The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s

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In 1922, the Chicago Tribune sponsored an international competition to design its new corporate headquarters. Both a serious design contest and a brilliant publicity stunt, the competition received worldwide attention for the hundreds of submissions—from the sublime to the ridiculous—it garnered.

In this lavishly illustrated book, Katherine Solomonson tells the fascinating story of the competition, the diverse architectural designs it attracted, and its lasting impact. She shows how the Tribune used the competition to position itself as a civic institution whose new headquarters would serve as a defining public monument for Chicago. For architects, planners, and others, the competition sparked influential debates over the design and social functions of skyscrapers. It also played a crucial role in the development of advertising, consumer culture, and a new national identity in the turbulent years after World War I.

The saga of the Chicago Tribune skyscraper.(Book Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: Architectural Science Review

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The saga of the Chicago Tribune skyscraper.(Book Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: Architectural Science Review

Manufacturer: University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture
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ASIN: B00082NY4O
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: The saga of the Chicago Tribune skyscraper.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
Publication: Architectural Science Review (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture
Volume: 47 Issue: 2 Page: 205(1)

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The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s

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The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s
Katherine Solomonson
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPW6V2

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Mary Wiseman teaches the art of decorative floral painting in a highly visual, stroke-by-stroke fashion that readers are sure to love. Her techniques are built on the basic elements of good painting: shapes, form, values and correct brushwork. She develops these elements by incorporating them into beautiful projects that ensure success--even for a complete beginner.

Each project teaches fundamental flower and foliage painting lessons, such as painting petals with flips and ruffles, painting white flowers, and combining flowers to create your own designs.

* Packed with clear, step-by-step photos and skill-building lessons
* 10 beautiful projects in acrylic--the most popular painting medium

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Far Exceeded My Expectations!!.......2001-08-20

This is the BEST book for step-by-step instructional floral painting I have ever seen! Each step is photographed & explained in detail so even the novice painter can follow & learn how to paint flowers like the experts. By far the most comprehensive floral painting book to date! Mary did an outstanding job with this book!! Anyone wanting to learn or improve their floral or leaf painting skills should definitely buy this book! Everyone can benefit from this book, even the most accomplished artist!

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The Best of Fisher: 28 Years of Editorial Cartoons from Faubus to Clinton
George Fisher
Manufacturer: University of Arkansas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1557282692

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ACE Your Midterms and Finals

A new concept in test prep for a new generation of students

These class-tested guides feature:

Midterms and final examinations--one from each of the top universities throughout the country
An introductory essay defining the nature and scope of the course, including its goals and what instructors expect students to learn
A step-by-step guide to writing the essay and fully explained answers to essay questions--complete with discussion and notes from the professor

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Sample exams helpful, text is not always accurate.......2006-04-05

The sample exams are the most useful part of this book (and comprise almost half of the book). Less than 100 pages of the 340 pages are devoted to an overview of intro psych (about 50 pages deals w/ studying and test-taking which I did not find very useful). There is a glossary which is helpful. A good deal of the material in the sample exams does not appear in the text. Some of the text is wrong. E.g., p. 94 says that conservation and reversibility occur during Piaget's preoperational stage, which is wrong -- it happens in the concrete operations stage. I stumbled on this via one of the sample exams. The Cliff Notes _Quick Review Psychology_ has a lot more info in it, though it has some errors too.

Great study Guide for the CLEP.......2004-09-09

This book gives a great overview of the subject of Introductory Psychology. It was the only book that I could find available as a study tool for the Intro. Psych CLEP exam. I read through this book in about a week, then took every practice test in the back, re-reviewing anything that I got wrong. I went in and passed the CLEP test after about 3 weeks of studying and practicing. Definitely a bargain!

Ace Your Midterms & Finals: Introduction to Psycholog.......2000-03-28

A friend of mine had this book and loved it. She showed it to me and I loved it as well and had to buy it! In college every little bit of help is great. This is an easy to follow helpful book. To any psychology student out there get this book!

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Manufacturer: Dearborn Real Estate Education
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Binding: Paperback

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Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.

Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.

The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."

Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo

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A bit biased.......2007-07-03

I have just finished reading this book. Throughout the entire reading, I often felt that the author was taking her point too far to the left. And I'm a liberal democrat! I believe 100% in the rights of women to work... but I also believe that same right applies to those who wish to stay at home with their children.

The author seems to downplay the importance, and the value, in staying home with children. While she is correct in the assertion that our nostalgia for bygone days clouds our vision of the truth, there is something to be said for taking responsibility.

In the author's call for more social action and responsibility, there seems an underlying hint that the problems in the American family come from without rather than within. I disagree with this completely and think that we should stop blaming the media, the schools, our neighbors, the government, and our children's social group for the ills within our own homes. While it is an honorable endeavor, helping society clean up it's act, we must first start in the home. We must first start with ourselves, and with our children, before we can have any hope of helping someone else.

Overall a good read, but this author is a product of her generation and her writing should be viewed as such.

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Life was never perfect in any era.......2007-03-20

The tendency of people to look back on their past and see only the good and not the bad is all too evident in the agendas of conservatives and so-called advocates of so-called traditional families.

Those of us who lived through the perfect era when dads worked, moms vaccuumed in pearls and kids have perfect lives behind white picket fences remember it far differently.

We remember when domestic violence was considered a "private family matter" and battered women had no escape except a casket. We remember the days before Rape Crisis Centers, and when the law required the victim to first prove herself innocent at her accuser's trial. We remember women who gritted their teeth and stayed in bad marriages until their children were grown because they knew they'd have no property rights in the divorce. We remember the days before Title 9, when the boys got the gym and the girls got the cafeteria. We remember the girls who were sent away for the summer to an aunt, a euphemism for an unwed mother's home. (Check out Ms. Fessler's "The Girls Who Went Away" for more on this) and the women who could only quit their jobs while their sexual harasser was free to move on to his next victim.

There was no perfect era, there was no perfect home, there was no perfect family. Time we realized it, and stopped looking for an easy fix to real problems.

What you think you know may be wrong.......2006-08-17

This book provides exhaustively documented evidence that our cultural myths, such as the idealized nuclear family of the 50's, were not typical of American history after all, and that some of today's problems are not new. It's slow going for most readers (unless you majored in sociology). It made me look again at my own memories of earlier times of my life. The end notes would be helpful to scholars in American history, sociology or even social work.

Suberb and important work- Gets a grip on the reality of the American Family.......2006-02-25

Coonz dissects piece by piece the ideal of the "normal" family and lifestyle that neoconservatives frequently point to, as a solution to society's ills. Coonz's research is meticulous, and this book is a potent antidote to the fallacy that too often guides policy making in Washington and statehouses across the nation. i.e. that only the reestablishment of the "normal" traditional nuclear family is the path to our salvation. A+

Some interesting tidbits, but not worth the time to read fully.......2006-02-15

The first thing I did when I got this book was to look up what the author had to say about the Moynihan Report (thinking that based on the subject of the book the author would have many interesting criticisms). Alas, all that existed was a few sentence dismissal. After that I couldn't take the book very seriously and just jumped around to various things that I found interesting. Some things were interesting, others were foolish.

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. (book reviews): An article from: U.S. Catholic

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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. (book reviews): An article from: U.S. Catholic
Patrick McCormick
Manufacturer: Claretian Publications
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Title: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. (book reviews)
Author: Patrick McCormick
Publication: U.S. Catholic (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: Claretian Publications
Volume: v63 Issue: n5 Page: p47(3)

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Way We Never Were, the : American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

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Way We Never Were, the : American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O61M3O

The Way We Never Were : American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

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The Way We Never Were : American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz
Manufacturer: Basic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ME5QF8

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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the biology of one of North America's most enigmatic and colorful wildlife species, the Carolina Parakeet. The only parrot endemic to the United States, this species once ranged in large, noisy flocks from Florida to New York, and as far west as Colorado. But although it was still widespread and common during the time of John James Audubon (whose illustration of the species is perhaps his finest work), the parakeet was gone completely by the mid-twentieth century.

Through analyses of historical accounts and presentation of considerable new information gleaned from interviewing senior citizens with firsthand knowledge of the species, Noel Snyder develops an intriguing portrait of the parakeet that challenges long-held assumptions.

Although it has long been believed that the Carolina Parakeet was exterminated largely by shooting, Snyder argues that exotic diseases may have figured more heavily in its final disappearance. He also presents evidence that the parakeet lasted far longer into the twentieth century than generally believed, and that it may have been toxic and distasteful to predators by virtue of its frequent consumption of the cocklebur--a plant highly poisonous to many other vertebrates. Snyder proposes avenues of research that could help resolve some of the enduring mysteries about this fascinating bird, and he discusses the significance of its extinction for wildlife conservation in general.

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Best historical review.......2007-03-24

Snyder does a superb job of presenting the historical status of a species now extinct. He located much reference literature never before discussed or published. In the case of this species, now certainly extinct, Snyder portrays how the arrogance of certain men may have eliminated any chance of saving the species. Great library reference for any avian biologist.

Uninspired writing.......2005-03-16

This book was a disappointment. I'm very interested in the topic but much of the book reads like a scientific paper. There is a lot of good, interesting information but, unless you're particularly interested in Carolina parakeets, as I am, suffering through the writing is probably not worth it.

The crux of the book is his postulation that the parakeets diet of cockleburs made them toxic to most predators thus their bright feathers, gregariousness and ability to "sleep" at night. These abilities were no match against humans who killed them with ease. One shot took out droves and then the survivors would gather around the fallen, making shooting the rest even easier.

Because cockleburs grow around human dwellings the parakeet was drawn to areas where they came in contact with livestock and other sources of exotic diseases, conceivably nail in the coffin for the parakeet.

The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History

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The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History
William S. Powell
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EWBGA2
Release Date: 2007-07-11

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 583 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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Title: The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird.(Book Review)
Author: William S. Powell
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72 Issue: 1 Page: 148(2)

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