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Architecture and its Meaning.......2003-11-23
This book is an obvious labor of love. Exapnding on his thesis that man attempts to recreate the nature's forms - particularly mountains - we are given a tour of the ages. Starting with earlier (rather than primitive) civilizations, he shows how Mayans, Greeks, Egyptians and Aztecs attempted to replicate the mountains. This almost obsessive need to reach to the heavens is evident in our city skyscrapers.
Of course there was a religious, animist aspect to all this and indeed, one can trace the evolution of buildings in this book. First there are religious edifices, whether for a single God (as in the case of the Israelites and their initial worship of the sacred mountain), multiple gods (Mayans) or a combination of the two -Greece, Egypt. Then there are structures for rulers whether nobility or military. Only toward modern times do we dwell on private homes for the average (rich) citizen.
Symbolism was paramount for the Gothic ages and in modern times, through gardens and onramentation, we have attempted to recreate the untamed world beyond. The final chapters on formal gardens leads to a study of modern architects and their attempt to "merge" or reunite with nature - Frank Lloyd Wright being the prime example. The book is richly illustrated with both black and white and color photographs,
dazzling essays on meanings of architecture thru the ages.......2003-10-21
This is an absolutely fascinating book on what architecture meant and what its builders were trying to accomplish from the beginnings of advanced civilisations (in Mesopotamia and pre-Columbian America) through the innovations of the Greeks, into the symbolism of the Middle Ages and finally modern industrial societies. Throughout, the approach is eclectic and ranges over an unusually wide range of subjects, including anthropology and psychology, history, technical engineering, and political science.
In a nutshell that oversimplifies, Scully argues that before the Greeks (and in the Americas to today), architecture emphasized man's links to the earth, reflecting natural forms and consciously forming a part of a landscape/environment larger and more powerful than themselves. The Greeks, with their temples and the anthropomorphic sculpture that were an integral part of them, glorified the view of man as a actor of accomplishment and greater power, though still in thrall to nature. THe Romans refined this vision, but with Christianity began to build temples that were walls against the encroaching world and the barbarian chaos that was approaching. THen, with the Gothic era, the power of kings was brought to the fore, which continued in the French gardens of the (Baroque) absolutism period and symboloised the belief that nature could be controlled by strong central authority. Meanwhile, the Renaissance architects and in particular Palladio re-introduced the individual as an actor within (and aesthetically designed to fit into) an urban context, leading directly to the development of private homes and eventually suburbia. Later, the internationalist/modernists broke these molds, producing huge buildings that fit neither the landscape nor the human context in which they were build, e.g. the faceless skyscrapers that destroy neighborhoods and disregard their impact on others. This, in Scully's view was hubris that was dangerous and ugly. FInally, Scully concludes that there are signs of a movement back to nature that will incorporate many of these ideals.
The level at which this book is written is quite high, perhaps at the graduate level. I believe that to truly appreciate the book, the reader must know - or independently acquire while reading it - a great deal of historical knowledge, including the history of architecture. That makes much of the book hard going, and there were sections that lost me. I did not always agree with his interpretations, but they were always stimulating as a new way to view things.
While there are too many holes in my own knowledge to judge what Scully has done here in any scholarly way, the book is a truly vast synthesis of knowledge, a life's work of interpretation and visits to great monuments all over the world. Personally, as I live in Europe, it was a fantastic pleasure as I have visited many of the scenes he chose (Lindos, Versailles, Bomarzo, for example) and wondered about many of the issues Scully discusses - hence, his essays solved many mysteries for me while making me hungry to learn much much more. Architecture will never appear the same to me again: I now have gained a wonderful reference point from which to depart and it was this book that gave it to me.
Finally, Scully's writing style is truly superb. His book is not at all pedantic, but exudes a love for his life's work that I found charming and modest. He must have been a great teacher. Nonetheless, the quality of many of the photos left much to be desired.
Warmly recommended, but expect to work to get through this.
Not natural and not man made.......2002-07-14
Another chronological review of construction starting with Greece, Rome, heavily slanted towards the French and Italian Renaissance, the text deals very little or nothing with architecture, and drags around on a grandiose egocentric and anthropocentric style and view of the "world" that we mere mortals are supposed to regard as marvelous, the text is dull, boring, pretentious and selserving, with very few architectonic layouts and sections, more of an historical account of construction, forts, wars, churches, generals, emperors, kings, deities, their motives and caprices thrown in the mix, the natural here is the by-standing surrounding forest, ocasional mountain or bay, the natural environment and its relation to man is never mentioned, the text tone has the characteristic self preserving arrogance of architects and designers thru times, no account of bizantine, north-african, or chinese architecture or the way the last two integrate beautifully with the natural at times, very few mentions to pre-european invasion architecture of the americas, the man-made here is the huge piling up of dirt and rocks for whatever artistic ulterior reasons, an ultimately superior view of the "world" meaning only the "world" of man and his buildings, the author does not yet realize that man cannot really make anything, a blind arrogance oozes everywhere thru a heavy pretentious layer of scholarly tone, no single mention on how, where and why this devastating architecture has systematically obliterated and destroyed the natural, other than a quick quote by Levi-Strauss (pg. 356), man can only use things, man can pile rocks to no end, trees, timber, iron, man cannot make any of those, not even plastics, the author ignores that in spite of its enourmous arrogance and pretentious accomplishments, man owes his existence to a fragile top layer of six inches of soil, air, rain, and a few sun rays - the author deals with none - this text is not worth the much nicer trees it has been printed on
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Planning for Disaster: How Natural and Manmade Disasters Shape the Built Environment
William Ramroth
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Disasters, throughout the ages, have shaped the built environment. The way city planners, architects, engineers and politicians plan and design cities, buildings, highways, tunnels and bridges have all been fashioned to some degree by the mischievous hands of disasters.
Planning for Disaster will trace the impact of natural and manmade disasters on urban planning, building design and the design of large-scale engineering projects such as bridges, tunnels and levees. The book will reference recent disasters such as the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989), the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), the 9/11 Terrorist Attack (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as catastrophic events from history such as the burning of Rome in AD 64, the London fire of 1666, the New York fire of 1835, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
Planning for Disaster will include approximately 25 illustrations (photographs and figures) in support of the text.
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well written, interesting read.......2007-05-11
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It's difficult to grasp the notion that a text can be a page-turner, but that is definitely what Ramroth has created. I was fascinated by the examples given and have a new appreciation of architectural and engineering design.
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- Bohemian Decorated Porcelain A hit with China Collectors
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Bohemian Decorated Porcelain (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
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Those who are captivated by the great beauty of decorated porcelain will recognize, at once, the quality of the Bohemian Porcelain. Factories in the Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) region of Western Bavaria produced numerous types of tableware and objects. This new book is the first in English dedicated to describing and illustrating the vast array of decorative objects, household wares, and tableware. It includes both the goods produced and decorated in Bohemia and those exported to America for decoration in the form of whiteware during the late 1800s to early 1900s. Detailed descriptions of the production, exportation, and decoration methods utilized by the Karlovy Vary factories to produce this collectible porcelain make this book an invaluable reference for those who collect, deal, or have inherited pieces of this china. Over 400 color photographs, as well as illustrated examples of the distinguishing factory marks, information on the factories' owners, and an up-to-date value guide make this book unique. With the wide exportation of Bohemian porcelain to the United States and throughout the West, this book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of dealers, collectors, and everyone interested in the development of the art of fine porcelain.
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Bohemian Decorated Porcelain A hit with China Collectors.......1999-10-10
My book describes the development of porcelain production in the Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) region of western Bohemia. Through the declining years of the Habsburg's Austro-Hungarian Empire to the rise of communism in Czechoslovakia, a history of each factory exporting ware to the United States is presented which recounts details of factory owners never described in English literature. A description of each small town or village in the Karlovy Vary region that manufactured porcelain is provided. Details of the methods of exporting porcelain to the United States and the history of import businesses and their owners gives the reader an insight into how today's antique porcelain found its way from factory to home. Numerous advertisements of import companies illustrate the array of Bohemian porcelain sold in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. As the demand for whiteware increased to satisfy the growing interest in amateur china painting in America in the 1880s, the Karlovy Vary area factories expanded and their export business grew. I describe the factory methods used to decorate "Carlsbad china", the name given to porcelain exported from this region in the late 1800s. American decoration of imported whiteware is also presented making the book an invaluable reference for those who purchase, sell, or who have inherited pieces of this china. In addition, the book should be of value to those interested in family histories of factory owners and decorators. Over 600 color photographs and illustrations demonstrate the rich variety of porcelain pieces exported to as well as decorated in, the United States during this time. An extensive presentation of American export dinnerware patterns from the oldest producing factory is featured in one of the book's appendices. Many factory marks are illustrated in color and are presented in a chronology following the description of each factory. A price guide is provided to give a relative value of one piece to another. If you have questions about Bohemian/Austrian porcelain please contact me and time permitting, I'll try to help you.
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- Every photograph a great story.....
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In Her Place: inner views and outer places
Peggy Fleming
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In Her Place is WOMAN in her chosen place or space or activity, where she is comfortable, energized, centered, nurtured, "whew". 56 photographs by Peggy Fleming and 56 texts, each written by the woman photographed. In Her Place is a sharing of personal sanctuaries. Includes an introductory essay by Ruby Takushi, a poem by Neva E. Marks an Afterword by the author, and an index. 128 pp, cover with photographs of 6 women, 11" x 11 1/4", softbound, published in April, 2000. First Edition. Three Sisters Press, 3817 Jocelyn Street, NW. Washington, DC. 20015. E-mail peggyf@AOD.cx
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Every photograph a great story............2000-12-18
This book is wonderful. It shows a collection of photographs of women, each 'in her place', a place of feeling good. What makes this book even more unique are each woman's descriptions about her place in her own words accompanying the photographs. Beautifully done!
Fascinating!!!.......2000-10-14
I ordered this wonderful treasure several months ago. I thought I would be purchasing it just for myself, but once my husband got his hands on it, I lost ownership! We both absolutley love it. Peggy Fleming truly has an eye for capturing the moment. We love "In Her Place" and highly suggest checking it out! So inspirational!
Delightful Respite.......2000-09-19
Peggy's photographs take me deep into the veins of life, flowing with energy and wisdom as she peers into the everyday places where we do our real living. The 56 women who speak to me on these pages offer me a place to sit, reflect, and find my own 'place'. It is a delicious collection-
A book of sanctuary that IS a sanctuary.......2000-07-09
"In Her Place" is a large and beautiful book that I am honored to have on my coffee table. It is a transparent look at the private worlds of women like you and me and our families. The words and images are poetic and intimate, openings to inner places that are not always visible or acknowledged. This beautful book of photographs and prose poems would make a great gift for a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend.
Inspirational and authentic.......2000-05-30
Peggy Flemming has captured the inner beauty of women in everyday life. Spiritual and complex in their thoughts and feelings captured by photos and words. I strongly recommend this book for men and women. A refreshing view of life in all of its splendor and complications.
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Opportunities in Environmental Careers offers you essential information about a variety of careers within the environment field and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
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Opportunities in Environmental Careers offers you essential information about a variety of careers within the environment field and includes training and education requirements, salary statistics, and professional and Internet resources.
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Good only if you haven't gone to college yet........2002-08-20
This book did not help me at all. In fact, I returned it the day I received it. If you are a high school student and don't really have an idea what you want to do, or aren't familiar with a lot of the options in the environmental field, this book may be good for you. But for me, as someone already in the professional environment and looking to find out about unique opportunities that don't fall into categories like biology, ecology, or agriculture, this book provided no help.
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Retail Strategy: The View from the Bridge
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Winning At Retail: Developing a Sustained Model for Retail Success
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Retail Management: A Strategic Approach
ASIN: 0750656964 |
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The book is made distinctive by the presentation of practitioner insight allied with academic underpinning to create a powerful new framework of unusual breadth and depth. The book communicates contemporary retail thought from the perspectives of both senior international retailers and expert observers.
It is structured around four sections:
* Section I : retailing in an international context
* Section II: chapters from faculty at Templeton College in Oxford outlining the key issues with review questions, discussion topics, assignments and further reading.
* Section III : A unique series of in depth interviews with senior executives in the world's major retailers conducted by the Oxford Institute of Retail Management. Each case is backed up by company and sector information to demonstrate the changing retail and global environment.
* Section IV: A summary and overview with further exercises assignments and recommended reading.The book is an innovative and highly effective new text for both students and executives needing to understand the complexities of the latest global developments and thinking.
* Dual focus, with firm conceptual context supplied in the introductory essays and practitioner insight provided by the case studies.
* Includes a range of learning features to help you test your knowledge and develop your thinking.
* Talented contributor team offer rigorous and far-reaching analysis of the issues and case histories.
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An anthology of essays discussing the history of Chicago.......2004-11-08
Chicago Tribune senior correspondent Charles Madigan presents Global Chicago, an anthology of essays discussing the history of Chicago, and exploring its transformation into one of the most famous and important cities of the world. From its rebuilding from a devastating fire, to its evolution into a hub of corporate headquarters and international transportation, to its groundbreaking architecture, medley of cultures as expressed in its over 120 foreign language newspapers, and much more, Global Chicago is truly fantastic exploration into history, culture, pride, and visions of the future. A most enjoyable reading experience for anyone looking to better understand Windy City history.
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A renowned scholar compares America's three global cities.
New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles-for all their differences, they are quintessentially American cities. They are also among the handful of cities in the world that can truly be called "global." Janet L. Abu-Lughod's book is the first to compare them in an ambitious in-depth study that takes into account each city's unique history, following their development from their earliest days to their current status as players on the global stage.
Unlike most other global cities, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles all quickly grew from the nearly blank slate of the American landscape to become important beyond the nation's borders early in their histories. As a result, Abu-Lughod is able to show the effect of globalization on each city's development from its beginnings. While all three are critical to global economics and the spread of American culture to the farthest reaches of an increasingly interlinked world, their influence reflects their individual histories and personalities. In a masterful synthesis of historical and economic information, Abu-Lughod clarifies how each city's global role is-and will be-affected by geography, ethnicity of population, political institutions, and tradition of governance.
New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles are more than global players: they are also home to forty million people. Abu-Lughod closes the book with a set of vignettes that captures the cities' differences as perceived by one who has lived in them. Bringing together the local and the global in thoroughly unexpected and enlightening ways, this important volume offers fascinating insight into these vital urban centers.
Janet L. Abu-Lughod, professor emerita of sociology of Northwestern University and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, has been writing about and studying cities for more than fifty years. She is the author of numerous books, including From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side.
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this is what i hate about so called "scholars".......2005-09-14
I am reading this for a college course called "History of the American City". This book is a typical 'college texbook' in that it is FILLED with numbers, dates, percentages, figures, numbers, oh did I say numbers, dates, figures, and years, oh and plenty of numbers... The brilliant,dilligent,honored, and esteemed scolar of a woman that wrote it sure knows her numbers, facts, years, etc... I, on the other hand, am absolutley hating it and foolishly I have allowed the drop date to pass, so I have to read the book or fail the class. I am getting nothing from the book regarding any kind of understanding of any of these cities , unless I am willing to spend years interpreting the multitude of data the book heaps upon me. Needless to say, from (attempting)reading it I am getting a headache and don't really even have the time to write this review. I say that if even one person is deterred from reading this expose' of numbers, names, dates, figures, facts, percentages, orders, years, dates and more numbers, dates, facts, figures (are you getting my drift yet?), it will be time well served though.--- AVOID--- THIS--- BOOK.
please -- Find another book. Maybe if people told the truth about THIS BRAND OF WRITING,more professors might have to teach and people like Ms. Abu-Lughod wouldn't continue to make money off of writing books such as this, and folks like her might have to write to COMMUNICATE!!!!, like the rest of us.Thank you for taking the time to read this.
OK, I have to say it: This sucks.
Annoying.......2005-02-03
I find it annoying that the author includes Chicago in the same tier as NY and LA. How can the buckle of the midwest rustbelt be in the same league as the premier coastal cities? It's absurd I tell you.
A Highly Detailed Account.......2004-06-04
I enjoyed America's Global Cities and found it relatively readable and engaging. However, I have to second those reviewers who described it as extremely detailed and occasionally dry. This is a scholarly and historically cogent account of New York, Chicago, and LA and their place in the context of globalization; it is not at all summer beach reading, even for those people who enjoy serious non-fiction. That said, if you have any interest in urban history and social policy, your patience will be rewarded in reading this book.
Review for the generalist reader.......2002-11-08
As mentioned in another review, this book has been set as a college textbook. I am sure it fulfils that roile admirably. However, from the point of view of the generalist reader looking for something `meaty' on the subject of American cities, I can't really recommend it.
It is full of rather dry statistics and facts. I was particularly interested in Los Angeles, and the book did provide some very useful background information, but it left me unsatisfied - I didn't come away with a `feel' for the city in any human sense.
For a more passionate account of Los Angeles, still in a scholarly work, I can recommend `The History of Forgetting' by Norman Klein.
Please don't feel I don't think this book isn't useful within its context, but if you are looking for something scholarly yet with some passion, you may well be disappointed in this book.
Brilliant Book.......2002-10-13
I assigned this book for a graduate seminar last year (2002) and it went down very well with a range of social sciences and humanities students. They loved Abu-Lughod's geographically- and historically-specific approach to understanding globalization and urban change. In contrast to some of the universalizing bombast out there in, Janet Abu-Lughod's book helps us to make sense of urban change in these three cities via the astute integration of social, economic and political dynamics at a range of scales. Abu-Lughod was able to take them down into the streets at some points, and then back up to the national and global scales at other points. To be sure there is a mass of detail in the text, but it is knitted together as well as can be given the research questions. My students also appreciated the lack of jargon in the book; a rarity these days in the urban studies field. In short, this is a fine book for students, academics, and laypersons with interests in global urbanization, the history of American cities, the role of cities in the historical development of America, and historically-oriented research methodologies.
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A Global Pilgrim: The Journeys of Pope John Paul II tells the story of a bold pontiff who towered over his century and then led his church into a new millennium. It is the story of a man who never surrendered, who survived an assassination attempt and personally forgave the gunman, who persevered against Parkinson_s disease and the ravages of age.
This is a story told with the authority of Chicago Tribune editors, highlighted by dozens of classic historic photos and populated by unforgettable characters like Lech Walesa and President George H.W. Bush. The book is a timeless keepsake, an important window into a man who left an indelible mark on his church at times.
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Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History
Paul Street
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This study surveys metropolitan anti-black racism in 20th and 21st century Chicago. It illustrates stark racial inequality in and around contemporary global (corporate-neoliberal) Chicago. It explains apartheid and disparity in terms of persistently and deeply racist societal and institutional practices and policies. It criticizes neoconservative and liberal explanations of the black urban crisis, challenges some observers' overly sharp distinction between present and past racism and proposes ideas for challenging urban neoliberal racism in the 21st century.
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- Excellent start, so-so finish
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Yes to a Global Ethic
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Excellent start, so-so finish.......1999-05-21
The book starts off with the Parliament of the World Religions' Declaration Toward a Global Ethic, a very interesting statement, as it shows the common threads and ideals of the world's major religions. Most of the rest of the book though consists of numerous spokespeople from positions of political power or religious importance seconding the statement. After a while, it gets a tad repititious as one leader after another says, in effect, "This is a good idea whose time has come." While they may be correct, it does not make for thrilling reading.
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