Tour 1987

Blueprint. Architecture, Design & Contemporary Culture. No. 153, September 1998. Birmingham, Aspen Publishing, 1998.

4°. 78 durchgehend, meist farbig bebilderte S. in mehrspaltigem Druck. (Fifteenth Birthday Issue). Illustr. OKart. - About: "The meaning of the Eames House", "The Net: from Vietnam to cyberspace", "On tour with Libeskind and Foster", "Architecture: the schlock of the new", "Rem Koolhaas builds an icon" etc.

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[Theater] Miller, James Hull: Small stage sets on tour. A practical guide to portable stage sets. Colorado Springs, CO: Meriwether Publishing Ltd., 1987, ISBN: 0-916260-46-1

112pp.; Orig.Broschur; Gr.8°; 170g; [Englisch]; moderately used / leichte Gebrauchsspuren 2. Edition;

[KW: Amateurtheather / amateur theater, Bühnenbau, Szenerie / stage-setting and scenery]

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Wagon, Stan: Mathematica in Action, w. CD-ROM. Berlin Springer Verlag, 1999. ISBN: 0387982523
Verlagsmängelex., XVI, 592 p. 537 illus., 22 in color. With CD-ROM. Geb. Mathematica in Action, 2nd edition, is designed both as a guide to the extraordinary capabilities of Mathematica as well as a detailed tour of modern mathematics by one of its leading expositors, Stan Wagon. Ideal for teachers, researchers, mathematica enthusiasts. This second edition of the highly sucessful W.H. Freeman version includes an 8 page full color insert and 50% new material all organized around Elementary Topics, Intermediate Applications, and Advanced Projects. In addition, the book uses Mathematica 3.0 throughout. Mathematica 3.0 notebooks with all the programs and examples discussed in the book are available on the TELOS web site. These notebooks contain materials suitable for DOS, Windows, Macintosh and Unix computers. Stan Wagon is well-known in the mathematics (and Mathematica) community as Associate Editor of the "American Mathematical Monthly," a columnist for the "Mathematical Intelligencer" and "Mathematica in Education and Research," author of "The Banach-Tarski Paradox" and "Unsolved Problems in Elementary Geometry and Number Theory (with Victor Klee), as well as winner of the 1987 Lester R. Ford Award for Expository Writing. ISBN 0387982523 , ISBN-13: 9780387982526

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Lovell, Mary S.: Straight on Till Morning. The Biography of Beryl Markham. Mit einem Vorwort der Verfasserin. Mit Anmerkungen, Auswahlbiografie und Register. Preface. With bibliography and index. Deutscher Titel: Nicht übersetzt. London, Hutchinson Ltd., 1987. ISBN: 0091705800
Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - Beryl Markham (26 October 1902 - 3 August 1986) was a British-born Kenyan aviatrix, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. During the pioneer days of aviation, she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She is now primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night. Biography: Beryl Markham was born Beryl Clutterbuck on October 26, 1902, in the village of Ashwell, in the county of Rutland, England, the daughter of Charles and Clara Clutterbuck.[1] When she was four years old, her father moved the family to Kenya, which was then British East Africa, purchasing a farm in Njoro near the Great Rift Valley. Although her mother disliked the isolation and promptly returned to England, Beryl stayed in Kenya with her father, where she spent an adventurous childhood learning, playing and hunting with the natives. On her family's farm, she developed a knowledge of, and love for horses. As a young adult, she became the first licensed female horse trainer in Kenya. Impetuous, single-minded and beautiful, Markham was a noted non-conformist, even in a colony known for its colourful eccentrics. She married three times, but accounts of her life indicate that she was not a faithful spouse. Her unconcealed 1929 affair with the Duke of Gloucester, the son of George V, led her husband's brother, Sir Charles Markham, to threaten the British Royal Family with naming the prince in an embarrassing divorce suit. The Windsors promptly cut the romance short; Beryl was bought off with a capital trust of 15,000 from the Duke's own funds, from which she drew a modest annuity for the rest of her life.[2] She befriended the Danish writer Karen Blixen during the years that Blixen was managing her family's coffee farm in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi. (In the film rendering of Blixen's memoir, Out of Africa, Markham is represented by an outspoken, horse-riding tomboy named Felicity.) When Blixen's romantic connection with the hunter and pilot Denys Finch Hatton was winding down, Markham started an affair with him herself. He invited her to tour game lands on what turned out to be his fatal flight, but Markham declined because of a premonition from her flight instructor, Tom Campbell Black.[3] Sara Wheeler, in her biography of Finch Hatton, notes that she believes stories that Markham was pregnant by him at the time of his crash. Largely inspired by the British pilot Tom Campbell Black, with whom she had a long-term affair, she took up flying. She worked for some time as a bush pilot, spotting game animals from the air and signaling their locations to safaris on the ground. She also mingled with the notorious Happy Valley set, but was never a full-fledged "member" of the decadent crowd. .... Authorship controversy: Questions were raised over time as to whether Markham was the real, or sole, author of West with the Night, not least because Markham never repeated her accomplishment with a second book of similar length, scope or beauty. The writing style has been linked with various writings by a contemporary writer of the time, Thomas Baker, who was also rumored to be her lover. Her publishing accomplishments for the rest of her life were limited to a handful of short stories. According to the 1993 biography, The Lives of Beryl Markham, by Errol Trzebinski, the book's real author was her third husband, the ghost writer and journalist Raoul Schumacher. ... But in her biography of Markham, Straight On Till Morning, author Mary S. Lovell, who visited Markham in Nairobi and interviewed her extensively shortly before Markham's death, disputes the claim that Schumacher made substantive contributions to West with the Night. From her research, Lovell concluded that Markham was the sole author, although Schumacher did edit the manuscript; instead, Lovell credits Antoine de Saint Exupery, another of Markham's lovers, with being the inspiration behind Markham's clear, elegant language and storytelling style.[9] The International Astronomical Union has named the impact crater Markham on the planet Venus after her. ... Aus: wikipedia-Beryl_Markham , ISBN-13: 9780091705800

2. Auflage. xxiv, 408 Seiten und 12 Blatt mit Abbildungen. Hardback with Dustjacket. Very GOOD. Illustrations. Hellblaues Leinen mit silbergeprägten Rückentiteln und Schutzumschlag.

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