Buildings and their associated systems are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world. The 2030 Challenge aims to produce zero-net energy from new North American construction by 2030 while achieving a 50 percent reduction in...
Art and architecture
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Author:Yudelson, JerrySummary: - Author:Ramsey, RussSummary:
Did you know Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime and that during the last three months of his life he completed an average of one painting every day?Did you know that Michelangelo's David is covered in a...
- Author:Livingstone MacLeod, AlanSummary:
Remembered in Broze and Stone evokes the years immediately following the First World War, when grief was still freshly felt in communities from one end of Canada to the other. This book tells the story of the nation’s war memorials—...
- Author:Ruurs, MargrietSummary:
Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades used his recognition to shed light on environmental...
- Author:Ruurs, Margriet, Bateman, RobertSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades...
- Author:Hook, PhilipSummary:
Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and woman who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but...
- Author:Rothko, ChristopherSummary:
Mark Rothko's iconic paintings are some of the most profound works of twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism. This collection presents fifty large-scale artworks from the American master's color field period (1949-1970)...
- Author:Littler, William, Terauds, JohnSummary:
A vibrant, richly illustrated commemorative book celebrating the first 30 years of Roy Thomson Hall, one of Canada’s most famous performance venues. Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait traces the first 30 years of what was initially known as...
- Author:Sirove, TarynSummary:
In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists' work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. This innovative exploration of how art and law intersected in the ensuing censor wars...
- Author:Yunkaporta, TysonSummary:
As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important...
- Author:Green, JonathanSummary:
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to inspire a desire to respond. The best artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist Jonathan Green's work has inspired a wide...
- Author:Davis, ScottSummary:
Waterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today, and microhydro is a mature, proven technology that can provide clean, inexpensive, renewable energy with little or no impact on the environment. Serious Microhydro...
- Author:Thornton, SarahSummary:
The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative...
- Author:Paglia, CamilleSummary:
From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately...
- Author:Luiselli, ValeriaSummary:
Grantland Book of the Year Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond Book Riot, 2014's Must-Read Books from Indie Presses "Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important voice in Latin...
- Author:Lawrence, Robyn GriggsSummary:
In 2004 The Wabi-sabi House helped popularize this ancient Japanese philosophy in North America. Far more than home dEcor, wabi-sabi is a state of mind: living modestly in the moment, stripping away the unnecessary, finding satisfaction...
- Author:Prochner, Isabel, Cardinal, DouglasSummary:
Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability in the province and across the country. Contributors bring both scholarly and...
- Author:Chrisman-Campbell, KimberlySummary:
In a sparkling social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the...
- Author:Thorneycroft, DianaSummary:
This is a representation of slytod, the controversial 1997 multimedia installation by Winnipeg artist Diana Thorneycroft. It features photographs from the exhibit and three critical essays about the artist's work and approach....
- Author:Estill, LyleSummary:
"In Small is Possible, Estill chronicles the failures and victories of an ongoing movement for sustainability and local resiliency in Chatham County, located in the piedmont region of North Carolina. Estill is a legitimate source...
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