Building with Vision : Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood (Wood Reduction Trilogy)

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Building with Vision : Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood (Wood Reduction Trilogy)
Dan Imhoff
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0970950004

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Combining environmental philosophy, practical information and dynamic visuals, Building with Vision makes accessible many solutions to wasteful tree-dependent construction and design. In addition to identifying the benefits, challenges, and applications of the recommended alternatives to contemporary American construction, this book details building methods to minimize wood waste, maximize efficiency, and emphasize the unique aesthetic properties of non-wood materials.
Part resource guide, part photo essay, this 136-page gem is packed full of beautifully composed, nearly tactile photographs that bring to life an array of alternative materials. Case studies highlight successful building projects that utilize innovative and effective framing, siding, insulation, roofing, and finishing materials and techniques.
Building systems featured include Rastra, a new kind of interlocking block made of recovered Styrofoam packaging; Structural Insulated Pales (SIPs) made of plywood, OSB, or strawboard with a thick foam core; and a variety of "Eco-Crete," super-insulating concrete systems. A wide range of finish materials are discussed as well; panel board made from agricultural crop waste, flooring derived from used tires, natural linoleum and certified woods, and cement countertops embedded with finds from the urban waste stream.

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Aidan Meehan has selected details of his line drawings from his best-selling Celtic Design series, and has redrawn and elaborated them especially for this larger format pattern book. All the main branches of the wonderful and intricate traditional Celtic ornament are represented: spirals, geometric step and maze patterns, animal and plant patterns, and knotwork. In ancient times, several artists would work together to decorate an important book, one drawing in pen and ink, another painting in the patterns. Here the reader is invited to fulfill the role of painter, while being guided and inspired with notes on the history of the designs and on the choice and order of colors. This repertoire of Celtic designs, created by one of the leading proponents of the genre, is based on traditional sources, such as the Book of Kells and Pictish carved stonework. It is a creative and engaging introduction to Celtic art, and makes an ideal gift for anyone fascinated by the Celtic legacy. It will be of great value to artists, designers, and crafts people interested in experimenting with new patterns and techniques.

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Celtic patterns: Painting Book/Aidan Meehan.......2002-07-09

A real delight. I wish there were more designs in the book, but they are large enough to study for reproduction in any craft.

Great designs to copy.......2000-03-30

The patterns and designs in this book are large and are ideal for the artist or craftsperson who is looking for a design to copy. However, there are no instructions or suggestions for how to use the designs and patterns shown. Because of this I wouldn't recommend this as a beginning place for the craftsperson looking for Celtic designs.

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Attractive, practical treasury of 91 patterns adapted from The Book of Kells and other authentic sources depicts fabulous mythical creatures, human figures, birds, fish, and abstract designs —all incorporating the symmetrical weaves and interlacings characteristic of Celtic art. Perfect for use in window panels, mobiles, lampshades, and other stained glass projects.

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Useful patterns.......2004-04-30

I have used several patterns from this book with great results. I did make small modifications, but I do that with most patterns! Many of these patterns are quite complex and some involve many, many pieces, but there are also a few that are great for beginners as well. If you are interested in celtic designs, this is the best glass pattern source I have found.

Good Ideas.......2000-08-13

This book has some great ideas, but I found the patterns themselves crudely drawn. The images look like old hand drawn sketches that were enlarged to fit the page. You could tell where additional lines were added to allow for reasonable glass cutting, and areas of the patterns that should have been symmetrical were not.

I think a title of "Celtic Stained Glass IDEA Book" would be a more appropriate. I am not completely negative about this book. It has some interesting ideas, but just keep in mind that the pattern will have to be redrafted before getting a workable "pattern".

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About This Book.......2005-10-19

Collection of black-and-white photographs. Limited Edition of 3000 copies. The first and only edition. An elegant production by Chris Pichler and Hideyuki Taguchi: Oversize-volume format in square shape. A very tall and slim book. Handsome black silk cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Michael Kenna. Essay, "Michael Kenna and Ratcliffe-on-Soar", by Jeremy Reed, one of the finest living British poets. Brief Biographies appended at the end. In pictorial DJ with black and silver titles on the cover and spine, as issued. "Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is located in Nottinghamshire, England. Michael Kenna first began photographing the power station in the early 1980's and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna's grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna's Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work" (Publisher's blurb). "Michael Kenna has, through his art, opened visual pathways that help redeem eco-damaged or industrially proscriptive landscapes. He is a poet armed with a camera who lyricizes light. He has added the power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar to the continuously expanding geography of imagination" (Jeremy Reed). Some of Kenna's most powerful work. © 2006, ModernRare.com

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Instructor's manual to accompany Miller : Intermediate microeconomics: Theory, issues, applications : second edition
Ronald G Reddall
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0070421609

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Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory, Issues, Applications
Roger LeRoy Miller
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0070421714

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Study guide to accompany Miller, Intermediate microeconomics: Theory, issues, and applications
Ronald G Reddall
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0070421528

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Study guide to accompany Miller, Intermediate microeconomics: Theory, issues, applications
Ronald G Reddall
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0070421617

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Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory, Issues, Applications
Rober LeRoy Miller
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFSIUU

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Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory, Issues, Applications
Roger LeRoy Miller
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFQKHS

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Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory, Issues, Applications, Second Edition
Roger Leroy Miller
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill Higher Education
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFKMH2

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Study guide to accompany Miller, Intermediate microeconomics: Theory, issues, and applications
Ronald G Reddall
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFMR9I

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The profession of peddling has until now received only slight and fragmentary scholarly attention. Usually treated in an anecdotal fashion, the pedlar has generally been thought of as a marginal figure, closer in character to a vagabond than a trader. In this first sustained account of the profession in Europe, Laurence Fontaine argues that peddling, particularly as a means of distributing new commodities such as books, watches, and tobacco, played a crucial role in the formation of the modern European economy.
Focusing primarily on the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, Fontaine traces the origins and development of peddling and the establishment of trading networks. She analyzes the changing social construction of the practice and the effect of encounters between traders of different regions. Following the pedlars’ trade routes across Europe from Spain to Sweden and Scotland to the upper Rhine, she examines their importance as channels of communication as well as of goods and raises such issues as the impact of pedlars on the values and cultural practices of the communities they visited and the ways in which being merchants changed the lives of these migrants.
History of Pedlars in Europe separates the mythology that surrounds peddling from the historically reliable and integrates existing studies with new archival research to illuminate one of the most remote areas of the social and economic history of early modern Europe. A means of trade based on mobility, uncertainty, and interdependence, peddling is rediscovered as a dynamic force involved in nothing less than the creation of a modern consumer society.

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Walking into the modern age.......2007-09-10

Laurence Fontaine's "History of Pedlars in Europe" goes some way to filling in another blank in the vexed question of where our modern economic system came from.

That pedlars helped break open medieval isolation, providing a bridge to the era of townsmen and rapid communication was already known. Fontaine calls into question the rootlessness of the packmen.

He discovers what should really be no surprise, that the pedlars organized themselves in kin groups and communal groups -- "community states within continental states" as Fontaine puts it. It seems this should have been expected.

First, that is how urban merchants on the verge of modernity began. Second, how else, in Renaissance and early modern conditions could it have happened?

By using village sources, primarily in the western Alps, Fontaine convincingly reconstructs a network of village landowners in the impoverished uplands and shopkeepers in middling towns: they were the same men.

What emerges are not sturdy and independent rovers but clients given opportunities but also restricted by networks of supply, patronage and, above all, credit.

Fontaine describes a successful economic system that was infinitely leveraged. When credit was impugned, it collapsed. Other things punctured it as well; railroads and national and international mail delivery among others.

While they lasted (into the 20th century in Spain), the pedlar networks helped create a new society, based on handkerchiefs, popular books and better clothes. The pedlars undersold the town merchants and undermined the guilds by being flexible and dishonest when necessary. They were often hardly distinguishable -- or at any rate, not distinguished -- from wandering brigands.

The pedlars let light onto the darkness left from the Age of Faith. Priests might ring the bells in alarm to warn villagers that a pedlar was approaching, laden with lace, handkerchiefs, pins and Enlightenment literature, but the people wanted the printed matter -- "bibliotheques bleu" or "blue books," which lived on even in the much different circumstances of America in the Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Books of the 20th century (not mentioned by Fontaine).

True entrepreneurs, when the Catholics were ascendant, the pedlars smuggled Protestant books; when the Protestants were on top, they smuggled Catholic literature. Religious persecution, which always expands from the lowlands to the highlands, was a recurrent problem for the pedlars. Many were sincere and fled persecution -- notably after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes -- but others converted; and still others fled but kept one family member in the other camp.

"The History of Pedlars in Europe" is a compact book, only 200 pages of text (but lots of endnotes), and it suffers (to my taste) from the French academic's habit of circumlocution and tendency to try to elevate the commonplace to the cosmic. Fontaine is no worse than average in this respect but still irritating.

This is definitely a specialist work but of interest to anyone concerned with the emergence of modernity from medieval barbarism. Fontaine touches on the invention of the traveling salesman (at first, the "Manchester Man); the changes in European eroticism created by the habit of wearing underclothes; the issue of migrations; and the creation of a consumer society. He concludes that, contrary to appearances, the merchant class, not the landed elites, were the entry point for modern conveniences.

However, "all things considered, it was the poorest who profited most from the rise in home comforts."

It isn't often that the poor benefit most from anything, so the pedlars deserve our respect/

The Great Reclothing of Rural England: Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth Century

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The Great Reclothing of Rural England: Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth Century
Margaret Spufford
Manufacturer: Hambledon & London
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Margaret Spufford has written as detailed an account of the lives and activities of the chapmen as there is likely to be, given the widely-spread and fragmented evidence. She shows where and when they were active, and in particular their rise in the seventeenth century, their ranks and their typical careers, the variety of the cloths and other wares they carried, and the attitude of authority towards them.

Landauf-landab-- mit Gauklern, Quacksalbern, Katzenrittern und Gemeinen Fraulein

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Landauf-landab-- mit Gauklern, Quacksalbern, Katzenrittern und Gemeinen Fraulein
Vera De Blue
Manufacturer: Edition Erpf
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Colporteurs et marchands savoyards dans l'Europe des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Memoires et documents publies par l'Academie salesienne)

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Colporteurs et marchands savoyards dans l'Europe des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Memoires et documents publies par l'Academie salesienne)
Chantal Maistre
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ASIN: 2901102093

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the best pregnancy journal on the market!.......2000-10-26

This beautiful journal gives you lots of room to write. The journal is divided into sections, then weeks. Each week has 2-3 pages to write on. Each page has either a bible verse or quote from a mom in the corner, with an occasional pregnancy fact, too. In the middle of the book is a page for milestones and a page for name ideas. At the back is a place to write a letter to your new child. If your looking for a journal with lots of room to explore your feelings during your pregnancy, this is it!

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Volume 22, "Diversity", is a special volume in the new series of "Medievalia et Humanistica", focusing on the diversity of voices in medieval and early Renaissance literature. Six original articles explore themes of law, art, and piety at all levels of medieval and early Renaissance society, from the common audience of Malory's England to the aristocratic courts of Germany. . In addition to these six original articles, this volume offers two review articles and 28 review notices on 49 recent publications. Scholars, teachers, and students will find this volume presents a sampling of the variety and abundance of medieval and early Renaissance studies today.

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Great waterfowl identification guide

Poor reprint quality ruins a great series

Steve Madge delivers again

Excellent for the birdwatcher or waterfowler

Waterfowl: An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese, and Swans of the World
Steven Madge
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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ASIN: 0395467268

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This complete guide to 150 species of ducks, geese, and swans provides color illustrations of all major plumages and subspecies and offers informative details on voice, population, distribution, range, habits, and habitats--for beginners and experts.

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Great waterfowl identification guide.......1999-10-27

"Waterfowl : An Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World" is a wonderful guide for waterfowl identification, with beautiful colored plates of all 155 species of ducks, geese, and swans. A really nice book for everyone who likes wild waterfowl. The only thing I miss are the screamers which are also a part of the anseriformes (waterfowl).

Poor reprint quality ruins a great series.......1999-01-28

Make a plate-by-plate comparison of the new Waterfowl or Shorebirds guides with the original hardcover editions and you'll see that the sofcover illustrations look like cheap color photocopies. All of the subtlety and detail that made the originals the best field guides of their kind has been lost. Save your money for the used bookstores.

Steve Madge delivers again.......1998-11-22

Maybe i'm a little biased but this is a great book.However trying to find a copy was something of a wild goose chase

Excellent for the birdwatcher or waterfowler.......1998-10-03

Waterfowl: An Identification Guide - This identification guide is part of a series of similar books each targeted at a particular family of birds such as shorebirds, seabirds, sparrows, etc. These guides are designed for the serious bird watcher, but the volume on waterfowl is an excellent reference for the waterfowler who wants to increase his knowledge and understanding of these wonderful birds. Most species are illustrated in juvenile, eclipse adult and breeding adult plumage for males (drakes) and females (hens). Range maps and detailed text descriptions are included for every species of waterfowl in the world. Descriptions include methods of distinguishing birds that are similar.

Wildfowl: An identification guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world

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Wildfowl: An identification guide to the ducks, geese and swans of the world
Steve Madge
Manufacturer: Christopher Helm
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007CAMFY

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