Architecture and Computers: Action and Reaction in the Digital Design Revolution

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Architecture and Computers: Action and Reaction in the Digital Design Revolution
James Steele
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B0000WZWOW

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Computers have revolutionized architecture, raising deep issues that are forcing a shift within the industry. This cutting-edge guide examines the pros, cons, and various aspects of using the computer in architectural design. A fascinating introduction explores the theory behind cyberspace and traces the effects that the worship of technology has had on society. Five other chapters discuss such topics as Frank Gehry's pioneering use of the catia program, first developed to design fighter planes; the backlash led by Eric Owen Moss and Moore, Ruble, Yudell; and the place of the computer in architectural education, with examples of student projects from USC's School of Architecture. Also featured are incredible projects by such industry leaders as Frank Gehry, Morphosis, Hamzah and Yeang, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, and others.

Architecture and Computers: Action and Reaction in the Digital Design Revolution

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Architecture and Computers: Action and Reaction in the Digital Design Revolution
James Steele
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1856692205

Architecture and computers : action and reaction in the digital design revolution / James Steele

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Architecture and computers : action and reaction in the digital design revolution / James Steele
James (1943-) Steele
Manufacturer: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VZW8P4

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Includes new material on orthophotography, soft photogrammetry, and digital image capture and interpretation.
* Introduces the latest non-photographic and space-based imaging platforms and sensors (Landsat, LIDAR, thermal, multispectral).
* Provides new information on elementary sampling techniques and statistics.

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An excellent academic introduction to aerial photography.......2004-08-25

This book is an outstanding, in-depth introduction to the science of aerial photography. At the outset, it must be said that this book does not tell you how to bring in, register, or project your aerial photo in a particular GIS application. What it does tell you is how that photo came about and how it might be interpreted or used. The text reads well, but does require the reader's full attention to absorb all the information.

Aerial Photography and Image Interpretation for Resource Management

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Aerial Photography and Image Interpretation for Resource Management
David P. Paine
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Photography | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0471018570

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Covers aerial photo interpretation and photo-related topics such as photogrammetry, nonphotographic image interpretation, image formation on black and white and color films, sampling, and the energy flow profile. Deals with the study, interpretation and collection of all kinds of data over large or small geographic regions at many different degrees of intensity.

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All Natural Pogo
Norman Hale
Manufacturer: Kitchen Sink Press
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Binding: Paperback

General | Drawing | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0878161503

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Pogo cranking up to full production: about 40,000 ounces of gold will be produced each year.(2006 Mining Special Section): An article from: Alaska Business Monthly
Chuck Green
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000KQF3YW
Release Date: 2006-11-17

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This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1574 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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Title: Pogo cranking up to full production: about 40,000 ounces of gold will be produced each year.(2006 Mining Special Section)
Author: Chuck Green
Publication: Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 22 Issue: 11 Page: 70(4)

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All Natural Pogo

Manufacturer: Thinkers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 9993716782

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All Natural Pogo

Manufacturer: Thinker's Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GX3KM6

All Natural Pogo: a New Interpretation of Walt Kelly's Classic Comics

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All Natural Pogo: a New Interpretation of Walt Kelly's Classic Comics
Norman Hale
Manufacturer: Thinker's Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S5K9GM

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This digital document is an article from Airguide Online, published by Thomson Gale on May 28, 2007. The length of the article is 599 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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Title: Company Watch -- Singapore Airlines.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Airguide Online (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 28, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Venture Capital in Singapore: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (Strategic Planning Series)

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Venture Capital in Singapore: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (Strategic Planning Series)
The Financial Services Research Group
Manufacturer: Icon Group International, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: 0741808374
Release Date: 2005-09-30

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The primary audience for this report is managers involved with the highest levels of the strategic planning process, and consultants who help their clients with this task. The user will not only benefit from the hundreds of hours that went into the methodology and its application, but also from its alternative perspective on strategic planning in Singapore.

This report helps executives evaluate strategic investment and entry alternatives in Singapore. In order to evaluate Singapore, Icon Group International, Inc. draws on a methodology developed by Professor Philip Parker at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. The methodology decomposes a country's strategic potential along two key dimensions: (1) latent demand, and (2) accessibility. A country may have very high latent demand, yet have low accessibility, making it a less attractive market than many smaller potential countries having higher levels of accessibility.

This report provides a strategic profile of Singapore along these lines. Throughout the discussion, literally hundreds of statistics on Singapore are benchmarked against regional and global averages. The reader can thus quickly understand where Singapore fits into the regional and global perspective. The report first investigates the economic fundamentals affecting Singapore. These fundamentals are the source for Singapore's latent demand. Then, the subsequent chapters detail Singapore's accessibility. This evaluation covers a number of entry alternatives, including export strategies, and local direct investment strategies. If a firm decides to have a local presence in Singapore, this requires a strategic understanding of local business conditions. The conditions investigated in this report include local marketing (advertising, distribution, pricing issues) and entry strategies (opening an office, joint venturing, etc.), as well as human resources management (labor laws, costs, regulations). ...

Legal aspects of unit trusts in Singapore: Essential for fund managers & financial services professionals

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Legal aspects of unit trusts in Singapore: Essential for fund managers & financial services professionals
Chiwi Lee
Manufacturer: Acumen Pub
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 981044589X

Opening Trade in Financial Services-The Chile and Singapore Examples: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, T

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Opening Trade in Financial Services-The Chile and Singapore Examples: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, T
United States
Manufacturer: Government Printing Office
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0160707854

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Michèle Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men--the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society.

Morality is at the center of these workers' worlds. They find their identity and self-worth in their ability to discipline themselves and conduct responsible but caring lives. These moral standards function as an alternative to economic definitions of success, offering them a way to maintain dignity in an out-of-reach American dreamland. But these standards also enable them to draw class boundaries toward the poor and, to a lesser extent, the upper half. Workers also draw rigid racial boundaries, with white workers placing emphasis on the "disciplined self" and blacks on the "caring self." Whites thereby often construe blacks as morally inferior because they are lazy, while blacks depict whites as domineering, uncaring, and overly disciplined.

This book also opens up a wider perspective by examining American workers in comparison with French workers, who take the poor as "part of us" and are far less critical of blacks than they are of upper-middle-class people and immigrants. By singling out different "moral offenders" in the two societies, workers reveal contrasting definitions of "cultural membership" that help us understand and challenge the forms of inequality found in both societies.

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Redundant w/predictable research.......2007-02-01

Lamont's research studies a comparison of white, male, American working-class men to their Black counterparts -- exhaustingly. Then she compares these two categories, then American workers in general, to the French working class. Basically, the French have a more sympathetic system due to their socialist/communist roots. The book's quotes are unsurprising - white American working class men look down upon their Black equivalents as a bunch of race-card-players. White working class American men beat the dead horse by quoting Protestant work ethics and "morality". I was glad when the book was over -- it felt like running on a hamster wheel.

A 20th-Century, Female deTocqueville!.......2004-01-30

In this book, LaMont asks white and black, American, working-class men about those they consider immoral and around whom they set boundaries. Eventually, she results in describing how these men conceive of race, immigration, and class in this country. She then compares these two groups with white French and North African counterparts, respectively.

This was impressive sociology and cross-cultural analysis. Lamont found a way to assess nebulous ideas like morality and show how they help to shape very concrete lived experiences like race. The author is great at juggling multifaceted identity matters, unlike most writers who can only deal with "one issue at a timie." She quotes few other scholars, so this book read quickly and would be much more accessible, even to its subject population, than other academic books.

Her analysis of black American men and North African men was very fair. Still, when she described men's lives in details, she usually referred to her white subjects. She states that neither white nor black American men think much about immigrants. However, she was studying subjects in New York and New Jersey. Things may have been quite different if she were studying California or Texas, and even she implies as much.

It's not that I like how many writer blab ad nauseum about their "positionality." However, I wish this author would have discussed herself more. In this postmodern age, most researchers have abandoned pretending they are not there and the evidence speaks for itself. She never explains whether being a woman helped or hurt in getting American and French men to open up to her. How does she know that black or Arabic men didn't say to her what they would expect that a white, class-privileged, French woman academic would want to hear? She never even explains why she limited her study only to men. This was unintentional men's studies. It's particularly shocking in that working-class American women, at least, often don't have the choice to not work. She never explains why she would even want to leave them out of the picture.

Just like her own last name, she writes French names in a surprising way. Lebleu without the B in upper case? Lheureux rather than L'Heureux? Maybe this is a new trend now that France is a member of the European Union.

I really enjoyed this book. In this country, almost everybody identifies with the middle class and this comes at the detriment to poor folk. Further, there is not enough writing about Arabic men in the West, particularly in English. So Lamont's study is a much-needed text. It would be fascinating to hear what French readers have to say about it.

Tedious.......2003-10-31

Like most of what passes as cultural sociology, this book is tedious and predictable. "Boundary-work" and so forth.

Michele Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Michele Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Dirk Jacobs
Manufacturer: Commission for Racial Equality
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DIM9A
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published by Commission for Racial Equality on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 540 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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Title: Michele Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Dirk Jacobs
Publication: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Commission for Racial Equality
Volume: 29 Issue: 2 Page: 397(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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