![]() However, Alexander was controversial among some mainstream architects and critics, in part because his work was often harshly critical of much of contemporary architectural theory and practice. In architecture, Alexander's work is used by a number of different contemporary architectural communities of practice, including the New Urbanist movement, to help people to reclaim control over their own built environment. In his view, this provides an intellectual basis for a new architecture and enables one to ask precise questions about what must be done to create more life in our world. Alexander's work has also influenced the development of agile software development. In Book One, The Phenomenon of Life, Alexander (2002a) proposes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life. The first wiki-the technology behind Wikipedia-led directly from Alexander's work, according to its creator, Ward Cunningham. In software, Alexander is regarded as the father of the pattern language movement. ![]() Alexander designed and personally built over 100 buildings, both as an architect and a general contractor. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. ![]()
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![]() However, after purchasing new clothes it learns through the feed that Doctor Mensah has disappeared and it is immediately panicked. ![]() We can definitely see that Murderbot is becoming more human like both in appearance and in the way it is acting but it falls back to its SecUnit way of interacting when it is uncomfortable or overly anxious which seems to be all the time right now.Īs we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, Murderbot witnesses a ton of armed guards surrounding ship from the company, Palisade and they have been hired privately to specifically search ship for a rogue SecUnit, so Murderbot is now aware that it is being hunted down. Before Murderbot even gets back from Milu, Ship is diverted and Murderbot wisely exits Ship and makes his way through the station thinking of how best to get the information it has back to Doctor Mensah, possibly without having to see her again. Title: Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries Book 4) by Martha WellsĪfter finishing Rogue Protocol, I couldn’t wait to jump into Exit Strategy and see Murderbot return to PreservationAux and Doctor Mensah. ![]() ![]() The story gradually changes into a shocking story about moral corruption, which serves as a mirror to the "Funeral Speech of Pericles", in which the virtues of the Athenians have been praised. ![]() One would expect that after the description of the disease, the historian would have made a remark about the consequences that the plague had for the war. ![]() Thucydides' elder colleague Herodotus of Halicarnassus would have said that "the gods wanted it" or something like it, but Thucydides refuses to do so. (A mass grave discovered in 1994 illustrates the terrible death rate the disease has been identified as typhoid fever.) What is remarkable is the complete absence of any explanation: the historian offers a clinical description of the symptoms, but does not discuss the cause of the disease. ![]() Thucydides on the Plague The skull of an eleven year old girl, victim of the plague, found in the Kerameikos cemetery archaeologists have called her Myrthis.Īmong the most famous parts of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is his account of the plague that killed nearly a third of the Athenian population in the summer of 430 and caused greater loss of human life than the rest of the Archidamian War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These mothers, wives, and daughters were locked in a web of loyalty and betrayal that would ultimately change the course of English history. To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since.Īs acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is held by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.Ĭleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned PrisonersĬleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners ( Cléopâtre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort) is an 1887 painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel.You should also add the template to the talk page. ![]() A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,431 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the French article. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to this, mechanization made it easier for companies to replace workers at a fast pace without having to worry about union benefits. Many of these chains benefited from the growth of suburbs in California as soldiers returned home from war and settled with their families in car-based communities along highways between major cities. He tracks the transformation by following many different people: fast food workers, executives at fast food companies, ranchers and potato farmers in Colorado and its environs, large-scale farming operations, meatpacking plants that create new flavors for processed foods.Įric Schlosser begins his article by describing the emergence of fast food companies like McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s after World War Two. ![]() 1-Page Summary of Fast Food Nation Overall SummaryĮric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation is an attempt to describe how American eating habits have changed since World War Two. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the invitation is irresistible.” - San Francisco Chronicle ![]() ![]() “A bold and vivid tale that invites the reader to get lost in the intoxicating rhythms of another world. It is, quite simply, superb.” - Chicago Sun-Times It is an epic, a tour de force, a staggeringly complex and tantalizingly layered tale that will keep readers engrossed in days. One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.” - The New York Times “So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears. An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary-a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century-London itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially renowned for writing psychological thrillers with a modernist outlook, Highsmith has had many film adaptations of her work, including her first novel Strangers on a Train which was later adapted as an Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece. Powered by Blanchett and Mara’s stellar performances, the film garnered six Oscar nominations and was ranked by the British Film Institute as the best LGBTQIA+ film of all time in 2016, and has developed a cult following. ![]() With Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara leading the cast, Carol revolved around a forbidden love affair between Therese Belivet (Mara), an aspiring photographer, and Carol Aird (Blanchett), an older woman trapped in a troubled marriage. Based on the 1952 literary classic The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Todd Haynes’ 2015 romantic drama Carol was a critical darling, even if it made some changes to the source material. ![]() ![]() ![]() It lacks the beautiful writing style of both Némirovsky and Doerr, but the author manages to capture some events and atmosphere of the war years that could spark classroom discussion. Hannah’s book is a bit sappier and more contrived than its predecessors and contains elements similar to the other works of fiction. ![]() The latest contribution to this wartime historical fiction wave is Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, which weaves together the story of two sisters in wartime France. Starting with Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française (2006) and followed by Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key (2007) and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See (2014), these novels all spent weeks on bestseller lists. Within the last decade, a number of novels focusing on daily life in France under the Occupation have been published in English and have drawn the attention of a wide reading public. 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