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Maybe the Best Engineering and Construction Book of its Kind!.......2005-12-24
I have worked in science and engineering for many years and worked on many projects. I keep this book on my bookshelf and read it every few years. It is just wonderful and well written story. I think that I have now read it three times.
It is about the construction of a building in Manhattan at 49st and 8th avenue called Worldwide Plaza. It takes the reader right from the concept through all aspects from zoning, financing, foundation work, steel erection, concrete, marble, mechanical, water leaks, leasing, everything in a nice narrative form, but not dry ...written like a novel and very entertaining.
But what is great is the way all the small problems arise and are solved between all the contractors and trades and suppliers or subcontractors including trips to visit marble suppliers in Italy, laboratories in Florida, etc. This could be problems with brick colors, or steel, or delivery schedules, or street traffic, or water leaks or even alterations to the common areas as the building is finished. It is a nice review of "Just in time" manufacturing on a large scale.
Not for everybody put near perfect for engineers! Realistic, educational, entertaining... a keeper for the bookshelf.
This one is a winner!!!.......2003-12-22
I watched the series with fascination and now the book. This is a great way to learn the workings of a fantastic creation and take a peek of the frustrations towards success. I've been looking for the video to purchase, but understand there are none and no plan to create one. WELL GUESS WHAT! I was looking at some old video tapes of mine when I came upon some with no labels. I popped them into the VCR and guess what....that's right...I HAVE IT!!! I guess I recorded it when PBS had it on. For more information you can contact me at tellablvr@yahoo.com
Up, Up and Away.......2002-04-14
I thought this was an all around cool book. This book deals with the whole process of how a building is built, from the sight location, finances, government agencies and construction. You get just the right amount of detail, not so much that you are forcing your way through the book, but enough to really understand it. I like the flow of the book, the author keeps the pace going and you can feel the tension main of the actors are experiencing. The author has done a good job with this book, detailed and interesting. If you ever wanted to know how they build those big building then this is an introductory course.
Same as TV Series?.......2000-12-06
This book is a fascinating look at the entire process of building a skyscraper. Finance, logistics, negotiation, construction, architecture... it's all here. I have one question. I believe this book was once a PBS series... does anyone know if that is available on video? If anyone has any info on that please email me at adeleanddavid@mediaone.com
The give and take in transforming design to finished product.......2000-05-03
I believe the author has done an excellent job of articulating the concessions and compromises made by all the parties in the development of a skycraper. To illustrate the delineation of some of the roles, responsibilities and concomitant frustrations, I quote from the book:
"In an earlier world the architect got on with the drawings. In todays world it's left much more to vendors to produce documents which the architect checks" (page 242)
"We can never work in the final medium of our art, as painters or sculptors usually do, so it's frightening to see the final thing come together being crafted by other hands than your own" (page 299)
"The architects were pretty confident that it wasn't a design fault. The masons were pretty sure that they had built the wall to specifications...The window manufacturer was fairly happy with the windows he had fabricated and shipped...for the mockup. The testing company, which had supervised building the mockup, seemed confident that all the instructions had been followed...As they all talked among themselves, rumors spread." (page 202)
The interface between the consultants, trades, vendors, managers and developer makes for interesting reading with some lessons to be learned.
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The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the greatest canvas in the world--the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Each would stop at nothing to outdo his rival.
Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building that would move beyond the tired architecture of the previous century. By a stroke of good fortune he found a larger-than-life patron in automobile magnate Walter Chrysler, and they set out to build the legendary Chrysler building. Severance, by comparison, was a brilliant businessman, and he tapped his circle of downtown, old-money investors to begin construction on the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street.
From ground-breaking to bricklaying, Van Alen and Severance fought a cunning duel of wills. Each man was forced to revamp his architectural design in an attempt to push higher, to overcome his rival in mid-construction, as the structures rose, floor by floor, in record time. Yet just as the battle was underway, a third party entered the arena and announced plans to build an even larger building. This project would be overseen by one of Chrysler’s principal rivals--a representative of the General Motors group--and the building ultimately became known as The Empire State Building.
Infused with narrative thrills and perfectly rendered historical and engineering detail, Higher brings to life a sensational episode in American history. Author Neal Bascomb interweaves characters such as Al Smith and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading up to an astonishing climax that illustrates one of the most ingenious (and secret) architectural achievements of all time.
Customer Reviews:
Engaging, but..........2007-08-10
I certainly enjoyed _Higher_, but it could have been a better book. Bascomb needs an editor: usages are awkward, some of the passages read as though they were padding added to a slimmer first version, and when the author steps back to sketch the bigger picture the prose, all too often, turns purple. Not altogether his fault: too many authors today try to write a movie rather than a book. Oddly, for a book about architecture and the construction of specific buildings, there are surprisingly few photos -- not that I expected or wanted a coffee table book, but the very visual story here could have been better illustrated. Those of us who like this sort of book, and I do, despite the quibbling and caviling above, should also read Daniel Okrent's _Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center_, which is every bit as interesting and a better-written book, all in all.
Great Book about Sykscrapers and NYC in the 1920's........2006-10-06
The 1920's was all about reaching new heights in America - the roaring 20's emphasized a fast-paced lifestyle where there were no limits. It was this "anything goes" attitude that led to the construction of skyscrapers in New York City that were just as much a symbol of the times as they were practical business investments. In this book that chronicles the race to be the tallest between 3 New York landmarks - the Chrysler Building, 40 Wall Street, and The Empire State Building - egos collide, markets tumble, and relationship are broken. The author weaves a very readable tale that focuses on both the financial and architectural icons who led to the construction of these buildings. If bricks and mortar also interest you, then this will do the trick as well. Throughout the book you are taken to the construction sites and learn what its like to catch a burning hot rivet a quarter mile up in the air, all while balancing on a single beam and bracing against high winds and frigid temperatures. Overall, a very good book that manages to tell the "story" of these now prominent buildings. I would give it 4.5 stars if I could.
A steal at $14.95!.......2006-07-29
This book, not only glorifies the American spirit, but serves as an excellent reference for what New York was like in the late 1920's. Through architectually acurrate, this book focuses on more that any review can project. This is the best history book I've read since the Guardians by Geoff Kabaservice.
A great story.......2006-01-09
`Higher' is the story about the race for the `highest building in the world', set in New York City in the late 1920's and early 1930's. It portrays the race between the Chrysler Building and the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building (aka 40 Wall Street, current The Trump Building), and when that is settled and done the Empire State Building moves in to beat them all. The book focuses on the architects and their commissioners, who are often self made man not shy of showing their success (which is in fact an American success) powered by the economic boom at the time. The story shows that these kind of skyscrapers really are the product of ego driven characters and economic acceleration. But there really isn't anything wrong with that for as such they are just a symbol of achievement over a rational product of urbanism.
The book is full of quotes and it links the relations between the actors which give the book a lively edge, yet it reads as easily as a novel. There plenty of `gee, I didn't know that' facts and details in it, all adding up to the excitement of the story (for example, the famous Chrysler Building spire was topped out one day before the infamous Wall Street crash). By focussing on a few main characters and the topic of height, the book doesn't dwell in all directions which it could have done so easily for it really is a fascinating story to tell. I wouldn't be surprised if this story will be made into a movie or tv series one day for this story and the way it's being told really deserves that.
Great fun for New Yorkophiles.......2005-11-15
Listened to this one on the daily commute. Not a deep piece of scholarship, but a terrific -- and vividly told -- popular history. Well done!
Customer Reviews:
Skyscrapers!.......2004-04-27
My children and I found Skyscrapers to be a wonderful book full of hands-on activities that are meaningful.Book projects and reports are numerous in our school district. My daughter's building project was constructed with information and ideas from this book. The illustrations and directions included in Skyscrapers! are motivating and kid-friendly. Ms. Johmann's writing style is easy to read and understand. My children learn more about the topic because they are interested in this type of non-fiction.
We find this is also true of Ms. Johmann's other books that we have purchased: Going West and The Lewis & Clark Expedition.
We highly recommend all 3 of these books for elementary and intermediate age students!
Carolyn Gershovich from Norris Middle School.......2004-01-20
The basic purpose of this book is to teach young people the how's and why's of building skyscrapers. Significant information is explained with stunning clarity. For example, "it's not the strength of the steel frame that limits the height of skyscrapers, it's the speed and arrangement of elevators" and "the Empire State Building produces about 100 tons of garbage per month. That is equivalent to the weight of about 20 adult elephants." Who could read that and not want to read more?
This book tells all from taking soil samples before the groundbreaking to maintaining the structure after the building has been completed. All along the way activities are suggested to give emphasis to the topics covered. This is a fun, interesting, and informative book that will keep its value for a long time. It is filled with so much information that children will return to it again and again.
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The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York
Gail Fenske
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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In this beautiful book Jonathan Alexander surveys European manuscript illumination from the fourth to the sixteenth century. Illustrating his discussion with examples chosen from all over Europe, he discusses the social and historical context of the illuminators` lives, considers their methods of work, and shows the range and nature of the visual sources and the ways in which they were adapted, copied, or created anew.
Customer Reviews:
From behind the pen..........2001-03-15
This book introduces the reader to the people and processes involved in the production of manuscripts, and is interesting as a resource for methods of book production as much as it is for the insight it gives into the lives of the very real people whose efforts and whose lives went into the production of books by hand. With more than enough information to interest the scholar, this book is at the same time extremely accesible to the average reader interested in the subject. I would reccomend this as a textbook and as a good read, but would suggest that a reader have a good guide, such as Michelle Brown's Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts on hand, in order to best understand every facet of the material being presented. The book is clear and well-written, but a deeper understanding of the finished product adds greatly to the value of reading about their creators. This is a book I am proud to have on my bookshelf, for its readability, its attractiveness, and its value as a source for interesting historical information.
excellent, well written and interesting.......2000-04-25
whether you are interested in the typical lives, education, training, as well as social status of the people whose work became immortal or in the techniques and tools used to create the magnificent pages.. this is a well written and interesting read. beautiful photographs of works in various levels of completion, numerous countries, schools and eras combined with well researched documentation and critiques makes this book an excellent resource. focusing mainly on the creation of illumination and explaining the lives of those creating the page, covering multiple aspects of training, techniques and changing social status throughout the decades leads to an overall thorough understanding. you will walk away not only being able to understand the illuminated page, its signifigance and constructuion but also those who toiled to creatre it. whether an art history lover, in love with the illuminated page or interested in the lives of people who lived centuries ago this book is a wonderful addition to you personal library. i wish my art history books were this well written.
Book Description
In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between photography and scientific authority.
Almost immediately after the invention of photography in 1839, photographs were characterized as offering objective access to reality -- unmediated by human agency, political ties, or philosophy. This mechanical objectivity supposedly eliminated judgment and interpretation in reporting and picturing scientific results.
But photography is a labor-intensive process that allows for, and sometimes requires, manipulation. In the late nineteenth century, the nature of this new technology sparked a complex debate about scientific practices and the value of the photographic images in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge.
Recovering the controversies and commentary surrounding the early creation of scientific photography and drawing on a wide range of new sources and critical theories, Tucker establishes a greater understanding of the rich visual culture of Victorian science and alternative forms of knowledge, including psychical research.
Book Description
Coley returns to the town where he grew up, for a final confrontation with his mother, brother, and much of the rest of the town. Hiw wildest sexual adventure yet! The continuation of Coley's odyssey as he returns to his hometown.
Customer Reviews:
HOTTER than ever-- sex, sex and MORE sex!!!.......2001-06-09
Following a comparitively low-key personal drama (HARD THROB), and the wildest globe-hopping supernatural adventure yet (DAGGER OF BLOOD) John Blackburn's bisexual "superman" Coley Cochran returns in an epic 168-page story-- a true "graphic novel" (in more ways than one). Coley returns HOME-- and readers get to meet the family he left behind. As usual, the complexities and interpersonal relations (so to speak) affect everyone in town, as long-time deep-rooted secrets, emotions & feelings of guilt all explode to the surface. Along the way, Blackburn finds the time to depict MORE sex in MORE varieties than in all his previous Coley books put together!
Told at a leisurely pace, with several full-page illustrations that show off how accomplished his art has become, DESTINY COAST is a story that could easily be adapted into a feature film....
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- Korda never claimed he did "discover" Jackie
- Michael Korda did not discover Jacqueline Susann
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Isn't She Great?
Manufacturer: Audioworks
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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For Jacqueline Susann, excess was the norm. She lived a life most people only dreamt about. She basked in the spotlight, and reveled in the glitz and glamour that made her a pop icon in the 60's and 70's. But beneath the flamboyant facade, she was tormented by a secret she desperately fought to keep hidden from the world.
In this audiobook adapted from his bestselling memoir Another Life, Michael Korda recounts his wild ride as Susann's editor. Not only does he relay the story of a woman who at 47 surmounted impossible odds to become the reigning superstar of pulp fiction with Valley of the Dolls, Korda provides a tantalizing glimpse into the bygone publishing scene of the era.
A poignant, funny look at a vivacious and brassy woman and the publishing world in which she thrived, Isn't She Great is a captivating insider's tale that only Michael Korda could tell.
Customer Reviews:
Korda never claimed he did "discover" Jackie.......2000-07-29
Korda makes it clear that Jacqueline Susann was already a huge celebrity due to the phenomenal success of her bestseller "Valley of the Dolls" when he was assigned to edit her next potboiler, "The love machine." He recounts many amusing anecdotes about how Susann merged the glitzy world of Hollywood with the staid world of publishing, forever changing it and paving the way for the Jackie Collins and Danielle Steeles of today. Korda's memoir of Susann is funnier, wittier, and more thorough than the disappointing cinematic slush adapted from it, "Isn't She Great" with Bette Midler and Nathan Lane (appropriately cast, but stuck with a dog of a script). The only frustration is reaching the end; this account really begins and ends with the author's relationship with Susann save for a paragraph or two of postscript. I will definitely pick up Barbara Seaman's biography of Susann, "Lovely Me," to find out more about this fascinating woman, but don't skip over this author's amusing and thoughtful reminiscence of a woman who used a lifetime full of showbiz experience to finally achieve the fame she never found as an actress or model by exposing Hollywood's seedy underbelly in print and hyping the book into middle America.
Michael Korda did not discover Jacqueline Susann.......1999-03-26
There seems to be a debate who discovered Jacqueline Susann. Michael Korda has asserted in an article for the New Yorker, describing his experiences editing "The Love Machine", and getting know the famous authoress who wrote the novel. He fails to mention in the article he gave an interview to Barbara Seamam back in 86 or 87. She is the woman who wrote "Lovely Me, The Life of Jacqueline Susann." He has said in a couple of interviews he never talked to Barbara Seaman, but Barbara has the tape of the interview. Let's set the record straight once and for all. Jacqueline Susann was all ready a famous and established bestselling author, "Valley of the Dolls" when Simon & Shuster bought the hardcover rights to "The Love Machine." And the only reason why they bought the novel was because the editor-in-chief at the time had moved on to another publishing house, taking many key people at Simon & Shuster with him. Upper Management at Simon & Shuster needed a guaranteed bestseller for an upcoming list because of an important stock-holders meeting. That is the reason why Simon and Shuster published "The Love Machine." And Jackie didn't fail to disappoint them. "The Love Machine" stayed number one for over five months on the New York Times Bestseller List. And she taught the people at Simon and Shuster how to promote and sell a novel. Along with her husband Irving Mansfield, they pioneered the art of selling the popular novel.
Book Description
Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky clubs and offbeat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage-and the darker realities that assail her heart when she's out of the spotlight. Strip City is both a hugely entertaining insider's account of a hidden world and a moving voyage of self-discovery. Lily Burana has written for The New York Times Book Review, GQ, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Spin, and Salon. She lives in New York State. This is her rst book.
Customer Reviews:
Thoughtful and interesting.......2007-08-26
Stripping is a misunderstood and incredibly complex profession. So says Lily Burana.
Rather than the lascivious and trashy book most would expect about this issue, we are treated to a meditation on women's roles in society, sexual politics, the history of stripping as a profession, and Burana's autobiography.
I found myself thinking a lot about strippers and what they do. Burana shows us all the different types of strip clubs. Some are all nude, some are only topless. In some clubs, the dancers move the patrons through as if on an assembly line, and in some the dancers and patrons treat each other like old friends. Above all, Burana dispels the stripping myth. Even in the best clubs, the cloud has no silver lining. Burana is unapologetic about stripping, but she doesn't sugarcoat it or defiantly proclaim that stripping is her right. In that way, this book is very poignant.
Burana is also a woman in transition. She interposes vignettes of her earlier stripping days with her current life as a writer and someone's fiance. It's a true testament that she is able to tell these stories without dragging down the overall narrative.
I haven't read any other books on stripping, but I doubt you will find one as honest and thoughtful as Burana's.
A Bittersweet Farewell.......2007-07-09
Little or nothing is more fascinating than human sexuality, especially when the sexuality involved is on the edge. In the past few years, a number of highly literate women have written books describing in substantial detail their experiences in various aspects of what is called the sex industry. Among the best of these books is Lily Burana's "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America." (2001). Lily Burana (b. 1968) has become a well-known essayist, and she the author of a recent novel, "Try". But her memoir of her life as a stripper established her fame.
Burana grew up in New Jersey as a rebellious daughter of highly-educated parents. She dropped out of high school and ran off to New York City where she was determined to establish her independence and her own character. In order to support herself she began to work at Times Square's notorious "Peepland", dancing nude for men in the grimiest atmosphere behing a two-way mirror. She gradually becomes involved in the industry and moves to San Francisco where she works as a nude dancer for two major clubs, the "Lusty Lady" and "Mitchell Brothers" for five years. During this time, she was teaching herself to write and finding a market for her writing. She spearheaded a lawsuit against Mitchell Brothers for which she worked trying to secure the status of "employee" rather than "independent contractor" for the dancers and better pay and working conditions.
When the book opens, Burana has been away from stripping for several years and is supporting herself as a writer. On assignment in Wyoming she meets and falls in love with Randy, a rodeo worker and cowboy who is comfortable with her past. Before settling down with Randy, Burana finds she needs to get stripping out of her system. She takes up dancing again in a variety of clubs across the country. This new period of life as a stripper differs from the first in that Burana determines to dance topless rather than nude. She discusses at length the differences in exposure both the dancers and their customers see between nude dancing and dancing with even the tiniest g-string.
The book moves back and forth in Burana's life from her childhood, to her first experiences as a dancer, to her decision to go back to the business and then again to give it up, apparently for good. The book offers a picture of the externalities of a life of a stripper in its pictures of countless clubs and of the endless details of buying costumes, hustling customers, and trying to maintain one's physical and sexual allure. Burana has also done research on her topic and offers portrayals of the Pure Talent School of Dance, a school for strippers that Burana attended at the outset of her second tour in the profession, and the Exotic World Museum in California, among other places.
A great deal of the book is internal, as Burana attempts to describe the complex factors that led her into stripping, and the factors that led her to leave it. Burana discusses her relationship with her parents and their reactions to her career and with her sister who had taken a different path in life and become a minister. Many of the best moments of the book involve Burana's relationship with other women in the profession. Burana obviously feels close kinship to many of these women as they are joined in a life that they perceive as beyond the accepted pale for the expression of female sexuality.
Burana remains deeply ambivalent about stripping. Clearly, she enjoyed the money and, unlike many women, had the prudence to save wisely. She also found a rewarding relationship with a man (She doesn't much describe her personal romantic life before meeting Randy.) and a permanent career as a writer. She also seems to enjoy dance, the sexual allure of her profession, and the feeling of power she received from knowing men's attentions and desires were riveted on her when she was, ultimately, unattainable. But Burana also realizes that stripping is a difficult, dangerous, and emotionally-damaging business, as she is wrung-out from her nightly dancing, incessant sexual come-ons, disrespect, rejections, and mutual objectification, of herself and of the men. Burana remains attracted to the business and does not advocate its elimination. But she becomes open to those who criticize and who ask her if she made the best choice in pursuing it. In short she becomes less defensive and more aware of the pitfalls of the life she had led for many years. She made her second tour as a stripper and presumably wrote her memoir as a sort of catharsis to get the profession out of her system for good. She herself realizes that she only partly succeeds.
"Strip City" is a well-written, thoughful, and I think, largely candid account of Burana's experiences as a stripper and of her responses to these experiences. It teaches a great deal about the sex industry and about what Burana calls the sexual underside of life in the United States -- and probably in most other highly-developed nations, at the least, as well.
Robin Friedman
Yawn........2007-06-27
Don't ask me how a book on a stripper could be boring, but it was. Maybe I have become jaded after reading Jenna Jameson's and Traci Lord's autobiographies. If you haven't read those yet, they are far more exciting, although you have to hide in your room to read them.
This book somehow made stripping boring, and for that I must give it one star.
Amazing , Accurate and Truthful........2006-12-14
I loved this book. What a truthful and accurate description of all the places she has traveled to and worked at. I should know because I've worked at several of the same places!
I felt like we were one of the same person and it opened a door of powerful memories. This book is exciting. Your on the Journey to Peepland in NewYork City, then to the School of Dance in Clearwater, Florida; then off to the famous O'Farrel Brothers theater in San Diego and so much more. If anyone wants a non-fiction view of the real world of a feature exotic dancer this would be the best choice.
The only thing I didn't like is when she would talk about her personal relationship with her now husband, which I thought was boring and I would rush to the parts about the clubs and dancing. I probably thought is was boring because I'm already married...LOL.
Lily Burana hits the mark..........2006-08-29
...with her book, Strip City.
As someone with over 10 years in the business, I was pleased to read an account that is so close to my own experience. Burana explains the appeal of dancing better than any other author I've read. When she explains "the zone" she goes into on stage in Texas it was like reading my own thoughts. And the same stands true for her explanation of how she stopped dancing. I think all dancers have experienced that same feeling at some point.
I also enjoyed Burana's interviews with other dancers and the history she gives of stripping and of burlesque. I really think it is great that she took the time to add those things into the book. It gives it something deeper than just her personal experience.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has curiosity about the exotic dancer experience. Lily Burana is a class act!
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