The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron

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The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron
Diana Ketcham , Michael Corbett , and Mitchell Schwarzer
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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A fascinating architectural study in museum design and urban planning.

Designed by the internationally renowned Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron, winners of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, the new de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a stunning architectural tour de force. This book documents the complex five-year process that resulted in an outstanding contribution to contemporary museum architecture.

Founded by San Francisco Chronicle publisher Michael de Young, the museum originated in the Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 and grew to become the city's largest art museum. Its superb permanent collection includes the arts of Africa, Oceania, and traditional cultures of the Americas; American painting and sculpture from the colonial period to the present; and both Western and non-Western textiles.

After the de Young was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the museum's fate—and the decision to replace the old building with a new museum on the same site—became the focus of intense public debate. How Herzog & de Meuron, in cooperation with the San Francisco firm of Fong & Chan Architects and Oakland-based landscape designer Walter Hood, responded to the challenge of creating a building in harmony with its park setting is an important theme of the story.

Lavishly illustrated with color photographs as well as plans, drawings, and models, the book traces the architects' creative process in striking detail. The new de Young is significant as Herzog & de Meuron's first major building in North America and as the first museum the architects have designed from the ground up. Reflecting its surroundings, the building is clad entirely in a skin of dimpled and perforated, naturally oxidized copper panels, whose abstract pattern was distilled from manipulated photographs of the park's tree canopy. With its elegant, twisting tower rising above the tree line, providing visitors with dramatic views, the de Young is a superlative work of architecture and a handsome tribute to the city of San Francisco. 250 illustrations, 200 in color.

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A survey of milling - not a how-to book.......2006-03-28

I was expecting a hands-on tutorial on the use of a vertical milling machine. Instead all I got was a nice novel complete with detailed photographs of the author's accomplishments. He is accomplished, he just doesn't tell us how he did any of it!

Useful little book.......2003-09-25

Focused mainly on English table-top mills, and their use in making model engines, this book is a tad parochial. However, it will help the novice machinist learn about milling procedures and how to set up jobs. Particularly useful is a table of RPM recommended for different cutters on different materials. I think author's coments about milling machines willhelp the novice with the selection of a machine - what to look for. I personally found it very helpful - I am just learning how to use my Clausing mill and this book will help.

Vertical Milling in the Home Workshop (Workshop Practice Ser.2 )

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Vertical Milling in the Home Workshop (Workshop Practice Ser.2 )
Arnold Throp
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Binding: Paperback
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Vertical Milling in the Home Workshop.
Arnold. THROP
Manufacturer: Argus Books
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Written and compiled by the nation's leading authorities, with nearly 2,000 photographs in each volume (many published only in these collections).

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Where's Grant?.......2000-07-26

I found this book and was ready to purchase it when I realized there were no photos of Ulysses Grant in it. I couldn't believe it, so I checked the index. I was stunned. He is not even listed in the index! Can someone please explain to me what is going on here? Otherwise, the photos are amazing....

the story told thru its pictures.......2000-04-03

This two-volume work is the monumental collection of pictures of the american civil war. In total approx. 1800 pages shows us the soldiers from privates to generals and pictures from the battlefield, taken just a few hours after bitter fighting took place. The pictures also covers the citys and houses as well as other important place like rivers, harbours or mountains. The pictural record is accompaigned by text, written by important scholars. Originally six parts, the editors made two volumes of this work, which is highly recommended for any civil war buff, who wishes to see, what he's reading about.

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This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" Young and Romeo Dougherty. The men represented here were pioneers in their own right. Writing for black weekly newspapers, they faced the same conditions as the leagues' players, from discrimination to endless travel. Yet it was through their writings that the public, both black and white were given an up-close, inside look at the day-to-day happenings of Negro League baseball.

Black Writers - Black Baseball : An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues

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Black Writers - Black Baseball : An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues
Jim Reisler
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on May 26, 1997. The length of the article is 1179 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: Cine español en las antípodas. (periodista y su desagrado por el cine)(TT: Spanish cinema in the antipodes) (TA: journalist and his dislike for movies)
Author: Fernando Sánchez Dragó
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 26, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: n639 Page: p81(1)

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Las antípodas como fábula y refugio: Los lunes al sol. (Cine).(Reseña de película): An article from: Siempre!

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Las antípodas como fábula y refugio: Los lunes al sol. (Cine).(Reseña de película): An article from: Siempre!
Tomás Pérez Turrent
Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DMM7I
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on May 25, 2003. The length of the article is 742 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: Las antípodas como fábula y refugio: Los lunes al sol. (Cine).(Reseña de película)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: May 25, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49 Issue: 2606 Page: 72(1)

Article Type: Reseña de película

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Los Oscar de las antípodas: los australianos (y neozelandeses) están de moda en Hollywood. Llegaron hace 20 años con Mad Max y han copado la Meca con una ... sino confirmarlo.: An article from: Epoca

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Los Oscar de las antípodas: los australianos (y neozelandeses) están de moda en Hollywood. Llegaron hace 20 años con Mad Max y han copado la Meca con una ... sino confirmarlo.: An article from: Epoca
Javier Caballero
Manufacturer: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000828VV0
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on February 27, 2004. The length of the article is 1074 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: Los Oscar de las antípodas: los australianos (y neozelandeses) están de moda en Hollywood. Llegaron hace 20 años con Mad Max y han copado la Meca con una mezcla de sello artístico personal y apuesta por la comercialidad y el cine de evasión. Los premios de la Academia no hacen sino confirmarlo.
Author: Javier Caballero
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Issue: 993 Page: 73(3)

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Las Antipodas Y El Siglo
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Critical Acclaim for The Rescue by Steven Trent Smith

"Excellent . . . The Rescue is a thrilling book."
-- Associated Press

"The Rescue is a delightful journey with the gallant few who resisted the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and who shaped the larger events that led to victory in the Pacific. Smith's brilliant research and unique storytelling make this account a must for all who enjoy history and a grand adventure."
-- Peter Huchthausen, author of October Fury and Hostile Waters

"[Steven Trent Smith's] thoroughly researched, detailed account of the brave American and Filipino guerrillas on Negros Island in the Philippines will do much to introduce readers to this little known aspect of World War II in the Pacific. . . . This is a fascinating story well told."
-- Elizabeth Norman, author of We Band of Angels

"The story of the escape and rescue of those American expatriates is a testament to the courage and strength of civilians caught in the war at its start."
-- U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings

"With a photojournalist's eye for action and detail, Steven Trent Smith's The Rescue is a remarkable achievement . . . filled with non-stop action, amazing twists of fate, and an incredible cast of characters, complete with a climax that's certain to get the pulse pounding. A must-read for all those interested in one of the great secret submarine operations of World War II and all action adventure fans alike!"
-- Richard P. Henrick, author of Crimson Tide

"An epic that is emotionally engaging from start to rousing finish."
-- Martin Russ, author of Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950

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Wolf Packs - used by America? .......2006-01-07

Steven Trent Smith, in his book Wolf Pack, has tried to tell the tale of Admiral Charles Lockwood and his desire to utilize group tactics to hunt Japanese shipping during the Second World War.

Unfortunately, the book reads more like a disjointed tale of multiple patrols than an explanation of how the US Navy implemented the wolf pack doctrine and utilized it to prove victorious in the battle of the Pacific.

Smith provides us with many exciting tales of different submarines sinking merchant vessels, or of their attacks upon Japanese military ships or even registered hospital ships (though these were being used as military transports rather than floating hospitals when they were attacked). The stories are compelling and very enjoyable, but they just don't help the reader to understand how the wolf pack doctrine came to be.

It is only in the last 100 pages of the book that we start to see tales of wolf packs being successful - prior to this, the stories of group attacks are fraught with peril and failure. Once the wolf packs entered the Sea of Japan, we see tremendous success - however, the question that is not answered conclusively in this book is whether that success was due to the employment of wolf packs or because of the tremendous surprise that was achieved by the Americans.

If one is looking for a rousing good tale of submarine warfare in the Pacific during WWII, this book will provide the requisite entertainment. It will also teach the reader a lot about a number of different subs tha patrolled the waters of the Pacific during 1941-1945. However, if one is looking for a true explanation of wolf pack doctrine and how it was successfully employed, he/she will have to look further than this.

Solid treatment of the Pacific War.......2004-05-29

When it comes to the role of submarines in World War II, the focus of history has been centered upon German U-boats and the Allied effort to defeat them. Despite the work of many authors, including Clay Blair and his outstanding study "Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan," the flood tide of books on the subject is still running heavily in favor of the Battle of the Atlantic. That is a shame, because the role of American submarines in the Pacific is a big reason why we defeated the Japanese. Hopefully, Steven Smith's excellent "Wolf Pack" will help make this point clear to a new generation of readers.
Wolf Pack (a name usually reserved for groups of German U-boats) begins with a good discussion on the development submarine warfare and tactics from World War I through the interim years, and how the Germans perfected the art of attack against Allied convoys. This is important because these tactics were copied and applied to the Pacific War by the Americans. It can also make for slow reading, but it is well done and important.

Unlike so many authors, Smith relies primarily on manuscript sources and a wide variety of firsthand accounts to weave an interesting, informative, and generally well-written account of the men and equipment used to destroy the Japanese merchant fleet and bring the empire to its knees. The writing varies from workmanlike (especially when covering technical details) to compelling (when he is narrating battle action). Although the men initially frowned upon sinking merchant ships and were instead actively seeking capital ships, they soon learned that the fastest way to win the war was to sink the island empire's merchant shipping. And they did, with gusto.

In many ways this book reminded this reviewer of Peter Padfield's "The War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict in World War II" (still one of the best single volumes on the subject ever written) where the men involved drive the narrative. Smith's effective use of biographical portraits is very effective and allows the reader to meet men as diverse as Karl Donitz, Sam Dealey, Earl Hydemann, and Charles Lockwood.

The only disappointment I have (and it is admittedly minor) is that lesser-known commanders like Ralph Metcalf of the USS Pogy are largely ignored. Admiral Metcalf is still alive and conducted several amazing patrols-including one that sunk a diesel-filled Japanese submarine. He appears not to have been contacted or consulted. Similarly, the accidental sinking of the USS Extractor by the submarine Guardfish (a significant lesser known but fascinating episode that confirms the danger and stress under which these seamen lived), did not receive coverage. It was written about by radar technician Claude Conner in "Nothing friendly in the Vicinity: My War Patrols on the USS Guardfish."

What is in the book, however, is well presented gripping historical writing. It is well worth its price and adds significantly to the literature.

Wolf Pack; Sea of Japan Revisited.......2004-01-05

As a veteran of five submarine war patrols, including the Hellcats venture into the Sea of Japan, I found "Wolf Pack" to be very well done and as accurate as can be hoped for, considering the passage of time. The author did an excellent job of putting the whole story of the development and prosecution of wolf pack tactics into context. Combat submarines typically spent two months at sea followed by one month for refit, R&R and training. While at sea we maintained radio silence and, while surfaced, copied radio traffic on the sub frequencies, resulting in a fragmented picture of what was happening. Steven Smith has done a fine job of recreating a picture of what was taking place, helping me to finally understand things that I was part of.

His rendition of the Hellcats Sea of Japan venture was excellent. It could have been improved only by writing it twenty years earlier when most of the participants were still alive to add their views and stories to the record. My plaudits to Smith for an excellent piece of work.

Deep Trouble: US Submarines Against Japan.......2003-09-02

This book begins--one might instead says 'gets off on the wrong foot'--with an odd title. 'Wolf Pack' is, after all, a term associated in military history and the popular imagination with the dread Nazi submarine formations of the same war but a different ocean. It's as odd as if today we called the high-speed assault on Iraq as a blitzkrieg.

Be that as it may, 'wolf pack' is the right term: That's what American submariners aimed at creating in World War II (they were well aware of the effective U-boat tactics used in the Atlantic). Author Steven Trent Smith does a good job of explaining how the Navy's Pacific submarine chief, Adm. Charles Lockwood, and others worked to adapt German tactics for use against the Japanese (they started on the checkerboard dance floor of the officers' club). It wasn't easy. For one thing, communications between submarines was unreliable for a long time; another problem was that American sub skippers were used to being 'lone wolves' and didn't want to change.

Another problem--in the book as well as the war--is the need to develop 'pro-submarine' equipment, which slows the narrative down. Lockwood wanted improved torpedos (ours were lousy early in the war) but he also sought important devices that would help subs defend themselves. One of them was submarine sonar to help them penetrate minefields. The reader has to be a little patient here because the climax of the book involves infiltrating two wolf packs through minefields guarding the Sea of Japan--the huge Inland Sea between Japan and the Asian mainland.

Smith makes clear that sub skippers on both sides sought naval targets and considered merchant ships low class. Eventually the Americans realized that merchantment were the way to go--there were so many more of them and Japan, and island nation, was dependent on shipping. (The Japanese mostly stuck with naval targets, even though America's many Pacific bases were also islands, also fed by sea.)

As a writer smith is workmanlike at best; he did better in his previous book, "The Rescue," about Americans hiding in the Philippines from the beginning of the war until rescued by submarine some years later). He's sometimes a little weak on details; I noted a couple of muffed details. Some editing or copy-editing might have helped; publisher please note.

His biggest problem is the need to explain so many technical details. This is not a simple subject, and so you don't get here the slam-bang action of Cmdr. Edward L. Beach's famous "Run Silent, Run Deep." But Smith does get his licks in at least twice. And is doing so almost rises to 4 tars.

His description of the sub Parche's all-out cowboy assault on a convoy in July of 1944 is delightfully hair-raising, and it brings the book to life just in time. He also develops sweaty-palms tension when two wolf packs do at last penetrate Sea of Japan. Knowing something about mines will help, because Hollywood has taught you all wrong. They NOT big round cannisters of TNT bobbing free on the surface.

Mines float but they float below the surface, where they can't be seen. They are tethered by long cables to anchors on the sea bottom. Lockwood's packs had two choices. They could make a mad, high-speed surface dash, escaping the mines but risking surface attack, or they could snake through the minefields, using their new (and not battle-tested) sonar to locate the mines, and all their skill to steer their 300-foot subs safely between them.

Here Smith screws up the tension. The first time he puts you in a sub that come so close it grazes a mine's cable--and that awful grating, scraping sound inches its horrible way the whole length of the hull at a walking pace of two knots--well, check your palms. They'll be wet.--By Bill Marsano, a long-time devotee of WWII nonfiction books.

Yes, the U.S. used Wolf Packs!.......2003-09-01

A valuable addition to anyone's naval library. Information gleaned from much research by the author. Details of each pack's patrol never seen before. Also of interest were the many trials and tribulations that Admiral Lockwood faced in getting the proper equipment for his submarines. The FM Sonar (Hell's Bells) enabled the subs to get into Japan's backyard (Sea of Japan) for the first time. The first wolf pack there sank some 28 ships and were only able to get into the Sea by using the untested in combat, FM Sonar.
Other details were uncovered by the author such as the Navy's use of a grid system in numbering the areas of the Pacific and the publication of a doctrine for submarine commanders which was a document similar to the German "The U-Boat Commander's Handbook."
The terror felt by crew members when undergoing an attack or transversing a minefield was well described by the author as was the real comradship only felt by elite units of the military in times of danger. Humor was added as well to make the book real as were many direct quotes from commanding officers and Admiral Lockwood.
A sure bet and a must have for all historians.

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Title: Jews celebrate festival of Succot; Begins five days after Yom Kippur.(Faith)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 30, 2007
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Israel and the Jewish People During and After the Yom Kippur War

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Israel and the Jewish People During and After the Yom Kippur War

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Binding: Hardcover
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The Middle East for pedestrians: A collection of letters written before, during and after the Yom Kippur War

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The Middle East for pedestrians: A collection of letters written before, during and after the Yom Kippur War
Harry J Lipkin
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Text of a lecture given at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 30th October, 1974,: On After the Yom Kippur War,

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Text of a lecture given at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 30th October, 1974,: On After the Yom Kippur War,
Chaim Herzog
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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The Yom Kippur War;: October 1973 and after

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The Yom Kippur War;: October 1973 and after
Julian J Landau
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The Social Significance of Health Promotion explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. Beginning with the historical context of health promotion addressed in terms of advocacy issues, this book moves on to present analyses of specific health promotion programs in which the contributors are actively engaged. These chapters take a practitioner's perspective and cover a wide range of issues such as social exclusion, children's mental health professional competency, the role of alternative health promotion in the workplace.

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