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The Energy-Saving House Design Handbook: Your Super Guide to Earth Sheltering, Solar Heating, and Thermal Construction
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Solar Thermal Technologies for Buildings: The State of the Art
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* First book in new BEST (Buildings, Energy and Solar Technology) Series
* Examines how solar thermal technologies can be implemented in building design to achieve the optimum of energy efficiency and thermal comfort
* Presents the collaborative work of 16 internationally recognized experts on the most current theory and practice
Solar thermal is now a proven technology in terms of reliability, cost-benefit, and low environmental impact. The integration of solar thermal systems and installations into the design of buildings can provide a clean, efficient and sustainable low-energy solution for heating and cooling, while, taken in a wider context, contributing to climate protection. This book covers the state of the art in the application of solar thermal technologies for buildings.
This is the first book in the BEST (Buildings, Energy and Solar Technology) Series. This series presents high-quality theoretical and application-oriented material on solar energy and energy-efficient technologies. Leading international experts cover the strategies and technologies that form the basis of high-performance, sustainable buildings, crucial to enhancing our built and urban environment.
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This digital document is an article from Architectural Science Review, published by University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 514 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: Advanced Solar Thermal Technologies.(Book Reviews)(Solar Thermal Technologies for Buildings--The State of the Art)(Book Review)
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Architectural Science Review (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
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Volume: 47
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Antoni Tapies at 80: February 28-March 29, 2003
Antoni Tapies
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Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo is a collaboration between VII Photo Agency, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and de.MO. Introduction by Simon Robinson, who has covered Africa for Time since 1999; foreword is by Nicolas de Torrente, executive director of MSF.
Extraordinary photographs document the crisis in eastern Congo where the death toll is the highest ever attributed to war anywhere in the world since World War II. Violence, war-related hunger, and disease continue to kill 1,000 people every day, and almost four million deaths have occurred in the past five years.
Also recorded is the response by the MSF, a medical humanitarian organization delivering aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries.
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Hard work, gentle package.......2007-02-16
The great photography aside, the book presentation is innovative but very ginger. I'm afraid of cracking the spine on this beautiful work of art every time I want to read it. The whole package is held together with a heavy-duty rubber band (cool concept) and the book itself is just bound pages. It is a keepsake that I will treasure but can't return to too many times for fear of breaking it.
The photography is not VII's best showing. Many of the images are quiet and misreable in tone. The photographers move through brothels and hospitals, measuring the awful toll of the senseless and endless war in the Congo. As far as a full panorama of the conflict goes, this misses the target. Still, if you are a fan of reportage then this book is a must.
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Charlie the Red Cat
Jim Tweedy
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Tweedy Nails It!.......2000-04-13
Jim Tweedy has hit another homer with his latest on Charlie the RedCat. The paintings and writings are hilarious, and the book is beautiful. If you have a cat, or any pet with a spicy and unique personality, you'll identify with Charlie and love this book. This guy obviously has a great sense of humor and a real gift for conveying it. END
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An Interesting Twist.......2007-05-10
In the fifth installment of the Children of the Red King series, Charlie Bone is approaching the end of his task: finding his father. However, many shocks await him and readers, including the surprising identity of Miss Chrystal, the return of the Red King painting's shadow, and Joshua Tilpin's origins, to name a few. An excellent read, especially for those who would like their eyebrows raised about a hundred times (every time they read a new surprise). Although this book is somewhat inferior to some of the others in plot( i.e. Midnight for Charlie Bone), it more than makes up for this in the way Jenny Nimmo packs action into its ink.
A Little Disipointed.......2007-05-03
I am a big Harry Potter fan, and although there are many differences between the series I loved the idea of magic. The book contains an interesting plot as do all of the Charlie Bone books (this one being the last in the series I'm figuring from how the book ends). The reading was excellent at the beginning, bringing the reader back into the life of Charlie and his evil aunts. All the animals begin to go missing and a girl in a yellow rain coat appears and tells him that something has been released. The animals have a better sense to this then human and so they ran away to the little girl's cottage. Charlie and his friends soon discover who this thing is, and that he is up to no good. However the wizard was so however that Charlie couldn't do it alone, he needs to find where the red king is. At that ladies and gentlemen is where the story goes down hill. The story is rushed, to the families without anymore twists or turns. I was happy that the story ends happily but not that it took the author a chapter to rap up a story that took 4 books to get into.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has read the other Charlie Bone books because I agree that if you have read a story this long why not read the final book no matter how rushed in complication it is. However I would advise you go to the library and read it, it's not worth wasting your money on buy it. (This coming from a 17 year olds point of view, if you or the child is younger you must disagree, maybe a speedy ending is what you like). However if you do want to read this book again, read it before you buy it!
Okay Book.......2007-02-21
In the fifth book in Jennie Nimmo's Children of the Red King series, odd things are happening in Charlie Bone's neighborhood. First there is an odd snowstorm and then all the animals disappear. Benjamin Brown, recently returned from Hong Kong, misses his dog Runner Bean and wants Charlie to help get the dog back. Charlie agrees, although he's upset that Benjamin's parents are working at Bloor Academy as spies. Charlie also has other problems. His grandmother Maisie has been frozen and he and his Uncle Paton are unable to break the spell. The Flames also warn Charlie that his mother is in danger, but it's impossible for him to watch over her while he's at school. Sure enough, Amy Bone meets the mysterious Hart Noble and begins to change. Charlie begins looking harder than ever for his missing father before his mother forgets him entirely. Charlie is going to need the help of all his friends, including new friend Naren Bloor, to make things right again.
"Charlie Bone and the Hidden King" was an okay book in an okay series. There are some nice fantasy elements such as Charlie's wand still helping him even though it's a moth and Naren's ability to do "shadow writing". The disappearance and reappearance of the animals is well done. Also interesting is how Charlie's power is growing and Manfred's development of a new power. Unfortunately, Nimmo doesn't use her own imagination enough and many elements in the book come across as Harry Potter rip-offs: there are other schools with endowed children (a dinner scene with head teachers from those schools is straight out of "The Goblet of Fire"); a map; the fact that Charlie has a wand; and there is a magic mirror. The book is awkwardly written and shifts from different the viewpoints of different characters instead of just Charlie's viewpoint. Nimmo often explains things in writing instead of showing readers through the actions of the characters. Many of the characters aren't well developed and when a teacher's secret is revealed it doesn't make the impact that it should since the teacher doesn't register as a character before that. The plot line of Benjamin's parents being spies comes to an abrupt and not very plausible end. While there is a major and quite well done twist at the end involving one of the children, the whole ending of the book feels rushed. Since this was supposed to be the last book in the series (there's another on the way), Nimmo wraps up most of the plot lines, but the plot line involving his father should have been much more developed and I found the end to that particular plot line rather flat.
Children will like "Charlie Bone and the Hidden King" and the entire Children of the Red King Series, but adults will want deeper reading.
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-02-18
At the begining of the book, I've always thought Tancred Torsson would've brought snow in his past, but I guess I was wrong. It was weird that everyone thought it was snowing too much, but when Tancred stopped bringing snow, all of his man-made snow had dissapered! There was a scary part that happened to Masie, though.
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There was a few scary parts in the book, but I think this the best book i've ever read! There are a few new people in Bloor's, their names are: Idith & Inez Branko, and Joshua Tilpin.
I bet you'll like this book inside-out!
Charlie Bone is a big hit with my son........2007-02-18
I have had my doubts about raising a kid that reads but he carried "The Hidden King" with him everywhere he went until it was finished. (My son is 14). I plan to read the whole series, too. Reading the books my son reads gives us topics for discussion and that's a great thing to have with a teenager!
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Blues guitar teachers, serious students, and blues band guitarists will all enjoy his large collection of 100% pure blues and boogie solos for guitar. Twenty-five exciting solos are presented here, each played over its own rhythm progression.
Every solo is transcribed in both standard notation and tablature, and played note for-note with a full band on the professionally recorded companion CD.
This book is for the intermediate, or better, guitarist whose interests include authentic, non-commercial blues musicthe good stuff that is seldom heard via mass-market channels such as radio and television.
Guitar teachers might use the book to introduce new hand positions, fingerings, chords, and theoretical concepts.
Each solo is made up of many interesting phrases (licks) that can be adapted and incorporated into your own style.
The solos are relatively challenging, and can be used in blues jams and on stage.
Another SUPER COOL and USEFUL music book by Larry McCabe.
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Macroeconomia - Guia de Ejercicios y Aplicaciones
Daniel Perez Enrri
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Teoria y ejercicios de macroeconomia espanola (Alianza Universidad. Textos)
Alvaro Hidalgo Vega
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Ejercicios de Introduccion a la Macroeconomia 2 E
Jimena Garcia-Pardo , and
Miguel Sebastian
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Ejercicios de Macroeconomia
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Invertir y Ganar En Bolsa Con Internet
Lorenzo Bagur
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Invertir y Ganar En La Bolsa
Patricia Crespo Sogas
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Smashing Newsletters.......2000-11-14
Thomas Bivins identifies USA Today as a model, with its colorful banner, easy-to-follow page design, full-color photographs, inviting table of contents, and short articles. As FUNDAMENTALS OF SUCCESSFUL NEWSLETTERS guidelines, the author also points to simple graphic design, with boxes, sparingly appropriate illustrations or photographs, rules, tint blocks, and no more than two typefaces, used not only for getting out an entertaining or informative or persuasive message but also decoratively as initial caps, pull quotes, and reverses. He then throws in limiting printing to two colors, with black, dark blue or dark brown giving a quality look; blue, brown, or green screening nicely as a second color; and with colored paper lending a second- or third-color look. Finally, he sees the end goal as a compatible, consistent, unified artwork all in black and white or all in color, with all formal or all informal text layout and with optically weighted sequencing from left to right and from top to bottom on each page of big to smaller, bright to muted, colorful to black and white, dark to lighter, and unusual oddly shaped to usual. It works particularly well to pool the book's information with Barbara Fanson's PRODUCING A FIRST-CLASS NEWSLETTER and Rita and Roberta Street's CREATIVE NEWSLETTERS AND ANNUAL REPORTS.
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The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry
Israel Drori
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Many Arab communities in Israel’s Galilee region are home to export-oriented textile factories, owned by multinational corporations, whose Jewish managers employ local Arab and Druse women as seamstresses and low-level work supervisors. Based on five years of ethnographic research, this book explores how these managers and workers negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work, integrating work culture with the norms and values of the host towns in order for employment arrangements to succeed.
The entrance of industrial corporations into developing areas of the world, particularly in those industries employing primarily women, has generated tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial working life. In Israel these tensions are further complicated by the social and political dynamics of Arab-Jewish conflict, as well as the strictly demarcated roles of women and men in traditional Arab society. The resolution of these tensions on the shop floor shapes the social relations of production, the factories’ management systems, family life in the industrial towns, and individual status and autonomy. The negotiation involves unequal power relations, manifested in a dual patriarchal structure: the Arab cultural practice of male domination of women as well as the formal management system of the textile concern, which dictates the nature of relationships between Jewish managers and Arab women workers.
To meet their business goals, the managers must cooperate with the community that provides their workforce, adapting its norms and appropriating its worldview. The managers are constrained by the strict social rules of Arab and Druse society, and respond by attempting to harness and manipulate local family values to foster personal commitment, furthering production goals through paternal control. The consequence of this paternalism is a workforce that relates to the organization as family, identifies with its goals, and internalizes feelings of loyalty. However, the workforce also uses the plant as the arena for developing self-awareness and enhancing personal independence and status within the family. The seamstresses emerge as active shapers of the organizational culture, forcing the managers to adapt to and comply with their personal needs and perceptions of work.
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- The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal (Asian Art and Culture)
- The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition
- The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 13501650
- Thirteen Ways: Theoretical Investigations in Architecture (Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse)
- Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor
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