Author: Rabindranath Tagore File Type: pdf

Author: Reinier de Graaf File Type: pdf Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest. **Review Something of a revelation[De Graaf] has produced an original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them againHe deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it. (The Economist 2017-10-07) De Graaf is an excellent, witty and perceptive essayist. The heart of the book is a series of astonishing accounts of the protractedand as it turns out, all doomedsagas to get big urban projects approved and built in London (just pre-crash), Moscow (just pre-Putin), the Emirates (just pre-oil slump), and Kurdistan (just pre-Isis). The way de Graaf builds up to each (in hindsight) inevitable disappointment is masterlyHe emerges as an unlikely, deeply skeptical architectural Everyman. (Hugh Pearman The Spectator 2017-10-07) This is the most stimulating book on architecture and its practice that I have read for years. Not only is de Graaf a good anecdotalist (his hilarious account of a long-winded and fruitless masterplanning competition in Russia should be turned into a film), but a perceptive analyst of how architecture represents, or connects with, wider political and economic movements and trends. (Paul Finch Architects Journal 2017-10-05) Takes an idiosyncratic look at architectural history and dissects contemporary practicefrom the quotidian (and sometimes comic) frustrations to the occasional triumphs and memorable failures. (Josephine Minutillo Architectural Record 2017-09-29) Ruthlessly honest about what it is like to work at architecture and wickedly cynical about how power works in our current economy, Reinier de Graafs vantage point from a top architectural firm doesnt make him crow of success but, rather, pushes us architects, for better or worse, to keep fighting the good fight. Reading Four Walls and a Roof will make you laugh, cry, and so identify. (Peggy Deamer, Yale School of Architecture) The title of this book, provided by an innocent enquirer, has provoked Reinier de Graaf into a shrewd, lucid, and engaging survey of the architecture and building scene. He seems to have been everywhere and listened to anyone who isor has beenactive and influential in building and planning, from Prince Charles to Buckminster Fuller. Yet he has also managed to direct attention to some neglected personalities, past and presentErnst Neufert, Lucien Kroll. You will not find a better guide to planning, building, and architecture of the last half-century! (Joseph Rykwert, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania) This is a terrific book. It weaves together reflections on design, history, politics, and economics in a seamless and illuminating manner, offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of the state of architecture and its recent history. The writing is delightful, always irreverent, and at times exceedingly funny. (Bernardo Zacka, Research Fellow, Stanford University and University of Cambridge) About the Author Reinier de Graaf is Partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam.

Author: Stephen Jolles File Type: pdf This is the first book to bring together the developments in this area. With full colour throughout, each chapter focuses on clinical differentiation and pathophysiology and provides key laboratory and clinical observations. In addition, there is a brief summary of current treatment options.**

Author: Edith Cotterill File Type: epub Never had I seen so many fleas! Startled by the daylight, they leapt in all directions, particularly mine. Quickly I peeled off her stockings and threw them on the fire, but by now the fleas had invaded her combinations. As for the fur coat, I shuddered to think ...ull*lulTraining in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterills long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients (a task much harder than you might think) and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs. Although hospital life did have its compensations - it was there during World War 2 an injured sailor who became her husband.After the birth of their two daughters, Edith returned to work in the 1950s as a district nurse. Whether she was ridding ageing spinsters of fleas or dishing out penicillin and enemas, Edith approached even the most wayward of patients with humour, compassion and warmth.ReviewBrilliant ... a rare book of truth and insight containing hilarious and soul wrenching stories of patients, hospital practice and colleagues, wartime traumas and post-war austerity. Ending with one of the most tragic and moving stories I have ever read -- Jennifer Worth, Bestselling Author Of Call The Midwife Touching and tender, full of comic but courageous characters, Edith Cotterills Nurse on Call goes straight to the heart She Ought to provide the perfect antidote to todays bureaucratic National Health Service Daily Mail Heartwarming Yours About the AuthorEdith Cotterill was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, during a Zeppelin raid in 1916. She joined the nursing profession in 1934, working at Standon Orthopaedic Hospital and Margaret General and District Hospital, and married a sailor in the Royal Navy in 1940. After the birth of her two daughters, she returned to nursing as a district nurse back in Tipton. She died in 1997.