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Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts & Crafts Architecture
Sheila Kirk Manufacturer: Academy Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470868082 |
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This is the definitive book on Philip Webb (1831–1915), a key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement and a leading member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, who has since emerged as one of the most important architects of the nineteenth century. It provides a comprehensive account of Webb’s design philosophy, his architectural work and his influence, while also telling his fascinating life story.Combining architectural history and biography, the compelling narrative gives a full picture of the character of this extraordinary man – a man known for his absolute integrity, who shunned publicity but nevertheless attracted clients of high status and came to be one of the most significant architectural innovators of his age. Interspersed with vivid descriptions of Webb’s buildings, it covers his relationships with his clients, contractors and artistic contemporaries. These include his close friends in the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were also three of his fellow partners in the interior decorating and furnishing business, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.. As well as covering Webb’s work for the firm, the book includes his involvement with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, which he helped Morris to found, and for which he developed influential methods of repairing buildings unobtrusively.
During the later twentieth century, Webb was cited as a pioneer of Modern Movement architecture. This obscured the extent of his influence on Arts and Crafts architecture, which was acknowledged during his actual lifetime. Aimed at the wider public, as well as the academic world, this is the first publication to include a systematic and detailed analysis of Webb’s philosophy and all his work. It is lavishly illustrated with new photography by Martin Charles, and plans, drawings, and archive photographs, which are brought together for the first time.
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Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels (Watson-Guptill Famous Artists)
E. John Bullard Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0823005704 |
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A collection of the work of a trailblazing female artist.......2006-12-30
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Mary Cassatt : Oils and Pastels
Mary] Bullard, E. John [Cassatt Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OGBPMC |
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Mary Cassatt Oils and Pastels
E. John Bullard Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MCB3UM |
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Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings
Adelyn Breeskin; Dohme Large 4to Manufacturer: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1399863517 |
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Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels
John E. Cassatt] Bullard Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J2ZUC2 |
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Mary Cassatt;: A catalogue raisonne of the oils, pastels, watercolors, and drawings
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0874741009 |
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Family Scrapbooks: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Michele Gerbrandt , and Deborah Cannarella Manufacturer: Universe ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0883639351 Release Date: 2001-11-20 |
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With step-by-step instructions, a glossary of techniques, and colorful examples of more than 100 pages of original scrapbook art, this book explores how to work with past and present materials. It also includes a PVC scrapbook template and two cropping tools.
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Memory Makers Family Scrapbooks - Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow
Manufacturer: F&W Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 088363936X |
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Extraordinary, colorful examples of more than 100 pages of original scrapbook art from artists across the country are offered along with step-by-step instructions for many of them.
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Hagar H/another Fish
Dik Browne Manufacturer: Jove ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 051510714X |
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New Directions in MIS Management: A Guide for the 1990s
Robert J. Thierauf Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0899303463 |
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With new developments in hardware and software, MIS managers are increasingly faced with the need to develop more sophisticated managerial--as opposed to purely technical--skills. Here, an acknowledged expert in the field of information systems draws on his own original research and experience to develop a set of workable strategies and techniques that MIS managers can use to function more effectively as we move into the next decade. Thierauf identifies probable trends in the field in coming years and outlines ways in which MIS managers can anticipate predictable problems, apply improved management skills to the end-user interface, and effectively motivate MIS personnel. Thierauf concentrates particularly on four major areas of managerial responsibility: planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling. In planning, he shows how to use problem-finding techniques to anticipate and solve potential problems between MIS personnel and end-users. To help reduce this conflict, Thierauf argues, there is a need for a new direction in organizing MIS departments. He proposes bringing MIS and end-use departments together by using a functional departmental approach. In motivating MIS personnel, there is need to go beyond self-actualization by emphasizing mutual actualization as well as self donation. Finally, in the area of control, Thierauf advocates the use of soft controls to replace stringent controls that have had a tendency to restrict personal freedom on the job. A common thread througout the discussion is a focus on effective guidelines for the MIS manager to follow in order to come to grips with the changing realities of the 1990s.
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Real Estate Principles for the New Economy (with CD-ROM)
Norman G. Miller , and David M. Geltner Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0324187408 |
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More than ever, today's economy is in constant evolution -- continually creating new challenges and new opportunities. Real Estate Principles for the New Economy reflects on this new perspective in both the real estate industry and academic world along with the value of new economic possibilities brought about by the ever-changing information technology revolution. Miller/Geltner apply the implications of technology on both the specializations within the real estate industry and various property types. While the text covers fundamentals necessary to understand today's economy, the supplemental CD provides professional-grade spreadsheets and tools that allow you to practice these fundamentals. Together, this learning package integrates the developments in the field of financial economics that have become basic to the understanding of, and professional practice within, the real estate field. This book provides new global perspectives that enable you to become sensitive to cultural differences that may influence business decisions, risk management and negotiation strategies -- preparing you for doing business in the new economy.Customer Reviews:
New book sets a new standard.......2004-03-15
"Provides an incredibly readable theoretical overview with practical market nuances, resources and advice." Mike Sklarz, Chief Valuation Officer, FNIS
"The first real estate book that is thoroughly integrated with the best of the internet based resources. Skills required of professionals are demonstrated along with the sources of data used for analysis." A. Florance, CoStar
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Real Estate Principles for the New Economy
David M. Geltner Norman G. Miller Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OUDDBO |
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Tell It Again! 2: More Easy-To-Tell Stories With Activities for Young Children (Tell It Again)
Rebecca Isbell , and Shirley Raines Manufacturer: Gryphon House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0876592086 |
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Eighteen children's stories feature tips for capturing the attention of young children. It's easy, just read the story, noting the hints and tips. Extend the story with activites specially created to fit each story.
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Winfield Scott Hancock: Gettysburg Hero (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Perry D. Jamieson Manufacturer: McWhiney Foundation Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1893114392 |
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Great book for everyone.......2003-12-27
Excellent Edition.......2003-11-15
Although this biography would appear brief to those not acquainted with the series, it is actually one of the longest yet published in it. This series is meant to give a shortened yet informative account of Civil War figures and events to those not yet familar with them. Jamieson gives an outstanding portrait of Hancock as a geniune military hero and analyzes the role he played in saving the Union. For those who would want to learn more, he lists several extensive and acclaimed biographies of "Hancock The Superb."
The maps and biographical sketches included are a great aide to those without prior knowledge of Civil War figures. Jamieson tells not only of Hancock's role in the war (although he does, of course, focus on it) but also recounts his admirable postwar service on the frontier as well as his failed presidential campaign. Also of note is the mention of the history behind the most famous Hancock monuments and memorials, including both the statue atop Cemetery Hill and in Washington DC, as well as others.
In conclusion, this book is an excellent introuction to one of the finest commanders in American miltary history. It combines solid research and storytelling in an effective manner and does justice to the man and his memory.
New Hancock Biography Examined.......2003-09-06
The narrative text covers less than 180 pages. Included in these pages are ten maps and seventeen separate sidebar biographies and photographs of major Civil War figures, including Thomas J. Jackson, Richard Ewell, John Sedgewick, and Phil Sheridan. These sidebar bios may be helpful to readers unfamiliar with Civil War history, but they distract from the subject of the book and interfere with the flow of the narrative. Mysteriously, of all the photographs included in the book, there is not one photograph of Hancock himself, other than the cover illustration.
Readers interested in Hancock's early years will find the book disappointing. The first sixteen years of his life are covered in three paragraphs, and his lengthy prewar military career takes up less than seven pages. While it is the obvious intention of the author to speed through this period in order to examine Hancock's Civil War actions, the years from 1840 until 1861 were the most formative in shaping Hancock's performance as a battlefield commander.
Jamieson handles well the details of Hancock's wartime rise to fame as "Hancock the Superb," as he does the rest of the general's Civil War service. Naturally, there is an emphasis on Hancock's role at Gettysburg, where the corps commander truly performed superbly. Jamieson devotes four chapters - nearly one-fifth of the entire book - to the Gettysburg campaign.
For some reason, Jamieson persistently refers to Hancock as a "War Democrat," even in descriptions of combat. For example, in his account of the Wilderness fighting, Jamieson writes on page 95, "The War Democrat immediately directed this unit [Carroll's brigade] into the bloody turmoil around the crossroads." While Hancock was a lifelong Democrat with firm political beliefs, he was always a soldier first. The repetition of the label War Democrat seems out of place in the narrative, especially in the battle action.
Jamieson's sidebar bio of Hancock's friend and Confederate brigadier Lewis Armistead says that Armistead's "genial personality made him one of the most popular commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia." Such a statement seems based more on actor Richard Jordan's sympathetic portrayal of Armistead in the film Gettysburg than on the historical record. In the 1994 booklet, Trust in God and Fear Nothing - Lewis A. Armistead CSA, author Wayne Motts used his extensive research to reveal Armistead as a tough, hard-bitten military professional who could be harsh with soldiers and subordinates, not unlike Hancock himself. Jamieson also records the date of Armistead's death incorrectly on pages 85 and 89 - Armistead died on the morning of July 5th, not early in the afternoon of July 4th.
Jamieson's book is the first new work on the life of Winfield Scott Hancock in the 21st century. While useful as an introduction to the general's extraordinary career, readers truly interested in the life of Hancock the Superb should consider this book a starting point in their research, rather than the final word on Winfield Scott Hancock.
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Une autre conscience pour un age nouveau
Frederic Lionel Manufacturer: R. Laffont ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 2221011171 |
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Birds of Venezuela (Princeton Paperbacks)
Steven L. Hilty Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691092508 |
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Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together under one cover much of what is known about these species. Its users can identify all the birds in this vast country, from the Caribbean coast in the north to the Amazonian jungles in the south, from the Andes in the west to the Gran Sabana plateau in the east.
With a completely new text by Steven Hilty, Birds of Venezuela is a greatly expanded and thoroughly reformatted successor to the pioneering Guide to the Birds of Venezuela (Princeton,1978). It includes sixty-seven beautiful color and black-and-white plates, most by the well-known artists John Gwynne and Guy Tudor, as well as numerous line drawings. The plates and drawings together--almost half of them never before published--depict most of Venezuela's bird species. Introductory chapters cover physical geography, climate, biogeography, vegetation and habitats, conservation, migration, and the history of ornithology in Venezuela. A gallery of forty-four stunning color habitat photos and color habitat and relief maps complete the opening section.
Detailed range maps plot collection localities and sight records--a unique feature--for almost all species. Plumage descriptions are provided for each bird, as is extensive information on voice, behavior, and status. More than 800 bibliographic entries accompany the text, making this book an invaluable and broad-based reference to the avifauna of not only Venezuela but much of northern South America. Treating nearly 40 percent of the continent's bird species, Birds of Venezuela is the definitive resource for all birders with an eager eye on this splendorous country and the surrounding region.
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An essential book for Venezuelan birds.......2006-09-17
Excellent Source.......2004-02-23
Hilty's book is not a second edition.......2003-03-20
Having said that, there is little one can add to Chris Sharpe's comprehensive review except to say that I have already used Hilty's book extensively for research this year, along with the other current guides for other countries, and have found it to be the best. In my opinion it sets a new standard. The only small weakness worth noting here is the plates, but has there been a guide that is perfect in this respect?
For anybody birding in Venezuela, the book is an essential item to have along.
One of the best Neotropical bird guides available.......2003-01-09
First of all, the new guide is twice as thick and the text is much more closely packed. The book now weighs in at over 1.8 kg (4 lbs) and is more along the lines of the field guide volume of the Birds of Ecuador (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001). Nearly a hundred new species are treated, taking the country total to 1381. Far more species are illustrated and more colour plates have been used, though eight black and white plates have been retained to depict flying raptors and swifts. We now have 67 plates compared with the previous 53 - a 25% increase. Twenty-five of the plates are entirely new with beautiful artwork primarily by John Gwynne. The new plates cover a range of taxa, with Cracids, owls, nightjars, toucans, tanagers, Fringillids, Emberizids and Icterids particularly well covered. A further four have been adapted from Birds of Panamá (Ridgely and Gwynne 1989) and one from Birds of Colombia (Hilty and Brown 1986). The remaining 37 are basically the same Guy Tudor plates (and one by John Gwynne) from the old edition with some modifications.
To my mind, though, it is the text which has really benefited from this new edition - so much so that this should really be thought of as an entirely new field guide. The format follows and improves on the standard set by Birds of Mexico (Howell and Webb 1995) and Birds of Ecuador. The type-setting and text layout have allowed far more text to be included than, say, Birds of Ecuador and Hilty has also been precise and economical with his words. This comes as no surprise to those familiar with Hilty's earlier Birds of Colombia.
The text is far more oriented towards identification than in the old edition - the main requisite for a field guide. The first section contains information specifically on identification and this is followed by a section on similar species, where further comparative text is merited. The voice section is new and seems to be very well compiled with - to my taste - excellent transliterations of songs and calls. Much natural history information and further aids to identification are included under a paragraph on behaviour. A detailed appraisal of status and habitat preference is included before the final discussion of range. The text retains the custom established by the earlier edition of separating range information by subspecies, a feature which is particularly welcome in these times of ever changing taxonomy. Range maps are another new feature and they make use of points corresponding to specimen and sight records as well as the customary shading to indicate overall range. In short, they are similar in format to those provided in Birds of Ecuador.
Finally there is a good selection of references at the end of the book and some very nice colour habitat photographs at the beginning. A well annotated locality map of the country is also provided together with colour relief and vegetation maps.
Any drawbacks? With a work of this magnitude there are bound to be some errors and omissions and I quickly found a number of minor inaccuracies too petty to mention here. Perhaps the guide could have a benefited a wee bit more from external review of status and range of some species - there are gaps in the known range of a number of species. Many will also carp about the dimensions and weight of this new guide, though this is an inevitable product of the diversity of the avifauna in question and nothing that cannot be remedied with a pair of scissors and a certain degree of irreverence.
In resumé, an essential buy for all who are interested in Neotropical ornithology and truly great value for money too. I can't wait to get the book out into the field!
Helpful, but sometimes confusing.......2001-12-01
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Checklist of the Birds of Northern South America: An Annotated Checklist of the Species and Subspecies of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curacao, ... & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana
Clemencia Rodner , Miguel Lentino , and Robin Restall Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0300087403 |
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Alas de mi tierra y de mi alma (Monografia / Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales)
Walter Arp Manufacturer: Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 8449940176 |
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ESPECTACULAR!!!.......2007-07-03
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An Annotated List of Birds Collected in The Vicinity of La Guaira, Venezuela
Robinson, Wirt and Charles W. Richmond Manufacturer: U.S. Government Printing Ofc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K7NNY8 |
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Aves Venezolanas
Kathleen Deery De Phelps Manufacturer: Editorial Lectura ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IKJYLI |
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Guide To Birds of Venezuela Illustrated In Color.
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BIRDS COLLECTED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S EXPEDITIONS TO NORTHERN BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA
Herbert Friedmann Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RF0N6Y |
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Birds collected by the National Geographic Society's expeditions to northern Brazil and southern Venezuela (Proceedings of the United States National Museum)
Herbert Friedmann Manufacturer: U.S. National Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007H0222 |
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A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Venezuela (Proceedings of the United States National Museum)
Herbert Friedmann Manufacturer: The Museum ; ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007F03DM |
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El corocoro rojo y su mundo ([Coleccion Fauna de los llanos de Venezuela)
Benjamin Busto Manufacturer: Fundacion Cientifica y Fluvial de los Llanos ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 9802870234 |
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A further contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Venezuela
Herbert Friedmann Manufacturer: Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007F0BHK |
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