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Surf Craft

Design and the Culture of Board Riding

By: Richard Kenvin

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Surf Craft

Design and the Culture of Board Riding

By: Richard Kenvin

The evolution of the surfboard, from traditional Hawaiian folk designs to masterpieces of mathematical engineering to mass-produced fiberglass. Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and recreational significance. Today most surfboards are mass-produced with fiberglass and a stew of petrochemicals, moving (or floating) billboards for athletes and their brands, emphasizing the commercial rather than the cultural. Surf Craft maps this evolution, examining surfboard design and craft with 150 color images and an insightful text. From the ancient Hawaiian alaia, the traditional board of the common people, to the unadorned boards designed with mathematical precision (but built by hand) by Bob Simmons, to the store-bought longboards popularized by the 1959 surf-exploitation movie Gidget, board design reflects both aesthetics and history. The decline of traditional alaia board riding is not only an example of a lost art but also a metaphor for the disintegration of traditional culture after the Republic of Hawaii was overthrown and annexed in the 1890s. In his text, Richard Kenvin looks at the craft and design of surfboards from a historical and cultural perspective. He views board design as an exemplary model of mingei, or art of the people, and the craft philosophy of Soetsu Yanagi. Yanagi believed that a design's true beauty and purpose are revealed when it is put to its intended use. In its purest form, the craft of board building, along with the act of surfing itself, exemplifies mingei. Surf Craft pays particular attention to Bob Simmons's boards, which are striking examples of this kind of functional design, mirroring the work of postwar modern California designers. Surf Craft is published in conjunction with an exhibition at San Diego's Mingei International Museum.

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MIT Press

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0262027607

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Surf Craft

Design and the Culture of Board Riding

By: Richard Kenvin

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Design and the Culture of Board Riding

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Awakening Spirits

Wolves in the Southern Rockies

By: Richard Reading,Brian Miller,Amy Masching,Rob Edward,Michael Phillips

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Awakening Spirits

Wolves in the Southern Rockies

By: Richard Reading,Brian Miller,Amy Masching,Rob Edward,Michael Phillips

This illustrated collection offers fascinating insight on restoring the wolf population to the Southern Rockies. Detailed reports by wildlife biologists, geographers, legal and policy experts, and conservationists provide a comprehensive look at not only the ecological imperatives, but also the history, legal framework, and public attitudes affecting the future of wolves.

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337

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Fulcrum Publishing

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1555917836

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9781555917838

Down the Jersey Shore

By: Russell Roberts,Richard Youmans

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Down the Jersey Shore

By: Russell Roberts,Richard Youmans

Summer visitors and year-round residents alike are sure to discover Jersey Shore lore that captures their fancy in this entertaining account of the people, places, and events that have shaped New Jersey's famous shoreline. From ghost stories and the comic misadventures of the early Miss America Pageant to the dynamics of the changing coastline and poignant portraits of traditional crafts workers, Russell Roberts and Rich Youmans have chronicled the fascinating history and heritage of the New Jersey Shore. In this book you'll meet the luminaries who've frequented the Shore--from President Ulysses Grant strolling through Long Branch to Grace Kelly learning to surf at Ocean City. You'll find out why the boardwalk was invented, and also why early ones were removable. Join the authors as they pay tribute to the Shore's forgotten inventors, including Simon Lake, who some consider the true father of the modern submarine. Relive the Jersey Shore's role in wartime and learn the story of the mysterious Nazi submarine sunken off of Point Pleasant Beach. Read about Lucy the Margate Elephant, as a well as her two long-gone "cousins." Discover all this and more as Roberts and Youmans explore the vast uncharted heritage of the New Jersey Shore.

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308

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Rutgers University Press

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0813519969

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9780813519968

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

By: Richard B. Frank

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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

By: Richard B. Frank

A sweeping epic.… Promises to do for the war in the Pacific what Rick Atkinson did for Europe." —James M. Scott, author of Rampage In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean encompassed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many levels with their profound twenty-first-century legacies. In this first volume of a trilogy, award-winning historian Richard B. Frank draws on rich archival research and recently discovered documentary evidence to tell an epic story that gave birth to the world we live in now.

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1107

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324002115

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Private Justice

By: Richard Sand

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Private Justice

By: Richard Sand

A father turns to PI Lucas Rook to investigate the murder of his daughter. Rook's dark journey finds him racing to find the killer, who kills again and again. Ben Franklin Award for best mystery of the year.

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Cumberland House

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1930754175

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Richard Nickel Dangerous Years

What He Saw and What He Wrote

By: Richard Cahan,Michael Williams

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What He Saw and What He Wrote

By: Richard Cahan,Michael Williams

Selections from the Richard Nickel Archive at the Ryerson and Burnham Archives of The Art Institute of Chicago. Mary K. Woolever, Art and Architecture Archivist; Joe Tallarico, Digital Imaging Photographer. With contributions from the personal collections of Tim Samuelson, Susan Nickel Brunson, Nancy Nickel, Donald and Harriet Nickel, Emily Eads"--Page 264.

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Cityfiles Press

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0991541839

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9780991541836

Seven Years' Hard

By: Richard William Free

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Seven Years' Hard

By: Richard William Free

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0530500035

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9780530500034

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Surf Craft

Surf Craft

Surf Craft

Surf Craft

Awakening Spirits

Awakening Spirits

Down the Jersey Shore

Down the Jersey Shore

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942

Private Justice

Private Justice

Richard Nickel Dangerous Years

Richard Nickel Dangerous Years

Seven Years' Hard

Seven Years' Hard

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