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The Private Adolf Loos

• 2020 is the 150th anniversary of Adolf Loos’ birth and his name will be in the public eye through press and events. 
• Accessibly priced paperback of a Loosian love story is more than an architecture biography – it’s a story about the private life and bizarre mores of a genius as seen through the eyes of his wife, who was 34 years his junior. • Famous personalities from the 1920s and 1930s are peppered throughout the book: Josephine Baker, Henri Matisse, Karl Kraus, Oskar Kokoschka, Tristan Tzara, Erich Maria Remarque, Josef Roth, Charlie Chaplin, Arnold Schoenberg, and more. • Bizarre stories with cinematic brevity and absurd situations: Imagine your husband introducing you completely naked to his subordinate carpenter in the pool of the Viennese Nudist League, where they proceed to discuss business. Imagine him buying out an entire concert hall and giving away tickets on the street to introduce the common man to Schoenberg’s atonal music. Imagine a man who reads the encyclopedia for amusement, front to back. • Claire Beck’s documentation has ensured that Loos’ identity would not live on solely in the static shapes of architecture or through his essays, but as a man with a particular temperament and quirks that informed his genius. • Photographs by Claire show another dimension to the love story: that he was her subject, and that part of her interest in him was also artistic, which informed her future photographic activities. • Like a box of chocolates, this is a biography that's easy and fun to read piece by piece, a little at a time, or to devour all at once. It consists of more than five dozen short stories, some the length of a paragraph, some several pages. • New insights gained into Loos projects through their creation stories: the unrealized black-and-white striped marble house for Josephine Baker (1928) with its dramatic lighting and view into the swimming pool, for example, or the interior of the Villa Müller (1928–30) in Prague with green marble imagined by Loos as a visual rhyme with shimmering fish. • Loos’ philosophy and his spatial modeling system of the Raumplan — open-space architecture conceived in three-dimensions — is taught in every architecture school. His name is instantly recognizable and suggests controversy, innovation, and intrigue. • Essays by Loos in the appendix give insight into how these controversies were established — by Loos himself, a provocateur and cultural critic. • The book reflects not just Claire’s experience but also the zeitgeist that brought this Modern master to the fore and benefitted from his radical vision. He advocated a «socialist» future where every proletariat, through architecture, could become a liberated sophisticate. • A traveling exhibition of the Western Bohemian Writers Society has introduced Claire and this book around Europe for the last two years, with several articles about her appearing in magazines with monthly circulations of 65,000-100,000. They are trying to get the show to London for 2020, which would create a natural market for this book. • During his lifetime Loos designed, built, and remodeled close to one hundred apartments and homes, and undertook a number of large civic projects like schools, government buildings, and workers’ housing. Dozens of additional works include sanatoriums, hotels, shops, cafés and bars — notably Vienna's American Bar, featuring colorful stained glass and a death-defying marble ceiling that has never fallen down. • While related to the hardcover edition, this is a streamlined version of that book geared to a larger market, with 40 illustrations, including unseen documents. Some photographs are by Claire, some are of the two of them together, and one, never before published seems to have been taken by Loos of the author. Altogether they illustrate the theatricality of their relationship and suggest Loos as a character for a film or TV series that has never, surprisingly, been attempted, though it has apparently been discussed. • Informative supplemental material enlarges the story beyond Loos by providing details about the author from family archives, love letters from Loos, and what is known about Claire and her photography practice before her untimely death in the Holocaust.

The Outdoor Citizen

John Judge

A groundbreaking volume from the president and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club makes the profound argument that to preserve the environment, a revolution must take place in which every person becomes a champion for nature and the outdoors. In The Outdoor Citizen , John Judge coins the term “Outdoor Citizen” as he delivers a remarkably persuasive argument for why we must all become citizens of the natural world, reconnecting with life’s most essential foundation, nature, and defending it, embracing it, and instilling in the next generation a keen interest in outdoor leadership. Through The Outdoor Citizen , there is, at last, an easy-to-follow plan for all people to contribute to the cause of preserving the environment. This extraordinary volume is a call to action to commit to an active outdoor lifestyle and make the outdoors an epicenter of our communities. Judge, an international leader in conservation stewardship, covers how to turn our cities into Outdoor Cities, with a wide range of green spaces, outdoor recreation activities, eco- friendly transportation, and sustainable food sources; how to globally transition to green energy sources; what environmental policies must be urgently implemented and how to enact them; and how to fund a sustainable economy. At a time when we are facing an unprecedented climate crisis, the continued use of carbon emissions will lead to devastating, irreversible effects on the earth. This unique volume, brimming with expert advice and case studies, is unprecedented in its comprehensiveness. It is a gamechanger for saving our planet and an entry point into a world of healthier and happier people.

Urban Trails East Bay

Alexandra Kenin

Urban Trails: East Bay offers 40 routes for walkers, runners, and hikers, with an emphasis on getting out and getting fit in your own backyard. Expert local hiking guide Alexandra Kenin offers a wide range of options, from leg stretchers overlooking the Bay Area at Tilden Regional Park to an afternoon stroll through the wineries around Jack London Square to a 6-mile hike along the slopes of Mount Diablo to spot seasonal waterfalls. Other features include: Trailhead locations, including public transit options Rated appeal for walkers, runners, or hikers Info for families and dog owners Trail distance, elevation gain, high point, amenities Sidebars on area history, nature, tips, and sights Historic trails, coastal trails, stairways, peak bagging

Peak Nutrition

Maria Hines

Climbing partners Maria Hines, a James Beard–awardwinning chef, and Mercedes Pollmeier, an NSCA-certified strength and conditioning specialist and Level 2 nutritionist, decided that they’d had enough of packaged bars and goos. As a celebrated chef, Hines can make anything taste great, and Pollmeier knows the science behind exercise nutrition. On their long drives to crags an idea blossomed: write a nutrition book for mountain sports. Peak Nutrition details 100 simple and tasty recipes within the context of outdoor goals and body science: motivation, recovery, hydration; how our digestive system works; how food provides energy; effects of weather and altitude; the relationship between food, muscle, and cramping; how nutrition relates to mental and physical stress; and much more. The authors also explore shifting eating habits and ways to develop a healthier approach, whether bouldering, climbing, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, trekking, or trail running. «Peak Profiles» offer food tips from elite athletes such as backcountry boarder Jeremy Jones and climber Sasha Diguilian and sample menus help readers plan what to prep and pack.

PARADISE

Alasdair Gray

Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul.
The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.

The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy

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During the last two decades the study of European foreign policy has experienced remarkable growth, presumably reflecting a more significant international role of the European Union. The Union has significantly expanded its policy portfolio and though empty symbolic politics still exists, the Union’s international relations have become more substantial and its foreign policy more focused. European foreign policy has become a dynamic policy area, being adapted to changing challenges and environments, such as the Arab Spring, new emerging economies/powers; the crisis of multilateralism and much more.   The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy , Two-Volume set, is a major reference work for Foreign Policy Programmes around the world. The Handbook is designed to be accessible to graduate and postgraduate students in a wide variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Both volumes are structured to address areas of critical concern to scholars at the cutting edge of all major dimensions of foreign policy.   The volumes are composed of original chapters written specifically to the following themes:   ·         Research traditions and historical experience ·         Theoretical perspectives ·         EU actors ·         State actors ·         Societal actors ·         The politics of European foreign policy ·         Bilateral relations ·         Relations with multilateral institutions ·         Individual policies ·         Transnational challenges   The Handbook will be an essential reference for both advanced students and scholars.  

Venezuela, the Present as Struggle

Cira Pascual Marquina

Aseroë

François Dominique

FOR TRUE BELIEVERS IN THE POWER OF ART & LITERATURE: Aseroë expects much from its readers but returns their attention with revelatory insights into the power of art, poetry, and language. As it traipses through the great tropes of experimental literature, including an unforgettable section on the symbolist poet, Arthur Rimbaud, it awakens the mind and the senses. Aseroë is a delicious extravagance for the literate Francophile and fans of authors such as Paul Auster and William S. Burroughs, who lead their readers down rabbit holes to experience the ultimate philosophical fairy tale. AN ENCHANTING WORK OF AUTOFICTION: Interviewers will find that François Dominique, who speaks English, is as fascinating as Aseroë ’s narrator. Like him, Dominique is an avid mushroom hunter, radical bibliophile, learned philologist, and practitioner of “séances noires” (sessions of sensory deprivation) meant to achieve a Rilkean or Shelleyesque state of utter dark. EAGERLY AWAITED ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION FROM DISTINGUISHED TRANSLATOR: Richard Sieburth’s work in translation has been recognized on the lists of numerous PEN, French-American Foundation, and Best Translated Book Award prize juries. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Translation and the Annual Award in Letters from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A close friend of the author, he agreed to complete the draft first began in 1996 by the late Howard Limoli, and has delivered a translation long anticipated by American fans of this avant-garde tour de force, such as Lydia Davis and Mary Ann Caws, who have both endorsed Aseroë and Sieburth’s exceptional contribution to its English language debut.

100 Questions (and Answers) About Action Research

Luke Duesbery

100 Questions (and Answers) About Action Research by Luke Duesbery and Todd Twyman identifies and answers the essential questions on the process of systematically approaching your practice from an inquiry-oriented perspective, with a focus on improving that practice. This unique text offers progressive instructors an alternative to the research status quo and serves as a reference for readers to improve their practice as advocates for those they serve. The Question and Answer format makes this an ideal supplementary text for traditional research methods courses, and also a helpful guide for practitioners in education, social work, criminal justice, health, business, and other applied disciplines.

Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences

Jun Zhu

Space and geography are important aspects of social science research in fields such as criminology, sociology, political science, and public health. Many social scientists are interested in the spatial clustering of various behaviors and events. There has been a rapid development of interest in regression methods for analyzing spatial data over recent years, but little available on the topic that is aimed at graduate students and advanced undergraduate classes in the social sciences (most texts are for the natural sciences, or regional science, or economics, and require a good understanding of advanced statistics and probability theory). Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences  fills the gap, and focuses on the methods that are commonly used by social scientists. Each spatial regression method is introduced in the same way. Guangqing Chi and Jun Zhu explain what each method is and when and how to apply it, by connecting it to social science research topics. They try to avoid mathematical formulas and symbols as much as possible. Secondly, throughout the book they use the same social science example to demonstrate applications of each method and what the results can tell us. Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences provides comprehensive coverage of spatial regression methods for social scientists and introduces the methods in an easy-to-follow manner.      