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Whether or not New York City, in all its teeming chaos, strikes readers as exciting or abominating, its superb urban architecture is undeniable. Life in the Big Apple is so fast-paced that most of the time the buildings that fill the island go unnoticed. Manhattan Skyscrapers offers the chance to leisurely peruse the stunning skyline, one building at a time, by compiling 75 of the most noteworthy towers in Manhattan (and one in Brooklyn). Spanning about a 100-year history and organized in chronological order, the book treats each skyscraper to its own section replete with photographs, commentary, and history. And the shifting architectural styles are fascinating to see in one volume. These tall buildings can appear intimidating, dwarfing the people who live in their midst, but this book offers readers an intimacy with these immense structures. There are details here that readers could easily miss in person; for instance, built into the lobby of the gothic-style Woolworth Building of 1913 are gargoyles depicting F.W. Woolworth counting his fortune and the builder in a monk's hood. The photographs are beautiful, with clear perspectives that seem almost impossible to get on the crowded streets of New York. --J.P. Cohen
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New York City is a lot of things, but most of all it's a city of skyscrapers. From the cake-icing Gothic detailing of the Woolworth Building to the shimmering Art Deco of the Chrysler Building, tall buildings make Manhattan the ideal image of a city. Manhattan Skyscrapers was the first book to document the highs and highers of the Big Apple’s search for the sky. With its authoritative text by New York Times contributor Eric Nash, newly commissioned photos by Norman McGrath, and archival images of the city, the book became the reference work on the skyline.
The city skyline changed dramatically on September 11, 2001, when its southern anchors, the World Trade Center towers, were attacked and destroyed. While mourning their loss, the city has continued to carry on its tradition of building. The new structures that have arrived—the green skyscraper of the Condé Nast Building, The Donald's soaring residential Trump World Tower, the hopeful Freedom Tower planned for Ground Zero—prove that the New York attitude still thrives. This new edition of Manhattan Skyscrapers covers ten new buildings including the glittering new LVMH tower and represents seventy-five historical structures, with such recent renovations as Louis Sullivan's Bayard-Condit Building. A new introduction by Skyscraper Museum Director Carol Willis adds insight into the city in the 21st century. This book is a must for both the serious student of architecture and the casual collector of all things New York.
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Fabulous Gift.......2007-06-15
My nephew just completed his masters degree in architecture and is now working in New York City. He loved receiving this book as a gift from us. The photographs and text are very well done.
Manhattan Skyscrapers: Revised.......2006-06-28
Excellent photos but too much emphasis on the newest boxy glass cubes.
Highly recommended for any fan of Manhattan or urban architectural style.......2006-01-09
The city of New York hosts some of the most memorable skyscrapers in the world: for those unable to personally visit, Manhattan Skyscrapers provides a newly revised, expanded edition to present over eighty of the best of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Though full-page color portraits of each are packed into each feature, equally striking is the blend of historical background, architectural insight and details Nash provides in each accompanying description. A 'then and now' feel is created by the color contemporary photo facing a page of vintage or black and white illustration. Highly recommended for any fan of Manhattan or urban architectural style.
Highly recommended for any fan of Manhattan or urban architectural style.......2006-01-09
The city of New York hosts some of the most memorable skyscrapers in the world: for those unable to personally visit, Manhattan Skyscrapers provides a newly revised, expanded edition to present over eighty of the best of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Though full-page color portraits of each are packed into each feature, equally striking is the blend of historical background, architectural insight and details Nash provides in each accompanying description. A 'then and now' feel is created by the color contemporary photo facing a page of vintage or black and white illustration. Highly recommended for any fan of Manhattan or urban architectural style.
For all who love New York...........2005-10-12
"Manhattan Skyscrapers", a book first offered in 1999, has been updated since 9/11, but the central thrust remains......there is no other place on earth that gives us so many tall buildings on such small parcels of land. As one who has worked at the Empire State Building for a dozen years, "Manhattan Skyscrapers" makes me want to see as many of these wonders as I can.
This is a coffee table book to be sure, but that doesn't take anything away from the richness of Norman McGrath's often stunning photographs and the accompanying descriptions by author Eric P. Nash. Beginning with the 1896 American Tract Society Building (hardly a skyscraper by today's standards) the reader is treated to a chronological trip up and down Manhattan. There are many old black and white photos that are included, giving us a perspective on how the city has evolved architecturally. (Yes, there is a section on the twin towers, as there should be)
I was particularly enamored of the older buildings, especially the Flatiron Building (1902) with its one-of-a-kind design but the newer buildings, such as Citicorp Center, the W.R. Grace Building and the oddly suggestive Lipstick Building also warrant attention. Having viewed the outside of these marvels of creation it would be nice to see a book about the interiors of some of them.....the lobby of the Empire State Building, for one.
Nash and McGrath have compiled a gem of a book. I encourage readers to have a look and take your time with it. It's worth every page turn.
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There are many wonderful and creative ways to decorate custom garments and home accessories, and this book features four of the most popular: stenciling, stamping, painting and embossing. The techniques are spelled out in detail, with step-by-step instructions. 50 drawings and 200 color photos are also included.
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Definitely for beginners.......2005-07-27
The book is well written and has great illustrations and especially good information on products for the beginner. It really shows how much fun textile surface design can be however I must stress that if you have done much work with surface design at all, this book will not be very challenging. It is a great book for beginners!.
Great Ideas and Instructions.......2002-09-20
What a lot of great ideas in this book. The instructions were easy to follow, and the designs were so beautiful. I am just a beginner with designing for my home, but with this book I know I can do it. Thanks for the wonderful book.
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Want to learn how to turn a plain old rock into practically anything? Everything you need is in this kit!
Inside Fun with Rock Painting, you'll find a cool collection of rock-painting projects, each with simple step-by-step instructions. And Fun with Rock Painting also comes with all the tools you need to complete dozens of super-creative painting projects--from googly eyes for adorable pet rocks to glow-in-the-dark paint for spooky creations that go bump in the night! Once you see how simple this stony craft can be, you'll discover a potential masterpiece in every rock you see!
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Hodge in Pennsburg Pa.......2007-02-22
Grandkids absolutely love it - bought one first and had to immediately order three more. Plan to get more to have on hand for birthday party gifts. (grandkids are 7 to 13)
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Steel Acrylics.......2001-07-03
CREATIVE ACRYLIC PAINTING TECHNIQUES begin with working out composition, color study and theme, quality of light, painting atmosphere, and textural possibilities. They need no more than 1-2 textural techniques and a palette of no more than 4-5 colors for compositional unity and picture harmony. They can include Georges Seurat's pointillist technique: irregular dots of unmixed color dry fast into vibrant color effects; and tiny amounts of different colors make for more realistic rushing water, which looks white but has all the colors of the rainbow. They also draw on many layers of thin glazes to give a painting the depth and surface-reflected light of water, or to build up the subtly graded flesh tones for painting translucent skin. They even break color into irregular patches with a wallpaper roller, spatter the sea into frothy waves with a toothbrush and water into running parallel lines, sponge churning and trapped water into steaming foam, and curve or straighten lines of grass with a credit or phone card. In the end, the book's clear step-by-step illustrations and text leave readers all set for Earl Grenville Killeen's THE NORTH LIGHT BOOK OF ACRYLIC PAINTING TECHNIQUES and Rachel Rubin Wolfe's THE ACRYLIC PAINTER'S BOOK OF STYLES AND TECHNIQUES.
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Creative Acrylic Techniques (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)
Wendy Jelbert
Manufacturer: Search Press
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Acrylic paints are versatile and unique. They are easy to work with, adhere to a variety of surfaces and they have enormous potential if used to their fullest extent.Wendy Jelbert explores this medium, showing how to create a whole range of effects, from creating beautiful blended washes and patterns to using impasto and textured techniques. Using over sixty step-by-step photographs, she demonstrates how to paint flowers, landscapes, seascapes, and more. Both beginners and artists with some experience will find this a valuable and inspirational guide.
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Creaciones Mixtas / Creative Watermedia Painting Techniques (Tecnicas Creativas/Creative Techniques)
Manufacturer: Libsa, Editorial S.A.
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Creative Watermedia Painting Techniques
Eaglemoss Publications Ltd , and
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Tecnicas Creativas Acrilico / Creative Acrylic Painting Techniques
Manufacturer: Libsa, Editorial S.A.
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Mad's Creature Presentation
Edwing Duck
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Tiananmen Follies: Prison Memoirs And Other Writings (Signature Books (White Plains, N.Y.).)
Dai Qing
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Translated and Edited by Nancy Yang Liu, Peter Rand, and Lawrence R. Sullivan with a Foreword by Ian Buruma
"Dai Qing's ideal, as a public intellectual, can be summed up in her own words: `Freedom of thought and independence of personality.' This might seem like a modest ambition, banal almost, but in China it is actually very hard to achieve …"
— from the Foreword by Ian Buruma
This memoir by Dai Qing, China's best-known investigative journalist, offers insight into the mental and physical tribulations that accompany imprisonment by an authoritarian government devoted to squeezing out "confessions" of wrongdoing by its political opponents. Written in the early 1990s during her incarceration in Beijing's notorious Qingcheng prison, this is a mournful and courageous document about her struggle with the travails of imprisonment for unstated "crimes" following the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.
Along with personal letters to her family and descriptions of her cell and the numbing routine of prison life, this book contains verbatim translations of Dai's forced "confessions" to her jailers and the top political authorities in China. At times quite unflattering to the author, these documents show how difficult it was to stand up and explain away her actions during the hectic months from April to June 1989 when she and other intellectuals tried to stave off a confrontation between the government and the students occupying Tiananmen. Against the government's claim that a widespread "conspiracy" existed to overthrow the regime, of which Dai was a purported central figure, her confessions are a marvelous example of just how difficult it is to exculpate oneself from a political apparatus that marshals enormous evidence that paints any person's actions as "conspiratorial" and "anti-Party." Despite her obvious innocence, Dai gets caught in the web of accusations that all prosecutors bring to any person's actions that are under "investigation": She finds that escape is nearly impossible, and so begins to accept the government's view on certain matters, ending up fingering others in a manner that suggests previous collaborationist actions in China, the Soviet Union, and the West (the McCarthy hearings, for example) when an individual is isolated by political authorities bent on condemning its detractors.
Prison Memoirs and Other Writings remains witty and filled with vivid descriptions of the absurdities of political imprisonment in any system. It is the final chapter in Dai Qing's transformation from a beneficiary of the regime to one of its victims.
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North Carolina Supplement for Modern Real Estate Practice
Ruth D. Silverman
Manufacturer: Dearborn Trade Publishing
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