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A new paradigm in facility management
A unique, just-in-time resource from profession leader Eric Teicholz, Facility Design and Management Handbook empowers you to make your facility state of the art. Packed with tips from U.S. and international case studies from government, health care, retail, finance, manufacturing, and academia, this guide gives you access to the productivity tools, technologies, and stratagems that have revolutionized the field in the last five years, helping you to:
Find the best, most cost-effective solutions for issues from “greenness” and sustainability to disaster recovery and technology integration
Use new tools for space and asset allocation, project management, process coordination, and systems integration
Improve accuracy in financial forecasting, budgeting, architectural and interior design planning, and market research
Create cost-effective “smart” buildings with state-of-the art security, energy management, lighting strategies, and maintenance efficiency
Discover innovative solutions for human resources needs
Integrate the Internet into your management program
Automate nearly all your tasks for major productivity gains
Apply benchmarking standards and other measurements that demonstrate and assure facility management productivity
Accompanying time-saving, efficiency-boosting CD-ROM is loaded with sample documents—from budgets, schedules, plans to cost-benefit analyses, checklists, forms and audits; standards for communications and database, integration, building and construction, CAD conventions; Web links and other resources.
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Excellent FM handbook for 2001 and beyond.......2001-05-07
A very comprehensive manual (31 chapters, over 500 pages) for any level of facilty management professional. Each chapter is written by practicing professionals and "expert" consultants. Given that the field of FM covers so many areas, it is useful to have many different perspectives from professionals in the field formed into one big book. Chapters are grouped into phases of FM disciplines, i.e, planning, design, management, technology. There are high level topics such as Strategic Facility Planning, Sustainable Design, Portfolio Management and Business Transformation. Also very detailed, nuts & bolts for topics such as Financial Management for FM's, Energy Management, System Implementation for CMMS (Maintenance systems, Benchmarking, Condition Assessment, and case studies for CAFM technology. Brief chapter summaries are provided to assist reader with content coverage. There are lots of graphics/figures which help readability of this thick book, as well as a CD with websites and templates for RFP's, standards and process related functions.
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- So This Is How They Do It?
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Physical Security Systems Handbook: The Design and Implementation of Electronic Security Systems
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ASIN: 075067850X |
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A practical reference written to assist the security professional in clearly identifying what systems are required to meet security needs as defined by a threat analysis and vulnerability assessment. All of the elements necessary to conduct a detailed survey of a facility and the methods used to document the findings of that survey are covered. Once the required systems are determined, the chapters following present how to assemble and evaluate bids for the acquisition of the required systems in a manner that will meet the most rigorous standards established for competitive bidding. The book also provides recommended approaches for system/user implementation, giving checklists and examples for developing management controls using the installed systems. This book was developed after a careful examination of the approved reference material available from the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International) for the certification of Physical Security Professionals (PSP). It is intended to fill voids left by the currently approved reference material to perform implementation of systems suggested in the existing reference texts. This book is an excellent How To for the aspiring security professional who wishes to take on the responsibilities of security system implementation, or the security manager who wants to do a professional job of system acquisition without hiring a professional consultant.
* Offers a step-by-step approach to identifying the application, acquiring the product and implementing the recommended system.
* Builds upon well-known, widely adopted concepts prevalent among security professionals.
* Offers seasoned advice on the competitive bidding process as well as on legal issues involved in the selection of applied products.
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So This Is How They Do It?.......2006-12-31
By: Jeffrey W. Bennett, Foudner of LayMentor and author of ISP Certification study course material and the author of "Under the Lontar Palm" (see my profile).
This book goes into great detail about security systems without being too simplified. My security background until recently had been in safeguarding information on a team of 22 security professionals. Recently I took a new job as the head of corporate security and had to develop new security systems. Of course I hired professionals to bid on the job, but I lacked experience to really understand what I needed. I consulted some colleagues and of course went to ASIS international for recommendations.
In the process, I was pleased to have discovered Physical Security Systems Handbook. It really helped me to work with the vendors to help them understand what I needed and better understand what they recommended. This book does an excellent job of breaking down the components of the security system (ie. strike plates, crash bars, cameras, alarms and etc). It also goes into great detail to show you how to survey existing sytems and improve them. In my case, we had to start from scratch and this book helped me through the process.
If you have had similar experiences or are looking for study material for the CPP, ISP or other certifications, get this book.
Great book.......2006-04-08
Accurate, down to the point, practical, logically presented in a project oriented approach and yet concise. The book leads you from square one in physical security system implementation up to the actual realisation of the system and more.
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An all-in-one resource for planning and executing a relocation, on time, on budget, and on target for your organization's goals. Includes step-by-step guidance, an extensive reference section on materials, furnishings and equipment, and over 50 reproducible forms in hard copy and electronic format.
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Excellent and practical guide. Invaluable reference work........1999-11-07
A friend purchased this book for me one Christmas. As a facilities consultant with several projects a year relocating commercial organisations, it's probably the most useful book I've had the pleasure to use - the forms are comprehensive and can be adapted for specific requirements. A worthwhile buy for anyone in this field.
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Dining by Design: Interior Design's Handbook of Dining and Restaurant Facilities
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Material Recovery Facility Design Manual
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Economic factors discussed include purchase price, utility requirements, maintenance costs, labor costs, auxiliary equipment purchase needs, sizing, space requirements, redundancy requirements, and all aspects necessary for the development of performance and equipment specifications. Material Recovery Facility Design Manual is essential for solid waste planners, engineers, and anyone else involved with startup, implementation, and acceptance testing of MRF equipment and systems.
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- The Social Environment In Which Impressionism Began
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Impressionism: Beneath the Surface
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The Social Environment In Which Impressionism Began.......2006-04-21
Paul Smith defines Impressionism in terms of the artists' reaction against the "dishonesty" of salon painting and their eagerness to embrace a new way of seeing. Focuses on five approaches: Manet and the artist as flaneur - a new way of looking; Women painters and how women saw themselves as the object of men's gaze; Monet and the exploration of sensation through close attention to light quality; Pissaro's political vision; and Cezanne and the Problem of form.
The introduction is valuable in positioning how these painters saw themselves and what they were attempting to do, in the context of rising bourgeois taste, the scientific investigations of color theory and making themselves relevant to the art world of late 19th century France. They were not isolated but were part of a very active interface of art critics (Baudelaire) researchers (Chevruel) and the public acceptance of their work (Durand-Ruel). A very good overview of five different social influences on the artists.
The early impressionists seem preoccupied with the concept of sensation, maybe because it was the point around which they hung their dissatisfaction with the art world of the time. They talked a great deal about "sensation" in conversations and letters, always didactically but really they were exploring. Eventually Impressionism seems to have run out for most of them but it played a vital role in forming a new vision of what role art played in society, which the public eventually bought into.
Brief bibliography.
Impression down below.......2001-12-22
If we look at IMPRESSIONISM: BENEATH THE SURFACE, we find an art with more going for it than a permanent record of how atmosphere and light change over time. The word comes from Claude Monet's pioneer "Impression, sunrise 1873," where we also find landscapists Eugene Boudin- and Johan Barthold Jongkind-type boldly painted nature from having sketched one's first impression, at one moment in time, on the spot and outside, for strong rivalry to the age-old road to artistic success by meeting carved-in-stone standards based on conservative, classical training, as in Jean-Francois Millet's divinely ordered "Autumn" praising the dignity of labor. It meant painting moments of one's own experience, as in Monet's "Women in the garden," as the way real people really looked through sharply contrasted dark and light under harsh summer sunlight so that the viewer also knew what went into getting the painting done, not as Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre's "Minerva and the three graces," with ideal types under studio light gently going from light into shade and hiding how the painter got the painting to end up looking that way. It also made for a very personal art that was actually not so spur-of-the-moment as it seemed: Monet told American painter Lilla Cabot Perry not to paint the world as events and objects but as patches of color. But what with years of seeing things as things, Impressionists had to change their usual way of looking, which they did by studying both aesthetic and scientific theories and Japanese sources. I particularly like where the author talked about the successes with this retrained way of looking by Paul Cezanne, whose completely different style my sculptress mother loved and my artist sister still does: he painted nature in color patches, with unusual perspective and without lines, so he flattened the background and foreground with a back apple looking quite big in comparison to front apples and tilted the table top in "Still life with plaster." He put nature's organizing color by contrasts and relationships into "Park of the Chateau Noir," with complementary and nearcomplementary side by side. I also like Paul Smith's specific examples from Camillo Pissarro's art: his local colors showed light changing normal hues, as in "Cotes Saint-Denis," with everything touched by the silvery autumnal light made from warm sunlight and sky blue toplight; that same blue toplight colored "The shepherdess," but without sunlight making it through the painting's thick tree growth. In "Young peasant girl drinking coffee," the sitter's face reflected the green from the grass and trees outside her window. The anarchist painter also said that art not coming out of real experiences or looking at the real world was actually escapism. It is easy to see where Impressionist art could be non-escapist what with new ways of interpretation: anthropological, feminist, psychoanalytical, and social-historical ways, of which the book has especially telling examples of how art let on where men and women got to go; public places tended to be for men to look at and paint women, as in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "La loge." Female Impressionist painters Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot therefore tended to paint homey scenes that sometimes showed women getting ready for the places that were seen as their social space, as in Mary Cassatt's "Girl arranging her hair" and Berthe Morisot's "Yong woman drying herself." But viewers pick up on how aggravating it was to be caught in a routine of set places to go and things to do, as in backgrounds cramping the women in Mary Cassatt's "Five o'clock tea" or Berthe Morisot's "Summer's day" and "View of Paris from the Trocadero." So the book has a fresh look on a beautifully illustrated, logically organized and well written topic: readers might want to go on to Michel Melot's THE IMPRESSIONIST PRINT, Julian Moore's IMPRESSIONIST PARIS, and H Barbara Weinberg et al's AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM AND REALISM.
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2 Books in One.......2002-07-12
It's unfortunate that Fireside no longer publishes "Pogo" books. This book is actually two books: "G.O. Fizzickle Pogo" and "Positively Pogo". For those who don't know, "Pogo" is an animal-only comic strip with very well drawn artwork with good humor and stories to boot. Walt Kelly does his strip like a river as it meanders down stream. Sometimes the strip will follow a couple of storylines but often those stories get merged back together. Set in the deep south, there are lots of interesting characters here which make this strip a lot of fun.
"Positively Pogo" are comic strips from around 1954 first published in newspapers. This part starts with the start of the television media with various characters doing things to break into commercials and shows. The strip then meanders into a plan by Churchy (the turtle) to make money by making money. We have a long appearance by a non-regular character (in the form of a pig) which just happens to look like a certain Soviet leader of the time (part of Kelly's political humor). The book then ends with the Olympics in Australia.
"G.O. Fizzickle Pogo" contains strips from around 1956. This book starts with the announcement of the International Geophysical Year which is 18 months long. After a while, we are introduced to "the flea" who loves the dog character Beauregard. Upon being rejected, Howland Owl puts a plan into motion to launch the flea into space (in light of the Sputnik launch). This leads to a long stretch where Albert decides to defend the moon from strangers (egro the Soviets) landing there. The book then continues into a discussion on the then new Suez Canal with some of the characters deciding to build their own canal. The book ends with the removal of a "demon" from Albert.
Unlike later Pogo strips, this book is lighter on the political strips (they are there, just not as in your face) which makes these better in my opinion. As to this book, it would have been nice if the two books could have been sequencial (meaning the strips in book two pick up immediately where book one ended) but I don't know if the strips in between were ever published in book form. Worth having if you like good, classic comic strips.
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a real estate agent wannabe.......2003-04-05
This book helps me pass my exam and then some.
This is your ticket to passing the ASI Real Estate Test........1999-11-11
Pivar's "Real Estate Exam Guide - Fifth Edition" will enable you to use common sense study methods to assure a passing grade for the ASI Real Estate Sales and Broker Exams. I have been a licensed broker for many years, and I wanted to be licensed in another state. This guide made this an easy task. Using selective " highlighting", reviewing every chapter at least twice, and taking the chapter review quizzes and the review tests included in the book will provide you with the knowledge to pass the ASI test with flying colors. The material is presented with verbage that you will find in the exam. The quizzes and review tests are presented just as they are in the actual ASI test. I recommend this book to everyone that will be tested by ASI for their real estate license.
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ASI Real Estate Sales Exam with CD-ROM
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Real Estate Sales is a growing and lucrative market. However, before you get your license, you must pass the test. ASI Real Estate Sales Exam: The Complete Preparation Guide, helps you get your license on the first try. Learn the terms and information you need to know to succeed with this book and bonus CD-ROM.
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Not applicable for every state.......2002-11-27
This book is only useful for license exams in the following states:
Alaska Kentucky
Arizona Massachusetts
Arkansas Minnesota
Colorado New Jersey
Delaware Rhode Island
D.C. Tennessee
Florida Utah
Hawaii Washington
Indiana
Kansas
Unfortunately, this fact wasn't disclosed, and I don't live in one of those states (and yes, I know D.C. isn't a state). [Amazon.com] has since provided sample pages, including the back cover which listed the relevant states. Better late than never, I guess.
However, I have skimmed through the book, and otherwise it appears quite satisfactory.
Be Careful.......2000-03-20
Although this book was great for the testing practice it gave me, from the cover it gave the impression that it would be both a study guide and a testing practice. This book is definately not a study guide. If you already have studied and are looking for a great tester, then this book is it!
ASI is wonderful.......2000-01-08
This book is a must without it I would never have passed the test I learned more with it than taking the class at Trees, The CD lets you practise taking the test over an over, this was the best investment I could have made, I had to take the test over after ordering this asi I passed the test no problem . Thanks Thanks Thanks If you are going to take the test get this book
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Guide to ASI Real Estate License Examinations
John T. Ellis , and
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A detailed up-to-date guide to state licensing examinations for real estate salespersons and broker license applicants preparing for the ASI exam.
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Facilities Planning & Relocation: A Complete Management System Including : Comprehensive Text, Sample Specifications, over 50 Hard Copy and Electronic Forms
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