Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects, we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the work that hidden aspects are revealed. The practice of drawing offers significantly different insights, not easil...

In Under Pressure, Ray Lucas provides fans with a timely, uncensored look at pro football's play-at-all-costs culture. Overcoming questions about his size and skills as a quarterback, Lucas persevered and went on to play seven seasons in the NFL. His professional football career, however, came to a sudden end at age 30, when a neck injury caused him to collapse on the sideline during training camp. Instructed by NFL doctors that surgery wasn't an option, Lucas turned to painkiller...

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects – a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture.The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. It looks at the cho...

While fundamentally a design discipline, architectural education requires an element of history and theory, grouped under the term ‘research’. However, many students struggle with this part of their course. This practical handbook provides the necessary grounding in this subject, addressing essential questions about what research in architecture can be.The first part of the book is a general guide to the fundamentals of how to do research, from assembling a literature review to con...

Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate...

Lonely Planet's ***Guatemala***is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Visit Tika's monumental restored temples, admire picture-postcard vistas in Antigua or hike Lago de Atitlan's lake shore trails; all with your trusted travel companion.Inside Lonely Planet's Guatemala Travel Guide:Lonely Plan...

The Mediterranean Pantry: Sauces, Spreads & Staples for Flavorful LivingAuthor: Luca FerraroNarrator: Louis RayStep into the heart of the Mediterranean with The Mediterranean Pantry, your essential audio guide to building a kitchen infused with sun-soaked flavor, tradition, and nourishment. Written by celebrated food artisan Luca Ferraro and brought to life by the rich voice of Louis Ray, this audi...

He's a hot, shirtless hockey player…and he’s my fake date for my ex-husband’s wedding. Talk about a hot flash to beat all hot flashes.The wedding bells are ringing and my ex-husband is the groom! When my grown kids hook me up with a fake date to my ex-hubby's tropical island nuptials, I expect sun, sand, and plenty of fruity cocktails - not steamy nights with a shirtless pro hockey player!Roman might be all swagger on the ice, but this growly, egotistical m...

I’m a hot-headed pro hockey player with a reputation for two things: reckless fights on the ice and a taste for older women off of it. But this time I might just be in over my head with an older single mom.With the team’s new head coach on my case, I can’t afford any more screw-ups. He thinks I need to grow up, and I’m out to prove I can get my act together once and for all. In fact, I just hired a realtor to help me buy a house. How’s that for grown up?Exc...

No woman wants a pity proposal.Just because I’m turning forty, dealing with perimenopause, and recently dumped another loser doesn’t mean I need rescuing—especially not by my best friend.But when Dallas Gamble blurts out that we’re engaged in a very public attempt at protecting me, there’s not much I can do but play along. Bless his dumb, beautiful heart.The man has always been impulsive. Protective. Flirty. And able to fill out a pair of Levi’s lik...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The God of the Overpass" by Orrin Grey"The Promise of Saints" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"Matchstick Girl" by Lucas Santana (translated by H. Pueyo)"The Hufaidh Sounder" by Ray Cluley (reprint)