Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form

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In this third, revised edition of his eidely acclaimed book, Dr. Geoffrey Baker explains the complexities of Le Corbusier's oeuvre using a three-dimensional diagrammatic analysis to identify major themes and influences. The narrative and fine illustration, enhanced by the inclusion of color plates, cover the key buildings from the four developmental stages of his work, making it an excellent guide for architect and student alike.

Inclusion of the Pavillion Suisse in this volume reminds us of the transitional nature of this building in which the use of natural material, stone, and curved forms reveals fresh lyricism in Le Corbusier's oeuvre. Inclsuion of the Villa Shodhan in India concludes the cubic domestic progression that begins with the Maison Citrohan, developing through such key examples as the La Roche Jeanneret houses, the Villa Stein-de-Monzie, Villa Savoye, and Villa at Carthage.

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Clear, persuasive analyses presented with style.......1998-07-09

Prof. Baker's presentation of Le Corbusier's architecture as a series of progressively related formal compositions is comprehensive, extraordinarily clear, and wonderfully executed. The bulk of the book consists of Baker's own drawings and diagrams which lend a consistency and lucidity to his analyses of form. Each project is desrcibed in the same format, with unusual attention to both the physical and biographical context in which it was built or proposed. The investigation of buildings as formal compositions gives a persuasive critical consistency to Corbusier's ouvre from the earliest Swiss villas to the didactic purism of the international style to his later, more mature expressions of the interaction of spirit and matter. This study, in its thoughtfulness and elegance, is invaluable to any student of architecture and will provide insight not only into the techniques of formal composition but into the mind of one of the real heroes of modern design.

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15 early works (1905-1916) illustrated in color

Le Corbusier: An Analysis of Form
Geoffrey Baker
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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15 early works (1905-1916) illustrated in color.......2006-01-18

Architectural projects illustrated by excellent photos mostly in color; also plans, sections, elevations, hard line axonometric views, hand sketches of excellent quality, and short text descriptions; ISBN: 0312475837 & 0312475829 and ISBN: 0856708925 only.
CONTENTS:
7 Foreword
9 The Early Villas of Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds by Geoffrey Baker
COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
8 Art School Drawings
26 Villa Fallet
30 Villa Stotzer
34 Villa Jaquemet
36 Villa Jeanneret-Perret
40 Villa Favre-Jacot
44 Villa Schwob
48 La Scala Cinema
PROJECTS
50 Villa Fallet
58 Villa Stotzer
66 Villa Jaquemet
74 Villa Jeanneret-Perret
82 Villa Favre-Jacot
92 Villa Schwob
102 La Scala Cinema
110 From Feeling to Reason: Jeanneret and Regionalism by Jacques Gubler
120 In Time with the Swiss Watchmakers by Jacques Gubler
128 List of Early Projects in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Lode
130 Selected Bibliography
131 Résumés in French, German, Spanish and Italian

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Introduce your patrons to a new vision of the world with this survey of today's best and most prominent photographers

Discover the lives and works of a diverse group of 850 international photographers in this unrivaled ALA/RASD Outstanding Reference Source. Contemporary Photographers presents informative sketches of world-renowned photographers of our era who have greatly influenced the medium. Exhaustive in its coverage, this new 3rd edition includes 100 new entrants and provides unique analysis of photographers working in all areas of the world today.

The lives and works of photographers in a concise and informative format Contemporary Photographers contains both detailed biographical and incisive critical information about each entrant. Coupling this with an inside look at a broad range of photographic styles, this edition suits the needs of both casual browsers and serious students of the fine art of photography. Arranged alphabetically, each entry provides:

A detailed biography that profiles the photographer's background, career, and education, and supplies current contact information
Lists of individual exhibitions
A listing of galleries and museums that have the entrant's work in their collection
A selected bibliography of works by and about the photographer
An incisive critical essay signed by one of the book's 175 contributors

A privileged look through the eyes of the beholder

Whenever possible, each entry is enhanced by a statement by the photographer on his or her work or on contemporary photography in general, together with a representative photograph chosen by the artist. Consider how much more interesting and accessible the works of Iranian photographer Abbas are, for example, when they are coupled with the artist's own words: "People expect us, photojournalists, to change the world with our pictures. All we can do is to show that this world had to be changed ... sometimes." As far as the eye can see: Expanded coverage of international photographers

Traditional surveys often overlook entire categories of photographers, ignoring many important non-Western, third-world, and women photographers. Compiled under the direction of a host of new advisors, this edition of Contemporary Photographers includes artists working in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and also extends coverage of African, Indian, Far Eastern, and Latin American photographers---comprising a breadth of coverage it would take volumes to match.

With a selection of 850 international photographers --100 of whom are new to this edition -- Contemporary Photographers covers the familiar masters as well as those photographers whose fame has not always kept pace with their artistry. Look for extensive coverage of these gifted and celebrated photographers:

Ansel Adams
Oladele Bamgboye
Vladimir Birgus
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Chang Chao-Tang
Sarah Charlesworth
Lynne Cohen
John Davies
Dawid
Bernard Descamps
Zbigniew Dlubak
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Paz Errazuriz
Barbara Ess
Walker Evans
Robert Frank
Jideki Fujii
Charles Gagnon
Charles Gatewood
Luigi Ghirri
Ernst Haas
Izis
Yale Joel
Juan I-Jong
Yousuf Karsh
Victor Keppler
Dmitri Kessel
Dorothea Lange
Peter Magubane
Robert Mapplethorpe
And many more

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New to this edition, a nationality index allows users to research contemporary photographers by country as well as by the artist's name.

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Dictionary of Contemporary Photography
Leslie D. Stroebel
Manufacturer: Morgan & Morgan
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dictionary of Contemporary Photography
Stroebel & Hollis N. Todd
Manufacturer: Morgan & Morgan, inc.
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Shop where the stores never close! Savvy Online Shopping shows you how to use the Internet to get exactly what you want - with no lines, no crowds, no parking lot skirmishes! Author Jill Freeze is your personal e-shopper, teaching you inside tricks for sh

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You can buy anything on the Internet. You also can beg, borrow, or (gulp!) steal anything on the Internet. Jill Freeze explains how to take advantage of good commercial opportunities while minimizing risks in Savvy Online Shopping. Read this one if you're keen on finding bargains, and suspect that you're not getting the whole picture by visiting only well-known sites that advertise a lot. Freeze calls attention to dozens of relatively small sites, most of which specialize in something like Beanie Babies or antique items. She also explores the world of online auctions, and offers tips on where to go to get the best price as both buyer and seller.

There's more to this book than directory listings. In large part, it's a guide to commercial safety online. Freeze explains how to check out vendors before you commit to purchases, and how some scams have worked in the past. She also introduces a concept that might be new to many veterans of online shopping: shopping agents that search for the best price on a given item across many stores. A lot of her advice is common sense, but she backs it with references to the tools that you need. --David Wall

Topics covered: Online shopping for consumers and small-time sellers. Transactional security, payment methods, and other technical subjects get attention, while softer (but perhaps more important) topics like product research and vendor trustworthiness receive heavier coverage.

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Informative and entertaining introduction to shopping online.......2001-03-22

Jill Freeze does an outstanding job in explaining the world of shopping online to people who might want to try it, but is concerned about privacy and safety. This is the perfect book to read if you've wanted to try online shopping, but need more information first.

Jill's style is entertaining and the book is quick-moving. You won't realize how much information you've accumulated while enjoying reading about the ins and outs of shopping online!

I highly recommend this book for newbies to shopping online. Jill explains everything clearly step-by-step. She also includes how to shop at Ebay and other online auctions. Most newbies would prefer to start their online shopping experience with something a bit easier, like buying this book at Amazon, for example, but everything you need to jump into the Ebay auction world is there if you decide to do that!

The book discusses how to look at the "big ticket items" online as well - things like houses and cars and colleges! You can do research online even if you end up buying the product at the local mall.

Jill Freeze is visually impaired and she is a perfect example of how online shopping makes life easier for SO many people in SO many different situations. I have been shopping online for a few years now, and have bought stuff from lots of e-tailers, including Amazon (yes, it was the first, and my favorite!), Webvan, Ebay, Half.com, Lands End, Drugstore.com, and many others. There's very little that you can't buy online, actually!

Jill discusses how to research the item you're looking to buy - she gives you lots of websites to check, but I found that she left out a few of my favorites:

BizRate.com - gives detailed reports on the different online stores - comparing on-time delivery, easy navigation of the website, prices, quality of items sold, etc. Yes, Amazon is very highly rated on Bizrate.com!

DealOfDay.com - looking for a deal? Check out what special offers are available at the online store of your choice ($10 off a $50 purchase, for example!)

BestBookBuys.com - My favorite thing to shop for online (and off-line, for that matter!) is books, and this website is the best for finding which store has your book at what price. You type in the title, author, or ISBN number, and it looks at about 30 different bookstores online and comes up with an easy-to-understand chart giving you the price (lowest price first), shipping cost, tax in what states, and best of all - AVAILABILITY of your book! Many shopping bots leave out this important fact. You can see the bottom line price - including shipping, and how soon your book will get to you. If you find that Amazon is your best bet for your latest must-have book (and it often is, all things considered), just click on "Buy" and BestBookBuys.com will take you right to the book detail page on Amazon (or whatever other e-tailer you click on) and there you are! Before buying from a bookstore that you aren't familiar with, check it out at Bizrate first.

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Title: Understanding consumers unlocks door to marketing: computer-savvy folks have special needs, target interests. (Special Report: Computers).(online marketing is discussed)
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Bob Woodward called his biography of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan Maestro for two reasons. First, Greenspan is a musician. He started out as a Julliard-trained jazz sax man. "He wasn't a good improviser," Woodward reports. And while the other guys got stoned all night, Greenspan "read economics and business books and eventually became the band's bookkeeper." He also cultivated powerful pals, like Ayn Rand, whose coterie dubbed the dour young man "The Undertaker."

More profoundly, Greenspan is a maestro, a conductor, exquisitely attuned to every instrument in the political and economic orchestra. He rules by consensus, but with a firm hand and notoriously inscrutable words. Marvelously, Woodward relates that Greenspan had to propose twice to his wife, the violinist-turned-TV news star Andrea Mitchell, before she understood: "His verbal obscurity and caution were so ingrained that Mitchell didn't even know that he had asked her to marry him." Woodward gives us the inside story of what Greenspan really thinks and how he outmaneuvered the most ruthless politicians on earth in some of the hairiest times imaginable, from the 1987 stock market crash to the 1994-95 Mexican crisis to the stomach-churning turn of the century. It turns out that for all his awesome knowledge of monetary minutiae, the Fed chief literally relies on "a pain in the pit of my stomach" to make decisions. "At times, he found his body sensed danger before his head," writes Woodward. The Fed chief also adapts Einstein's technique to economics, hunting for discrepancies as keys to deeper theories. Einstein made breakthroughs out of bent light; Greenspan deduced productivity gains that government statisticians had overlooked for years. (The gains appeared when Greenspan made the statisticians calculate productivity by business sector, the way it's done in the real world.)

Woodward's prose is cool and rational, not exuberant. But if you're into economics and politics, you'll find a rich gossip trove here. Who knew Reagan had a draft of a presidential order to shut down Wall Street trading at hand in 1987? Scary! Reading Maestro is better than sitting with Greenspan in his famous tub as he charts your future--it's like being right there inside his head. --Tim Appelo

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Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan's thinking. Woodward presents the Greenspan years as a gripping narrative, a remarkable portrait of a man who has become the symbol of American economic preeminence.

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Woodward's bestselling "The Agenda" presented a thrilling, intimate portrait of the making of economic policy during President Clinton's first year in office. The author now returns to the economic arena to examine why and how the present boom came to be.

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"The nurturing of capital and property ownership.".......2007-09-10

While there are some interesting tidbits throughout, ie Alan Greenspans association with Ayn Rand, the familiar names of the politically entrenched and the precarious state our nations economic machinations, this book was a bit boring. What I did find fascinating was the level of Ivy League ambition in our nations capital and Greenspans savvy manuevering therein.

Maestro Review .......2007-08-19

Among collegiate literature which I have been exposed to, I have found Bob Woodward's Maestro to be one of the most informative and educational. With this simple and easy to understand narrative, I have been taken inside the doors of the Federal Reserve, and have been given a picture of how the FOMC truly operates. I feel more equipped to discuss and express opinion towards the operations of the Fed. Upon the completion of this book, I sat back with a sense of gratification, in my newly acquired, practical understanding of the U.S. economy. Woodward was able to portray Monetary Policy in a sense that really applied to my level of thinking.
With an inside look at the decisions of Alan Greenspan and his role as chairman of the Federal Reserve, I was stuck with a sense of amazement watching this man operate mathematically and politically, still maintaining a sense of pure awareness and concern for the long-term affects of his resolutions. I would definitely recommend this book to any reader in search of a practical and realistic understanding of the economic engine which drives the U.S.

I Can't Believe I LOVED a Book on Greenspan!.......2007-04-10

I read this book wanting to be better informed about how The Fed and Greenspan operate, and wound up being nicely informed and entertained. Understanding how banks, the White House and political appointments co-exist in the field of economics, I never thought I would ever use the phrase "hard-to-put-down" in connection with an economics/banking book but this one really did it for me. It is a genuine page turner and definitely Woodward's most underrated and under-discussed books. (No caller mentioned this work during his 3-hour C-Span interview a few months back.) Get your hands on a copy of this book and prepare for an interesting and enjoyable ride. My one complaint: I wish it were longer. Although this book answered all my "Fed" questions, I wished its time track would continue to the present, or perhaps delve a little deeper into the past. But this minor complaint notwithstanding, the book was an excellent and engaging read.

Maestro.......2006-12-02

First, a brief note about what others have stated about the author and his relationship with the "establishment." Bob Woodward has always gotten close to the sources and heart of the story. It seems Woodward is inside and part of the system much moreso than than simply observing and reporting about it from the outside. In "Maestro," perhaps such conjecture is irrelevant. (Some biographers are more sympathetic to the subject.) If one is on the inside he/she has greater access to corroborated information and gets to know what's really going on behind the scenes.

The downside is that a person can also develop relationships with the people they write about (e.g. become friends, or admiring acquaintances). Insider or not, Woodward is and has been....a part of the establishment. But this isn't necessarily a reason to take anything away from him in this book. Woodward provides lots of details into Greenspan, the FOMC, and daily working of the Fed, as well as the politics and motivations behind individual and institutional actions.

This bio starts with brief glimpses into Greenspan's parents, his upbringing, and school days. It then moves to his young adulthood and formative years. The young Greenspan was 26 when he met philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand. He held many discussions with her and became a part of her inner circle. Then, as now, Greenspan believes in the philosophy of "Logical Positivism," which asserts that "nothing could be known rationally with total certainty."

"Maestro" spends a lot of time on the workings, structure, and politics of the Fed. As for the structure of the Federal Reserve Board, the President appoints board members to the Fed and the Senate confirms them, to a term of 14 years. These lengthy terms are designed to position the board members above politics. The appointments however, are influential and political. The Secretary of Treasury traditionally acts as a liaison between the administration and board members.

The FOMC is the Federal Open Market Committee, (then) chaired by By Greenspan. The FOMC has 12 voting members, seven of which which, are Fed Governors. 5 of are presidents (out of a total of twelve) of the Federal Reserve district banks in the U.S. The FOMC meets every six weeks to discuss and set the the short-term funds rate.

This book also notes how Greenspan's statements are interpreted by the media and the markets that react to them.

Greenspan's famous and carefully crafted ambiguous statements are misinterpreted, oversimplified, and over-reacted to constantly by the 'talking heads' and knee-jerk profit takers and short-termers.

It's become so common in recent years to listen to talking heads Analyze phrases, words, and sentences given by Greenspan (and now Bernanke) when they present reports and testimony. Below is one example of what commonly happens after the Fed Chairman utters his alphabet soup of ambiguity, as in this 1995 comment from Allen Greenspan:

"I don't see any problem that really disturb me" followed by, "As a consequence of the sluggish economic outlook, the probabilities, as some of my colleagues have indicated, of a recession have edged up, as indeed one would expect." This statement was made in 1995 at an international banking conference in Seattle .

Here are two major headlines responses to this statement:

"Greenspan Sees Chance of Recession" --The New York Times.

"Recession Is Unlikely, Greenspan Concludes" --The Washington Post.

Greenspan refers to these responses by the media and talking heads as "Constructive Ambiguity" (p. 147).

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve and board is considered to be the most important position in the governance and overseeing of the U.S. economy. This book makes a mundane topic and institution interesting.

One thing I liked about Greenspan. He believed in an "institutional rule of survival" in Washington: bring the bad news yourself. Look people in the eye, lay out the facts, and be direct (p. 53).

Some people think there is an element of fawning in this biography. Sometimes there seems to be some subtle praise. Aside from this, the media's categorization of Greenspan as a 'rock star' is oversimplified. It seems Woodward liked Greenspan's tenure. A lot of people did.

How to feel your way to the correct interest rate.......2006-05-03

Woodward will give you a feel for how Greenspan feels (this feeling is developed from massive amounts of economic dated and dicussions with other experts) his way along to a decision on interest rates. There is no clear-cut method for getting the interest rates to just the right level. Now that Greenspan is gone and left us with a boom, we have to be concerned that Ben Bernanke will also develop just the right feel. And probably more importantly--may he be just as lucky as Alan Greenspan.

MAESTRO : Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (Numbered, Signed First Edition)

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MAESTRO : Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (Numbered, Signed First Edition)

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Maestro, Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
Bob Woodward
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Maestro.(Review) (book review): An article from: Finance & Development
Prakash Loungani
Manufacturer: International Monetary Fund
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Author: Prakash Loungani
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Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
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MAESTRO: GREENSPAN'S FED AND THE AMERICAN BOOM.(Review) (book review): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Steve Weinberg
Manufacturer: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: MAESTRO: GREENSPAN'S FED AND THE AMERICAN BOOM.(Review) (book review)
Author: Steve Weinberg
Publication: Columbia Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
Volume: 39 Issue: 5 Page: 72

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Maestro Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom Large Print Edition
Bob Woodward
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