Second Home: Find Your Place in the Fun (Better Homes and Gardens(R))

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The first book of its kind for second home owners and buyers.

Book-of-the-Month Club Feature Selection.

Second-home options, from lake houses to cabins in the woods.

Guides readers on selecting house site suited to their needs.

Remodeling and decorating ideas to make home functional.

Furnishings and home plan source list.

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Gorgeous Idea Book for a Second Home.......2007-04-05

What a visual feast this is! The summer porches, the relaxed living rooms, the arched windows featuring an ocean view or framing the forest. I wanted to move right into one of these second homes now.
Although it makes an effort at helping you with decision making (what's your style, crowds vs solitude, how near/how far?), it's strength is showing samples of individual homes. These vignettes tell how it's used, challenges they faced and show off the home's spaces and views in large colorful photos.
Great browsing if you just want to dream or inspiring ideas to copy in your own second home (or even the first one). Most of the decorating styles featured lean more to relaxed contemporary or touches of country and shabby chic.

Wow!!!! This is my favorite book!.......2006-07-19

I read every book about Interior Design, second homes, country homes and cottages. I have read and reread this beautiful book. It is absolutly wonderful! Enjoy!

Simple, Ordinary Decorating.......2006-04-28

The homes and interiors all look ordinary, in simple, few decorations. I didn't get any interesting new ideas from most of these photos. I mainly saw different building styles and wood colors. At least 50% of them look just like first homes, I just couldn't tell any difference.

For interiors (furniture) Not Interiors (space).......2003-05-12

This book is a decent resource for a person furnishing their first or second home, but it's not a good manual for creating your second home. The photograph angles capture walls, windows, and furnishings, but fail to show the quality of the living space. There are very few exterior photographs and many of them appear to be from the 3/4 angle. There are no floor plans or building details. If you're looking for interior decorating ideas, this is a decent reference. If you're looking for creative planning ideas for building your first or second home, you'll want a more comprehensive reference.

Like a little vacation.......2003-01-07

Getting this book for Christmas was a blessing. Just opening it is like taking a vacation. Sumptuous photos are a delight. Practical information is included as well.

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With his spiritually-inclined philosophy and his decision to establish his career in rural Pennsylvania, Japanese-American furniture designer George Nakashima has always existed within a mythology of craftsmanship that celebrates regionalism and the handmade. Yet, as this catalogue shows, he also belongs within the practice of mid-century European modernism, amongst a roster of artists including Charlotte Perriand, Carlo Mollino, Jean Prouve, Alexandre Noll, and Finn Juhl, with whom he shared a respect for that which is visible in the details. Details, as they all knew, reveal a belief that materials and construction are not only functional, but are also aesthetic, complex, and precise.

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Perhaps no nation has been so thoroughly shaped by its dreams as has America, and perhaps no other dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. From an unknown photographer's picture of newborn George B. Billings Rego, scion of an immigrant Portuguese family and the first child ever born at Boston Long Wharf, to Lewis Hine's wrenching image of a young cotton mill worker in Georgia, to Alfred Stieglitz's awesome New York cityscapes, the photographs collected here reveal the multiple facets of 100 of the most decisive years of American development. Between 1840 and 1940, immigrants became homeowners, untouched lands exploded in superhuman industrial growth, tourists replaced pioneers, and the American metropolis grew taller and shinier--and the camera caught it all.

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Providing adequate, accessible, and affordable housing is a major problem affecting many African countries. Focusing on the West African country of Ghana, Konadu-Agyemang explores the urban housing question in light of current development theories. He concludes that it would be naive to see Ghana's housing crisis primarily as a result of political instability or economic mismanagement. Instead, the author argues that economic and social problems in Africa are products of the structural distortions created by colonialism and the draining of African resources to European countries. The postcolonial continuation of relations of dependency has led to underdevelopment, which is manifested in malformed urban areas characterized by housing shortages, slum environments, and atrophied infrastructures. Konadu-Agyemang concludes that affordable housing in Ghana will only occur with the implementation of policies aimed at decreasing Ghana's dependence on imported building materials and standards. Solutions to the housing crisis in Ghana require remedies to both the internal constraints that impede development and the inequities in the global economy that foster dependency and neo-colonialism.

Modern Residential Financing Methods: Tools of the Trade

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Modern Residential Financing Methods: Tools of the Trade
Stephen R. Mettling , and Gerald R. Cortesi
Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing
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ASIN: 088462885X

Winners And Losers: Home Ownership In Modern Britain

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Winners And Losers: Home Ownership In Modern Britain
Christo Hamnett
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 1857283341

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Establishing an Effective, Modern Framework for Export Controls: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate

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Establishing an Effective, Modern Framework for Export Controls: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0756731003

The Modern Economics of Housing: A Guide to Theory and Policy for Finance and Real Estate Professionals

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The Modern Economics of Housing: A Guide to Theory and Policy for Finance and Real Estate Professionals
Randall Johnston Pozdena
Manufacturer: Quorum Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0899302319

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In recent years, the U.S. housing market has been characterized by rapid changes in housing prices, quality, and availability. This handbook is a highly readable examination of the various theories that have been advanced to explain the economic behavior of today's housing market. Emphasis is put on developing an understanding of the sophisticated economics underlying the market, thus enabling the reader to carry this knowledge over into a rapidly changing marketplace. The book begins with a brief look at the historical development of U.S. housing markets and government intervention in these markets. The study goes on to develop a conceptual framework that can be used to evaluate the effects of the economic environment and government policy on the housing market. Throughout the book, real-world data is employed to verify and illustrate the major points of the presentation.

Modern Industrial Cities: History, Policy, and Survival (SAGE Focus Editions)

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Modern Industrial Cities: History, Policy, and Survival (SAGE Focus Editions)
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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ASIN: 0803917600

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Social scientists and planners frequently ignore historical findings. Conversely, urban historians may fail to consider work in other disciplines or the needs of planners. Designed to bridge these gaps, Modern Industrial Cities brings together prominent urbanists, historians, sociologists, planners, economists, political scientists, geographers, and policy-makers from throughout the US and Europe. Provocative interdisciplinary essays cast new light on essential issues of urban history -- and its critical implications for policy-making.

'...it is a fascinating volume, filled with passing insights into both policy and historiography. The Commentary following each section is particularly useful, as well as are the introductory comments by Stave. This book is highly recommended for all urban geographers interested in contemplating the 'whys' behind the distribution of cities and the location of people within metropolitan areas.' -- Urban Geography, Vol 4 No 1, 1983

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This clear, lucid and richly illustrated study, based on a formidable amount of new archival research, explores the physical transformation of Edinburgh in the nineteenth century. Richard Rodger's powerful book shows how landowners, builders and investors pursued their own agendas and in doing so reshaped the Victorian towns and cities that the twentieth century inherited. Historians--whether political, urban, economic, social or legal--will find challenging new insights here, which have a resonance far beyond the confines of one city.

Housing - Iran: A socio-economic and architectural survey together with proposals for self-help housing which combine traditional skills with modern technology ... local and or readily available materials

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Housing - Iran: A socio-economic and architectural survey together with proposals for self-help housing which combine traditional skills with modern technology ... local and or readily available materials
Syed N Sibtain
Manufacturer: Faculty of Architecture New South Wales Institute of Technology
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Housing education curriculum for tenants who move from substandard housing to modern rent supplement or public housing

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Housing education curriculum for tenants who move from substandard housing to modern rent supplement or public housing
Mary Wallace Crocker
Manufacturer: Mississippi State University, Curriculum Coordinating Unit for Vocational-Technical Education
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This book examines the notion of "free trade" and the issues raised by adopting the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Essays by Ralph Nader, Jerry Brown, William Greider, Margaret Atwood, Mark Ritchie, Wendell Berry, Pat Choate, and others.

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Laissez-Faire-Fairy.......2006-05-17

The case against free trade written by 19 objective essays is the real consequense of free trade.This book will give you all you need to stop free trade by voting out those who support it.Published 1993 it still is the essense,CAFTA has been added,but is it under review.Fast tracting is suppose to be stopped will it be.

It has been disclosed by rumor that the fairy is a Rat in disquise.This has not been substantiated by our source,but we will keep an open mind.

Free trade in nothing but a monopoly which is international.The coporat want Democratic socailism for them but not for you.They fix prices,they make all countries to play under same rules.They reduce the food standard,milk for babies in all countries will be the same,and this is endless and we will go to hell.The world will be the same all third world.Think.

We are living in historic times if we do not take america back in 2006,2008 we will no longer have a nation HR4437.Without guts you will cease to exist Free trade and immigration will break our nation,never to be fixed again.Our death for the lack of guts.Are we going to let old men and women make the last stand,and then deny we are responsible.Are we that corrupt??????? And weak????????...................................

The following is for morons eyes only.GATT General agreement on teriff and trade.NAFTA North american free trade agreement.New CAFTA Central american free trade agreement.Fast tract.Page 53 The fast tract approval process limits congress ability to scrutinize and modify trade agreements.Thus under fast tract procedure no impliment to the implimenting legislation or the trade agreement are permitted,debate in either house is limited to not more than 20 hours,and a floor vote must be taken within 60 to 90 days of the submission of the agreement to congress.In other words,the implimenting legislation must be adopted by yes or no vote within60 to 90 days legislative days of it submission by the president.Will it be repeal.What kind of congress would allow this.?????????????

Page 1 The forture 200's GATT and NAFTA would make the air you breath dirtier and the water you drink more polluted.It would cost jobs,depress wages levels,and make work place less safe.It would destroy family farms and undermine cosumer protections such as those ensuring that the food you eat is not compromised by unsanitary conditions or higher levels of pesticides and perservatives.

Page164 One reason for the decline of grain farming was the importation of grain into Rome from the rich grain lands of sicily and EgyptIn sicily these grain land lands had been appropriated by rich men and scheming politicians who farm them with slave labor.As a result the markets of Rome were flooded with cheap grain.Grain became so cheap that the farmers who still owned small pieces of land could not get enough money for the grain they raised to support their familes and pay their taxes.They were forced to to turn their farms over to rich landowners.On the land of Italy slave gangs working under overseers took the place of the old Roman farmer,the very backbone of the state,etc EMINENT DOMAIN,DEPRESSION,POPULACE MOVEMENT US 1930ties and before.Federal Reserve UNCONSTITUTIONAL .Recession ,depression.inflation,International Bankers they are the fairy
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CURRENCY Manipulation,FIAT money,WORTHLESS.GOLD who controls it.
Devaluation of the coin,etc.Shares,bonds, mutual funds,a JOKE on you it is taking you down with cridit cards included yes,yes,yes.Have you seen the light MORON vote them out.DEFICIT,INTEREST RATE MORON.COMPOUNDED FOREVER ROME again.

One hundred people cannot compete with one 1,000 people on a equal basis.China and India will eat us alive until we are no more.A child can understand the equation.You cannot have equal trading,if you do, you go down the tubes.Like immigration they will kill us as a nation and all of the western world.France is more DEMOCRATIC than US.Strong UNIONS,REAGAN took them out in U.S. along with his coporat friends,and supporters.Cheap labor SHEEP,brainwished,the computer mind cannot think BRAINWASHED.NO wonder the MORONS are DIStracted, computer high tec gratification,no outside world.Canot analylize,or otherwise.This is what your education has done along with the FAIRY,you cannot think just like a ROBOT MORON

Free trade and population go together over population,Profit for excess population, and power by reducing power of individual.Devalue the individual,and make him a slave,no representation.Over population is the greatest threat to mankind.Yes global warming,necleur War is with us also.The more sheep you have the more profit you make,but at a point there are to many, over production,so you have a war or bird flu to reduce and distract them from voting,or you create fear of some evil attact,You say they are not democratic if they do not play your game.30 percent live by these ends,but pretend to be true americans, they wear flags on their coats,and other places were the sun does not shine.They love us.TAKE AMERICA BACK,VOTE THEM OUT.The sellout on free trade,immigration.TAKE AMERICA BACK.

The supreme court,senate congress,electric voting,not accountable.Congress has allowed the country to become totally corrupt.It has not enforced the law of the U.S.How can you forgive them.If they do not get their act together and vote right vote them out,out,out,send them to the moon the alians are waiting,mars too.

Democratic socialism as in France would be a good start. The international bankers,and other coporat hate FRANCE,WHY.????????

WE no the NWO is at hand,no nations, just slaves.War,death,over population,hunger,Fear,class struggle,greed,hate,DECEPTION this is the good life for desert NUCLEUR WAR,for oil,and international bankers.OIL,OIL,OIL= alternative energy.There is no energy shortage.

Free trade traidors, VW BUG PEOPLES CAR 1930s 35 40 miles per gallion.Today 25 miles per gallion adverage.The cause of suffering is luxury.We do not conserve,we do not know how,brainwashed.A 1960 a 12 year high shool degree exceeds a BA in Reading,writing and arithmetic,and many other subjects.Over population degrades the system and the quality of life.IQ reduced because of less quality.

In conclusion do not let any professor tell you you should not debate the subject and discuss in class the pro and con of a subject.If he does he is not educating you ,but BRAINWAShing you out of fear.You know they are affraid of the truth,and want to undermind the american people.Have them investigated for TREASON.Who are they serving,they are double talkers and liars.They are in all the universities.Think in black and white not color that is how they have confuse you.Take your universities back.Know your history and be proud,Have manatory physical education,all exercise,technology is not the essense of life.We need to turn back in education,and culture before JFK was killed by you know who,not Oswald MORON,MORon.You do not even know you are a amoron,stupid too.No U.S.History Charles Beard,good luck.You are being cheated and do not know it moron MORON.????????????????????????????????????????.

Take care of our nation first-no immigration until every american has a job and ,decent standard of living.Free medical and car insurance for all americam citizens.Regulated coporations that pay tax along with the rich and upper classes.The middle class is dying,the poor have no benefits,no draft army,the brave are being killed for the worthless coporat FAIRY stop this deception,throw out the congress we are invested with adictive greed,corruption that equqls that of ROME.CREDIT cards what a rip off you a slave forever,congress let it happen along with their coporat faries.Liberty or death.

Compelling, for unusual reasons.......2004-05-17

The proponents of free trade have had at their disposal a convincing and, often times, quite believable theory to describe the way that the world functions. As a liberal, I have frequently wanted to reject all the theoretical underpinnings of free trade. I've spent many hours trying to fill their theory with holes. At the same time, as an economics major and free thinker, it's just not been tenable for me to disregard modern economic theory. There are no alternatives that could take the theory's place in effectiveness, or in accuracy. In sum, I picked up this book at a time when what I wanted to believe did not gel with what I was compelled to believe, academically.
This book does not explicitly offer a "third way" that could substitute for capitalism or socialism. And as might be expected, the authors make a big deal out of the bad things that come with economic liberalism. The "Race to The Bottom" is mentioned quite often. In this sense, there's not much new here. Read Soros, Stiglitz, Greider, or even Wallerstien - you'll find a lot of the same thing.
What is unique about this book, and why I am giving it five stars, is that the book added a new dimension to the context of my discontent with the current "system." More exactly: the alternative theory that could come out of this book pales to liberalism; much of the liberal thought about economics has to do with values, and it not often as compelling as the official theory; and while this book emphasizes values to a great deal (state sovereignty, for example) it tends to emphasize values that are much more axiomatic. For example: The authors describe how the specifics of NAFTA were not made readily and directly available to the public; and even once they were, the document was so convoluted and inaccessible that hardly anyone bothered to read it.
This example (there are many others) is useful to me because it does not necessitate e a conflict with liberalism. In other words: It may be true that free trade works best. I don't want to believe that, I am compelled nevertheless to believe that, but no matter what I believe about free trade, I am positive that trade agreements should be made available to the public (quickly, cheaply, and in a language that can be understood). Values are still involved. But the answers to the "value questions" are answered axiomatically, for most of us. This book is unique and valuable (no pun) for the reason that it criticizes free trade in a way that (1) the criticism will either be accepted or rejected immediately, and (2) the criticism is not contradictory, and may be useful, to the liberalist's theory that has been so difficult to dethrone.

It'll Change your Mind.......2000-11-30

This is an excellent book written by some of the leading authorities on NAFTA and GATT (Including Ralph Nader). Each "chapter" written by a different person is short and to the point. You can read as much or as little as you want, without feeling the need to finish the chapter. This book WILL make you sweat with anger at points. It is an excellent read.

Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power

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Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power
Ralph; Grider, William, et al Nader
Manufacturer: Earth Island
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000X680LW

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