The remaining monolithic downtown towers reflect a valid testament and legacy crowning Pittsburgh's gilded era. Influential industrialists and financiers such as Andrew Carnegie, H. J. Heinz, Thomas and Andrew Mellon and Henry Clay Frick immortalized their wealth and industry dominance by hiring the era's premier architecture firms and architects. The results created a concentration of accomplishment and innovation highlighted by aesthetics.During the late 19th and early 20th centu...

This edition features both the biography of architect Frank Gehry and extensive architectural photography from three of his works completed between 2000-2010.Gehry's professional path has followed a serpentine routing upon his family's relocation to Los Angeles in 1947 from Toronto. An early design influence included a lecture that he attended by Finnish designer and architect Alvar Aalto at the University of Toronto. Aalto's unique designs incorporating flowing gentle curves, play...

The world did not fall by accident.It was designed.After the destruction of the Garden, Juliette and Gianluca Farioli are no longer running—they are hunting.Far beyond the frozen north lies the truth behind the apocalypse: The Architects, the secret organization that created the infection, controlled Magnus Company, manipulated Dominion, and watched civilization collapse from behind clean walls and locked doors.But the deeper Juliette goes, t...

Assembling helpful marketing advice and guideposts for promoting your self-published writings often appears like a trek through a cloistered forest. The industry is so relatively new that there is minimal precedent to draw upon and few established strategies guaranteeing success. The self-publishing industry is an evolving landscape of financial and exposure promise supplanting a formerly rigid and longstanding business model currently crumbling and fragmenting. Each writer becomes a trail...

Death sometimes arrives randomly to those seemingly insulated from risk by virtue of their wealth, celebrity and protective environments.Periodically the world halts in shock and reflection upon the abrupt and sudden headlines of a celebrated personality's death. Their demise jolts and reinforces our understanding of the fragility and vulnerability of life. This edition chronicles the background stories and detailed locations of some of the most newsworthy, famous and even infamous...

The Last Call: Tales from the Bar Between Heaven and Hell takes you to a strange afterlife not ruled by angels or demons, but by a laid‑back bartender, a sarcastic talking lamp, and a brutally honest jukebox.

The universe had rules.Not written.Not spoken.But absolute.Everything that exists—must belong.Everything that doesn't—is removed.For a time, that balance held.Worlds rose.Worlds fell.Civilizations burned across the stars.Hunters hunted.Devourers consumed.

Introduction In all the discussions about the community of microorganisms living in the human gut (the microbiome) and its "good" and "bad" bacteria; in all the science about how to manipulate bacterial populations to increase gut health; and in all the media urging greater awareness of the microbiome's influence on us all, there has been a missing link. The science of the microbiome has, until recently, largely neglected an active and potentially virulent community within: It is fungus, a...

MEET YOUR DSLR There are tons of camera types on the market today—from cheap point-and-shoots to mirrorless interchangeable-lens (ILC) models, from tiny action cams to the camera on your smartphone. But for many dedicated shooters, the obvious first choice in equipment is still a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera. Why? First, DSLRs allow a shooter to frame pictures with precision fairly easily. Second, the sheer number of lens types available lets one camera perform many functions. ...

When I first came to consider how to compile and select a personal collection of 80 amazing cakes from all around the world, the task that was set out in front of me seemed almost impossible. There were just so many delicious choices from so many baking traditions! How could I possibly narrow down a selection from all across the baking globe to just 80 cakes, when deep down inside me I knew that I could easily include three times the number. Well, the truth is I simply had to settle on tho...

ATTRACTIONS Succulent plants have been a feature of the horticultural scene for a long time, yet their appeal has not been dimmed by the passing years. When first brought into cultivation, their exotic appearance made them objects of great curiosity. Contemporary accounts reveal the sense of wonderment induced in the minds of those acquainted only with the familiar garden plants of the day. The first flowering of some of those early introductions was often deemed newsworthy but then, as no...

We strive for security, long for stability and dream of a bright, enthusiastic and predictable future for ourselves and for our kids. However, for most of us, these hopes and desires are far from certain to be realised. Our world is filled with rapid and often perilous change. We could easily fall victim to an accident, act of violence, debilitating disease or natural disaster. Wars and acts of terrorism threaten to endanger the fabric of society and make even more elusive the security we ...