306090 06: Shifting Infrastructures (306090)

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306090 06: Shifting Infrastructures (306090)
Patricia Acevedo-Ryker , and Jeremi Sudol
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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This new journal, fast becoming a staple in the architectural community, aims to revitalize, reform, and rebuild the profession by showcasing the work of promising students, young designers, and innovative educational institutions. Each volume addresses a pressing architectural issue and offers diverse, cross-disciplinary solutions in the form of projects, ideas, buildings, and other media.

306090 06: Shifting Infrastructures focuses on the influence of communication systems, data and material distribution, and other new technologies on existing physical and cultural infrastructures. The volume includes work from AUDC, Daniella Fabricius, Gnuform, Emily Eastman, Designlab, and others.

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From the pounding surf to the interior of a fisherman's hut, coastal scenes provide infinite inspiration and drama for beginning and advanced artists. In Create Dramatic Coastal Scenes in Watercolor, award-winning artist Carlton Plummer teaches artists how to capture the elements of the coast to make a dynamic watercolor. Readers will learn how to utilize the keys to drama--lighting, scale, value patterns, color, and more--so they can add intensity to their paintings.

Plummer also shows how to use technical and intuitive thinking when portraying subjects, and how to accurately paint tidal pools and the surf, lobstermen and clam diggers, and other elements of coastal life.

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Outstanding book, but not for beginners........2007-09-13

This book is not a beginners watercolor technique book. It is more for the advanced watercolorist to understand design methods to create drama in a painting, but beginners can certainly benefit from all the information in this book and be inspired by the stunning and dramatic coastal scenes that Mr. Plummer teaches through his many demonstrations and explanations of how to create drama and excitement in painting coastal scenes in watercolor.

Mr. Plummer teaches and demonstrates about things that can add drama to a painting such as using light, exagerating shadows, adding warm color on a generally cool scene, using analagous colors on the color wheel to create continuity, connecting shapes, deciding tonal values, etc.. He breaks the coastal elements into such things as sky, surf, calm water, reflections, rocks, ledges and beaches, vegetation, boats, and buildings.

It's an absolutely stunning book and each painting is certainly filled with enormous energy through the use of design methods that Carlton Plummer teaches and demonstrates in this book. I'm somewhat a beginner, but I love this book even though it would be more helpful to me if I were a bit more advanced. Anyone with an interest in watercolor can enjoy this beautiful book.

Create Dramatic Coastal Scenes in Watercolor.......2007-07-11

A must have book if you like to paint marine paintings or even paint in watercolor. Who better then Carlton Plummer to show the artist ways to paint the coast in watercolor? This book is full of a life time of helpfull information and great paintings to put the artist on the track to feeling the texture of marine life in watercolor.

great book.......2006-07-06

i received this as a gift from my son. not for a beginner, but great instructional techniques. a book chocked full of fabulous paintings and demos. i cant put it down. just makes you want to paint maine scenes!

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It was truly an adventure to travel to Japan in the second half of the 19th century, loaded with unwieldy and heavy photographic equipment. From their Yokohama studios, the pioneers of photography in Japan, Felice Beato and Adolpho Farsari, exported unfamiliar and remarkable pictures to Europe, giving the West an idea of what life was like in ancient Japan. Their Japanese pupils established a new professional group: Images of "ancient" Japan were produced specifically for the Western public, staged in studios, later hand-colored and compiled in richly ornamented lacquer albums.

This book documents not only a unique chapter of the history of photography, but also provides insights about the way European and, later, Japanese photographers staged their image of Japan in accordance with Western expectations.

The 90 photographs of the March Collection published in this volume, many of which are being made available to the public for the first time ever, depict the vanished feudal Japan in a way unique both in its historical meaning and in its aesthetic appearance. They include rare works by Felice Beato and Adolpho Farsari and numerous pictures by their Japanese followers Ueno Hikoma, Kusabe Kinbei, Tamamura Kihei, and Ogawa Kazume. Through intensive research, it was for the first time possible to attribute several works to the artists.

Claudia Delank is a specialist in East Asian Art, teaches at various German universities, and has researched and published on early Japanese photography.

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"Manga meets film noir" in this popular collection of the official comic adaptation of the Cartoon Network hit. The residents of Paradigm City have all lost their memory, leaving them to reconstruct their culture. A seductive blonde lures Roger Smith, secret vigilante pilot of the giant robot The Big O, out onto the foggy ocean to encounter a ghost fleet from the past. A killer that could be man or machine resumes its hit contract from 40 years ago. A journalist delves too deep into mysteries of the city's catacombs. These are some of the strange stories of Paradigm City.

The Big O Lost memory [Magazine ZKC] Vol. 2 (Ze Biggu O Rosuto Memori) (in Japanese)

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The Big O Lost memory [Magazine ZKC] Vol. 2 (Ze Biggu O Rosuto Memori) (in Japanese)
Ariga
Manufacturer: Kodansha
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ASIN: 406349151X

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Priscilla Buckley is probably best known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal, National Review, founded in the 1950s by her brother William F. Buckley Jr. But in String of Pearls we meet a different Priscilla -- young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, anxious for the next step up from the college paper to "real" journalism. There she is, in her proper wool suit, her cashmere sweater and her string of pearls, notebook at the ready, United Press Radio News Department's fledgling employee. The war in Europe was winding to its close. Buckley found the atmosphere in UP's New York offices a heady one, where the journalists worked furiously but found time to play practical jokes, stage mock battles on the newsroom floor, and treasure the funny stories that haste and tension engender.Young Priscilla fit right in; she made friends, wrote copy for the reporters to read on the air ("keep the sentences short!"), and found the life fun and sometimes hilarious, demanding, sometimes heartbreaking, and always vibrant. The author was pleased a few years later to be offered a job at the Paris Bureau of the United Press.The young writer who had spent some of her girlhood years living in pre-war France with her parents and her numerous siblings found a different Paris at war's end; scars of the prolonged occupation were everywhere.It was a poignant time, but Priscilla and her friends found laughter and comic misadventures as well, and she shares them with us, along with varied characters gathered at United Press at the time. Buckley's stay in Paris was cut short by a summons from brother Bill: would she be interested in working with him on the new magazine he was starting?Thus ended her UP days, and thus began a new and glowing journalistic career. The book has charming illustrations by the author's niece, Lee Buckley, and an afterword by her brother William F. Buckley Jr. AUTHORBIO: Priscilla L. Buckley was managing editor of National Review for 27 years, and retired last year as senior editor. She lives in Sharon, Connecticut and continues to write.

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Young Priscilla Buckley, member of the well-known and wealthy Buckley family, went to work for the United Press as a copy girl in 1944, fresh out of Smith. In the next two years she moved up to news writer, taking news off the wire and recasting it in the approved 15-minute packages to teletype to reporters all over the country who would read it on the air: short sentences, punchy rhythm, keep away from sibilants and say "innocent," rather than "not guilty," as someone tuning in late might only catch the "guilty." At one point, with men away fighting a war or covering it, she was perforce made sports editor, but she was sworn to secrecy; in those days, it would cause a conflagration among sports fans to learn that a woman was writing the stories. When a network affiliate or a newspaper called with a question, the copy boy was put on the phone to relay her answer. Journalists working at continual high speed are sure to come up with two side effects -- both a pleasure for readers. One is the bloopers, some caught, some not ("Herman Goering cheated death by committing suicide") and the zany behavior that relieves tension and spawns hilarity. For instance the teletype operator who would lead a simulation of pitched warfare in the newsroom, a lifelike rendition of falling bombs supplemented by just about the entire staff; with oversized stapler making like machine-guns, tossed balls of yellow copy paper arcing through the air like grenades, a rifle squad armed with rulers snaking under the desks to ambush the machine gunners -- until the night, with the battle at its height, the UP president appeared escorting the head of the company's biggest single account.

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a real pearl.......2003-10-23

What an amusing book. Priscilla Buckley had a spirit of adventure that propelled her to New York and a reporting career. Later that spirit took her to Paris in the 50s when it was still a magical place. I read this from begining to end in one afternoon because it's such a delight.

More than a pearl: a gem!.......2001-08-21

This little book is a classic "good read". Miss Buckley has an astounding memory for detail (one can only envy) which puts the reader quite into the thick of a busy, no, frenetic news bureau. Such a tightly written book as this leaves the reader little time to wander off as the news of World War II and later, the Cold War, erupt from the offices of the United Press. If you enjoy a look into yesterday through the eyes of someone with keen powers of observation as well as a (dare I say spiritual?) optimistic outlook on life and people everywhere, you will not be disappointed. A very fun book. You'll want to order several as gifts.

Breaking News.......2001-04-08

"There is an excitement about raw news that is hard to explain, but is palpable . . . ."

During World War II, so many men were in the military that women took over what had been considered "men's" jobs. You've heard of Rosie the Riveter. This book introduces you to "Pitts" Buckley (an older sister of William F. Buckley, Jr. and later managing editor for the National Review for 27 years) in 1944 as she graduates from Smith College, where she edited the newspaper. Her memoir focuses on two stints she did with United Press, the first in New York during 1944-48 and the second in Paris during 1953-56. Like many journalistic memoirs, there's lots here about learning on the job, famous colleagues, interviewing celebrities, and major news events. The permanent value of this light, well-written book is a picture of what it was like to be a female news correspondent for a wire service when that was unusual. Ms. Buckley is a very delightful person, and you will enjoy reading about her experiences. The only drawback of the book is that she fails to connect her anecdotes back to a larger context to make them more meaningful.

Ms. Buckley has a good sense of fun, and you will probably remember her humor best from the book. Here's a flavor of how she introduces the book. In explaining why she chose United Press over a competing offer at twice the wages, she says she "opted for . . . starvation wages, and a wonderful life." "We lived on what would now be called the poverty level, but didn't know it." Her first job was a a "copy boy" and "it wasn't much fun." These were really gofers and she wanted to become a "newspaperman." And she did.

If you understand French, her stories about literal translations of English into French are quite funny.

The book has several running gags. One is about constantly changing apartments and living quarters for not paying the rent. The other is about having her Hillman-Minx breakdown in the busiest intersections in Paris and helping to cause riots.

There are also interesting insights into how news is made. Ms. Buckley was pretty open about meeting new people, even when there was no obvious story. During a tour of the George V hotel in Paris, she spotted an American tattoo on a man working on the pastry in the kitchen. This became a story about how a GI switched careers and countries.

One of the best stories in the book is about the French surrender at Dien Bien Phu in Indochina in 1954. Ms. Buckley and a colleague interpreted a mysterious French dispatch correctly as being a surrender, and beat the Associated Press by 15 minutes to the story. On another occasion, she tells about how a dying composer was miraculously "resuscitated" in a second story after being incorrectly reported as deceased on the wire. There are also wonderful stories of covering obscure sports from correspondents who spoke French quickly when no one was around to help translate.

Her reports about the famous are interesting, too. Once, she was dispatched with 10,000 francs (which wasn't very much) to take Gloria Swanson to lunch, in order to give Ms. Swanson tips on how to improve her column (which was a bomb, and was later canceled). Ms. Swanson only wanted an omelet, so the budget was saved. Ms. Swanson did not follow the advice, but was very friendly and nice. Ms. Buckley also covered Jane Russell trying on Dior dresses (with difficulty), and Premier Pierre-Mendes-France's campaign to have French school children drink milk (one protested).

After you read this memoir, I suggest that you think about where taking on a role that people of your sex normally do not do could provide some fun and change of perspective. Then try it, and see what you think. Men, you could take up embroidering outdoors. Women, you could roto-till the garden for spring planting.

See the potential all around you!

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String of Pearls : On the News Beat in New York and Paris
Priscilla L. Buckley
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Fabulous! Simply a wonderful book.

A simple, fun way to become a great parent.

Best parent resource I've found - truely inspirational!

Raising a Happy Confident Successful Child: 52 Lessons to Help Parents Grow
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Fabulous! Simply a wonderful book........1999-01-21

As a father of two and one more on the way, no one has tried out more parenting books than me. Most are either dry and technical or easy to read, but lacking in useful information. This book has it all. Its full of great stories, but is also authoritative and informative. When you're done you'll have a lifetime of experience and be ready to tackle anything your kids (or future kids) can come up with.

A simple, fun way to become a great parent........1999-01-21

This book is wonderfully accessible and fun to read. I found that even when I loaned it out to friends who aren't parents, they enjoyed it as much as I did. Trish Magee has a wonderful way of sharing readable and enlightening stories in a way that shows that she truly cares about a child's soul. What makes this book so refreshing is that it does not try to make a list of all the parenting tips available. This is more a book about how to nurture your child and make your relationship more rewarding for both the parent and the child. I can read about how to baby-proof my home elsewhere! This book is truly an invaluable resource.

Best parent resource I've found - truely inspirational!.......1998-07-26

Trish Magee really has it right. Parenting is an equal combination of education and emotioal committment starting on the first day of life, This book has great lessons for parents that impact on children's lives, If you purchase one parenting book this year, make it this one.

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Hard cover, small format, (6"x9"), 240 pages, 150+ black & white photographs. The exciting story of Karl Baur, the chief test pilot for Messerschmitt during World War II. In addition to providing interesting biographical details of this colorful personality, the book provides an intimate look at innumerable aircraft during their testing stages before becoming the legends of aviation history. Karl Baur was one of the elite test pilots that developed the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter. The photographs of rare and exotic Messerschmitt aircraft are alone worth the price of the book. One of the more interesting Third Reich aviation books to be published.

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Premodern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to reconstruct the life stories of important historical figures. He then examines the careers of four of these figures, analyzing their relationships and their place in later biography.

Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun. .(Book Review) (book review): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun. .(Book Review) (book review): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Paul M. Cobb
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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1136 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: Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun. .(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Paul M. Cobb
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 122 Issue: 3 Page: 648(2)

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Why is it important to get to equilibrium and how long does it take? Are there problems running polypropylene profiles on a single screw extruder? Does the job involve compounding color concentrates on a corotating twin screw extruder? This unique reference work is designed so operators, engineers, and managers can quickly answer such practical day-to-day questions in extrusion processing. The two volumes of Extrusion Topics contain detailed reference data on such important operating conditions as temperatures, start-up procedures, shear rates, pressure drops, and safety. This reference is a practical guide to extrusion including both the equipment and materials processing aspects. It provides basic and advanced topics about thermoplastics processing in the extruder, for reference and training.

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