100 Victorian Architectural Designs for Houses and Other Buildings (Dover Pictorial Archives)

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Originally published in 1878, this now-rare collection of designs supplies views of a remarkable variety of modestly priced structures: houses, villas, cottages, many others. Handsome drawings of perspective views and elevations, some of which include floor plans, plus suggestions for interior design. 98 black-and-white illustrations.

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An indispensable resource for the study of the 19th Century
Excellent resourse on victorian architecture

Bicknell's Victorian Buildings
A. J. Bicknell
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486239047

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45 cottages, villas, houses, farms, churches form a complete village of authentic American Victorian style. Complete detailed floor plans and elevations beautifully drawn to scale provide modellers, woodworkers, architects, victorian stylists with authentic primary source. 76 illustrations. Originally Bicknell’s Village Builder and Supplement.

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An indispensable resource for the study of the 19th Century.......2003-08-12

Just about any of the many Victorian plan books reprinted by Dover is an excellent investment, but this is one of my top favorites. Within a single slender volume you'll find houses ranging from tiny "cheap" cottages (they could be built for $750) to a pair of opulent $30,000 mansions (an 18-room Mansard and a towered 19-room Gothic masonry "farm house"). There are also carriage houses and stables (from a two-stall, $500 board-and-batten back-yard style to a sprawling cupolaed masonry version), schoolhouses with two and six classrooms, churches from village to cathedral size, two dignified courthouses, a jail with keeper's quarters, and elevations (though unfortunately no floor plans) of several "business blocks" (store-and-office buildings). If you've ever wanted to get an idea of the kinds of buildings among which our small-town Victorian ancestors moved, this is a great book to start with.

Excellent resourse on victorian architecture.......1998-08-23

This book was initailly published with the intent of allowing a builder to construct an entire town. Therefore, there are examples of single family houses (mostly), apartments, duplexes, churches, barns, and commercial buildings. Most elevations have floor plans attached as well as ornamental detail for the elevations. An interesting aspect of the book is the inclusion of contracts for constuction- if only things could be that simple again! I recommend this book for victorian architecture lovers.

Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details (Dover Books on Architecture)

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Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details (Dover Books on Architecture)
A. J. Bicknell & Co.
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486451038

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This treasury of floor plans, elevations, and details of suburban residences is an endless source of inspiration for artists, architects, and historians alike. Eighty-one detailed illustrations capture the elaborate beauty of Victorian-era cornices, staircases, gables, verandas, doors, dormers, and more. A bonus section offers construction guidelines for masons, bricklayers, and carpenters.

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BICKNELL'S VICTORIAN BUILDINGS
Author Unknown
Manufacturer: Dover Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JVPRA8

Bicknells Victorian Buildings: Floor Plans and Elevations

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What distinguishes this book is...

Bicknells Victorian Buildings: Floor Plans and Elevations
Amos Bicknell
Manufacturer: Peter Smith Pub Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0844657379

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What distinguishes this book is..........2004-02-08

Overall, "Bicknell's Victorian Buildings" is a typical 1870's era compendium of floor plans, elevations, and structural details. But books of this type are not all the same. Distinguishing features of this particular book are:

- The book has a high proportion of flat-roofed ("widows walk"), French-roofed, and balloon-roofed houses.

- In addition to houses, this book gives elevations, plans, and descriptions for row houses, churches, courthouses, schoolhouses, and a jail. (Very uncommon!) It includes elevations of several storefronts, but no plans of those.

- House descriptions often include extremely specific details, and for some plans it's necessary to read the legends in the accompanying text to understand all the lettered figures. For example, in plate 8 the plans don't depict a stairway into the house's tower room but its location is given in the text.

- Many plans include cellars and attics, which most books omit.

- The book expands on one particular house design in the appendix, giving several pages of carpenter's specifications, plumber's specifications, mason's specifications, an approved contract, detailed elevations, plans, and cutaway views.

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Bicknell's Victorian Buildings Floor Plans and Elevations for 45 Houses and Other Structures
Bicknell A.J.
Manufacturer: Dover
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000T3ZW0G

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Bicknell's Victorian Buildings: Floor Plans for 45 Houses and Other Structures
Amos Bicknell
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000JPVGMM

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Watercolour Made Easy: Practical Projects to Increase Your Confidence
June Crawshaw
Manufacturer: Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8QDD6

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Authors, Doris Barrell and Mark Nash recount their own experiences in the real estate industry and share others in this practical guide for reaching a particular market segment. Whether targeting first-time homebuyers or empty nesters, all real estate professionals will find Reaching Out an indispensable marketing tool.

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Excellent primer on niche marketing!.......2003-10-28

That's the basic message in this excellent primer on niche marketing. Although the words "real estate" are not in the title, that's what the book is all about. An interesting plus to this book is an Afterword Essay by real estate educator Marcia Russell titled "Fair Housing Law in Practice." There's also a useful appendix which includes Web sites that would be helpful in exploring niche markets. Dr. Kenneth W. Edwards, GRI, Book and Video Reviewer, The Real Estate Professional Magazine

A forward-thinking informational and instruction guide.......2003-10-10

Doris Barrell and Mark Nash are real estate experts with years of experience in the field. They draw upon their considerable expertise in Reaching Out: The Financial Power Of Niche Marketing which was specifically written to bring to light changes in the evolving real estate market. Reaching Out stresses that the era of focusing on a specific piece of territory has passed - that for the successful real estate agent or investor, it's now about making connections and relationships with clients, buyers, and individual people that matters, and not merely limiting oneself to a specialization in a particular geographical area. Reaching Out is commended as a well-written and forward-thinking informational and instruction guide appropriate for anyone involved in the contemporary real estate industry.

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No other text provides such comprehensive information about pediatric practice for the occupational therapy student and practitioner. Organized by nine frames of reference, it provides a method of combining theory and practice that makes theoretical material clearly relevant to function, thus helping the reader to conceptualize and initiate intervention. New to this edition are two additional frames of reference, four new case studies, and numerous illustrations and photographs.

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Teaching In a Foreign Country?.......2002-05-09

I am teaching a course on pediatric occupational therapy in Germany. This book has been a life-saver for me, since it has given me clear definitions of major frames of reference in use around the world. I am looking forward to the newest edition!

An excellent resource.......2001-08-23

This book provides an excellent guide for moving from theory to practice! Each frame of reference is clearly delineated and the application to practice section of each frame of reference demonstrates how it can be used. It is a critical resource for providing theory based interventions. Good background information is provided for becoming a good, well rounded pediatric practitioner.

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Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account of the evolution of stormtroop tactics available in English. It covers areas previously left unexplored: the German Infantry's tactical heritage, the squad's evolution as a tactical unit, the use of new weapons for close combat, the role of the elite assault units in the development of new tactics, and detailed descriptions of offensive battles that provided the inspiration and testing ground for this new way of fighting. Both a historical investigation and a standard of excellence in infantry tactics, Stormtroop Tactics is required reading for professional military officers and historians as well as enthusiasts. Contrary to previous studies, Stormtroop Tactics proposes that the German Infantry adaption to modern warfare was not a straightforward process resulting from the "top down" intervention of reformers but instead a "bottom up" phenomenon. It was an accumulation of improvisations and ways of dealing with pressing situations that were later sewn together to form what we now call "Blitzkrieg." Focusing on action at the company, platoon, and squad level, Stormtroop Tactics provides a detailed description of the evolution of German defensive tactics during World War I--tactics that were the direct forbears of those used in World War II.

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Beginning of Modern Tactics.......2006-02-13

The German Army's prewar focus was on operational matters, and tactics were neglected. This changed with trench warfare and the resultant lack of vulnerable flanks to attack. Because Germany was a new nation, formerly composed of a myriad of small states, the army was decentralized. So in small units, commanders tried different things; they were told the objective - but not how to accomplish it. The prewar lack of officers, and a belief that men had to be controlled - influenced perhaps by the rise of socialism - reinforced the early use of company columns which, upon contact with the enemy, deployed into closed order lines. This system lead to high casualties, poor results, and a search for a better way. From the beginning, however, some units used open order lines and suffered much less under fire. Without a centralized command telling low level officers how to do their jobs, new ideas were tried, and successful ones were spread. Because of shortages of artillery ammunition, short bombardments which kept the enemy's heads down were developed - essentially shock action. Trench mortars, developed from observation of the Russo Japanese War, served the same purpose, and poison gas was developed. More importantly, through the influence of limited objective attacks and special raiding units, the traditional infantry companies were no longer composed solely of riflemen. Flame throwers, grenades, and light machine guns were added, and units were allowed to advance as far as possible into the enemy position, with squad leaders given much more freedom to act on their own. Gudmundsson focuses attention on these sorts of developments up to 1917 but relatively little on the great 1918 attacks, which brought the new methods into use on a massive scale.

A study of innovasion under fire.......2005-10-11

The German Army of World War I created some of the most basic principles of what we call today 3rd Generation Warfare, which many armies worldwide are still unable to implement or even understand its essence. The book is a great contribution to the history of the innovative stormtroop tactics, how they came to prominence, what kind of problems they solved and why the Germans were the first among the belligerents to find such revolutionary solutions. The focus of the book is not so much on «assault battalions» but on their tactics, although the various personalities are well covered. Gudmundsson presents also some examples of battles on the Western and Eastern Front (First Ypres, Cambrai, Kaiserschlacht, Riga, Caporetto etc.) in a clear and fascinating way and gives ample evidence of the good results that the German Army reaped from its new doctrine. I found most interesting the part about the nature of German delegation of authority and the culture of personal iniative cultivated among the NCOs and the junior officers. It is one of the best «force multipliers» ever conceived! There are no photographs in the book, only a few diagrams and also a few primitive and rather crude maps, but the text is worth the money.

German Innovation.......2002-04-05

This is and excellent text on German Infantry tactics of WWI (1914-1918). The Germans were always innovators when it applied to warfare, in WWI with the trench war at a stale mate the Germans formed these elite infantry "Stormtroop" units to infiltrate and breakthrough the lines to make way for their follow on troops. In this highly detailed account of the tactics employed by these Stormtrooper you will read how they were employed in mountain and fortress warfare, how they were organized and their special assault units. It is amazing to see a lot of these types of tactics are still employed today.

One of the best books ever written on WWI infantry.......2001-01-29

I have read this book three or four times since I first purchased it in 1989, and it never fails to impress me with the attention to detail and meticulously researched origins of modern infantry combat. The book covers events leading up to WWI that cause turmoil in the German High Command regarding the use of infantry, and how scrutiny of specific tactical employments in various battles in the early to mid stages of the war led to the first experimental stormtroop unit. The book goes on to document the unit's successes and the eventual adoption of special stormtroop units to spearhead attacks at the division level, and finally how complete divisions were organized in the stormtroop fashion. All the major personalities, weaponry, and tactics involved are described in detail, and while dramatic descriptions of the gory and macabre business of trench warfare are omitted, one can easily infer from the descriptions of sharpened entrenching tools and flame throwers how violent and terrible it was to be on the receiving end of one of those attacks. Author Gudmundsson's work interjects some objective scholarship on this subject in an age where it is not politically correct to acknowledge the German military's pioneering efforts in both world wars in establishing modern combined arms tactics.

Should be on every soldier's reading list.......2000-07-27

An outstanding dissection of the tactics and organization that the German Army used in order to overcome the stalemate caused by trench warfare. The author clearly shows how the Sturmtruppen, utilizing surface and gap style tactics were able to achieve tactical success. The best book I have read so far this year.

STORMTROOP TACTICS - Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918.

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STORMTROOP TACTICS - Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918.
Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORL5D0

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Stormtroop Tactics : Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Manufacturer: Praeger Paperback
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OR780Y

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One of the salient features of this study is the extent of German complicity in the unfolding events that destroyed Yugoslavia. Rezun emphasizes the roles of history, psychology, culture, religion, and pure economics that are at play here. The book focuses on the Serb-Croat conflict and how that conflict permeates the other regions. Rezun demonstrates that the story of this civil war has been grossly misreported by the popular media and that the crisis in Yugoslavia could be a prelude to the eventual destruction of the Balkans and the entire European order.

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Frustrated by grouped species

Pocket Life List: A Birdwatcher's Life List and Diary of North American Birds
Bernard A. Fashingbauer
Manufacturer: Syren Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Sibley's Birding Basics

ASIN: 0929636244

Book Description

This is the essential companion to your field guide, whether you're a serious or casual birder. Each North American species is listed by common and scientific name. Space is provided to record when and where a specimen was sighted, along with other essential notes. Silhouettes in the margin key the sections containing each bird Order. Each species is also indexed by common and scientific name.

Based on the American Ornithologists Union Checklist,
Sixth Edition, 832 Entries.

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Frustrated by grouped species.......2007-07-12

A useful tool for organizing, but I'm finding that Fashingbauer's decisions on merging and omitting various species don't quite fit with my own records (or my field guide!)

Still, a nice little book for keeping track of a life list.

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