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Pierre Koenig (b. 1925) is a leading figure of the Modern movement in America, and a guiding influence in the "Case Study House Program".
This is the first full study of Koenig's career, providing an unparalleled insight into the evolution of Modernism on the West Coast. Koenig designed and built his first exposed steel house in 1950. In 1957 he was chosen to design Case Study Houses #21 and #22. These houses have become iconic, capturing the excitement and optimism of the period. This book includes new and vintage photographs together with the architect's original drawings.
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an amazing artifact.......2005-10-29
This book presents a wonderful view of the work of Koenig. Its images are of the quality that they are in use as a series of plates within the Pierre Koenig memorial library at the APX andronicus house at the university of southern california. as a source for understanding of koenig and and the case study movement, this is an invaluable tool.
Great Book.......2002-03-25
This book presents Pierre Koenigs work very well. James Steele has written many great architecture books and this one is as good as his others. In the book is the most complete and extensive representation of Pierre Koenings work I have ever seen printed. The pictures are large, and very nice. It is a very good book with his work well documented and insightful articles written by James Steele and others.
Pierre Koenig.......2001-06-13
Excellent book, I wanted to see more.
Koenig, the King of SoCal Architecture.......2000-01-06
This book shares with the reader the highlights of Koenig's career with breathtaking shots of the case study houses, blue prints, and narration accompanying each. Truly, one of the most spectacular collections dedicated to this incredibly gifted, ground breaking architect.
Modernist master Koenig well represented here........1999-06-22
Some books are so good you can't put them down. Some, of course, are so bad you can't wait till they end, and the going is slow. The going is slow for James Steele and David Jenkins' book Pierre Koenig... for the opposite reason. After a quick glance at the magnificent pictures and some of the text, I wanted to take my time. I dreaded the moment I'd have to close the back cover and say goodbye to this book. Koenig designed mostly in steel... but throw away your notions of an "industrial" look.. for Koenig, steel was a means of building, and a way to express a contemporary style. As someone who was born and raised in and amongst Eichlers, I was very gratified to discover how wide spread the "California style" was for a period. The style seems to have lasted -and evolved- in public buildings, but residential builders lost their nerve and returned to something more conventional. Since many of my architectural heroes have passed away, or changed styles, it's nice to know Koenig is still around, still designing, and still promoting the use of steel as the palette for expression of this Zen-like style. As for completing the book? Well, I understand now why we have "coffee table" books... so you can re-live the first time you read a book like this, through the eyes of someone else.
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Koening.......2007-10-01
Good, short and reasonably priced overview of a Southern California architect who would have been largely unknown if not for Julius Shulman's great nightime picture.
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Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
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This volume has brought together research from both ‘cognitive’ and ‘functional’ approaches to linguistics. The collection includes work from cognitive science disciplines whose concerns overlap with linguistics, such as artificial intelligence, neurolinguistics and psychology. Despite their diversity, the papers in this volume are all inspired by the same fundamental question: to what extent is the structure of languages affected by human cognitive structures and language use? This book will appeal to graduate students, professors, and researchers - in particular, cognitive and functional linguists; psychologists; and artificial intelligence scholars.
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THINKING METAPHORE.......1999-12-02
This book shows clearly how reality cannot be readly separated from the way we represent it, notably from the links between different signs and metaphorical thinking we input about it.
THINKING METAPHORE.......1999-12-02
This book shows clearly how reality cannot be readly separated from the way we represent it, notably from the links between different signs and metaphorical thinking we input about it.
THINKING METAPHORE.......1999-12-02
This book shows clearly how reality cannot be readly separated from the way we represent it, notably from the links between different signs and metaphorical thinking we input about it.
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This anthology draws together leading linguists, logicians, and computer scientists working on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Construction Grammar. Covering a wide array of linguistic topics and languages, the papers in this book document the singular ability of lexicalist theories of grammar to provide analyses which combine the advantages of explanatoriness, analytic precision, and thorough empirical data coverage. Topics that are discussed include: argument structure, idiomatic constructions, case and agreement, anaphora and ellipsis, syntactic locality and nonlocality, quantification, word structure, issues in processing and formalization, and unbounded dependencies.
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Lexical Relations (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
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The thrust of this book is to provide a model of lexical relations which reconciles the lexicon’s idiosyncratic and productive aspects. Building on work in Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar, an organization of lexical knowledge is proposed called the Type Underspecified Hierarchical Lexicon through which partial regularities, medium-size generalization, and truly productive processes receive a unified model. Its basic thesis is that all lexical relations reduce to categorization (the membership of the two related lexemes in a common category) and that category intersection is the only mechanism needed to model lexical processes provided lexical items can be stored partially underspecified as to their category membership. Aside from the conceptual simplification that results from this move, the book demonstrates that several empirical and theoretical benefits accrue to this architecture; in particular, many salient properties of morphological processes are shown to reduce to inherent, formal properties of the organization of the lexicon.
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A new translation of "l'Enfant perdu et retrouvé ou Pierre Cholet" by J.-B. Proulx with new maps, notes, and illus. is for all readers of adventure stories and history. It is a true story of one man's perseverance despite his many hardships to return home. In 1845, five-year-old Pierre Cholet is kidnapped along with his brother and cousin from rural Quebec. The kidnapper eludes a manhunt of 400 parishioners and sells the boys to a French sea captain sailing to St. Malo, France. Thirty-six years later, Cholet alone returns home. Cholet tells his story to the author J.-B. Proulx, relating the fate of the other two boys, his hard life as a sailor on the high seas, his shipwrecks, his escape and near death in Labrador's wilderness, and his decade of searching throughout eastern Canada for his parents. Proulx combines his literary skills with Cholet's talents as a raconteur to produce both an enthralling tale and a brief history of French Canadian life.
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Seascapes & Waterways: Paint
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In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks—all then virtually unknown—were commissioned to chronicle in pictures the economic struggle and social dislocation of the Depression era. They explored every facet of rural life in an effort to document the troubles, as well as the spirit, of the nation.
Fanning out across the country, these photographers captured a nation alive with religious faith—from Dust Bowl migrants singing hymns to orthodox Jews praying in rural Connecticut. In Picturing Faith, the preeminent historian of religion Colleen McDannell recounts the history of this extraordinary project, telling the stories of the men and women who participated in it and exploring these little-known images of America.
Lavishly illustrated, Picturing Faith teases out the various and conflicting ways that these photographers portrayed American religion and enhances our understanding of how religion was practiced during this critical period of American history.
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Archer Daniels Midland--popularly known as ADM, the "Supermarket to the World"--spends millions on ads during Sunday morning TV talk shows and on public radio to burnish its popular image. But behind the façade lies a vicious business eager to fix prices with its competitors and employ prostitutes in corporate espionage, according to James B. Lieber's muckraking account, Rats in the Grain. Lieber tells the story of why the FBI raided ADM's Illinois headquarters in 1995, as well as the events leading up to the raid and the trial that resulted. ADM was not an easy target--it's extremely well connected in Washington (an appendix listing politicians who have received financial contributions from ADM reads like a who's who of Beltway power brokers), and it was a leading recipient of federal largesse. In the end, ADM paid a criminal antitrust fine of $100 million, and two top executives were sent to prison for collaborating with competitors. But the case was messy. The FBI's informant, Mark Whitacre--once believed to be in line to succeed the company president--twice tried to commit suicide following the FBI raid, and was eventually sentenced to nine years for fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion.
But Lieber tells the story of ADM's crisis well, and with a strong anti-ADM slant. He's no master of prose style, but his writing is clear and to the point. His book simply crackles with detail--at times, it's difficult to keep up with all the characters (there's another appendix identifying them for easy reference). Throughout the text, readers will feel as if they're in the middle of a 60 Minutes exposé of dirty business practices--a sense augmented by several pages of photos taken from hidden surveillance cameras spying on backroom deals. After reading Rats in the Grain, it will be impossible to look at one of those feel-good ADM ads the same way again. --John J. Miller
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Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain portrays the crime and punishment of ADM during the largest white-collar criminal trial of the 1990s. James Lieber profiles the witnesses, the defense lawyers and federal prosecutors, the inner workings of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, and the unpredictable mole Lieber had access to. “A detailed account of how an influential corporation can go rotten.” — The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Well done with an important "Afterword".......2005-04-02
Lieber possesses a unique blend of talents to investigate the price fixing trial of the century.
The book chronicles ADM kingmaker Dwayne Andreas's rise to business and political power, charts the evolution of US antitrust law, and dissect's the testimony of key witnesses in the trial.
The chapters on the trial delve into ADM's chief defense: its executives were white-hatted American heroes intent on destroying an "Asian" cartel. You will find the race baiting and "we-are-heroes" defense surreal, especially since audio and video tape caught the conspirators red-handed and potty-mouthed.
Lieber presents shocking evidence to build a solid case that the US Justice Department often subjugated itself to ADM's political power and well-connected attorneys in the prosecution of informant Mark Whitacre for fraud and tax evasion. For example, Whitacre still maintains the nearly $10 million of ADM money he stashed in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands was "off-the-books" bonuses given to him by Michael Andreas with the approval of ADM president James Randall. Lieber provides multi-layered facts that endorse Whitacre's story.
The book's final chapters contain even more revelations: alleged document shredding by ADM chairman Andreas after the June 1995 FBI raid; ADM's hiring prostitutes to help steal competitors' technology; the never investigated role of ADM president James Randall--or Chairman Andreas--in price fixing conspiracies; the Justice Department's refusal to release public documents, and other sordid facts of sex, lies and videotape.
As you will discover in reading this book, justice was plea bargined away and the wishes of the Andreas crime family boss Dwayne were granted, one of which was sending Whitacre to jail for 10 years.
Lieber is to be commended for this historical document which will explain to generations to come how corporate crime destoyed our country.
This story has been told.......2004-06-05
I have not read this book, but it seems that the publisher's statement here at Amazon should include some mention of what this book can tell us that Kurt Eichenwald's exhaustive, prizewinning book, _The Informant_, does not. Eichenwald's book covers exactly the same material, and Eichenwald (the _New York Times_ reporter who covered the case) had the same access to Whitacre and other sources that Lieber had.
For obvious reasons, I would prefer not to give a "number-of-stars" rating to a book I haven't read. But Amazon demands it, so I've chosen a neutral "three."
ADM, ... enterprise, punishes whistleblower.......2002-02-20
Attorney Lieber deserves high praise for his objective, informative presentation of the antitrust criminal case vs. Archer Daniels Midland, the agribusiness giant, that ADM, its powerful lawyers and Clinton's Justice Department did not want published. To his credit, he continued to pursue this case after most reporters backed off and swallowed the dizzying spin and disinformation that ADM's CEO Dwayne Andreas and his aggressive lawyers gave the media, crying crocodile tears as the "victim" of an allegedly deranged ADM executive, Mark Whitacre, who became the FBI's mole, and made hundreds of tapes incriminating ADM executives fixing prices in world markets with their competitors. Lieber correctly smelled the stench of a cover-up and adroitly guides readers to make their own
conclusions after compiling evidence, omissions from court records, and other factors that allow readers to infer that the judicial process was compromised by ADM's widespread political
influence before the trial even began. Although Dwayne Andreas,
the infamous political fixer and king of corporate welfare, got immunity in a highly secretive plea bargain to Justice in 1996,
after ADM agreed to pay a record fine of $100 million, his son
Michael was convicted and imprisoned with Terry Wilson for a
mere 3 years, and Dwayne (thanks to outraged and courageous ADM
shareholders) finally resigned. Tragically, Whitacre was
convicted, fined and sentenced to a harsh term of 9 years
because of ADM's swift retaliation against him as whistleblower, for exposing to the FBI the ... corporate culture of
ADM...(anything goes-but don't get caught-and here's your big
bonus (not reported on books)to keep silent, the unspoken words
being that an employee would be fired and crucified if they
blew the whistle.
Lieber's chilling comment (p. 322)should concern every citizen
or future whistleblower who believes in due process and our rule of law: "It was expected that ADM's attorneys would savage the
snitch. What was highly bizarre in the world of criminal law was the way the Justice Department joined in the frenzy to destroy Whitacre. This was an aberration...the perpetrator was a
politically wired corporation whose law firm- the president's law firm- had unbridled entree and influence at Justice. The
mole's lawyer had none."
Lieber makes a strong case that this American corporate history- "one of the most important antitrust cases of the century"- should be closely examined. Rightly so. Why was the court record sealed, why were key witnesses (e.g., Wayne Brasser) not deposed, who could have validated Whitacre's claims that the hidden bonuses were a quid pro quo for engaging in illegal price-fixing? The author's appendices are very helpful. ADM and Dwayne Andreas not only have lobbied for years to emasculate our antitrust laws (the "Magna Carta" of free enterprise) but know that the massive soft money donations to key politicians can grease not only the wheels of justice, but also ensure that ADM continues to get huge subsidies for ethanol and other favors from Agriculture Dept. (high fructose corn syrup,peanuts) that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Rats in the Grain is highly recommended, and was a difficult book to write because of the case's complexity. James Lieber should be considered for a Pulitzer Prize.
Let The Truth Be Known To All.......2002-02-06
Jim Liebert gets to the truth. Dwayne Andreas and others at ADM are not kind folks. Their ties with murderer/dictator Fidel Castro are real. Their contemptuous involvement with the illegal extraction of Elian Gonzalez from freedom and his subsequent delivery to slavery in Castro's communist prison is also very real. All in the name of appeasment to Castro. These people are stench and deserve to be imprisoned, if not worse. Thank you Mr. Liebert for telling the truth.
A Tale of Two Conspiracies.......2001-05-20
Rats in the Grain is a tale of corporate criminals from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. whose price fixing conspiracy was finally exposed by a government witness working undercover for the FBI for over two and half years. The FBI tapes and documents sow ADM was involved in fixing prices, technology theft, prostitution, systematic campaign voilations and the transfer of corporate funds without the proper signatures to senior executives' overseas bank accounts to avoid taxes. ADM paid a $100 million fine and was allowed to keep the USDA business worth $85 million, which was unprecededented for a corporation who pled guilty to a criminal felony. THe second conspiracy involved ADM, the Department of Justice and ADM's lawyers working together with the media to paint a picture of Mark Whitacre, the government witness, as the real criminal. Whitacre who worked undercover for the FBI was also receiving illegal bonuses. Records show ADM was aware of this, yet the government and ADM claimed that no one except those around Whitacre were involved. The FBI agents with whom Whitacre worked while recording the crimes at ADM turned their backs on him. All the departments of government in place to administer justice for the people were administering the wishes of ADM's chairman Dwayne Andreas. ADM and the Andreases have spent millions in donations over the years. Adding that to the millions spent on lawyers clearly showed that justice was for sale. Part IV of the book the cover-up is a real eye-opener. It tells of people who sold their souls aiding and abetting in the obstruction of justice which included sending the government witness to jail at the request of ADM. Lieber's book serves notice that all is not well in the heartland and conditions are even worse in Washington.
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From 1978 through the mid-1990s, China had the fastest-growing economy in the world, and it appeared poised to dominate Asia, and beyond, in the near future. But after focusing on facts rather than theory and looking at the conditions behind the spectacular numbers, Gordon Chang presents the People's Republic as a study in wasted potential: "Peer beneath the surface, and there is a weak China, one that is in long-term decline and even on the verge of collapse. The symptoms of decay are to be seen everywhere." For a nation that has always taken a long view of history, time is quickly running out. Chang believes China has about five years to get its economy in order before it suffers a crippling financial collapse--a timeline he seriously doubts can be met.
By failing to complete its reformation, China has maintained an illusion of progress, Chang explains, but in reality has caused more problems than opportunities for would-be entrepreneurs and foreign investors. Because reform has not been fast enough or comprehensive enough, China is unable to benefit from its modernization or keep up technologically with much of the world. The government's reluctance to get rid of state-owned enterprises has not only rendered China uncompetitive just as it prepares to join the World Trade Organization, but is causing the banks--which were forced to lend money to SOEs--to fail alongside them. Widespread unemployment, corruption within the Communist party, millions of resentful peasants, and a general lack of leadership further threaten stability. The Communist party "knows how to suppress but it no longer has the power to lead," Chang writes, arguing that the party is maintaining control only through the use of brute force and the people's instinct for obedience--popular support that could deteriorate as soon as the economy plunges. Simultaneously, societal ills such as gambling, drugs, and prostitution have become huge problems.
Stuck between Communism and capitalism, "China is drifting, unwilling to go forward as fast as it must and unable to turn back." It is uncertain what will be in the way when the giant finally falls. --Shawn Carkonen
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China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society.
Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.
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According to Chang, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.
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So funny!.......2007-04-16
I knew the existance of this book for a while but never had a chance to read it. I checked it out this time to read it only for fun! Indeed, it is amusing reading it and comparing what was predicted in the book with the reality. Mr. Chang definitely had an ax to grind when he wrote this book. Don't waste your breath to argue the right or wrong of his arguments! He hates China! In fact, he could not care less about Chinese people! That is it! Period! Read it for a laugh! Don't waste your time to get serious with him!
Taiwanese speaks out against China.... how surprising..........2007-04-14
This book is a bunch of biased rubbish. Stay away!
I have never before seen or read such an entirely one-sided piece of work. It should be added that most of the premises Mr Chang's arguments are based on have been disproven by time. This book is outdated and irrelevant.
The author generalises every single "bad" event in recent Chinese history into a prediction for the future, and dismisses the obvious positives. I was surprised at first, but since finding out his father was in the inner ranks of the Taiwanese govt, this doesn't surprise me. It appears young Gordon was indoctrinated in his views early on.
Not a paragraph in the book goes by without some generalisation about how "...the ones without freedom will rise up..." "...the communist government will fail..." etc. To the point where it becomes amusing.
The best thing I can say is that I'm glad I took it out of the library and not bought it or received it as a present.
Outdated and biased........2006-04-14
This book was published in 2001. Five years have passed and there is no sign that China is about to collapse anytime soon. The author was blinded by an inability to see substantial progresses behind the gloomy numbers he one-sidedly presented.
Take human right for example, do you know that there are now hundreds of thousands of advocates fighting for the right of ordinary people in China? If these advocates exist in the past, they would have just been thrown into "reformation camp" for years. Yes, nowadays these people are still harassed, but the harassments have become more "civil". What a consolation, you may say! Well, laugh at it if you wish. What I am trying to say is that we should not use an all-or-nothing kind of attitude when we look at China. As a matter of fact, many advocates would tell you that although they are harrased, the government is listening to what they have to say, and it does make essential adjustments based on these voices. Let's face it, the Hu's and the Wen's of China are probably much smarter than Mr Chang, and I venture that they probably care much more about the well being of China than Mr. Chang or you or I. The pragmatism of the current CCP government testifies to that.
Another example is that Mr. Chang's takes (a very brief one in the last chapter) on Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiag are flatly wrong. He seems to have thought that Chen Shui Bian was a hero. But alas! Time has proved that Chen is a clown. For your information, his supporting rate has just dropped to an all time low (18%, George Bush must be happy that someone over yonder is doing much worse than he does) a few weeks ago and the pro-independence force is shrinking as the pragmatism of the now energized KMT wins over more and more rational people. As I write this review, the KMT and the CCP are holding a forum in Beijing and I have just read the excellent speeh of Lien Chan, calling for more interactions and cooperations between the two sides. Mr. Chang could not have dreamed of this in 2001. As the CCP likes to say, "the tide of history cannot be resisted." :-)
And finally, let's not buy too much into what the Falun Gong people have to say about CCP and China. Their agenda is clear: CCP is pure evil, bring it down at all cost. Well, these people are being consciously marginalized more and more by the mainstream Chinese societies in and out of China, because people do not perceive what they are doing to be beneficial to China. China (the people and the government) needs to be constructively engaged, not demonized.
Keep your eyes open, read more from Asian news medias, for they can provide a much needed counterbalance to the demonizing tendency coming from the West. It will be better if you can read Chinese, then you will get a really good balance based on which you can judge the true state of the affair yourself. If you only read the Gordon Chang's of the world, I feel sorry for you.
And by the way, forget about this book. If you really want to read it, do so with a critical attitude.
Angry soap box........2006-02-24
An intriguing and current analysis of the various socio-economic changes that China has gone through. Written from the heart, his fatalism was depressing. But, for a single-issue book it is still a worthwhile read. His premise that the Communists will be overthrown in the near future gives one hope for liberty and human rights. Yet, he spent a ponderous 300 pages trying to convince the reader. He jumps from one topic to another, is lack of a systematic approach hurt his thesis. I ended up feeling just as skeptical after I finished this book.
Life would be boring if it wasn't filled with unpredictables .......2005-08-28
As a New Yorker titled his review of Gordon G. Chang's "The Coming Collapse of China", "Doom and gloom sell." But it's even truer that books written by those who are good at changing their views back and forth between wishful thinking and Monday morning quarterbacking sell very well.
That so many people have so much at stake in China does not necessarily mean the state-of-the-art life support system will function forever because for hundreds of millions of Chinese, the wishful thinking that the current regime is a sustainable going concern is none other than the worst-case scenario.
On August 22 a China Daily article titled "Income gap critical by 2010, experts warn" reported that the Ministry of Labour and Social Security had admitted, with an unprecedented candor, that the nation will face a "red-light scenario" unless a drastic countermeasure is taken in the next few years.
And widening income gap is not the only problem facing them. Besides, we now know the Chinese leadership has almost exhausted every piecemeal measure to fix the problems Chang pointed out in his 2001 book.
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- Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Second Home: Find Your Place in the Fun (Better Homes and Gardens(R))
- Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity (Architext Series)
- Stanford University (The Campus Guide) an architectural tour
- Stanley Saitowitz: Buildings and Projects (Architecture)
- Style and Grace: African Americans at Home
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- The Blood Books, Vol. 2
- Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
- Real Art!: The Paint by Number Book & Kit
- SIGN with your BABY Complete Learning Kit: US DVD Version, Book, Training Video
- Strategies for the New Health Care Marketplace: Managing the Convergence of Consumerism & Techno
- The Greene family and its branches: From A.D. 861 to A.D. 1904
- The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City
- Silk Painting: New Ideas and Textures
- The Known World CD
Raphael Soriano
Case Study Houses: 1945-1962
California Modern: The Architecture of Craig Ellwood
Case Study Houses: 1945-1966 (Taschen Basic Architecture)
Modernism Reborn: Mid-Century American Houses
