Urban Design: Street and Square, Third Edition

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This book, part of a series of four, offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory of the principal features of urban design from which method is developed and provides a better understanding of the main elements of urban design. This includes the arrangement, design and details of the streets and squares, and the roles they play in city planning.

This third edition includes chapters on "Sustainable Urban Design" and "Visual Analysis", introducing the latest theories and influences in the field and bringing greater practical significance to the book. Cliff Moughtin explores the street and square in terms of function, structure and symbolism and examines fine examples in their historical context. These are set against the background of the laws of urban design composition, culled from Renaissance and modern writers.

* Gain an understanding of the detail of urban design from towns and buildings to squares and streets
* Learn from examples in their historical context and see the evolution of urban design
* New case studies help relate theory to practice

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This is a complete collection of tone techniques for drawing manga, from the fundamentals to actual use. When drawing the expressions of a character, how should tone be used? This volume is full of knowledge for gaining complete command of the use of tone.

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Excellent book but not for everyone .......2004-11-23

A wonderful edition that focuses on how to tone your work and recommended for those interested in making their own manga and how to tone them. Even though the book uses actual tones (Letraset, etc), you can apply what you learned on the now growing use of digital tones. It covers everything you'll use a tone for from characters, shading, backgrounds, and effects. It even mentions proper use, techniques, and example pages includes specific tones used.

This is not a book to get for the young, or those who do not like S&M drawings which are shown near the end of the book. The examples are more on the provocative side and are anatomically detailed (expect nipples and aereolas) than the other How To books.

for serious toners a must.......2004-05-27

been using tone for 2 years now, and even living here in japan. i can tell you i have yet to see many tone books, well maybe 2 others under i.c. screen. and they were not really that good either. but this book tells you how to do some sweet effects, picks up where how to manga vol.3 left off, so if you use tone, and want to have a look like the japanesse comics, i would say not getting this book is a mistake.

Very Helpful, but not for kids........2004-02-08

This book is very helpful in explaining the use of tones for dramatic shots, overlapping techniques, etc. However, this books is definitely not for the younger aspiring artist. As the previous reviewer mentions, the book presents some very graphic and risqué imagery that is reminiscent of hentai. I would highly recommend the other book in the How To Draw Manga series (Pen & Tone Techniques) if this book is meant for a younger audience, or if you are offended by such material.

Good, but..........2003-09-11

As an aspiring artist of manga style, I bought this addition to the How to Draw Manga series. It was helpful in many places, considering before I didn't really understand what tone was. The tips and tricks are quite nifty, and the book comes with a few sheets of tone to practice with. Unkaku Koyama does a great job explaining the hows and whys.

But my main gripe with the book is in someplaces, it appears to be a How to Draw Hentai. He often shows tone as applied to extremely detailed ... female bodies. The section on how to apply tone to simulate leather is downright dirty. I guess the tip-off should be the flash of [underwear] on the cover, but I didn't notice that when I bought it, and was extremely surprised when I started reading.

Overall, highly recommended for people who need help with tone and don't mind somewhat explicit images. Also, those looking for tips on applying tone to male characters had best look elsewhere. There are three male figures in the entire 135 pages, and what appears to be a man's hand shoving a young girl onto the floor. For all of you who need help with tone and do mind explicit images, I'd suggest avoiding specifically pages 45, 51, 52, 84, 85, and 87.

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Documenting human life and events has long preoccupied photographers, and given them wonderfully varied and challenging subject matter. This book brings together a striking collection of black and white images from a leading selection of international photographers and through them Terry Hope explores the techniques and thought processes behind the art of photojournalism.

The result is a mix of vital first-hand information and fine photography, indeed as the author declares in the introduction, "this is a book that's as much about images as it as about technique".

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HALLOWEEN FUN WITH THE PEANUTS

Like Getting A Few Rocks in your Treats Bag

GREAT PEANUTS HALLOWEEN BOOK!!!

Trick or Treat: A Peanuts Halloween
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345464133
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN WITH GOOD FRIENDS,
SPOOKY FUN, AND PLENTY OF LAUGHS!

Give yourself a treat (no tricks attached!) with this hilarious collection of more than one hundred Halloween strips. Tag along as the Peanuts Gang rings doorbells for candy, bobs for apples, and scares their friends. Will Charlie Brown receive some chocolate this year or another sack of rocks? Which of Snoopy’s many daydreams will inspire a costume? Which witch is Lucy? And will Linus finally meet the Great Pumpkin? Interspersed throughout these delightful comic strips are cool Halloween tips, including costume ideas, party hints, and delicious snack recipes.

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HALLOWEEN FUN WITH THE PEANUTS.......2005-01-06

I'll admit to being a somewhat casual reader of comic strips. I have a few favorites I follow regularly, but around the holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas is really when I sit down and read a lot of newspaper strips. I guess I just love seeing how they celebrate the holidays and their usually quite funny.

This collection of Peanuts strips is all about Halloween as Charlie and the gange go trick-or-treating, have parties, and dress up for the season. It's not a complete collection of all of Schulz strips to be sure, but it's a nice, representative gathering of material culled from over the years. also included throughout is mostly forgettable tips for throwing parties, decorating, and recipes. None of it worth much and I would have preferred to see more comics and some in color as opposed to that stuff. all in all a nice collecton.

Like Getting A Few Rocks in your Treats Bag.......2004-11-30

This book was a mixed treat. For a book entitled A Peanuts Halloween it could have been a much better editorial effort. It fails to really capture the warmth of Schulz's vision of Halloween. The Halloween activities were extremely basic -- other activity and craft books are far better in that regard. The selection of strips was not very good. Everything is printed in black, orange and white only --hard to view for very long. It also is not a complete chronological collection of Great Pumpkin strips and there are no full color strips included at all. I expected more for Halloween,just like Sally, Linus and Charlie Brown, and I got a lot less. I now really know how the Peanuts gang feels when disappointment hits with the realization that great expectations are not met. If you are a die-hard Great Pumpkin fan, then get this book. If you like an authentic dose of that uneasy feeling that comes with frustration, disillusionment and dissatisfaction, then get this book.

GREAT PEANUTS HALLOWEEN BOOK!!!.......2004-10-04

I highly recommend this book, especially for any die-hard Peanuts fan. It was wonderful to see how Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the gang changed over time. And I happen to like Schulz's humor better when he first started writing and drawing; it was more childlike.

The comics are Halloween and monster themed and some of them are hilarious, ones I haven't seen in a long time. Of course there is lots about "The Great Pumpkin" but how could it be coming Halloween and Linus does not mention him!

Read it and enjoy. Good old fashioned comics and humor!

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Trick or Treat! A Peanuts Halloween

Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000CPJZAO

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LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold!

Trick or Treat, Great Pumpkin (Peanuts Interactive Books)

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Trick or Treat, Great Pumpkin (Peanuts Interactive Books)
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Perennial Currents
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0694008982

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Trick or Treat : A Peanuts Halloween
Charles M. Schulz
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: B000OVS44O

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For nearly three decades, Joyce Milgaard told anyone who would listen that her son David was an innocent man trapped in a nightmare, sentenced to life in prison at age seventeen for a rape and murder he did not commit.

From the time David was imprisoned in 1970, Joyce Milgaard pleaded with prime ministers, justice ministers, lawyers, scientists, church groups, police and the media to achieve her son's freedom.

Finally, David was released from prison in 1992, and in the summer of 1997, his name was cleared. DNA testing conducted in a laboratory in England conclusively proved what Joyce had always maintained -- that her son was the victim of a gross injustice when he was convicted and imprisoned for the murder of nursing aide Gail Miller of Saskatoon.

Joyce Milgaard's first-person story is an inspiring example of the unbreakable bond between a mother and her child, an illustration of the supportive strength of religious faith, and an empowering victory for the human spirit.

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A revealing and important Civil War memoir.

Marcus B. Toney was a convinced Methodist, confederate, and slavery partisan who became an early volunteer for Confederate service from his home near Nashville, Tennessee. He served with the First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the campaigns in West Virginia, at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and the Wilderness, where he was captured. Much of the interest and importance of this volume lie in Toney’s sober and detailed reporting of his experiences as a Federal POW, of the war’s immediate aftermath, and of the growth and appeal of the Ku Klux Klan directly following its formation.

Robert E. Hunt is Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. His current research centers on website and web curriculum development for middle Tennessee, the Civil War, and economic/social/cultural history in the 19th century.

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This book studies the so far unexplored operation of the international monetary system that prevailed before the emergence of the international gold standard in 1873. Conventional wisdom has it that the emergence of gold as a global anchor was both an inescapable and desirable evolution, given the exchange rate stability it provided and Britain's economic predominance. This study draws on a wealth of archival sources and abundant new statistical evidence (fully detailed in the appendix) to demonstrate that global exchange rate stability always prevailed before the making of the gold standard. This was despite the heterogeneity among national monetary regimes, based on gold, silver, or both. The reason for the stability before the establishment of the gold standard is France's bimetallic system. France, by being in a position to trade gold for silver, and vice versa, effectively pegged the exchange rate between gold and silver at its legal ratio of 15.5. Part I of the book studies exactly how this mechanism worked. Part II focuses on the respective behaviour of private concerns and arbitrageurs on the one hand, and authorities such as the Bank of France on the other hand, in order to underline the constraints and opportunities that were associated with bimetallism as an international regime. Finally, Part III provides a new view on the collapse of bimetallism and its replacement by a gold standard. It is argued that bimetallism might well have survived, and that the emergence of the gold standard was by no means inescapable. Rather, it resulted from a massive coordination failure at both national and international levels - a failure that was a preview of the interwar collapse of the gold standard.

The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873

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The Glitter of Gold: France, Bimetallism, and the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1848-1873
Marc Flandreau
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOJQ48

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This second edition of a highly successful text now updated introduces new developments like soft computing and Object Oriented Programming. This text is divided in three parts: · Programming · Applications · Software Development Coverage on CAD and its impact, C and C++ programming are presented for engineering problems with database and graphics as the bases and finite elements, optimisation and soft computing methods as applications. Initial developments towards C language and orientation to CAD in engineering applications is followed by programming approaches for engineering applications with a number of examples in C code demonstrating easy adaptability to solving problems. Emphasis is layed on data base and graphic approaches forming essential feature of engineering problem solving.

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