The New American Dream: Living Well in Small Homes

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Simplicity, modesty, and skillful design are the principles that have guided James Gauer both in his architectural practice and in the selection of the seventeen outstanding projects in this unique collection of small homes by architects around the country. A wide range of housing types and settings—from a diminuative New York City apartment to a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, a cottage in Santa Monica, and a single-family home in Nashville—illustrates a variety of architectural styles and design solutions that have transformed these small spaces into comfortable, stylish, cost and energy-effecient residences. More than a how-to style guide, this volume features a wide range of of housing types from 475 to 2,100 square feet.

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Smaller is Better.......2005-01-04

The New American Dream is a marvelous pictoral essay presenting a well argued thesis for the superiority of small spaces. The breakdown of the book into sections which focus on specific aesthetic merits that small houses and apartments can provide is
extremely well articulated. It is so refreshing to be able enjoy a book on design that has a text worthy of its photographs.

Great ideas, beautiful photography.......2004-11-06

I bought this book at Strand Bookstore in New York because of the beautiful photography and details the author included about each featured home. I love that there is a movement (apparently) towards smaller homes. I'm originally from Houston, and the disgusting scale of houses in the suburbs is such a contrast to the wonderful buildings featured in this book.

The only problem I had was I felt that most of the dwellings featured were second homes. I would like to have seen more primary residences.

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The New American Dream: Living Well in Small Homes
James Gauer
Manufacturer: Monacelli Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N65BP0

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Importance of the 1st amendment.......2004-01-05

"This is the most important book on combat photographers and what they have seen and felt and photographed that has yet been written. Miss Moeller has exhaustively studied combat photographers and their pictures from the Spanish-American War through Vietnam. With the sensitivity and involvement of a photographer, and the insights and persistence of a historian, when has made Shooting War a landmark book that is not only about the photographers who have covered the wars but also one of the strongest and most perceptive books yet about war itself."-Carl Mydans, staff photographer, Time, and one of the five original staff photographers for Life, 1936.

Until reading this book I didn't realize the power journalism truly has on our rights and liberties as Americans. This book shows how our US government controlled American's view of war. Frankly it shows how we have been manipulated through time to go where those in government want to lead us. When you finish reading this book you realize how vitally important the first amendment is to the survival of a true democracy.

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Shooting War Photography and the American Experience of Combat
Susan D. Moeller
Manufacturer: Basic Books, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0ZG3C

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Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat
Susan D. Moeller
Manufacturer: Basic Books, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLRI7I

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From the brave to the bizarre, New Zealand journalist Rob Harley has reported on some amazing stories. Here he reveals the full details about 10 of the most fascinating, including a profile of Kurt Saxon, the American author believed to have inspired New Zealand's worst mass murderer, the story of a dad looking for his daughter murdered in India on a holiday and a moving account of Rob's time in New York after September 11.

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Hi, I am Sonya Lillis (formerly Sonya Zona of Ladysmith WI). My husband and I live in the small town of Silver Bay MN. God s Kids is a Christian books series that is for small children ages 1-9 years. We started writing stories for our children, Dyllan and Robert Jr. to explain Jesus love for them in ways they could understand. Many people fell in love with our stories and it has always been our prayer to reach out to others in Jesus Name so we decided to share our cute little stories with the rest of the world. My books are different from many other children s books because they are told thru the eyes of a child, making God s Kids easy to read for adults and young readers alike.

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The Great Big Book of Hope
Diane McDermott , and C. R. Snyder
Manufacturer: New Harbinger Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1572242124

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In a culture where many children believe they will not achieve their dreams, helping them form goals and experience the joy of attaining them is an increasingly important aspect of parenting. This hands-on guide gives adults a wealth of ideas, games, and hope-building exercises to boost children's confidence and problem-solving abilities.

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William E. Odom, a retired Lt. General with a Ph.D. from Columbia, served as a top advisor in both the Carter and Reagan administrations (including a stint director of the National Security Agency). He writes surprisingly well about the quiet disintegration of the Soviet armed forces: "In a mere six years, the world's largest and arguably most powerful military melted like the spring ice in Russia's arctic rivers as it breaks up, drifts in floes, and slowly disappears." He also offers key insights, particularly in his analysis of Soviet war philosophy, including the reasons Marxist theory made a huge military almost inevitable and why Gorbachev's attempt to reduce its size posed a threat to the whole Communist system; he also traces the influence of von Clausewitz's thinking on Lenin. But this is all by way of introduction to Odom's discussion of what happened when Mikhail Gorbachev foisted perestroika on the Soviet Union and its armed forces. Odom personally interviewed many of the participants, lending considerable detail to his chronicle of Russia's 1991 August Crisis and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. --John J. Miller

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In this book, a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. Drawing on interviews with key actors in the Soviet Union before, during, and after its collapse in 1991, General William E. Odom tells a riveting and important story.

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Honest and Original.......2000-05-22

How could the huge, powerful Soviet Army have vanished so quietly? William Odom, an American general, takes on this question and in the process of answering it demolishes many of the more smug conclusions drawn from the collapse of the USSR.

Odom writes of Soviet military culture with understanding, knowledge and respect. If there's a failing in the book, it's that Odom spends so little time on Soviet military adventures themselves, focusing instead on the organizational quirks of the military/industrial/ideological complex. He mentions only in passing episodes like the border war between Russia and China along the Amur, and spends only a few pages on the war in Afghanistan.

Odom's conclusion is that the Soviet military, grown sluggish and top-heavy, became the focus of Gorbachev's hatred, and could not stand up to his relentless attacks. Gorbachev comes across, in Odom's account, as an anti-Lenin, as avid in destroying the Soviet system as Lenin was in forging it.. When he managed this destructive feat, Gorbachev was astonished to find that the whole structure fell almost instantly. As Odom concludes, Gorbachev had failed to realize what even the fatuous Nicholas II knew: that the Army has always been the heart of the Russian state.

Thouasands of writers have swarmed over the carcasse of the USSR, most of them interested only in profiting from or gloating over its fall. One of its last ironies is that one of the most respectful, subtle appreciations of its life and death has come from an enemy general.

Valuable -- thorough, lucid, and interesting.......1999-09-05

I discovered William E. Odom when a lecture of his was shown on BookTV. His talk showed an understanding of the Russian military so informed and thorough that I had to find and read his book. I found the book even more valuable and influential on my thinking than I expected. If I had known anything of William E. Odom's work and reputation, I would have known, as I do now, that his book would be lucid, detailed, and written so that its complex subject becomes clear evn to the amateur. He sets a standard of sound historical vision and attention to fact that all of us can enjoy, admire, and follow.

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An Expert Assessment of Soviet Military/Political Affairs

The Collapse of Soviet Military Power
Christoph Bluth
Manufacturer: Dartmouth Publishing Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1855214822

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An Expert Assessment of Soviet Military/Political Affairs.......2002-05-25

This book provides a useful study of how the Soviet military approached a future war with the U.S. Interesting details are provided about the Red Army's philosophies, obtained via author interviews.

The book's conclusions are that the Soviets did not buy MAD theory, and actually believed a nuclear conflict could remain limited and end to the Soviets' advantage.

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In the second half of 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an event of major historic and global dimensions, yet this strategic transformation of international relations took the entire world totally by suprise - despite the fact that the West saw in the Communist power an ideological foe and a major military threat.
During the 1980s Western intelligence services spent about $40 billion every year, most of it to monitor the Soviet Union and its satellites. Yet all of them, without exception, were taken by surprise when the red empire crumbled. The American CIA, Britain's MI-6, Germany's BND and the French DGSE all failed to comprehend that the Soviet Union was approaching the end of its imperial existence. A handful of honest intelligence professionals who identified the signs of weakness and distress were shunted aside.
The authors of this book interviewed dozens of people who dealt with Soviet affairs in the 1980s, most of them in the United States, some in Europe, the Soviet Union and Israel. Theinterviewees included high ranking government officials, academics and journalists, but mostly intelligence personnel. All admitted having been caught off guard, but differed over the reasons for their surprise, and who was responsible for it.

Blindsided or blind? Highly qualified but strangely inattentive, Condoleezza Rice has missed the signs of the Soviet collapse, the importance of terrorism ... from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Blindsided or blind? Highly qualified but strangely inattentive, Condoleezza Rice has missed the signs of the Soviet collapse, the importance of terrorism ... from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
John Prados
Manufacturer: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on July 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7454 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Blindsided or blind? Highly qualified but strangely inattentive, Condoleezza Rice has missed the signs of the Soviet collapse, the importance of terrorism before 9/11, and more.
Author: John Prados
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: 60 Issue: 4 Page: 27(11)

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Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Richard Ned Lebow
Manufacturer: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on July 1, 1994. The length of the article is 984 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse.
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1994
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v50 Issue: n4 Page: p55(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Collapse of Army Group Center, 1944
Peter von der Groeben
Manufacturer: Historical Division, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe, Foreign Military Studies Branch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET MILITARY

Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GPWT5S

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The Collapse of the Soviet Military
William E. Odom
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORU8QA

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The collapse of the Soviet Military
William E Odom
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS2N94

Descent into the vortex: Contrasts and aftermaths of the collapse of the military efforts to rule in Poland and the USSR (Occasional paper)

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Descent into the vortex: Contrasts and aftermaths of the collapse of the military efforts to rule in Poland and the USSR (Occasional paper)
Christopher Hamilton
Manufacturer: University of Missouri--St. Louis, Center for International Studies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006ORLKW

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Great Info!!.......2001-07-27

As an Irish person I was astounded to find this massive list of English titles which are available in England but unfortunately not in Ireland!! I think this book is fantastic for the historically-interested person and it is a great reference point for honour-related topics

Top Buy!!!! Well Done Guys!!

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