Double Fold

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781400033041

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Double Fold by Nicholson Baker Pdf

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.

Author : Mary M. Hogan
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607658269

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Fast-Fold Hexie Quilting by Mary M. Hogan Pdf

Featuring 20 exciting quilting projects, create an array of hexagons with less cutting in less time with the quilt-as-you-go technique! Learn the basic construction of fast-fold hexies, then practice fussy cut hexies, half hexagons, stacked hexies, and more. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-use patterns, you’ll love learning this simple and innovative way to make amazing hexagon projects, from a baby quilt to a holiday tree skirt.

Author : Nicolau Corção Saldanha
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Differential topology
ISBN : 9780821846285

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Foliations, Geometry, and Topology by Nicolau Corção Saldanha Pdf

Presents the proceedings of the conference on Foliations, Geometry, and Topology, held August 6-10, 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in honor of the 70th birthday of Paul Schweitzer. The papers focus on the theory of foliations and related areas such as dynamical systems, group actions on low dimensional manifolds, and geometry of hypersurfaces.

Author : Adam Engst
Publisher : Peachpit Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780132712453

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iPhoto 6 for Mac OS X by Adam Engst Pdf

Need to learn iPhoto 6 fast? Try a Visual QuickStart! This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with this great iLife 06 application in no time. Best-selling author and instructor Adam Engst uses crystal-clear instructions, full-color illustrations, and friendly prose to introduce you to everything from importing, tagging, editing, and perfecting images to creating slideshows and photo albums to easy online Web publishing. You’ll also learn about everything new in iPhoto 6, including enhanced editing and special effects, calendars and cards, photocasting, and more!

Author : Liangwei Deng,Yi Liu,Wenguo Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811549403

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Biogas Technology by Liangwei Deng,Yi Liu,Wenguo Wang Pdf

This book focuses on agricultural waste treatment and renewable energy production from the perspective of anaerobic digestion. It covers topics on anaerobic digestion processes and practices in various types of biogas plant construction and management and systematically addresses the principle and main features of three kinds of anaerobic digestion systems: household digesters, biogas septic tanks, and biogas plants. Instructive, informative and easy to understand, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers, technicians, graduate students and managerial personnel working in the areas of renewable energy, agricultural ecological engineering and the treatment and utilization of agricultural wastes.

Author : Fumiaki Shingu
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781462921676

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The Ultimate Book of Origami Animals by Fumiaki Shingu Pdf

Fold your favorite origami animals--from cute Panda Cubs, Kittens and Penguins to the menacing Great White Shark and Tyrannosaurus Rex. The easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions in this book show you how to quickly fold 120 amazing animal origami models. Once you're done folding them, you can decorate your creations with eye stickers to create a truly lifelike collection of creatures. The following are just a few of the unique origami projects you can create with this book: Three different kinds of cuddly Dogs and Cats A pride of Lions A floppy-eared Elephant, complete with pleated trunk and pile of poop! A spiny-but-cute Porcupine--watch your fingers! A sleepy-eyed Sloth--hang him upside down for a nap A Panda parent and baby--including bamboo to munch on! A playful Otter with her fishy snack A friendly Flying Squirrel An adorable pair of Bunnies, complete with crunchy Carrots! Snakes, Lizards, Sharks, Crustaceans, Primates, Dinosaurs, and so much more! Japanese author Fumiaki Shingu is one of the world's leading origami experts, having published over 20 books on the subject. Fumiaki is an avid proponent of the art of origami in Japan, and he specializes in creating fun and easy-to-fold original origami models.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307807526

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The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Pdf

Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent and her friendship with an unpopular girl, and she has made it through the year without crying. Nicholson Baker follows Nory as she interacts with her parents and peers, thinks about God and death-watch beetles, and dreams of cows with pointed teeth. In this precocious child he gives us a heroine as canny and as whimsical as Lewis Carroll's Alice and evokes childhood in all its luminous weirdness.

Author : Paul Fulton,Jill Fulton
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781572848788

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The Art of Extract Making by Paul Fulton,Jill Fulton Pdf

A first-of-its-kind cookbook, featuring 40 unique and approachable extract recipes for both brand-new and experienced DIY extract makers. From VanillaPura founders Paul and Jill Fulton comes a delightful collection of scrupulously tested extract recipes designed to pack maximum flavor and sweetness into a variety of baking and cooking applications. Creating high-quality, high-impact extract is so much more than simply putting beans into booze and waiting. In The Art of Extract Making, the Fultons offer a brief overview of the history of vanilla cultivation, the science of extraction, and the intricacies of different vanilla species and spirit varieties so that at-home extract makers can make the best choices about which ingredients will yield the best results for their desired applications. From an introductory-level “first vanilla extract” recipe, to more complex blends of cocoa, caramel, and coffee, the book covers a vast range of flavors, even delving into surprising combinations like ginger and peach. With simple recipe steps, detailed taste-testing instructions, and clear guidance on vanilla bean origins and alcohol types to use for each recipe, the hardest part will be waiting for the extract to be ready! The Fultons invite readers to make each recipe their own with the extract-making journal pages included at the end of the book so that personalized, perfect sweetness can be recreated time and time again.

Author : Siri Engberg,Joan Banach,Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1555951635

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Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991 by Siri Engberg,Joan Banach,Robert Motherwell Pdf

A study of the prints of Robert Motherwell, covering the years 1943 to 1991. This fourth edition is based on research and scholarship. In addition to cataloguing more than 500 prints in virtually every medium, it includes an essay on Motherwell's print-making, an illustrated chronology, concordance, bibliography and exhibition history. 500 colour & 100 b/w illustrations

Author : Gilles Deleuze
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826490766

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The Fold by Gilles Deleuze Pdf

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Author : Charles J. Stivale
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1572303263

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The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari by Charles J. Stivale Pdf

French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari worked together extensively from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the resulting "intersections" of their different sensibilities and modes of knowing fueled powerful alternatives to Marxian and psychoanalytic orthodoxies. Yet readers approaching Deleuze and Guattari's works are often frustrated by the paucity or unfamiliarity of specific examples that might clarify their complex arguments. This timely volume "animates" key concepts and terminology by applying them to provocative readings of literary texts, films, and cultural phenomena--from Apocalypse Now to Cajun music and dance. Drawing extensively from primary and critical sources to elucidate Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical contributions, Stivale reinvigorates their "two-fold thought" for use as an analytical tool in the humanities and social sciences. The book also offers a clear introduction to the precollaborative phase of each thinker's work, an interview Stivale conducted with Guattari, and the first-time English translation of a 1967 essay by Deleuze. Winner--Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University

Author : Barney Saltzberg
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761189503

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My Book of Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg Pdf

Every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. This is the central idea of Beautiful Oops!, Barney Saltzberg’s beloved bestseller—and now My Book of Beautiful Oops!, an interactive journal for young artists, takes that principle into unexpected new directions. A hands-on journal that’s meant to be personalized—drawn in, painted on, torn up, smudged, or otherwise artistically wrecked—My Book of Beautiful Oops! is filled with folded, crumpled, die-cut, and lift-the-flap pages that will challenge the reader’s sense of play. The friendly green alligator from the first book prompts the reader: Bend a page. Decorate a smudge. Play with splats and spills. Even complete a poem that was accidentally ripped in half. My Beautiful Book of Oops! champions imagination, play, and the courage to express oneself. It’s about self-forgiveness, about turning off that inner critic that clamors for perfection. And it’s about freedom—the freedom to be creative and follow your curiosity wherever it goes. That’s a lesson to celebrate.

Author : Gwen Diehn
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1579903266

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Making Books that Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist, and Turn by Gwen Diehn Pdf

Presents instructions for making various kinds of books including those that carry messages across space and time as well as those that save words, ideas, and pictures.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1830 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065836958

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Wenlan Chia
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 9780307409355

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Twinkle Sews by Wenlan Chia Pdf

Fashion designer Chia shares 25 sewing patterns form her playfully sophisticated, popular ready-to-war line, Twinkle by Wenlan. 90 full-color photos.