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Kisho Kurokawa

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

By: Kishō Kurokawa,Dennis Sharp,Catherine Slessor,Tomio Ōhashi

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Kisho Kurokawa

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

By: Kishō Kurokawa,Dennis Sharp,Catherine Slessor,Tomio Ōhashi

The completion of the first phase of Kuala Lumpur International Airport in 1998 resulted in two 4000 m runways and a 335 000 m2 main terminal building. The airport can handle 25 million passengers a year, By 2020, however, the airport will be able to handle 120 000 000 passengers a year. It is not surprising that everyone should wonder why Malaysia would need an international airport of that size. The reason is the intense strategic competition that has already started. Unquestionably, the world will have an entirely new high-speed transportation system by 2025 at the latest. This will be the HSST (Hypersonic Speed Transport), which will carry between 300 and 500 passengers at speeds up to Mach 3.5. The HSST will be meaningless for short routes. Therefore the required international hub airports will be limited to two in North America, one in Central and South America, one in Africa, two in Europe, one in Russia, and three in Asia. Like China and South Korea, Malaysia is very eager to obtain one of the three Asian international hub airports, because a country with such an airport and the associated infrastructure is very likely to become a financial, information, tourism and advanced industrial centre. The airport is an integral part of a future linear capital corridor, which was also developed by Kurokawa. The area surrounding the airport will be used for an experiment in artificially restoring the tropical rain forest. Creating such a forest is the most effective method for blocking out noise from the airport. This is the basis of the architect's concept for a symbiosis between airport and forest. In addition, the architect believes that this is effective for expressing the identity of Malaysia, as tropical rain forests are the typical vegetation of the country. Kurokawa was a key figure of Japanese Metabolism; he has played an essential role in this movement, not only through projects and buildings, but also through theoretical writings. Since then he has been one of the leading architects in Japan.

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Edition Axel Menges

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3930698242

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9783930698240

Canada

By: Catherine Little,D'Arcy Little

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Canada

By: Catherine Little,D'Arcy Little

Presents information on the geography and climate, history, natural resources, economy, and people of Canada, focusing on change and including first-hand commentary by the country's citizens.

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332

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Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn

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0739852124

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9780739852125

Concrete Architecture

By: Catherine Croft

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Concrete Architecture

By: Catherine Croft

Inspiration for architects and urban planners, this text presents a re-evaluation of a material finally coming into its own in the 21st century - concrete. The text is illustrated with projects from some of the biggest-name architects around.

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252

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Laurence King Publishing

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1856693643

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9781856693646

Mary Slessor

Servant to the Slave

By: Catherine MacKenzie

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Mary Slessor

Servant to the Slave

By: Catherine MacKenzie

Mary had a hard life. She grew up in the slums of Dundee in the 1800s. However, this prepared her for the the life she would lead as a missionary in Africa.

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CF4kids

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1857923480

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9781857923483

The London-Budapest Game

By: Catherine Eva Schandl

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The London-Budapest Game

By: Catherine Eva Schandl

The London-Budapest Game' is the true sequel to 'Sword of the Turul, ' with a unique glimpse into the British underground in World War II Hungary - and its aftermath. From 1991 to 2001, a Swedish-Russian joint Commission investigating the fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg discovered that 3 Hungarian numbered prisoners secretly held in Vladimir prison, Soviet Union had been connected to his case. One was Karoly Schandl, a young lawyer in Budapest who lived near the Swedish Embassy. This is the continuation of his shocking true story, supported by historical documents and excerpts from his private writings. Karoly's anti- Nazi resistance group was led by his childhood friend, Gabor Haraszty, a.k.a. British agent ALBERT. The group had links to MI9, ISLD (MI6), SOE, Colonel Howie, the Dutch and Polish Underground, the Tito partisans, and a group of famous Jewish parachutists from Palestine, with whom they had planned to collaborate in Hungary. It was a dangerous game, and only a few would survive ..

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206

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Lulu.com

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1430311789

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9781430311782

Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark

By: Catherine Cole,Cathy Cole

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Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark

By: Catherine Cole,Cathy Cole

The room rustled as the children looked around. They knew no one had been to the coast but they checked in case for liars, for the too-dumb to know the difference between the real world and the television, for the dreamers. A young boy yearns for a rabbit; a man battles for his father's love; a group of middle-class Australians find themselves in a newly renovated house; and an elderly refugee worries about his daughter's sea voyage. Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark is about seeking refuge, about how we define home and what makes us feel safe. The stories in this collection ask a simple question: what does it mean to live with compassion and kindness? "[Cole] writes without the guilt that has been so debilitating to our political and intellectual culture. She doesn't engage with debates about guilt or blame, neither fending them off nor joining the chorus of mea culpa. She brings an awareness to attitudes of mind that Australian readers will recognize."--Drusilla Modjeska, The Monthly [Subject: Fiction]

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Apollo Books

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1742589502

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9781742589503

I Suffer Not a Woman

Rethinking I Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence

By: Richard Clark Kroeger,Catherine Clark Kroeger

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I Suffer Not a Woman

Rethinking I Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence

By: Richard Clark Kroeger,Catherine Clark Kroeger

Solid scriptural and archaeological evidence refutes the traditional interpretation used to bar women from leadership.

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354

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Baker Academic

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1441206183

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9781441206183

Beyond Anorexia

Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

By: Catherine Garrett

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Beyond Anorexia

Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery

By: Catherine Garrett

A sociological exploration of eating disorders and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery.

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264

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Cambridge University Press

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0521629837

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9780521629836

100 of the World's Best Houses

By: Catherine Slessor,The Images Publishing Group

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100 of the World's Best Houses

By: Catherine Slessor,The Images Publishing Group

100 of the World's Best Houses features exciting contemporary houses from some of the greatest architects, including Hugh Newell Jacobsen (Buckwalter House), Daryl Jackson Architects (Jackson House), Glenn Murcutt (Southern Highlights House), Kisho Kurok

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Images Publishing

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1876907428

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9781876907426

Voices Against Slavery

By: Catherine House

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Voices Against Slavery

By: Catherine House

Anthony Benezet, Elizabeth Heyrick, Baroness Cox, David Livingstone, Granville Sharp, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, OlaudahEquiano, Samuel Sharpe, William Wilberforce.

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164

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CF4kids

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1845501454

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9781845501457

Big Green Tree at No. 11

Tammy and Jake Learn about Life and Death

By: Catherine MacKenzie

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Big Green Tree at No. 11

Tammy and Jake Learn about Life and Death

By: Catherine MacKenzie

Tammy and Jake learn about the world around them - particularly about life and death. This is a good book to give to a child who has lost a family member or friend.

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148

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Christian Focus

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1857927311

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9781857927313

Gladys Aylward

By: Catherine Swift

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Gladys Aylward

By: Catherine Swift

A biography of Gladys Aylward, who traveled to China to become a missionary and stayed there through their war with Japan.

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Bethany House Publishers

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1556610904

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9781556610905

Eco-tech

Sustainable Architecture and High Technology

By: Catherine Slessor,John Linden

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Eco-tech

Sustainable Architecture and High Technology

By: Catherine Slessor,John Linden

The high-tech architecture movement embodied by seminal buildings such as Paris's Centre Pompidou (1977) and London's Lloyd's Building (1986) has undergone a subtle but palpable transformation. While daring feats of structural engineering still mark recent projects by the architects who forged the earliest examples, a new generation has expanded the vocabulary of this architectonic language, and evolved an architecture with different aims. The most significant of these objectives is to create a sustainable architecture. This international survey presents projects completed in the 1990s that use high-tech forms and materials for environmentally intelligent means. It brings together innovative approaches by established practitioners -- Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Michael Hopkins -- with a new generation -- Thomas Herzog, Von Gerkan Marg, Design Antenna, and Itsuko Hasegawa. The introduction charts the evolution of high-tech architecture and its progression toward more ecological concerns, and the movement as a whole is considered in a broader architectural context. At the book's heart is a selection of forty of the world's most sophisticated projects, each with a thorough description of its unique architectural and technological features, as well as extensive plans, drawings, and sketches. A complete reference section includes architect biographies and technical details of each project. Accompanying the texts and drawings are spectacular photographs, most of which were specially commissioned for this publication.

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W. W. Norton

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0500283060

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9780500283066

See-through Houses

Inspirational Homes and Features in Glass

By: Catherine Slessor

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See-through Houses

Inspirational Homes and Features in Glass

By: Catherine Slessor

See-Through Houses explores daring and dynamic glass homes all over the world, plus examples of glass as an exciting new element of interior design. The first part of the book, Pioneers, discusses the work of the architects over the last century who embraced the potential of glass, including Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Richard Rogers. Glass Structures looks at a range of highly innovative contemporary homes where glass plays a significant role in the construction of a building. Landscape Houses and Urban Houses explore homes where glass has been used to marry the interior and the exterior through a dramatic use of windows and walls of glass. Finally, Glass Features considers the increasingly popular employment of glass as an element of interior design - from screens to stairs and baths to basins. This is essential reading for all those wanting to learn more about contemporary architecture and the cutting edge of interior design, or keen to build a house where glass plays a major role - or simply use some striking glass elements in their existing home.

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1841722006

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9781841722009

Glass Houses

Inspirational Homes and Features in Glass

By: Catherine Slessor

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Glass Houses

Inspirational Homes and Features in Glass

By: Catherine Slessor

Glass Houses explores daring and dynamic glass homes all over the world as well as examples of glass as an exciting new element of interior design. The first part of the book, Pioneers, discusses the work of architects over the last century who embraced the potential of glass, including Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Richard Rogers. Glass Structures looks at a range of innovative contemporary homes where glass plays a significant role in the construction of a building. Landscape Houses and Urban Houses explore homes where glass has been used to marry the interior and the exterior through a dramatic use of windows and walls of glass. Finally, Glass Features considers the increasingly popular use of glass as an element of interior design, from screens to stairs and baths to basins. Glass Houses is essential reading for all those wanting to learn more about contemporary architecture or keen to build a house where glass plays a major role – or to simply use striking glass elements in their existing home. • Features the work of pioneering architects plus projects by architectural luminaries. • From award-winning author Catherine Slessor. • Glorious photography by James Morris.

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1849751323

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9781849751322

Concrete Regionalism

By: Catherine Slessor

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Concrete Regionalism

By: Catherine Slessor

Concrete's structural strength and visual variety combined with the particulars of place and culture have allowed Tadao Ando (Osaka), Ricardo Legorreta (Mexico City), Antoine Predock (Albuquerque, USA) and Wiel Arets (The Netherlands) to realize progressive and seminal forms. The buildings of these four lauded architects sensitively respond to their environments, while nevertheless functioning as monumental symbols that transcend their immediate surroundings." "Although they have established large international practices, the approaches of the four architects have enabled them to forge an architectonic language that is both solid and meaningful. From Predock's sensitive interpretations of America's southwest desert to Ando's graceful intervention in natural and urban contexts, from Legorreta's bold representations of Mexico's rich pre-Columbian heritage to Arets's cool 'second-modernist' forms, each architect's highly individual vision has created unique buildings for people and their environments." "In one sense the result of local conditions, the buildings in Concrete Regionalism also seem to exist out of time and place, constant reminders that there persists in architecture a search for enduring form."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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0500282277

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9780500282274

Mary Slessor

Servant to the Slave

By: Catherine MacKenzie

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Mary Slessor

Servant to the Slave

By: Catherine MacKenzie

Mary had a hard life. She grew up in the slums of Dundee in the 1800s. However, this prepared her for the the life she would lead as a missionary in Africa.

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CF4kids

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1857923480

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The Best of Catherine Marshall

By: Catherine Marshall

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The Best of Catherine Marshall

By: Catherine Marshall

Throughout her life, and always with the solace and illumination of God's Word, Catherine sought to meet head-on difficult questions on obedience, self-surrender, the Holy Spirit, illness, doubt, darkness, releasing God's answers in prayer, accepting God's 'wait' and facing death. Her deep probing and the answers she discovered are incorporated into her writing. This book is a unique collection of writings that even includes personal glimpses from her journals. This is inspirational writing at its best.

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0800792092

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9780800792091

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