Louis I. Kahn: Complete Work 1935-1974

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have a nice trip to Louis I. Kahn's Complete Work, 1935-1974!

Best book to feel and love Kahn's light and space concept

Louis I. Kahn: Complete Work 1935-1974
Heinz Ronner , and Sharad Jhaveri
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3764313471

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This book owes its concept to the transparency of the work process of Louis I. Kahn, whose ideas are preserved in the wealth of sketches he did whenever developing new concepts or working out details for new building projects. Sketches and plans of different developmental stages of his projects are laid out in a basically chronological order and these are complemented by relevant extracts from his writings and speeches and by his commentary while this documentation was being prepared in 1973 - the year before his death. As in the first edition, the authors` aim has not been to interpret or evaluate. Rather, they wish to provide the scholar with a solid base for further research, allowing him to follow the traces of a remarkably creative mind that revered architecture as a manifestation of man´s spirit.

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have a nice trip to Louis I. Kahn's Complete Work, 1935-1974!.......2007-08-06

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Best book to feel and love Kahn's light and space concept.......1997-02-23

This book lead you into the complex world of Louis I. Kahn, letting you understand his personal way to intend history of architecture as a contemporary world of "figures", or "ideas" that the architect's mind can renew and tranform in completely new projects. Kahn will conduce you trhough the ancient ruins to discover their actual life in today architecture.

Louis I. Kahn: Completes Works (Architecture)

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Louis I. Kahn: Completes Works (Architecture)
Klaus-Peter Gast
Manufacturer: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
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ASIN: 3421032947

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Louis Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the 20th century's most influential architects. His dramatic, often almost aggressively stark buildings continue to inspire designers throughout the world. Based on the latest research, this book provides an authoritative and clear overview of Louis Kahn's life and works.

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Louis I. Kahn: Complete works, 1935-74
Heinz Ronner
Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0891586482

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Remember the good old days of the 1990s? The go-go economy was unstoppable. Unemployment hit historic lows. And hotshot dot.commers hopped jobs like those Sex and the City women hop beds. "Old Economy" bosses courted tech-savvy employees with stock options, casual dress codes, and free office soda. Nothing was gonna burst this bubble... Oh, how times have changed. Forget about cashing in those stock options - in these days of bankruptcies and bail-outs, rampant right-sizing, and corporate scandals, the average worker is likely to toil all day with crossed legs rather than run the risk of being reprimanded for taking an occasionaly bathroom break. What's a put-upon post-boom desk jockey to do? We have the answer. The Far Side Out To Lunch 2004 Mini Wall Calendar (please resist the urge to call it down-sized) offers a dozen of Gary Larson's funniest work-related cartoons all in a package that fits neatly on a cubicle wall. Each glance in its direction will send your mind on a mini-vacation, or - at the very least - remind you that there is something funnier than the guys in accounting trying to dress casual on Fridays.

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too far?.......2004-01-07

Is it just me or is the May cartoon supposed to be a parody of Sept. 11? It shows a giant fly crashing into a windshield company skyscraper, with people dangling out the windows and falling to the street. I doubt even Larson would want to make a joke of this, but somehow it's a little to creepily close for me. Besides this the calender is great as always.

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Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Growth is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The worldwide development of information and communication technology (ICT) has accelerated dramatically over the past decade. Technological advances and increased competition have led to falling prices for ICT goods and services, which has provided a strong incentive to replace other forms of capital and labor with information technology equipment. Increased ICT production and use has the potential to create job opportunities, transfer skills, and increase efficiency and transparency in politics and business, and therefore, contribute to economic growth. This paper focuses on the linkage between ICT and output growth. It summarizes findings in the literature on the contribution of information and communication technology to economic growth arising from capital deepening and increases in total factor productivity. The paper contains: the methodologies used to evaluate the different ways ICT influences productivity growth; a critical assessment of the magnitude of ICT's contribution to growth in various countries; a summary of the key factors that increase and obstruct ICT expansion; and an outline of the challenges developing countries face in maximizing ICT's contribution to growth and policy recommendations aimed at surmounting these challenges.

Information Technology and Global Interdependence: (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

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Information Technology and Global Interdependence: (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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ASIN: 0313263264

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While considerable attention has been focused on how information technologies (IT) are affecting particular industrialized nations, the broader implications of the Information Revolution have begun to be appreciated only in the past few years. This volume represents an important first step in understanding and coming to terms with the global impact of these technological advances. Based on a series of recent conferences, it distills the collective wisdom of an international group of some forty specialists in communications, trade, finance, development, and diplomacy. The authors identify the potential repercussions arising from the worldwide dissemination of IT and explore the adjustments and collective responses that may help to maximize benefits and reduce harmful effects. The introductory essays make it clear that while information technologies have created unprecedented opportunities for growth, they are drastically altering economic relations and promoting forms of economic interdependence that may have very serious consequences for individual nations and the world economy as a whole. Among the economic issues addressed in this volume are regulatory policy; barriers against information trade; the effects of IT on financial markets and international financial flows; the unequal distribution costs and benefits between developed and developing nations; the supranational power of multinational conglomerates; and economically harmful competition. The authors examine institutional changes that are affecting banking, finance, and trade, as well as legal questions relating to data flow privachy and intellectual property rights. They discuss the need for international cooperation and revised trade agreements to handle these complex new problems. Social and political issues, including education, employment, and democratic participation are also considered. Several chapters are devoted to recent innovations and anticipated developments in technology that will further effect global interdependence. The most authoritative, up-to-date source of information on the subject, this volume is recommended for practitioners and scholars concerned with public policy, international trade relations, finance, communications, information technology, and a variety of related fields.

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Good resource!.......2001-10-25

This is a very helpful resource in the field, but I didn't find it to be as beneficial as another source. Students who bought this dictionary complained of the high cost for low gain.

The content itself is excellent, though I couldn't always find the terms I sought. The bilingual explanations are helpful.

Buy this book at the used price and the other one and you will have most of the words you need.

Do not buy this one!.......1999-03-14

This book was the biggest disappointment! The translations were terrible and you would do better to buy a good English/Spanish Dictionary.

A disaster!.......1999-02-03

The translations of English terms into Spanish in this book are a disaster. Condition precedent is translated as "condición precedente," but it's actually called "condición suspensiva" in Spanish. Buydown is unhelpfully "translated" as "descuento de intereses buydown." The translation of "alienation" is misspelled: enajención [sic]. Party wall, which is muro medianero in Spanish, is mistranslated as "muro divisorio." Statute of frauds, which is el requisito de hacer constar un acto jurídico por escrito, is mistranslated as "estatuto sobre fraudes," which means "bylaws about fraud." Similarly, statutory lien, which should be "gravamen legal," is translated as "gravamen estatutario," which means "lien mandated by the bylaws." In short, you'd be better off not even looking at this book.

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This fully revised and updated bestselling guide provides expectant mothers with reassuring, straightforward answers to hundreds of questions and concerns they might not think to ask their doctor about. Important topics include exercise and diet, environmental issues, nutrition, labor and delivery, prenatal vitamins, the postpartum period, the over-35 pregnancy, and much more, making this book an invaluable resource for today's pregnant woman. Do stress and anxiety affect the fetus? How does hair dye affect my pregnancy? Can I fly at high altitudes? Does loud noise affect the baby? Can I take aspirin? Antacids? Will the airport metal detector affect me? Is sunbathing bad for me? Should I continue working during my last month of pregnancy? Can I use pesticides in the house? Do house pets pose a threat if I have allergies to them? Can I continue to drink coffee? How can I prevent stretch marks? Raymond I. Poliakin, MD, is a professor at the University of Southern California and has a private practice. He is a regular contributor to Parents and Shape magazines.

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The perfect pregnancy book!!.......2007-06-04

I highly recommend this book to all expectant mothers and fathers. This book gives you straightforward and down-to-earth answers to all your questions, without causing undue concern as some other books tend to do. The Q&A format makes it easy to read and refer back to. Buy this book!!

A book that answers every question you're driving yourself crazy over and more........2007-04-27

More of an easy to read reference book than one of those long-winded pregnancy "manuals," this book is fantastic! Every possible concern and question I had was answered clearly and quickly. Dr. Poliakin also addresses hundreds of things I hadn't thought of and I'm sure I will go back to this book over and over again for the answer to different questions. I highly recommend this book to any woman who is expecting. As a side note: I left the book laying around the house and my husband picked it up and has since read it cover to cover - so he liked it too.

If you are pregnant then this book is a must have!!!!!.......2007-03-30

I got this book from a friend as a gift and I absolutely love it. It has answered so many of my questions and I constantly refer back to it. This book by far has been my favorite pregnancy book and I would recommend it to everyone.

A Book Every Pregnant Woman Should Have.......2007-03-21

This well written book is an all in one source of information that every pregnant woman should have. What You Didn't Think to Ask Your Obstetrician addresses the typical and non typical questions any woman might have during pregnancy and postpartum. I am going to recommend this book, written by Dr. Raymond Poliakin to my clients and friends.

Great Resource for Expecting Mothers.......2007-03-08

I love this book. It's q&a format is an easy read and gets right to the point. The issues discussed helped answer all my "what about..." questions. Great book. I would encourage all expecting mothers to purchase!

What You Didn't Think to Ask Your Obstetrician: All Your Questions Answered

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What You Didn't Think to Ask Your Obstetrician: All Your Questions Answered
Raymond I. Poliakin
Manufacturer: Contemporary Books
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ASIN: 0809247216

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Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups
John Hughes-Wilson
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ASIN: B000HWYNZY

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The events of 9/11 and the war on terrorism and the daily crises in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—behind them lie some of the most shocking failures and misuse of military intelligence in history. In this updated edition of Colonel Hughes-Wilson’s controversial book, the long-serving professional military intelligence officer explores and exposes the often disastrous misunderstanding and mishandling of crucial intelligence by politicians and seasoned generals in recent times. Modern military history records major catastrophes in the air, at sea, and on the battlefield that originate in lapses of military judgment—from the crushing defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo to Stalin’s Operation Barbarossa to Yom Kippur. The reason frequently lies in the failure of the decision makers in power to understand and appreciate fully intelligence information. So it was that American bureaucratic bungling and interservice rivalries collaborated with the Japanese in their devastating attack on Pearl Harbor—despite the fact that the U.S. was monitoring Japan’s top-secret radio traffic. So, too, the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive of 1968 took the world’s most technologically advanced army completely by surprise. This book discloses the lapses, errors, miscalculations, and underestimations of military intelligence that have shaped our wars and defined our times.

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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
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ASIN: 1570614199

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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds is a collection of seventeen thoughtful essays on birds capture the sense of wonder and connection people have for these marvelous creatures. Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population explosion of crows in her hometown. Through the eye and voice of this talented writer, birds provide a fascinating point of contact with the natural world at large. This book is nature writing at its best with compelling stories that hold readers' attention so closely they don't even realize how much they're learning.

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Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds.......2006-04-21

A slim volume of essays on the author's experiences with various common bird species.

Personable writing and a surprising amount of information, some of which is saddening (people lynch owls??) but most of which is intriguing and perhaps of more interest to readers, at least in North America, because it focuses on common species that many people encounter regularly. The essays are generally personal memoirs, and the type and amount of information on the birds varies -- this isn't a scientific study or a guide to identification but an engaging nature writing read.

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year

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Birding Delights
Enchanting thoughts on another world
Extraordinary!
enchanting!

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds: Notes from a Northwest Year
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Manufacturer: Sasquatch Books
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ASIN: 1570613028

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This captivating book pays homage to the powerful sense of connection that we earthbound creatures have for those that soar. Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithological researcher and birding teacher, beautifully describes the wide-eyed wonder found observing birds. She muses on the much-tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up behavior of male woodpeckers that drives homeowners crazy, and the population explosion of crows in Northwest urban neighborhoods. This notable debut by a talented writer reveals a deft touch, sly humor, and an engaging ability to share her bountiful knowledge of things ornithological.

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Birding Delights.......2004-09-13

In the final chapter of this sincere work, Lyanda Lynn Haupt slips in a quotation from Stephen Kellert that suggests her own aim in writing: "People will need to rekindle their capacity for experiencing wonder, inspiration, and joy from contact with the natural world". Such delighted sentiment permeates the work as a whole. Haupt celebrates the varied reactions she and her friends and family have to a set of birds which are not the celebrities of the avian world: starlings, crows, cormorants. Her vignettes combine her knowledge of birds, of the birdwatching community, and her personal experiences. Her first chapter ends by saying, "Birds will give you a window, if you allow them", and this book looks at the moment when the shutters swing open.

Her emphasis on human reaction to birds plays to her strengths as a writer. Some of her finest lines encapsulate the meaning of a visual impression while partially eliding the image itself: she writes of the snowy owl, after referring to the way every feature of its design is taken to an extreme (e.g., "impossibly sharp talons"), "They are all we can imagine them to be." Haupt's power and interest is less in physical description (although there are some vividly amusing analogies: the "scrunched" face of a Vaux's Swift makes the species "a little avian Pekinese"). Instead, she concentrates on the kinds of emotion and thought which any individual bird encounter can touch off for a watcher.

The limits of human understanding-and the charms of those limits-plays into a larger theme of the book. Haupt declares her intent to steer a course between the Scylla of scientific arcana and cold observation and the Charybdis of "response-ists" who attempt to experience and enjoy a world untainted by human names and knowledge. At times she can drift to one side or the other-either in the form of occasionally rote descriptions of nesting habits or overly fanciful evocations of fairies-and the relative success of the passages where the two impulses are balanced prove her own point. She conveys her delight in the way the Varied Thrush produces its distinct song as gracefully as she does her experience of the song itself.

Ultimately, this book depends on an audience looking to evoke a joy previously experienced, to explore a familiar enchantment and comprehend it better. Haupt, as one who has worked to induce that joy in others, has an intelligent grasp of its workings and vagaries. Her book warmly invites others to share in her insights and, through them, re-experience their own delights.

Enchanting thoughts on another world.......2002-04-07

Human beings often think of the human world as the central point from which all earthly existence radiates, with birds and other animals mere background. Lyanda Lynn Haupt sweeps the reader effortlessly into another world-- the world of birds. By bringing the daily habits, troubles and foibles of birds of the Pacific Northwest to light, and painting these birds in refreshing verbal watercolors, the author succeeds in showing humans that the bird world is not a backdrop to human existence but a whole other sphere of existence unto itself. She muses about the supernatural qualities of the hermit thrush's song, the humorous (by human standards) mating dance of the blue grouse, the hyperactivity of the missile-like swift, even the dual nature of the lives of migratory birds who can be at home in two radically different places in the span of one year. Read this book and be drawn into a separate world of avian wonder!

Extraordinary!.......2002-02-19

As an amateur birder, I will never look at birds (ordinary and otherwise) in the same way again. Wonderfully written. Can't wait for the next one.
I checked this book out of the library - but will be purchasing it for myself and my darling daughter who got me into birding.

enchanting!.......2001-11-21

As someone who enjoys watching and identifying birds, this book naturally caught my interest. Once reading, I couldn't wait to get to the next essay! The book gives more meaning to my encounters with ALL birds. And just when one might be tempted to say or think "It's only a silly Starling (or Crow, or Sparrow, etc.)," amazing and wondrously described details about these birds' history, biology, taxonomy, behavior, or physiology will not only prompt one to seek out ordinary birds, but experience them on a different level. It has been similar to studying music, and subsequently gaining an appreciation for it that only those who "know" can understand. It's funny, incredibly informative, and a perfect read for anyone interested in the feathered creatures that are right out in the open with us every day. Enthusiastically recommended!

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