Highlighting recent projects Foster + Partners: Catalogue traces the development of the Foster studio from its formation in the 1960s to the present. More than 120 buildings & projects are featured in stunning full-color photographs & complemented by architectural sketches & drawings. The book examines the distinctive features of Fosters work & shows the full range of the practices achievements as urban planners architects & industrial designers. Organized by themes it

Includes:: the studios latest buildings such as the new Beijing Airport the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. the Hearst Tower in New York the Great Court at the British Museum in London & the distinctive new headquarters tower for Swiss Re??????winner of the 2004 Stirling Prize. Including numerous current works as well as buildings that showcase the essential characteristics of Fosters distinctive design philosophy this book presents the most comprehensive overview of the renowned architects career to date.

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Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen & never looked back. She had it all: the glamorous career the lovely house the gorgeous husb&. But now she's back: unemployed separated & holed up in her dead granny's bungalow. Worse still she's forced to share the bungalow with Ben the clueless & domestically challenged fiance of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in need of simple instruction. & Kate is a woman in need of a project. So she decides to secretly train Ben her foster husband as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister. But Kate may still have a few lessons of her own to learn... ...

Three book editors jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic & the occult are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game but then their game starts to take over the deaths start mounting & they are forced into a frantic search for the truth. ...

Foul Play: the second book in this crime fighting series by Tom Palmer. Danny is obsessed with two things: football
- especially
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Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev & a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie Alex Finn. But Alex goes against their wishes. His punishment: an 'accidental' car crash & he's out of the return game in Russia. Something is going on with England's replacement goalie & Danny soon finds himself caught up with the criminals of the footballing underworld. Will he unravel the match-fixing mystery? ...

When Danny Harte finds out there's been an anonymous foreign buy-out of his favorite club City he's furious
- the fans were about
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An unscheduled aeroplane arrives on the tarmac at a small Midwestern airport. All attempts to reach those onboard fail. Only when an official boards the plane is the reason for this clear...it is full of babies. The mystery of this flight remains for over a decade. Until Jonah Katherine & Chip start to question their roots. Shortly after this the letters begin: You are one of the missing"; " Beware! They are coming back to get you."" ...

Textile artists have always used found objects both for decoration & to imbue their work with meaning & recently the practice has become even more popular. Cas Holmes is renowned for her use of the found & her many-layered atmospheric pieces have been shown around the world. The practice differs from recycling in that the objects often remain themselves when they are incorporated into the work rather than being transformed into something else & their original appearance being obliterated. The work is often conceived & built around the found object. The definition found object can include a wide range of objects from natural materials such as driftwood & leaves to old bits of machinery & vintage fabrics. Mundane objects such as CD cases can be used to create stunning pieces of art or more sentimental items such as old jewellery can lend deep meaning to a work. The book covers: * How to find objects: for example in the home walking the streets travel souvenirs * Types of found object: including natural objects man-made items printed ephemera * Using found objects: using little jewels to decorate work making unusual frames creating work within boxes * Creating surfaces with found objects: printing layering fusing cutting & stitch This book contains a wealth of techniques & inspiration for incorporating found objects into your textile work. ...

Having written enthralling biographies of London & of its great river the Thames Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled more than 15 000 years ago to the death in 1509 of the first Tudor monarch Henry VII. In it Ackroyd takes us from Neolithic England which we can only see in the most tantalising glimpses -- a stirrup found in a grave some seeds at the bottom of a bowl -- to the long period of Roman rule; from the Dark Ages when England was invaded by a ceaseless tide of Angles Saxons & Jutes to the twin glories of medieval England -- its great churches & monasteries & its common law. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time & place he tells the familiar story of king succeeding king in rich prose with profound insight & some surprising details. The food we ate the clothes we wore the punishments we endured even the jokes we told are all found here too. ...

Foundation & Empire is the story of first contact between the two Foundations of Hari Seldon. The Seldon Plan guided the First Foundation safely through two centuries of chaos as the Galactic Empire disintegrated. Seldon's recorded holographic image appeared in the Council Chamber on Terminus at moments of crisis predicted by pshychohistory & his voice was heard. Even war between the Foundation & the remains of the Empire was foreseen
- & planned for
- by the great scientist. But Seldon had no way of predicting the birth of the Mule a mutant of uncanny power & unlimited ambition. The Mule's conquests are effortless & his subjects mind-controlled slaves. The Foundation is powerless against the supernormal force the Mule exerts. The Seldon Plan is in tatters. Two men & a woman from Terminus flee to the ruins of might Trantor in an effort to discover where the mysterious Second Foundation was established. Its help is needed desperately against the mental powers of the Mule. But the Mule using those same astonishing powers is also looking for the Second Foundation.

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