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La vengeance de l'orignal (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.95 — 104 ratings — published 1995
Le soleil se lève au Nord (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 14 ratings — published 2011
LE TRAPPEUR DU KABI (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 34 ratings — published 1981
Du sang sur la neige: Tragédie de Reesor Siding (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published
Defenses Legitimes (Softcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 32 ratings — published 2003
“I’m relieved to see
that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”
Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?”
“Whoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isn’t Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in width. That one’s tapered. It’s Doric—the Greek counterpart. A common mistake.”
Kohler did not smile. “The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions—electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.”
― Angels & Demons
that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”
Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?”
“Whoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isn’t Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in width. That one’s tapered. It’s Doric—the Greek counterpart. A common mistake.”
Kohler did not smile. “The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions—electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.”
― Angels & Demons
“What Gaudi had attained by twisting the order to his peculiar missionary and structural purposes, Loos could only assert by isolation and giganticism: the supremacy of value pitted against the city of brute fact. The Doric order appeared to have been the ultimate historical form, the great human building achievement, unfettered by sculptural contingency or the base need for shelter. All of them – Gaudi, Sullivan and Loos, and Asplund – saw the Doric order as ultimate, though perhaps only for Loos did that imply the last ever, the last possible.”
― The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
― The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
