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Civilizing American Cities: A Selection of Frederick Law Olmsted's Writings on City Landscape
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A century ago Frederick Law Olmsted recognized the need for extensive planning if American cities were to become civilized environments for man. The selections in this book demonstrate his understanding of urban spaces and how, when politically unobstructed, he was able to manipulate them. While Sutton has concentrated on Olmsted's contributions to the theory and practice of city planning, her anthology reveals a broad and comprehensive cross section of his career.
Writings in the first two chapters elucidate the views and values that Olmsted brought to his work--notably his attitudes on form and function (fitness and appropriateness)-- and his criticisms of existing urban patterns. At a time when men generally took a static approach to planning, Olmsted opposed the traditional grid system, lack of organic structure, and abuse of space which dominated schemes for American cities. Instead he proposed that large spaces be set aside for public parks, connected by roadways and public transportation to the rest of the city.
The books remaining chapters contain documents written in support of specific plans for five North American cities with widely varying conditions: San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and Boston. The writings range in scope from Olmsted's observations on nineteenth century California life ti his most elaborate and ambitious design of a system of parks and boulevards for Boston. Two selections describing plans for the exurban Garden Cities of Berkeley, California, and Riverside, Illinois, complete anthology.
At the end of his career, Olmsted could look on 17 large public parks as well as numerous smaller works and comment: "I know that in the minds of a large body of men of influence I have raised my calling from the rank of a trade, even of a handicraft, to that of a liberal profession, an art, an art of design."
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Skrebneski: Black White and Color : Photographs : 1949-1989
Frank Zachary , and
Victor Skrebneski
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Bud Neill's Magic: A Collection of Bud Neill's Pocket Cartoons
Bud Neill , and
Ranald MacColl
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Finally, a practical, down-to-earth guide that offers real advice on solving your volunteer shortage.
Whether yours is a large international association or a local food pantry, volunteers are the lifeblood of your organization. You rely on volunteers to carry out projects, head up task forces, coordinate events and eventually become the future leaders of your organization.
Just as an airline must understand the needs and desires of its customers or lose them to another carrier, you must understand and meet the needs of your volunteers, or they will take their time and talents to someone else who will.
Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep Them outlines 12 fundamental needs of volunteers and clearly spells out how to meet those needs. Rich with examples and useful tools, this book is a quick read that you will find yourself referencing again and again. Find out how to: Compete for volunteers Recruit the best person for the job Ensure projects are completed on time Equip new volunteers to hit the ground running Manage volunteers (versus managing employees) Fire a volunteer Keep your best volunteers coming back . . . and more!
The perfect gift for your favorite nonprofit and the perfect reference book for every volunteer, volunteer officer, board member, committee chair, local leader and paid staff in all types of nonprofits Trade associations Professional societies Business and civic organizations Charitable organizations Alumni associations Religious and community organizations Education and research foundations
A must for every leader in your organization!
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Sound advice.......2007-05-21
"Volunteers - how to get them, how to keep them" offers sound and down-to-earth advice on what to do and how to do it when you want to run a volunteer-driven enterprise. The relatively short book (117p) packs in a good bunch of tips & tools. The book has no ambition in being an academic treatise on the subject.
Best of the Leading Books, But Not the Whole Picture.......2002-07-23
There are upwards of a 100 fairly good books on managing volunteers, and of those I selected four based on the information provided by Amazon and its readers, who now represent a critical mass of useful guidance. Of the four books, this is the best. If you buy only one, this is the one. (The other three were Vineyard & McCurley's "Best Practices for Volunteer Programs", Lee & Catagnus, "Supervising Volunteers", and what may be one of the originals (from 1994), Susan J. Ellis' "The Volunteer Recruitment and Membership Development Book." These latter three are reviewed in their own spaces.)
This book by Helen Little, as good as it is, would normally lose one star because it fails to provide an index or a guide to other readings (including web sites) in niche areas of volunteer management. However, it does provide excellent forms for each step of the volunteer management process and these are all downloadable from a given web address, so we'll call it even.
By way of larger context, this book, and books on volunteer management in general, are valuable not only for organizations that use volunteers as a resource, but for those who would manage citizen activism, as well as teen-agers with chips on their shoulders and a reluctance to bear down on chores.
While others have outlined volunteer "needs" and how to address them, Helen Little does it best. The 12 basic needs--applicable to neighborhood mobilization, regional political campaigns, and teen-ager "work for respect" programs--are very well and concisely listed: 1) specific manageable task; 2) task that matches motivation; 3) good reason for doing the task; 4) written instructions; 5) reasonable deadline; 6) freedom to complete the task; 7) everything necessary to complete the task; 8) adequate training; 9) safe, comfortable, friendly environment; 10) follow-up; 11) opportunity (for the volunteer) to provide feed-back; and 12) appreciation, recognition, and rewards.
As I read this thoughtful book, comparing what volunteers need at each step of the way--and the more advanced comments by the author on how to plan for succession at every level of the organization from neighborhood to national, I kept thinking to myself: "traditional political parties are dead." Both the Democratic and Republican parties are violating every single tenet of this excellent work on how to attract, motivate, and activate citizen-voters. It remains to be seen if our neighborhoods might yet self-organize. This would be a good book for anyone thinking about organizing any endeavor of free spirits, at any level of play.
New Knowledge & New Insights Found in Book.......1999-12-23
I have worked in the not for profit world for over 25 years as an association executive. I have also served on the Board of the Cerebral Palsy Center for the Bay Area for over 20 years. In each experience, the importance of finding and retaining and inspiring and engaging volunteer leaders is the factor that contributes to successfully achieving vision and mission. In the not for profit world, we are here to serve. The pressure to be the best at meeting the needs of those we serve never ends; the demands stretch our hearts and our minds; but in the not for profit world new knowledge, new ideas, new approaches, best practices, quality, and innovation can help meet important needs, and can even save a life. This book will inspire organizations seeking the best and brightest leaders, and is equally capable of inspiring the leaders we seek for our organizations. Well done and long needed by the field.
It will turn you around!.......1999-11-04
I hate to read books like this. Every once in a while I come across a book that is so helpful it stands me on my head. Really! After reading this book I felt a lot more confident to deal with thw 100+ volunteers I have in my organization. I would recommend this book to anyone who is responsible for volunteers.
Practical, easy-to-read,lots of great tools, tips and guides.......1999-11-02
Volunteers: How to Get Them, How to Keep Them, by Helen Little, is a creative and practical book, full of innovative information, tips and tools on how to recruit, manage, train, evaluate motivate, and inspire volunteers. Ms. Little outlines the twelve basic needs of volunteers and shows step-by-step you how to meet those needs, ultimately helping you build and retain a successful "volunteer management team."
Anyone who has been involved volunteer management soon learns that volunteers work most successfully when the job is clearly defined and when volunteers clearly understand their roles and responsibilities. This book has lots of useful and infinitely usable examples, templates, and guidelines to help you you "hit the ground running," and successfully accomplish the goals and objectives of your program and/or organization. A "must read" (and an easy read) for anyone involved in the care and feeding of volunteers.
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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1611 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.
From the supplier: Leisure organizations often cannot function without volunteers. Tips for recruiting and retaining volunteers include: target the needed demographic groups for advertising; explain their duties fully; provide a complete orientation; treat them as respected employees and show them appreciation.
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Title: Volunteers: how to get them, how to keep them, how to treat them (and why).
Author: Jonathan T. Scott
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Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1996
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: v31
Issue: n11
Page: p50(4)
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"The 5000 Best Sale & Promotional Names & Ideas Ever Compiled" contains more than 5000 names, titles, events, and ideas for running almost any kind of sale or promotiom you could ever want to have. When it comes to a sale, the name is everything! However, the real benefit of this book is serving as a spring board for ideas of your own. Many of the titles can be combined which creates an infinite amount of possibilities. This book will not only be your ready reference guide for both price and non-price promotions, but it will also be your source of great ideas that you can implement immediately. It will help you underatand the Misery Meter and the effect it has on your business and guide you through the process of creating a power house Promotional Calendar. In addition, it will show you why it's more than just price that will draw throngs of people to your business.
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The ABA Guide to Legal Marketing: A Collection of the Best Ideas, Approaches, and Success Stories
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Bank Marketing for the 90's: New Ideas from 55 of the Best Marketers in Banking
Don Wright
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Having spent 38 years in banking, including 21 as a CEO, the author believes that marketing is the foundation of the banking business and the key to its survival. Profound changes have occurred in the use and influence of marketing in the banking industry. Contains the best marketing ideas for financial institutions in the 1990's, developed by some of the top and most respected marketers in banking.
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The Best of Sales and Marketing Ideas
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The Guru Guide to Marketing: A Concise Guide to the Best Ideas from Today's Top Marketers
Joseph H. Boyett , and
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* Discusses the newest marketing concepts.
* The Guru name is synonymous with expert, candid advice.
* The Guru format provides an easy reference to a wide range of ideas and practices.
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Daddy, Daddy, Can You Touch the Sky?
Jonathan Kellerman
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Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
ASIN: 0553073249
Release Date: 1994-07-01 |
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Poltava marked the demise of Sweden as a European great power and the rise of Russia. In 1707, the seemingly invincible Charles XII led his army deep into Russia. It was to prove his undoing - the long march eroded the fighting strength of the invaders; a vital supply convoy was lost; and the winter of 1708/9 was the worst in living memory. Drawing upon primary source material previously unseen in the west, Angus Konstam recounts the events, looking in particular at how this battle led to the destruction of the Swedish Army,
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A Great Book to Learn the Basics of Poltava.......2003-11-06
This is a great book to learn all of the basic facts regarding the Battle of Poltava, and the results of the state of Europe afterward.
I say it's great for the basic facts, because it packs in what exactly happened leading to the battle to the end result including strategies and tactics, but it doesn't bring you in the mind of the soldier. To restate, you will read about all of the objective facts of the battle, and the maps help the reader visualize how the battle took place.
To learn about the Battle of Poltava on a more personal level, I recommend reading "The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire," by Peter Englund. You'll see the war from the Swedish perspective there.
An excellent, well written book.......2000-12-06
Poltava 1709
Few Americans have benefited from a formal education that included studies of the Great Northern War and the campaigns of Charles XII of Sweden. We seem to have to remind ourselves that, at one time, Sweden was a power to be reckoned with in European affairs. This interesting and well written book gives a quick review of the events leading up to the battle of Poltava, which marked the end of Sweden's dominance in northern Europe - and the start of Russian influence in the history of Europe.
The author discusses the events leading up to the ill-fated attempt to again `put Russia in her place'. He gives a very good description of the armies involved, as well as the contrasting tactics employed by each. branch. His description of the lives and careers of the two protagonists, Charles XII and Tsar Peter, add to the overall quality of the book. The maps are clear and enlightening, as is usually the case in other books of this series.
I strongly recommend this book to others who are interested in the subject. I feel that it reads as easily as a good novel and that it tends to inspire one to seek out further books on the subject.
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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1999
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This is the only pocket guide to all the species of bird known to inhabit Western and Central Africa. Ber van Perlo introduces more than 1,500 species through 109 expertly rendered full-color plates and concise, easy-to-consult entries. The territory covered is vast--nearly 2,500 miles down the coast and over 1,000 miles inland, including not only Senegal, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo but all or part of Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Príncipe, São Tomé, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Characterized mainly by lowlands and the coast but also some mountainous areas, the region is home to a tremendous variety of species in myriad shapes, sizes, and colors--from ostriches, peacocks, and flamingos to raptors and owls, from cuckoos and warblers to parakeets, parrots, turacos, weavers, widows, and woodpeckers. Numerous major wetlands provide homes for herons, storks, ibises and other water birds, including millions of migrants from elsewhere in the world.
The plates show all plumages for each species where these differ, including male, female, and juvenile. Succinct textual entries on each species appear on the facing pages, providing key notes for identification and basic information about habitats and voice. Distribution maps follow in the next section, and an appendix provides the French and Portuguese names. Presenting the most essential, up-to-date information in convenient, highly portable form, Birds of Western and Central Africa is the definitive guide for all birders planning or simply pondering a visit to the region.
- The only field guide to illustrate and describe every known species of bird in Western and Central Africa, a vast area stretching nearly 2,500 miles down the coast and over 1,000 miles inland, from Mauritania and Senegal southward to Nigeria all the way to the Democratic Republic of Congo
- More than 1,500 species illustrated on 109 full-color plates
- All plumages for each species are depicted, including male, female, and juvenile
- Text for each species on facing pages, describing distinctive traits, habitat, and voice
- Distribution maps, showing range and frequency, further aid identification
- Comprehensive, concise, and highly portable
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Superseded for Central Africa.......2006-02-12
While comprehensive as a checklist, this book has now been superseded by two excellent books for Central Africa - Birds of Sub-saharan Africa (Ian Sinclair) and Birds of Western Africa (Borrow, Demey)
Drawings are significantly inferior compared to the other two books. Being a checklist information is extremely limited compared to the other books which are genuine field guides. Only possible advantage is size.
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