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Showpiece City

How Architecture Made Dubai

By: Todd Reisz

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Showpiece City

How Architecture Made Dubai

By: Todd Reisz

Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous—this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubai's ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubai's strategy for capturing the world's attention—and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubai's spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements—including the city's first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper—designed as showpieces to proclaim Dubai's place on the world stage. Reisz explores the overlooked history of a skyline that did not simply rise from the sands. In the city's earliest modern architecture, he finds the foundations of an urban survival strategy of debt-wielding brinkmanship and constant pitch making. Dubai became a testing ground for the global city—and prefigured how urbanization now happens everywhere.

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Stanford University Press

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1503613860

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9781503613867

A Creationist Review and Preliminary Analysis of the History, Geology, Climate, and Biology of the Galapagos Islands

By: Todd Charles Wood

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A Creationist Review and Preliminary Analysis of the History, Geology, Climate, and Biology of the Galapagos Islands

By: Todd Charles Wood

NO COPY TO BE USED ON THE BACK COVER: AS PER EDITOR

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259

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597521809

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9781597521802

The Feminine "No!"

Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

By: Todd McGowan

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The Feminine "No!"

Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

By: Todd McGowan

Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.

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170

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SUNY Press

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0791448738

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9780791448731

Showpiece City

How Architecture Made Dubai

By: Todd Reisz

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How Architecture Made Dubai

By: Todd Reisz

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Rule of Thumb

Ebert at the Movies

By: Todd Rendleman

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Rule of Thumb

Ebert at the Movies

By: Todd Rendleman

With a critical eye that mirrors his subject's, Todd Rendleman explores the values, temperament, character, and style that have made Roger Ebert the most trusted and influential film critic in America. Introducing the one critic whom so many moviegoers recognize, argue with, and love, Rule of Thumb illuminates Ebert's critical strengths and blind spots. His sensibilities are further appreciated through comparisons to incisive, provocative colleagues like Pauline Kael and John Simon. While exploring their critical clashes, the author offers fresh assessments of a host of movies, from modern classics like Last Tango in Paris and Blue Velvet, to films that deserve another glance, like Music Box, In Dreams, and Bliss. Few are in a position to write a firsthand memoir of one of the world's great film critics, but Rendleman accomplishes just this, smartly intertwining his own coming-of-age cinematic sensibility with a witty critical analysis of his subject. All told, his achievement is noteworthy: he offers a unique view of a celebrated personality, while revealing himself as a writer of insight and dash.

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230

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441167668

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9781441167668

Does God Exist?

Examining Evidence in Support of a Christian Worldview

By: G. Todd Brimm M.A. M.DIV.

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Does God Exist?

Examining Evidence in Support of a Christian Worldview

By: G. Todd Brimm M.A. M.DIV.

Does God Exist examines crucial evidence that points to a Creator and helps readers develop and frame a consistent worldview to help answer some of the most challenging questions in life. This book exposes the inconsistencies and the attrocities that has resulted from modern societies embracing Darwinian evolution throughout most of the 20th century. The evidence presented in the book puts allegations of a blind-faith approach directly in the corner of the atheist. A must read for anyone who is engaging in serious inquiry into the question of whether or not our universe and the life that is the result of a Creator instead of time and chance.

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144

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WestBow Press

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1664261311

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9781664261310

The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

How the Brain Created Experience

By: Todd E. Feinberg,Jon M. Mallatt

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The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

How the Brain Created Experience

By: Todd E. Feinberg,Jon M. Mallatt

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious. How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific findings to answer these questions—and to tackle the most fundamental question about the nature of consciousness: how does the material brain create subjective experience? After assembling a list of the biological and neurobiological features that seem responsible for consciousness, and considering the fossil record of evolution, Feinberg and Mallatt argue that consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed. About 520 to 560 million years ago, they explain, the great “Cambrian explosion” of animal diversity produced the first complex brains, which were accompanied by the first appearance of consciousness; simple reflexive behaviors evolved into a unified inner world of subjective experiences. From this they deduce that all vertebrates are and have always been conscious—not just humans and other mammals, but also every fish, reptile, amphibian, and bird. Considering invertebrates, they find that arthropods (including insects and probably crustaceans) and cephalopods (including the octopus) meet many of the criteria for consciousness. The obvious and conventional wisdom–shattering implication is that consciousness evolved simultaneously but independently in the first vertebrates and possibly arthropods more than half a billion years ago. Combining evolutionary, neurobiological, and philosophical approaches allows Feinberg and Mallatt to offer an original solution to the “hard problem” of consciousness.

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387

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MIT Press

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0262333279

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9780262333276

Welcome to Toddworld

By: Todd Parr

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Welcome to Toddworld

By: Todd Parr

Join Todd on an exciting adventure through ToddWorld. Readers will meet his friends, visit their favorite places and see for themselves why ToddWorld is such a special place!

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Little Brown & Company

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0316057053

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9780316057059

Welcome to Toddworld

A Sticker Storybook

By: Todd Parr

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Welcome to Toddworld

A Sticker Storybook

By: Todd Parr

Join Todd on an exciting adventure through ToddWorld, as seen on ABC TV!

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073331662X

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Showpiece City

Showpiece City

A Creationist Review and Preliminary Analysis of the History, Geology, Climate, and Biology of the Galapagos Islands

A Creationist Review and Preliminary Analysis of the History, Geology, Climate, and Biology of the Galapagos Islands

The Feminine "No!"

The Feminine "No!"

Showpiece City

Showpiece City

Rule of Thumb

Rule of Thumb

Does God Exist?

Does God Exist?

The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

Welcome to Toddworld

Welcome to Toddworld

Welcome to Toddworld

Welcome to Toddworld

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