Buffalo Architecture: A Guide

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This book is MONEY!.......2000-05-14

The book rocks, so does the city. Buy it!

Buffalos Rich Architectural Heritage and more..........1999-12-17

This book acts in many ways as the unofficial guidebook to exploring what is one of the most important architectural cities in America.For those who are familiar with Buffalo and those who are not the book is filled with a splendid variety of both well known Richardson and Wright masterpieces and some not so well known masterpieces. Its divided into sections based on the geography of the city so it makes the perfect book if one wants to set out exploring. Buffalos neighborhoods and amazing housing stock are unparalleled in size and preservation nationwide. Its American Indian inspired art deco city hall, perhaps the finest building of its type in the nation is just one of buildings you will find profiled. Reyner Banham ,the editor,was at the time was on the faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Architecture. His wonderful book about the origins of the modern movement and its ties to Buffalos grain elevators, A Concrete Atlantis could act as a supplement to Buffalo Architecture: A Guide if you are interested in Buffalos industrial buildings as well...

Must see book for achitects and students and Americans........1997-09-29

This book and the city it shows us are a must see for architects, students, and architectural buffs alike. The book is packed with wonderfull black and white photos showing a suprising array of high quality though little known American architecture. It is refreshing and informative to see and learn of architecture which has been passed over by the traditional architectural press solely because it is not in the typical bigger cities. The buildings presented form a rich and diverse portfolio ranging from masterpieces by Sullivan, Wright, and Richardson,to the simplest of victorian cottages, to a magnificent cathedral or a delicate greek revival temple. This book presents the unknown and forgotten richness of American architecture and releases the reader form the monotony of seeing the same cities and the same buildings published over and over agian. The writers of this book ventured out into the great american wilderness and and showed us its refinement.

Frank Lloyd Wright, six Buffalo houses (A Louis Sullivan museum guide)

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Frank Lloyd Wright, six Buffalo houses (A Louis Sullivan museum guide)
John D Randall
Manufacturer: L. Sullivan Museum
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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A Walking Tour of the University at Buffalo: And Other Area Architectural Treasures (Including a Driving Tour)

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A Walking Tour of the University at Buffalo: And Other Area Architectural Treasures (Including a Driving Tour)
Frances Rupley
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Buffalo Architecture: A Guide
Francis R.; Buffalo Architectural Guidebook Kowsky
Manufacturer: MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ98RG

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Gail Sher's The Intuitive Writer is a series of meditations on listening. Not just any listening, but listening with the "imagining ear." The imagining ear is more described than defined here, but it involves listening attentively and hearing more than there is to hear. The imagining ear can hear the silence in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. It can hear, as Willa Cather wrote, "the corn growing in the night." One might think, mistakenly, that this involves active, aggressive, "yang" listening. But Sher, a Zen monk, refers instead to the listening that comes from freeing oneself of preconceptions, judgments, and opinions. This is a slender book, with short chapters that refer to everything from Robert Frost and Camille Pissarro to child's pose in yoga and Ayurveda, from Philip Glass and Balanchine to Krishnamurti and Chinese pictograms. Either you find this kind of swirl of cultural and spiritual references appealing or you don't. But what writer wouldn't appreciate the encouragement to open themselves to a deeper understanding of experience, where it becomes clear that "one falling leaf is not just one leaf; it means the whole autumn." --Jane Steinberg

Book Description

Gail Sher's first guidebook, One Continuous Mistake, showed writers how to develop awareness and deal with distraction through the Four Noble Truths (for writers). Drawing from Sher's thirty years of experience as a Zen Buddhist, psychotherapist, poet, and teacher, The Intuitive Writer is her second enlightening guide for the writer (now seated at her desk) that explains how to shape and sharpen her perceptions, both of her own voice and that of the world around her.

An invaluable tool for writers of every level, The Intuitive Writer explores the wisdom, spirituality, and ultimate uniqueness embedded in the language of one's daily life.

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A Guide For Hearing.......2005-08-24

This book is a treasure. I read it once in a trance, and I am on a second reading, which I feel sure will birth a third and more readings, hopefully until I read it and wake up! under the shelter of Sher's words, my current Bodhi tree. This book is so achingly beautiful that is almost isn't there; I have to reassure myself that I own it (Does anyone ever truly own beauty?). The sharp read-aloud-able passages are anything you want them to be--- poetry, aesthetic theory, a guide to writing and life--- and everything you want them to be. This isn't a book for those who like clear guidelines, and yet the book is full of clear guidlines. It's pretty deep. I recommend it highly for serious (happy) artists and human beings.

Save your money and just write........2002-09-17

I like readable prose. This is more like poetry with meaning that must be disciphered or intuited. I am disappointed and am sending the book back. I bought it on the basis of the first reviewer but it didn't impress me as much. I think it would be better to write rather than read more esoteric writing about writing. I would pass on this one.

Like "One Continuous Mistake", only deeper.......2002-08-06

This is one of those books that I would buy for every writer friend of mine, if I had the money. It's hard to convey the power that Gail Sher is able to impart with her very simple, straightforward style. I am a produced playwright who has been working on fiction for a number of years, and I believed myself to be "above" books that purport to tell one about writing. Gail Sher speaks (I think) to those who are past the beginner stage, who have begun the hard task of finding their voice and know a little about the painful, joyous process of translating that into a finished work of fiction. This book, like her first one, is a book you can literally open to any page and find something that will help you on your journey or answer a question you weren't even sure you were formulating in your head.
Unlike "One Continuous Mistake", though, this book assumes an intelligence in the reader, a desire to delve deeper into the simple bead-to-bead-to-bead experience that the complex task of writing ultimately breaks down to. The observations and conclusions by Ms. Sher in this book are denser in nature than they were in "One Continuous Mistake". I took this to mean that, as she did with the first book, she had written this new book for me and the special place that I found myself in (in relation to my fiction). I have to believe that others have this same feeling about the wise words of Ms. Sher and that they will find their way to this new book as well.
If you are serious about being a writer, and if you spend a good deal of your brain-time pondering exactly what that means, then this book is essential. If you know that you have talent as a writer but, for whatever reason, you feel you have lost touch with that spring you drew from, you need this book. It is unique. It will speak to you.

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Intuitive Composition
Handell Albert
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UI8072

INTUITIVE COMPOSITION a Right-Brain Approach to Achieving Simplicity, Harmony, and Balance in Your Paintings

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INTUITIVE COMPOSITION a Right-Brain Approach to Achieving Simplicity, Harmony, and Balance in Your Paintings
Albert and Leslie Trainor Handell
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JV3KIO

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In An American Lens, Jay Bochner looks at a series of milestones in the development of the American avant-garde that capture a pivotal period in artistic consciousness. He focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz -- as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene -- at a series of significant moments in his career. These close-ups offer a more intense and expanded understanding of the subject than the familiar long view.

Bochner uses these scenes to recreate for today's readers the birth of modernism in America--what it was like to be an audience for the art of the early avant-garde. Moving from frame to frame, he shows us, for example, a single photograph by Stieglitz of a snowy night in 1893 and a short description by Stephen Crane of just such a snowfall; the preparation, the reception, and the aftermath of the famous Armory Show of modern art in 1913; Gertrude Stein's portraits in prose; New York at the dawn of Dada, with Paul Strand, Francis Picabia, and others; and the intersecting paths of Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, and Marcel Duchamp in 1917. Bochner also examines Stieglitz's three great photographic series: his photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe, of clouds, and of skyscrapers. These sections of the book include many Stieglitz photos, including some rarely seen portraits of O'Keeffe.

Stieglitz as impresario and artist achieved an almost mythical status, which some recent critics have worked to deflate -- casting him, for example, as Svengali to Georgia O'Keeffe's spellbound Trilby. Engaging in neither idolatry nor demolition, Bochner looks instead for the truth about the man and the myth. The scenes from American art in An American Lens create a new version of Stieglitz's biography, allowing us to reread his life and the life of his times by focusing intently on what is visible and not so visible in the art he left behind.

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A Pleasure to Read .......2005-11-06

Beginning as the 19th century ended, Alfred Stieglitz was an innovator in photography, and by the first decade of the 20th century, he was in active dialogue with the major innovations in painting. At his New York gallery called 291, Stieglitz offered the first American exhibitions of Matisse and Toulose-Lautrec, and Picasso's first one man show anywhere. In the pages of his Camera Work periodical, he was one of the first to print Gertrude Stein.

Stieglitz is of course linked to the great American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe, whose work he exhibited before he'd met her, but with whom he had a long and storied romantic relationship. But Stieglitz was the link between European modernists (not just the Paris school, but Italian futurists like Gino Severini, and the Dadaists and Surrealists throughout Europe) and other American artists (Marsden Hartley, John Marin), writers (William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane) and photographers (Paul Strand.) Actors, architects---except perhaps for Charlie Chaplin and early Hollywood filmmakers, there is hardly a significant American in any art who isn't mentioned in this book about Stieglitz.

Bochner's book is subtitled "Scenes from..." and that's accurate. Though it's roughly chronological, there is no central narrative, but there are lots of great stories and observations, both historical and critical. It begins with a riveting description of 1890s New York and the labor strife of the period, provides fascinating context to the famous Armory Show of 1913 which introduced European modernism to New York and America, and spends considerable time with Stieglitz and O'Keeffe.

Bochner can adroitly slip in the deconstructionist code words and semiotic aside, but despite that, he is an engaging writer. There is of course a lot about photography (that's the focus of the Successionist movement in the title) but he also lavishes teasing pages on the tortured courtship of poet William Carlos Williams and poet/artist Mina Loy, including their husband-and-wife roles in a Provincetown Players production, enduring catcalls during rehearsals from Eugene O'Neill for the shyness of their stage kisses.

I'm sure Bochner is a fine scholar and critic, but he also has that indispensable talent of storytellers: he gets us interested in what fascinates him through what he chooses to describe and narrate. So out of this collection of anecdotes, observations, critiques, forgotten or obscure historical moments that seem formed as responses to unknown interlocutors, emerges an entertaining book and, by the way, an absorbing and gallant portrait of the life and times and undervalued accomplishments of Alfred Stieglitz.

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BE MY VALENTINE CHARLIE BROWN
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: scholastic Book Services
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QAHBZG

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Same as always

anonymous ...

Be My Valentine Charlie Brown
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Valentine's Day | Holidays & Festivals | People & Places | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0590066110

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"Well! Here Comes Good Ol' Charlie Brown!"

This lovely, heart-shaped, interactive format allows readers to celebrate Valentine's Day with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. Adapted from the classic television episode, fans will get to exchange valentines by simply lifting flaps on each spread of this irresistible treat of a book.

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Same as always.......2002-01-04

Pretty much the same as the special,(except for the Pawpet Show),
Charlie Brown waits for valentines with pie in the sky hopes. Snoopy makes a music box out of paper, while Sally makes a diamond and a club, and Charlie Brown watches his "something that is very nice" fall apart.

anonymous ..........2000-05-06

This book was really funny. Charlie Brown, Lucy and Snoopy are probably the best charaters.

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BE MY VALENTINE, CHARLIE BROWN
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Scholastic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000TD2MCW

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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GTSF2A

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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
Charles M. SCHULZ
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PG94CE

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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792187210

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In an effort to become more flexible and competitive, companies are migrating from legacy systems to integrated business management package software products. These products represent the future for companies that need to streamline their business processes and improve the sharing of information in order to compete in the rapidly evolving business world. Yet adopting a package software solution is not a process to be taken lightly, and this critical change can represent a tremendous investment of time and resources.

Most corporate officers charged with purchasing package software products are not experienced buyers, and there is very little information available to guide you through this process. Enterprise-Wide Software Solutions is the thorough tutorial and lasting reference you need to help you implement, use, and manage these powerful tools. This book provides a basis for planning and managing expectations among all relevant groups-corporate management, information technology staff, users, outside consultants, and the software vendor.

Companies are investing significant amounts of money and time to implement business package solutions. This book helps you reduce these costs and hours to more reasonable levels. Crucial topics-budgeting, project team organization, cost-justification, customization, outsourcing, reengineering, testing, training, and more-are covered in detail, allowing you to concentrate on the selection process, implementation strategy, and package software product that is best for your company.

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It's very good book.......2003-09-18

This book is very useful for choose right ERP package and implementation.

What a waste of time and money.......2001-01-14

As someone involved in the consulting area for many years, I was unable to find any new idea that would make worthwhile to spend money in this book. Almost everything that is mentioned here can be grabbed from free articles availables in Internet,about this subject. Additionally, there are a good number of books that will help you much more to plan and implement ERP's. Last, but not least, the book only have a handful of small pictures and tables. Unacceptable for a modern book about business and technology topics.

High-level Overview.......2000-09-27

This book provides a high-level overview of many of the issues surrounding an ERP implementation. However, the coverage is superficial and repetitive. I think a 10-page summary of this material would be much more useful than this 200-page book. Often I felt like the book was more of an advertisement for a consulting company than a serious treatment of the issues involved in implementing an ERP system. Still, it may help one who is inexperienced in this area to know some of the important questions to ask before and during the implementation.

A good summary of the complex issue of enterprise systems.......1999-10-06

This book is a good overview of all of the issues related to the selection and implementation of enterprise systems. I have purchased several copies of the book and distributed them to potential clients. I use the book as a gift during my seminars.

The book, however, does not go into a lot of details on such critical issues such as change management and business case development for the project.

This is a good introduction book and is an easy read. I recommend it for readers who want to understand the issues of ERP at a high level.

Important topic, but superficial treatment!.......1999-07-12

This book identifies all the important areas in enterpise software package implementation. However, I was really disappointed with the superficial treatment overall. Much of the stuff looks old - material that has been around in books on project management for a long long time. It would have been invaluable if the author had focused in detail on the two key areas (package selection and package implementation) and provided more specific tools/techniques etc.

Enterprise Wide Software Solution: Integration Strategies & Practices

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Enterprise Wide Software Solution: Integration Strategies & Practices
Sergio Lozinsky
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOHYBK

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Good basic foundation for buying a first home

Good if you are just starting to think about buying.

The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Buying a House
Nicholas Ordway
Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Buying & Selling Homes | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Home Buying For Dummies, 3rd edition

How to Buy a Home When You Can't Afford It

100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask: With Answers from Top Brokers from Around the Country (100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask)

10 Steps to Home Ownership: A Workbook for First-Time Buyers

Home Buyer's Checklist: Everything You Need to Know--but Forget to Ask--Before You Buy a Home

ASIN: 0761536159
Release Date: 2002-03-26

Book Description

Stop Paying Rent!
Are you ready to make the leap into home ownership, but more than a little nervous about taking that big step? Never fear. The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Buying a House is here to help you learn everything you need to know to find your perfect home at a price you can afford. You'll discover how to:
·Choose the real estate agent right for you
·Find the perfect house: price, location, size, and style
·Determine which type of loan is best for you
·Save money using the right negotiation strategies for your market
·And much more!

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Good basic foundation for buying a first home.......2004-01-08

Found the book informative and provides "nuts and bolts" about buying a first home. Reduces stress level considering all information bombarded with, at rapid rate. Anything that will facilitate the "big" purchase is a ++++.

Good if you are just starting to think about buying........2003-11-26

Very basic outline of the home buying process. The information on the financial aspects (mortages, etc) is too brief so this can't be the only book you rely on if you really want to understand the process before you jump in. A good starting place though. This book made me aware of all the things I still need to learn about...but I'm a pro compared to where I was before reading it!

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