Developing with Manufactured Homes

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ONE OF A KIND BOOK FOR BUILDERS

This book is a must read.

Developing with Manufactured Homes
Steve Hullibarger
Manufacturer: Manufactured Housing Institute
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Binding: Paperback

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The most completely finished variation of industrialized housing is the manufactured home. Many people still refer to these homes as mobile homes, even though they are rarely, if ever, moved.

Developing with Manufactured Homes illustrates how the manufactured housing industry functions and how the homes are constructed. It explains how developers can make use of the industrialized approach to building, in lieu of the increasingly cumbersome “stick” building process.

Elementary concepts in land selection, acquisition, the public approval process, development and construction are not covered in this book, except to the extent that the use of manufactured housing would dictate a significant variation in practice as compared to building homes on site.

The primary focus throughout the text is on fee simple development - merging the house with the land to create a singular title of real estate. Although the emphasis is on subdivisions, planned unit developments and urban infill lots as opposed to the development of land-lease communities, many of the subjects covered are applicable to all of the above modes of land use.

This book is an indispensable guide for any builder, developer or student interested in taking advantage of the opportunities in manufactured housing development.

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ONE OF A KIND BOOK FOR BUILDERS.......2001-04-05

This is a great book for anyone using or considering using manufactured housing. The book contains tons of helpful hints and lots of PRACTICAL information I've never seen elsewhere. Would be a great addition to any builder library.

This book is a must read........2001-04-01

For any Developer or Builder thinking about utilizing Manufactured Homes on their lots or communities, this is the first book to buy. The information that relates between Manufacturer's and how a Builder can effectively use their product for broad public appeal is invaluable and will save you $$$$$. Following these concepts we have started 5 homes and will be building many more.

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Landscape Problems & Solutions

Landscape Problems & Solutions (Trouble-Shooting Handbook)
Trudy Friend
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715316508

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Landscapes are the most popular subject areas among artists of all levels of ability. This invaluable handbook takes a practical problem-and-solution approach to drawing and painting popular landscape subjects, showing common mistakes and how to rectify them.

* Incorporating both drawing and watercolor media, the author:

* Leads readers through a series of examples and exercises that introduce them to the equipment and techniques needed for landscapes

* Examines a series of landscape-based themes in detail, showing the problems that can be encountered, and offering ingenious solutions to each

* Follows the highly attractive and accessible layout as the other two books in the series--problem-and-solution spreads, clear annotation, and step-by-step demonstrations

Each theme starts by demonstrating the basic marks and brushstrokes required for that subject, then sets out a series of problem-and-solution pages that are packed with useful tips on how to paint those subjects and avoid the common pitfalls. Each of these themes concludes with a step-by-step demonstration in a chosen medium to pull all the points covered in the theme together in practice.

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Landscape Problems & Solutions.......2007-02-20

Any book by Trudy Friend is great. It is both informative and easy to use.

Watercolour Problems and Solutions: A Trouble-Shooting Handbook (Trouble Shooting Handbook)

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Watercolour Problems and Solutions

Watercolour Problems and Solutions: A Trouble-Shooting Handbook (Trouble Shooting Handbook)
Trudy Friend
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715314572

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Watercolour Problems and Solutions.......2007-02-20

Any book by Trudy Friend is great in my opinion. She show you how to use watercolour with pencils in a varity of different techniques.

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Sleeping angels. Flower fairies. Woodland nymphs and watermelon seeds. Anne Geddes's magical world is populated by hundreds of beautiful, chubby babies and gorgeous children dressed as peapods, pansies, peonies, and pearls. Geddes fans will be thrilled by Until Now, a lush, coffee-table-sized, 10-year retrospective of Geddes's work, including 1991's crowd-pleasing "Cabbage Kids," featured on calendars and coffee mugs everywhere, as well as many previously uncollected shots from Geddes's New Zealand studio.

It's not all costumes, though--the 1997 portrait of Caleb, 3 weeks old, is a beautiful, unretouched close-up of the sweetly sleeping newborn, belly-button still poking out and skin peeling. A portrait only a mother could love? Hardly. Caleb's perfect little sleeping face would evoke maternal feelings from a stone. Particularly fun and often touching are Geddes's notes at the back of the book. For example, of "Rebecca," she writes, "How do you get a 14-month-old to sit still? Show her the jelly bean, and then put it down her trousers." The resulting photograph is of a lovely, mop-headed, tummy-grabbing toddler peering intently at her own navel. Incorporating both rich color and black-and-white photographs, Until Now will delight parents, grandparents, and baby-lovers of all sizes. --Rebecca A. Staffel

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Anne Geddes' photographs of babies have charmed countless fans for many years. In Until Now, Geddes takes us behind the scenes to find out what she was thinking when she captured these images, her 113 most-favorite photographs. Her text also provides a background to each photograph and helps readers understand how this artist and her subjects work together.Consider, for example, Geddes' comments about the shot she captured in 1991, which she titled "Rebecca": "She didn't want to hold the tulips, and she didn't want to sit on the chair-there were too many other things to be done. How do you get a 14-month-old to sit still' Show her the jelly bean, and then put it down her trousers."From signature photos of newborns to touching interactions between parent and child to enthusiastic poses from older children, this gift-size hardcover edition of Until Now gathers together Geddes' most revealing and compelling work. Whether she's posing babies in the garden or in the studio, Anne Geddes' deep affection for babies and children is obvious in the award-winning images she creates.

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Good gift.......2007-05-07

I bought it for a friend recently- somehow I expected the book to be a little bigger- still a good gift for all the pregnant women in your life :)

Not just cute little babies...........2007-01-19

I assumed that all Anne Geddes books were full of adorable pictures of uncomfortable-looking babies. I bought this book online as a gift for my Grandma for Christmas. I wrapped the book before looking through it, and was more than shocked on Christmas morning when my Grandma was flipping through her brand new book and saw a lot more than babies!! While the photography is stunning, please be warned that nude adults are included in this particular collection. I was also disappointed that the pictures were rather small. Overall, the pictures were beautiful but the book was not quite what I expected.

Sickie bag, Please!.......2006-06-26

I was recently presented with a copy of this--compendium of cultural toxic waste--by a friend with dark sense of humor. I had confessed to her that, after lapsing into unconsciousness after a bender compounded of too much Maker's Mark and not enough food, I had had odd and disturbing nightmares studded with grotesque images of infants. By the following weekend, she left a copy of this monstrosity on the cocktail cabinet. After shaking up a suitable quantity of Manhattans, we fell to thumbing through this glossy bit of schlock. The inevitable debate arose: Does this stuff really reflect some vision of Geddes', or is this a very well put-over joke? I thought I had the better end of this argument by suggesting that anyone who collaborates with Celine Dion must have an immense sense of humor, but I was reminded that listeners to the latter are often a really humorless lot. That stymied me. And Geddes' objectification of infants, I was reminded, has the hallmarks of kitsch and sentimentality, but with an edge of--fetishization. These images are no more genuine, no more reflective of the (rare) bit of beauty that one can glean from a squirming screechling, than a grainy Linda Lovelace flick. Either Geddes is a master ironist, or a very, very disturbed photographer. For a case of the creepies, only Wegman and his harem of porno-Weimaraners can do more psychic damage.

So as a gift to someone whose tastes are so utterly debased that they can't see the creepy humor in this, as a gift to someone who can, or as an evil prank on someone who is likely to have colorful nightmares, this thing is a winner.

Until Now.......2006-03-23

Anne Geddes takes such beautiful pictures of babies! This price for such a big book is a GREAT value for the money. You won't be disappointed!

Let's not take this computer-enhanced art too seriously!.......2004-10-29

This is a beautiful and creative book if you like to look at tiny babies. That's about it.
I never knew people had such strange reactions to Anne Geddes' art before reading these reviews. The artist takes photographs largely in Australia and then has them digitally placed in flowers or butterfly suits and what-not in Auckland, New Zealand(she doesn't actually contort the babies). Perhaps some people out there aren't familiar with this technology. Also, the crazy charge that the art contained in the book will make women have uncontrollable urges to produce babies, well, that must be a personal issue I suggest taking up with a therapist. The world population is actually growing slower than expected - global population figures are being scaled back as modernization and education spread. Bottom line: Relax and enjoy the five-star computer-enhanced digital photography, find more important things to complain about and get therapy if you need it!

Photography Until Now (Springs of Achievement Series on the Art of Photography)

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Photography Until Now (Springs of Achievement Series on the Art of Photography)
John Szarkowski
Manufacturer: Museum of Modern Art
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Binding: Paperback

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Captured innocense

Anne Geddes Photofolio: Until Now
Anne Geddes
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0740708791

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Captured innocense.......2000-11-24

Anne Geddes magnifiscently captures the innocense of babies in photographs. These pictures bring with them the sense of pure peace and safety that only babies seem to be able to express. This book will awaken your sense of serenity and love.

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Until Now
Anne Geddes
Manufacturer: Photogenique Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OJGNXK

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Until Now French Edition
Anne Geddes
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0740706284

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Anne Geddes Until Now Display

Manufacturer: Cedco Publishing Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding

ASIN: 1559123486

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Photography Until Now
John SZARKOWSKI
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Binding: Hardcover
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Piercing "Gaze".......2004-07-22

The third of Rumiko Takahashi's mermaid volumes is "Mermaid's Gaze." Her undying not-quite-couple Yuta and Mana return, encountering more twisted immortals and macabre problems, in the darkest and bloodiest of Takahashi's fantasy stories.

In "Mermaid's Gaze," an old woman is forced to kill a young man over and over, only to have him turn up alive every time. Yuta recognizes the man -- Shingo, a rich young psycho who died with his sister Akiko long ago. But actually, they ate mermaid's flesh with differing effects. Now Shingo is immortal, and Akiko is still alive, trapped in a living doll's body. Now Shingo is trying to find and kill his sister -- because so long as she is alive, he is pursued by a horrifying vision...

In "Mermaid's Mask," Yuta and Mana come across a little boy called Nanao who escaped from a moving car. When Nanao takes some "medicine," his scrapes instantly heal, and the immortal pair suspect that he's like them. But the real truth comes to mind when they learn that the boy's mother has kidnapped him from her own son -- and that because of the mermaid's flesh, she can tear off her own scarred face and replace it with another...

Don't expect humor and lightness in Takahashi's Mermaid Saga. There's the occasional moment of dry humor, like Mana constantly referring to Nanao as "squirt." But overall it's even more violent and gruesome than the other Mermaid stories, such as when Nanao's "mother" skins her own face, though Takahashi keeps it tastefully shadowed.

Mana and Yuta have changed a little over the course of the series -- Yuta is a little happier and less haunted, and Mana has become less clueless. They mesh well together, although they are not explored quite as much in this volume as in the previous two. And supporting characters -- like the insanely possessive mother, or the evil Shingo -- are chillingly well-drawn.

Things get nasty and bloody in the third excellent volume of Takahashi's Mermaid Saga. "Mermaid's Gaze" is a good horror-fantasy read -- just don't read it after dark.

Greatest anime series ever!!!!!.......2002-01-29

This is the best book I've ever read! Even though I've only read one, it is by far the best in the world. The way the author writes it, you never want to put it down. Inu-Yasha, I've read volume 10. There are some things I still don't understand but that goes with that I've not read them all yet. My friend, introduced these series to me and I've become infatuated with them.

Disturbing, don't read this one before you go to bed..........2001-10-17

I read this and my first thought was: Whoa, Takahashi wrote this?! This is a departure from her normal, light romantic comidy into something rather spooky...I enjoy all of her works and this one was no exception. Delightful and surprisingly wicked, this book kept me awake, and wanting more.

From Rumiko Takahashi's wonderful Mermaid Saga.......2001-06-19

This manga is not for children under 13, if you ask me. It is violent and macabre. The stories would probably be traumatizing to a little kid. I thought they were strangely enchanting, though. (Not in a pretty fariy tale way!) This manga contains two stories; Mermaids's Gaze and Mermaid's Mask. Mermaid's Gaze was my favourite of the two. It had more plot and more purpose in action. The second, Mermaid's Mask, was good too. It was just a little more gruesome and weird, with a woman who has eatenthe flesh of a mermaid and gains a painful scar from its poison, forcing her to cut of her face and switch for others. That's kinda icky, ya know? The first story has to deal with an homicidal manic who ate the mermaid's flesh and has become immortal. But there is something he wants more than immortality; a mysteriously life-like doll! And he'll kill to get it. Both stories are, of course, staring our two favourite immortal lovers: Mana and Yuta, who risk themselves in their travels to help those affected by the poison of the mermaid's flesh. Very good artwork by Takahashi-sama and thrilling, hard-to-put down plots! Great for any manga lover or anyone willing to read something new!

A good book and thiller.......2000-06-16

Mermaid's Gaze was a good book though it is somewhat gruesome. There is a lot of blood shed and it contains some violence(especially when they kill lost souls). Over all, it is a great book if you like the other Mermaid Series books.

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A very fine memoir.......2002-11-23

Alan Moorehead was a war correspondent during WW2 and since authored a number of fine documentary works, including the White Nile, Gallipoli, and many more. In this book he recounts episodes from his fascinating vocation, mostly from around WW2, but the book is also a heartfelt memoir of a life long relationship with a dear friend and colleague. The stories include some excellent commentary his journalistic approach, and give a glimpse of his fantastic writing career, developing from a mildly uninspired Australian schoolboy into one of the finest documentary authors of the 20th century.

Alan Moorehead has the uncanny ability to keep the reader's eyes glued to the pages. He is enormously satisfying and enjoyable to read. He must have been a person of great compassion and intelligence, and I imagine him being moved by a unflinching desire to search for and faithfully report the truth.

A great experience........2000-08-01

To the other glowing reviews I can only add that it's worthwhile for the piece about Hemingway alone. The final chapter was emotionally wrenching and unforgettable

Uncategorisable account of friendship and war.......1999-11-10

I got into Alan Moorehead by picking up an old Penguin edition of A Late Education second-hand at South Melbourne market. Since then, I've read more, and it seems to me that Moorehead is one of the great prose stylists of the 20th Century. The Australian Moorehead was a war correspondent in Europe during the Spanish Civil War and WWII. This is an account of Moorehead's friendship with another young war correspondent, Alex Clifford, throughout the North African and Western European campaigns, and after the war, up to Clifford's untimely early death. It is a fascinating portrait of young journalists thrown into adventure and danger, and of a unique friendship that grew as a result. As such, it's a kind of mix of The English Patient and Salvador - and very well written.

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A Late Education: Episodes in a Life
Alan Moorehead
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKFDVM

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A late education : episodes in a life
Alan Moorehead
Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd
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A Late Education Episodes in a Life
Alan Moorhead
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A LATE EDUCATION. Episodes in a Life.
Alan: Moorehead
Manufacturer: Pan
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ASIN: B000W2N224

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A LATE EDUCATION: EPISODES IN A LIFE.
Alan. Moorehead
Manufacturer: Hamilton
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In 1821, Maria Dundas Graham sailed for South America on H.M.S. Doris, a ship sent to protect British mercantile interests in that volatile region. After her husband, the ship¹s captain Thomas Graham, died en route, the newly widowed Maria Graham landed in Valparaíso, Chile. Resisting all efforts to hustle her back to England, Graham, a professional writer and highly educated woman, rented herself a cottage in the Chilean--not the British--section of Valparaíso and traveled through Chile for nine months until driven out by a major earthquake and the threat of civil war.

The resulting Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824) tells the gripping story of a gothic heroine in a dangerous but fascinating new land. The author has an eye for detail and a gift for storytelling, and so she creates a travel narrative with a compelling plot and vividly realized characters.

Among the first travel narratives authored by a woman, Graham¹s Journal establishes literary strategies for travel texts to follow and shows clear differences from male narratives of the same period. The Journal, with Jennifer Hayward¹s illuminating new biographical and critical essay and appendices, is also invaluable for scholars and general readers interested in Latin America. Graham provides one of the few firsthand accounts in English of the independence movements in South America, meets with many of the major historical figures involved, provides detailed historical and political readings of events, and depicts Chile of the 1820s in accurate and loving detail.

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