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Rubble
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Author : Jeff Byles
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Rubble written by Jeff Byles and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Architecture categories.
From the straight boulevards that smashed their way through rambling old Paris to create the city we know today to the televised implosion of Las Vegas casinos to make room for America’s ever grander desert of dreams, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in our lives. In lively, colorful prose, Rubble rides the wrecking ball through key episodes in the world of demolition. Stretching over more than five hundred years of razing and toppling, this story looks back to London’s Great Fire of 1666, where self-deputized wreckers artfully blew houses apart with barrels of gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and spotlights the advent of dynamite—courtesy of demolition’s patron saint, Alfred Nobel—that would later fuel epochal feats of unbuilding such as the implosion of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis. Rubble also delves beyond these bravura blasts to survey the world-jarring invention of the wrecking ball; the oddly stirring ruin of New York’s old Pennsylvania Station, that potent symbol of the wrecker run amok; and the ever busy bulldozers in places as diverse as Detroit, Berlin, and the British countryside. Rich with stories of demolition’s quirky impresarios—including Mark Loizeaux, the world-famous engineer of destruction who brought Seattle’s Kingdome to the ground in mere seconds—this account makes first-hand forays to implosion sites and digs extensively into wrecking’s little-known historical record. Rubble is also an exploration of what happens when buildings fall, when monuments topple into memory, and when “destructive creativity” tears down to build again. It unearths the world of demolition for the first time and, along the way, throws a penetrating light on the role that destruction must play in our lives as a necessary prelude to renewal. Told with arresting detail and energy, this tale goes to the heart of the scientific, social, economic, and personal meaning of how we unbuild our world. Rubble is the first-ever biography of the wrecking trade, a riveting, character-filled narrative of how the black art of demolition grew to become a multibillion-dollar business, an extreme spectator sport, and a touchstone for what we value, what we disdain, who we were, and what we wish to become.
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Author : Gastón R. Gordillo
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-28
Rubble written by Gastón R. Gordillo and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-28 with Social Science categories.
At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. His exploration of the significance of rubble encompasses lost cities, derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts, stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.
Clearing The Rubble
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Author : Mahesh Dattani
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Clearing The Rubble written by Mahesh Dattani and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Clearing the Rubble, a radio play for three voices, was commissioned by BBC Radio to commemorate the first anniversary of the massive earthquake that devastated Gujarat on 26 January 2001. Two lives are brought together by tragedy. Toby, an English journalist, decides to help a young Muslim boy whose mother and two sisters are buried under the debris of the fallen hospital. The play is a touching tale of the victims of both natural calamity and social discrimination. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times
Rubble Music
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Author : Abby Anderton
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-23
Rubble Music written by Abby Anderton and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Music categories.
As the seat of Hitler’s government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World War II. Air raids shelled celebrated monuments, left homes uninhabitable, and reduced much of the city to nothing but rubble. After the war’s end, this apocalyptic landscape captured the imagination of artists, filmmakers, and writers, who used the ruins to engage with themes of alienation, disillusionment, and moral ambiguity. In Rubble Music, Abby Anderton explores the classical music culture of postwar Berlin, analyzing archival documents, period sources, and musical scores to identify the sound of civilian suffering after urban catastrophe. Anderton reveals how rubble functioned as a literal, figurative, psychological, and sonic element by examining the resonances of trauma heard in the German musical repertoire after 1945. With detailed explorations of reconstituted orchestral ensembles, opera companies, and radio stations, as well as analyses of performances and compositions that were beyond the reach of the Allied occupiers, Anderton demonstrates how German musicians worked through, cleared away, or built over the debris and devastation of the war.
Surviving Amid The Economic Rubble
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Author : K.T. Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Digital-Curve Inc
Release Date :
Surviving Amid The Economic Rubble written by K.T. Cunningham and has been published by Digital-Curve Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The 2007/2008 western credit crisis followed by a protracted economic recession has brutally battered millions of investors’ real estate portfolios, both residential and commercial. In “Surviving Amid The Economic Rubble”, property expert, KT Cunningham contends that the notion of a property market crash is a complete fiction. Instead, what he sees taking place is an economic shift from a bubble economy to a rubble economy, where old strategies, old real estate assets and traditional sectors are crumbling. Consequently, a whole new property investing world is born. With simplistic language and creative insight, the author takes the reader on a mindset changing journey. Firstly, by discussing the underlying factors that brought about the credit crisis and subsequent economic rubble. Then, he advocates which real estate strategies and assets; property investors should buy to thrive in a rubble economy and successfully build wealth in the decade of austerity. This modern real estate book will inject fresh ideas into readers' thinking and show them how to use winning strategies and techniques to find, finance and protect emerging gold-rush property assets, whilst setting new financial goals. On completion of this book, any investor should be able to master the game of property.
Rubble
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Author : Gastón R. Gordillo
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2014-08-20
Rubble written by Gastón R. Gordillo and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-20 with Social Science categories.
At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. His exploration of the significance of rubble encompasses lost cities, derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts, stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.
The Rubble Before Us
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Author : Brandon Vinton
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-01-21
The Rubble Before Us written by Brandon Vinton and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-21 with categories.
The Rubble Before Us is a collection of poetry revolving around religion, love, depression, and relationships.
Rubble S Big Wish Paw Patrol
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Author : Nickelodeon Publishing
language : en
Publisher: Nickelodeon
Release Date : 2017-01-09
Rubble S Big Wish Paw Patrol written by Nickelodeon Publishing and has been published by Nickelodeon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
When the PAW Patrol finds a magical jack-in-the-box, will all of Rubble the pup’s dreams come true? Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader. Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. This Nickelodeon read-along contains audio narration.
Rubble Films
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Author : Robert Shandley
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2001
Rubble Films written by Robert Shandley and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
An insightful analysis of German film in the immediate postwar era.
Rubble
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Author : Alex Agyei-Agyiri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Rubble written by Alex Agyei-Agyiri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Africa categories.
A novel.