural theory of the century. All the classics are covered: the Chrysler building; Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater; Bauhaus buildings; world's fair pavilions, including Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67; Saarinen's sweeping rooflines; Sutemi Horiguchi's measured modernism; the Sydney Opera House; Pompidou Center in Paris; and hundreds of other iconic images.

Some of the written material lacks the crisp, clean style of the architecture, but the book is brainy and provocative, and some of the essays are brilliant. French architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen, a specialist on the international impact of modernism and "Americanism," contributed a multifaceted chapter in which he analyses urban architecture, urban planning, political forces fomenting or forbidding change, new towns, the vertical city and its effects on individualism, and more.

The pictures are often small but always clear, many in color, including plans, paintings and drawings, maps, and movie stills. --Peggy Moorman

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At The End of the Century, One Hundred Years of Architecture
Richard and Elizabeth Smith Koshalek
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I Married Adventure: The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson

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I MARRIED ADVENTURE - THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN AND OSA JOHNSON
Osa Johnson
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I Married Adventure

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I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (Kodansha Globe)
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Osa Johnson's travel adventures and explorations come across as vibrantly today as they did when they were written in 1940. They're richer now with the added perspective of history, and the added wealth of Martin Johnson's photographs of charging elephants, reposing lions, and head hunters roasting heads, marshmallow-like, over a campfire. The life the Johnsons led was nothing like the life Osa expected. From 1917 to 1937 she and Martin were visiting and filming cannibals in the New Hebrides, orangutans in Borneo, and the rich gamut of wildlife available on safari in Kenya and the Congo. Osa led a life the likes of which won't be seen again, and she tells a good story, too.

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A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS

Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager
named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a 'round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her
rifle at the ready in case the scene's big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it's a book
sure to delight every lover of true adventure.

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I Married Adventure.......2007-06-09

I loved this book! The author creates visual images that will have your palms sweating as you read about encounters with head hunters. This book inspired me to do more research about Osa Johnson. It was also enjoyed by members of my book club.

Searching for the Grandparents of King Kong.......2006-02-25

My interest in and use of Osa's book are fairly narrow, but I enjoyed her retelling of her life with Martin. They were truly remarkable people, who lived up to her title.

Rick Chapman

Incredible Story.......2006-01-14

This book is a biography of Martin Johnson, written as a loving memorial by his wife shortly after his death in a plane crash. Martin, born in 1884, led a fascinating life. From Osa's descriptions of his school years, it sounds like if Martin had been an adolescent today, he might have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. He was obviously a very intelligent youth, but had no patience for sitting at a desk and studying topics that weren't of direct interest to him. He was quite taken with photography however, and established himself as a professional photographer while still in high school. He also had a lifelong love of travel, and he managed to spend several years in France while his peers were off in college or getting started in their careers. A lucky break with Jack London got Martin's career going. London hired Johnson as a cook for his ill-fated around-the-world sailing expedition. It was the photos that Johnson brought back from this trip that were to provide the original seed money for all the travels and photographic projects that were to occupy him the rest of his life.

Osa's story of meeting Johnson is incredibly wild. Before she knew it, she had eloped with this young man, and found herself at the tender age of 16 trying to see his dreams of travel adventure come true. Osa was considerably younger than Martin, and it was perhaps her youth that made their partnership work. Osa was still quite unexperienced when she began traveling with Martin, and was foolhardy in the face of danger, which any person would have to be in order to keep up with him and his crazy notions. Her youth probably also gave her the physical conditioning and stamina needed to run up mountains and away from cannibals. It's amazing to read of their adventures today, especially given their time in history, starting well before World War I.

Osa left school at 16 when she married Martin, but she nevertheless became a skilled writer. She was very much a product of her times, however, when it came to her attitudes towards non-Anglo-Saxon peoples. She seemed to look upon members of "primitive" races to be so far beneath her as to be just as appropriate as animals as subjects for their photographic studies. As for animals, although she repeated endlessly their desire to go on safari in order to photograph, not shoot animals, she blithely reports shooting a variety of game, both big and small during their African travels. As she tells it, she and Martin would set up the cameras and provoke animals to charge to they could capture the charges on film. If an animal came too close, however, they would of course have to "bring it down", be it a rhino, elephant, or lion. And they couldn't escape the responsibility of providing fresh meat for their native porters, so of course she had to develop her hunting skills and shot many a Thompson's gazelle along the trail. If you can set aside such flaws and stomach-turning gaffes, the book can be an amazing account of the lives of perhaps the most adventurous couple of recent times.

Unforgettable.......2005-11-06

A friend gave me this book almost 30 years ago, and I find that I read it every year or so.... it's inspirational and life-affirming. Every time I read it, I find myself wondering if it could really be true. It is a lovey, readable tale of two young mid-western Americans who find each other, and head out to explore the world. The love story is just as compelling as the adventure story. I find that I reach for this book at times in my life when I need to find an escape into a larger world... one full of faith and hope and openess to what's around the next corner....

The Best TRUE Adventure I've Ever Read.......2004-01-31

I first read "I Married Adventure" when I took this book out of my local library as a student. It fascinated me. I was pleasantly surprised when I found it to still be available.

Martin and Osa Johnson lived what they wrote. There is no pretense in their lives. They were true adventurers. They made a great contribution to the world of adventure. I'm sure they inspired many to further their boundaries.

This is an adventure that will cause you to hold your breath while reading, wondering how they got through.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to live outside their border. It's breathtaking!

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An Inspiration for a Young Girl.......2006-10-15

I remember our teacher in the fourth grade reading this book to us, chapter by exciting chapter, each one leaving us on the edge or our seats, quite literally. I thought Osa Johnson was wonderful. I had no idea that women could be like her and do the amazing things she did. I was certain that I wanted to be just like her when I grew up. You see, when I was in the fourth grade it was only 1949 and women still didn't do the things Osa did. As it turns out, I didn't either, but it didn't stop me from dreaming.

I read the book to my own children, chapter by chapter and they were just as spellbound as my 4th grade classroom had been. They couldn't wait for bedtime each night so they could hear the next chapter. I couldn't wait either...it was as if I were a child again, right along with them.

I'm buying the book for my grandsons now. They are 6 and 11 and I don't think it's a minute too soon for them to be caught up in the story of these adventurers.

I Married Adventure review.......2003-12-30

Though I am biased, since Osa Johnson was my grandfather's aunt, I have read this book a couple of times and have always found it to be well-written and easy to relate to. Osa was a woman ahead of her time, driving a truck, hunting fowl for dinner, and planting a garden with the help of hired African men, only to see it trampled by elephants. This story really gives a clear picture of what it was like to be one of very few American women traveling in undeveloped parts of the world in the 1920s and 30s.

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Humanity is heading towards a world in which urbanisation is the rule. At the same time, other trends suggest that the nature of cities may be changing radically. Many people assume that the information technology revolution and the globalisation of the economy and communication systems, combined with generalised urban spread, will mean the disappearance of the 'city' as a territorial form of social organisation.
This book, by two of the world's most highly respected urban geographers, challenges this widespread vision. It argues that the specific role of cities will become increasingly important in the new circumstances. Unless a dynamic and creative relationship between the local and the global is established, enabling cities to remain the focus of social organisation, political management and cultural expression, the enormous social and environmental problems of urbanisation will prove unmanageable.

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spanish version.......1999-09-08

I would like to know if there is a spanish version of this book. Thank you for this information Patricia.

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People want to feel good about their job, no matter what they do. They want their job to support their spiritual values and to have a meaning that extends beyond them. They don't want a job that forces them to be one person at work and one person at home--and they do want a job that leaves time for that home. This upbeat title enables readers to find "a little bit of calling" in everything they do, regardless of their present position. The book helps create a spirituality of work that leads to more creativity and satisfaction and to a better balance between one's home life and work life. Drawing from a wide range of theologians, philosophers, and social commentators, the book shows step-by-step how to look at work both more realistically and more positively. Loving Your Job, Finding Your Passion provides concrete help for everyone from the first-time employee, to the burned-out veteran, to the unemployed. Its methods are easily adaptable for different jobs, different situations, different lifestyles, and different personalities. A perfect choice for anyone who works or wants to work, the book is also a great selection for adult ed classes, business students, company retreats or in-house motivational seminars, vocational counselors, pastoral counselors, and anyone concerned with business ethics.

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basic.......2001-06-19

With a basic "be here now" attitude, Mr. Allegretti manages to write 182 pages of no information. Platitudes abound such as "find the good" and "think small" and "cultivate opportunities" but it all boils down to finding joy and meaning in what you already do. I suppose this book would be good for overactive compulsive workaholics, but for me, it proved to only parrot what has been said over and over during the last 20 years.

A Spiritual Primer.......2000-07-12

There is a rising interest around the topic of spirituality in the workplace. This contribution to the topic provides a basic primer for one who is a beginner on this spiritual journey and a helpful summary for those farther along. The author provides a solid basic framework for understanding one's spiritual life in the context of their work and the pitfalls that one encounters along the way.

I was surprized that the Library of Congress catagorized this as "Catholic" since the book approaches spirituality in such a generic way that I think it would defy any such catagorization. This avoidance of a Catholic expression is the book's greatest weakness. Parker Palmer, another author (quoted in this book) who has written on this subject, successfully mines the spiritual tradition of his Quaker faith. This faith perspective greatly enhanced Palmer's work. I was disappointed that a book distributed by a Catholic publisher and written by a Catholic author contained almost nothing of the richness of that spiritual tradition. It is also a rather pricey book considering its brevity and that it is a paperback.

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