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Ken Smith is unquestionably one of the most interesting voices in landscape architecture; his works reflect the intensity and energy of their surroundings and challenge the distinction between landscape and art form. Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects focuses on three prominent works in New York City: his East River Project; his work for P.S. 19; and his MoMA rooftop garden. Through Smith's colorful, playful drawings and photographs, the book reveals how each project explores new expressions of landscape design in the city.
Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects is part of the Source Books in Landscape Architecture series sponsored by Ohio State University. These books present sketches, drawings, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. Each book focuses on a recent, important work or works at a level of detail that allows thorough study of the project from its conception to the completion of design and construction.
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Great Park plan thinks big, keeps it simple.(places) : An article from: California Planning & Development Report
Morris Newman
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This digital document is an article from California Planning & Development Report, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1120 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: Great Park plan thinks big, keeps it simple.(places)
Author: Morris Newman
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California Planning & Development Report (Newsletter)
Date: March 1, 2006
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Volume: 21
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- Papercrafts Around The World
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Papercrafts Around The World
Phyllis Fiarotta , and
Noel Fiarotta
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Eighty-plus projects include French frills, English peasant beads, Japanese dolls, and Indonesian shadow puppets. Plus: a St. Bridget’s cross, an Oriental Caterpillar, Venetian carnival mask, Nigerian tie & die, and papier-mâché from several nations. “Armchair travelers, gather ‘round— here is your opportunity to take a world-wide tour and create your own souvenirs without ever leaving home....A variety of enjoyable and colorful creations.”—Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot.
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Papercrafts Around The World.......2006-02-26
Quick and concise instructions for papercrafts that will take between 15 and 30 minutes to complete. Great written and visual guidelines. Terrific for older Brownie troops and Junior Girl Scouts.
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Paper Airplanes from Around the World/With Kit (Paper Airplanes from Around the World)
Ray Roberts
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Papercrafts Around the World (Discover Other Cultures)
Meryl Doney
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- Perfect Light, Perfect Darkness: An Astonishing Artist
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment
Janet Kardon ,
Robert Mapplethorpe ,
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Perfect Light, Perfect Darkness: An Astonishing Artist.......2003-12-19
Born in 1945, Robert Mapplethorpe studied drawing, painting and sculpture at the Pratt Institute--and then quickly evolved into one of his era's foremost photographers, first experimenting with found-photograph collages and Polaroid photography, but soon moving to significantly more sophisticated work in which he experimented with numerous photographic processes. Along the way, he also developed a very distinct style, an eye for shadow and light and ambiguity of material that lent his work an edge that was uniquely his own. Between 1973 and his death in 1989, Robert Mapplethorpe's work would appear in well over 200 one-man and group shows, many of them in highly prestigious museums and galleries, throughout America and Europe.
In spite of his considerable acclaim and influence in arts circles, Mapplethorpe remained largely unknown to the public at large--until the very eve of his death in 1988, when the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Philadelphia mounted a major overview of his work. Named "The Perfect Moment," the exhibition was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts--and when the exhibit arrived in Washington D.C. it provoked a firestorm of controversy. Led by such conservatives as Senator Jessie Helms and conservative religious leaders as the Rev. Wildemon, The Perfect Moment was roundly condemned, and the National Endowment for the Arts was attacked for having funded the exhibition in the first place. Ironically, in consequence of this condemnation, The Perfect Moment would go on to become one of the most seen and most profitable arts exhibitions in the history of the United States. And Robert Mapplethorpe would become a household word.
In some respects Mapplethorpe had always been a controversial artist. The great bulk of his work consisted of still-life flower studies, portraits, and nudes--but it also included a host of images deemed flatly pornographic, images that showed explicit heterosexual and homosexual behavior and often including sadomasochistic activity, images that were deliberately designed to both shock and titillate. And indeed, these photographs--many of them dating from more than thirty years ago--still have considerable power.
But the power of Mapplethorpe's photography is not mere shock value, and even less is it is titillation. It is in the very fine line he walks in presenting his work, a balance between dark and light that ultimately reads as a balance between life and death. His photographs present a world in which sordid, occasionally grotesque material acquires beauty--and in which the beauty of a flower, the beauty of the human form seems captured on the brink of annihilation and becomes all the more beautiful for the sense of its impending fall. Like some of it, all of it, none of it, one thing is clear: Mapplethorpe had genius, and he was adept at communicating through the power of his images.
This is the official catalogue of "The Perfect Moment" exhibition, featuring essays by Janet Kardon, Ray Larson, David Joselit, and a dedication by Mapplethorpe's longtime friend and rock artist Patti Smith--all of which serve to broaden one's grasp of Mapplethorpe's vision. But most importantly, the book includes photographs. The flowers, the faces, the bodies, the still-lifes, and yes, the controversial photographs as well, over seventy in all. And each, in its own way, is extraordinary.
Robert Mapplethorpe is not, perhaps, an artist whose work you would like to give your fundamentalist Great Aunt Edna--unless, of course, you are hoping to drive her into heart failure and inherit her estate. But he is an artist who looks into both the supreme beauties and the darkest fears of the world... and who tells you in turn that you may look too. Astonishing and memorable.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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Sure, you think you know the real story of Bram Stoker's Dracula. But after countless movies and comic re-tellings, Stoker himself might not recognize his Lord of the Vampires. That's why horror specialist Steve Niles - along with Harvey-nominated gothic illustrator Richard Sala (Evil Eye) - are re-presenting the classic tale in this special illustrated prose style book. Every spread of the book includes an abridged scene from Stoker's original novel accompanied by a special full-page illustration from Sala. Learn the true story of Dracula here!
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A fantastic retelling.......2007-10-02
The scripting talents of Steve (30 Days of Night) Niles join forces with the inspired madman of independent comic art Richard (Black Cat Crossing) Sala to resurrect the Count for 21st century horror fans! The prose is timeless (like the character, himself), crisp and clean enhanced by Sala's classic "Lugosi-like" vivid renderings of the bloodsucker and his ilk. I love horror and monster comics like Dick Briefer's The Monster of Frankenstein and Zombie Factory, and Little Book Of Horror: Dracula will fit nicely between them on my bookshelf.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence.......2000-02-06
I located this book at a branch of the Nashville Public Library a few years ago while doing research for a wood carving of Ida B. Wells. Of course the text is meant for a juvenile audience, but it was a very good source of pictures of Ida B.Wells and by that time more pictures were the main thing I needed.It gives a good if brief review of her life.
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La Vida de un Soldado: Reminiscencias de las Fronteras (Coleccion Testimonios Nacionales)
Ignacio H. Fotheringham
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Why Did You Do That: Understand Why Your Family Members Act As They Do
William Lee Carter
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God, why did You do that?
Frederick Sontag
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"Why Did You Do That?": Solving the Mysteries of Parenting
Burt Segal
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How many times have you asked your child, “Why did you do that?” only to hear the answer, “I donÂ't know”? Children certainly provide parents with numerous challenges by testing their patience, knowledge, and skills daily. Managing your childÂ's less-than-stellar behavior requires tremendous effort and a strong dose of self-control, patience, and good judgment.
Author Burt Segal, a psychotherapist for over twenty years, explains exactly why children misbehave, and teaches you how to successfully manage children and adolescents. You will learn fundamental principles of behavior and discover effective solutions for behavior modification, including:
- Internal and external reasons that children act out
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No one expects you to be a perfect parent, but investing time and energy to improve your parenting skills will increase the chances that your hard work will pay off and that your children will reward you with good behavior for many years to come. Why Did You Do That? will help put an end to your family battles today!
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This definitive account of the Gulf War relates the previously untold story of the U.S. war with Iraq in the early 1990s. The author follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts.
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Reads well, but overall weak.......2007-04-28
If this is a 4+ star book (as the others who have reviewed the book seem to think) then the state of Gulf War scholarship must be very low indeed. Atkinson's tale is an unorganized patchwork of escapades, vignettes and personality clashes among generals that provides some interesting stories but no solid overall narrative. We get VERY little on Bush, the role of Congress, army medicine, the coalition forces, army structure--not even much on the weaponry. It appears to be a slapped together book for a hungry market, with precious little interpretation or analysis.
If you want toknow what really happen in DS.......2005-05-10
Mr. Atkinson has written another fine book about todays Army and its 1st real test by combat against Iraq. It is a rich source of information that did not make the screen by CNN. That and the story of the renaissance (rebirth) of the United States Military after the debachle of the post Viet Nam War. A book that is well worth the investment of your time if this is your field of interest.
Not a Definitive History, but Compelling.......2005-01-15
For fifteen years the specter of Vietnam hung over the United States military. After finally devising a way to bow out of the Southeast Asian quagmire with honor, the administration of President Richard M. Nixon was eventually brought down by the scandal of Watergate. Even the failure of its Cold War nemesis, the former Soviet Union, in a similar debacle in Afghanistan, could not dilute the embarrassment of Vietnam in the American consciousness. The invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces on 2 August 1990, would give the United States both the opportunity to win a conventional military victory and produce great soldier-heroes such as those that had emerged from more popular wars of the past. That is the underlining thesis of Rick Atkinson's _Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War_. Atkinson argues that aside from the obvious objectives of liberating the Kuwaiti oil fields and protecting America's vital interests in the Middle East, the conflict would produce two important subtle consequences. First it would provide a victory to restore prestige to a military establishment haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam. Second, and more importantly, a victory in the Persian Gulf would provide America with old-fashioned military and political heroes the likes of which had not been seen since the tumultuous parades down New York's Fifth Avenue following Japan's surrender in World War II. The heroes America needed and the media helped to create were General H. Norman Schwarzkopf and President George H.W. Bush. Atkinson portrays Schwarzkopf, arguably the most flamboyant American general since Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., as raging and abusive. Written with a "you are there" approach, the author describes many top-level briefings between Schwarzkopf and his subordinates. A common theme is Schwarzkopf's accusatory bantering that his orders were deliberately disobeyed. Many of these diatribes were aimed at with a great deal of disrespect for U.S. VII Corps commander General Frederick M. Franks. Acknowledging the frustration associated with the burden of command, however, Atkinson concedes that perhaps some of Schwarzkopf's outbursts may have been justifiable. Atkinson initially portrays Bush as an "extraordinary commander." The author credits Bush's campaign to gain support of the American people by demoralizing the militaristic regime of Saddam Hussein as brilliant. Atkinson illustrates how Bush's hero status quickly diminished, however, when the president ended the war prematurely allowing the Iraqi forces to escape and failed to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Utilizing his highly regarded journalistic talent, sprinkled with a sampling of sensationalism, Atkinson examines nearly every controversy of the war. These topics include: the high degree of fratricide among U.S. Service personnel, the reasons for faulty U.S. Intelligence reports that habitually overestimated enemy strength, and the many questions surrounding just how effective were "Smart Bombs." Atkinson also delves into inter-service rivalries, particularly between the Air Force and the Army. He suggests the two services inflated their own roles concerning the conduct of the war. According to Atkinson, this over glamorizing was done in an effort to highlight the importance of their respective services in order to gain the appropriate postwar funding and budgets. The author was privy to certain principal sources during the course of his research. Some documents were declassified just for the purpose of writing of this book through the Freedom of Information Act. The author also was allowed access to the unpublished manuscript of the Official U.S. History of the Persian Gulf War. This is not the definitive history of the first Persian Gulf War, but Atkinson's spin on important issues makes for a compelling read.
Exciting And Well Written .......2004-12-15
I am ashamed to admit that this excellent book sat on my bookshelf for a number of years while I read untold numbers of lesser books. I had heard it was a good book, which was the reason I purchased it, and it turns out that everything positive that lead me to buy the book was in fact true. The first thing that stood out for me was that this author is very good at his craft. I almost forgot I was reading a non fiction book at times because his writing style provided the excitement and richly detailed descriptions that you would normally associate with a fiction book. The author details the Gulf War in such a way that almost exclusively focuses on the actual war and not the lead up to the combat nor the political efforts that played out. He does touch on some political aspects, but only when they are needed to augment the readers understanding of what was happening in the war theater.
The one interesting side story in the book was the authors dislike for Norman Schwarzkopf. The critiques were always within the realm of how he did his job, but there was just something about them that let the reader in on the fact that not too many people that worked with the General much cared for his management style. Other then this slight bias the author stuck to the facts and really gave the reader a good amount of detail on the war effort. It was interesting to read of the many battles. I have read a number of books about different aspects of the war, but this was the first one that really covered all the major battles and I came away surprised at some of the scale that was described. We have all heard that the war was a complete and overwhelming victory, but that positive view hides some of the very violent and large battles that took place.
Overall I really enjoyed the book. The author did a wonderful job and I can honestly say that this is one of the better combat books that I have ever read. The details were never ending and the writing was crisp and well thought out. If you are interested in the war then this has to be the one book your read if you are interested in the combat. The only partial critique I would make is that the author spent the vast amount of his time talking about the American military and really did not cover much of what was happening with the other countries involved. Given the size and responsibilities of those other forces, this focus on the U.S. is understandable.
Excellent history of Gulf War I reads like a novel.............2003-12-16
13 years and two Administrations ago, the entire world watched as the first President Bush marshaled a global coalition to confront Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and gave him an ultimatum: leave Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991, or we'll force you out. Three months had passed since Iraq had invaded its tiny but rich neighbor, claiming the Kuwaitis were slant-drilling into Iraqi oil fields just across the border.
In reality, as Rick Atkinson points out in Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War, Saddam was strong-arming his way out of repaying loans made to Iraq by Kuwait and other moderate Arab countries during his disastrous war with Iran. He may have also been angered by OPEC's lowering of the price of crude oil, which reduced badly-needed hard currency for his moribund economy. In a classic case of what novelist Tom Clancy calls "armed robbery writ large," Saddam followed Hitler's example of trumping up claims on a neighboring country, massing a huge army on its borders, then invading.
While Atkinson (The Thin Gray Line, An Army At Dawn) focuses on the events of the war itself, he carefully explains the almost Byzantine turns of American foreign policy toward Iraq. In the mid-1980s, Washington, worried that Iran would defeat Iraq, provided Baghdad with limited intelligence assistance and looked the other way when other countries (such as France, Brazil, and the USSR) sold Saddam sophisticated weapons. Only after the 1987 USS Stark incident, when an Iraqi Mirage "accidentally" fired an Exocet missile at a U.S. frigate in the Gulf and killed and injured several sailors, did U.S. policymakers start looking at Saddam as a potential adversary. But until 1990, official policy in Washington was to try to coax Baghdad into joining the fold of civilized nations in the so-called post-Cold War "new order."
In fact, as Atkinson points out, Washington's desire to establish better trade and diplomatic relations may have given Saddam the "green light" to invade Kuwait. The White House, for instance, censured the Voice of America for airing reports about Iraq's repressive government, and Ambassador April Glaspie's comment in July 1990 that the U.S. had no intentions to intervene in "Arab-Arab" disputes further reinforced the Iraqi dictator's view that America was a post-Vietnam "paper tiger" and would not lift a finger to help the Sheik of Kuwait.
Crusade is intensely fascinating and detailed. It is incredibly well-written, enabling the reader to get both the Big Picture and see the war through the combatants' point of view. It's no exaggeration to say that it reads like a Clancy novel; we get not only personality sketches of H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the "CINC" of Central Command and overall commander of Desert Storm and his chief lieutenants (Charles Horner, "Buster" Glosson, Cal Waller, Fred Franks), but we also get vivid descriptions of the intense aerial and ground battles that became known as Operation Desert Storm.
Atkinson also deals with the unexpected aftermath of the Persian Gulf War -- the short period of national high-fiving after the liberation of Kuwait that gave way to disillusion. In a matter of months, President George Herbert Walker Bush went from being a popular wartime leader to being booted out of the Oval Office in the 1992 election. Saddam Hussein, meanwhile, crushed not one but two post-war revolts (encouraged but not supported by President Bush) and withstood nearly 12 years of sanctions and sporadic air and missile attacks as he defiantly thumbed his nose at three American Presidents. (Now that he's in U.S. custody, maybe he isn't feeling so cocky, but that's another story.)
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Crusade : The Untold Story of the Gulf War (Part 1)
Rick Atkinson
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Here, in one compact volume, is an illuminating survey of Jewish folkways on five continents. Filled with fascinating facts and keen insights, The Jewish Cultural Tapestry is a richly woven fabric that vividly captures the diversity of Jewish life. All traditional Jews are bound together by the common thread of the Torah and the Talmud, notes author Steven Lowenstein, but this thread takes on a different coloration in different parts of the world as Jewish tradition and local non-Jewish customs intertwine. Lowenstein describes these widely varying regional Jewish cultures with needlepoint accuracy, highlighting the often surprising similarities between Jewish and non-Jewish local traditions, and revealing why Jewish customs vary as much as they do from region to region. From Europe to India, Israel to America, The Jewish Cultural Tapestry offers an engaging overview of the customs and folkways of a people united by tradition, yet scattered to the far corners of the earth.
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Big & Little Tradition .......2007-07-25
This book begins with a very simple assertion about religious experience. There is such a thing as a Big Tradition and Little Tradition. For The Jewish Cultural Tapestry, the Big Tradition is embodied in the formal and official aspects of Jewish worship: the synagogue service, holiday celebration, the study of texts like the Talmud and the commentaries on Jewish law. The Little Tradition are those folk elements which fill in the numerous gaps left unanswered in the official practice of Judaism (mainly text bound, and not always exhaustive in explanation on how to carry a practice). For example hot food cannot be prepared on the Sabbath, but it is considered important to do so, so various Jewish communities developed ways around this difficulty. Overall, the book shows how many Jewish customs, most of a folk variety in the realm of food, clothing, song, dance, and even to some extent in religious practice, are modified forms of what is already present at the folk level of the gentile community which surrounds a group of Jews. Folk practice can often be widely at variance with "official" religion, and perhaps the one weak spot of this work is that it does not explore this rich mine of conflict and resolution. That said, the book presents a complex series of subjects in an excellent and easy to read format and style.
Finally Explanations.......2001-05-16
Finally a book is available for the Jewish and non-Jewish reader that explains both the common thread and the differences of Jewish customs throughout the world. Clearly the author has a strong scholarly background, but this book is a lively read. Especially fascinating are the chapters on vernacular languages, cuisine (with recipes), music (with notations), and the new field of genetics. The author treats each custom with equal respect; nothing is described as being weird or exotic. Numerous action maps explain migrations and cultural changes, and the many illustrations of actual people add to the accessibility of this usually dry subject. It is a must for personal, synagogue, and secular libraries.
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An Algebraic Introduction to Complex Projective Geometry: Commutative Algebra (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)
Christian Peskine
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In this introduction to commutative algebra, the author choses a route that leads the reader through the essential ideas, without getting embroiled in technicalities. He takes the reader quickly to the fundamentals of complex projective geometry, requiring only a basic knowledge of linear and multilinear algebra and some elementary group theory. The author divides the book into three parts. In the first, he develops the general theory of noetherian rings and modules. He includes a certain amount of homological algebra, and he emphasizes rings and modules of fractions as preparation for working with sheaves. In the second part, he discusses polynomial rings in several variables with coefficients in the field of complex numbers. After Noether's normalization lemma and Hilbert's Nullstellensatz, the author introduces affine complex schemes and their morphisms; he then proves Zariski's main theorem and Chevalley's semi-continuity theorem. Finally, the author's detailed study of Weil and Cartier divisors provides a solid background for modern intersection theory. This is an excellent textbook for those who seek an efficient and rapid introduction to the geometric applications of commutative algebra.
Customer Reviews:
brief, but good.......2007-02-21
Peskine doesn't give a lot of explanations (he manages to cover on 30 pages what usually takes up half a book) and the exercises are tough, but the book is nevertheless well written, which makes it pretty easy to read and understand. Recommended for everyone willing to work their way through his one-line proofs ("Obvious.")!
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- Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History
- Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective
- White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park (Source Books in Landscape Architecture)
Peter Walker and Partners: Nasher Sculpture Center Garden (Source Books in Landscape Architecture)
Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners
Open: New Designs for Public Spaces
Groundswell: Constructing The Contemporary Landscape
