This book features over forty authors from the Carnegie Mellon Academy for Lifelong Learning!

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Item: 097110312

From Carnegie Mellon's own Studio for Creative Inquiry comes this beautiful new book of local photographs!

You may know the landscape of Pittsburgh by its hills, rivers, roads, buildings, and trees, but the eye is strongly drawn to the text and symbols of the signs that comfort with familiarity, that irritate you with their distractions, that please you with their symmetry, or that illustrate the economic condition of a neighborhood. Signs are always trying to say something. Signs make our spaces a mongrelization of type-styles, graphics, and fashions: The futuristic becomes the modern becomes the dated becomes the retro. The passage of time provides the subtexts of rust, faded paint, and delamination. Signs are necessarily brash, democratic, and confessional. But I've said too much. Let the signs speak for themselves.

The Pittsburgh Signs Project invited photographers from the 14 counties of southwestern Pennsylvania to submit images and comments and the result is Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania, a full-color book showcasing the signs of our region, past and present. Published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, the project was made possible in part by a grant from Pittsburgh 250 Community Connections.

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Doug Cooper has created a 2010 calendar, which features some of his many images of Pittsburgh. These panoramic views mix details of contemporary life with historic time, showing neighborhood scenes against a background of such iconic places as Forbes Field and the J&L Mill. This 10" x 14" calendar is beautifully printed in a format that captures all the details of Pittsburgh's rich history that Cooper includes in his well-known Pittsburgh murals. It provides a mural for each month!

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Course catalog for Carnegie Mellon University, academic years 2008-2010.

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This volume has been written primarily for alumnae of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. It covers the history of the school beginning with the charter class that entered in 1906 and ending with its final class that graduated in 1973. Rich with illustrations, this intriguing volume combines photos and illustrations with the reminiscences of more than 140 alumnae and two-page interviews with 18 representative graduates and one dean.

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In 1992, 41 founding members of the Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL) at Carnegie Mellon University signed the charter of their new organization. Ten years later, ALL has grown to 825 members with another 500 eager applicants for membership on its waiting list. ALL is now one of the largest Institutes for Learning in Retirement in the nation.

This modest volume traces the short history of ALL and attempts to account for its rapid growth. Six chapters describe its birth, the symbiotic relationship between ALL and Carnegie Mellon, the curriculum that encompasses about 140 courses a year, the challenges facing an almost-all volunteer organization, the composition of its membership, and the development of the supportive community that ALL has become.

Like most ALL endeavors, publishing this history has been a thoroughly cooperative effort. About 100 ALL members contributed directly to this volume. Eight of us wrote six chapters. Seventy members contributed reminiscences that appear as "Voices" at the bottom of each page and as sidebars that appear in the margins of many pages. At least a dozen others contributed snapshots and formal photographs. Additional members served as critical readers, copy editors, proofreaders, and financial advisors.

We hope that this volume speaks to the several audiences for whom it was written: our members, study-group leaders who are not members, the faculty and staff of Carnegie Mellon, members of other Institutes for Learning and Retirement, and the casual reader who may run across a copy.

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This book is by Carnegie Mellon Emeritus English Professor Ann Hayes, (1943 - 2000).

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Twenty-five Carnegie Mellon faculty members from as many different disciplines and callings describe, in separately framed chapters, the contribution of their own lives and fields to a common university culture of invention and application. Each author offers a vision of renewal and design that is unique among leading research universities.

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Painting on Site contains 69 of Elliot Paul Rothman's watercolors and 9 crayon pastels, painted only on the sites he visited in sixteen countries over the past fourteen years. Countries include: Canada, United States, French West Indies, Mexico, Panama, France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, and China.

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Item: 061512473