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  Augment It - How Architecture...

  Mehdi Nourbakhsh PhD.

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  Do you want to increase efficiency and productivity to meet demand, but find you’re struggling with low budget and resources? 
  As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, AND still turn a profit. 
  The solution? 
  In the past, technology has helped AEC companies to gain efficiency and become more productive. Artificial intelligence is one of the most under-utilized emerging technologies in the AEC industry, but when understood and used correctly, it improves efficiency, empowers creativity, and improves bottom-line results. 
  There is lots of misleading and confusing information out there about AI, and none specific to the AEC industry – until now. Unlike other, more technical or generic books, Augment It is written for you, the AEC professional. 
  You will learn:what AI is and what it can and cannot dowhat data is and how it can help your organizationhow to find a good AI problem with a high return on investmenthow to plan and execute your first AI projecthow to build and scale AI projects in your companyhow to define your AI strategy 
  Augment It also provides case studies of how AI is being used in businesses today. By implementing the techniques explained in this book, you – and your organization – will become an industry innovator with a sustainable and profitable future.

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  Psycho-Sexual - Male Desire in...

  David Greven

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  Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood—Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin—whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock’s depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reconsideration of Psycho and the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much to introduce the filmmaker’s evolutionary development of American masculinity. Psycho-Sexual probes De Palma’s early Vietnam War draft-dodger comedies as well as his film Dressed to Kill, along with Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Friedkin’s Cruising as reactions to and inventive elaborations upon Hitchcock’s gendered themes and aesthetic approaches. Greven demonstrates how the significant political achievement of these films arises from a deeply disturbing, violent, even sorrowful psychological and social context. Engaging with contemporary theories of pornography while establishing pornography’s emergence during the classical Hollywood era, Greven argues that New Hollywood filmmakers seized upon Hitchcock’s radical decentering of heterosexual male dominance. The resulting images of heterosexual male ambivalence allowed for an investment in same-sex desire; an aura of homophobia became informed by a fascination with the homoerotic. Psycho-Sexual also explores the broader gender crisis and disorganization that permeated the Cold War and New Hollywood eras, reimagining the defining premises of Hitchcock criticism.

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  Superstar in a Housedress - The...

  Craig B. Highberger

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  A vivacious, rollicking tribute to one-of-a-kind Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis  Based on author Craig Highberger’s documentary of the same name, Superstar in a Housedress is a striking oral biography of avant-garde, cross-dressing performer Jackie Curtis. Even among Andy Warhol’s orbit of dramatic personas and colorful characters in the sixties and seventies, Curtis stood out. Whether done up in drag or portraying James Dean—to whom he bore an uncanny resemblance—he dazzled in films, plays, and cabarets. Friends fondly recall how he brought his onstage eccentricities to everyday life, holding court in the backroom of the iconic nightclub Max’s Kansas City wearing tattered thirties housedresses, torn stockings, fabulous wigs, and glittering makeup.   Curtis died of a drug overdose in 1985, but not before leaving an indelible mark on New York City’s underground art scene. More than just a performer, Curtis translated his fixation on fame and its trappings into his own poetry and outrageous plays, such as Glamour, Glory and Gold and Vain Victory. With snippets of his work alongside colorful recollections from his friends and acquaintances—including Lily Tomlin, Michael Musto, Holly Woodlawn, Harvey Fierstein, and Paul Morrissey—this is a fitting and touching tribute that evokes the spirited, creative energy that radiated from Jackie Curtis.  

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  Face Paint - The Story of Makeup

  Lisa Eldridge

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  The “exquisite and richly illustrated” New York Times bestseller from the renowned makeup artist, “a retrospective written for all women, everywhere” (Vogue France). 
   
  Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through the Victorian age and golden era of Hollywood, and also surveys the cutting-edge makeup science of today and tomorrow. Face Paint explores the practical and idiosyncratic reasons behind makeup’s use, the actual materials employed over generations, and the glamorous icons that people emulate, it is also a social history of women and the ways in which we can understand their lives through the prism and impact of makeup. 
   
  “Makeup artist and Lancome global creative director Lisa Eldridge drops serious knowledge in Face Paint, her book on the history of beautifying.” —Marie Claire 
   
  “Clear your coffee table and turn off YouTube—Lisa Eldridge’s book is a must read.” —Teen Vogue  
   
  “The book is not only rich with history but also with a series of paintings, sketches and photographs in an intense array of colors, selected by the make-up artist herself in the most aesthetically pleasing universal statement to women you’ll ever see.” —Vogue France 
   
  “Face Paint delves into the history of makeup, with glossy pictures to match . . . the book’s cover is striking.” —New York Post

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  Doing What You Love And Loving...

  Justine Willis Toms, Michael Toms

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  Here is Part II of an evocative interview aimed at finding our true passion and integrating it into our life, both on and off the job. It's about finding joy, taking initiative and making the jump. But before you leap, Justine says, "There is an art to choosing well."

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  The Storyteller's Kit Box - How...

  Judy Hubbard

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  Learn how to create and tell spellbinding oral stories for the special children in your life with The Storyteller's Kit Box.Children’s author and story weaver Judy Hubbard shows how easy it is to build magical stories using a simple 4 step approach – character, setting,action and resolution – and an armada of great story themes.The Storyteller’s Kit Box provides helpful tips on story delivery, instructions for creating props bags and story boxes…and sample stories to get you started.There are helpful educational insights from early childhood educator, Tarryn Robertson, too.It’s well known that storytelling can:• expand young minds and imaginations• build rich relationships• develop language, active listening and curiosity• and even get kids to sleep – day or night!So unleash your inner storyteller…on quiet weeknights, slow weekends, holidays, in the car, walking to the park, in the waiting room – anytime at all!

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