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Space Planning Basics
Mark Karlen Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471434396 |
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The fully updated edition of the definitive book on space planningCompletely revised to address changes in industry practice and new technologies, Space Planning Basics, Second Edition presents all the necessary tools and know-how to effectively create design programming for both small and large space planning projects.
The author's step-by-step space planning approach demonstrates how to use matrices and diagrams to fully visualize the space analysis process, including how to apply bubble diagrams and block plans for establishing a workable spatial organization. With a focus on existing structures, this comprehensive book presents material in a realistic context to create a hands-on guide that helps develop applicable skills and provides accessible information for solving day-to-day issues in the real world.
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reference book.......2007-09-29
Space Planning Basics.......2007-01-05
Good basics, flawed details.......2000-04-22
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Earth and Space Science: Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement (Basic, Not Boring 6 to 8)
Imogene Forte , and Marjorie Frank Manufacturer: Incentive Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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ASIN: 0865303754 |
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At last, a comprehensive return to the basics in a fresh and imaginative format. Each of the 16 books in this series presents a carefully researched skills sequence as well as exercises based on age-appropriate, high-interest themes. A coordinated effort by a team of experienced educators, BASIC/Not Boring will make basic, fundamental skills exciting and achievable. 64 pages each.
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The looming biological warfare storm: misconceptions and probable scenarios.: An article from: Air & Space Power Journal
Col (Dr.) Jim A. Davis Manufacturer: U.S. Air Force ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DD3KI Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Air & Space Power Journal, published by U.S. Air Force on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 7234 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Customer Reviews:
Impressive.......2005-06-24
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Open space and land development: A basic guide to management and preservation of open space, parks, and recreation areas in urban communities
Larry L Harris Manufacturer: Science for Citizens Center of Southwestern Michigan, Western Michigan Univ ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006YAUE6 |
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Space Planning Basics 2ND Edition
Mark Karlen Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TXR3Z8 |
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Sidelights, Fanlights and Transoms Stained Glass Pattern Book
Ed Sibbett Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486253287 |
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Using this book is a breeze........2001-05-05
Patterns Translate Well to Today's Application.......2000-04-19
Good Flower Patterns.......2000-03-25
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Decorative Doorways Stained Glass Pattern Book: 151 Designs for Sidelights, Fanlights, Transoms, etc.
Carolyn Relei Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0486264947 |
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Beautiful designs.......2007-01-10
Excelent book and great designs!.......2006-07-06
Good Variety.......2000-06-09
The patterns are (or can be) grouped into coordinated window sets, for example: a doorway with matching sidelights and a fanlight. Most of the patterns include flowers, but not all. Some the the themes include hummingbirds (very nice) blended with flowers, a dove, herons, sea gulls, callas, irises, daffodills, roses, tulips, morning glories, grapes with vines, dogwood (geomatical), parrots, landscapes (sailboat, sunsets with a bird and water), and geometrics (good for bevels).
I have used some of the flower details extracted from the overall patterns.
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Sidelights, Fanlights and Transoms Stained Glass Pattern Book
Ed, Jr. Sibbett Manufacturer: Dover Publications, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MBTYWM |
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Get Stoned and Read This Book
Gordon G. Gourd Manufacturer: Gordon G Gourd Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 096735370X |
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"The coffee table book for pot-smokers." That's right. GET STONED AND READ THIS BOOK. A book entirely conceived and executed under the influence of marijuana. Lots of marijuana.Written by the creative partnership known as Gordon G. Gourd, GET STONED is the culmination of five+ years of binging. Shot by Mr. Clancy, penned by Mr. Winter, GET STONED has been a labor of love. The book is self-published by Gordon G. Gourd, Inc. because established publishers felt the book was 'too esoteric'.
It's a pot book. It's supposed to be esoteric.
Publishers also felt that the title was too progressive for the likes of Barnes and Noble, and in order to sign us up, we would have to at least change the layout of the cover. Gordon felt the compromise was too great. "Screw it," we said. "Let's do it ourselves."
Six months later, we've got books. Printed through Acid Test Productions in California (publisher of many pieces on the Grateful Dead), the book itself is oversized, 10"x10", 72pp, with both full color and black and white imagery, printed on high-end glossy paper. The production quality is top-notch. The book itself is a series of loosely related full page spreads, each with a different image and idea, all created for the stoner by the stoner. It's some pretty whacked stuff.
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The required coffee table book for any stoner. .......2006-12-19
WHAT A JOKE!!!.......2006-11-10
Close but not quite.......2002-06-01
GREAT COFFE TABLE BOOK:).......2002-05-18
A unique and kooky book for everyone.......2001-11-06
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Comics de Rius: mis Supermachos: Comics of Rius: The Supermachos/ Spanish Edition
Ruis Manufacturer: Public Square Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1594971668 |
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Eduardo del Rio, aka Rius, is Mexico's foremost graphic narrator and one of the world's most famous cartoonists. This book is a compilation of his first comic book series, Mis Supermachos (My Supermachos). This revolutionary series began in 1965. It is a critical commentary on Mexico's social problems, featuring a gallery of opinionated inhabitants who live in a fictional town, San Garabato Cucuchan.
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The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
Susan E. Tifft , and Alex S. Jones Manufacturer: Soundelux Audio Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 1559353244 |
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This mammoth history of the dynasty that created and controls The New York Times is as epic in its scope as is the role of the newspaper in America. Like any good epic, this story is filled with its fair share of personal ambition, disappointment, competing heirs to the throne, fierce loyalties, and powerful intrigue. The story of The Times starts in 1896, when Adolph Ochs, a young German Jew, buys the undistinguished and nearly bankrupt The New-York Times (the dash was later dropped). He worked hard to distinguish its style from the florid journalism that marked rival papers, and soon Ochs's paper, with its straightforward reporting, became the favorite of the Wall Street and Uptown sets. He toiled, too, to ensure that The Times never earned the moniker "too Jewish." Ochs assiduously declined to promote Jewish editors and was an outspoken opponent of the free state of Israel. And writers Susan Tifft and Alex Jones argue persuasively that in its drive to appear absolutely objective about Jewish issues, the paper (under the leadership at this point of Ochs's son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger) underreported the Holocaust--keeping stories of Hitler's early maneuvers off the front page, failing to name concentration-camp victims as Jews. Though significant, World War II was just one moment in the hundred-year-long history of the paper thus far. The Trust vividly chronicles some of the The Times's most famous moments--the controversial publication of the Pentagon Papers and its transition to a publicly held company in the late '60s are just two--along with the personal histories of four generations of Ochses and Sulzbergers. With its strong foundation of well-researched facts, thoughtful analysis, and excellent narration, The Trust is itself a great work of journalism that does its storied subject proud. --Anna BaldwinBook Description
Through their dynastic control of The New York Times, the Ochses and Sulzbergers have been the most powerful family in twentieth-century America. Not only have they owned the Times for more than a hundred years, but a family member has always been at the paper's helm, a position that has given them enormous influence and has been passed down as a birthright through four generations. Yet by design they have always been intensely private, shunning the visibility their stature inherently commands. The Trust is the first full-scale portrait of this modern monarchy, a dramatic saga set against a backdrop of world events and the burden and privilege of wealth and power. Here is the story of Adolph Ochs, a visionary dedicated to presenting the news objectively, a man who appeared supremely confident yet was often racked by depression and insecurity; of his daughter, Iphigene, an exceptional woman whose gender prevented her from achieving official authority at the Times but who used her position as family matriarch to foster and guard its mystique; of her husband, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who began his career at the Times as an unpromising son-in-law but went on to become a brilliant and controversial publisher, steering the paper through the crises of World War II, the Holocaust, and the excesses of McCarthyism; of his only son, Punch, who came to the publisher's job with little discernible talent, yet proved tough enough to guide the paper to its greatest journalistic and financial heights; and of the paper's most recent leader, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who struggles daily with the task of preserving his forebears' values amid the uncertainties of a digital age.With novelistic drive and detail, The Trust tells the story of how the domestic dramas of one extraordinary clan shaped the pages of the greatest newspaper in the world; of a Jewish family that found itself under attack for its policies from both anti-Semites and Jews alike; of succession battles, human frailty, and tremendous affluence; and of the legacy of public responsibility that has driven the family to serve as devoted stewards of a trust they hold sacred.
The Trust was written with the full cooperation of the Ochses and Sulzbergers and unconditional access to The New York Times' archives, but with the authors retaining complete independence. The result is not only a richly detailed portrait of an American dynasty but a fascinating chronicle of the twentieth century. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title
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The fall and decline of a family paper.......2005-01-01
Grand and compulsively readable.......2003-02-24
It is cumpulsively readable, like a good novel. This book became my trusted companion during many relaxing evening hours and solitary restaurant meals.
It is also admirably crafted. As in their previous book The Patriarch (about the Bingham family of the Louisville Courier-Journal), Tifft and Jones write beautifully and with great skill for handling detail and narrative.
They also have the ability to balance candor and fairness, steering a sober, high-minded course between warts-and-all skepticism and obsequious hagiography. As a reader you sense you are getting a careful portrait of each major character's personality, strengths, foibles, fond traits, and character flaws, while never getting the feeling the authors are doing either a flack job or a hatchet job.
That's not to say certain characters don't come off better than others. For example, the authors seem consistently sympathetic toward the modestly talented, often hapless but usually wise "Punch" Sulzberger, the dominant figure at the Times from the mid 60s through the mid 90s, while casting his wife Carol as a shallow, cold-hearted Nancy Reagan type. But the book rings of truth and authority, and so one generally trusts the authors' assessments.
While this book overwhelmingly is concerned with people, not events, it provides a valuable account of the internal debates over whether and how to publish the Pentagon Papers. It also illustrates the paper's vigorous post-war anti-communism, its cozy relationship with the Eisenhower administration, its internal battles over editorial voice during the political and cultural upheavals of the 1970s, and its generational differences over homosexuality (contrasting Punch's bigotry with his son and successor Arthur Jr.'s determination to make the Times a progressive place for gays to work). Two consistent threads run throughout the book: the Sulzbergers' ambivalence over their Jewish heritage, and their determination to place journalistic excellence and family control of the paper over the business strategems and high profits necessary to please Wall Street.
This book will be of great interest to journalism junkies. But it also commends itself to all lovers of serious biography.
Beside the Times.......2002-11-10
But once Ochs vanishes from the narrative, bequeathing the editorship to son-in-law Arthur Sulzberger, the book slowly loses steam. Focus shifts from the newsroom to the myriad Ochs-Sulzberger relatives and their beside-the-Times activities, in response to which a reader can only offer a heartfelt shrug.
In defense of The Trust it has been pointed out that the authors set out to write about the family rather than the paper, but apparently there's little of inherent interest in the Ochs-Sulzbergers outside the Times. Down the backstretch, the authors seem as bored as the reader, dutifully recounting the gossipy infighting among far-flung cousins.
The Trust, excellent as much of it is, comes to seem unfortunately conceived -- the newsroom coverage is exemplary, but the beside the Times gossip grows quickly tiresome.
Shame on Alex Jones and Susan Tifft.......2002-03-05
The Kennedys of Journalism.......2001-08-28
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Trust, the: The Private And Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
Susan E. Tifft , and Alex S. Jones Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0756787122 |
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The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
Susan E. Tifft; Alex S. Jones Manufacturer: Back Bay Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OUJSIG |
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The Times of Our Times.(Review) (book review): An article from: Policy Review
Woody West Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JAFAS Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Policy Review, published by Hoover Institution Press on August 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2904 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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THE TRUST: THE PRIVATE AND POWERFUL FAMILY BEHIND THE NEW YORK TIMES.(Critical Essay): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Jonathan Z. Larsen Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098ZE2C Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Columbia Journalism Review, published by Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3160 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Ghost on the Wall: The Authorised Biography of Roy Evans
Derek Dohren Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1840188324 Release Date: 2005-08-09 |
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