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Get answers FAST with the Landscape Architect’s One-Stop,Take-It-Anywhere Guide
In the office or out on the job, the Landscape Architect’s Portable Handbook puts the 20% of information you need 80% of the time at your fingertips! You get instant data for every architectural landscaping project: public and private gardens…athletic facilities…highways…urban/suburban settings…MORE! From project administration, planning, design standards and analysis to site development, construction, materials, field techniques, and common rules of thumb, hundreds of handy tables, diagrams and schematics, checklists and field guides give you the accurate how-to’s and expertise you need – ANYWHERE, ANYTIME! It packs easily in your briefcase, so you can cut down on time-consuming trips and calls between field and office, or get satisfyingly fast facts and guidelines when you’re catching up on work at home. It’s a distillation of the entire profession… and provides the perfect ASLA registration exam review. You get:
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* Includes Federal and other regulations and ADA site requirements
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Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators (Lea's Communication)
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Assessing Media Education provides guidelines for media educators and administrators in higher education media programs who are creating or improving student-learning assessment strategies. Covering the topics and categories established by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, this key resource guides readers through the steps of developing an assessment plan, establishing student learning outcomes in the various areas of the curriculum, and measuring those outcomes.
This timely and critical volume provides detailed discussion on:
*developing an assessment plan, placing special emphasis on mission statements;
*the development of student-learning outcomes, with chapters reflecting the eleven competencies presented in the ACEJMC requirements; and
*indirect and direct measures of student-learning outcomes, ranging from advisory boards to examinations.
The volume concludes with case studies of programs at different points in their development of student outcomes, illustrating the implementation of assessment plans in a variety of contexts.
As assessment gains importance throughout the curriculum, Assessing Media Education will be a useful and practical resource for media educators and administrators as they grapple with the challenges of assessment.
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An Engaging HCI Snapshot.......2002-12-07
The web is essentially software, just on a different platform. As such it can be designed, analyzed, and optimized in a systematic fashion. Human factors research into software design is over 20 years old. This usability engineering knowledge can be used in the design of web sites. This book offers the latest examples of usability engineering applied to web site design.
The goal of this book is to provide a snapshot of current and future research being conducted into HCI on the Internet. Twenty- three experts in HCI-related fields contributed the 16 chapters of this book. Well-known names like Ed Chi (Xerox PARC), Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research), and Andrew Sears (UMBC) all wrote about their research into how we interact with the web.
The book is thought-provoking in the breadth and depth of knowledge presented. The book moves from "digital strategy" and planning, through analysis, to design and evaluation. Highlights from the first two parts include Shneiderman's "universal usability," where web sites are designed for a world-wide audience (presented ably by Andrew Sears), cost-justifying web usability (Mayhew and Bias), usability metrics (Opaluch), and "phone usability" where usability surveys are conducted at low cost over the phone (Ratner). Talk about discount usability engineering!
The third part, comprising more than half of the book, explores the cognitive aspects of web usability. Microsoft's Czerwinski and Larson offer a glimpse into HCI research at Microsoft. They propose that a stronger cognitive foundation must be achieved before we can truly optimize the design and usability of web sites. In their "Cognition and the Web" chapter they highlight areas where works needs to be done, and show some interesting examples from their research.
Czerwinski and Larson offer a new metric to better fit cognitive science to web design. They propose that Relative Subjective Duration (RSD) is a better measure for gauging user satisfaction. RSD measures the difficulty users are having with a task by time estimates. Users who are interrupted tend to overestimate task duration while completed task times tend to be underestimated. They also offer a glimpse into Microsoft's research with sections on nonspeech audio to enhance the web interface, telephony, and speech recognition.
The "Scent of the Web" chapter is especially relevant to web designers as Ed Chi (Xerox PARC) offers an automated way to analyze the usability of sites before users see any pages. Not unlike an animal's foraging behavior users use "information scent" to optimize their efforts to find what they want. Information scent is the perceived value and cost of assessing a piece of information.
Chi has developed a tool to called Bloodhound to automatically sniff out a site's usability based on a predictive model suggested by information scent and information foraging theory. As we scan and skim web pages we use information cues like link text and surrounding text, graphics, position, and frequency of occurrence. Chi has mathematically codified these cues into a "scent matrix" that predicts the probability that a user with a particular information need will move from page A to page B. Using this matrix Chi's tool can predict paths where users will go with particular information needs, and how effective particular sites are for particular sets of keywords.
Their Bloodhound tool can accurately predict where users will surf within sites, how usable sites are for particular information needs, and even summarize sites by keywords. Using simulated users (each with a set of a keywords representing their information need) their Bloodhound service can automatically return metrics that rate web site usability.
Chi says that a scientific understanding of human behavior in web surfing is essential to web usability. Innovative tools like Bloodhound can lower usability testing costs and improve our understanding of human behavior on the web.
The book essentially says that heuristic rules of thumb and best practices can only take you so far in usability engineering. For real progress we need a stronger cognitive foundation on which to improve the usability and design of web sites. Guidelines may work in isolation, but on the web there are so many variables that applying these guidelines to all sites for all users doesn't always work.
We require multidimensional analysis to assess the best ways to design actual sites. We need to study more complex, real-world problem domains that better match what users actually experience. This book offers a fascinating glimpse into current and future HCI research on the web.
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From an historical perspective on landscape development in America, this well-illustrated book tells how to select the right period for your garden, identify authentic plants, research and plan its development, and maintain the restored landscape.
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Expert Advice.......2006-02-25
This is an excellent starting point for the beginner. It builds a proper base in a very practical, hands on way. Favretti is a well-known expert in Southern historic garden circles. He's created historic landscapes himself and comes at his subject with a great deal of experience.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1236 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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Title: Rapid Watershed Planning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Managing Urbanizing Watersheds.(Review) (book review)
Author: Margot W. Garcia
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Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 66
Issue: 3
Page: 335
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A Masterclass in Watercolors, Oils, Acrylics and Gouache
Ian Sidway
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A complete guide to artist's materials, including paint, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, support, varnish, easels and much more.
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Acrylics Masterclass
Sally Bulgin
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Mississippi Blue: The Photographs of Henry P. Bosse
Charles Wehrenberg , and
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Charlie Brown: This Is Your Life
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This Is Your Life, Charlie Brown
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Walter Cronkite His Life and Times
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Commercial Real Estate: An Introduction to Marketing Investment Properties
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A nice approach for practical selling investments.......1998-03-04
I enjoyed this book for its practical view. The calcultion sections were a little boring as this should be basic TVM etc, but I recomended the book to both other partners and brokers in our firm.
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Introduction to German Civil And Commercial Law
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Introduction to Intellectual Property, Theory and Practice (Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration)
WIPO Staff
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ntellectual property, and especially international intellectual property, is a field of rapid growth and increasing importance, particularly given the high rate of modern technological advances. This work provides a comprehensive introduction to intellectual property covering all aspects of intellectual property law and administration. Coverage includes + an in-depth examination of international cooperation in intellectual property, including an analysis of the principal multilateral treaties in the field; + attention to the administrative details of various regimes, including patent information, documentation systems, and the functioning of industrial property offices; and + material prepared by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Introduction to Intellectual Property has proven a popular reference work for government officials, lawyers, intellectual property attorneys and businesspeople. Its coverage and introductory level also make it appropriate for practitioners considering the expansion of their practices or those who find themselves dealing with some intellectual property issues in their current practices and need to become articulate on the subject. In addition, this work is useful for academics involved in the study of intellectual property.
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Introduction to the EC Regulation on Plant Variety Protection
P. Van der Kooij
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Council Regulation (EC) No. 2100/94 on Plant Variety Protection (the Regulation) enables breeders to obtain Community-wide protection for new plant varieties by filing a single application with the appropriate authority. The Regulation came into force on 27 April 1995. It is expected that the new Community system will gradually become much more important than the Member States' regulations. This article-by-article commentary on the Regulation offers fundamental information on every Article of the Regulation and other related matters, including + the meaning of all of the relevant definitions and terms, + references to other Articles and to the Articles of the Regulations establishing implementing rules, + practical information regarding methods of application and costs, + the complete texts of the Regulations establishing implementing rules, and + a list of important addresses. Breeders, growers, farmers, and business lawyers will appreciate this highly practical resource on a Regulation central to their work.
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on November 11, 1996. The length of the article is 519 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.
From the supplier: Several large insurance companies including Allstate, Farmers Insurance Group and State Farm have reentered the California homeowners' insurance market with the projected start of the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) on Dec. 1, 1996. The CEA was created to help reimburse insurers a portion of the property damages they would be forced to pay out in case of a major earthquake. Many insurance companies in California had pulled out of the home insurance market following the Northridge earthquake of Jan. 1994.
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Title: CEA creation fueling reentry of large insurers.(insurance companies reentering California homeowners' insurance market with introduction of California Earthquake Authority)
Author: Joe Niedzielski
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 11, 1996
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n46
Page: p5(1)
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on August 29, 1994. The length of the article is 802 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.
From the supplier: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has introduced a new commercial insurance portfolio called 'Customarq' in an effort to shore up it market share of this category. Customarq uses an automated delivery and rating system and comes with enhanced coverage, including an automatic $250,000 blanket limit for personal property or building coverage. The new product has been approved in 29 states and is expected to be suitable for industries including electronics and manufacturing.
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Title: Chubb launches commercial ins. plan. (Chubb Group of Insurance Companies introduces new commercial insurance portfolio)
Author: Evelyn Gilbert
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Date: August 29, 1994
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on June 6, 2005. The length of the article is 990 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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Title: Cutting-edge products: automation, processing targeted for carriers, agents, brokers.(INTRODUCED AT ACORD LOMA)
Author: Ara C. Trembly
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Date: June 6, 2005
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 109
Issue: 22
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