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From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or "green," homes. The result: more than thirty-five residences in fifteen countries -- and nearly every conceivable natural environment -- designed by a combination of star architects and heretofore unknown practitioners.
Six different climactic zones are presented in The Green House -- waterfront, forest and mountain, tropical, desert, suburban, and urban; there is also a section on mobile dwellings. Each chapter features a series of homes that show the diversity and possibility of sustainable design. Projects are presented with large color images, plans, drawings, and an accompanying text that describes their green features and explains how they work with and in the environment.
Architects included: Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Miller/Hull, Rick Joy, Lake Flato, Kengo Kuma, Glenn Murcutt, Pugh & Scarpa, Werner Sobek, and many others.
The Green House is not only a beautiful object in its own right, but is sure to be an indispensable reference for anyone building or interested in sustainable design -- and if you ask us, that should be everyone.
Customer Reviews:
The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.......2007-07-20
Well designed and easy to use Layout on this Book for People interested in modern & green architecture. I recommend this book without any doubt. A very good source of inspiration!
Nice.......2007-06-18
Very nice book if you are interested in sustainbility and green architecture.
For architects or the coffee table.......2007-03-29
The book focuses on very modern designs, which are frequently stark or very heavy on the glass and steel. There are some ideas for creating a "greener" house, but most of the examples ignore the most basic green principle of minimizing the square footage of the house. Also, with a few exceptions, most of the examples appear to be very pricey.
Good ideas.......2007-01-12
I liked this book and I think the other reviews have summed this book up well.
Nice pictures. Not much content........2007-01-11
Has some nice pretty pictures and limited text about each property. Does cover a variety of types of housing from city buildings to country living in many different climates but not much content about each property. I was looking for more technical information which wasn't there.
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In an exploration of the inner workings of the houses in which we live, the author explains the use of space and light in Japanese homes.
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More Educational than decorative use.......2007-03-26
Bought the book thinking it would show ideas on how to decorate with Japanese furniture and art. All the pictures are in Black and White. Gives more information on "What a Japanese house is", then decorating ideas.
The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House/.......2007-03-14
What a fascinating book. I bought it because I am interested in Japanese architecture, but found so much more. The reasons and explanations of the construction gave me a deeper understanding of the people and their customs.
I liked the book so well that I bought it for my daughter, who is also a
lover of Japan.
Diana Van Vleet
The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly of Japanese Architecture.......2005-03-14
The original title in japanese was "The Japanese and the house" and that should have been the English title. Don't expect a sales-advertisement trying to sell you japanese architecture as the world's most perfect, showing you only the most perfect examples, like most books on the subject do; this book was written by a Japanese for the Japanese, so it's not trying to fool anyone. Instead, it addresses the good, the bad and the (very) ugly of Japanese architecture in the 1970s, and gives a lot of recommendations for future development. In this sense, this book feels a lot like "A Pattern Language", from Christopher Alexander.
I finished this book in a weekend. Unlike many other translated books on japanese architecture, it has a very clear language and it talks about daily life issues anyone can understand, and do it with a good (sometimes hilarious) sense of humor. It does not go high on insipid philosohpical discussions, but it really goes deep into the roots of current day virtues and vices of japanese architecture.
Don't expect color photographs, floor plans or sections; this books was not illustrated by the author, but by the editor. The original work is text-only. Even if it were to be stripped from the b/w photos it has, it is still a very entertaining book, that reads almost like a novel, and will make you learn a lot of thing about the realities and problems of Japan while having some good laughs. It's really refreshing to find a book on architecture that talks about real life needs instead of difficult-to-understand philosophical concepts.
This is great!.......2004-04-09
I am writing my own book, set in the traditional Japan. This books is a marvelous help in getting the feel of the place and period with which I am working. I don't know how I could get along without this book!
It presents its information in a clear, concise manner that is easy for me to understand, and the pictures really give you a feel not just for the house, but for the mindset of the people who live there. I recommend this book to anyone studying the Japanese culture.
An unexpected delight.......2001-11-25
I am not an architect, nor am I Japanese, but I have lived in Japan and love Japanese-style rooms. I picked this book up merely because I was interested in the topic, and thought I'd get just a dry description and maybe some floor plans. Was I wrong! This book is a delight, not merely for the content-- which is a thorough introduction to the pieces of the Japanese house and the 'why' behind them-- but also for the social comment the author makes about various facets of the lives of the people who live in these houses. Ueda's opinion comes through clearly, but that's what makes this book such a good read (his solution to the unslightly-futons-on-the-balcony problem had us in stitches, and his bad attitude toward flat roofs is a riot). He starts with the base of the house (the pillars) and works all the way out to the locks on the door. He's got a nice sense of history, and you can tell he himself is very fond of the traditional house. A delightful read!
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Classical dwelling houses in Japan
Werner Blaser
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Japan: Dwelling Houses
Werner Blaser
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Demand for sawn timber in new dwelling construction: Japan, 1980-2000 (UDD report)
R. A Harris
Manufacturer: New Zealand Forest Service, Utilisation Development Division
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The Japanese dwelling-house
Koji Fujii
Manufacturer: Meiji Shobo
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Edward Weston (1886-1958) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century photography. An exponent of straight photography', Weston was committed to making photographs free from technical tricks and incoherent emotionalism' which were able to capture the essence of the subject. His series of self-portraits, nudes, landscapes and close-up still-lifes defined modernist photography in their formal elegance, simplicity and abstraction. The first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937, Weston is among the most influential figures in the history of photography.
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Beautiful B&W.......2006-11-06
Amy Conger has produced a beautiful collection of Weston's photos, selected form about 25 years of his work. As the title suggests, most of these are wonderful figure studies. The remaining few are still-lifes or landscapes. Many of these, like the shells p.48, pepper p.69, or radish p.74 present the same curves and compositions as his nudes.
In part, these help to bring out a geometric contrast that seemed to fascinate Weston: the merger of flowing curves of figure with harsher, angular geometries. One (p.70) creates a square frame of crossed arms containing the roundness of the model's breasts. Others show the elegant gawkiness of knees and elbows (p.75, 91), or the columnar architecture (p.77) of the body's supporting members. Two photos (pp. 102, 103) present a generously rounded black model, coincidentally named Weston - just enough to leave me hoping for more, in contrast to Weston's more common work with slender, light-skinned women.
Although I enjoy this book immensely, one thing about it baffles me. For some reason, Conger's publisher chose to use the same format and cover photo (Nude, Bertha Wardell) as a much earlier book by Charis Wilson - something that could easily fool potential readers into mistaking one for the other. It's not that Conger was unaware of Wilson's book, in fact Conger notes it in her bibliography. I guess I'll never know.
Or need to. It's a great collection anyway. Conger's brief biographical note at the beginning (echoed in Spanish at the end) was helpful, but the pictures truly speak for themselves.
//wiredweird
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What's so funny about a library? Just about everything, as you'll find out in Library Mascot Cage Match, the third Unshelved collection. In addition to a year's worth of comic strips featuring library mascots duking it out and the return of the masked mystery man known only as "the Shusher," LMCM features the all-new full-color graphic novelette Empire County Strikes Back. Can Mallville's librarians defeat the mother of all bookmobiles?
Customer Reviews:
So Funny You'd Be Shushed in a Library for Laughing Out Loud.......2007-07-06
If you like books, you should make Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum's daily comic strip Unshelved, available at [..], a must-read. When I was perusing their books at Book Expo, I asked, "But why would I need it in book format if I can read it online?" Well, I have to say, having sped through all four volumes, that while I'm now a subscriber, their books are so much fun. My favorite is Library Mascot Cage Match, mainly for the absurdity of a library even having a mascot, let alone two duking it out.
It's hard to pick who my favorite character is. They each have their often wry charm, and I might just have to say Merv, the precocious student always hanging around the very kid-like librarian Dewey. The authors manage to cover everything from reading habits to technology to relationships with spot-on, laugh-out-loud humor, and it's often just a short phrase that provides the zinger. The constant struggle between the Mallville Library staff's desire to help their customers (even the one wearing a "Say `No' To Libraries" t-shirt) and outwit them is perpetually amusing. With the addition of the full-color Empire County Strikes Back mini section, where the staff have to try to defeat a bookmobile, Barnes & Ambaum really outdo themselves. My only complaint is that this book is so fun it was over way too quickly.
happy camper.......2007-02-11
I am certainly pleased with my order. It arrived in timely fashion and in good shape
Unshelved Rocks.......2006-09-29
The strips where Dewey introduces his grandmother to the young woman who keeps trying to date Dewey are really funny. Although the strips with Dewey and his gambling-addicted grandmother are my personal favorites, I also like the color section on "Empire County Strikes Back" about the competition from the bookmobile. The whole book is entertaining. I have all four Unshelved books and keep at least two on the coffee table.
Another hit from Ambaum and Barnes.......2006-09-10
The crazy antics at the Mallville Public Library continue apace in the 3rd year of "Unshelved." The characters really continue to grow in this collection, so that the dramatic tension (such as it is in three panels) is interesting, while the workplace humor is so hauntingly familiar. I've heard librarians rave about the humor, but just like you don't need to be an engineer to like Dilbert, the weird patrons and stressed out employees are the same people you meet and interact with every day, regardless of where you work.
"Empire County Strikes Back" is a great bonus feature, a full-color mini-comic. In ways that are more reminiscent of 1984 and Dick Cheney than Star Wars, it tells the story of a super-automated bookmobile that threatens to steal all the patrons from Mallville's library. I won't give away the ending, but I will say it would fit well in another sci-fi classic--Star Trek.
Buy this book. Heck, buy all four books while these guys remain relatively undiscovered. You can impress all your friends at cocktail parties in 2010 when you say you read "Unshelved" back before they sold out.
Not Just for Librarians.......2006-08-18
I shared my copies of all the Unshelved collection with my 22 year old son and he enjoyed the humor as much as I do. He really liked the references to RPG and movies he likes. Please give these books a try, they are all great!
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Beatrice Paolucci: Shaping Destiny through Everyday Life
Margaret M Bubolz
Manufacturer: Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society [distributor]
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This book tells the story of Beatrice Paolucci: teacher, family scholar, visionary, family member, and friend. She was born to an Italian American family in a small mining town in Illinois. Beatrice Paolucci had infantile paralysis before she could walk, at a time when there was no vaccine and treatment was limited. But she did not consider herself handicapped. She became a distinguished faculty member at Michigan State University and an international leader in family study and home economics (now family and consumer sciences). Beatrice Paolucci was a pacesetter in viewing the family as an integral part of the human ecosystem. She pointed out that, collectively, everyday activities and decisions in the family have a large impact on environmental resources. Families also create human and social capital, thereby helping to shape human destiny.
This book will be of interest to those concerned with women's roles, changes in contemporary families, preservation of the environment, and the quality of life.
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Eric Lindros: High-Flying Center (Sports Achievers Biographies)
Jeff Savage
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Warm, encouraging advice for baby's first months and for mother's recovery.
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The author examines both Russian and rebel tactics and operations in those battles, focusing on how and why the combatants' approaches changed over time.
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An examination of the difficulties faced by the Russian military in planningand carrying out urban operations in Chechnya.Russian and rebel military forces fought to control the Chechen city ofGrozny in the winters of 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, as well as clashing insmaller towns and villages. The author examines both Russian and rebeltactics and operations in those battles, focusing on how and why thecombatants' approaches changed over time. The study concludes that whilethe Russian military was able to significantly improve its ability to carryout a number of key tasks in the five-year interval between the wars, otherimportant missions--particularly in the urban realm--were ignored, largelyin the belief that the urban mission could be avoided. This consciousdecision not to prepare for a most stressful battlefield met withdevastating results, a lesson the United States would be well served tostudy.
Customer Reviews:
Desperately needed learning for counterinsurgency.......2006-09-07
An excellant and well-researched case study in urban guerrilla warfare. The study begins with the Russian attempt to take Grozny in the first Chechen war drawing attention to the failure in Russian intelligence and planning for the resistance that would be met there. At the same time, deficiencies in the plans and organization of the Russian army are never used to diminish the tenacity and innovative tactics of the Chechen guerrillas. At times the beurecratic baggage of the Russian forces were their worst enemies. At other times it was their own technological advantage that led to failure. After the first Chechen war and the shakey peace, the book picks up with the battle for Grozny in the second Chechen war along with lessons learned and forgotten from the first. The study is well-written and researched without the political slant toward either side. The lessons learned are drawn from the Russian experience insofar as it covers the classic problems of a large, technologically advantaged force in an urban counterinsurgency. It is a study in how the stronger force is almost always perceived as the evil Goliath of a modern-day David and Goliath struggle. Goliath's military success too often results in political gain for David in such a struggle. Successful counterinsurgency requires a paradigm shift that many armies seem incapable of accomplishing. This brilliant work will go far to help us better understand the nature of counterinsurgency but paticularly in the urban environment likely to become more common in the wars to come.
Used by marines in Iraq.......2004-11-12
I haven't read this book, but saw it mentioned in an artical about Marines who stormed Falluja 11/2004. The officer there made his subordinates read it, among all else to underscore the need for troops to cover the armored vehicles while storming a city.
How To Lose the PR War.......2003-06-05
This book is a very workman like review of the war, not a personal memoir, but a just the facts kind of book. The author examines the two different combat periods during this civil war and basically runs down all the mistakes and pretty horrible things that the Russian military did. The book gives the reader a good idea of the difficulties any military operation would face in an inter city fight against gorilla or paramilitary troops. It is not a pretty picture. In a slight way you almost feel sorry for the difficulties faced by the Russian military but then you turn the page and the author details out the leveling of an apartment block or set of houses by artillery just to get one sniper and you sober up rather fast. I also found the details of the tactics used by the Russian forces to be an interesting detail given that the majority of the wars the US has been in over the past 30 years have been fought by militaries trained, supplied or controlled by the USSR / Russia. It gives you a better feel for how a Baghdad street fight might have played out.
The authors take the view that about the only area the Russians did worse then protecting innocent civilians is in the area of public relations. The first mistake the Russians made was that they let the press loss with the troops for the first time ever. The Russian military has always been closed and controlled so when the rains are dropped you can only imagine the time of headline grabbing stories were sent back from the front lines. Well the Russians figures out that they were starting to look bad in the world press so they went about mistake number two - a complete shutdown of the press. Well the press did not much care for this and turned it into the next biggest story out of the war. Basically the Russians did nothing correct on the public relations front. Overall the book is interesting and gives the reader a view a story that is not very well known.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the contemporary European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past. Ben-Ghiat shows that--at a time of fears over the erosion of national and social identities--Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions. She demonstrates that although the regime largely failed in its attempts to remake Italians as paragons of a distinctly fascist model of mass society, twenty years of fascism did alter the landscape of Italian cultural life. Among younger intellectuals in particular, the dictatorship left a legacy of practices and attitudes that often continued under different political rubrics after 1945.
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Meteorology: Observing, Understanding, and Predicting Weather
Rosemary Dickinson
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- The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (The Real Goods Solar Living Book)
- The Luminous Ground: The Nature of Order, Book 4
- The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design
- The New Cottage Home: A Tour of Unique American Dwellings
- The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options (Chelsea Green Guides for Homeowners)
- The New Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically Sound Home
- The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Columbia Books of Architecture)
- The Timber-Frame Home: Design Construction Finishing
- The Ultimate Book of Home Plans
- The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods
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