The Presence of the Case Study Houses

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Minimalism, the inspiration of art and wide spaces, lightness and an effective show-casing - these are just a few of the elements that link the Case Study Houses of architects Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood et al. to the present day and contribute to their ongoing fascination and influence on housing concepts. Numerous previously unpublished ex- and interior illustrations are supplemented by detailed research carried out locally into current forms of occupation and life-style, alterations and conversions, as well as the significance of the Case Study Houses for today's understanding of building for residential requirements.

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Because prospective clients are relying more on the Internet to select service providers, having a highly visible, accessible web site is essential for photographers in every field. Your web site is your new storefront, and this book will show you how to make it work for you. 128 pp., 8.5 x 11 , paperback, 100 Photos/Screen Shots

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Love It.......2004-04-24

I love this book. It is very well defined, with excellent pictures and tutorials. It is much better than all other books on the subject

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The Photographer's Internet Handbook
Joe Farace
Manufacturer: Allworth Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1581150849

Humorous Sceptic or, Is It Just Me?
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Humorous Sceptic or, Is It Just Me?
N. Anthony Bonaparte
Manufacturer: Black Rose Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1551641593

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The difference between what companies want from their IT departments and what they get forms one of the largest and most disruptive gaps in business. And considering the expensive networking equipment that's been installed over the last few years, the inability of organizations and their IT groups to work together becomes a huge financial liability.

In order for an IT department to succeed, it must effectively align its resources and capabilities to its business needs, and vice versa. Mapping Network Solutions addresses this issue in plain English, tackling virtually every problem that an IT department is likely to encounter. Brambert provides the tools IT management needs to make a real difference in a company's bottom line, and he shows how any CIO or IT manager can justify and make good on the network investments they've recommended.

From providing improved levels of service for internal and external users, to maximizing security of crucial information, Mapping Network Solutions contains the practical how-to information that business-focused IT professionals desperately need.

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Is this guy serious?.......2003-05-27

I have never been so disappointed in a book. I bought this book hoping to read an intelligent review of the role of wetlands throughout history. Instead I got a load of psychological babble that had nothing to do with wetlands and had everything to do with the author's apparent need to use all the big words he learned in college. If you want to read about wetland culture, history, and ecology I suggest you find another book.

Fascinating discussion of changing human value of wetlands.......2001-05-17

This book describes changing attitudes about wetlands over the centuries based on their cultural values. It explains how the world's wetlands got to the sad shape they are in today - and why. Giblett explores the cultural and literary mythology that tagged swamps and marshes as hideouts for the boogey-man and the "Creature from the Black Lagoon." (Remember the "Creature" sprang from the mind of man, not from a swamp.) I believe that understanding where we came from is cruicial to understanding - and changing - where we are going. This book demonstrates how and why humans of different ages and cultures assigned values to wetlands, and why destroying them was seen as a mark of civilization - a civic duty. Without dicussing the evirnomental issues specifically, it teaches the reader that wetlands have a value apart from that which western man assigns - this is their timeless value. This is scholarly writing that requires concentration and thought, but is well worth the effort. Anyone interested in environmental issues and fascinated at how our perception of "nature" has changed and is changing will appreciate this book.

Author's Reply.......2000-07-26

I am at pains to distinguish two strands within the western tradition - that of the canon (only 2 n's in canon) such as Dante and Milton who theologise and demonise the wetland as a place of evil and that of the counter-tradition of Thoreau, indigenous Australians and contemporary writers like Graham Swift and Coraghessan Boyle who see the wetland as both life-giving and death-dealing.

The range and scope of the book is hardly narrow and stilted when it takes in medical, military and social history, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and literature and philosophy spanning 2000 years.

postmodern wetlands: culture, history, ecology.......2000-05-02

In this book, the author argues that the wetland has been poorly understood and little apreciated in traditional western culture. He follows this well sourced piont with a common argument of late for critics of western culture: we have projected our ignorant fears and prejudice onto a now degraded natural resource. As a result we have done great harm to our continued growth in understanding as well as the world around us. Whith the increasing importance of ecological thought this is an important time to culturaly rehabilitate our view of the wetland. However, Giblit appears to be using the same classical sources that previously vilified the wetland to somehow rehabilitate it in western thought. To make his argument that the wetland should be culturaly valued in the west stick, Giblit needs to expand his range outside the narrowly confined perspectives he investigates for this book. The presintation of wetland narrative in the western cannon the author undertakes is well studied, helpfull and timely. Yet the analisys of what this narative means for wetlands in the postmodern age seems stilted and slightly lame because of its narrow scope.

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Undergoing a mastectomy is a devastating experience. This unique and hopeful coping guide fills a gap in women's health literature. While there are many fine books on breast cancer, none deal with the very real, and very practical issues facing a woman who is about to undergo a mastectomy and who then must deal with the challenges of living in the post-mastectomy body. Written from a professional and personal experience, Zuckweiler covers the practical, physcial, psychological, social and sexual aspects of recovery. And, she provides advice for every day life, like buying and altering clothes, choosing a prosthesis, treatments for phantom pain, and new exercises she has developed to deal with the pain and special needs of mastectomy patients.

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Response to earlier review.......2000-06-23

This is a very helpful, caring, and complete guide for women. Contrary to an earlier review, the author DID NOT have a double mastectomy for cosmetic reasons. If that person had read the author's story, she/he would know that the author lost 3 generations of the women in her family to breast cancer and had a mastectomy as a preventative measure. That might be controversial, but it sure isn't cosmetic! This book will be helpful to anyone who has to deal with the surgery or its aftermath.

What to expect after a mastectomy........2000-04-23

The authors choice to have bi-lateral prophylactic mastectomies in no way diminishes the value this book has to offer breast cancer patients. It provides a wealth of information regarding what to expect, post-operative care and reconstruction options. I found it informative and comforting.

breast cancer survivor advocate.......2000-03-18

The book is about a person that had a mastectomy because of an elective cosmetic surgery ,cancer patients did not elect to have cancer the issues are VERY diferent: like life and death.I DO NOT RECOMEND IT IF YOU ARE A CANCER PATIENT.

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Even the Women Must Fight

"Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War—the contributions of Vietnamese women to the independence struggle of their nation and the terrible price they paid for their courage and patriotism."—Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

A searing chronicle of wartime experiences, Even the Women Must Fight probes the cultural legacy of North Vietnam's American War. Unflinching in its portrayal of hardship, valor, and personal sacrifice, this wrenching account is nothing short of a revelation, banishing in one bold stroke the familiar image of Vietnamese women as passive onlookers, war brides, prostitutes, or helpless refugees.

"Karen Turner has given us a book that will change our understanding of the Vietnam War—and of Vietnam today. I found it enthralling." —Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After:

Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War.

"A first-rate book that will add substantially to our understanding of the human tragedy associated with one of the most bloody conflicts in recent history."—Robert Brigham, Professor of History, Vassar College.

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Fascinating book; difficult truths.......2004-12-30

This book is a well-written and straightforward account of women who fought on the side of the North Vietnamese in the "American War," and what happened to them when they attempted to return to peacetime life. Most of the stories come from the women themselves, and are reported in their words.

I found the book particularly affecting, because it presented some difficult truths for me as a nurse on the American side. It is always revealing to know your enemy; in my case, the supposed enemy in this book could be my mirror image. And if the similarities are fascinating, the differences are wrenching: these women fought on their own soil, to protect it from soldiers from half a world away who, for reasons that were far from clear, dropped bombs and chemicals on them. When the war was over, and I went home to marry and raise a family, these women found that their service had, in many cases, made it impossible for them to marry and have children--a cultural imperative that in large part determined their worth in the eyes of their country. Certainly, the war created physical and psychological problems for women who served on the US side--PTSD, birth defects in children due to chemical exposure, and a raft of health conditions that still persist for us in our fifties and sixties. But for the Vietnamese women warriors, the effects were far more direct. They lived, and still live, on soil salted with Agent Orange. Most of them suffered from malaria. They lost potential mates in the war, or by leaving them behind when they went to serve--not for one year, as was our case, but for many. They faced the very immediate possibility that their children, if they could have them, would be severely deformed. And there has been little enough social support under their new government for THEM, let alone their handicapped children.

The women in this book are fascinating individuals shaped by their unique experiences, and Turner and Hao do an excellent job of interviewing and presenting them. They are brave, resilient survivors of a war they should never have had to fight, and they are still fighting for their place in the country they defended. *Even the Women Must Fight* ranks with such classics as *When Heaven and Earth Changed Places* and *The Sorrow of War* as an unflinching and empathic window into the damage war wreaks on the land where it is fought and the people there who fight it.

Susan O'Neill, author
Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam

Very useful, interesting, and important.......1999-09-18

I am currently going to college and I took a course on the Vietnam crisis and war, and Even the Women Must Fight was one of the last books that we read. After reading books that focused mainly or even completely on the American experience in Vietnam, it was extrmely interesting to read about how the Vietnamese saw and dealt with the war. The thousands of civilians who added such strength to the North Vietnamese war effort were people who had been described in all of the sources we read as 'coolie' laborers--people conscripted by the govenment to do necessary work. To read the accounts of women who fought in the war, or risked their lives to maintain the Ho Chi Minh trail simply added a new dimension to my understanding of the Vietnamese side, and indeed of the entire war itself.

Must needed information about an important historical event........1999-06-25

As a college student studying the America's war with Vietnam, I was struck by the determination and nationalism that the Vietnamese displayed in their battles against foreign occupation. Seeking to further my study and learn more about the perspectives of the Vietnamese I turned to Turner's book Even the Women Must Fight. The information that I found in the book I could not have found anywhere else. Turner's extensive interviews and personal memoirs from women who fought in the Viet Cong opened up a previously unreported accounts of what Vietnamese women accomplished in their war with America. These women's successes are truly amazing and much deserving of a book documenting their vital contributions.

A Compassionate look at Viet Nam's strongest fighters.......1998-07-17

Karen Turner's book is a well researched, interesting and compassionate discussion of women who made up the backbone of Viet Nam's fighting forces. She does not overwhelm the reader with intellectual theory and in doing so she brings us closer to a source of history ignored and overlooked for decades. It's difficult to write about and interview former soldiers who continue to suffer the effects of such enormous violence, but Turner does it with great insight and awareness. This is the perfect book for history students or university faculty who want to hear the voices of Viet Nam's strongest fighters.

A gendered perspective of the Vietnam War.......1998-07-12

Finally, a book documenting women's experiences on the Vietnam War and women fighters at that! For years, we have been reading materials and watching movies on the Vietnam War from a pre-dominantly American point of view. Although written by an American, the book originated from the extraordinary women of Vietnam and is a channel for silent voices to finally speak out. This book presents a very real and perhaps disturbing account of the hardships that the women in Vietnam have gone through in order to save their homeland. The accounts are heart-breaking and serves as a stark reminder of the horrors of war but more importantly, highlights the bravery and courage of the Vietnamese women who have been stereotyped as Miss Saigons. The book provides detailed interviews with survivors of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and how sacrifices are not rewarded by the state. Appreciate the book for its honesty and the difficulties that the author went through to get the survivors to open their hearts to her, an American, a former enemy. A refreshing read.

EVEN The WOMEN MUST FIGHT. Memories of War from North Vietnam.

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EVEN The WOMEN MUST FIGHT. Memories of War from North Vietnam.
Karen Gottschang. Hao, Phan Thanh. Turner
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NYKY2W

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An Irishman on the American Road.......2001-11-05

University presses, presses period, unfortunately shy away from essay collections, which is what this volume essentially is. They claim such books do poorly on the market; if that's so then the contemporary American readership--at least those with an interest in the American-Irish interface--needs to wake up and smell the coffee at the Sin-e cafe. Every chapter here is, like they say, worth the price of admission. This is a book of poet's essays--Wall has published three extraordinary collections of poems--so if you are devoted exclusively to "unified," thesis-driven works, its wide-ranging, eclectic energy might be off-putting. The book is travel, research, investigation--think Herodotus, but with a drawling Wexford accent. From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills is a work of calm intelligence, good humor, and acute literary cultural observation.

An Irishman on the American Road.......2001-11-05

A University Press book with Heart.......2000-05-04

University Press books are most often expensive, somewhat boring, and serve a relatively small audience. Not this one. From the Sin e is not only affordable, it's quite readable too. Wall's work is spare yet clear, and he informs us well, not overbearingly. The book is a bit of a conundrum - part remembrance, part criticism, part travelogue, part creative exposition, yet all of it quite interesting. Wall understands the psyche of the nascent "Irish-American" identity. It's made to be read in pieces, which some might consider a flaw, as there's no real cohesion to the parts.

From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills Notes on the New Irish

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From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills Notes on the New Irish
Eamonn Wall
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS9UQI

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This two-volume set of pocket-sized, loose-leaf notebooks serve as a quick reference guide to all common exotic companion species including behavior, diet, husbandry, physiologic and reproductive facts, common clinical syndromes, zoonotic potential, rule-out chart based on clinical signs, and formulary.

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Most useful.......2000-03-19

Flavia Zorgniotti DVM Phoenix Veterinary Hospital, Wayland Mass

My practice sees 50 percent exotics, and this is one of the most useful reference manuals I have. I use it most every day

It's a good reference book for day-by-day use.......1998-09-11

This book is very important for the exotic animal practicioner. The division in species makes very easy to find the information required, and the charts are very useful. The book contains only necessary information, so the text is short and specific. Another good factor is the size and cover of the book, easy to carry.

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