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This new text provides a coherent overview of the important issues in sustainable urban design. The writers focus on the physical aspects of the urban environment - the buildings and their engineering systems, landscaping, transport systems, energy, water and waste systems and successfully cover all the key elements in one volume together with fully illustrated examples of best practice. The contributors, drawn from architectural and planning practices, are recognised experts in this field.
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a very good items.......2007-09-27
i am enjoying shopping with Amazon, since i started working with them i am just trust what i get,...
Sustainable urban design.......2003-07-23
This is a very well researched book - very informative and is now on my recommended reading list for my studio design course. Thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in this field.
My only quibble is that some of the illustrations are a little too small to read easily.
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Environmental Design of Urban Buildings: An Integrated Approach
Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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* International experts in the field explore the relationship of building design to the urban setting
* Enables building professionals to adopt environmental design strategies in their daily work
* Designed as an academic module that can satisfy postgraduate certificate requirements and is suitable for distance learning
* Includes a free CD-ROM
The importance of an integrated approach in urban design is becoming increasingly apparent. This book explains how to overcome related challenges in environmental design of urban buildings and offers guidance on the use of new materials and techniques and the integration of new philosophies.
Supported by the European Commission’s SAVE 13 programme, the book includes contributions from experts at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, the Hellenic Open University, Greece, Cambridge Architectural Research and REHVA/University of Ljubljana.
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Sustainable Urban Design: An Environmental Approach
Adam Ritchie: R
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 817 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: Sustainable Urban Design: An Environmental Approach.(Book review)
Author: Luis D. Balula
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Journal of the American Planning Association (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 71
Issue: 3
Page: 345(1)
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A beautifully illustrated collection of decorative Indian patterns and motifs. These classic designs will inspire craftspeople, artists, needleworkers and all those interested in creating their own original ideas and projects.
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From its earliest days, photography could not escape the pictorial traditions that had gone before it. This book, the first comprehensive study of Pictorialism in Europe, analyses the remarkable diversity of approaches taken by photographers across the continent whose practice was infused with contemporary debate about photography's relationship to art. Written by an international team of art and photography historians, Impressionist Camera examines the ways in which practitioners realized their pictorial vision, from the re-creation of Academic painting in photography to the use of soft focus to lend images an impressionistic quality. Also explored are the cross-currents with photography in America - where Pictorialism went on to flourish - including the seminal work of Alfred Stieglitz.
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Captures the creations and sentiments of the era........2006-09-24
Pictorial photography flourished at the turn of the 20th century and crossed genres, styles and international borders as it produced celebrated artists and fostered artistic change. Here to celebrate these changes is Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 188-1918, a narrowed focus on European community photography approaches. Selections consider how photographers created unique works and visions, how they influenced on another, and how they contributed to the fusion and symbolism of pictorial photography as a genre. This book represents the first comprehensive country-by-country examination on the topic and draws together contributions by an international team of art and photography scholars and historians. Sepia and black and white photos throughout capture the creations and sentiments of the era.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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At Ease, Beetle Bailey
Manufacturer: Jove Pubns
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Another great Beetle collection.......2000-08-19
This is another fine collection of Beetle Bailey strips that is sure to please any fan.
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- A fine collection of older Beetle Bailey strips
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Beetle Bailey at Ease
Mort Walker
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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ASIN: 0448168960 |
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AT EASE, SOLDIER!.......2001-03-14
This book is sure to delight any Beetle Bailey afficionados. The world's most lovable, lazy soldier is giving the finer points of work dodging, Sarge baiting, Cookie crumbling and general gold bricking.
Mort Walker is truly a comic genius. This comic has raised the bar on comic strip humor and his delightful passel of characters are sure to evoke rich laughter. At ease, Private and enjoy this book! I laughed so hard it hurt!
This is such a treat. It is good, clean, army themed humor. I love it!
A fine collection of older Beetle Bailey strips.......2000-08-19
This is a collection of stips from the heyday of Beetle Bailey that is sure to please any fan.
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With America's WETLAND, award-winning photographer Bevil Knapp and veteran reporter Mike Dunne sound the clarion call of the catastrophic effects of Louisiana's vanishing coastline—not just for Louisiana but for the nation and the world. This vital landscape known as America's Wetland is currently disappearing at a rate of twenty-four square miles per year and could lose another five to seven hundred square miles in the next fifty years if no action is taken. New Orleans could become "America's Atlantis," one of the country's unique cultures lost forever. Knapp's beautiful, sometimes startling photographs and Dunne's incisive commentary bring the urgency of this problem into full view.
Documented here is a way of life that is quickly waning. Fishermen, oyster farmers, cattle ranchers, oil industry workers, shipbuilders, and tugboat captains are all heavily dependent on Louisiana's coastal territory in bringing the people of the United States a host of products and services sometimes taken for granted. Home to nearly two million residents, the state's wetland serves as protection from hurricanes and storm surges and acts as a buffer for the city of New Orleans, identified by the National Hurricane Center as the city most threatened by the loss of America's Wetland.
The book makes clear that as coastal erosion in Louisiana worsens at an alarming rate, the nation's economic and energy security is put at ever-higher risk and the environmental repercussions become unthinkable. Aerial photographs show how the oil and gas infrastructure is becoming increasingly exposed to the Gulf. Wells, pipelines, ports, roads, and levees that are key to delivering energy to the nation have been made vulnerable. Louisiana wetlands are the natural nursery ground for much of the country's seafood and the wintering habitat for more than five million waterfowl and migratory birds. Stunning photographs of owls, pelicans, egret, crab, crawfish, and alligators illustrate the vast array of wildlife whose home—if not very survival—is endangered by the possible collapse of this intricate ecosystem.
America's WETLAND not only maps the causes and effects of Louisiana's diminishing coast but also outlines restorative and conservation initiatives such as tree planting, rebuilding fisheries, and setting aside wildlife refuges. With the active support of all Americans, there is still hope that this imperiled border of the country can be saved.
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A Wonderful Read.......2006-01-25
This was a great book! I was especially impressed with the interview they did concerning what would happen to New Orleans if the levees broke. (This was written pre-Katrina.)
Definately a great book for yourself or for a gift.
An important book at a critical time!.......2006-01-24
This is not only a very beautiful coffee table book on Louisiana's wetlands, its wildlife, and people; but it couldn't have come at a more critical time. The chapter entitled "America's Atlantis" on New Orleans predicts exactly what happened to this great American city. If you've ever wanted to know more about not just our vanishing coastline, but also about Louisiana's unique culture, this is THE book!
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First published in 1976, this book is the classic photographic record of Native American life by one of America's greatest photographers.
From 1904 to 1930 Edward Sheriff Curtis sought out the vanishing tribes of Native Americans with an unwavering passion and dedication. His life's work was to record the faces and lifestyles of the Indians before they vanished forever. He photographed more than eighty tribes, from the Southwest to the Arctic. It was an achievement both poignant and monumental.
For this book, Curtis's daughter, Florence, selected 175 of her father's greatest photographs. She has also collaborated closely with Victor Boesen to give readers a moving and detailed biography of Curtis's life and work. In addition, there is a memoir of Curtis by his son, Harold.
The classic photographic record of Native American life by one of America's greatest photographers, with a biography of Curtis's life and work.
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Visions of a Vanishing Race.......2007-03-28
This book gives a well rounded look at the work of Edward Sheriff Curtis in a size that is easy to handle.
Deeply moving photos and text, tell a sad story........2001-11-02
After viewing on PBS, a documentary of Edward Sheriff Curtis, I was moved to purchase this excellent work.
I was touched to my soul, by the photos, and how well they conveyed a race of people who have all but vanished.
The text that goes with the pictures is also quite good, and tells a remarkable story of a man obsessed to tell the world a story which we all need to hear and see. Curtis sacrificed his own finances and marriage, and did succeed in completing a very exhausting pilgrimage.
This book is artistic and historically accurate.......2000-04-20
This is perhaps the greatest book authored by my uncle, Victor Hugo Boesen. He worked diligently with Curtis' daughter and other members and friends of the Curtis family to research and to write this book. The photographs are stunning. It is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the American Indian and Curtis' crucial role in recording this history. This book has been translated into French and German. Victor Boesen served as a war correspondent for Liberty Magazine during World War II and was present at the signing of the peace treaty on the USS Missouri. His writings appeared in Life, Look, the Los Angeles Times, and other major periodicals and newspapers.
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Great Gift.......2007-10-22
This is a great gift for the sportsman in your life. Beautiful pictures of Louisiana and the bayous, marshes and of course ducks. Louisiana is such a beautiful state and the pictures are sharp, well photographed, well done.
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- A wonderful Kuralt-style exploration of the Carolina Coast
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The Vanishing Coast
Elizabeth Leland
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A wonderful Kuralt-style exploration of the Carolina Coast.......2000-05-13
This is fine book, written in beautiful, lucid prose, full of stunning B&W photographs. Featured are off-the-beaten-path places like the teeny-tiny post office in Salvo on the Outer Banks and the grave of the famous, eccentric Fort Fisher hermit who once mesmerized visitors to his home in a WW II bunker near Carolina beach. The author, a native of Charleston and a veteran columnist for the Charlotte Observer, has interviewed natives of the last unchanged and rapidly changing places along the Carolina coast. Most of the islands and coastal towns (from Hilton Head to small Outer Banks towns to Charleston) along the coasts of the Carolinas are represented.
The author interviewed and photographed: descendants of slaves who still make sweetgrass baskets in the old tradition; the last of the old-time clam rakers, crab pickers, and boat builders who discuss what new ways have done to their livelihoods, the "Live-Aboards", folks who left their nine-to-five lives to live on modest boats along the water's edge; the Menhaden Chanteymen,a group of singing black fisherman who were once an institution in the days "when boats were made of wood, and men of steel"; the "Hoi Toiders" of the Outer Banks who still speak with the same accent as their seventeenth century British ancestors.
A great browsing and coffee-table book, would make an excellent gift for anyone who has a home on the coast or wants to visit. For anyone who wants a glimpse of the way things were along the vanishing southern coast, or to see what remains with new eyes.
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Aviation Security: Legal and Regulatory Aspects
Ruwantissa I. R. Abeyratne
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Important issue.......2000-06-07
The last two decades have seen the emerence of a worldwide threat to air travel - man-made danger, violent human acts, use of force or threat of force in the form of unlawful seizure of aircraft, etc. there have been only a little written on this subject. The structure of the book is very good and it contains all necessary relatted matters.
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