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Mar. 17th, 2014 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogIn other news, I went to Market Fresh Books in Evanston with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
danaeris this past weekend, where you pile books up on a scale and buy them by weight. There were several books for which a purchase was a requirement.
Relevant to my professional interests, I found "The Urban Sociology Reader" which is now on my shelf next to the urban anthropology reader I bought at a going-out-of-business Borders and still haven't read. Oh, for some time.
Relevant to my personal interests, I found a book by architect John Fitchen called "Building Construction Before Mechanization." The back notes that it "gives a valuable hands-on feel for what it's like to work with ropes and ladders, wedges and slings; with crews engaged in well digging, bridge building, and the transporting of obelisks hundreds of miles by water and over land." How cool is that!?
Along those lines, I almost bought a copy of Matthys Levy's "Why Buildings Fall Down," but I think it might have been a little bit beyond my technical abilities. It looked like it went pretty deep into the technical side of architecture.
(Actually, reading reviews on Amazon, it sounds like it's more accessible than I thought. I may need to pick up a copy of this at some point.)
And thirdly, I bought a book of urban ruins photography called "Dead Tech: A Guide to the Archaeology of Tomorrow," which looks interesting both for the images and for the introduction.
I think I need to be careful about what I buy at Market Fresh. The whole idea is so appealing; there are all these cool books, and surely buying them by weight is a great deal! But sometimes it's not. I think a number of things there are available via Amazon for less. On the other hand, I think there can be pretty good deals on hard to find stuff too. I'll have to go there with an evaluative eye.
Thank you, Love, for suggesting we go in! I'm really looking forward to reading these!
danaeris this past weekend, where you pile books up on a scale and buy them by weight. There were several books for which a purchase was a requirement. Relevant to my professional interests, I found "The Urban Sociology Reader" which is now on my shelf next to the urban anthropology reader I bought at a going-out-of-business Borders and still haven't read. Oh, for some time.
Relevant to my personal interests, I found a book by architect John Fitchen called "Building Construction Before Mechanization." The back notes that it "gives a valuable hands-on feel for what it's like to work with ropes and ladders, wedges and slings; with crews engaged in well digging, bridge building, and the transporting of obelisks hundreds of miles by water and over land." How cool is that!?
Along those lines, I almost bought a copy of Matthys Levy's "Why Buildings Fall Down," but I think it might have been a little bit beyond my technical abilities. It looked like it went pretty deep into the technical side of architecture.
(Actually, reading reviews on Amazon, it sounds like it's more accessible than I thought. I may need to pick up a copy of this at some point.)
And thirdly, I bought a book of urban ruins photography called "Dead Tech: A Guide to the Archaeology of Tomorrow," which looks interesting both for the images and for the introduction.
I think I need to be careful about what I buy at Market Fresh. The whole idea is so appealing; there are all these cool books, and surely buying them by weight is a great deal! But sometimes it's not. I think a number of things there are available via Amazon for less. On the other hand, I think there can be pretty good deals on hard to find stuff too. I'll have to go there with an evaluative eye.
Thank you, Love, for suggesting we go in! I'm really looking forward to reading these!
