![]() ![]() Several variants of such building structures are examined in detail. The internal fluid pressure greatly increases structural efficiency by converting columns, floors and roofs into lightweight tension structures. It explores the use of air and liquid pressure as the principal structural element of multi-story buildings. This book is about a very different kind of architecture than the buildings we see around us at the beginning of the 21st Century. Whereas the initial focus was on lightweight vertical structures such as air-supported multi-story buildings with flexible plastic membrane enclosures and pressurized thin-walled columns with rigid metal walls, the new research has centered on lightweight horizontal structures. ![]() Since the first publication of this book on multi-story pneumatic and fluid-inflated building structures in 2013 the author has continued research into extensions of the same principles to large span floors and roofs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 1916, with the Battle of the Somme underway, Jünger's regiment moved to Combles in August for the defence of the village of Guillemont. He rejoined his regiment on the Arras sector. His first taste of combat came at Les Éparges in April 1915 where he was first wounded.Īfter recuperating, he took an officer's course and achieved the rank of Leutnant. ![]() Storm of Steel begins with Jünger as a private entering the line with the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in Champagne. It can be read affirmatively, neutrally or as an anti-war book. ![]() The judgment of contemporaries and later critics reflects the ambivalence of the work, which describes the war in all its brutality, but neither expressly condemns it nor goes into its political causes. The book established Jünger's fame as a writer in the 1920s. It was largely devoid of editorialization when first published, but was heavily revised several times. ![]() The book is a graphic account of trench warfare. It was originally printed privately in 1920, making it one of the first personal accounts to be published. Storm of Steel ( German: In Stahlgewittern, lit.'In Steel Thunderstorms' original English title: In Storms of Steel) is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War from December 1914 to August 1918. ![]() ![]() Do your best to provide lore-based reasoning behind your answer. Rule 4c: All hypothetical question posts must make an effort to answer the question.While these are allowed in specific cases, you must also provide a summary of the work, a specific reason you are posting, and credit to the original creator. Rule 4b: Do not post just links (YouTube, Imgur, Bell of Lost Souls, etc).This also includes text blocks consisting of Ork-speak, which should be posted at /r/40kOrkScience instead. This includes "who would win" and broad "what if" scenarios. 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Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity, for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her-how they judge her. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. Now a major motion picture from Luca Guadagnino starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet and Mark Rylance, screenplay by David Kajganich! Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. ![]() ![]() Riding the Dragon In Southeastern Tennessee For a complete guide to the riding the Dragon (AKA, Deal's Gap, Tail of the Dragon) please see that Dragon's motorcycle road registration page. And its not just drivers coming in from other states to ride the Dragon, but many motorcycle riders even come in from outside the USA. ![]() Generally though the most commonly used name is simply "The Dragon." The route is often mentioned with a catch phrase that sums up what motorcycle riders are in store for when they ride the dragon - 311 curves in 11 miles! Talk about a work out for the rider and not a road for the faint of heart as you will not only be contending with Dragon's turns but also have to deal with other bikes riding the dragon that may be pushing it harder or going slower than you prefer as the route draws in fellow riders from all over the USA. The Dragon goes by many different names such as the Tail of the Dragon, Deal's Gap, The Dragon's Tail, or by its government given name of US Highway 129. ![]() For motorcycle riders, riding the Dragon can be the pinnacle ride of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Lily is my favorite kind of heroine: observant, loving, and startlingly brave. Pan, New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color of After This book is for anyone who has ever loved-in any sense of the word."-Emily X.R. ![]() "Exquisite and heart-shattering, Last Night at the Telegraph Club made me ache with wishing. A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world."-Sarah Waters, international bestselling and award winning author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch "Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. "A vivid historical document of midcentury queer life."- Wall Street Journal "Lo beckons readers, sentence by restrained sentence, into this incandescent novel of queer possibility."-National Book Award Winner Citation Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for LiteratureĪ We Need Diverse Books Walter Dean Myers Honor Book ![]() ![]() ![]() If a Poem Could Live and Breathe is an indelible portrait of the authenticity of first love, the heartache of loss, and how overcoming the worst of life’s obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and when they meet, unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever. ![]() Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. ![]() Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s generation. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee-many of them never before published- If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy.Ĭambridge, 1878. A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think I'm just going to stick with Schwab's more fantasy focused books because this? This was not it. Literally how did this win GR choice awards in YA fantasy with all the other amazing books on there? make it make sense Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere, but will she take her place as a Prior, protecting our world against the Master of the House? Or will she take her place beside him? Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where her father may have come from. The manor is crumbling, the ghouls are solid, and a mysterious figure rules over all. When she crosses a ruined wall at just the right moment, Olivia finds herself in a place that is Gallant-but not. Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them. ![]() But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home-to Gallant. Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal-which seems to unravel into madness. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. ![]() And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I am recommending this movie to the max. What happens? Well I don’t want to spoil it. Now of course for the story to work we have to have boy meets girl, boy loses girl….Īnd that’s what happens. And rooting for them not to care about their age differences. ![]() I was so enchanted and so awash in their romance. But as the story unfolds-beautifully I might add-we watch them fall in love. Second, a wonderful chemistry between him and Sandy. ![]() So what do we have right up front? No worries for her about finding a man who doesn’t have problems with her having kids. Somehow he gets volunteered to babysit her kids. Aram works as a barista and he and Sandy meet over coffee. Turns out his wife was only looking for American citizenship/green card and was in love with a guy he thought was her brother. Aram (the gorgeous and charming Justin Bartha) is also recently divorced. She has two kids and is starting her life all over again. Sandy (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is a recent divorcee who was cheated on by her husband. “The Rebound” I loved from the very beginning. Two movies out of the half dozen or so that I watched over the last week are “The Rebound” and “Serendipity.” One I loved. There was at least one of the films I would have loved at a different time in my life, but yesterday I didn’t like it at all. I have found that I have changed my mind, at least a little bit, on what I find romantic. So the last few days I’ve been watching some romantic movies and I’ve had a little surprise…. So I’ve Been Watching Some Romantic Movies…. ![]() ![]() ![]() LOLA Landscape Architects is an architectural firm based in Rotterdam that specializes in transforming public spaces, often postindustrial sites, through the optimization of the landscape's natural ecosystem. One of the world's foremost living garden designers, and a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movement, Piet Oudolf (born 1944) has completed such famous projects as the garden for the High Line and Battery Park in New York, Oudolf Garden Detroit at Belle Isle Park, Delaware Botanic Gardens, Toronto Botanical Garden Entry Garden Walk, the Serpentine Gallery's interior garden and the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. ![]() This inspiring volume presents the garden vision of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. A sumptuous introduction to the visionary gardens of Piet Oudolf-designer of New York's High Line garden-and the Dutch firm LOLA ![]() |