An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy

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An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy
James Steele
Manufacturer: Whitney Library of Design
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Binding: Paperback

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Decent introduction to the man, his work.......2003-04-02

This is a Thames and Hudson coffee table book: readable text, good photography, lucid groundplans, and the binding is strong. Hassan Fathy's most available major text is Architecture for the Poor (Univ. of Chicago Press). Here is an excerpt from a brief article in Al-Ahram Weekly (19-25 Dec 2002, Issue 617) written to coincide with a recent Fathy retrospective in Cairo:

"As American architect James Steele writes in his book An Architect for the People (1997), the standard work on Fathy, by "defining tradition as 'the social analogy of personal habit', Fathy intimated that it is the responsibility of each architect to develop a heightened awareness of such habits, and to incorporate them sympathetically into each design... [Fathy's] determined attempt to reawaken a sense of cultural pride among his countrymen, and to make them more aware of their rich architectural heritage," has led "many young people [to become] more informed about Islamic architecture in the mediaeval part of Cairo."

"This new awareness is no longer confined to Egypt alone, as Fathy's name has now become associated with the re-establishment of architectural tradition throughout the developing world," Steele writes. In addition, Fathy's early emphases on appropriate technologies, on local materials and construction techniques and on social co-operation chime with contemporary, environmentally conscious architecture, in which architects have tried to work with the environment instead of changing it, exploring the renewed use of traditional materials and techniques and having a more modest understanding of their social and cultural roles.

For Steele, "rather than believing that people could be behaviourally conditioned by architectural space, Fathy felt that human beings, nature and architecture should coexist in harmonious balance. For him, architecture was a communal art that should reflect the personal habits and traditions of a community rather than reforming or eradicating them. While he was certainly not opposed to innovation, he felt that technology should be subservient to social values, and appropriate to popular needs, ... [prefiguring] the current ethos of sustainability."

desert architecture of Egypt.......2000-05-24

A beautiful development from vernacular desert architecture, Hassan Fathy is an architect that developed the concepts and solutions of desert architecture to a new era using traditional materials coolers and shapes a natural advance from old Egyptian knowledge to modern and simple solutions for the villagers on the Nile, seeing his work is inspiring to reach far with the most simple and traditional forms

An Architecture for People : The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy

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An Architecture for People : The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy
James Steele
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLTUGU

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This special issue of Esopus is devoted to the creative process, for which a wide range of contributors was invited to offer up the "evidence" of their working methods. Contents include writer Frank Rich's notes for a recent New York Times op-ed column; production designer Ther0se Deprez's scrapbook from the making of Spike Lee's 1999 film Summer of Sam and 22 drafts of a poem by Suji Kwock Kim. Artist Sylvia Plimack Mangold provides a glimpse of the painstaking process of creating an etching and aquatint; and underground comedian Demetri Martin hands over pages from one of his joke journals. Artist Xylor Jane created a "Calendar Clock" removable poster, and reveals its formula in the issue. Esteemed mathematician John Conway supplies readers with his unique template--and also the materials--for assembling one of his favorite polyhedra. Colter Jacobsen chose eight photographs from over 80 submitted by Esopus subscribers, and then used them as inspiration for a series of "memory drawing" (one copied directly from its source, the others drawn from memory afterward). Also included: late author Christopher Isherwood's fascinating (and never-before-published) work journals for his celebrated 1964 novel, A Single Man, and, in closing, a portfolio of riveting drawings by Samuel Varkovitzky (1898-1987), a Jewish banker who survived the Nazi occupation of Ukraine by posing as a traveling artist. For the No. 6 CD, Help Wanted, Esopus asked 10 musicians to scour job listings and write a song inspired by one of them. Contributors include Devendra Banhart, Grizzly Bear and Marissa Nadler.

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* Market-specific to financial services * CD Rom providing KAM analysis software, and access to further support. * Practical tools, both in the text and the CD-ROM Building on the success of Peter Cheverton's generic book, Key Account Management, (now in its third edition), Key Account Management in Financial Services follows a broadly similar structure but is aimed at sales and marketing people in the financial services (FS) sector. Designed for practitioners and managers responsible for implementation, the focus is on "making it happen," using real examples to illustrate tools and models, and to highlight success and failure. The book takes the readers through a developing process of understanding, analysis, planning, implementation, and performance monitoring, matching the development over time of their own plans. It is intended to be used as a "before, during, and after" guide to practical implementation. Targeted narrowly on financial services, the book addresses the changing environment and the new imperatives for KAM -- the rising cost of sales, regulatory bodies, globalization of customers, new customer organizations; the buying process in Financial Services; "Competitor Replacement Strategies," a particular feature of the FS market. Also included are a much expanded section on E-commerce and the Internet, and one on the management of non Key Accounts, vital to the success of any KAM strategy in these markets

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A Solid Effort!.......2005-05-25

Editor Peter Cheverton is a guru of KAM, and this book somewhat modifies and tailors his basic KAM approach to fit the needs of the financial services industry. The tailoring is slight, mainly a matter of streamlining the style, although that is welcome. One brief but very useful section discusses the importance of dealing with and through intermediaries. In fact, many financial services vendors work through intermediaries, distributing their products or services through banks, insurance companies, mutual fund companies or others. Cheverton and his co-editors, Tim Hughes, Bryan Foss and Merlin Stone, usefully point out that it is important not to consider the intermediary as the customer. Instead, the vendor should look through the intermediary to the final user and assist the intermediary in developing an offering that suits the needs and preferences of that end user. People who have read Cheverton's "Key Account Management" will learn little new here, but we believe that those who have not - particularly those in the financial services sector - will benefit from this shorter, easier book.

Key Account Management in Financial Services

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Key Account Management in Financial Services
PETER CHEVERTON, BRYAN FOSS, TIM HUGHES, MERLIN STONE
Manufacturer: Kogan Page, Limited
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Binding: Hardcover
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Key Account Management in Financial Services; Tools and Techniques for Building Strong Relationships With Major Clients. (CD-rom Included).

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Key Account Management in Financial Services; Tools and Techniques for Building Strong Relationships With Major Clients. (CD-rom Included).
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Success can be yours with Zig Ziglar's Sell Your Way To The Top!
Learn from America's sales mentor

Drawing on his own proven selling strategies that build successful sales careers, mega-bestselling author Zig Ziglar (Goals, How To Get What You Want) tells you how to turn every no into a yes and improve your prospecting, overcome price objections, and close more deals with finesse and style.

Combining vivid scenarios and crystal clear instructions, Ziglar will motivate you to reach your peak as a sales star. You'll learn how to add the personal touch to client relations making you more effective than ever at demonstrating the need for your product or service. With these important skills, you'll become a word merchant who paints verbal pictures that capture your client's full attention.

More than a guide to closing one single sale, Sell Your Way To The Top will help you open the door to a profitable sales career -- because no one can teach you how to make your sales percentages skyrocket like Zig Ziglar can.

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Zig is an excellent presenter.......2002-07-23

An Excellent and easy listen. I've listened to my casettes over and over - his tips are simple and very useful, his analogies clear and very humerous. All in all - very well worth having.

Doesn't do much!.......2002-07-16

Maybe good enough when you need a quick pep talk. Hardly anything new or interesting. Don't waste your money.

Zig gets me going!.......2002-04-25

Im in my 5th year selling housewares at Macys and I sometimes turn to Zig before I go to work to help remind me of what Im supposed to be doing at work--selling! I recomend the tapes for anyone considering a sales career or actually in a sales career.
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Easy to listen to.......2002-01-19

This tape kept my interest and made me laugh while giving me great sales tips. As a salesperson I found it motivating.

zig is cheesy but effective.......2000-11-17

When i started listening to the book my first thought was that this guy is an absolute cheese ball. but then i was taken back... i realized while his examples were all cheesy, they proved to be effective examples... they give you an idea of what you should do at that point in the sale... while i dont recomend using his lines, i do recomend this book, and understanding the points he is making with his cheesy lines...

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Sell Your Way To The Top

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Rise and shine: drifted into a sales slump? It's time to wake up and sell your way back to the top.: An article from: Entrepreneur

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Rise and shine: drifted into a sales slump? It's time to wake up and sell your way back to the top.: An article from: Entrepreneur
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This digital document is an article from Entrepreneur, published by Entrepreneur Media, Inc. on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 758 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Barry Farber
Publication: Entrepreneur (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
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Sell Your Way to the Top

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Sell Your Way To The Top 6 AUDIO CASSETTE SET

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Sell Your Way To The Top 6 AUDIO CASSETTE SET
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How to Sell Your Way Through Life : The Principles of Psychology Upon Which All Master Salesmanship is Based. How to sell Your Personal Services at Top Notch Prices

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How to Sell Your Way Through Life : The Principles of Psychology Upon Which All Master Salesmanship is Based. How to sell Your Personal Services at Top Notch Prices
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How to Sell Your Way Through Life : The Principles of Psychology Upon Which All Master Salesmanship is Based. How to Sell Your Personal Services at Top Notch Prices
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How to sell your way through life: The principles of psychology upon which all master salesmanship is based : how to sell your personal services at top ... of dollars than any other man who ever lived
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It could have been better...

Encouraging lessons from an entrepreneur veteran

Superb handbook for avoiding startup company mistakes!

Start Up: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching and Managing a New Business
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It could have been better..........2007-07-16

This book absolutely delivers what it claimed to, although I am not sure that is enough. As a young entrepreneur in the third year of a new business endeavor, I began reading this book expecting to discover the life-changing secrets to turning a small one-man business into a start up company. My disappointment with the book stems from issues of style and readability (rather than actual content). In fact, let me state from the start that the author knows his content. As the book advertises, William Stolze is very capable of describing the pitfalls that young entrepreneurs encounter. If you can make it through the book, you may just learn something. That is a big if...

The latest edition of the book promises fresh content authored by folks with specific expertise that Stolze lacks. It is apparent that Stolze merely adds fresh content every few years without reexamining the existing text. It is like adding fresh lettuce to a wilting salad. You will get a little crunch, but can't help but taste the wilted pages of the former editions. For the sixth edition, I suggest handing the content over to a writing partner who can take Stolze's ideas and make them palatable for mass consumption.

Stylistically speaking, the font is dreadful. It feels extrememly dated and makes the text harder to read. I kept asking myself. "Is this information relevant?" It was, of course, I just wasn't very convinced. Another style issue that bothered me is Stolze's use of Chapters. With 55 chapters in 225 pages, without a strong organizational theme, I felt unsure of where the book was going (or where I had been). Short chapters can be refreshing when reading fiction that follows a traditional linear sequence. However, for an informational text, I expected something that I could highlight and return to as needed. Surely Stolze could have outlined his content before writing the book. Look at the Table of Contents for yourself. Not much of a road map.

I wanted to give the book 5 stars, but I can't. Instead Stolze gets four stars for content, but only two for how he conveys that content. Good content, but it could have been better.

Encouraging lessons from an entrepreneur veteran.......1999-01-15

Many of the startup books I've read lately are dry and cautious. While not very technical, I enjoyed this one because of its encouraging narrative, basic lessons and many real-life examples. As a veteran of four startups myself, I am continuously amazed at how most problems encountered in startups arise from very basic sources that should have been taken care of on day one and are obvious to everyone except those involved. Stolze has the good sense to document such basic ideas as "Pick a leader from day one" or "Know something about your potential market before launching a company." This is a good text to remind you of basics and also provides encouragement for those who may be initially afraid of taking the risks necessary to create their own startup.

Superb handbook for avoiding startup company mistakes!.......1996-05-30

This book provides an excellent road map for the budding entrepreneur. While the author clearly sets out rules of the road for success, he also is very forthright in describing the main pitfalls for a startup company.

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