Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary (Fukasawa Naoto)(Paperback)

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary (Fukasawa Naoto)(Paperback)

'The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of ''super normal design'': alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable peeler or a simple plastic bag, there are design classics like Marcel Breuer's tubular steel side table,

Naoto Fukasawa: Embodiment - Naoto Fukasawa

A brand new monograph on one of Japan's best-known product designers, featuring more than 100 of his latest works | Naoto Fukasawa's simple, restrained, and user-friendly products have an extraordinarily universal appeal. Featuring more than 100 of his latest designs, including furniture, phones,

On the Sensations of Tone (Helmholtz Hermann)(Paperback)

On the Sensations of Tone is one of the world's greatest scientific classics. It bridges the gap between the natural sciences and music theory and, nearly a century after its first publication, it is still a standard text for the study of physiological acoustics -- the scientific basis of musical

Look into my eyes (Child Lauren)(Paperback / softback)

Hey, buster! Normal life is a total yawn. Break out of boredom with Ruby Redfort, the super-awesome teen detective series from multi-million-copy bestseller Lauren Child... Want to know more? Of course you do, bozo. Here's the low-down on Ruby Redfort: she's a genius code-cracker, a daring

The Normal and the Pathological (Canguilhem Georges)(Paperback)

The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It takes as its starting point the sudden appearance of biology as a science in the 19th-century and examines the conditions determining its particular makeup. Canguilhem analyzes

The Normal Christian Life (Nee Watchman)(Paperback)

Complete edition of the The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee. A giant among Christian guides, Nee invites the reader to move much deeper into a practicing Christian life, more than the reader thought possible. It is cited by many readers as the best book they have ever read, and a powerful

The Normal Christian Life (Nee Watchman)(Paperback)

The Normal Christian Life is Watchman Nee's great Christian classic unfolding the path of faith and presenting the eternal purposes of God in simple terms. This is a compilation of spoken addresses on such topics as the blood of Christ, Christ's cross, the Holy Spirit, the meaning and value of

The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life (Johnson Brian E.)(Paperback)

The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life offers an original interpretation of Epictetus's ethics and how he bases his ethics on an appeal to our roles in life. Epictetus believes that every individual is the bearer of many roles from sibling to citizen and that individuals are

Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein (Das Veena)(Paperback)

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as

Ordinary Affects (Stewart Kathleen)(Paperback)

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the

Zippo the Super Hippo (Gray Kes)(Paperback)

Zippo is fed up with being an ordinary hippo. He wants to have a super power - something exciting, something amazing, something BIG But being good at swimming and splashing in mud aren't considered superpowers. Perhaps he can learn to fly like his best friend Roxi the oxpecker. But who's ever

Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell (Moi Toril)(Paperback)

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy-a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell-to transform literary studies. In engaging and lucid prose, Toril Moi demonstrates this philosophy's unique ability to

Clockwork Planet (Light Novel) Vol. 3 (Kamiya Yuu)(Paperback)

AN ENORMOUS ELECTROMAGNET?! In the aftermath of rescuing AnchoR, Naoto and Marie are confronted with the horrifying truth of the weaponized behemoth's design: electromagnetic technology that can render clockwork useless! With AnchoR, RyuZU and Halter out of commission, the two geniuses find

Not So Normal Norbert (Patterson James)(Paperback / softback)

NORBERT RIDDLE lives in the United State of Earth, where normal means following the rules, never standing out, and being exactly the same as everyone else. He's been normal his whole life - until a moment of temporary hilarity when he does a funny impression of the country's dictator

Misadventures (Smith Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary memoir of an ordinary woman's

Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Cresswell Helen)(Paperback / softback)

First in the super-funny classic series starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen

Ordinary Grace (Krueger William Kent)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961

Stormblood (Szal Jeremy)(Paperback)

Vakov Fukasawa used to be a Reaper: a bio-enhanced soldier fighting for the Harmony, against a brutal invading empire. He's still fighting now, on a different battlefield: taking on stormtech. To make him a perfect soldier, Harmony injected him with the DNA of an extinct alien race, altering his

Song of the Dead (Lindsay Douglas)(Paperback)

DI WESTPHALL.No ordinary detective.No ordinary investigations. A twisting new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, James Oswald and John Connolly. Detective Ben Westphall has been given his latest case because of his background in MI6. But it's his ability to see

The Priority of Preaching (Ash Christopher)(Paperback)

'This little book is written for ordinary ministers who preach regularly to ordinary people in ordinary places... Most of us preach in gatherings that are smaller than we would wish and tougher than we might have hoped when we entered pastoral ministry... There is a voice on our shoulders who

The Ordinary: Recordings (Koolhaas Rem)(Paperback)

Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. The

Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition (Perrow Charles)(Paperback)

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding

The Monstrous Child (Simon Francesca)(Paperback)

A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager -- and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the best of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is forced to host for eternity. Until eternity itself

Life Project - The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives (Pearson Helen)(Paperback / softback)