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  • Chantal Pontbriand (Ed.)

    Per/Form. How to Do Things with[out] Words

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    Hlysnan.The Notion and Politics of Listening

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    Choice Item

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    Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts

  • Filip Dujardin

    Fictions

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    Hugo Puttaert. Think in Colour: Visionandfactory

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    Lessons from Modernism. Environmental Design Strategies in…

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    Signs and Machines. Capitalism and the Production of…

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    Raum und Macht. Die Stadt zwischen Vision und Wirklichkeit…

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    Impossible Utopias

  • Kay von Keitz, Sabine Voggenreiter (Hg.)

    Architektur im Kontext. Architecture in Context

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    Aleksandra Domanovic. From yu to me

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    Unpleasant Design

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    Radical Cities. Across Latin America in Search of a New…

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    #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

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    Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing…

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    Casablanca Chandigarh. A Report on Modernization

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    Invitation to Architecture. Discovering Delight in the…

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    Buildings Must Die. A Perverse View of Architecture

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    Ancient Wisdom and Modern Knowhow. Learning to Live with…

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    Bricks & Mortals. Ten Great Buildings and the People…

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    Inter-esse

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    AG1 – Great Arthur House, AG2 – Falkenhorst, AG3 –…

  • Anke Fesel, Chris Keller (Ed.)

    Berlin Wonderland. Wild Years Revisited, 1990–1996

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    Poor but Sexy. Culture Clashes in Europe East and West

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    Agonistik. Die Welt politisch denken

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    Another Space: Textile Spaces

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    Reisen. Fotos von unterwegs

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    Sculpture Today

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    I can not repeat what I hear

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    Jeff Wall. Mit dem Auge des Geistes

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    To Do. Die neue Rolle der Gestaltung in einer veränderten…

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    The Rhetorical Foundations of Society

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    Cute Farm Animals

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    Panaesthetics. On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts

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    Performing the Sentence. Research and Teaching in…

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    Broadcasting Buildings. Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-…

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    re.act.feminism. A Performing Archive

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    Material Innovation. Architecture

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    The Right to Brand

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    An Ecosystem of Excess

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    The Acoustic City

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    Truth Is Concrete. A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in…

  • Jan Svankmajer

    Touching and Imagining. An Introduction to Tactile Art

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    Farbige Lichträume. Manifestationen einer Veränderung des…

  • Olaf Habelmann

    Die Trauben auf deinem Bauch bilden ein Muster

  • Nick Aikens (Ed.)

    Too Much World. The Films of Hito Steyerl

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    L.I.E. Lists of Ten Books

  • Malcolm Miles

    Eco-Aesthetics. Art, Literature and Architecture in a…

  • Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen (Ed.)

    Subtraction. Keller Easterling. Critical Spatial Practice 4

  • Tom Steinert

    Komplexe Wahrnehmung und moderner Städtebau. Paul Hofer,…

  • Christine Ross

    The Past is the Present; It's the Future Too

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    Radikal ambivalent. Engagement und Verantwortung in den…

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    Hungarian Cubes. Subversive Ornamente im Sozialismus

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    The Decision Between Us. Art and Ethics in the Time of…

  • Ugo Mulas

    Cirque Calder

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    Baukunst der Nachkriegsmoderne. Architekturführer Berlin…

  • Laura Bruns

    Stadt Selber Machen. Ein Handbuch

  • Michael Fried

    Warum Photographie als Kunst so bedeutend ist wie nie zuvor

  • Henri Lefèbvre

    Die Revolution der Städte. La Revolution urbaine

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    Theorie und Gestaltung im Zweiten Maschinenzeitalter

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    Le Corbusier. Béton Brut und der unbeschreibliche Raum (…

  • Hannah Feldman

    From a Nation Torn. Decolonizing Art and Representation in…

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    Conditional Design Workbook

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    Appendix

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    Birds of Paradise. Costume as Cinematic Spectacle

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    Architecture. A Historical Perspective

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    The Duchamp Dictionary

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    Das Urbane. Wohnen. Leben. Produzieren

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    Lina Bo Bardi. The Theory of Architectural Practice

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    My House, My Paradise. The Construction of the Ideal…

  • Dieter Rams

    Less but better. Weniger, aber besser

  • Matt Zoller Seitz

    The Wes Anderson Collection

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    On Architecture. Melvin Charney, a Critical Anthology

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    Heteropolis

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    Peter Zumthor. 1985–2013

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    Ohne Mich

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    La Défense. Métro, boulot, dodo

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    Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the…

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    John Knight

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    Why Architects Still Draw

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    Forensis. The Architecture of Public Truth

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    Prisons

The Age of Turbulence. Adventures in a New World

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly.
After 9/11 Alan Greenspan knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill-channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. He begins his account on that September 11th morning, but then leaps back to his childhood, and follows the arc of his remarkable life's journey through to his more than 18-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, from 1987 to 2006, during a time of transforming change.
Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy.


Alan Greenspan
The Age of Turbulence. Adventures in a New World
Penguin, 2008, 978-0-143114-16-1