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Carnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of California's many amazing endemic plants--species that are unique to particular locales. California boasts an abundance of endemic plants precisely because it also boasts the richest geologic diversity of any place in North America, perhaps in the world. In lively prose, Arthur Kruckeberg gives a geologic travelogue of California's unusual soils and land forms and their associated plants--including serpentines, carbonate rocks, salt marshes, salt flats, and vernal pools--demonstrating along the way how geology shapes plant life. Adding a fascinating chapter to the story of California's remarkable biodiversity, this accessible book also draws our attention to the pressing need for conservation of the state's many rare and fascinating plants and habitats.
*148 outstanding, accurate photographs, more than 100 incolor, illustrate California's diverse flora
*Covers a wide range of locations including the Channel Islands, the Central Valley, wetlands, bristlecone pine forests, and bogs and fens
*Provides selected trip itineraries for viewing the state's geobotanical wonders
*Includes information on human influences on the California landscape from the early Spanish explores through the gold rush and to the present .
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A TRUE ODYSSEY OF LOVE AND EVIL.
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After her artist mother dies, a daughter's search for her own past and the identity of her father takes her to a remote Cornwall fishing village There she discovers her identity and her mother's art are irrevocably tied to a 1939 lifeboat disaster. This powerful story by the renowned children's author Jill Paton Walsh is a true story within an imagined one..
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Thomas Demand: Catalogue Serpentine Gallery London

Thomas Demand is one of the most celebrated contemporary photo artists At first sight, Demand’s pictures, say of a kitchen, an elevator, or a car park, seem like depictions of everyday places. Yet on closer inspection they turn out to be reconstructions of reality: Demand creates life-size environments made of paper and cardboard and accurate down to the smallest details, photographs these "re-creations" and then destroys them. The pictures that arise in this way put their finger squarely on the drab aesthetics of the modern office world and architecture. Demand’s sculptural and somehow filmic simulations, completely devoid of people, lead us into a world of models, in which a "faked" reality blends with the memory of a real reality to generate vividly cool images and to investigate the concept of virtual reality that plays such a key role in our technological multimedia age.

Text by Beatriz Colomina

Interview between Thomas Demand and Alexander Kluge Book design by Supermarket / Naomi Mizusaki

Thomas Demand, born in Munich in 1964, studied in Munich and Düsseldorf and at Goldsmith’s College, London. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the US..
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Every year the Serpentine Gallery, located
in the heart of Hyde Park in central London,
invites an internationally renowned architect
or designer to design a temporary pavilion in
their grounds for the summer.
In 2006, a 24-Hour Interview Marathon
event took place in the Pavilion designed by
architect Rem Koolhaas.
It featured over 60 world-renowned artists,
architects, writers, designers and theorists,
among them David Adjaye, Damien Hirst,
Gilbert and George, Hussein Chalayan and
Doris Lessing, as well as the Director of the
Serpentine Gallery, Julia Peyton-Jones.
The interviews were hosted by the architect
of the Pavilion, Rem Koolhaas, and the
Serpentine Gallery s Co-director of Exhibitions
and Programmes, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Small and with a soft-cover in the format
of a traditional flip-book , the book is a
lively representation of the now legendary
24-hour marathon of interviews, held with
some of the greatest names in international
contemporary culture.
A highly visual and energetic book for
its small size, it features over 150 colour
and black and white illustrations and
photographs interspersed with text extracts
from the interviews, and moves along in
chronological order of the 24 hours.
Koolhaas is one of the latest additions to
an illustrious list of architects which include
Zaha Hadid (2000), Daniel Libeskind (2001),
Oscar Niemeyer (2003), Álvaro Siza and
Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond
(2005), and Olafur Eliasson (2007)..
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