<p>It stands to reason that writings on 'sense of place' focus on where people live. This monograph, however, respectfully turns its back on peopled environments in order to consider marginal lands--where the living ain't easy and the inhabitants few. Geography matters, indeed, limits, molds, colors human life, determines sensibilities. Following a heuristic thread laid down by social anthropologist Victor Turner, the authors tap into the concept of liminality to scout out a path through landscape, geographic essence, liminaires, aesthetics, the sacred, hierophanticy, back country as wellspring, liminoids, and our counterfeit self. The authors source two case studies in their own backyards: Lockwood's Northwest Coast of Canada and Quillien's Four Corners of the American Southwest.</p>

Liminal Lands: Foraging the Margins of Human Habitation

Politics & Social Sciences

Quillien, Jenny

Lockwood, Sandra

Philosophy

Hog Press

<p>Imagine. What if our physical workspaces-the specific arrangements of walls and halls, sizes and shapes of rooms-were actually making us smarter or duller, enabling or disabling our individual and collective ability to think? What if a more astute crafting of professional habitats led to a greater ease in dealing with current tasks and a more adept foreshadowing of future ones? What if clever digs allowed us to learn more readily, learn from others, and help others learn? They can. This is the grand story I tell.</p>

Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

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Delight's Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander's four volume work, The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate Alexander's 2000-page labyrinth without map or compass. Delight's Muse will interest not only fans of Alexander's earlier books (the best known being A Pattern Language from 1977, and The Timeless Way of Building from 1979) but everyone willing to entertain a fresh and stimulating way to observe the world and the variety of things we place in it.

Delight's Muse on Christopher Alexander's The Nature of Order: A Summary and Personal Interpretation

History

Lulu Press, Inc.

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