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Aldo van Eyck, Doyen of Dutch architecture, is one of the most significant architects of the 20th century. His way of looking at buildings, his visual thinking, his way of perceiving and structuring time and space, events and social coexistence had a strong influence on his contemporaries during the 1950s and 1960s. The book is based on van Eyck's substantial archive of original texts, plans and photographs, documenting all presented buildings in depth. Texts by Vincent Ligtelijn, Joseph Rykwert, Peter Smithson, Hermann Hertzberger, Henk Engel, and Francis Strauven complete the volume.
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Aldo van EycK.......2000-06-23
Es un genio del siglo XX. Y espero un precedente de la revolución del XXI. Lamentablemente holandés solo traducido al inglés.
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Like the book on which it is based, The Artist's Way Creativity Kit is an empowering tool for aspiring and working artists alike. The elements within this exquisite box are designed to encourage the establishment of a personal ritual surrounding your creative time. The words of Julia Cameron, author of the best-selling book The Artist's Way, will set you on your way. Inside you will find a contemplative writing journal featuring quotations from creative souls from Shakti Gawain to Leo Tolstoy on the nature of creativity and accompanying questions that allow you apply their wisdom to your life, 75 cards with creative tasks geared toward spontaneity and play, and a packet of sandalwood incense.
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Better off giving this as a gift with the book.......2005-03-24
I was fortunate to get a copy of this kit on sale for $5 at a metaphysical bookstore brand new. The Artist's Way Creativity Kit is very beautiful, complete with a small journal, incense, a circular cards with ideas on what to do for an artist date. That's pretty much the contents. It's simple and a great gift with the book. There really isn't a tool in the kit to help with promoting more creative output.
Disappointing.......2002-05-06
This piece is very unlike Julia Cameron's other creations. The kit doesn't seem to have much substance - a far cry from the Artist's Way. I was very disappointed by this kit, and I would not recommend it to anyone who has already been through The Artist's Way.
Very disappointing.......2000-06-21
I'm a huge sucker for just about anything Julia Cameron does--I have "The Artist's Way," two of her books of prayers & declarations (& a third on the way), two tapes, "The Vein of Gold," etc., etc. & I love these tools. I eagerly snapped up this box but was very disappointed. The little journal could be sold separately--it's a nice volume & a neat idea. The other contents really aren't worth the money & just under half the box is air (there's a cardboard insert to fill up the space). I suspect this was someone's marketing idea & not something that should've been approved, because it's not up to the quality of all that Cameron has done (& her other stuff is very, very good).
Great for calligraphers, but pricey.......2000-06-06
This would make a good gift for any artist or anyone who enjoys writing down their thoughts. The inspirational quotes in the journal are also excellent for calligraphers & rubber stampers. It makes a great companion to the Artist's Way book as well. The kit comes enclosed in a box and includes a journal, 10 incense sticks & 3 stacks of paper disks. It is all done in Asian style graphics and colors.
The disks include reminders to take time to enjoy the little things in life with quotes like "Watch airplanes land" or "Take a garden tour." Quotes such as "Decorate your mailbox" or "Make a painting on an old window" inspire you to create things. Others, such as "Borrow a friends coat for a day" or Wear a disguise to the grocery store" were a little strange and even funny.
The journal has wonderful quotes and though provoking questions on each page. It encourages you to write down your thoughts about them in the journal to help be more creative & gain inner spirituality. Questions such as "Do you allow joy for the sake of joy?" or "What tiny change can you make for the better today?" help you focus on what's really important in life. Quotes like "A mind too active is no mind at all" and "Imagination is more important than knowledge" really force you to think about how you live your life. Though I received this as gift and did enjoy it, I do think it was a bit overpriced for the content.
Not Much Substance Here.......2000-03-31
Being a real sucker for merchandising, I loved the packaging for this creativity "kit," a red and black oriental-inspired treasure box. But after tearing off the cellophane with great anticipation, there isn't a lot of substance. The very slender booklet contains mostly blank lines for journaling, each page being adorned with an inspirational quote to get you going. I liked the incense and the little packages of creativity cards that give suggestions for doing things out out of the ordinary (e.g., "bake a special treat for your pet"). Since I have no pets, though, those suggestion cards will be deep-sixed. This kit is awfully expensive for the slim offerings. One would be better off just buying "The Artist's Way" and picking up a package of incense at the local psychic shop.
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Fatsy Patsy
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Fatsy Patsy's Back In Town
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Cartoon collection.
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Fifty Years at the Front: The Life of War Correspondent Frederick Palmer
Nathan A. Haverstock
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More than a thousand individuals of high net worth rose up to protest the repeal of the estate tax-Newsweek tagged them the "billionaire backlash." The primary visionaries of that group, Bill Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins, argue here that individual wealth is a product not only of hard work and smart choices but of the society that provides the fertile soil for succes. Weaving personal narratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates and Collins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, not repeal.
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Very Informative.......2006-08-19
I had to read this book for a political science class I was taking over the summer, and I am glad the professor chose this book because I learned a lot about the estate/death tax. This book puts everything into prospective, and explains the pros and cons of the tax. If your interested on how the estate tax works and why we need it read this book.
Original Indigenous Economy has truths to help us grow........2005-03-24
This review is excellent but I believe that those of us who live in Turtle Island will develop unified systematic responses only when we begin to honour the heritage of First Nations. The common wealth of First Nations was brought about through inclusive and comprehensive accounting practices, which valorized the contributions of all community members. This primary accounting including women's and social work took place in the Production Societies of each community. This accounting unified ownership for all members of the Production Societies. Wampum and other string currencies were issued across the 36 Confederacies of Turtle Island. People not only voted with their Wampum but spent it as currency as well. Ownership was progressive from the early status of an apprentice to the weighted Wampum 'share' holdings of the elder. What is missing in our capitalist and socialist worlds is their unity. Both systems hold part of the puzzle. Both developed as institutional fragments of a once integrated whole. The wonderful thing being that First Nations still hold many clues to understand this ancient system from aroung the world. You can imagine the difference between a whole culture of economic justice and merely a complaint department in a crooked department store. While Gates and Collins book is essential, it is through cultural indigenous economic design that we gain the involvement to make a difference. Western authors tend to keep us in critical analysis but still divided. Douglas Jack, eco-montreal@mcgill.ca (514) 695-3845
6 Stars Out of 5.......2003-05-17
This extraordinary little book packs a gigantic punch. I'd love to summarize it here, but as soon as you buy the book, get straight to Chapter One. It's enough to make you sick in the stomach.
Is America a "democracy"? After Ch.1 you really wonder. A sample from p. 15: Around the turn of the century, shortly before WWI, the top 1 (one) per cent of the population owned 56.4% of the country's private wealth - at the same time, the authors tell us, "the wealthiest 10 [ten] per cent of households owned 90% of all wealth." Now, think about it: 90% of Americans together owned a mere 10% of the country! (And most of the country's wealth was in private hands, because the government at all levels owned very little of value. There wasn't even a national park in existence!) That's neither justice nor democracy.
American society started to improve since then, especially after the introduction of income tax. But things have again gone in the opposite direction in the last two decades, so that "the United States is now the most unequal society in the industrialized world." (p. 14)
This fact is borne out in the UN Human Development Report 2002. (I was surprised that this authoritative publication is NOT cited anywhere in this book.) This report gives the "Gini Index" for each country, among numerous other data. The Gini Index is not something out of Aladdin: It "measures inequality over the entire distribution of income or consumption. A value of 0 represents perfect equality, and a value of 100 perfect inequality." (p. 197) Ranked are these selected countries in the industrialized world: Denmark (24.7 - the least unequal society), Japan (24.8), other Scandinavian countries (including Finland) at around 26, then Germany (30.0), then English-speaking countries like my own Canada (31.5 - the lowest in this group), Australia (35.2 !!), the UK (36.8 - hardly news, what with their queen and lords), and finally the United States at 40.8. (France, the host of the French Revolution, is a surprising 32.7.) For comparison, developing China is 40.3 (beats the US by a hair - but not for long), India only 37.8 (I guess only a couple of people can be called rich there), and Russia is the most unequal of all at 48.7.....but then Russia is now run by a mafia of ruthless moneylords, much like America a century ago, when men like Rockefeller and Al Capone ran all the shows. (Still it is better than the gulag and secret police. And anything is better than communism.)
Getting rid of the estate tax won't help one bit. On the other hand, not repealing it in and of itself is just a small step in the right direction, hardly enough to stop the country from sliding down the slippery slope to a second Gilded Age. This book makes a very convincing argument why getting rid of the estate tax is truly a form of insanity the name of which is still not in the psychiatric textbooks. Bill Gates Sr.'s position is supported by his son (the world's richest man - mostly self-made). Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man (also self-made), disagrees with them only because he thinks the estate tax as it is does not go far enough. (He'd prefer to tax 100% of the super-rich's inheritance not given to charity.) This estate tax is absolutely, undoubtedly no "death tax" - as though everyone has to pay it, even the poor. Rather, it is really just "rich kids' tax"! Let's start calling the thing by its right name.
Andrew Carnegie is frequently quoted in this book, for good reasons. This mega-hero of the Gilded Age, who rose from abject poverty in a foreign country to become the richest man on earth, literally built America - with the steel from his furnaces, used in railroads and highrise buildings. He went even further than Buffett: "Any rich man [or woman, I assume] who doesn't give away his money to charity BEFORE he dies is a shame and a disgrace to society," as he said over and over. Carnegie certainly practised what he preached. (Before he died he gave away at least 95% of his worth, mostly to create free libraries for people too poor to have books.) Carnegie also believed in the estate tax: "Of all taxes this seems the wisest," in a memorable quote in this fine book.
At a time when many Americans worry about losing their jobs, when every citizen pays for the defense of the country, this is no time for the estate tax repeal - just so that the Forbes zillionaires own and control even more of the country while the rest have nothing or next to nothing. The supremely selfish, extremely greedy, totally irresponsible, unbelievably small-minded and short-sighted people who oppose the estate tax - and therefore dislike this book - hate and despise their fellow Americans more, and do more long term damage to America, than any Middle East terrorists because this kind of injustice (in Buffett's choice word) was what caused the downfall of Rome and is still yet another reason which encourages neo-Marxists everywhere.
This book is densely argued and extremely clearly presented. The 24 pages of sources in this slim little volume show the authors have done their homework, despite the omission I mentioned. Bill Gates Sr.'s authority is undeniable not only because he was already wealthy himself BEFORE his son became the world's richest human being (for at least the past ten years as far as I know), but also because he is himself a highly successful tax lawyer and in charge of one of the world's largest charitable foundations, the Gates Foundation. (One day it will be the world's largest.) If he doesn't know what he is talking about, I don't know who does. This book's Foreword is aptly written by the formidable Paul Volcker, former Fed Chairman.
I can't praise this book enough. It can go further though, as the public and private statements by Warren Buffett - a good friend of both Gates' - explain clearly why. Despite its admirable conciseness, this book can use a good general index at the end. (I want to be sure who said what when and why.)
Must Reading for Every Member of Congress.......2003-04-06
Most controversial issues have two sides. The authors of this book present the arguments in favor of abolishing the estate tax in "the best light" by quoting at length and in context the abolition proponents' rationale. They then destroy these arguments by showing how and why they are based on false and often misleading "facts." They also make the case as to why an estate tax on those few accumulated fortunes which are, even under the pre-2001 law, subject to the tax is an important foundation stone of the American Experiment. I am not naive enough to believe that those who have made a career of opposing the estate tax will be swayed by the authors' book, but anyone with an open mind should be.
Brilliant. A must read for those who care about the USA........2003-02-15
This brief book strongly explains how society will benefit from keeping an estate tax on the wealthy. It explains how the estate tax allows America to be a meritocratic place where the best and brightest rise to the top and can make the most positive social change. It explains how charity giving will increase during wealthy individual's lifetimes if they know they face a big tax at the end. It gives a brief history of the estate tax and why it was introduced in the first place. It exposes the hypocrisy of Bush's estate tax repeal that expires in 2010. All in all, it provides a very concise argument why we must give back to the society which enabled us to have the potential to become wealthy in the first place. I never thought I'd be able to read through a book on tax law without putting it down. This book is brilliant.
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John-Hughes Wilson is a recently retired Colonel in British military intelligence. He reveals how intelligence is the hidden hand behind major events, from stunning military victories to disasters like Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
It soon emerges that the Cold War spying game, as depicted by John Le Carre, has been going on for centuries. Almost every devious trick used by the KGB or the CIA would have been familiar to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I's intelligence chief. He trapped Mary Queen of Scots in a conspiracy that lead to her execution: a brilliant operation that involved breaking Spanish codes, torturing their spies and turning many into double-agents. His methods, and his conviction that 'the end justifies the means', have been shared by successful intellig4ence chiefs from Roman times t the present day.
He argues that Military Intelligence - not prostitution - is the world's 'oldest profession', but the two often overlap. From the prostitute in Jericho who hid Joshua's spies to the infamous KGB 'honey traps' that ensnared CIA agents, politicians and businessmen, ladies of the night appear with salacious frequency in the story.
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Misinformed, innacurate, confusing.......2006-01-14
I was thoroughly disappointed. The book would have been a much, timely treatment of events occurring today. The Cold War is over but there is a new threat amongst us: can the Intell-Defense powers be just as active to crush this new enemy? It would have been an interesting book. The author is often found waffling due to lack of material and sometimes even relating historical items inaccurately.
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The Puppet Masters: Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces Behind World Events (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
John Hughes-Wilson
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A lively read for both serious military history buffs and general-interest readers alike.......2006-08-20
THE PUPPET MASTERS: SPIES, TRAITORS AND THE REAL FORCES BEHIND WORLD EVENTS covers intelligence around the world and its effect on major events in world history, from Cold War spying operations to the effects of intelligence on statesmen, politicians, and agencies of military and government alike. It draws strong connections between world history and legacies left by intelligence operations during war and peacetime alike, providing a fine survey of underlying rationale, historical events, and more. A lively read for both serious military history buffs and general-interest readers alike.
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The monarchy and the British people, 1760 to the present
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Large-Scale Optimization with Applications: Part II: Optimal Design and Control (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)
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The workshop on optimization for design and control was made up of specialists in optimization and practitioners in the fields of aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, and fluid and solid mechanics. The major themes included an assessment of the state of the art in optimization algorithms as well as challenging applications in design and control, in the areas of process engineering and systems with partial differential equation models. The papers in this volume represent a balanced selection from the above application areas as well as contributions that survey the state of the art in relevant areas of nonlinear programming.
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