Intercultural Architecture: The Philosophy of Symbiosis

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Intercultural Architecture: The Philosophy of Symbiosis
Kisho Kurokawa
Manufacturer: Aia Pr
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ASIN: 1558350357

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Intercultural architecture : the philosophy of symbiosis
Kisho (1934-) Kurokawa
Manufacturer: Washington, D.C. : American Institute of Architects Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1854900471

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Classic study of penmanship, lettering and illumination covers fundamentals of acquiring a formal hand, creating manuscript books, techniques of illumination, lettering and methods of constructing and arranging letters, the Roman alphabet and its derivatives, lettering on metal, wood and stone, other topics. Many useful exercises. 250 illustrations.

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Its an O.K. Book.......2003-09-08

Good historial review of calligraphy, but would not recommend it as a good reference book if you are looking for something to guide and show you how to do calligraphy. Recommend "Encyclopedia of Calligraphy" instead. I purchased first edition many years ago, and accidentally bought this one again. Oh well...

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WRITING & ILLUMINATING, & LETTERING.

Manufacturer: Sir Isaac Pitman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HJ8HEK

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EDWARD JOHNSTON
WRITING AND ILLUMINATING AND LETTERING
Manufacturer: PITMAN
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SAEMWE

Writing & Illuminating & Lettering - The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks

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Writing & Illuminating & Lettering - The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks
W.R., Lethaby
Manufacturer: Pomona Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1406793434

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Contents Include: WRITING AND ILLUMINATING: The Development of Writing - Acquiring a Formal Hand, Tools, Methods, Models, Practice - Manuscript Books - Versal Letters and Coloured Capitals - Black and Red - Laying and Burnishing Gold - The Use of Gold and Colours in Initial Letters and Simple Illumination - A Theory of Illumination - The Development of Illumination - "Design in Illumination" - LETTERING: Good Lettering - Some Methods of Construction and Arrangement - The Roman Alphabet and its Derivatives - Special Subjects - Inscriptions in Stone - Notes on the Collotype Plates - The Collotype Plates

Writing & illuminating & lettering / by Edward Johnston ; with diagrams & illustrations by the author & Noel Rooke [8pp examples in red and black and 24pp of collotypes]

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Writing & illuminating & lettering / by Edward Johnston ; with diagrams & illustrations by the author & Noel Rooke [8pp examples in red and black and 24pp of collotypes]
Edward (1872-1944) Johnston
Manufacturer: London; Pitman
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KGYMJO

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WRITING & ILLUMINATING, & LETTERING
Edward Johnston
Manufacturer: Pitman
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHYSUO

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WRITING AND ILLUMINATING AND LETTERING
JOHNSTON
Manufacturer: PITMAN
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S6R9T6

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WRITING AND ILLUMINATING AND LETTERING
EDWARD JOHNSTON
Manufacturer: PITMAN
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SAMUBY

Writing and Illuminating, and Lettering (The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks)

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Writing and Illuminating, and Lettering (The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks)
Edward Johnston
Manufacturer: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GLZFLW

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Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
Edward johnston
Manufacturer: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, LTD
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VTBO00

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A Wonderful Work Commemorating a Talented Photographer

American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh
Keith F. Davis
Manufacturer: Hudson Hills Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1555952305

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This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways.

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A Wonderful Work Commemorating a Talented Photographer.......2005-05-18

The late Art Sinsabaugh was among the most overlooked photographers of the late 20th century, in my opinion. In brief, the images presented are both technically unique and historically interesting. Sinsabaugh's main distinction was to use a large-format view camera to turn the flatness of Chicago and Illinois (as well as a few other eastern locales) into works of art by accentuating the landscapes' continuity, linearity, and detail. (I have seen his camera and can say that just carting this thing around must have been exhausting. It's definitely not a point-and-shoot.) To accomplish this he would use the widest angle lens he could get and then concentrate on capturing the extreme details found in largely horizontal strips of scenes, such as farmland or unending rows of Chicago apartment buildings. Some might see this as panoramic landscape work. But, having seen the prints of some of his images and having pored over this book many times, I can say that these images are more than that. At first you may not see some as interesting. But then you find yourself looking closer. You see a white ball on the roof of a building across the street from Chicago's Wrigley Field. Perhaps a long-forgotten home run? Then you see someone's laundry hanging to dry on a porch. You strain to read a sign hanging near a farm house. Before you know it you've spent 2 hours with the book and your eyes are sore.

Like many artists Sinsabaugh suffered periods of great angst over his work, apparently undergoing periods of abandoning his work altogether. He also spent many years teaching photography at the University of Illinois.

This book was published in conjunction with a January, 2005 exhibit of his work at the Art Institute of Chicago. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in seeing how one man found interesting and innovative ways of capturing otherwise uninteresting urban and rural scenes.

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If you seek information that will help save you money on a mortgage transaction, you've found it!

Kevin Melody spells out trade secrets of the mortgage industry from an insider's perspective, with frank honesty and in plain English. He shows how most borrowers shop for mortgages like they shop for cars: they find the product they want, at a price they believe is fair, then they strike a deal. Unfortunately, unlike a car purchase, a mortgage transaction will not close on the day the "deal" is made. Therefore, unless the borrower is sophisticated enough to know how to make it stick, he really has no deal at all. He has committed himself to the lender, but the commitment may not be mutual. In fact, the rates, costs, even the product itself may change later; at a time when the borrower has, not only an emotional stake in proceeding with the transaction, but also a financial one; and is therefore unlikely to cancel. Whether you're a first-time buyer, or a property owner with many mortgage transactions under his belt, you will save time, money, and frustration by reading this book.

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What lenders REALLY don't want you to know!.......2004-06-14

If you are going to borrow money or get a line of credit you would be wise to read this book. It is VERY well written; clear, concise, to the point...

It is worth $1000 each time you purchase a property or sign a note.

Every real estate agent in the country should be giving this book as a gift to their clients...

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As armoured warfare tactics matured, mechanised infantry became a key ingredient in what is now called 'combined arms' doctrine. For the US Army of World War 2, the most important technical aspect of infantry mechanisation was the development of the M3 half-track personnel carrier. Steven Zaloga guides the reader through the early 1930s development of the half-track, its first deployment in action in the Philippines in 1941 and its varied and vital role in international deployments since World War 2. This authoritative text also examines the operators of half-tracks and the troops that they carried.

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This unique book attempts to study Sikh history and culture --lauded for its militaristic, hyper-masculine character by India's colonial rulers--from a feminist perspective, an approach that is unprecedented. Beginning with early Sikh history, the author explores 'male'/'female' constructs and
demonstrates in her analysis of the Sikh Sabha movement that gender politics (as based on the Victorian notions of gender) were pivotal to this endavour.

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The Better Half of Sikh History.......2005-09-04

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INTRODUCTION
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As I write, the Sikh religious leadership in Amritsar is debating whether or not to allow amrit-dhari (initiated) Sikh women to perform kirtan (hymn-singing) and other traditionally restricted forms of seva (service) at Darbar Sahib. This debate is not new. The S.G.P.C.'s Religious Advisory Committee passed a motion on March 9, 1940 to lift the restriction (The Tribune, August 19, 2005). However, as current events indicate, the resolution had little impact on the ground and the matter remains unresolved.

Jagir Kaur, the first woman to serve as president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (S.G.P.C.), earned brownie points for her role in advocating women's right to perform on Sikhism's holiest stage. Yet, her own reign is tainted by allegations of criminal involvement in the murder of her daughter (The Indian Express, August 28, 2005).

The volume under review, based on Jakobsh's doctoral dissertation supervised by Harjot Oberoi at the University of British Columbia, takes a peek inside several such nooks and crannies of Sikh history, identifying gaps between the professed ideal of gender egalitarianism and actual practice. The analysis begins with Guru Nanak, discusses the early and later Guru periods, and stresses the role of the Singh Sabha period in molding Sikh identity couched in calls for a 'return to their glorious heritage' (p. 132).

In the words of Joan Wallach Scott, 'A historical focus on gender . . . fundamentally changes one's understanding of history' (p. 127). Given that Sikh 'historical writings contain virtually nothing about women,' we've long been deprived of exactly one half - some might insist, the better half - of Sikh history. This book, a statement of the 'feminist perspective' (p. 7), is a pioneering and welcome corrective.

FRAMEWORK
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The book's framework for analysis consists of four principles: silence, negation, accommodation, and idealization. Silence implies the absence of 'herstory' (p. 9). Negation refers to the construction of homogeneity via the denigration of that which is heterogeneous. Accommodation involves the reinterpretation of history to suit the current agenda. Finally, idealization is an extension of accommodation whereby handpicked examples are glorified and presented as both the norm and the ideal.

THE GURUS
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Jakobsh finds Guru Nanak's attitude toward women somewhat more enlightened than that of Kabir, but 'senses Guru Nanak's apprehension for women' and is critical of his failure to write against 'sati' and 'female infanticide' (pp. 25-26). The 'procreation of sons' (p. 24) was central to Guru Nanak's vision of an ideal woman. Despite his injunctions in favor of the householder lifestyle, Guru Nanak, Jakobsh points out, left the running of the household to his wife who, according the B40 Janam-sakhi, was 'unhappy with their marital situation' (p. 28).

While recognizing that the janam-sakhis 'cannot be understood as necessarily biographical but rather as responding to the needs of the later community,' Jakobsh attributes the 'inconsistencies' regarding women's names to 'indifference' toward women (p. 27).

' 'The Ultimate' in Sikh scripture was most often conceived in masculine terms, as Akal Purakh, Karta Purakh' (p. 11). Moreover, 'numerous passages in the scripture associate woman with 'maya,' that which is sensual as opposed to spiritual (p. 11; Guru Granth, pp. 41, 796) [and] women are exalted when obedient and subservient as wives to their divine husbands and men are ridiculed when they are not dominant' (p. 12; Guru Granth, p. 304).

Jakobsh is critical of Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh's accomodative approach. 'To move from a grammatically feminine form of speech [in the Adi Granth] to the theological underpinnings of the gurus' egalitarian ethos is conceivably more a reading into the term bani (voice) than a reflection of the actual intent of the gurus' (p. 11). In other words, it is far-fetched to derive an elevated status for women based on the Adi Granth's use of the feminine voice to address God, analogous to a bride addressing her groom.

Women were 'inadvertently depreciated' (p. 42) by the emergence of the 'hypermasculine' (p. 44) Khalsa. Chaupa Singh Rahit-nama, the earliest rahit, strongly prohibited the administration of khande di pahul to a woman' (p. 43) and opined 'she is never to read the Granth Sahib in a Sikh assembly' (p. 46).

Again, borrowing from Joan Wallach Scott, Jakobsh explains, 'that which is dominant needs the secondary for its very identity . . . The primary concentration on true Sikh identity openly only to males demanded that women subsidize that equation by being the negative or the opposite of that identity' (p. 47).

MAI BHAGO
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Of Mai Bhago's example of a rare female appearance on the pages of heroic Sikh history, Jakobsh writes, 'One must question whether Mai Bhago's inclusion points to the equality between sexes or to distorted notions of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. For only upon appropriation of male attire, only in the suppression of her femaleness, is she recognized as one worthy of honour' (p. 49).

Referring to Louis Fenech's recent 'study of the taunt in Sikh tales of heroism and martyrdom,' Jakobsh points out 'no greater insult could be offered to a male of the Khalsa than to compare him or his actions to those associated with women' (p. 49).

POLITICS OF SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE
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Singh Sabha, motivated by the colonial milieu and its 'politics of similarity and difference' (p. 2), proposed 'reforms' that actually encroached on women. Jakobsh explains the phenomenon in the words of Kay Boals, written in the context of the influence of French colonialism in Algeria: 'This process involves a reinterpretation of that tradition to read back into its past the genesis of ideas which in fact have been absorbed from the dominant culture' (p. 12).

The 'dominant culture' in this case was British, in particular Victorian assumptions. The Singh Sabha focused their attention on lower castes and women, who were at the bottom of the social ladder and were most susceptible to being targeted by Christian missionaries. 'The imperial masters had long pointed to Indians' depraved attitudes towards women as moral justification of their presence and rule in India' (p. 99).

THE SINGH SABHA MOVEMENT
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According to Jakobsh, 'reformist gender ideology during colonial times did not originate with the Sikhs. The Brahmo Samaj and Arya Samaj provided the yardsticks by which Singh Sabha reformers measured their success' (p. 239). The Arya Samaj, though created four years after the Amritsar Singh Sabha, 'was the most far-reaching and influential of the reform initiatives in Punjab with regard to the question of women' (p. 119). 'Increasingly aware of the threat as well as the successful initiatives of the Arya Samaj, they [the Singh Sabha] incorporated many of the premises of Swami Dayanand's vision, all the while insisting that their initiatives were solely and securely founded in Sikh scripture and tradition' (p. 122).

Far from being a popular movement, 'proficiency in the language of the rulers became perhaps the most important aspect of the educated elite's rise to power' (p. 201). Broadly, the Singh Sabha was comprised of the Tat Khalsa faction (centered in Lahore) and the Sanatan faction (centered in Amritsar).

'For the British administration, particularly the military establishment, initiation into the Khalsa brotherhood was viewed as indispensable in the creation of the ideal Sikh fighting machine. . . . The hegemonic Tat Khalsa position, benefiting greatly from the institutional support of the British Raj, asserted that only those initiated into the Khalsa in accordance with the injunctions of Guru Gobind Singh were true Sikhs' (p. 210).

The backing of the aristocracy allowed the Sanatan group, led by Khem Singh Bedi, to take a leadership role in establishing schools for girls and women. Takhat Singh led the effort for the Tat Khalsa. Sadly, however, the primary motivation wasn't absolute but 'to protect their young women from the educational advances of the Arya Samajists, as well as from Christian missionaries' (p. 133).

THE 'UN-SIKH' BOGIE
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Many of the best educated women were 'adherents of the various 'un-Sikh' sects maligned by the Singh Sabha' (p. 240) for their heterogeneity and 'the opening of ritual and leadership activity to women' (p. 116).

For example, the Kukas (or Namdharis) were responsible for originating many of the reforms later appropriated by the Singh Sabha. These included a rejection of veneration of dead saints, female infanticide, and the color differentiation that disallowed women from wearing the blue color of the Khalsa. The Kukas were responsible for the introduction of gender-neutral initiation rites, simplified marriage rites, and widow remarriage. As 'the first anti-imperialist group in Punjab' (p. 87), the Kukas bravely revolted against British rule in 1872 but were isolated by the Sikh elite who went on to inaugurate the first Singh Sabha at Amritsar the following year 'aimed at expressing the indisputable loyalty of Sikhs to the British' (p. 91).

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Trees of Minnesota Field Guide (Field Guides)
Stan Tekiela
Manufacturer: Adventure Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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Minnesota Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species (Pocket Naturalist - Waterford Press)

ASIN: 1885061390

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Tree identification can be easy and enjoyable for everyone! This field guide features professional, full-page photos and comprehensive, accessible information about each tree's leaves or needles, bark, mature size, fall color, state-specific range map and more. The author's notes include helpful identification tips and interesting "gee-whiz" facts. Each book covers more than 65 common trees and is a great size for use in the field.

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Good second book

Minnesota Trees (Rev)
David M. Rathke
Manufacturer: Minnesota Exten of Natural Reso
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0962311618

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Good second book.......2001-10-17

This book uses an outline approach to simplify tree identification. It is not a traditional field guide. Following the outline, you can zero in on a single tree subspecies, or narrow down your selection to a few.

It is a good companion to the Audubon Trees: Eastern Region. Unlike the Audubon guide, you cannot "leaf" through pages of similar trees looking for the one you are standing in front of. On the other hand, I often find myself looking at Minnesota Trees first, then checking the Audubon field guide photographs to verify my finding.

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Finding the Forest is a series of vignetes that offer a different vision of the forest. This vision challenges many of today's assumptions about trees, preservation and forestry practices.

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Interesting Essays.......2007-10-11

This short book is a series of forestry essays on a wide range of topics. The author is a professional forester and has a practical bent to forestry. It is more of an idea book rather than a specific how-to volume. I especially liked the essay on the red pine monoculture plantation.

Excellent for Private Woodland Owners That Like Forests.......1999-09-29

Peter's stories reflect a personal evolution of thought about forests and forestry. The episodic events are weaved into a colorful anthology of tales that are easy reading but can be deeply thought provoking. There's a solid base of practical stewardship philosophy that many forest owners would do well to consider. Lessons that have been learned and shared demonstrate a balance between people and nature that is more down-to-earth and applicable than most "nature-writers." The experiences delightfully illustrate a love of forest management tempered by the realities of natural processes. In this age of frequent conflict over natural resource issues, often single-use issues, this book offers a well-written respite that gently explores the quiet process of learning and living with the forest. "Finding the Forest" fits well into the forest landscape. It is simply written and expresses a wealth of unpretentious wisdom.

Important and enjoyable essays on forests........1999-08-27

I read "Finding The Forest" from my personal perspective of having forged a long driveway through our forest, often following hints of old logging roads - having built a home in the woods and watched as the second-growth forest matured around me. I have planted hundreds of trees in near-by fallow fields and gazed with awe and longing at huge white pine stumps found throughout the area. The forest is part of my home and a major part of my photographic travels.

What I discovered in "Finding the Forest" was an affirmation of common feelings, and the guiding hand of an expert offering fresh perspectives, such as in the chapter "Red Pine Maligned." Here, Peter rebuts the common notion of a red pine plantation being "an ecological desert" with a first-hand tour of his growing forest and the diversity found within it.

In a time when debate over forest management policies are often driven more by sentiment than by science, "Finding the Forest" offers woodland owners a good read and an excellent guide to looking at their own forest through the eyes of a professional forester.

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Easy to use.......2006-03-21

I love the pocket naturalist for Minnesota trees and wild flowers
It is very helpful in learning the variety.

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Trees of Minnesota Field Guide
Stan Tekiela
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: 141767119X

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