Parks: Green Spaces in European Cities

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New parks are often created on disused industrial sites such as La Villette in Paris or Citrœn-Cevennes in Duisburg-Nord. Widely admired they are an integral part of public planning policy as they lend towns character while simultaneously fulfilling ecological and social needs and, not least, they increase the value of property and land.
This volume presents a range of examples, from the smaller town park to the larger country parks on the periphery of the city. Taken from individual issues of Topos, the examples include Tapiola in Finland, the Museums garden in Santiago de Compostela, Parc de Bercy in Paris, Park Juan Carlos I in Madrid. This selection of well-known and also lesser-known European parks will provide an informative overview of the function of green spaces in towns today

The European City And Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki And St. Petersburg, 1850-2000 (Historical Urban Studies) (Historical Urban Studies) (Historical Urban Studies)

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The European City And Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki And St. Petersburg, 1850-2000 (Historical Urban Studies) (Historical Urban Studies) (Historical Urban Studies)

Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 075465429X

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Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.

Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.

¥ Discover how easy painting with watercolor can be with 13 inspiring projects

¥ Find out what materials and colors you'll need to get started painting right away

¥ Choose your favorite subjects--from flowers, still lifes, and landscapes to animals, children, and more

¥ Follow along step-by-step to create translucent, jewel-like works of art

¥ Learn the secrets for using color to convey a range of emotions

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• Discover dozens of beautiful drawings that will motivate and inspire you

• Find out what materials you'll need to get started drawing right away

• Choose your favorite subjects--from flowers and landscapes to still lifes, people, and animals

• Create the realistic textures of shiny metal, rough wood, thick fur, and more

• Learn about basic facial proportions for portraiture

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• Discover a variety of beautiful paintings to inspire you to pick up your pastels

• Find out what different pastels and other materials you'll need to get started

• Acheive gorgeous nuances of color by painting over a bse of grays made of charcoal or pastels

• Pick up 6 helpful "tips for success" listed in a chart for handy reference

• Learn the importance of values and the basics of good composition

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Learn to paint, step-by-step!

Inside this stunning follow up to Pastel 1, artist William Schneider reveals his methods of creating realistic and accurate works of art in the pastel medium. From lifelike portraits to delightful landscapes, Pastel 2 explores a variety of subject matter as the author guides you through 12 step-by-step painting lesson. Aspiring artists will find plenty of useful tips and helpful advice for mastering this fascinating medium. And you will be amazed at how quickly you'll be creating your own masterpieces in pastel with this valuable artist's reference guide on hand!

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Great photographs and decent information

A Travel Book worth reading

two snaps up, and a full circle

Better Traveller, Better Photographer.

The Best Travel Photography Book Yet

Travel and Photography: Off the Charts
Lou Jones
Manufacturer: Focal Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0240808150

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'On assignment in Havana, Cuba, I heard music. It was across the street and far away. I couldnt track down the source. As I got closer, the echo was bouncing off the tall buildings. It was amazing. Running back and forth I eventually got someones attention. He led me on a dead run into one of Old Havanas famous condemned historical landmarks. I thought it was abandoned. Upon entering the lobby, I found it totally dark in the middle of the day. No light at all. My guide ran up the stairs with me in close pursuit. The circular staircase wound round and round. But soon I hit something. Hard. Since it was so black I had no idea the staircase was full of people. I couldnt see a thing. I panicked. But I always carry a small flashlight on my key chain. I was able to stumble safely the several flights up to the band rehearsing on the top floor. Great photographs.'

travel + PHOTOGRAPHY is loaded with beautiful photographs showing you the "how-to's" of travel photography. Herein you will find examples that will reveal the secrets, debunk the myths, and explore the romance of traveling with a camera.

Combined with anecdotes that demonstrate how to solve both typical and unique problems of camera equipment, lighting, and language barriers, this ambitious book showcases the imagination, personal vision, and the technology needed to take creative pictures around the world. Money, health, and cultural and language barriers lead to the biggest mistakes and problems for photographers while on the road, and in this book, Lou Jones offers up his years of on-the-road experience for you. Whether you are a professional photographer, or a serious amateur, this book is a must have if you travel with a camera.

* Beautifully illustrated with over 600 color photographs in a stunning landscape format
* Written in response to all the questions Lou Jones has received over the years as an American Photo Magazine trek leader
* Full of sidebars and "how I got the shot" anecdotes

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Great photographs and decent information.......2007-05-23

This past month I had a pleasure of listening to Mr. Jones lecture my photography group. His photographs and the stories behind them are fascinating. I especially liked his story about the Tobin Bridge in Boston and how he got some of his photographs in Central America.

He is an engaging lecturer and a fantastic photographer.

A Travel Book worth reading.......2007-03-20

Most travel book waste your time with discussions of the "lesser understanding", meaning too much time spent on equipment issues, and technical "how to" notes, all of which become dated almost before the book hits the stores.

This book, however, is an important exception. It's written by someone who has not only been there and done that, but has understood the context of the cultures he's visiting as well. And he gives savvy advice about a range of issues from clothing, personal safety, language (go learn one if the place is important to you!), photographing people and much more, for example. This book has more useful advice and such excellent quotes (Riboud, Frank Lloyd Wright,Twain, Bacon, Sontag) that it alone is enough to make you a real traveller if you'll just listen to its counsel. Plus he's a very fine photographer....

two snaps up, and a full circle.......2007-03-13

This book is a delight, a book that you feel fortunate to have in your hands.

And it's really more than one book - it's five books in one cover, this is how I read it.

Book 1: It's a picture book.

You can't just open it and start reading; it's just not that easy. Why? Because starting with the very first page you are greeted with Lou Jones images. Lou's pictures are more than what you first see, more than the initial point of focus. As your eyes start to move it is grabbed by another point of interest, and then another. And then you realize that what you were looking at was not a picture about one thing; it was a story about many things.

After you absorb all of the pictures on page one, curiosity has you turn the page to see if there are more to follow. Each time you turn page, you are rewarded with up to four images. And before you know it, you've reached the last page, grateful for the almost 200 pages that make up this book, and a little disappointed that you have reached the end.

Book 2: It's an instruction manual.

There are roughly 150 images in this book, some taken for his commercial clients, others taken over several Olympics, and still more taken during Lou's travels all over the globe. Along with each image you also get the how and why the images were taken, information that would interest anyone with even the slightest curiosity of photography and the photographic process.

1. Where the image was taken
2. Why Lou thought it was an image was worth capturing
3. What the conditions were (weather, lighting, etc.)
4. How the conditions were overcome (lens choice, shutter speed, tripod, etc.)
5. How the time of the day impacted the image

It's similar to watching the Food Channel; they start by showing you the most delicious food, and then give the list of ingredients followed by step by step instructions so you too can make this marvelous dish.

This is what Lou Jones does for us in this book, he shows you the possibilities, and then arms you with the knowledge to be able to evaluate a given situation and select the tools to make it work.

Book 3: It's a helping of wisdom sprinkled with a little humor.

Throughout the book you will find quotes from photographers, the Bible, and great "thinkers" that make you pause a moment to digest the words.

Here are a few of my favorite:

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" - Robert Capa

"Imagination is more important that knowledge" - Albert Einstein

"Light is an active, aggressive force" - Jay Maisel

"Photography in direct sunlight is like drinking from a fire hose" - John Sachs

"Clothes make the man, naked people have little or no influence in society" - Mark Twain

Book 4: Pearls (AKA "Yellow Boxes").

In each chapter you will find one or more "yellow boxes", highlighted areas that contain a paragraph or two, pearls of wisdom related to the chapter topic. I took it as Lou saying, "If you take only one thing from this chapter be sure this is it".

Chapter one is on equipment and the yellow box talks about the importance of a good watch, keeping track of your time zones, and the cultural impact of timeliness.

Chapter seven is about international travel and the need to do your research before you leave, that a simple thing like color can be truly important. Did you know that green is considered bad luck in England, good luck in Ireland, and absolutely sacred in Islam?

Chapter ten focuses on health. You learn why you should have your own health kit when you travel and that it should include syringes. Things that a novice traveler would give no thought to, but when you hear from an experienced traveler of what to do and why, it goes from no thought to a "no-brainer"

Book 5: The meat and potatoes.

Once you finish reading the first four "books", it's time to dig into most in-depth and detailed part of the book, the chapter content.

The first few chapters are dedicated strictly to photography. Chapters on cameras, lenses, tripods and filters. There is an entire chapter on the subject of film vs. digital and how airport security and the effect of x-rays on film is "another compelling reason to switch to digital".

The chapter on lighting that will give you an outstanding explanation of a histogram, exposure, how to use available light and the properties of light.

Then Lou moves into the important things you should, no MUST, know and do before you travel, as well as what to do and how to act when you are a guest in another country.

The subjects are covered so well and in such detail that anyone who is considering traveling internationally should seriously consider getting this book.

Lou explains the how's and why's of researching prior to leaving on your trip, covering important things to do (and not to do) with your passport, insurance and terrorism.

What about jet lag, water, food, sunburn altitude sickness and bug bites? It's covered. So is getting there and back - customs, airports, planes, trains, and automobiles.

Lou will also explain that clothing to bring and why for all weather conditions, hot, cold, and wet.

If you haven't picked up on it yet, this is one of my favorite books, the kind of book that when I lend it out I make a note of who took it, so I will be sure to get it back.

Better Traveller, Better Photographer........2007-01-13

This book is a pleasure to recommend.
It is a joy to read and lovely to look at.
Photographer Lou Jones is a keen observer,
a master of detail, and his photographs are
beautiful and strong. His enthusiasm for capturing
a 'great' photo is infectious. His portraits show his love
for people and his respect for his fellow "travellers".
Lou Jones is also a gifted writer and his anecdotes
from his travels are full of wisdom, warmth and humor.
Not least, he includes plenty of technical how-tos
and gives sage advice from his years as a successful
professional photographer.
No matter what you consider travelling, Lou Jones wants to help
you photograph the people and places that are part of your journey.

The Best Travel Photography Book Yet.......2007-01-11

As a professional travel photographer, I can unequivocally endorse Lou Jones' "Travel and Photography" as simply the best book available on the subject. It has a tremendous amount of useful information for the serious amature and the experienced professional. Although I do this for a living, I have found one useful idea after another in this wonderful volume. It has everything you could think of asking about--and more, much more. The book is actually mistitled: it should be "How to Travel--and Take Great Pictures Too", because the book really discusses photography in the context of the art of traveling--how to go to new places and really see and experience what these places have to offer. Every insight is illustrated with a story from Jones' experience, and it makes the book a pleasure to read--something much more than just a useful handbook. Jones is one of the best and most versatile photographers shooting today, and this is a must read for anyone, amature or professional, with a serious interest in travel photography.

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This book documents the changes in cultural landscapes ranging from the farm and forest lands of Europe and Eastern North America, through to the pasture lands and savannas of the Middle East and Africa to the paddylands of the Pacific Rim. The contributors illustrate them through detailed case studies of a representative selection of threatened landscapes, analyzes their underlying causes and explores ways by which they can continue to be maintained, or new landscapes created which maintain their desired characteristics.

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Can the need for incentives justify inequality? Starting from this question, Frank Vandenbroucke examines a conception of justice in which both equality and responsibility are involved. In the first part of the inquiry, which explores the implementation of that conception of justice, the justification of incentives assumes that agents make personal choices based only upon their own interests. The second part of the book challenges the idea that a normative conception of distributive justice can be based on that traditional assumption, i.e. that personal choices are not the subject matter of justice. Thus, Vandenbroucke questions the Rawlsian idea that the primary subject of a theory of justice is the basic structure of society, and not the individual conduct of its citizens. For a society to be really just, the ethos of individual conduct has to serve justice. Non-mathematical readers can skip the formal model proposed in Chapter 3 and understand the rest of the book.

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This comprehensive book presents an original reconstruction of the different interpretations of the Phillips curve. The authors demonstrate through an in-depth analysis how it is possible to find non-neoclassical foundations in the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. The debate is presented from a historical perspective which charts the evolution of the Phillips curve from a non-neoclassical perspective, taking account of Post Keynesian literature.

In the first part of the book the authors focus on the origins of the Phillips curve and they critically analyze Richard Lipsey's interpretation and approach to the Phillips curve. They then explore the neoclassical and monetarist interpretation, paying special attention to the evolution of monetarism and the Keynesian critique of this approach. The Kaleckian, Keynesian and Marxist interpretations of the Phillips trade-off are then presented. Here the authors show how the relationship between inflation, unemployment and money described in these approaches accurately reflects the fundamental features of today's capitalist economies. In the final section a new Phillips curve is constructed, taking into account the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment and the hysteresis of it.

Inflation, Unemployment and Money will be of interest to macroeconomists, post Keynesians and monetary and financial economists.

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INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MONEY. Interpretations of the Phillips Curve.
Bruno and Musella, Marco: Jossa
Manufacturer: Pan
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W2X93G

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This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available statistical data, and answers larger questions concerning the long-term growth of the countries, first in the colonial period, then in the periods characterized by planning and development, followed by the first steps toward liberalization and structural adjustment. It evaluates government policy in promoting the protection of imports and in advancing market economies. Policies employed by the oil-producing states to build new institutional structures based on near unlimited supplies of capital and labor are also examined. The Middle East economies are placed in their proper international context, and questions of colonialism and labor migration are discussed. The authors evaluate where the Middle Eastern economies are now, and speculate about how they may develop in the future.

A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century

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A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century
Roger Owen , and Sevket Pamuk
Manufacturer: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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