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Most Fortune 500 companies still struggle with workplace planning and design issues. Millions of dollars are invested each year by companies with the expectation that new buildings and major renovations will help transform their culture, spark innovation, and herald new work patterns that strengthen performance while reducing costs. But, as Franklin Becker points out, popular trends do not always make good sense. Offices at Work addresses the fundamental design issues that organizational leaders confront such as:
- How do we create a low-cost flexible environment that motivates employees and stimulates learning?
- Is it worth our spending the time, money, and effort to consolidate our disparate buildings into a new corporate campus?
- How else can we address status concerns besides giving people offices?
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Most Fortune 500 companies still struggle with workplace planning and design issues. Millions of dollars are invested each year by companies with the expectation that new buildings and major renovations will help transform their culture, spark innovation, and herald new work patterns that strengthen performance while reducing costs. But, as Franklin Becker points out, popular trends do not always make good sense. Offices at Work addresses the fundamental design issues that organizational leaders confront such as: How do we create a low-cost flexible environment that motivates employees and stimulates learning? Is it worth our spending the time, money, and effort to consolidate our disparate buildings into a new corporate campus?How else can we address status concerns besides giving people offices? Order your copy today!
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A woodcarver's primer
John Upton
Manufacturer: Drake Publishers
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: 0877494940 |
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Woodcarvers Primer
Manufacturer: Sterling
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 084731121X |
Book Description
Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking is a complete view of a creative project from the artist's perspective. Julieanne Kost, a Photoshop and creative thinking expert, has taken her own experience shooting images out of commercial airplane windows to create a unique creative seminar.
The first section of the book, The Art of Creative Thinking: The Principles, outlines Julieanne's method for staying creative in an increasingly complicated world. In her personal stories, advice, and philosophies, you'll find inspiration if you're stuck or just can't get started. You may recognize some of your own less-than-productive thought processes as she describes her own struggle to let go of the everyday flotsam of life to find a quiet mental space in which she can think, dream, and create.
The second part of the book, Window Seat: The Portfolio, is a collection of images culled from over 3000 photographs Julieanne shot from commercial airplane windows over a period of five years. The photographs are accompanied by brief commentaries addressing various aspects of the process, from the original inspiration to issues of control, subject matter, image selection, and manipulation.
The Appendix contains technical information: a discussion of the equipment and media Julieanne used to shoot the photos; how she processed the photographs using Adobe Camera Raw; the Photoshop techniques she employed to correct, retouch, and manipulate the images; her personal file management system; and how she prepares her files for printing.
This book is essential reading for photographers and artists looking for ways to stay creatively awake, aware, and alive.
Customer Reviews:
Wrong book for me........2007-09-20
I love aviation and photography yet lack any professional training in either field. I had hoped this book would be at a level I could gain something from--I was wrong.
For cloud lovers only............2007-09-15
I was really disappointed by this book. It should have been entitled `Interesting Clouds'.
Out of the first 121 pages only 11 and a half contain text, the rest are pictures of rivers, cornfields and clouds. This limited text is mostly fluff, with the author wondering why passengers would rather watch the in flight movie than marvel at what's outside their windows. The only creative thinking involved is that if you have to travel for work a lot, you might as well take pictures out of the window. The most technical advice is to not sit over the wing, and be sure to get a window seat (duh!), and let's not forget to be careful in the post 9/11 world, using a camera may be a suspicious activity.
The appendix (about 25 pages) is devoted to how to improve your pictures of clouds using Photoshop. I'm sure everyone has to have knowledge of how to remove tints and glare from airplane windows.
Save your money, go outside on a cloudy day with your camera and have a ball! Personally, I'm going to burn this book and take photos of the clouds of smoke, so that I'll get at least some use out of it.
very helpful.......2007-09-13
I have learned a new consepts in showing what is important in the picture. Great book and learning tool.
I love this book!.......2007-08-28
I absolutely love this book!
I found every image, every page to be filled with breathtaking beauty.
Even the most simple photos of clouds, Julieanne Kost has managed to create images the likes I have never seen before.
She has managed to take something that I had always taken for granted, the view from a plane window, and created a whole new vision for me to enjoy. Maybe that is the best way to describe it, her work is the difference between simply seeing and true vision.
I flip through this book whenever I am in need of inspiration.
I have bought 5 copies now and given 4 as gifts.
Everyone whom I gave these to, genuinely loved them as much as I do.
I suggest you buy your 5 now ;-)
Lovely to Look At.......2007-06-23
Window Seat (The Art of Digital Photography & Creative Thinking) by Julieanne Kost
Reviewed by Diane Williams, member of the Eureka Photoshop Users Group, 6/20/07
Window Seat is 90% coffee table photo book and 10% self-help and imaging techniques work flow book.
This 147 page book is a beautiful visual memory of those sights you see when you gaze out the window of a plane. I know I have tried to capture what I see out the window of a plane and have been very disappointed by the images. I may be able to make something of them now with this work flow.
Kost shows us sample original images captured by her and we see the final image after she has applied image corrections in Photoshop. Her instructions are brief. This is not a step-by-step tutorial giving all the input numbers. It is a general overview of the work flow what may be necessary, how you get there by pointing to the tools, and what they can do for you.
The self-help part of the book lists Julieanne's 18 self help and creative thinking hints. Here they are:
Master your tools.
Listen to what your life is trying to tell you.
Be open to whatever comes your way.
Share what you know and learn from others.
Collaborate with other creative people, especially the quiet ones.
Be flexible. Learn to negotiate.
Fix whatever you complain about most.
View every challenge as a possible discovery.
Take 15 minutes for yourself everyday.
Figure out what you need to do to reach your zero point.
Integrate work and Art; both will benefit.
Take up an interest in something you know nothing about.
Look at new stuff- and what you already know- with fresh perspective.
Keep a journal.
Visualize first, Photoshop second.
Replace your thoughts with intuition
Play! Play! Play!
Know when you're done.
This book is worth a look even if it is just to vicariously have the window seat. It will not teach anyone much about Photoshop.
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Creative Photoshop Landscape Techniques, revised & updated (A Lark Photography Book)
Les Meehan
Manufacturer: Lark Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1600590845 |
Book Description
There's no limit to what Photoshop® enthusiasts can achieve with the right knowledge at hand—and that’s exactly what this revised companion to Creative Photoshop Lighting Techniques offers. It’s updated for Adobe® Photoshop® CS3, the latest version on the market and a major program change that users will want to know all about. Les Meehan is back to guide them through an array of exciting techniques for producing realistic, artistic, or even dreamlike landscapes. Whether photographers want to convert a lackluster color shot into a monochrome masterpiece; make compelling montages from several pictures; or alter the weather in a photo to add atmosphere, Meehan explains how. A straightforward introduction presents Photoshop's most useful features; easy-to-follow tutorials teach both simple image enhancements, such as producing shadows and reflections, along with more complex techniques. Packed with information about Photoshop® filters and third party plug-ins, and all the new features, this is a must-have for Adobe® Photoshop® users.
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You're the Limit, Andy Capp
Reggie Smythe
Manufacturer: Fawcett
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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ASIN: 0449132005
Release Date: 1986-11-12 |
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Protecting Your Company Against Competitive Intelligence
John J. McGonagle , and
Carolyn M. Vella
Manufacturer: Quorum Books
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ASIN: 1567201172 |
Book Description
As businesses learn more about competitive intelligence (CI) and how to use it, the ferocity of competition rises to a new level. Naturally, people will seek ways to protect themselves and their organizations against CI, but how? McGonagle and Vella, specialists in CI and what can be called CI countermeasures, have studied the problem from its beginning, and now offer corporate executives and executives in public and nonprofit organizations a portfolio of strategies and tactics. Each one is designed to meet two mutually important criteria: self-protection against the competitive intelligence activities of others, but also the freedom and mobility needed to maneuver in the marketplace. The result, a so-called "cloaking program," allows an organization to become significantly less visible to its competitors, and can therefore compete more effectively against them. Including full details on the new Economic Espionage Act of 1996, this book is an extremely useful resource for executives throughout the public and private sectors. McGonagle and Vella maintain that there is nothing illegal about protecting an organization against competition. They argue that businesses can and should restrict the information available to others--available legally and ethically from newspapers, for example, or from an organization's annual reports. The authors' aim is for organizations to respond to CI's advances by making it more difficult for competitors to learn about them. They begin by explaining how CI data collection works and the analytical tools that are most effective and commonly used. They then develop the basic precepts for establishing and managing a "cloaking" program, that is, a way for a business to protect key pieces of competitively sensitive information by the same legal and ethical means others are using to discover it. Well written and easily accessed, Protecting Your Company Against Competitive Intelligence is important information not only for experienced CI professionals and those who aspire to such positions, but also for executives with general management responsibilities.
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Great teachers make a difference
Gaines Stanley Dobbins
Manufacturer: Broadman Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0007EK2QG |
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Great Teachers Make a Difference (Little Bit Of...)
Manufacturer: Blue Mountain Arts
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Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer
ASIN: 0883969637 |
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This colorful mini-book combines Blue Mountain Arts' favorite authors and bestselling poetry in a new, smaller format. With more than 32 titles available, these titles are the perfect addition to any card or gift… or just as a last-minute purchase to brighten someone's day. Themes include family, friendship, relationships, encouragement, birthday, and more. Brightly colored pages inside and vibrant graphics on front and back covers. Hardcover with matching dust jacket.
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Bastogne, Malmedy, St. Vith and other sites of the Battle of the Bulge have become the stuff of American legend. All of the major events, units and personalities of this sector of the dramatic campaign are covered here in full detail, as well as a guide to the battlefield as it is today.
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Hermann Cohen's Judische Schriften (Jewish Philosophy, Mysticism and History of Ideas Series)
Hermann Cohen
Manufacturer: Ayer Co Pub
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0405122454 |
Customer Reviews:
Great book -- all my friends want one. .......2004-10-24
I bought this book to check out local birds in the US Virgin Islands, as well as several similar books that were recommended to me. Not only do I really love it but, during a recent hurricane when our house was filled with folks, our guests raved about the quality of the book, great pictures, etc. And this was after they got a chance to compare it to other books on the same subject. Of all the Virgin Islands birding and wildlife books we have, this is the one our guests all want. It is easy to use, the pictures are accurate, and I recommend it.
Photographic guide to the Birds of the West Indies.......2001-07-20
This pocket guide contains photos and descriptions of virtually all of the endemic birds of the West Indies. It also covers introduced species and water birds of the Caribbean. It is an exceptionally usuable pocket guide for the birder to take along on a cruise or holiday to the islands.
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- Paula Pryke's Candles
- Payne's Prairie: The Great Savanna: A History and Guide
- Plan Graphics, 5th Edition
- Planet Earth Home: The Ultimate Self-Sufficient Home for any Location in the World
- Re-envisioning Landscape/Architecture
- Rural Escapes: A Celebration of North American Country Homes (Escape)
- Sloan's Victorian Buildings
- South African Style: Exteriors, Interiors, Details (Icons)
- SPECK: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things
- Stone Circles: A Modern Builders Guide to the Megalithic Revival
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