The Skylight

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544084988

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Skylight by José Saramago Pdf

The denizens of a rundown building in 1940s Lisbon come to sparkling life in this lost early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness. The renowned Portuguese author Jose Saramago was at the beginning of his career when he submitted his novel Skylight for publication in 1953. It then sat lost among stacks of manuscripts for thirty-six years. Published posthumously according to Saramago’s wishes, the world can finally enjoy this “fascinating and startlingly mature work” set in 1940’s Lisbon (Boston Globe). The inhabitants of a faded apartment building are struggling to make ends meet: Silvio the cobbler and his wife take in a disaffected young lodger; Dona Lídia, a retired prostitute, is kept by a businessman with a roving eye. Humble salesman Emilio’s Spanish wife is in a permanent rage; beautiful Claudinha’s boss lusts for her; Justina and her womanizer husband live at war with each other. Happy marriages, abusive relationships, jealousy, gossip, love—Skylight is a portrait of ordinary people painted by the master of the quotidian, a great observer of the immense beauty and profound hardship of the modern world. “There is no shortage of wonders to be found in [Skylight].” —Washington Post

Author : Ian Baucom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442481671

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Through the Skylight by Ian Baucom Pdf

Living temporarily in Venice, three American siblings uncover a mystery surrounding magical objects, an Arabian Nights book, and animals that can walk in and out of paintings.

Author : Elbert Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783382172671

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The Skylight and the Dark-Room by Elbert Anderson Pdf

Author : LOUISE. CANDLISH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471198413

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The Skylight by LOUISE. CANDLISH Pdf

They can't see her, but she can see them... Simone has a secret. She likes to stand at her bathroom window and spy on the couple downstairs through their kitchen skylight. She knows what they eat for breakfast and who they've got over for dinner. She knows what mood they're in before they even step out the door. There's nothing wrong with looking, is there? Until one day Simone sees something through the skylight she is not expecting. Something that upsets her so much she begins to plot a terrible crime... From the author of Our House, the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year

Author : David Hare
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571301126

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Skylight by David Hare Pdf

Skylight premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years. This is the definitive edition of Skylight.

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780099488842

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Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman Pdf

Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love. But fate played a trick on her the night John Moody knocked on her door to ask for directions. Arlyn and John are complete opposites, but are drawn together like magnets even when it becomes clear that theyll bring each other nothing but grief.

Author : Elizabeth Haidle
Publisher : Illustoria Magazine
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1944211780

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Illustoria: Issue #9: Food by Elizabeth Haidle Pdf

This food-themed issue features recipes for grapefruit, appreciations of potato chips, guides to the diets of literary giants, contributions by Tunde Olaniran, Mar Hernandez, Chef Tamearra Dyson, Brian McMullen, Hein Koh, and more. "Illustoria" is the beloved print magazine for creative kids and their grownups. We celebrate visual storytelling, makers and DIY culture through stories, art, comics, interviews, crafts and activities.

Author : Ed Skoog
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592935

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Mister Skylight by Ed Skoog Pdf

A seductive maelstrom of a debut, largely inspired during eight years of eavesdropping in New Orleans.

Author : Jeffrey Tambor
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451496361

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Are You Anybody? by Jeffrey Tambor Pdf

You know him from his breakout role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, his outrageous turn as George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and his Emmy Award-winning performance as Maura Pfefferman on Transparent. A Broadway star, a television legend, an accomplished screen actor whose singular wit and heartrending performances have been entertaining audiences for more than four decades, but the question remains: Who the hell is Jeffrey Tambor? In his illuminating, often hilarious, and always honest memoir, Tambor looks back at the key moments in his life that taught him about creativity and play and pain and fear. The son of what you might call "eccentric" Russian and Hungarian Jewish parents, Tambor grew up in San Francisco a husy kid with a lisp, who suffered in his "otherness" and found salvation in the theater. While he learned his art from the best of the best--Al Pacino, George C. Scott, Garry Shandling, Mitch Hurwitz, Jill Soloway--he also introduces his many unexpected teachers, from the nameless man in a Detroit bookstore who gave him the love of reading, to his young children who (at this ridiculously late stage in his life) have reintroduced him to play, bravery, and the simple joy of not giving a shit. Tambor shares the triumph of landing his first Broadway role, but not before experiencing the humbling that is commercial work (and how even saying "my socks don't cling" can prove a challenge). He invites you behind the scenes of his wildly successful television shows, but he doesn't leave out the pit stops he made at addiction, Scientology, and what it feels like to get fourth billing after Sylvia the Seal on The Love Boat. At last, Tambor answers the question "Are you anybody?" with a promise that success doesn't mean perfection and failure most definitely is an option.

Author : Kevin Kern,Tim O'Day,Steven Vagnini
Publisher : Disney Editions
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1368052843

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A Portrait of Walt Disney World by Kevin Kern,Tim O'Day,Steven Vagnini Pdf

This expansive, must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Walt Disney World Resort, across half a century, through diverse and vibrant voices and mostly unseen Disney theme park concept art and photographs. Walt Disney's vision for the Florida Project begins with Disneyland and the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. After an imaginative and expansive design, a unique land acquisition process, and an innovative construction period, the Walt Disney World Resort celebrated its Grand Opening in October 1971. It featured a theme park dubbed the Magic Kingdom and three recreational resorts: Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Village, and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. As Walt Disney World consistently grew and further evolved through the five decades that followed, certain themes reverberated: an appreciation for nostalgia, a joy for fantasy, a hunger for discovery, and an unending hope for a better tomorrow. Inspirational and memorable theme parks, water parks, sports arenas, recreational water sports, world-class golf courses, vast shopping villages, and a transportation network unlike any other in the world resulted in fun, festive, and familiar characters, traditions, spectacles, merchandise, and so much more. The resort has come to represent the pulse of American leisure and has served as a backdrop for life's milestones both big and small, public and private. Walt Disney World: A Portrait of the First Half Century serves as a treasure trove for vacationers, students of hospitality, artists, and all Disney collectors. Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic Poster Art of the Disney Parks

Author : O. B. Hardison
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063266089

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Disappearing Through the Skylight by O. B. Hardison Pdf

Essays by a distinguished humanist upon the beauty and fascination of technology and its impact upon society. For the serious general reader. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Maya Stovall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012672

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Liquor Store Theatre by Maya Stovall Pdf

For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this book of the same name, Stovall uses the project as a point of departure for understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research, art, and knowledge creation. Her conversations with her neighbors—which touch on everything from economics, aesthetics, and sex to the political and economic racism that undergirds Detroit's history—bring to light rarely acknowledged experiences of longtime Detroiters. In these exchanges, Stovall enacts an innovative form of ethnographic engagement that offers new modes of integrating the social sciences with the arts in ways that exceed what either approach can achieve alone.

Author : Stefan Boeykens,Ruben Van de Walle,Dr. Arch. Eng. Pieter Pauwels
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781803245348

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A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad by Stefan Boeykens,Ruben Van de Walle,Dr. Arch. Eng. Pieter Pauwels Pdf

Move from 2D CAD drafting to 3D BIM with Archicad to boost productivity by mastering this powerful software Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Explore the Archicad GUI, file format, and tools to get started with residential projects Use out-of-the-box documentation tools combined with a powerful publishing workflow Translate conceptual designs into compelling imagery using various visualization methods Book Description A BIM Professional's Guide to Learning Archicad is a comprehensive introduction to all that Archicad has to offer for creating 3D models, 2D document extracts, and related outputs. This book is not a click-by-click series of recipes, but rather focuses on helping you understand why and how Archicad works by providing realistic examples and expert tips. The book gradually introduces you to Archicad tools using ample examples. It then helps you master its complexity through clear modules, allowing you to start your first project quickly, gain useful skills in subsequent projects, and keep using the book as a source for insights into the software. You'll start with the basic modeling of construction elements and then move on to adding roofs, stairs, and objects to the project. Next, you'll dive into basic drafting and 2D views for creating 2D output, and grasp how to use attributes and more advanced modeling tools for designing curtain walls and sites. The concluding chapters will show you how to extract and visualize your data and automate the publishing of your extracts and 2D documents into a variety of output formats. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of Archicad, how to implement it efficiently in your architectural projects, and how BIM can improve your overall design workflow. What you will learn Create an architectural model from scratch using Archicad as BIM software Leverage a wide variety of tools and views to fully develop a project Achieve efficient project organization and modeling for professional results with increased productivity Fully document a project, including various 2D and 3D documents and construction details Professionalize your BIM workflow with advanced insight and the use of expert tips and tricks Unlock the geometric and non-geometric information in your models by adding properties and creating schedules to prepare for a bill of quantities Who this book is for This book is for design engineers, architectural designers, residential designers, BIM professionals, and anyone working in construction, manufacturing, or similar fields. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a professional looking to upgrade your engineering design and urban planning skills, you'll find this book useful. Although no prior knowledge of Archicad is necessary, knowledge of construction (architectural design) and a basic understanding of 2D CAD drafting is recommended. The book is based on the international version of the software and uses metric units.

Author : John Mittendorf
Publisher : PennWell Books
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593702182

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Truck Company Operations by John Mittendorf Pdf

Author John Mittendorf has completely rewritten his best-selling book, Truck Company Operations, a must-have for all firefighters who are assigned to the truck and who have responsibilities for the truck on the fireground. The new second edition covers the many aspects, tasks, and functions of a truck company, and contains new and expanded information related to search, reading a building, reading smoke, the Ten Commandments of truck company operations, operating truck apparatus, and more--all from a truck company perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Heating
ISBN : MINN:31951000876037Y

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The Metal Worker by Anonim Pdf