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Bar Style charts the glamorous design renaissance of hotel bars and members' clubs and the way their cutting-edge interiors have helped forge a new social culture. Until recently dominated by sexless corporate design and traditional stuffiness, hotel and members bars have responded to a backlash against homogeneity and are now the playground for innovative designers, sophisticated celebrities, and ultra-cool urbanites.
The revolution in 'exclusive' bars began with the birth of the Groucho and Ian Schrager's boutique hotels. There is now a stunning range of intimate, ground-breaking bars -- even within traditional hotels -- that offer the fashion-savvy, post-club generation somewhere to see and be seen. The designs of Starck, Collins, Jiricna, Conran and Chipperfield rise above the zeitgeist, providing interiors of great beauty, style, and wit.
Join author Howard Watson in an examination of bars from the UK, USA, Australia, Europe, and Asia and of the designs of Starck, Collins, Jiricna, Conran, and Chipperfield. Each bar study is accompanied by high quality images and a full description, summing up the design, ambience, and clientele.
Bar Style is a great source of information and inspiration for your own projects. Order your copy today.
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American Heritage: Feb 1968 Vol 19 No. 2
Catton
Manufacturer: American Herirage Publishing Co
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Some articles are: Gunmaker to the World with a portfolio of paintings by George Catlin- The 1948 Election-Incident on the Isthmus and many more
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- What ever happened to draftsmanship?
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American Illustration 19
Manufacturer: Amilus Inc
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ASIN: 1886212147 |
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Each year American Illustration presents the most creative and dynamic illustrations by some of the world's most talented artists. Volume 19 brings us over 350 images selected by a jury of creative professionals, and proves that the field of illustration continues to progress in terms of artistic intelligence, stylistic diversity, and aesthetic beauty. Both established and up-and-coming artists are featured, including Marshall Arisman, Juliette Borda, Brian Cronin, Peter de Seve, Al Hirschfield, Brad Holland, Anita Kunz, James McMullan, Edward Sorel and Art Spiegelman. Art directors and designers look to American Illustration for today's most talented illustrators, and this catalogue is a must for those interested in visually stimulating and thought-provoking art.
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What ever happened to draftsmanship?.......2002-01-12
This book has become my favorite doorstop. In the old days, out of necessity, some use could be gotten from old catalogs and phonebooks in the outhouse. This tome doesn't even have that value. In between a few good illustrations by the likes of Brad Holland you will find pages and pages of talentless dreck. Is this what is coming out of our art schools? What ever happened to draftsmanship?
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Clyde Butcher: Portfolio I, Florida Landscapes" is a celebration of the secret side of the Sunshine State. Landscape photographer Butcher, has made a career of fine art photography for almost 40 years and is considered one of world's finest landscape photographers. Butcher, 63, shoots only in black and white. He uses old fashioned view cameras, some built in the early 1900s. These cameras can weigh up to 60 pounds and have film sizes as large as 12 by 20 inches. Butcher's dramatic use of light and his ability to capture nature's own masterpieces make his photographs powerful tributes to a vanishing land. He shows the Florida I would like the cynics to see.
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Excellent sampling and introduction to Mr. Butcher's work........1999-01-15
Mr.Butcher is a local artist here in Miami, and his work is stunning in its scale and detail. His use of large format cameras allows him to create an image that literally engulfs the viewer. If you have the chance to see a show of his, absolutely go and stand in front of his images. You'll swear you are in the everglades! His work is reasonably priced as well. He is truely a credit to his art and to the community,as he has a sincere desire to raise awareness of the environmental issues of the everglades. In short, buy the book.
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become 'objects' and therefore 'propertized', and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations?Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property and what is happening to it in the contemporary world, in case studies ranging from Romania to Kazakhstan, Africa to North America. The book examines not only the changing character of the property concept, but also its ideological foundations and political usages. Authors address bio-transactions, music copyright, cyberspace, oil prospecting, debates over privatization of land and factories, and dilemmas arising with new forms of ownership of businesses.Offering a fresh perspective on contemporary economic transformation, this volume is a long overdue investigation of the power of the 'private property' concept, as well as an exploration of how the global economy may be subtly, even invisibly, changing what 'property' means and how we relate to it.
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Game Equilibrium Models III: Strategic Bargaining
Manufacturer: Springer
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The four volumes of
Game Equilibrium Models present applications of non-cooperative game theory. Problems of strategic interaction arising in biology, economics, political science and the social sciences in general are treated in 42 papers on a wide variety of subjects. Internationally known authors with backgrounds in various disciplines have contributed original research. The reader finds innovative modelling combined with advanced methods of analysis. The four volumes are the outcome of a research year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Bielefeld. The close interaction of an international interdisciplinary group of researchers has produced an unusual collection of remarkable results of great interest for everybody who wants to be informed on the scope, potential, and future direction of work in applied game theory. Volume III
Strategic Bargaining contains ten papers on game equilibrium models of bargaining. All these contributions look at bargaining situations as non-cooperative games. General models of two-person and n-person bargaining are explored.
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This is a doctoral dissertation. Most theories of ethnic conflict explain ethnic war by reference to the factors that motivate and enable ethnic groups to rebel. To rebel is to rise up against or challenge government authority; but for war to be the outcome of a challenge the government must attempt to forcefully reassert its authority. A signaling model is used to explain both why ethnic groups challenge government authority, and under what circumstances this leads to war. The model is tested on a new data set covering 653 ethnic groups and 67 challenges to government authority, 1990-1998. The data includes all ethnic groups in the Minorities at Risk data set, plus an additional 370 groups to control for potential sampling bias.
The signaling model depicts escalation as a bargaining process. The intuition is that through a process of self-selection less resolute actors tend to drop out earlier in the game, while more resolute actors stay in. The consequences are sometimes counterintuitive. The findings show that smaller ethnic groups are less likely to challenge their governments than are larger groups, but when smaller groups do challenge they are more likely to end up in a war. The results also show that groups scoring higher on indicators of discontent are more likely to challenge, but surprisingly these groups are not more likely to end up in war when they challenge. These and similar findings which hold across a range of specifications clearly demonstrate the selection effects implied by the signaling model.
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Political Bargaining: Theory, Practice and Process (SAGE Politics Texts series)
Gideon Doron , and
Itai Sened
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This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights to modern political science. The authors trace the prevalence of bargaining processes in politics from the abstract level of individual human interaction and the `state of natureÆ to the more concrete political or institutionalized level. They introduce students to theory -- the basic models of game theory, rational choice theory and positivist approaches; practice -- the practical manifestations of political bargaining in everyday national and international political life; and process -- its setting, the interests of the players involved, the conditions and properties that affect their calculations and, consequently, their ability to obtain desired outcomes. Political Bargaining provides students with the basic tools for learning about and participating in politics today by richly illustrating how the authoritative allocation of scarce resources is arrived at through a complex bargaining process between competing interests in society. It will be essential reading for student and lecturer alike across political science and the social sciences more widely.
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Theories of the bargaining process
Alan Coddington
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ASIN: B0006BTRNO |
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First published in 1968
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10 Minute Guide to Working With Financial Advisors (10 Minute Guides)
Barbara Wagner , and
Barbara Hetzer
Manufacturer: Alpha Books
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The African American Job Seeker's Guide to Successful Employment: Employment Skills for the 21st Century
Rebecca Enyia
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Complete with Checklists, Self-Evaluation Worksheets, Goal Setting Charts, Sample Resumes, and Winning Cover letters, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOB SEEKER’S GUIDE will teach you everything you need to know about: How to find and Keep a Job, How to Set Goals for your Career Moves, How to Make Money and Be Successful; How to Network for a Job – who to ask, what to say and how to follow up, How to Be the Best in Your Job and How to Take Action.
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- A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary.
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How to Start a Business in West Virginia (Smartstart Series (Entrepreneur Press).)
Entrepreneur Press
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ASIN: 1932156380 |
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This series covers the federal, state, and local regulations imposed on small businesses, with concise, friendly and up-to-the-minute advice on each critical step of starting your own business.
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A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary........2007-01-02
This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can't do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.
I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be "educated customers" ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.
My favorite chapters were:
1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business' structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need
The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don't treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn't. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.
I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.
Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.
I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can't complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.
When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars!
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