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Straw Bale Details is the perfect companion for those who are serious about building with straw. It focuses entirely on the specific design theories and practices that result in well-built, long-lasting bale structures. It extends the range of books like Straw Bale Building through large, easy-to-read architectural drawings rendered for a wide variety of building options, including load-bearing and post-and-beam designs. A range of foundation, wall, door and window, and roof-plate scenarios is presented, along with notes and possible modifications. Also included are the most recent testing data to help base designer and builder decisions on sound science.
Chris Magwood is coauthor of Straw Bale Building and editor of The Last Straw Journal.
Chris Walker is a Toronto architect specializing in sustainable design.
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Not too impressed.......2007-05-20
I have quite a few strawbale books, and I think this one I probably could have done without. Don't plan on using this book alone to do any projects.
Not that great.......2005-08-31
I was very excited about receiving this book but I was very disappointed when I did. Not much info and the black and white drawings have a Notes section that is not numbered to correspond with the drawings or the one page text for each section. Overall, I feel this book was not a help at all.
Like the title says, Straw Bale Details.......2005-08-28
If you're interested in strawbale building this is a nice little book on many of the details involved.
The first 20 or so pages tell about various facets of the concept, they're followed by several short chapters (each with a written detail section)on things like walls, windows, foundations, electrical wiring and so on. Each of these sections consists primarily of architectural detail drawings of the chapter subject.
There's a lot of detail here but I don't think it's enough for the total novice to go out and build from. You(if you're a novice)will need a lot more information on construction than is provided here. I guess that Amazon probably has all of the books you'll need, I think they do have all of the strawbale books listed in the short bibliography, those are worth a look.
getting down to it.......2005-08-13
This is a great book for people who have looked at the picture books and decided to build in strawbale. It is excellent whether you are an owner builder planning to prepare your own plans, or simply want to pass the detail on to your architect or draftsperson. I like the spiral bound layout which allows you to leave the book open without breaking the spine. The authors have considered most types of strawbale construction (e.g. with and without cellar, timber floored, concrete slab,etc) but a big negative for me was that it deals only with single storey details. I want to build two storey and would have appreciated information on how to incorporate the middle floor into the strawbale walls, both for load-bearing and post-and-beam buildings. If you've read architectural plans before, you'll be able to decode how to build a strawbale house... if you can't, you won't have a use for this book. All in all - a winner for the serious strawbale builder (cheaper than a strawbale workshop and you get a resource you can keep!)
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Spontaneity, freedom and fun with an undercurrent of control are words that best describe this book. McClish's ability as painter and teacher enables him to make a difficult craft look easy to do. Includes sections on tools, procedures, sketching, 3D illusion, light, watercolor patch painting, people, color, and still life along with examples/exercises scattered throughout. Teaches "loose watercolor" painting with a palette of only 6 colors.
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Must have for artists.......2005-07-10
I concur with the above review; this text is absolutely beautiful, and filled with lucid instruction. McClish uses quite a limited palette of colors, and this also is very instructive, because this artist is a master of color mixing and value gradation. The only caveat I would add is that some of the paintings are quite difficult (for me, at least!), and this work is best approached after carefully honing one's drawing skills. For this I cannot recommend highly enough DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN and its accompanying workbook. Buy these, along with LOOSE WATERCOLOR.
Excellent Instruction By A Master Watercolorist!.......2004-02-21
This book is not only filled with Jerry McClish's beautiful paintings, it is the most informative and interesting guide to painting watercolor I've found, period! It is eminently readable, and filled with helpful tips for beginners and experienced painters alike. It is simply the very best book I could recommend to anyone interested in watercolor!
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Through A Liquid Mirror
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Other Oceans
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A RARE AND gifted photographer; Levin takes the reader on journeys through underwater landscapes from the waters of the Hawaiian Islands to Costa Rica and Micronesia. Levin's photographs have appeared in magazines and books including Kalaupapa, A Portrait and Kaho`olawe, Na Leo o Kanaloa. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Wayne Levin has photographs in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and the Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
Thomas Farber has been awarded Guggenheim, National Endowment, and Rockefeller fellowships for his fiction and creative nonfiction. His books include, The Price of the Ride, On Water, and Learning to Love It. Farber has been Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai`i, Fullbright Scholar for Pacific Island Studies, and recipient of the Dorothea Lange - Paul Taylor Prize.
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Courageous Princess Volume 3: Kingdom Of Leptia
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The Courageous Princess
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Readers for whom the word travel ordinarily conjures images of white-sand beaches or Tuscan hill towns might wonder what person of above-average intelligence leaves home in hopes of face-to-face contact with Afghan rebels, Malaysian pirates, warlords, headhunters, or terrorists. That person, apparently, is Robert Young Pelton. Among adventure enthusiasts, Pelton is probably best known for The World's Most Dangerous Places, his utterly unique, tough-guy's guide to where not to travel, and a similarly named series on the Discovery Channel. Part travelogue, part memoir, The Adventurist is Pelton's attempt to explain what some would call his lifelong death wish, but that the author describes as "an expedition of discovery, a dangerous one with no scripted endings."
The Adventurist juxtaposes scenes and reminiscences of Pelton's youth and young adulthood with stories of his latter-day adventures in the jungles, waterways, and deserts of some of the planet's most perilous locales. "It's in vogue now to blame things on your parents or society. I don't blame anybody for anything," Pelton explains, but considering his descriptions of his abusive parents and his harrowing stint at "the toughest boys' school in North America," it is difficult not to draw connections between the privations of Pelton's youth and his obsessive need to confront danger--and the people who survive it--in order to feel alive.
Although at times Pelton's prose style is about as subtle as the firing end of an AK-47 ("It was time to live like the wind and then to die like thunder"), The Adventurist delivers on its "invitation to you to join me on the wire. To take that first step, look forward, fight your fears..." It offers views of places and experiences that most readers would otherwise never know, with the careful reminder that, "like home, adventure is not places so much as people." --Svenja Soldovieri
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The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going.
Enter the world of Robert Young Pelton (if you dare), adventurer extraordinaire, author of
Come Back Alive and
The World's Most Dangerous Places (required reading at the CIA), and host of his TV series, Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places.
A breakneck autobiography,
The Adventurist blasts across six continents and spans four decades of hard-core living with its dispatches of mayhem, adventure in exotic locales, survival against formidable odds, memories of the pivotal events, and memorable portraits of the people that have shaped Pelton's obsessive spirit.
Be shelled with the Talibs on the front lines of Afghanistan; hang out with hit men and rebels in the Philippines; survive a plane crash in Borneo; narrowly escape a terrorist bombing in Africa; dance with headhunters in Sarawak; crew with pirates in the Sulu Sea; explore the events that led Pelton to his unusual calling (including how he honed his survival skills at "the toughest boys' school in North America"); and, perhaps most important, discover Pelton's secret mission--to understand the hearts and minds of the people he meets.
The Adventurist is a real book about the real world, an inspirational read that takes you places you might never willingly go.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Fun.......2006-11-11
Great for a book you're just going to keep by your bed and pick up every so often. The short stories are just enough to get your imagination going. The author does a great job of making you feel like you're experiencing the locations as he did.
Almost great.......2004-11-29
Pelton has ventrued far and wide, to a self-reported selection of more than one hundred countries. Surely, in such extensive journeys he should be able to present new stories when he publishes new books. I bought this book looking not only for an autobiography, which was slow and repetitive about childhood and shallow beyond that, but for more adventures. When I realized that some of the longest stories in the Adventurist were stories that I had already read in World's Most Dangerous Places it disappointed me. Also, the book attempts to be artistic and creative by bouncing between stories much like The Things They Carried, but this fails in that sense. Here it is just slightly annoying and fairly useless. It could have been used well as a juxtaposition between similar phases of his life, but it didnt work as it should. The book is good, just dont expect too much.
One of the most exciting books I've read.......2004-07-30
A real page turner. I love the way the stories are organized. The chapters don't seem connected but as the book progresses his autobiography unfolds. Some people find it annoying, but I found it intriguing.
Good on ya Pelton!.......2002-02-12
Never mind what the stuffy wannabe literary critics have to say, Pelton writes about reality, and if you can't handle that, it is not a book for you. The people that have written negative reactions to the book obviously never left their home state or town for that matter. Pelton composes a fast, choppy, in your face yarn that will have you anxious to reach the next page...I highly recommend this one!
The interesting stories that could have been.......2002-01-18
I'm a traveller and enjoy travel writing. I thought I would like this book, but didn't. 'Disjointed' seems to best describe it. The author spends only a page or two describing places and events before popping off to someplace new. These one to two-page vignettes lack a sense of flow, lurching from one event to another, neither beginning nor concluding. This choppiness made it difficult to truly understand the depth, or escence, of the places he'd visited.
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The Making of a Pariah State: The Adventurist Politics of Muammar Qaddafi
Martin Sicker
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The Making of a Pariah State takes the reader behind the flamboyance and apparent irrationality of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to expose his attempt to impose national cohesion on the Arab, Muslim, and Third World elements under his leadership. Addressed to the general reader interested in foreign affairs, this timely and unique book provides a coherent framework for understanding why Libya is involved in international terrorism and the danger Qaddafi poses to the Third World and the West.
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A vibrant narrative about women who answered the call of adventure-female travelers & explorers who bravely defied the narrow conventions of their times to pursue their own goals. These women were doers: teachers, explorers, missionaries, aviators, hunters, actors, dancers, mountain-climbers...
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This new edition of Black's Medical Dictionary has been thoroughly updated and gives over 5,000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts.
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Great, Especially for school reports.......2000-04-18
I had a chance to use this book for a report and it was excelent. It doesn't event compare to a dictionary. It gives you the Cause, the Symptoms, and much more if you don't have it for your self make sure your library does! So get a A+ on any disease report
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An intimate and unvarnished view of Winston Churchill at his best.
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A Disappointing, Esoteric Book Recounting the Memories of a Fringe Churchill Aide.......2006-12-30
As I am a longtime admirer of Winston Churchill -- whose face and name is prominently featured on the dust jacket cover -- I eagerly looked forward to receiving this book. However, after reading through several chapters and numerous passages I ended up tossing the book into a pile that will eventually be given away as charity to the local library.
Notably, the title of this book, "The Fringes of Power", is an apt description for this work; and that title should be taken at face value. This book is very much about the people who worked at the fringes of power; not those who truly wielded it. To paraphrase a famous American television hamburger commercial: "Where's the beef?" Colville gives us a "fluffy bun", but precious little beef.
First of all, this diary is not written by Churchill, but by someone who worked with Churchill. We are promised "the incredible inside story of Winston Churchill", yet we get the John Colville story instead. Indeed, we are reading Colville's diary; not Churchill's. These are Colville's thoughts, his impressions, and most notably, the minutiae of his daily life -- where he ate dinner, with whom, and even what the weather was like on a given day. In some passages, this reads more like introspective poetry rather than solid insights into Churchill the man.
Secondly, there are a great many names of people and players who are identified in this diary, some of them quite obscure. But unless you are a Churchill historian, they will likely mean little to the average reader. Indeed, there are esoteric qualities about Colville's writing which seem impenetrable unless you are British, and a scholar of British politics during the run up to and during the World War II era.
Moreover, Colville's recollections of his life as a soldier add little but distraction. His recollections of his work for Neville Chamberlain is of doubtful utility, unless of course Neville Chamberlain is someone you wish to study. On that point, count me out. So, buyer beware: this is not truly a book about Churchill as the dust jacket cover suggests.
Finally, this book did little to satisfy my curiousity about Churchill. Were this Churchill's diary, I would be thrilled. But alas, it was written by a man who was acquainted with and for a time worked with Churchill. But there are many others who worked for and with Churchill who offer much better insights to the man.
As mentioned earlier, if you are a serious historian, intimately familiar with the entire cast of characters in the British political scene during Churchill's tenure in parliament and as Prime Minister, you may find this book interesting and enlightening. But if you are like many of us who want to know Churchill and care little about fringe minutiae, I would respectfully submit that there are much better offerings, including of course, the work of Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer.
One of the finest wartime diaries ever published.......2002-08-21
John Colville's wonderful, readable diary of the Second World War should be required reading for anyone interested in 20th century British history and the life of Winston Churchill. At times funny, moving, heartbreaking and always compulsively readable, Colville's writings allow one to see the inside of 10 Downing street in the weeks and months when the nation was preparing for Nazi invasion.
The diary can be broken down into four parts, with the last three concerning Colville's life as a soldier in the war and his life as a private secretary under first Clement Atlee and then the second Premiership of Churchill. These three sections are all readable and fun.
What makes the diary so wonderful, however, is the first four hundred pages, concerning Colville's role as private secretary first to Neville Chamberlain and then to Winston Churchill during the first two years of the war. In the diaries Colville becomes something of a stand in for the larger British public; at first admiring Chamberlains moral stature while remaining skittish about Churchill's supposed "unreliability." Later, after the summer of 1940, Colville would come to love and admire Churchill, and view him as the savior of his nation.
This book is must reading for those interested in Churchill and the war. Not for the big picture, mind you, as we all know how the story ends. It is the little things that makes Colville's diary so wonderful, like snippets of conversation Churchill had when sat at dinner or the bon mots he threw at friends and foes alike. Colville work humanizes Churchill, and reminds of why he is so worthy of our admiration.
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The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China, 1895-1951 (James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science)
Lawrence D. Kessler
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Tarheels in China .......2005-09-15
Far more is written about Christian missionaries from the North, especially New England, than from the South. The author attempts to redress some of this imbalance with this story of the Jiangyin Mission Station of the Southern Presbyterian Church near Shanghai, China. The home church of the Station was in Wilmington, NC which may make the book of especial interest to Carolinians.
The author has turned out a good academic history of the Station and the American missionaries who staffed it. Jiangyin began life with an anti-Christian riot -- the missionaries were accused of killng children to take their organs for medicine, an echo of the common rumors around the world today that Westerners kill children to steal their organs for transplant. Over the years the Mission was accepted by many in the Chinese community -- although converts were few and far between. The author includes maps and photos plus a lot of detail about how missionaries lived and worked. An especially good chapter details the trials and tribulations of the missionaries when Japan invaded the region in 1937 and, finally, forced the closing of Jiangyin on December 8, 1941. The Church opened Jiangyin after WW II, but it was closed permanently by the Chinese Communists in 1951. The history of Jiangyin is pretty typical of hundreds of Mission stations in China.
Well, this is a subject with a limited readership and -- however well done this book -- I have to wonder why academic books of such limited sales potential are not simply published on the web as ebooks and made available free to the general public. The author surely does not get rich off the royalties.
Smallchief
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Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure
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The international nature of the Internet often conflicts with national differences in law, social values, and public policy. Within national boundaries, local ordinances add another layer of discord. And many governments have been caught off-guard by the Net's explosive growth. Some concern and confusion can be attributed to laws developed for earlier forms of media and business transactions. The contributors to this collection of essays wrestle with the emerging questions posed by a medium that defies national boundaries in ways previously unknown and woefully unexpected. Among the issues covered are intellectual property, commerce, security, privacy, and censorship.
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Today millions of technologically empowered individuals are able to participate freely in international transactions and enterprises, social and economic. These activities are governed by national and local laws designed for simpler times and now challenged by a new technological and market environment as well as by the practicalities and politics of enforcement across national boundaries.
Borders in Cyberspace investigates issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social and cultural values as these differences are reformulated in the emerging global information infrastructure. The contributions include detailed analyses of some of the most visible issues, including intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.
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- Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities
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- The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
- The Distributed Workplace: Sustainable Work Environments
- The End of the Street: Sustainable Growth Within Natural Limits
- The Finest Houses Of Paris
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