Bøger af Tom Wilkinson

PLUS! After a very good run as a guidebook for medium-sized vermiculture, "Beyond Compost" has been updated to include chapters on BIOCHAR! Biochar is horticultural charcoal that provides microscopic homes and factories for the microorganisms in vermicompost that you learned about in the first edition. PLUS, the carbon that you bury in your soil will stay there for centuries as sequestered carbon removed from the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. PLUS, a fascinating story of neglected history revealed only recently from the jungles of the Amazon. PLUS, references to research scientists who are convinced that burying biochar in depleted soils may be the solution to the disastrous changes in the climate of our planet. Imagine an organic soil amendment that can be as much as 880 times more effective than typical chemical fertilizers. PLUS, an improved design feature for the VermiHarvester that reduces even more of the tedious work of harvesting your vermicompost.

A landmark art historical study of German Notgeld, the emergency money produced during World War I, and the hyperinflation that followed.Emergency Money is the first art historical study of Germany’s emergency money, Notgeld. Issued during World War I and the tumultuous interwar period, these wildly artful banknotes featured landscapes, folk figures, scenes of violence and humor, and even inflation itself in the form of figures staring into empty purses or animals defecating coins. Until now, art historians have paid Notgeld scant attention, but Wilkinson looks closely at these amusing, often disturbing, artifacts and their grim associations to cast new light on the Weimar Republic’s visual culture, as well as the larger relationship between art and money.As Wilkinson shows, Germany’s early twentieth-century economic crisis was also a crisis of culture. Retelling the period’s gripping story through thematic investigations into prevalent Notgeld motifs, Wilkinson illuminates how the vexed relationship between aesthetic value and exchange value was an inextricable part of everyday life.A landmark contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century Germany, Emergency Money brings together art, economics, critical theory, and media theory to create a book for our own inflationary moment, as the world’s new materialisms confront the specter of this older, more fundamental materialism.

A brilliant exploration of architecture through ten of the world''s great buildings.We don''t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. These aspects of buildings--economic, erotic, political and psychological--are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much as we mold it, understanding architecture helps us to understand our lives and our world. Through ten great buildings across the world, Tom Wilkinson reveals the powerful and intimate relationship between society and architecture and asks: can architecture change our lives for the better? The ten buildings featured in Bricks & Mortals are: The Tower of Babel, Babylon (c. 650 BC), The Golden House, Rome (AD 64-68), Djinguereber Mosque, Timbuktu (1327), Palazzo Rucellai, Florence (1450), The Garden of Perfect Brightness, Beijing (1709-1860), Festival Theatre, Bayreuth, Germany (1876), Highland Park Car Factory, Detroit (1909-1910), E.1027, Cap Martin (1926-29), Finsbury Health Centre, London (1938), Footbridge, Rio de Janeiro, London (2010)