Modern Housing Prototypes (Harvard Paperbacks)

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succinct and well illustrated

Modern Housing Prototypes (Harvard Paperbacks)
Roger Sherwood
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Paperback
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The design of housing has commanded the attention of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. In this stunning volume, Roger Sherwood presents thirty-two notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries and four continents, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, they range from single-house clusters to row-houses, terrace houses, party-wall and large-courtyard housing, to urban high-rise towers and slabs.

The thirty-two buildings or housing complexes are illustrated with photographs, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and marvelous axonometric drawings. In each case Mr. Sherwood gives background information on the project, mention, factors the architect had to take into consideration (social, environmental, financial), points out creative solutions to particular problems, and comments on special features of the design. Laymen as well as professionals will find his presentations enlightening.

In the Introduction, Mr. Sherwood sets forth the basic principles of organization that apply to housing. He analyzes first the limited number of ways in which individual apartments or living units can be laid out (each type or plan lending itself to variations and permutations) and then the ways in which different units can be vertically and horizontally organized within a single building. Drawings and plans of more than eighty housing complexes in twenty countries accompany his analysis.

Mr. Sherwood offers his book in the belief that there is no excuse for shoddy architecture; that no branch of architecture is more important than the design of human habitations; and that much is to be learned from the study of significant buildings of the recent past.

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succinct and well illustrated.......2007-05-09

Published in 1978, Sherwood's examination of housing prototypes still remains a valid resource for exploring and comparing multi-unit housing. The appeal of the book lies in the succinct explanation of unit types and the broad range of built examples used to illustrate different typologies.The concise text is backed up with plans, photos and illunminating axonometrics.

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Modern Housing Prototypes
Roger Sherwood
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RCMUHC

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Modern Housing Prototypes
Roger Sherwood
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J2WHYQ

Modern housing prototypes: An exhibition of important housing projects of the 20th century

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Modern housing prototypes: An exhibition of important housing projects of the 20th century
Roger Sherwood
Manufacturer: R. Sherwood
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Stunning Pictorial Quality.......2007-07-27

Instructively organized, beautifully written, and edited to include representive artists in painting, sculpture, and architecture, even "environmental art," over the most significant Western styles and periods, this general text glows with some of the best reproductions of visual art ever produced. The first two chapters, Why Do We Study Art and The Language of Art, provide marvelous distillations of themes and ideas that recur throughout the history. The artful coincidence between the intelligence of the author and the skills of the publisher will enrich all readers, providing endless pleasure.

On Time, perfect condition.......2007-05-22

My order was a new book, perfect condition and arrived very quickly.

Excellent book.......2007-02-19

Excellent textbook. Full of quality photos of the art in focus. The information is in great quality and to the point.

Beauty. Not just a Coffee Table Book!.......2006-03-06

In a word - comprehensive. This book is beautiful from cover to cover and covers most of what you would expect, but adds detail in terms of comparing works of art in small side bars. A painting of a reclining Venus is brought up in sections covering later time periods to show the influence early art work had on the pieces of the day. A significant covering of 20th century art is also important to note as with that period now closed, we can see that it is more than just about Campbell's soup cans by Worhal.

I had the misfortune of having the flu but the recovery passed quickly as I spent literally most of the day reading through this book and reaquainting myself with the foundations of art. Now I see the influence of various forms of art in almost everything around me. As a designer I like to think that what I produce is new. Of course the best design borrows from the past...even if its a web page layout or corporate brocure. This coffee table sized book inspires me to realign and recognize that great art is to be inspiring as well as revolutionary.

I can hardly wait to get into the CD ROM again, which on first pass seems to beg for another sick day.

History of Western Art w/ Core Concepts CD-ROM

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No CD

History of Western Art w/ Core Concepts CD-ROM
Laurie Schneider Adams
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0072510382

Book Description

Appropriate for one-semester art history survey or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art offers online support, additional color plates, and a number of new text features in this third edition.

Now packaged with the free History of Western Art Core Concepts CD-ROM, the text provides an excellent multimedia introduction to art techniques, elements, and research.

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No CD.......2005-10-10

The artical was advertised as having a CD rom but none came with it.

History of Western Art, 3/e, w/ Core Concepts CD-ROM, V2.0

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Best introduction to Western art available
College Art History
A Good Overview of Western Art
Excellent Book

History of Western Art, 3/e, w/ Core Concepts CD-ROM, V2.0
Laurie Schneider Adams , and Laurie Adams
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0072937971

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Appropriate for one-semester art history survey or historically-focused art appreciation classes, A History of Western Art offers online support, additional color plates, and a number of new text features in this third edition.

Now packaged with the free History of Western Art's Core Concepts CD-ROM, V2.0, the text provides an excellent multimedia introduction to art techniques, elements, and research.

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Best introduction to Western art available.......2004-03-10

This is undoubtedly the best available introduction to Western art. Although designed primarily for the college textbook market, where it is the leading one-semester text, it should also appeal to the lay reader. The hardback edition is beautifully produced and should find a place on many coffee tables. The illustrations are generally of a very high quality (most of them are in color).

College Art History.......2002-05-24

This book has wonderful pictures and gives an excellent overview from ancient to post modernism art. The descriptions are pretty brief though, and do not go into great detail on any particular artist. However, it's an excellent book to get a general idea of the evolution of western art. The book covers significant art movements, and some minor ones as well.

A Good Overview of Western Art.......1999-12-16

This is a textbook from my college art history class. A lot of cool pictures. A good general overview of western art history. But don't expect a detail description of famous artists like Picasso, Monet, etc.

Excellent Book.......1999-08-31

This is a great book, contanis many color pictures and excellent information. I recommend you to buy this book. It's perfect!!!

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The knight is the most highly trained of combatants, expert with a variety of weapons and effective when astride his trusty charger. Power Class: Knight adds a whole new core class to the game, complete with rules on new Knightly feats, virtues, and extra-heavy armour.

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Information Systems Success Measurement (Series in Information Technology Management)

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Reflects best practices in a narrow discipline

Information Systems Success Measurement (Series in Information Technology Management)
Edward J. Garrity , and G. Lawrence Sanders
Manufacturer: Idea Group Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1878289446

Book Description

As the role of information technology continues to broaden in scope and complexity, it is imperative that researchers as well as practitioners have some way to determine when a system is successful and why certain strategies lead to a successful system. According to statistics gathered by KPMG of Canada about 30% of all information systems development projects are cancelled after significant spending and about 55% are implemented with large cost increases (with scheduled overruns and with fewer features than promised.) Only about 15% of all projects are implemented according to plan. The goal of systems development empirical research is to provide insight into this detailed and complex process and to be able to provide prescriptive guidelines for practitioners. However, empirical research into the successful development of information systems has been plagued with numerous methodological weaknesses. Chief among these is the inability to confidently measure the success or failure that results from a systems development project. Without a reliable dependent measure, no study can make a significant contribution to our body of knowledge in this area. This book has four goals: provide conceptual and philosophical foundations for measuring systems success; provides new approaches for understanding and identifying systems success; compares system success instruments; and, shows you how to validate systems success measures..

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Reflects best practices in a narrow discipline.......2002-03-23

The nine chapters in this book are essays that are written by experts in their fields of expertise, with contributions by Garrity and Sanders who are credited on the cover.

Each of the chapters can stand alone, although they are presented in a sequence that build upon the preceding one. Each chapter ends with endnotes and references. Chapter 1 introduces information systems success measurement as a discipline. It does so in clear terms and is consistent with each of the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2, Dimensions of IS success, is especially strong in that it introduces models, including DeLone and MacLean's model for IS success, and variations that show different viewpoints. It decomposes the dimensions into domains,provides questionnaires, and ends with an appendix that gives example ratings and measurements. This chapter shows how to quantify factors and portray success in hard numbers.

Chapter 3 extends the previous one by providing a 3-D model approach to measurement. Because I work in multi-cultural and multi-national environments I especially liked chapter 4's focus on cross-cultural environments. In addition, the legal aspects of measurement that is chapter 5's topic is essential reading. Regardless of your specific interests do take the time to read this short chapter because it applies to anyone in IS/IT. One glaring omission here is UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act), which is an optional modification, on a state-by-state basis, to the Uniform Commercial Code (which is covered).

The remaining chapters address (Ch 6) Comprehensive Model for Assessing Quality and Productivity, (Ch 7) Development of Process and Outcome User Satisfaction, (Ch 8) Interpretive Approach to IS Success Measurement, and (Ch 9) Five Secrets to Systems Success. Each contained one or more interesting concepts and/or sparked ideas. Because much of my work as an IT consultant involves process improvement strategies and service level management I found this book to be an invaluable source of information. Each of the chapters contains valuable information, insights and ideas that will be useful to anyone in IT management or service delivery roles.

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Targeting for Success: A Guide to New Techniques for Measurement and Analysis in Database and Direct Marketing (Mcgraw-Hill Marketing for Profession)
John Ozimek
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Binding: Hardcover

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Road map: measuring progress and results along the route to success leads to better business processes.(IT & Business Process): An article from: Fleet Equipment
Tom Weisz
Manufacturer: Maple Communications
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B0008E714Q
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Fleet Equipment, published by Maple Communications on September 1, 2003. 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: Road map: measuring progress and results along the route to success leads to better business processes.(IT & Business Process)
Author: Tom Weisz
Publication: Fleet Equipment (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Maple Communications
Volume: 29 Issue: 9 Page: S12(1)

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Authoritative for Patristics.......2004-06-28

Quasten's Patrology is a four-volume scholarly survey of writings by the church fathers in the first several centuries of the Christian era. Some online reviews give the impression that the Patrology is an anthology of those writings. In fact, it is a survey that includes many excerpts (in English), often a page in length, to give a fair idea of what the author under discussion is like. The bibliographies are also extensive. Like the Literary History of England, it's more of a reference book than something you would sit and read straight through.

On the plus side, the Patrology is thorough and well written and has an excellent reputation. On the minus side, it is expensive (for a softcover) and needs to be supplemented for the study of heresies that have come to light since 1970. The texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, for example, are very important for the study of Irenaeus.

Something of such enduring value as Quasten's Patrology deserves to be published in hardcover. It should be on the short list of must-haves for the library of any seminary or university that teaches church history, patristics, theology, or philosophy.

Quasten's Patrology is a four-volume set. If you are considering buying any of them, you may find the following ISBN numbers handy: 0870610848, Patrology v1, Beginnings from Apostles' Creed; 0870610856, Patrology v2, Ante-Nicene after Irenaeus; 0870610864, Patrology v3, Golden Age Greek; 0870611275, Patrology v4, Golden Age Latin (from Nicea to Calcedon); 0870611410, set of four volumes. When ordering online, confirm the volume by ISBN number. Online vendors get the volumes confused with each other. Some are identified by the series title alone; others by the volume title; the cover art displayed may be for the wrong volume; and so on.

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Patrology, Volume 1: (The Beginnings of Patristic Literature From the Apostles Creed to Irenaeus, Volume 1 - 5th paperback printing - Reprint)
Johannes Quasten
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