Italian Architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini: From Michelangelo to Borromini (World of Art)

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The years from 1520 to 1630 were crucial in the development of Western architecture, but to label as Mannerist the transition from Michelangelo's "licentious" New Sacristy in Florence to Borromini's innovative S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is coming to seem unduly simplistic.

In this carefully researched and original study, Andrew Hopkins examines the century's changing functional demands, the political forces, the patronage system, and local traditions. Exploring a wide range of Italian buildings (including those outside the major urban centers), he introduces us to dozens of neglected architects whose works will come as a revelation. By 1630, architecture had taken on a new dynamism that would soon conquer Italy, Europe, and the New World: the baroque. 209 b/w illustrations.

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Wonderful Watercolors With Paul Brent: Great Designs for Your Home!
Paul Brent
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ASIN: 1581803982

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In this book, Paul Brent-the well-known creator of watercolor designs for the home-provides decorative painters and beginning artists with concise, easy-to-understand information on the materials and basic painting techniques they'll need to create fun, attractive watercolors. To ensure easy comprehension, each technique is explained using detailed mini-demos.

Once readers grow comfortable with the basics, Brent helps them execute 14 complete step-by-step projects-beautiful watercolor paintings of flowers, fruits, bees and butterflies. Readers will be proud to hang these finished pieces on their walls or give them as gifts.

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THOMAS EAKINS - HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS
Gordon ; Thomas Eakins Hendricks
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Thomas Eakins: His Photographic Works
Gordon Hendricks
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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This digital document is an article from Computer User, published by MSP Communications on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1941 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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Publication: Computer User (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2001
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'The Make or Break Issues in IT Management' covers all aspects of IT project management such as the way to achieve maximum benefits from the investment. All the authors are currently working on leading edge projects and the chapters, which describe current theory and practice, are based on seminars and conferences given by the authors.

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The Make or Break Issues in It Management
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Bursting with color photos and illustrations, the Business Park and Industrial Development Handbook covers best practices, techniques, and trends. You will learn how business parks have evolved, how to plan and design new industrial product types like R & D campuses and flex buildings, and how to provide the amenities required by today's users. Covering each stage of the development process, the book provides practical, how-to information on feasibility, financing, site planning, building design, marketing and leasing, and operations and management. Fourteen case studies provide insights into the development of a wide range of properties including mixed office and industrial, new construction, adaptive reuse, airport related development, and more.

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Very Well Done!.......2006-07-04

William Nulty takes what seems to be a battle book, transforms it into a campaign study and a quick history of Confederate Florida. While doing this, he grabs our attention and holds it with a combination of excellent writing and solid facts.

This very readable book, gives us a quick history of Civil War Florida and the position it assumes in the CSA. Without missing a step, we jump to the Union side covering the history of efforts to retake Florida. This leads us into a logical discussion of the objectives of what becomes the Olustee Campaign. The author debunks the standard political objective with facts and documents. Yes, Lincoln would like a restored Florida but that was not the reason for the campaign. The reasons vary from disrupting the movement of cattle to preventing the stripping of rails for use elsewhere to hopes of recruiting more blacks to fill the ranks of the USCT. When the troops arrive at Jacksonville, the reader understands the reasons and problems of both sides.

This ability to switch sides without disrupting the story provides an outstanding account of the battle. The reader is treated to a combination of personal experience, professional judgments and historical fact that produces a complete picture of the battle. Together this produces a complete account coupled with an intelligent summary of the campaign.

The CSA was more upset by the invasion and willing to commit more resources than the Union. While this may have been a sideshow in Washington, Florida's logistical support was vital to Richmond. The South's scrambled to put together a force to respond to the invasion is a story within the story. Badly short of men, officers and logistics they strip other areas to counter the threat.

Olustee is one of the battles where the USCT is a major force on the field. This adds an interest to the battle and is fully explored in the book. Both USCT's actions on the field, treatment after the battle and the commanding general's responses are covered. This coverage is factual and well supported with documentation making it even more convincing.

An excellent book about Florida's largest and most important Civil War battle.

Excellent battle monograph and overview of Florida in the Confederacy.......2005-10-05

Nulty did an excellent job of presenting the small but bloody battle of Olustee/Ocean Pond. He also did a fine job educating this reader about Florida's role in the war effort, its demographics, and the limitations the sparsely populated state faced. Nulty's product appears to be well researched and balanced and is recommended to anyone interested in the Civil War.

The battle was poorly fought by the two commanders, but in the case of the CSA forces, the subordinate experienced officer, Col. Colquitt, did fine work deploying the regiments and extending the line as his superior sent regiments to him. He never allowed the Union forces to fully deploy and gained the victory.

There were three U.S. Colored regiments in the battle. As in so many other battles involving negro troops where rebels were in control of the field following the battle, a number of wounded black soldiers and/or captives were apparently killed on a spontaneous basis (but not by officers' orders.)

I've not yet been to the battle site, but the terrain of the time seems to have been somewhat unusual compared to most other ACW battles--an open pine forest free of undergrowth with good visibility according to some participants. It was bordered by marshy areas.

The accompanying maps for the battle are well rendered at regimental level and placed appropriately with the text. Strategic maps are also present and well conceived and executed.

A weakness is that there is no unified order of battle and casualty breakdown in tabular form. The order of battle with regimental strengths is presented apart within a chapter of the text for the CSA forces, but is a bit more hidden in a paragraph for the Union (and lacks strengths.)

Note: I believe that in George Hill's review he was referring to Spencers rather than Henrys. There was indeed an exchange of Spencers for Springfields for an infantry regiment prior to Olustee.

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT TURN A BATTLE.......2005-07-28

First things first,if the union general hadn't taken the Henry rifles from one unit and had them given to a unit that ended up taking no real part in the battle,the outcome would have surely been different-a little thing.My father died a couple weeks ago.One of his earliest memories was going to the battle site with his father & grandfather,Thaddeus A.Hill,who,along with brothers and cousins were present and firing at the invaders in blue.The old gentleman walked and pointed with his cane to the various sites and movements of troops.T.A.Hill's father,James Hamilton Hill was a surgeon with the con.army who had the singular honor to be court martialed for ignoring orders and taking too much time caring for the wounded.trying to save limbs rather than just chopping them off w/o a thought.His case went to the supreme court in Richmond where the case was thrown out on the technical reason that a civilian could not be court martialed.He went back to work.The war destroyed his health and he died young in 1869.A lot has been made,rightly so,of the use of black troops in the battle and their valor.What the history does not tell is that there were dozens,or more,blacks fighting on the confederate side,some slave,some free.I even know the names of two.I won't reveal them,for the sake of their great-great grandchildren.The ugly truth is not all blacks regarded the union troops as liberators.Being pressed into work gangs by the blues wasn't the thrill it might first sound like.The details of the book show what the war was like down on ground level.the everday trials and tragedies.The spunk of Mrs.Canova in Sanderson,telling the yanks they'd soon be heading back defeated,show that the war had all kinds of bravery.Diana Greene Canova went on to many great things.Ck the Thomas Canova family org web site.Read her testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,the joining of which caused the murder of her husband and the near death of his brother-in-law,one T.A.Hill.Mrs Canova,being a blood relative,I take great pride in her spirit on both occasions.As the battle is joined,the factors leading to it taking place where and when it did,the troop movements and leadership on both sides are accidents of history and the blind leading the el stupido.Yeh,the darn yankees lost,but it could have gone either way.It was a really compelling book.I loved it.

Nulty's thorough research lays the Olustee campaign bare.......1999-03-07

for all of us laymen to see. If you're interested in Civil War history, Confederate history, or Florida history, this complete account of the events leading up to the Battle of Olustee in February 1864 will satisfy; Nulty, a former Marine Lt. Col. and current high school teacher, really gets down deep into the political and social undercurrents of the time, and sheds light on the complex circumstances of the fateful Union campaign. Particularly of interest are the great chapters on the blockade and raid strategy of the Federal forces, and Nulty's final deconstruction of the apocalyptic four-hour battle itself.

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Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in the country itself. The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume. Fifty-six lavish color plates, thirteen halftone plates, and ninety-nine line drawings in the text illustrate over 85% of the species, including most of the resident birds. Notes on the facing-page of each place, and range maps of 1,475 species, facilitate identification.

Written with the field observer in mind, the text gives special attention to comparisons of similar species, transcriptions of voices, and comments on behavior, status, and habitat. It also provides ranges, breeding data, and references. Notes outline taxonomic problems and briefly describe species that eventually may be found in Colombia. Introductory chapters and photographs highlight Colombia's geography, climate, and vegetation, and discuss migration and conservation questions, and the history of Colombian ornithology. Appendices contain a large bibliography, a section on birding locations, and coverage of two of Colombia's far-flung island territories, Isla San Andrés and Providencia. Maps depicting vegetation zones, political boundaries, national parks, and the most text localities are included.

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Amazing.......2007-03-09

I live in Medellín, Colombia, South America, I was looking for this book in the spanish edition, but it's hard to find it, so I bouhgt the enlgish version.
This book is an excellent knowledge tool and it will open the eyes of the readers to one of the many wonders we have. A Guide to the Birds of Colombia is just AMAZING. For those who love animals, in special birds, consider buying it, you won't regret it.

The finest guide to birds in Colombia.......2004-09-10

"A Guide to the Birds of Colombia," by Steven L. Hilty and William L. Brown is mandatory reading for serious field observers. This book treats all of the 1,695 species of resident and migrant birds known to have been reliably recorded in Colombia and on its island posessions of Gorgona and Malpelo prior to 1984.

Moreover, this massive Princeton University Press text (836 pages) includes sixty-nine color and black and white plates by Guy Tudor (one of the most talented living bird illustrators in the world) & others. And before I forget this book includes superb line drawings by Michel Kleinbaum.

I found the sections on Topography, Climate, Vegetation, Habitat Descriptions, and Conservation & National Parks excellent. In addition, the review of Colombian Ornithology and the Range Maps are valuable field observer tools. In conclusion, this is a meticulous text with an expert index that will absolutely fill all the needs of serious field obsevers. Recommended.

Bert Ruiz

¡Qué belleza!.......2003-01-18

Es un libro que no debe faltar en la biblioteca de ningún ornitólogo. Describe casi la totalidad de especies de aves del país con más especies de aves en el mundo. Excelente.

An example for every Field Guide.......2002-04-08

This work is all a bird watcher could wish for. The splendid paintings by Tudor add to the very helpful in-depth descriptions. Completed by nearly 1500 distribution maps there's nothing left to wish, except go out there and see them. I used it when birding in Peru and I could still determine nearly all the birds I saw.
It's an example for every bird field guide.

Made birding in Amazonia easy.......2000-09-27

Since no definitive bird guide is available for the Amazon region and Brazil in general, I was forced to choose between this guide and the Birds of Venezuela. I ended up with Hilty and Brown's book by sheer coincidence, and I was not at all disappointed. The text and information is superb throughout, and I was able to identify several species on habitat description alone. For example, the authors clearly describe the preference of many taxa for varzea (seasonally flooded) or terra firme forests, which made a fleeting glimpse more of a certainty, and the range descriptions were invaluable. If I have only one very minor criticism, it is that I have never found plates in black and white particularly helpful, and since several artists were employed, there were differences in visual interpretation in several groups (e.g. the Picidae). However, these are minor detractions from an outstanding volume.

A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in British Colombia

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A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in British Colombia
Bob Waldon
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Aves En Colombia Amenazadas de Extincion (Serie Estudios de la Naturaleza)

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Aves En Colombia Amenazadas de Extincion (Serie Estudios de la Naturaleza)
Alvaro Jose Negret
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Guide to the Birds of Colombia.

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