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U.S. Landscape Ordinances: An Annotated Reference Handbook
Buck Abbey
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State-by-state listings and explanations of municipal landscape ordinances
In U.S. Landscape Ordinances, Buck Abbey furnishes landscape architects, planners, land-use attorneys, and students with a much-needed resource. This state-by-state presentation demystifies the complex planning laws and ordinances that determine landscape design parameters for more than 300 American cities. The author highlights sections of each ordinance that pertain to landscape architecture, boils the legalese down to plain English, explains the law's main purpose and regulatory function, and spells out the practical implications from a design perspective.
With the help of more than fifty diagrams and drawings that clarify complex spatial concepts, U.S. Landscape Ordinances reviews the entire spectrum of green laws currently on the books, including ordinances that cover:
- Parking lots and vehicular use areas
- Landscape buffers and screens
- Street tree plantings
- Open space design
- Irrigation
- Land clearing and building sites
The product of ten years of painstaking research and analysis, U.S. Landscape Ordinances is a unique and invaluable tool for professionals in landscape design and municipal planning. It also offers a deep reservoir of information for students, municipal legislators, community activists, and anyone interested in understanding or developing a community's landscape ordinances.
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The Complete Potter: Raku (The Complete Potter)
Ian Byers
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From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart.
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- Uncertain Grace by Rebecca Liv Wee
- What a beautiful way to see things!
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Uncertain Grace
Rebecca Liv Wee
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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Winner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets.
Rebecca Wee's award-winning debut is a moody and lyrical mosaic where the reader is presented multiple and simultaneous points of reality. As line after line gathers details from the world, Wee's poems build in momentum, give voice to the silenced, and explore the poet's impulse to create art that transcends suffering.
Rebecca Wee is a professor of creative writing at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. A former editor of The Minnesota Review, she earned her MFA from George Mason University and has received several awards for her poetry.
Pont des Arts
She's bent in a posture of anguish or prayer
in a spot of city filth.
Head down, a stained knit cap
with a few coins on the ground beside her,
and her pliant child, a shadow.
Someone veers past with a friend
in a clamor of rings and scarves. A pretty child
skips after them, scattering pigeons.
The mothers miss how their daughters' eyes catch them--
the wary, openmouthed stares.
A terrible knowledge passes between them,
the bridge rippling under their feet,
before the polished child rushes past but looks back
at the one on the bridge in the heat--
the sunblown silent one
whose hand has pulled back and flown up to smooth,
for a moment, her heavy hair.
The Philosopher
A man rides a bicycle into town. He's forgotten his clothes,
or maybe this is what he means to do.
He rides carefully into the burning town.
Apartments of old stone list, iron balconies, awnings,
the window-grates blacken with heat. He rides by.
His lip perspires, his eyes intent.
In the hills behind him there is a glow that is not the burning.
The Acropolis maybe. The Dome of the Rock.
The man has a book under his arm. The pages are gilt-edged, the title
has worn away. He has a shoulder-wound also, an old crescent scar.
Now his chest sweats, now his abdomen.
He is more agile than laughter.
The road turns. A black sedan rounds the corner
behind him. They are leaving town or they're trailing him.
Customer Reviews:
Uncertain Grace by Rebecca Liv Wee.......2001-11-07
Extremely creative, poignant, and insight provoking, Uncertain
Grace invites new ways of seeing and knowing. Like verbal
holograms, Rebecca Wee's poems beckon the reader to assemble
multidimensional meanings which are both unique and universal,
private and profound. Her confrontational but empathic studies
compel sensitive and transcendent connections between external
beauty or pathos and inner self. A masterwork from a remarkable
thinker and artist, this refined and very beautiful collection
will stimulate, satisfy, and inspire for many years to come.
What a beautiful way to see things!.......2001-06-07
Sometimes sad, sometimes funny, the poems in this collection beautifully describe how we, as humans, respond to the world around us. By incorporating vibrant images with fragments of narrative, Rebecca Wee makes clear the connection between what we experience in the present and what we have previously experienced. As readers, we are reminded of the strange beauty of all that is around us, and encouraged to reflect upon those things we have seen or stories we have heard that we simply can't forget. Personally, I found that her poems inspired me to really "take in" the people and things I encounter on a daily basis and appreciate their poignancy, be it painful or pleasurable.
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Uncertain Grace Poetry
Carol E. Pack
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Carol E. Pack makes a wonderful debut with Uncertain Grace Poetry. She has the unwavering determination to overcome and to find love in this anything-but-nice world. She is a romantic with a heart of gold and loyalty that shines in every poem. Her collection of poems focus on a variety of topics. Certain poems reflect on past events, while others question serious events in life. Most discuss spiritual and emotional matters of the soul. The book, as a whole, is intended to be a sort of reflection of the author's progression in maturity and blossoming into womanhood. The author has written and shared these poems in the hopes that you can relate and will find peace.
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Defense technologies for an uncertain future.(INSIDE Science AND Technology): An article from: National Defense
Grace Jean
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Title: Defense technologies for an uncertain future.(INSIDE Science AND Technology)
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Hailing from lands far and wide, New York City cab drivers are as unique and diverse as the city itself. Mixing local color with global flavor, The New York Cabbie Cookbook is an international melting pot of favorite homeland recipes, liberally spiced with insider tips and observations about life behind the steering wheel from the drivers who contributed them. Included are 120 hearty recipes, from more than 25 countries, for such international dishes as Russian Appetizer Salad, Moroccan Chicken Pie, Senegalese Beef Stew, Arroz con Pollo, Polish Potato Pancakes, Colombian Black Cake, Irish Lamb Stew, Dim Sum, Moussaka, and Paella. From Pakistan to Greece, from Moscow to Hong Kong, get a taste of what New York's unofficial ambassadors are serving up.
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The Cabbie
Marti Riera
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For every wild story a traveler might have about a ride in a New York City cab, the cabbie probably has a thousand more. These drivers range from the dangerous and maniacal to the resourceful and daring, part-time philosophers and anthropologists observing society’s quirks and ills, immigrants awakening to New World wonders, and captive audiences hearing the tales that anonymity unleashes. In this book, Amy Braunschweiger, no stranger to New York nightlife, lets us listen in on some of the best of the city’s best cabbies stories. Through her book, we are privy to what people of all sorts have said and done in the confines of cabs. Sometimes lurid, sometimes poignant, always entertaining, these fly-on-the-wall tales and all-too-close taxi cab encounters are the stuff that city life is made of--rarely experienced by anyone who’s not a cabbie.
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The Cabbie Who Stole New York City
Charles Micucci
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Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce
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Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or information on the Internet through the use of mobile handheld devices. In just a few years, mobile commerce has emerged from nowhere to become the hottest new trend in business transactions. However, the prosperity and popularity of mobile commerce will be brought to a higher level only if information is securely and safely exchanged among end systems (mobile users and content providers). Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce includes high-quality research papers and industrial and practice articles in the areas of mobile commerce security and payment from academics and industrialists. It covers research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of mobile commerce security and payment.
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study the chapters on fraud.......2005-11-28
If mobile commerce is to take off, many issues of micropayments and antifraud need to be addressed. Hu edited this collection of papers which addresses these and other issues. These give a timely discussion about what might be the most pertinent topics facing hardware and software vendors wanting to deploy an application.
Overwhelmingly, the mobile commerce platform appears to be the cellphone, given the sheer prevalence, as compared to PDAs or mobile laptops.
The chapters on possible types of fraud attacks and what countermeasures could be implemented might be the most important sections of the book. As with other types of electronic interactions, like email and web browsing, fraud is likely to surface as a peril if mobile commerce becomes pervasive.
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- chronicling the courageous and the cranky
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New York's Architectural Holdouts
Andrew Alpern , and
Seymour Durst
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chronicling the courageous and the cranky.......2001-09-08
For anyone serious about studying humans in the urban environment, this is essential reading. The authors detail the sagas (and they often are) of individuals who owned strategically located bits of real estate and refused to sell their property to land developers eager to consume them in major projects. Sometimes you root for the holdout, sometimes you feel sorry for the misguided rebel. The writing can become a bit petulant when the authors fail to see the holdout's point of view (for at least one author progress is always on the side of the Donald Trumps of the world), but ultimately enough information is given to allow the reader to decide who was the wisest player in a particular scenario. This book also provides a look at 'New York buildings that aren't there anymore.'
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Hearing friends talk about their ancestors and genealogical research prompted the author to wonder about her ancestors and started her on a journey that may never end. With the help of distant cousins contacted on the Internet, it was soon apparent that James Gardner of Butler County, Pennsylvania, was her great-great-great-grandfather. But there the trail grew cold. Where was he born and who were his parents? Was he part of the William and Sarah Gardner family that moved from Maryland to the wild frontier of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, either before or during the Revolutionary War? Most of the descendants of James and Martha "Molly" McAnallen Gardner married, had children and brought many other surnames to the Gardner family tree. Among those surnames are Ackerman, Brinkley, Cameron, Cann, Carson, Dover, Duffy, Fehrenbach, Grossman, Harriger, Hoge, Johnson, Mansfield, Marmie, McAnallen, Mershimer, Ott, Rohrer, Shoaf, Teal, Welsh and Wimer.
With the help of more research and information from yet unknown cousins, this family tree will continue to grow and spread its branches. Perhaps we will even learn about the ancestors of James Gardner.
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To mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, fought in October 1805, comes
The Trafalgar Companion, a lavishly illustrated volume that surpasses, in both scale and authority, anything ever published on this historic naval battle.
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Magnificent book.......2007-04-02
It's one of the best books of that type I've ever read, too much details, but not boring, explains everything and gives you a full idea about how the seamnship of that period, strategy life at seas and of course of the battle of Trafalgar. I would reccomend it without any hesitation.
Probably the title of the book isn't so attractive as it's the book itself.
Tremendous value.......2006-03-15
What a book! This book is huge and contains just about everything you would want to know about the people, the ships and the battles. I was really impressed to see the hour by hour description of the battle and the detailed descriptions of the ships appearance as well as its statistics.
I have no hesitation in recommending this book.
A GREAT book on Nelson's Navy.......2006-01-19
The Trafalgar Companion is probably the best reference book on the Royal Navy in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It has about 550 pages of small type and is jam packed with information. However, it is much more than its title suggests.
This book could probably be divided into three main parts: the life of Nelson, the Trafalgar campaign, and the background of the Royal Navy. There are nine sections, each with subsections and most with an epilogue. The epilogues comprise the first part, as they describe some aspect of Nelson's life or career. If one wanted to read only about Nelson, one could jump to the end of each chapter and read a very good biography of Nelson. The epilogues include his early life and career, the battles of St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen; his stay at Naples, Emma, and a few others. The reader really comes to know a great deal about Nelson. The second section, the background of the Royal Navy, gives the reader about 150 pages on topics such as ship construction and classification, seamanship, navigation, officers, seamen, marines, uniforms, gunnery, tactics, and many others. This section alone is invaluable to understanding the Royal Navy. The third section is about the Trafalgar campaign. The subsections include British and French naval strategy, the fleets, command, opening moves, the battle itself (about 60 pages), and the aftermath of the battle.
So, what makes this such a great book? The topics have all been discussed in tons of other books. Well, first, this book is like an encyclopedia--it brings everything together under one roof. If you want Nelson, you got 'im. If you're reading Hornblower, Ramage, Kydd, or Aubrey and you need some background info on some topic, it's here. However, this book is more than an encyclopedia. If you have several hours to spend on a great story--the battle itself--you've got a great read in front of you. Second, in addition to the text, this book is filled with hundreds of illustrations, diagrams, lists, quotes, maps, paintings, and drawings. For example, the section on fleet comparison devotes a page to each ship from both fleets. The pages include a drawing of a ship, its rating, number and type of guns, number and type of crew (i.e. naval, infantry, marine), a biography of its commander, what the ship did during and after the battle, and, for the British, a list of all its officer--all the way down to the purser! In the section on guns, gunnery, and tactics, there are eight fabulous color illustrations, each covering two pages. The first is a cross section of the Victory with all the rooms labeled. The ship looks like a mini city. Then there are top-view illustrations of each deck. Not only are the guns and other parts of the ship labeled, but also where crew members would have been assigned. I didn't know that a marine was assigned to each gun on the ship. In some cases even known personalities can be placed in certain areas on deck. There is even a page showing the number and arrangement of lanterns to indicate signals in the presence of the enemy! I particularly like the 19 maps in the battle section. The reader can follow the movements and firing of the ships throughout the battle. There are so many topics and all are treated exhaustively.
I could go on and on giving examples of the breadth and depth of this book. Besides the information, the color illustrations and quality of paper make this book visually pleasing. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. It's worth every penny you'll pay for it-you won't need anything else.
Fantastic coverage of Trafalgar.........2006-01-07
The Trafalgar Companion by Mark Adkin looked very much like his Waterloo Companion that he wrote earlier. The book covers three subject matters. First is the Trafalgar campaign and battle. Second is the biographical overview of Horatio Lord Nelson and finally the third coverage deals with anatomy of navies and ships of this period although the Royal Navy get most of the coverage. Each three subjects are spread apart into sections and interlocked with the overall coverage of the topic. There are also many side bars notes that inserts interesting trivial if not important information regarding the subject matter at hand.
The book proves to be well written, well researched and easy to read. There are over 200 illustrations that covers everything from battle scenes, diagrams, tactical maps, drawings, ship equipments and so on. There are several pages of a great cross section from the top down on HMS Victory (deck by deck) which showed the ship in battle readiness and show the positions of each crew member by position and officers. There's also a full page coverage on each British, French and Spanish ships involved in the battle as well as history of some of its officers. I can write considerably more on all the great stuff that this book contains.
It pretty obvious that the author went all out to provide one of the most complete coverage of Trafalgar campaign and battle within a single volume. Each of the subject matter appears to be well written and researched. Nelson's biography may not be as detail or indepth as some of the full scale biographies but the coverage proves to be impressive and insightful. All of Nelson's previous battles are in the this book and well covered. While not as detail as Brian Lavery's book, Nelson's Navy, the study of the Royal Navy in this book should satisfied almost anyone. The coverage of the campaign and battle of Trafalgar proves to be complete and highly detailed, helped by charts and maps that gives a clear understanding of the subject at hand.
There is also a short but detail coverage of post-Trafalgar period, fate of the ships, officers and burial of Nelson. Interesting tidbits that can only enchance the reading experience.
In conclusion, while there are books out there who may do a better job covering just the battle or just Nelson or just the details of wooden navy, I believed no book does a superior job in putting all three together and making it work. The 555 pages of this book is crammed with information that can only benefit the reader to the utmost. Its well worth the price you pay.
A Must Have.......2006-01-03
This is one of the most outstanding books on the subject of Trafalgar, Nelson and the sailing navy I have come across. The small details are brought vividly to life in a way that makes interesting reading. The artwork in this book is specially commissioned for the book and is therefore technically accurate. This differs from other books on this subject that use art from around the time with foot notes explaining the technical inaccuracies in the pictures. The life of Nelson is covered in detail and is tied in with explaining life in the navy of the time interspersed with stories of individuals of various ranks and what their life was like. Personal stories, where available, are included to bring the whole picture to life. The artwork along with all the maps and diagrams is in full colour making everything easily understandable.
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The battle of Trafalgar lasted just five hours, yet those short hours forever shattered Napoleon's dream of adding England to his list of conquests. This book, written by a number of respected authors, examines not only the battle but also the characters and motivation of the men that fought in it, including the great commanders Nelson and Villeneuve. Exploring the political and military aspects of the fighting, it provides detailed analyses of the tactics deployed by both sides, showing how strategies were translated into action.
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Bit superficial.......2006-01-23
This book gives an overview of the campaign and battle of Trafalgar. Its written by different writers, all who are respected in this field. This book tries to bring the campaign and battle in proper perecption by covering each aspect such as British fleet, Allied fleet, life of Nelson, political situation, seamen's life aboard these wooden world and so on. Each chapter seem to be well written but sometimes, it seem to carry the coverage too much. For example, I thought the coverage of the Trafalgar campaign didn't have to be traced all the way back to the beginning of the French Revolution and beheading of Louis XVI!! Due to the limited nature of this book (its published by Ospery after all), each chapter seem to give a pretty superifical treatment of the subject matter, not giving much details or any new insights about the campaign and battle of Trafalgar.
Its my understanding after reading this book that its more geared toward the novice level and if you are a veteran reader of this campaign, you will gain no new knowledge or gain any fresh insights here. This book should not be mistaken for the book written by Mark Adkin with the same title. That book is light years ahead of this book in handling all aspects of this campaign and battle of Trafalgar.
If you really want a true companion book, I would recommended Mark Adkins' book. If you are a novice into this field of reading, maybe this book would do the trick for you but to be honest, I don't know why it would since most of the terrific books out there covering Trafalgar does a good job already covering what this book tries to do.
Excellent Background to the Battle of Trafalgar.......2005-11-24
This is one of the best background books I have read in that you get a very balanced view of the people and events concerned with the Battle of Trafalgar. I bought this book thinking that I had bought another book with almost the exact same title. I am more than pleasently suprised with the variety of subject matter covering all sides involved as well as the technical aspects of the sailing navy. I recommend that this book be read in conjunction with a book that covers the battle on its own like Roy Adkins' Trafalgar, The Biography of a Battle. The Trafalgar Companion is a very worthwile addition to any Nelson/Trafalgar library.
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Innocent Espionage: The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785 (Modern History)
Norman Scarfe
Manufacturer: Boydell Press
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This book is irresistible. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Ranks with Defoe and Cobbett, and fills the gap between them... in this wonderful book we have a portrait of England at its most beautiful and most vigorous, of Jane Austen's idyllic countryside and Blake's Satanic mills. NIGEL NICOLSON, SPECTATOR We always have it in stock as it is such a marvellous book. HEYWOOD HILL BOOKSHOPLooking at England in the early months of 1785, covering 20 or even 30 miles a day and making detailed and intelligent notes at night, the two brothers, Francois and Alexandre, and their tutor, saw landscapes still visible today; but the world of the momentous industrial revolution and optimism that, as patriots, they envied, is one we can only envy them for knowing and admire them for recording. Making good use of their time, the group travelled along rutted roads from inn to inn, visiting factories, plunging down mines, exploring dockyards and cathedrals. One is glad that both boys survived the Revolution, but even more remarkable is the survival of their manuscripts, here presented with such scholarship and joy by Norman Scarfe. NORMAN SCARFE best known for his studies of East Anglia, has also edited and translated the earlier travels of the brothers as A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1794(Boydell & Brewer in 1988). There is nothing like the journals of contemporaries to bring into focus ...Magdalen bridge and the iron bridge at Coalbrookdale both freshly built, Adam's new furniture gleaming in Kedleston, the Bridgewater canals in full operation, Robert Bakewell in his farm and Priestley in his laboratory... Nowhere have such experiences been more sharply recorded than in the letter-diaries of three intrepid foreigners who travelled this country in 1785 the book ranks in interestwith Defoe and Cobbett, and fills the gap between them... In this wonderful book we have a portrait of England at its most beautiful and most vigorous, of Jane Austen's idyllic countryside and Blake's Satanic mills. One might have expected three young foreigners with such aristocratic connecti
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on August 1, 1996. The length of the article is 862 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: Innocent Espionage: The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785. (book reviews)
Author: John Money
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Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1996
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: v31
Issue: n2
Page: p309(2)
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Meticulous, specially drawn full-color illustrations of the most abundant, wide-ranging, and conspicuous birds-nearly 650 species in all-depicted in natural settings. At-a-glance identification capsules pinpoint behavior patterns, field characteristics, coloring, habitats, and more.
Customer Reviews:
North American Wildlife: Birds by Reader's Digest.......2002-03-21
The book arrived in great condition, no problem with that. It should be great to use to identify any birds you might see. It is much easier to use than another book i have "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds. It has the text and the pictures in one place, which makes it WAY easier to use than the formerly mentioned. You wouldn't confuse the artwork for photographs, but the depictions seem pretty accurate.
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