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160 pages. Features: Organic and mechanical form principles; Virtual reality and nature;Goethe and Alberti; Footnote on Rome - impoverished land emptied of farmers; Alfred Caldwell's idea of the organic at Eagle Point Park; Frank Lloyd Wright's Allen House; New Translations of ancient Chinese Poems; Notes on the Mechanical and the organic in art and nature; Morphology of art and the machine in Russian Avant-garde theory and practice; El Lissitzky; John Ernest (1922-1994); Musical analogies in architecture; The power of Metaphor; Architectural space and artifact; Towards an holistic vision of architecture; Mirroring the planet; In the eye of the elk; Selected excerpts from international Zermatt Symposia on creativity - 1994, 1995; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A quality copy. Book
58 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The State Street Mall - what, where and why; Daniel (Dan) Hudson ("Make No Little Plans") Burnham - the man who got things done; Beneath the Planet is Where the Apes Are - Lincoln Park Zoo's new ape house will be built underground; Directory of Architects licensed in Illinois; Commonwealth Edison ad features photo of Ed Steeve and Carl Knutson with vacuum chamber weld tester; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
144 pages. Features: A new biology for a new century?; Sustainability and Morphogenesis - the rebirth of a living world; Gaining liberty to save the planet; Walking and thinking in urban design; Leberecht Migge and everyman's garden; Organic - a brief history of the concept; Biology and art; The biological roots of meaning in the visual arts; The logic of abstract art; Frantisek Kupka - creation in nature and art; Excerpts from Frantisek Kupka - Creation in the Plastic Arts (1923); An imaginary trialogue on the nature of nature with Klee, Kupka, and Henri Bergson; Art and Healing; Art and Healing - a few thoughts; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Of Men I Have Known - Part I - Winston Churchill, by Dean Acheson; Adventures of the Mind - The Five-Billion-Year Clock - measurements of radioactive 'clocks' in the earth's elements are providing geologists with new knowledge about the history of man and his planet, by Patrick M. Hurley; ; Minnesota Grows Older - this prosperous, rugged northland may be facing a lean future; What Freedom has done to India - John Masters describes the sweeping social changes that have taken place since it gained independence; The Girls in Candy Stripes - making life more livable for hospital patients; They Chase the Speeders - at the unique Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) near Sacramento, candidates for the California Highway Patrol learn the hazardous art of police pursuit driving; Me and Old George (a horse) - Gene Coughlin learned that danger often disapears when you refuse to run away from it. Ad clipped from page 49 - text unaffected. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: photo of interesting "new ears" for anti-aircraft gunners; a 4000 year food experiment - nutritional equilibrium in over-populated China; Editorials - spend for prosperity - Daniel Guggenheim - International affairs; Instrument flying to combat fog; Elevated highway to speed traffic in New York; X-ray fingers feel out the atomic structure of matter; A fact-finding laboratory; Archeology enters the stamp world; What is a quantum?; Feeding the crew of a battleship; More about pluto - further observations confirm its right to rank as a planet; Oil from below the ocean floor - oil derrick and pier are constructed in perilous waters; Factory wastes turned to profits; Scattered light and the Raman effect; An atom of Lutecium - its atomic structure is plotted for the first time; A murder, and the story the pistols told; When crude oil crosses the seas; Traveling home for phone linemen - a railroad train refitted as living, eating ,recreation quarters; Aviation in 1930, a summary. Back cover features colour advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes. An attractive woman is reclined beneath the caption "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." Cord front wheel drive automobile advertisement inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
32 pages. Features: An Intimate Talk with John Galsworthy; A Mixture No Nation Can Stand - America's stomach revolts at concoction of outlawed liquor crooked politics; America Writes A Book - the most crowded field of endeavor in this country; The Price-Fixing Association - how it ingeniously evades those troublesome anti-trust laws; Birth-Control - A World Blight - in this second article on birth control, Father McClorey says if propaganda succeeds, earth will become a desolate planet, driving through space, as dead as the moon; Pere Gilbault, le Coureur des Bois - a man of northern Michigan, philosopher, and artist for art's sake; Mr. Ford's Page - "The Economic Value of Accuracy is impossible to exaggerate"; Editorials - the Eucharistic Congress, Wilhelm Hohenzollern retains his estates in Germany, the 'dry' hearings in Washington, the manipulation of money; An Intimate Story of a Best Seller - struggling author finds publisher and new novel reaches an appreciative public; What's the Matter with the Ministers? - do our American preachers lack conviction concering the substance and efficacy of their message?; Voyage of the Victoria - Patagonia (part 6); Chats with Office Callers; The Fighting Quaker Who Made Cannon - Rhode Island and South Carolina Signers Included Stephen Hopkins, Outlawed by his Co-Religionists; A Dance a Week - Dictionary of Dance Terms; A Dog Molded a Man's Career - Bernhardt Wall and "Man's Best Friend"; News snippets include 'Gallic Ire vs. Cockney Sarcasm', 'Hooks and Eyes, Buttons and Religion', Joseph Conrad was not a Jew, Japs Ardently Copy Our Mistakes, Two Extremes of the Law, and Shoe Leather Hits Orient; Charming photos of kids from around the world, including four-year-old Pearl Hay of London. Middle page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
46 pages. Features: Can Russia Claim the Moon? - There's a red flag waiting for U.S. space men even if they are first on the planet; Classic full-page colour photo ad for Swanson TV Dinners (remember them!?); Crowds adore a Canadian Matadora - Carolyn Hawyard knows and revels in the dangers of the bull ring - article with photos; Nostalgic full-page colour photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau promoting use of the bean; Nice two-page colour photo ad for the various Christie's crackers/snacks; Toronto Restaurant the Gaslight Club employs beautiful female actresses, dancers and models to serve its patrons - article with many great colour photos of Shawna Wong, Agnes Simo, Eunice Beadle, Paula Jarvis, Yvonne Saunders, Lyn Chisham, singer Sonny Caulfield, Colleen Collins, Della Engen, Nina Prodon, Rochelle Ruland, Steffany Conwright, Heide Lamperstorfer, Jacqueline Gould, Paula Jarvis, and Kari Von Kantz; Hockey's Toughest Town - Mixing mayhem and money makes music in Chicago - article with photos in Chicago Stadium; Terror at the Carnival - Consuela Flores saves Randy Moore of Halifax from her 65lb African leopard - article with photos; Home Built on 2,000 Years of History - Michael and Elizabeth Moran of Beach Grove, BC discover native remains when building on their lot - article with photos; Centerfold advertisement for Ronson products; Montreal Lawye H. Carl Goldenberg - article with photos; Smitten with Knittin' - voluntary knitting classes after schooll at Capilano Elementary School in North Vancouver; Nice colour full-page ad for Shulton products; Du Maurier colour ad suggests giving cigarettes for Christmas(!); Cake recipes; Great colour photo and write-up on Montreal Canadiens player Gilles Tremblay; Santa visits Toronto's Firehall No. 7; Nipper comic. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
