When Joseph Conrad's novel Chance appeared in serial form in the New York Herald in 1912 and in book form in 1914 it established the author's financial security for the first time. Following years of struggle to reach a wide audience for his fiction, Conrad benefitted from the American marketing of this novel for the women readers of romance. Aggressive advertising promoted the writer's new focus on a female protagonist and Conrad's division of the story's location between land and sea. The novel proved popular and lucrative. Yet in spite of its economic success, Chance...
When Joseph Conrad's novel Chance appeared in serial form in the New York Herald in 1912 and in book form in 1914 it established the aut...
Timber is not only a sustainable material, it also creates warm, welcoming, sheltering spaces that offer an emotional quality to their users. Light on Wood is a very personal story about how to design and build with mass timber. Author Susan H. Jones, a native of the Pacific Northwest with its seemingly endless forests, founded atelierjones in Seattle some 20 years ago. This pioneering practice has since made a name for itself by working to decarbonize our built environment. It carefully investigated the behavior of wood in case of fire, in an effort to rewrite the code, and...
Timber is not only a sustainable material, it also creates warm, welcoming, sheltering spaces that offer an emotional quality to their users. Li...
