[ebooks] The Portfolio and the Diagram: Architecture; Discourse; and Modernity in America (MIT Press) by Hyungmin Pai in Arts-Photography

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Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people; other homes; are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky; share the same memories; survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm; award-winning Canadian author Beth Powning came to understand the land she calls home. Now; almost twenty years after the initial publication of Home; readers may once again experience the spirit of home in nature in this new edition of her seminal book. Time has made the subtle messages beyond her door become clearer; if not less mysterious: the glorious rawness of winter storms; the effortless dominance of oak trees; the distinctive poetry of night; the universes found within a humble garden. Placing herself in the dual roles of explorer and storyteller; Powning waltzes the unspoken divide between the untamed and the domestic; revelling in the complex bonds that exist between the natural world and those who would seek to navigate its wonders. Originally released in Canada as Seeds of Another Summer; this new edition; which includes a new introduction and gorgeous reproductions of Pownings sumptuous nature photography; will inspire those who seek a simpler life and enchant those who are already there.