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Common names of Karoo plants : A convenient guide for use in the field, compiled in the interest of improved communication between scientific and lay people working in the Karoo
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ISBN: 1874907161 Year: 2004 Publisher: Pretoria NBI

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The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture
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ISBN: 1405119756 1405119748 Year: 2004 Publisher: Malden (Mass.) : Blackwell,

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10 moons and 13 horses : poems
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ISBN: 0874179599 9780874179590 0874175836 9780874175837 Year: 2004 Publisher: Reno, Nevada ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : University of Nevada Press,

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Richard Neutra's Miller House
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ISBN: 1568982747 9781568982748 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York: Princeton architectural press,

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At the dawn of his international fame, architect Richard Neutra was approached by a St. Louis socialite, Grace Lewis Miller, to design a small winter home on the edge of glamour-baked Palm Springs. Miller wanted an open, light-filled house that could also act as a studio for her fashionably avant-garde exercise course in posture and grace, "The Mensendieck System." This unique program, combined with the desert landscape and the proactive health-minded client appealed to the idealist in Neutra. The frequent, fervent dialog between Neutra and Miller, who had great mutual respect, produced a work of forward-thinking and artful architecture. In Richard Neutra's Miller House, Stephen Leet traces the conception and realization of the house, examines the complex relationship between architect and client, and shows how the Mensendieck System influenced the creation of this seminal Neutra project. Beautiful duotone photographs by Julius Shulman, excerpts from the detailed correspondence between Neutra and Miller, and sketches and drawing provide valuable insight into the design process. Like the houses of Albert Frey, a contemporary of Neutra's who also build in the desert, the Miller House shows how architecture , the California landscape, and an interest in well-being can intersect in a moment of the architectural sublime.

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