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I took this picture of my intended-to-read bookstack on April 12, 2005. Thanks to my pastor (and others), I got a bit side-tracked, but not regretfully so!
The Cost of Discipleship, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Politics of Jesus, by John Howard Yoder
The Peaceable Kingdom, by Stanley Hauerwas
The Story of God, by Michael Lodahl
The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning
The Road to Peace, by Henri Nouwen
The Powers that Be, by Walter Wink
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
Introducing Postmodernism
Introducing Modernism
God Is Not ... religious, nice, "one of us", an american, a capitalist
God's Politics, by Jim Wallis
A New Kind of Christian, by Brian McLaren
The Heart of Christianity, by Marcus Borg
Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society, edited by Michael Budde and John Wright
Dead Man Walking, by Sister Helen Prejean
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, by Jacques Ellul
Violence, by Jacques Ellul
Apocalypes Now and Then, by Catherine Keller
Stranger at the Gate, by Mel White
Reefer Madness, by Eric Schlosser
The only one of these I read since then was Manning's The Ragamuffing Gospel -- a great book on grace! I'm still working through Bonhoeffer's awesome The Cost of Discipleship as time permits.
This is the picture that spurred the BookGarden idea and site.
File name: 08_02_002726
Box label: Public buildings: Libraries
Title: Boston Athenaeum. Interior
Alternative title: Boston Athenaeum: Interior. Built 1849, Edward C. Cabot, arch.
Creator/Contributor: Marr, Thomas E. (photographer)
Date issued:
Date created: 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Genre: Photographic prints
Subjects: Boston Athenaeum; Athenaeums; Libraries; Buildings; Interiors; Bookstacks
Notes: Number on image: 5615
Provenance:
Statement of responsibility: T. E. Marr
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
Listed here:
- The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear - Don and Audrey Wood
- The Book of Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley
- The Return of the Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley
- My Old True Love - Sheila Kay Adams
- Memories Are Made of This - Deana Martin
- Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid On Earth - Chris Ware
- Sunstroke - Jesse Kellerman
- Traveling Music - Neil Peart
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Volume 13
- CBGB & OMFUG - Hilly Kristal and David Byrne
- Post Secret - Frank Warren
- The ACME Novelty Library - Chris Ware
Not as prolific as some summers/vacations past, but a good set. Amazingly, it took being in Gothenburg to read 2 Scottish authors I've been meaning to get to... And only one in Swedish.
British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. Ground floor book stacks, the skylights let in a beautiful light. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
Prompted by Bradley, here's another bookstack.
Missing a couple, including The Great Gatsby by FSF(not sure where it went), Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, and Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
Oblivion - David Foster Wallace
Charlatan - Pope Brock
Black Postcards - Dean Wareham
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To The Last Man - Jeff Shaara
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
All For A Few Perfect Waves - David Rensin
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
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British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. Books awaiting a reader. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
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The courtyard at the centre of the British Museum was one of Londons long-lost spaces. Originally an open garden, soon after its completion in the mid-nineteenth century it was filled by the round Reading Room and its associated bookstacks. Without this space the Museum was like a city without a park. This project is about its reinvention.
In terms of visitor numbers over five million annually - the British Museum is as popular as the Louvre in Paris or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the absence of a centralised circulation system this popularity caused a critical level of congestion throughout the building and created a frustrating experience for the visitor. The departure of the British Library to St Pancras provided the opportunity to clear away the bookstacks and to recapture the courtyard to give the building a new public focus. The Great Court is entered from the Museums principal level, and connects all the surrounding galleries. Within the space - the largest enclosed public space in Europe - there are information points, a bookshop and a cafe. At its heart is the magnificent space of the restored Reading Room, now an information centre and library of world cultures, which for the first time in its history is open to all. Broad staircases encircle the Reading Room and lead to a gallery for temporary exhibitions with a restaurant above. Below the level of the Court are the new Sainsbury African Galleries, an education centre, and facilities for schoolchildren.
The glazed canopy that makes all this possible is a fusion of state-of-the-art engineering and economy of form. Its unique geometry is designed to span the irregular gap between the drum of the Reading Room and the courtyard facades, and forms both the primary structure and the framing for the glazing, which is designed to maximise daylight and reduce solar gain. As a cultural square, the Court also resonates beyond the confines of the Museum, forming a new link in the pedestrian route from the British Library to Covent Garden and the river. To complement this civic artery, the Museums forecourt has been freed from cars and restored to form a new public space. Like the Great Court it is open to the public from first thing in the morning to early evening, creating a major amenity for London.
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British Library book store, Woolwich in south east London, UK. The books are being moved, hence the empty shelves. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.
File name: 08_02_005909
Box label: Boston Public Library: Johnson building: Construction: May-Oct 1972 (loose items)
Title: Books on shelves, Boston Public Library Johnson building construction, July 1972
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Date created: 1972-07-25
Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints; Progress photographs;
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Building construction; Interiors; Bookstacks
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.
Provenance:
Statement of responsibility: Abbott-Boyle Photographers, 361 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington, Mass.
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Abbott-Boyle Construction Photographers Incorporated.
File name: 08_02_005920
Box label: Boston Public Library: Johnson building: Construction: May-Oct 1972 (loose items)
Title: Book stacks in place, Boston Public Library Johnson building construction, October 1972
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Date created: 1972-10-13
Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints; Progress photographs
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Building construction; Interiors; Bookstacks
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.
Provenance:
Statement of responsibility: Abbott-Boyle Photographers, 361 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington, Mass.
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Abbott-Boyle Construction Photographers Incorporated.
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Originally an indoor gym, I now eat the majority of my meals here. This picture makes it look a lot cooler than it actually is...
The bookstacks flank the 2 Storey Reading Room and have both stationary and mobile shelving on every level.
Tappe Architects (Library Architect)
Moseley Architects (Architect of Record)
John Portman Associates (Design Architect)
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Roof of the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum
In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854–1857; at 140 feet (43 m) in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider. The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library (the British Library) moved to a new building at St Pancras. With the bookstacks in the central courtyard of the museum empty, the demolition for Lord Foster's glass-roofed Great Court could begin
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partner. The Great Court opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe. The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company ith 1,656 uniquely shaped panes of glass.
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Shot 05.03.2016 at the British Museum REF 115-031
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File name: 08_02_005908
Box label: Boston Public Library: Johnson building: Construction: May-Oct 1972 (loose items)
Title: Book stacks in place, Boston Public Library Johnson building construction, October 1972
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Creator/Contributor:
Date issued:
Date created: 1972-10-13
Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints; Progress photographs;
Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Building construction; Interiors; Bookstacks
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger.
Provenance:
Statement of responsibility: Abbott-Boyle Photographers, 361 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington, Mass.
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Abbott-Boyle Construction Photographers Incorporated.
File name: 08_02_005741
Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)
Title: Roslindale
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Date created: 1939
Physical description: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Genre: Gelatin silver prints
Subjects: Boston Public Library. Roslindale Branch Library; Public libraries; Bookstacks
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Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.