Stanley Saitowitz: Buildings and Projects (Architecture)

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Stanley Saitowitz: Buildings and Projects (Architecture)
Stanley Saitowitz
Manufacturer: Monacelli
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1580931626
Release Date: 2005-12-05

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Architect Stanley Saitowitz has designed a great number of projects that share the qualities of early modern architecture: they are unassuming, simple, honest, anti-classical, anti-elite. Inspired by the seminal works of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Giuseppe Terragni, Saitowitz has developed an approach he calls "human geography," an attitude that is carefully cognizant of the relationship between architecture and setting. This monograph, the first on Stanley Saitowitz Office, presents fifty projects from more than thirty years of practice.

The work is divided by building type. The bar houses are Saitowitz's reconsideration of a modern prototype: bars of space, which the architect calls "houses of constructed emptiness," that measure but do not interrupt the terrain. Urban houses—both affordable, multifamily housing and single-family lofts—are indeterminate in relation to plan, free in regard to program, and express a volumetric quality within their dense city settings. Also featured in the monograph are schools and a series of designs that explore the formation of Jewish architecture: the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, a menorah for the Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and synagogues in La Jolla and San Francisco.

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Artist David Bellamy shows painters how to capture the dramatic beauty and atmosphere of coastal and marine landscapes using watercolor, pastels, and oil.

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Watercolour at its best........2007-01-19

As a true fan of David Bellamy I must say that once again he has given us a book to be treasured. His "Coastal Landscapes: A Practical Guide to Painting Coastal Scenery" is a book that every serious watercolour artist should have in their collection. I highly recommend it.

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With the advent of digital video cameras, anyone can shoot and produce a video for very little money -- in fact, hundreds of thousands of people are doing so. When video photographers look for guidance, they don't want to read a big book cover to cover -- they want help on their particular problem immediately.

This compendium of solutions is designed to allow anyone to dig into each problem category and quickly find the necessary guidance. Each solution is 2-5 pages in length, most with at least one photo or diagram illustrating the situation. With the help of this book, even a complete neophyte can take advantage of Chuck Gloman’s 22 years in the video trenches and use hard-earned trade secrets to make their videos look professional.

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Disappointing.......2007-07-23

This book gets one star because it does have some useful practical tips. T. Leitner's review has already said much of what I wanted to say in regards to this bloated work. As mentioned, its full of anecdotes that serve as filler rather than helpful information. What's worse is that its not even entertaining prose but nonsense like this, on working with models, "This woman was God's gift to earth. She had the kind of beauty that few have been blessed with, and when you looked up beautiful in the dictionary, her picture was there. And to make matters even more uncomfortable, she was wearing some exotic perfume that would turn a mortal's brains into dust."
This book does not live up to its promises. Patrick Sherman's review was also right on.

Good practical tips.......2006-12-01

I initially saw this book on Amazon and saw that people recommended the book "DV Filmmaking From Start to Finish" by Ian David Aronson. Well, I purchased that book and still haven't read it through. I have, however, just finished reading 303 Filmmaking Solutions which I found much more interesting.

It's true that not all of the "solutions" are actually solutions, but that aside, it's very interesting to read the various obstacles that the author comes across and his method for overcoming them. That alone is worthwhile knowledge to have, regardless of whether your situations are similar or completely different. At least you come away from the book with some ideas for solutions.

I found the book did bog down a bit in the lighting section. While it was all worthwhile knowledge, I think the lighting section could've been more dispersed throughout the book, rather than in one long section (if you intend to read the book from cover to cover).

The only other issue is the author's sense of humour made me cringe the whole way through. There were about 4 remarks I found funny, the rest were painful. An excerpt:

"Therefore a video frame is made up of odd and even fields (no relation to Sally Fields)"

Aside from that, I'd certainly recommend the book to upcoming filmmakers.

Not much.......2005-09-08

303 ways to shoot anything basically. Such as how to shoot a birthday, how to shoot a girls birthday, how to shoot a birthday on saturday.. you get the idea..

self-important.......2005-03-15

I don't understand why this book has the ratings of the other reviews here. It is a big disappointment. While this book has some interesting tips between the lines (that's why I give it 2 stars instead of one), it is merely a rambling of a self-important producer. The 303 "solutions" are at best 303 anecdotal stories. Take solution #96 "How to Shoot in a Boat" for example, it reads, in its entirety "I always seem to get the jobs of shooting from some kind of moving vehicle. You've read my exploits in the air and on the ground, but what about in the water? Shooting footage from a boat is a skill that someday I will master. Not wanting to delve into jet skis, Ski-Dos, or speedboats, I will be discussing motorboats and sailboats." Great solution Chuck! That really makes my filming much better. Perhaps it would be possible to cut down this book into 99 tips and solutions, but in the style its been written it would still be painful to read and extract useful information. Furthermore, the cover says, "solve any video or edit problem in 10 minutes or less". Not only is that untrue but also shows how silly this book is. The picture of a consumer DV camera also has nothing to do with the content, because Chuck uses big professional equipment throughout this book, stuff that takes more than 10 minutes to just unpack by the way. I haven't found a good book to suggest as an alternative yet, but don't waste your money on this one. Try any other.

303 experiences.......2005-02-25

This book is a good book for references and is not a book on making a movie per se, but it still has some valuable information that I would have never learned from my teacher at my local college. He show you a lot of different solutions for certain situations which is really good, but a lot of the solutions have to do with lighting which is good but at the same time it leaves you wanting more of the non-lighting solutions. But what really caused me to give this book a four-star is that all his solutions are examples of his past jobs, which is the principle reason to make this book and is a good thing(to learn from his experiences) but, he digresses from the teaching of the solution to further educate you on irrelevant info. He also has a humorous approach to the solutions which was really a plus. Overall this book is good as a reference if you can get past the irrelevant stuff, but other than that, like I said, it is a good book.

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Set in pre-revolutionary Iran, Pollo con ciruelas tells the story of Nasser Ali Khan, a famous musician who sets out to die after losing his ability to take pleasure in life. Family and friends try to dissuade him, but Khan's mind is made up: why live when even his favorite dish, chicken with prunes, has lost its flavor? This book is a stirring mix of humor and heartbreak.

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Pollo Con Ciruelas/ Chickens and Plums
Marjane Satrapi
Manufacturer: Norma Editorial Sa
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 8498141893

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Mr. Press is the moving, often humorous memoir of a newspaper and television reporter's and editor's more than forty-year career in his native Seattle. The book chronicles the author's overcoming of such personal challenges as alcoholism and marital troubles, as well as behind-the-scenes highlights of a varied, unique and fast-paced career in daily journalism. It discusses the state of today's news media, joint operating agreements and the author's perspective on the mission of editorial pages. Along the way the book charts the development of one of the world's most dynamic and fastest growing cities and regions of the new millenium.

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Un viaje espiritual por la vida y la muerte. Los distintos niveles del mas alla, el aprendizaje del alma y la reencarnacion.

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My uncle in WW2 Normandy June-August, 1944....research..

Operation Epsom (Battle Zone Normandy)
Lloyd Clark
Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 075093008X

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Operation Epsom, launched on June 29th, was General Bernard Montgomery's third attempt to take the city of Caen, which had been a key D-Day objective. The basic aim of Epsom was to sweep round to the west and south of Caen and reach the main Caen-Falaise road. This would almost encircle the German defenders around Caen, particularly those at the Carpiquet aerodrome who were preventing any further progress on Monty's left flank. The attack deployed VIII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor and consisting of 11th and Guards Armoured Divisions, 15th (Scottish) Division and 6th Independent Armoured Brigade, to force crossings over the Odon and Orne rivers and capture the vital Hill 112. Despite Monty's claims after the war that his intention was to fix', or hold, the enemy armor in the east while the Americans swept round from the west, Epsom was clearly designed for the British to achieve the decisive breakthrough in Normandy. An advance of six miles was made and Hill 112 was briefly captured. A company of 2nd Battalion, The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders rushed a stone bridge at Tourmeauville, capturing it intact. For much of Epsom this bridge was the only crossing point over the Odon, and thus a considerable bottleneck. The threat of counter-attacks from the newly-arrived II SS Panzer Corps persuaded the British to withdraw from the east bank of the Odon. Hill 112 and Caen remained in German hands.

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My uncle in WW2 Normandy June-August, 1944....research.........2006-11-10

I am attempting to find out about my uncle's involvement in WW2 in Normandy. I intend to explore the battlefield in 2007. Had to try and piece it all together by reading several books in this series. Each one provided more information including Operation Epsom. Tracing the battles; dates; movement on the maps; etc. was fascinating. This particular battle - Epsom - was just one part of the whole operation during the months of June, July and August, 1944. Getting specific information about an individual is very difficult - but got a good overall feel for the time and place from this book, et al. These young men were in some of the bloodiest fighting of WW2 when the allies were getting a toehold in Normandy and losses were very heavy. No wonder many of them (all??) were never the same again.....their souls were seared by their experiences. NOW, I begin to understand a little!

OPERATION EPSOM (Battleground Europe Normandy)

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An Excellent Study of a Corps Attack

OPERATION EPSOM (Battleground Europe Normandy)
Tim Saunders
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0850529549

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Operation EPSOM was General Montgomery's third attempt to take the City of Caen, which had been a key British D-Day objective. Delayed by a storm, the attack, designed to envelop Caen from the west, eventually began at the end of June 1944. The Territorial Army battalions of 15th Scottish Division spearheaded the attacks through the well developed positions of 12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division. It was slow going and when tanks of the 11th Armoured Division dashed to the Odon Bridges they ran into the concentrated fire of dug-in panzers. However, the following day the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders slipped through the German defenses and seized a vital bridge. Armor poured across but, rather than pushing home their advantage, the British prepared to beat off a powerful counterattack from II SS Panzer Corps.

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An Excellent Study of a Corps Attack.......2003-09-13

Operation Epsom, by veteran Battleground Europe author Tim Saunders, is the first in five new volumes covering the British attempts to break out of the Normandy beachhead in 1944. Given the far greater attention given to D-Day itself and the American breakout in Operation Cobra, these volumes help to fill in a number of details about the relatively neglected British operations in Normandy. Saunders volume on Epsom, a British offensive that occurred during 26-30 June 1944, is as well written as his previous volumes for the series. Indeed, Operation Epsom is a solid case history of a typical British corps-size attack in 1944.

Saunders does a superb job in his introductory chapter sketching the background to the battle, including the arrival of the British VIII Corps and the German SS Hitler Jugend division and the genesis of the plan to envelop the city of Caen from the west. The author uses three 1:50,000 scale maps to depict the four phases of Epsom and its objectives, as well as German dispositions. With these maps and a tight narrative, Saunders takes the reader by the hand in outlining what Operation Epsom was intended to achieve and conditions on the ground. The author then uses five narrative chapters, each detailing one day in the operation. A brief epilogue follows, as well as notes on touring the battlefield, a table of ranks and a very detailed British order of battle. Unfortunately, the author does not provide a German order of battle or a bibliography. The photographs throughout the volume are excellent and most have not been published in other works.

For Operation Epsom, the British massed the three divisions of VIII Corps (11th Armored, 15th Scottish and 43rd Wessex) under the desert veteran General O'Connor against the thinly spread SS Hitler Jugend division. With over 700 artillery pieces firing in support, complete control of the air and a 3-1 advantage in armor, the British offensive should easily have smashed through the over-stretched German lines. However, the British had not anticipated German resiliency or adaptability. Reading Saunders' narrative, it is apparent that the British conducted very little pre-battle reconnaissance and smugly believed that the German line was a mere crust defense. While the initial infantry attack succeeded on the morning of 26 June, it took much longer than anticipated to clear out the handful of front-line German infantry companies. Consequently, the commitment of British armor was delayed and when it did occur, it ran smack into the German armor reserve (which included six Tiger tanks). Rather quickly, the British found themselves in an attritional battle that threatened to derail all their plans.

However, the Germans made mistakes, too. On the second day of the offensive, a small British armor-infantry force found a small gap in the newly formed German line and boldly moved forward to seize a key bridge over the Odon River. For reasons not entirely clear, the Germans dithered at this key moment - apparently due to the fog of war - allowing the British to build up a division-size force on the Odon bridgehead. Indeed, the only substantial German reaction was an amateurish attack by unsupported armor into one of the British-held towns; the British infantry had a field day, destroying five of the formidable Panther tanks at close range. On the third day of the offensive, the British got another lucky break when they were able to seize the vital Hill 112 that overlooked Caen; the Germans had failed to garrison this key piece of terrain.

Unfortunately for the British, the Germans began to recover from their string of mistakes and were able to mass the 2nd SS Panzer Corps for a major counterattack. Furthermore, the British offensive had formed a long, but narrow salient into the German lines; the interior of the salient was under constant German artillery fire and the road network was in a mess. Saunders makes clear that the decisive factor that saved the British ground forces was their superb artillery, which broke up most of the German armored counterattacks. Although the German counteroffensive - designed to cut off the British salient and annihilate VIII Corps - failed, it did force the British to end the offensive and switch to the defense. Much of the hard-won terrain, like Hill 112, was abandoned in order to shorten the line.

Operation Epsom cost both sides heavily, although Saunders is vague about losses. The British had entered the battle with a number of deficiencies, particularly in armor-infantry cooperation and close air support, but these improved due to lessons learned in Epsom. If Saunders' account - which is an excellent corps-level study - teaches anything, it is that opportunities on the battlefield are fleeting and that agility and flexibility are key virtues for commanders.

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An excellent book on Operation Epsom!

OPERATION EPSOM - OVER THE BATTLEFIELD (Over the Battlefield)
Ian Daglish
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword Books
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Before Operation Epsom in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counter-stroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After Epsom, the Allies retained the strategic initiative through to the liberation of France and Belgium. This was a battle in which highly trained but largely inexperienced British 'follow-up' divisions, newly arrived in Normandy, confronted some of the best equipped, best led and battle-hardened formations of the Third Reich. Beginning with a set-piece British assault on the German lines in dense terrain, the battle developed into swirling armored action on the open slopes of Hills 112 and 113, before the British turned to grimly defending their gains in the face of concentric attacks by two full SS-Panzer Korps. This entirely new study brings together previously unseen evidence to present an important Normandy battle in very great detail. The unfolding action is illustrated using aerial photography of the battlefield and period Army maps.

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An excellent book on Operation Epsom!.......2007-10-06

Surprising enough not many books are written on Operation Epsom, and this one is certainly one of the most informative. Excellent maps, interesting witness accounts, thorough background information, some small errors, but minor and not annoying, if you want to learn something about how it was, read this book. AND best of all, superb aerial pictures, which provide the reader with great insight about what went on, and the tactics used. I'm amazed to be the first reviewer of this excellent book. Mr. Daglish is one of the best authors on Normandy, and I hope to see many more books like this from this author. He knows the subject well, and makes you feel like being there. Well done!

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This book offers a comparative analysis of the major systems of servitude present in the world since 1500. Slavery, serfdom, debt bondage, indentured service and convict labour all provided labour and service through the legal subjection of one person to another, but remained very different. By comparison and contrast, this study seeks to establish their distinctive character.Servitude in Modern Times concentrates on the forms of servitude that figured in the process of early modernization: notably the white bonded labour, convict and indentured, used to settle North America; the slave systems of the Americas and the Ottoman Empire; and the serf regimes of central and eastern Europe. It also examines the servitude that survived the emancipations of the nineteenth century: the endurance of slavery and debt bondage in Africa and Asia; the extensive use of indentured service on colonial plantations; the forced labour provided by the concentration camps of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Traditional assumptions are challenged: M. L. Bush argues against the standard, neo-abolitionist view that the servile were powerless victims, proposing that, in most cases, they ingeniously succeeded in acquiring rights and liberties. He shows how servitude contributed to the modernizing process by compensating for the shortage of waged labour which was frequently encountered by early capitalism. In this respect the book challenges the progressiveness with which modernization has normally been depicted.Servitude in Modern Times will be of great interest to students and scholars in history, politics and sociology, as well as to a general public horrified by man's inhumanity to man.

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This is a first attempt to provide a general analysis of developments in polyimide membrane synthesis and applications. It will serve as a valuable reference for those with an interest in synthesis of polyimides, the chemistry and physical chemistry of polyimide compounds, the separation properties of membranes and in their preparation and application. It is intended as a summary of the current status of polyimide membrane research for the specialist as well as a teaching aid for graduate studies in polymer chemistry. The authors collaboration demonstrates the high level of scientific research in Russia and the active development of applied research in Japan.

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