Mobile Homes by Famous Architects

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Once again, as he did in his groundbreaking Outhouses by Famous Architects, Steve Schaecher pays homage to a cultural icon: the mobile home. With erudite text, he describes the history of moveable homes, from the time of the ancient Egyptians to today's travel-bound tourists. In all, Schaecher treats us to twenty-nine architectural creations. He has all the greats here, with homes "by" Wright, Pei, Mies van der Rohe, Greene and Greene, Le Corbusier, Graves, and more.

Steve Schaecher, a practicing architect, is attracted to the whimsical side of his profession. He believes that architecture is becoming a lost art, diminished by the fast pace of technological change and the lawsuit-conscious construction industry. His focus is on entertaining the masses while also providing some education about the field.

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Not what I was looking for.......2006-08-21

I am interested in making a customized RV, and have been finding books on what others have done. This book is a spoof of famous structures, drawn on wheels - and NOT a book on making Vardos, or custom campers and RVs. Not recommended. I returned it immediately.

Mobile Homes by Famous Architects 2004 Calendar

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Mobile Homes by Famous Architects 2004 Calendar
Steve Schaecher
Manufacturer: Pomegranate (Cal)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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Everyone knows someone who loves shoes. Ranging from practical to fantastic, and from haute couture to everday style, this thirteen-month calendar will bring out the shoe lover in everyone. Included are pumps, flats, platforms, and stilettos in a fabulous range of designs and materials that showcase the incredible beauty and variety of these pedestrian objects. All shoes are part of the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Includes shoes from such renowned designers as Roger Vivier, Salvatore Ferragamo, and John Fleuvog.

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In this volume, Ryoga teams up with Ukyo, goes on a date with Akane, and meets his long-lost fiancée. Meanwhile, Ranma and Akane both swallow "love pills" supposed to make them fall for the first person they see.

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The cute fiancee..........2005-10-11

Ever since arriving at Tokyo, Ranma Saotome's love life has been way too complex. But in the eighth volume of Rumiko Takahashi's "Ranma 1/2," things get even worse for the teenage martial artist -- he now has three fiancees and a newly-cursed rival to deal with.

A mysterious young man, Ukyo, thrashes Ranma's dad and threatens to do the same to Ranma. Ukyo is a childhood pal of Ranma's, now a master okonomiyaki chef (sort of between a pancake and a pizza). But he seems angry at Ranma, for reasons Ranma doesn't understand and soon challenges him to a duel. It ends with Ranma and Akane discovering a shocking connection to Ukyo: "He" is really a girl, and Ranma's fiance....

As if this weren't uncomfortable enough for Ranma, Ryoga soon arrives and tries to throttle Ranma for having another fiancee when he also has Akane. Ukyo clues in that Ryoga likes Akane; to get Ranma all for herself, she sets up a date between the bashful Ryoga and clueless Akane. Problem is, Ranma soon shows up as Ryoga's "long lost fiancee..."

There's no fun in the sun for the Ranma gang, when Ranma sets ancient martial-artists Cologne and Happosai on a date. Turns out Happosai raided the Amazon village a hundred years ago, and stole a valuable heirloom... which has three love pills embedded in it. And now Akane has accidently swallowed the "life" one. And finally, a trip to the circus reunites the gang with Mousse, who now has a Jusenkyo curse of his own... and a new grudge against Ranma.

Ranma doesn't even need to turn into a girl to have romantic complications -- he has enough of them just as a boy. The eighth volume tallies his fiancee count up to three, with poor Ranma not responsible for any of the engagements.

There's plenty of goofy humour in this one, everything from legally blind Mousse kidnapping a stuffed pig to Ryoga almost making out with the disguised Ranma. But it ends on a taut cliffhanger, with Mousse about to turn the captive Akane into a duck, so he can trap Ranma. Somebody get that boy a therapist.

This volume also introduces Ukyo Kuonji, a girl who has been living as a boy for ten years. Ukyo is also Akane's biggest rival: Not only does she have a longer acquaintance with Ranma, but she's also tough, blunt, pretty, a good cook, and far wilier than the brutally ditzy Shampoo. And poor Ryoga gets his feelings played with once again.

One of Rumiko Takahashi's most memorable characters makes her debut in the eighth volume of "Ranma 1/2," bringing even more romantic turmoil in her wake. And it gets even worse...

Funny book, even aside from Ukyo.......2004-03-08

Volume 8(originally vol. 9-10 in Japan) introduces Ukyo Kuonji, an old friend from Ranma's past. As our story progresses, we learn of her engagement to Ranma, and it's soon renewed afterwards, thus leading to Ranma gaining his "cute" fiancee as she's called. Now, if you want me to be honest, I do not like Ukyo. In fact, you could go as far as to say that I hate her. Which is probably why the scene where Ranma pours the hot water over her is my favorite in this. But that's just me. After the her introduction, we go to a few other stories, including her setting up a date between Ryoga and Akane, which is the funniest one(particuarly Ranma and Ryoga's battle at the beginning, it's hilarious), Happosai getting ahold of some love pills that will make anyone who swallows them fall in love with the first person of the opposite gender they see, and the second best in the group, Mousse's return in the series, and as of now he's cursed to turn into a duck when he gets splashed into cold water. That alone has some funny moments, escpecially Mousse's "fight," with a monkey that he mistakes for Ranma. So all in all, another solid volume of Ranma 1/2.

First Okonomiyaki, love pills and now duck water--Ow nooo.......2003-06-01

This book is grate, and its so funny. It starts off by a guy named Ukyo trying to beat up Ranma but to Raman's surprise Ukyo turns out to be a girl and another one of his many fiancée's--go finger. Oh well, if that wasn't enough Akane and Ranma swallowed love pills, but which one has Akane swallowed the Day pill which makes fall in love with the first guy she sees for a day or the life-time pill which you guessed it, would make her fall in love with the first guy she sees for her life-time . Oh well, then you got Ryoga's and Akane's big date, yay. Last but not least well Ranma stop mousse before he sprays Akane with water from the legendary spring of the drowned duck!!!!---read it and find out

Martial Arts Okonomiyaki..........2003-05-30

...now I've seen it all. (Of course, knowing Takahashi, there is probably a LOT more that is stranger than this!) Ukyo Kuonji was a childhood friend of Ranma's, but when he left for China, Ukyo wanted revenge. Armed with flour bombs, deep dish glue, rubber yakisoba noodles, and a human-size (literally) spatula, Ukyo tracks down Ranma and changes him to a fight on a ring surrounded by a hot plate.

But Ukyo is hiding something, and there is something else that Genma Saotome forget to mention to his son...

And Ryoga gets a fiancee!

Okonomiyaki Ukyo rules!.......2003-04-05

By this point in the series, we have seen many bizarre types of martial arts. Ryoga fights with an incredibly heavy umbrella, Azusa and Sanzenin fight and figure skate at the same time, Kodachi uses the tools of rhythmic gymnastics to beat up her opponents, and who could forget the take out race? Well, here's another one to add to the list--fighting with Japanese pizza!

Yep, you heard me. Ukyo Kuonji fights with a special batter that acts like glue, and rubber yakisoba noodles that wind around the opponent, and tempura flakes mixed with gunpowder, and flour bombs. The preferred weapon is a giant spatula, which stands taller than a person, although Ukyo also uses small spatulas almost like ninja stars.

More proof that the mind of Rumiko Takahashi must be a very interesting place!

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Very funny!.......2005-08-25

Maybe it's that I am cat dependant or maybe it's that I hate self help books but I found this book a riot. I read it one sitting!

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Cat Dependent No More!

Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HYVCYC

Cat-dependent No More - Learning To Live Cat-free In A Cat-filled World

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Cat-dependent No More - Learning To Live Cat-free In A Cat-filled World
Jeff, 'dr.' Reid
Manufacturer: Fawcett Columbine
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JZLCH6

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Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." focuses on a classic by one of America's greatest silent film geniuses, whose films still delight and amaze audiences worldwide. The essays included in this volume, written specially for this edition, examine this film within the context of Keaton's career, and also offer new perspectives on its unusual production history, Keaton's vaudeville background, and the differing views of "masculinity" that both celebrate and poke fun at cinema itself, among other topics.

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Analysis of Keaton Few and Far Between Boring Summaries.......2005-10-06

The other one-star reviews of this work were right on. It is, for lack of a better word, terrible. Various authors offer surprisingly similar takes on Buster Keaton's classic silent film, 'Sherlock Jr.' Unfortunately, these essays refrain from any deep analysis of the film (or other Keaton films for that matter) and instead choose to summarize, over and over again, the film across 191 excruciatingly boring pages. Avoid this book at all cost. Many, many other, better books analyze Keaton, his films, and his career better than this one, which fails miserably.

You're being too harsh!.......2000-07-25

I don't think this book is bad at all! It has a lot of interesting things to say about Sherlock, Jr. I really think the past two reviewers were way too harsh!

They made Buster Keaton boring........1999-10-14

Read the other one star review. It was being kind

Worst sort of academic writing.......1999-09-25

Please, please, please avoid this book. If it was possible to give it NO stars, I would have done so. It is the most turgid academic bilge I have read in years. Why is there so much drivel written about Keaton? You are better off searching out David Robinson's KEATON, the best critial analysis of his films. Check this out on OOP booksearches instead; it probably costs the same as this wretched book and it is at least worth it.

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SHERLOCK JR. AND OUR HOSPITALITY
BUSTER KEATON
Manufacturer: KING
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000W9POKU

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Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr (Ost)
Club Foot Orchestra Cdrstn 3
Manufacturer: RASTASCAN RECORDS
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 6309058630

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"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked--indeed, I often wonder myself--why it is that I should always have had such joie de vivre in the face of the losses and dislocations I had to endure in my early years. The answer I always gave was that the warmth and security of my early childhood had a remarkable power and influence. This is certainly true. But now I have realized that there is another part to the answer. And that is music."--from the introduction

Who among us does not have a song that triggers vivid memories--of jubilation, of belonging, of sorrow, of love? In Musically Speaking, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, one of America's most beloved personalities, has written a warm and contemplative book about the role music has played in her life and the ineradicable traces it has left on her thoughts, emotions, her very being.

In this memoir through song, Dr. Ruth invites us to share her story from a uniquely musical perspective. By the time she was thirty, Ruth Westheimer had lived in five countries, each with a distinctive musical culture, each with a different hold on her sensibility. For the first ten years of her life, the comforting melodies of childhood helped drown out the anthems of Nazism to be heard elsewhere in her native Germany; as an adolescent refugee in Switzerland, she came to be aware that, however loudly she sang the patriotic songs of the land that gave her shelter, she could never truly be at home there.

Present at the creation of the modern state of Israel, she sang and danced to the new music of a new nation; as a young woman eagerly absorbing all that Paris had to offer in the way of romance and worldliness in the early 1950s, the songs of Edith Piaf, Mouloudji, and Yves Montand were her tutors. An almost accidental emigration to America brought new challenges and new stability, as she became a wife, mother, and professional; tremendous and unforeseen celebrity came later, and with it the giddy opportunity to indulge her love of music as never before.

Always, the classical repertoire of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms has drawn Westheimer to a German culture that has belonged--and not belonged--to her throughout her life. And always, the music of the Jewish tradition has given her strength and comfort beyond words.

Affording a view of Dr. Ruth from a rare private vantage point, Musically Speaking offers wondrous testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. This is a book full of color, verve, humor, and wisdom, unfolding gracefully through the beloved music of the Jewish holidays, the lullabies of childhood, the songs that sustained an orphan and roused the courage of a young woman, the melodies that enable a widow grieving for her husband to recall, from deep within the years of love, companionship, and happiness.

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Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song
Ruth K. Westheimer
Manufacturer: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NHVND8

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Practical decoration for the outdoor room--beautiful inspirational effects to transform your terrace and garden.

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These creative off-the-shelf activities will spark children's thinking skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing. Busy teachers wanting to shake up their lessons will find them indispensable. Includes:
· Problem-solving: creative and critical thinking; emotional thinking; questioning skills and plan-do-review formats
· Clear explanation of underpinning theory
· Advice on differentiating activities
· Links to the National Literacy Strategy Framework

Keys to Effective Learning: Developing Powerful Habits of Mind (5th Edition)

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Keys to Effective Learning: Developing Powerful Habits of Mind (5th Edition)
Carol Carter , Joyce Bishop , Judy Block , and Sarah Kravits
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0132295407

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This book focuses on developing effective learning techniques to help readers excel in school, in their careers, and throughout their lives as lifelong learners. Unlike traditional study skills books, this one emphasizes how people learn effectively by involving them in the active process of mastering their mental abilities and their personal confidence. The authors outline getting ready to learn through self-awareness, goal setting and time management, as well as, critical and creative thinking, targeting success in school through reading and studying, listening and memory, taking notes and test taking, quantitative learning, researching and writing, gathering and communicating ideas, as well as, creating life success. For individuals interested in effective learning techniques.

Key Geography: New Foundations: Thinking and Learning Skills (Key Geography for Key Stage 3)

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Key Geography: New Foundations: Thinking and Learning Skills (Key Geography for Key Stage 3)
Grant Westoby
Manufacturer: Nelson Thornes
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Key Geography: New Interactions: Thinking and Learning Skills

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Key Geography: New Interactions: Thinking and Learning Skills
Grant Westoby
Manufacturer: Nelson Thornes
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Keys to Thinking and Learning
Carol Carter , Joyce Bishop , Sarah Kravits , Sarah Lyman Kravits , and Judy Block
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0130869104

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This book is designed to facilitate students' understanding of how they think and to enhance their power to apply their thinking ability. Through the application of critical thinking to study skills and life skills topics, readers will increase their ability to understand how their minds work and to maximize their achievement. Readers will learn how to apply problem solving, decision making, and logical reasoning processes to all aspects of their lives. Emphasis on personal action and responsibility encourages students to make well-considered choices and to be responsible for the consequences, helping them to avoid unexamined responses to people and situations. Critical thinking is consistently applied to college, career and life situations. For anyone who is or who knows a college student.

The radio-orbicular (spider-web) process of thought: Based on a new philosophy of equal compensation discovered by A.A. Braun : the master-key to universal knowledge, achievement, wisdom and morality

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The radio-orbicular (spider-web) process of thought: Based on a new philosophy of equal compensation discovered by A.A. Braun : the master-key to universal knowledge, achievement, wisdom and morality
Adolphe Armand Braun
Manufacturer: Published for the Postal University by Grafton & Co
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Thinking Voices (National Oracy Project)

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Thinking Voices (National Oracy Project)

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Key Geography: New Connections: Thinking and Learning Skills (Key Geography)

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Keys to Lifelong Learning: Episode 7 : Critical Thinking

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Keys to Lifelong Learning: Episode 7 : Critical Thinking
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KEYS TO THINKING & LEARNING
Carol Carter
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ASIN: B000OIQ7NM

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