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The lush tropical gardens of landscape architect Raymond Jungles are, in part, inspired by the great Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. Working closely with his wife, artist Deborah Yates, Jungles's landscapes feature colorful mosaics, custom-designed water fountains, and dramatic swimming pools set among exotic plans native to southern Florida and the Florida Keys.
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It's a landscape picture book.......2000-10-14
While I was interested in seeing the presented works, I was disappointed that the landscaping drawings were mostly only a half page and had no detail information as to the plantings, etc. Basically it becomes a picture book to examine the presented landscapes, some of which I have seen repeated elsewhere. The overall size of the book is too small to get much value out of the photographs of the landscape that are presented. The plants seem to mostly exotic that would not be available to most people.
Tropical Landscape Works of Art.......2000-06-21
Splendid and inspiring... Raymond Jungles tropical gardens are wonderful living works of art, a must for anyone interested in modern art and landscape architecture. The photographs capture a unique talent and love of nature that transcends landscape design and will always be modern and artistic. This book should be a primer for anyone studying landscape architecture, and is a refreshing breakaway from the rigid monotony that is so commonly done by practicing landscape architects.
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Someone is stealing ideas.......2001-05-13
Not to say that this author has, but I have seen the Dee G. vidoes before I bought this book and they seem almost identical. Every technique in this book I have seen first on the Dee vidoes. The only helpful advice that I got from this book was on managing my space. If you have seen the Dee videos, don't waste you money on this book.
Good, comprehensive guide to materials and techniques.......1999-02-11
When I opened this book, I was sorely disappointed that there were few "step by step" instructions. But when I began reading it, I found that it answered almost all of my questions! This book is a comprehensive guide to rubber stamping. Both novice and intermediate stampers can benefit from the creative techniques described in this book. Michele goes through basic stamping materials and techniques as well a more advanced methods including the combination of rubber stamping with computer-generated artwork!
The only "minus" I would give the book is the lack of comprehensive illustrations. The adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" rings true here. While there is a color photo section of examples (and descriptions of each of the techniques applied to make those examples), I feel that the book would benefit from illustrations for each technique on the page describing the technique.
A must have book for all new stampers.......1999-01-04
As a "novice" stamper, this book runs the gamut of basic techniques, to the advanced. It also give a lot of explanation of terms used in the craft, and helps to fill in the blanks. Of all the books and magazines I have relating to rubber stamp, this is the one I turn to most often.
Fantastic!.......1998-10-10
This is a great book covering very basic to more advanced stamping techniques. Full of useful information. I refer to it quite often. I highly recommend it.
Very helpful and full of ideas.......1998-06-04
This is the first rubberstamping book I ever bought and it was definitely worth buying- it's a keeper! Full of ideas and complete explanations, it is very helpful. I would definitely recommend this book for stampers new to the art form, and even to those who've stamped for a while may get some great ideas.
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For some time now, a new approach has been emerging to questions of town planning and the use of public and private space. The focus is no longer on the master plan, the strategy, and the making of long-term arrangements. Instead, the ephemeral, trial and error, and the unplanned are gaining legitimacy. Temporary uses are both indicators of this development and beneficiaries of a new way of seeing.
The volume Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces brings together eleven articles and essays by renowned individual authors who approach the subject from a theoretical perspective. In its main section, the book provides extensive documentation of projects involving temporary use from throughout Europe and the United States.
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Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life.His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch university teaching job, to a textbook publisher, to, eventually, working as a temp writer for the General Services department of the Texas Department of General Services.And even here, in this world of carpeted partitions and cheap lighting fixtures, Paul cannot escape the curse his life has become. For it is not until he begins reach out to the office's foul-mouthed mail girl that he begins to notice things are truly wrong.There are sounds coming from the air conditioning vents, bulges in the ceiling, a disappearing body. There are the strange men lurking about town, wearing thick glasses and pocket protectors.The Kings of Infinite Space is a hilarious and macabre spoof on our everyday lives, and gives true voice to the old adage, "Work is Hell."
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Cubicle zombies meet whining academic loser........2007-01-09
I really have no idea what book the other reviewers read. I should have put this book away at the very beginning, but I just kept chugging along hoping that a clever twist or maybe a little character growth on the protagonist. Nope. Ultimately, I was left hollow like the caverns the zombies worked in.
Paul Trilby is an academic loser who couldn't complete his book, cheated on his wife and lover, and then kills a cat. I am supposed to sympathize with this guy? He actually gets into another relationship that seems to be based solely on sex, and all he can do is whine about his life and deny everything bad as a dream. On top of this screwed up protagonist, you are faced with a lack of suspense (unless you are as dimwitted as Paul Trilby), and a complete lack of any sense of real or imaginary action that could possibly happen. A barbecue grill going into water is supposed to make some kind of tidal wave and steam up a cavern holding 37 people... please!
I wasted 12 hours 10 minutes and 13 seconds of my life listening to this awful Recorded Books venture. Don't make the same mistake!
A fantastic read.......2006-07-09
This book perfectly captures the eccentricities of both Texas and academia. Anyone who's ever experienced either universe will LOVE this book. I also commend the author on the unpredictability of the plot --- I never could have guessed how it ended. It's the best book I've read in sometime. Highly recommended!
Lots of fun.......2005-07-07
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It's scary, but the descriptions of the work environment and co-workers hits pretty close to home, sorta like the movie "Office Space." I love his writing, which is quirky and intelligent. For instance, he throws out tough words that 1% of the readers would know, but it doesn't matter because it seems to be for the effect of the unintelligible word and pronunciation more than the meaning. Anyways, it gets sorta spooky and almost sci-fi and towards the end a little over the top, but what the hell. I definitely recommend the book, especially if you work in a cubeland setting or a big company. But I'm sure anyone who enjoys funky, modern and intelligent literature would love it...
Are we not men? . . . Apparently not........2005-05-14
How many of us sit in our cubicle or at our desk wondering what has happened to our lives? How have we been imprisoned so? Have we made it come to pass ourselves?
I believe this was written by such a man wondering these types of things, and he thought: what would make this more interesting? How can I keep from running away while screaming and tearing at my hair? This novel was given birth by those ideas. It is good but at most it seems like a daydream.
I hope Hynes made it out of his cubicle, as for the rest of us we must make our own dreams; read this book and get some good ideas.
Humor meets the macabre........2005-03-12
Think Mike Judge's "Office Space" as being re-written by Stephen King, paying homage to "Night of the Living Dead." Throw in some H.G. Wells (the author frequently alludes to "The Island of Dr. Moreau," and the relationship between the Eloi and Mordocks in the "Time Machine") and add some steamy love scenes, and you can get an approximation of James Hyne's off-the-wall "Kings of a Infinite Space."
Paul Trilby, a failed professor with a troubling past (especially with women and a cat named Charlotte) finds himself as a temp at the Texas Department of General Services, with some of the wackiest co-workers you will ever meet. Along the way, he finds a fiery lover in Callie, the mail room girl. Almost right from the start, Paul notices that things are not quite what they seem. Paul attempts to distance himself from his unsettling surroundings, but gets increasingly drawn into it, especially by the bogus "Colonel" who, at one point, forces Paul to paticipate in a surrealistic Karaoke contest.
I felt that the author's frequent use of allegory was sometimes heavy handed, and the last portion of the book seemed too far over the top, as if Hynes were trying to convert a generally humorous novel into horror. However, Hynes is a fine writer who has created something truly unique (although Stephen King and Clive Barker, to name two, could probably have written a similar book). Therefore, I recommend "Kings of the Infinite Space," and suggest you hold on tightly for the ride.
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Temporary Spaces
Martin Eberle
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Berlin's club scene, an international benchmark for improvised coolness, is defined by its software: people, fashion, music, performance, drama. Spanning a period of 10 years, Martin Eberle's stunning photographs are the first to document these locations as they really are. By radically reducing them to their hardware, the empty space, juxtaposing run-down facades and lovingly crafted interiors (from improvised to hysterically glamorous) with architectural brutality, he perfectly captures their legendary, ramshackle hipness.
Filling and contrasting this vaguely unreal, static void are personal anecdotes by well-known promoters and club patrons who have "already collapsed in pretty much every corner".
Encased in tactile white reptile print Temporary Spaces simultaneously serves as he nostalgic documentation of a spectacular era, a personal photo album and an uneasy declaration of love for the transience and enthusiasm reverberating in the clean accuracy of these pictures.
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This digital document is an article from General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony, published by Stonehenge International on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 462 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: Defense Management: Issues in Contracting for Lodging and Temporary Office Space at MacDill Air Force Base.
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Title: Needle points upward for Southern Connecticut State University's nursing program: new temporary building provides department with more space.(Colleges & Universities)
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Title: Suite solutions: temporary full-service offices solve your space issues.(DaVinci Executive Office Suites)
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Mad's Vastly Overrated Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee
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E-Learning Networked Environments and Architectures: A Knowledge Processing Perspective (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
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Over the last decade researchers and practitioners have developed a wide range of knowledge related to e-learning. This book provides state-of-the-art e-learning networked environments and architectures carried out over the last few years from a knowledge management perspective.
The book is organized into four parts: After an introductory chapter which attempts to characterize the e-learning environments, Part I exposes the problems of building knowledge scenarios followed by Part II which analyzes the process of building knowledge environments. Part III summarizes the principles, methods and issues related to the design of knowledge networks and finally Part IV addresses the problem of retrieving resources and knowledge from networked environments.
Presenting a wide-ranging survey of methods and applications from contributors from around the world, this book will be a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and graduates.
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for lifelong learning.......2007-06-11
The book is a summary of lessons learnt about ways to implement electronic learning over recent decades. Unsurprisingly, given Moore's Law about computer chips, there is an emphasis on events after about 1990. As computers and networks became ever more affordable.
One idea is that students should aspire to be independent, lifelong learners. That the traditional classroom based environment of primary, secondary and tertiary learning is not enough. Hence a person might find later that she needs to sit down and self-motivate to learn via a computer.
Various electronic teaching systems are surveyed. Some examples of ontologies are presented, with XML code snippets. User interface issues are also explained. Letting the student easily navigate between the many pages of a topic she is learning. The reader cannot fail to notice the browser metaphor across much of the text's examples. The familiarity with a browser can now be considered axiomatic across much of the population.
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Information Technology Management: A Knowledge Repository
Jay Liebowitz
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Mainly based on the author's personal experiences with a variety of organizations, this succinct book presents short cases, anecdotes, and vignettes describing the management of information technology. Information Technology Management includes numerous case studies primarily focusing on business, industry, and government systems. This singular resource serves expert systems managers and information technology managers and developers. Although the material emphasizes those cases involving management relating to expert systems technology, the reader can replace the term "expert system" with "information system" technology in almost all the case studies as many of the lessons generally hold true for information systems.
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An Enterprise Model Repository: Architecture and System.(Technology Information): An article from: Journal of Database Management
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Title: An Enterprise Model Repository: Architecture and System.(Technology Information)
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- Excellent work detailing the history of Grand Coulee Dam!
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Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
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Excellent work detailing the history of Grand Coulee Dam!.......1995-12-24
This 500 page book by historian Paul Pitzer provides an in depth look at the Grand Coulee Dam in north-central Washington state and the politics and decsions which made the dam what it is today. The book is very thoroughly researched with an extensive bibliography and over 100 pages of endnotes. Anyone who is interested in Grand Coulee Dam or the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project needs to read this book!
The back cover reads:
"The Eighth Wonder of the World"
"The Largest Reclamation Project Ever Undertaken"
Those were among the accolades frequently lavished on Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. They
hightlight a monumental construction effort that spanned the 1930s through the 1980s. Now, for the first time, the story of this gigantic undertaking is told in this definitive, spirited history.
When completed, the huge monolith at Grand Coulee on the Columbia River in north-central Washington became the biggest
single block of concrete ever laid. One of the largest energy-producing stations in the world, it also supports one of the world's largest irrigation projects.
In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project is a vital, animated saga of people strving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular.
Excellent work detailing the history of Grand Coulee Dam.......1995-12-08
This 500 page book provides an in depth look at the Grand
Coulee Dam in north-central Washington state and the politics and
decsions which made the dam what it is today. The book is
very thoroughly researched with an extensive bibliography
and over 100 pages of endnotes. Anyone who is interested
in Grand Coulee Dam or the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project
needs to read this book!
The back cover reads:
"The Eighth Wonder of the World"
"The Largest Reclamation Project Ever Undertaken"
Those were among the accolades frequently lavished
on Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Irrigation
Project. They hightlight a monumental construction effort
that spanned the 1930s through the 1980s. Now, for the
first time, the story of this gigantic undertaking is
told in this definitive, spirited history.
When completed, the huge monolith at Grand Coulee
on the Columbia River in north-central Washington became
the biggest single block of concrete ever laid. One of
the largest energy-producing stations in the world, it
also supports one of the world's largest irrigation projects.
In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand
Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project is a vital, animated
saga of people strving for dazzling goals and then working
to build something spectacular.
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