Pinboard: bookmarks for fakeisthenewreal tagged 'book'

Supporters of Ferdinand VII cheered 'Long live the chains!' when he was restored to the throne in 1814 (with wrists crossed, according to Milos Forman). (cf in The Phantom of Liberty)

spain monopoly_on_violence book google rumor too_good_to_be_true
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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An Atlas of Radical Cartography
book via:criticalspatialpractice cartography politics space art toread
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The King in Yellow - Wikipedia

19th C. horror. "The color yellow signifies the decadent and aesthetic attitudes that were fashionable at the turn of the 19th century... suggested that yellow represents decay/disease/mental illness."

book wikipedia toread
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Biology of Cities | TIME [Monday, Nov. 30, 1942]

Review of Sert's 'Can our Cities Survive?': "The Sert group propose to house the city's people in skyscrapers, surrounded by open space, ... [a] single solution for a modern city's two greatest dangers, congestion and bombing."

urban planning history boston book the_sadness hidden_patterns
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Frontispiece for Nova Scientia Inventia da Nicolo Tartalea [Tartaglia]:

hermetics science history book
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Internet Archive: Details: The story of the Westinghouse Time Capsule : what the project means, how the Time Capsule was constructed, what it contains, how it will be protected against vandalism, how word of its location has been left for the future

Great details on the construction, and the BOOK OF RECORD distributed to monasteries and safe-houses across the world.

queens future time worlds_fair book history time_capsule
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Summer Reading List | Urban + Regional Planning | TCAUP

from umich

reading urban planning book archive viadailydose
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Alchemy Web Bookshop

"it is entirely possible for individuals with modest resources to establish a substantial collection of this material."

alchemy book
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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CODEX SERAPHINIAUS - a photoset on Flickr
flickr mystery via:hirmes via:kio book art
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Atlas Schmatlas

"Kyrgyzstan is the world's leading exporter of typos." Like Hodgman's book, but an atlas. Posting because of hand-drawn maps and the above line & an elephant thinking of Cote d'Ivoire as 'Cote d'Bloody Humans'

map book uk humor
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Processing - The MIT Press
consumption book
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Internet Archive: Details: New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages

urban planning from c1919. hilarious!

book urban history viactphonehome
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Old Brooklyn Heights: New York s First Suburb - Google Book Search
brooklyn history architecture book
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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LibraryThing UnSuggester | Don't read THIS

anti-suggestions for 'Left Behind': basically a list of authors and books I love.

book hidden_patterns random
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Englishwoman in America, by Isabella Lucy Bird (1856)

From Gutenberg. Lots of great details about oyster consumption in NYC, riding on trains, etc.

history usa nyc chicago book
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Institute of Contemporary Arts : Catalogues : A Forgotten Kingdom Mike Nelson

Takes frontispiece from The Plague, epigraph from Philip Dick, preface from Borges, then excerpts from Lovecraft, books about pirates, Lem, Kafka, Conrad & Hakim Bey. Solid motherfucking Gold

book art awesome
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Amazon.com: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass: Books: Douglas Massey,Nancy Denton

On the continued/ing practice of segregation.

race usa book
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Powell's Books - When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

This title been on a sticky on my dashboard forever. Can probably get from library by now.

book racism usa
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Download Uneven Development
book geography space capitalism
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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A caveat or warning for common cursetors,... - Google Book Search

book of Elizabethan criminal slang

language english book google
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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G-101 • PUBLICATIONS
architecture urban book
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Signs of Life Book

"collection of the most striking Gulf Coast signs that appeared following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."

book new.orleans katrina photography buy
september 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy - Google Book Search

Best speculative science fiction from the 1880s ever. Well worth the read.

google book
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Kevin Kelly -- Out of Control

As in Cheap Fast and. Full text of a techno-utopian potboiler by fmr exec ed of Wired. Notable bc I read a chapter in the library 10 years ago, forgot the title, then found it again by googling 5 common words.

book technology culture google a_gray_veil
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Teens@Random--What if... Everyone Knew Your Name?

CYOA books are back. I read some of this at Target. it's a preachy teen drama - If you fuck up, your boyfriend gets sent to Swiss boarding school and you're ostracized. [and they're not in 2nd person] Compare structure to old CYOA series?

book teen
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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ENGL 467: Computer and Text (Spr 2004): Choose Your Own Adventure Assignment

from UMD. includes e.g. chart of a CYOA book.

design hypertext book
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen - The MIT Press
book world economics
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, Hyper-Concordance, Concordance, Concordances, concordance, concordances, Nagoya University, Japan
archive book japan
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Turkish Jester by Nasreddin Hoca [project gutenberg]

hilarious

humor history book
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Powell's Books - Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

when you start quoting anecdotes from a book you read from the library years ago, you should probably just buy it. thank god for the internets that I could find which book it was I was talking about

book landscape history memory
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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American Vertigo by Bernard-Henri Levy - New York Magazine Book Review

been reading a lot of pans of American Vertigo. None express the books worthlessness so well as this fawnathon: "I had a great fuck with America."

book usa nyc magazine stupid
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Graph Theory

electronic edition of graph theory textbook

book math reference
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond by Kyong Park

founder of Storefront for Art&Arch edits "dystopian" volume

book architecture urban future
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Amazon.com: The Carriage Trade : Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America (Studies in Industry and Society): Books

By an amazing adjunct I had freshman year @ college: "It is an important book, of size, depth and scope well beyond what else has been written about the American nineteenth-century carriage and wagon industry."

history book usa amazon
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Winnowing the Field of America to One Representative - New York Times

Mr. O'Keefe, a Manhattanite who married late in life, expresses more than average astonishment that most Americans, even though they do not live in Manhattan or mingle with powerful and famous people, describe themselves as happy and place a higher value

book stupid statistics usa
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Dogmatika :: Review: The Dictionary of Urbanism by robert cowan

That the dictionary contains an entry on Drayneflete, no matter how concise, should give some indication of its scope.

urban architecture language book
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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nologo.org

I just realized yesterday that the color cover scheme on No Logo highlights the NO in NaOmi

activism economics politics book song_of_the_corporates
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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textz.com

heart.

archive copyright awesome book
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Conceptual Crisis of Private Property as a Crisis in Practice

turns a PNG into Cryptonomicon

art copyright php book
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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metropolitan atlas

Its unexpected combination of ground plans and statistics makes this atlas a unique work of reference where for the first time metropolitan areas ... can be compared with one another and in terms of their position in the global urban network.

design urban book
october 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Brooklyn Public Library | Brooklyn Collection

"special assemblage of memorabilia related to the history of Brooklyn, from the earliest times to the present."

brooklyn history book
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Art & Language - Wikipedia

1986, the remnants of the group were nominated for the Turner Prize.

art language uk map wikipedia book
september 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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Reader2 - find new books to read, put your reading list online

Dumping amazon ... now.