Spielräume / Changing Places: Zeitgenössische deutsche Landschaftsarchitektur / Contemporary German Landscape Architecture

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Von der Landschaftsarchitektur unserer Zeit wird erwartet, dass Planungen und Entwürfe von Freiräumen auf die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen unserer Jahre antworten. Parks und Plätze sollen zur integrierten Stadt- und Landschaftsentwicklung beitragen. Anspruchsvolle Außenräume fungieren als Investitionsanreiz in der Standortkonkurrenz der Städte. Europäische Kooperationen öffnen den Weg für internationale Projekte. Aspekte der nachhaltigen Pflege der Parkanlagen, auch der Schutz vor Vandalismus, werden immer wichtiger für landschaftsarchitektonische Entwürfe.

Welche Spielräume können in dieser Situation genutzt, welche neu geschaffen werden? Auf welche Weise verwandeln Landschaftsarchitekten die gesetzlichen und organisatorischen Freiräume in gebaute und bepflanzte Freiräume für die Öffentlichkeit? An aktuellen Gärten, Parks, städtischen sowie landschaftlichen Projekten zeigt das attraktive Buch die wegweisenden landschaftsarchitektonischen Gestaltungen der Gegenwart.

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Frankenthaler Paintings on Paper is a 114 page hard cover book with (71) beautiful full color plates and (25) black and white and full color figures.

Essay by Bonnie Clearwater

Painting on paper provides Frankenthaler with an arena for experimentation in gesture and control. Her love of paper started in childhood, and she has retained the creative freedom she experienced working on paper in those early years. Over the past 10 years, she has worked almost exclusively on paper and in a scale that sometimes rivals her large canvases measuring seven by six feet.

Intriguingly, Frankenthaler paints her canvases like watercolors and her works on paper like paintings. For her canvases, she often painted with the stain technique that she innovated during the early 1950s when she began thinning her pigments to the consistency of watercolor and pouring them onto unsized canvas.

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Frankenthaler: Paintings and works on paper : Tasende Gallery, Los Angeles, June 7 through July 26, 1997
Helen Frankenthaler
Manufacturer: The Gallery
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0965531910

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Helen Frankenthaler, paintings on paper, 1950s-1980s: [exhibition] : July 14 - August 2, 1988
Helen Frankenthaler
Manufacturer: Gallery One
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007BJF6W

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To enter Roni Horn's realm requires courage. But you only become aware of this after the fact, when it's already too late to back away, to erase the ever-repeating images from your mind. Attracted by the endless pictures of water or blurring images of clouds and clowns, seduced by dozens of young girl faces and pairs of eyes, you enter her realm somewhat unsuspectingly. And then the lock clicks behind you, almost silently, and you are standing all alone in front of a work that upon closer inspection suddenly seems rather dry and reserved, perhaps even repetitive. But somehow you know it's not. In this volume Elisabeth Lebovici, Bell Hooks, Thierry de Duve, Urs Stahel, Paolo Herkenhoff and Barbara Kruger contribute essays on the elusive work of Roni Horn. Through their essays begins a dialogue with a work that at first seems eloquent because of its sequential polyphony, but grows increasingly complex with the realization that it breaks almost immediately with any suggested narratives.

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The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care is offered as a contribution to improving instruments of political decision making in health care. At a fundamental level, it is about methodological aspects of the contingent valuation method. It gives a holistic view of applying the contingent valuation method for use in policy. It shows all stages of a contingent valuation study beginning with the design, the choice of elicitation techniques and estimation methods for willingness-to-pay, the use of the results in a cost-benefit analysis, and finally, the policy implications resulting from our findings.
The intended audience of The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care are health economists interested in methodological problems of contingent valuation studies, people involved in health care decision making, planning, and priority setting as well as people interested in Alzheimer's Disease.

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It's NOT What You Do but HOW You Do It!!.......2004-05-05

Nothing in life is perfect and nothing we do ever matters, from conceing out children in the most natural and "normal" of ways to using any sort of infertility assistance-- what truly matters in the end is the WHYs and the HOWs of everything we do.

This is an ugly, embittered, and even mean-spirited book and I'd advice anyone very much in lvoe with a partner, male or female, who is infertile, to NOT read this book: it'll ake your already fearful feelings worse, and for no logical reason.

In a perfect world, we'd all be able to conceive at the drop of a hat. But the world is not perfect and neither is nature, yet does not make our lives any more beautiful and worthwhile.

If you love someone fiercely and they, for not fault of their own, cannot conceive but you still want to create a family together, then do everything in your power to form a family-- by sperm, egg, embryo donations or adoption.

In the end, it''ll make little difference-- for yourself, your partner, or your offspring.

Because what truly matters is love, genuine love.

Your children will feel the love between you, before and after they've been brought into the world and within your family. That lvoe will make them secure forever, regardless of how they arrived at your doorstep.

Terrible INSENSITIVE HORRIBLE book.......2003-10-28

This is a terrible book. It refers to children by DI as "illegitimate" and compares donor insemination to adultery. Its a terrible book and I don't recommend it to anyone.

A GREAT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT BOOK.......2000-06-26

How did Elizabeth Noble conceive with a sperm donor she knew but without having sex with him? How did her family feel about it? This is an thought provoking book which not only tells Noble's story but has an interesting chapter on donor offspring and their reactions at learning as adults that they have biological fathers who are not the fathers they grew up with. While this is a good book I would also recommend to anyone planning to by this book to also buy Helping the Stork: The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination by Vercollone. Vercollone's book helps you discuss DI with your donor offspring so they don't become bitter...which was Noble's experience.

HAVING YOUR BABY BY DONOR INSEMINATION, A Complete Resource Guide

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HAVING YOUR BABY BY DONOR INSEMINATION, A Complete Resource Guide
Elizabeth, Foreword By George J. Annas Noble
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VB8CX0

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Odd I know, but a great historian

Helps Connect The Dots

Fair History, But Could be Better Done

Time to Remember

Mixed feelings.

Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign
Harry A. Gailey
Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
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Binding: Hardcover

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Odd I know, but a great historian.......2007-06-24

He was my professor in college. A great one at that. I have the privilege of having been educated by him about what history is, not what it "ought to be". Will there be errors? Maybe, but will you learn what it was supposed to be...yes. If you really want to learn what history is about, find a copy of "Sir Donald Cameron: Colonial Governor" or "Lugard and the Abeokutra uprising: the Demise of Egba Independence" and you will learn what it takes to get a Phd. Meanwhile, I choose to remember how he was.

Helps Connect The Dots.......2007-04-06

This book provides the reader with good information and persepctive on the war efforts at Bougainville and the surrounding area. It fills in a valuable piece in the Pacific War puzzle. We recently visited the USMC Museum in Quantico, VA, and this book helped enrich our experience and understanding of the challenges faced by those who fought in the Solomons. A recommended read for those with an interest in WWII.

Fair History, But Could be Better Done.......2006-02-14

If you are going to be doing an overview campaign book on the Pacific War then I think it is instructive to remember two books that have set the standard on how history needs to be written: Philip B. Frank's "Guadalcanal" and Louis Allen's "Burma: The Longest War." Both exhibit the stylistic flair, command of the sources, and a good grasp of the entire campaign in the whole course of the war.

Both authors can recount strategic discussions on the macro level, and then focus upon individual experiences. This ability to go between the experiences of the grunt and the dictates of his campaign overseers is the mark of a good military historian.

Gailey has given us a rough gem in a little known area of the war, but I think that it could be much better done. Gailey's writing suffers from time to time being too focused on writing unit actions and engagements without the individual detail and reminiscenes of either the Japanese heishi or the American grunt. Gailey give us a small glimpse but the number of individual first person quotations is actually very small given the often very personal nature of this battle -- Bougainville was a very large island, covered with jungle, both sides had difficulty maneuvring and contact came first at the infantry level once the beaches were left behind. But this element of fear, the very smell of the jungle is lacking.

In addition I was personally a little dissapointed by the lack of ANY Japanese sources on the battle. Such one-sided accounting 60 years after the battle is something that should, and easily can, be avoided. Gailey states that prior to landing "one cannot be sure how many Japanese were actually on the island." This is a very germane fact that can be checked and, granted that everyone cannot be a Japanese language expert (like Louis Allen), basic facts like these are surely in the Japanese archives -- I actually found them in Japanese secondary sources (A detailed order of battle).

There are also several spelling errors for Japanese Commander names -- also disapointing. When I see this I begin to wonder how well my historian really understands his subject ... and more importantly, how much he is really attempting to understand.

Having said that, I must say that I enjoyed the history tolerably well(... if not by virtue of the fact that there is so little written of this campaign). The initial landing and the spreading out of the perimeter was good, as was the last chapter on the sterling effort of our British Commonwealth allies -- the Australians and the Fiji Regiment. Although this island was made famous by the coastwatcher in WWII, there is surprisingly little about this, as there is nothing about the indigenous peoples, though Gailey rightly emphasises the importance of the small gardens and their role in supporting the Japanese troops and how their destruction eventually became a military objective.

Time to Remember.......2003-01-01

As the son of an Americal Division infantryman, I found the book a very important addition to my personal library and I have given a number of copies away as gifts to others with an interest in Bougainville. My father and my uncle arrived at Bougainville Christmas 1943 and spent most of 1944 there. There has been precious little written about this phase of the war. We should all understand the price these men paid at places such as Hill 260. "Bougainville" is a word that freedom loving Americans should understand and cherish, and this book helps that happen. Professor Gailey recognized a need and filled it admirably. If your loved one served at Bougainville, this is a must read.

Mixed feelings........2001-04-12

I have mixed feelings concerning this book. Gailey did an excellent job in explaining the overall situation in the South Pacific and the Solomons prior to the landing on Bougainville and its place in the strategy for the eventual reduction of Rabaul. The detailed accounting of Merrill's covering of the landing by engaging the naval force under the command of Omori was first class. This severe beating of the Japanese naval forces was the last major surface engagement in the Solomon area. Halsey's gutsy decision to commit Sherman's Task Force 38 and its carrier air groups against Rabaul to protect the landing force made for enjoyable reading. From this day forward Rabaul was pounded into insignificance.

The 3rd marines landed on the island on 11/1/43 and in spite of hellish swamps, impenetrable rain forests and Japanese assaults, Seabees managed to construct the first air strip which was able to accept a damaged aircraft for landing a mere 23 days after the amphibious landing. A remarkable feat given the logistics problems at hand.

The major Japanese counter attack began on the night of March 8-9 and failed for a number of reasons given by Gailey. Chief among these reasons, to this reviewer, and not given the attention it deserved, was the piecemeal strategy employed. Commander of the defending Japanese, General Hyakutake, had at his disposal over 60,000 troops. For this major engagement he sent approximately 15,000 men under General Kanda to face a force which outnumbered them at least 2 to 1. Gailey laid off this tactical lapse, in part, to defective Japanese intelligence reports and assumed that Hyakutake thought he was facing at most a division. Even so, to attack a fortified position, one needs a superior force not an equal force. With so many troops under his command, there is simply no defending Hyakutake's flawed strategy. With similar defective reasoning, Kanda himself committed his meager troops in uncoordinated attacks resulting in the near destruction of his men. This tendency of Japanese commanders to husband their resources and commit them in piecemeal fashion was observed through out the Pacific, both with naval and land forces.

The book, after this battle, stumbles somewhat. Maps of the landings and early engagements were adequate but from this point forward, their quality and quantity declined noticeably. The last two maps dealing with the final Australian operations omitted rivers, villages and crossings referred to in the text. One later chapter deals with the unfortunate exploits of the 93rd Division. This unwieldy aside succeeds in raising more questions than it answers.

For it's excellent early chapters, Gailey rates the four star rating. Somewhere after the March Japanese counterattack, the book trails off and like the Japanese defenders, dies a slow death.

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Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign.(Book Review) : An article from: Armor
Leo J. III Daugherty
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Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Title: Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign.(Book Review)
Author: Leo J. III Daugherty
Publication: Armor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 114 Issue: 4 Page: 51(1)

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This hugely acclaimed book is at last made available in paperback. Described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement' it is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement.

Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight into its cultural context, listing novels, plays and films.

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Life History Studies of Woodpeckers of Eastern North America (Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club)
Lawrence Kilham
Manufacturer: Harvard Univ Nuttall Ornithological
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ASIN: 0318015730

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Woodpeckers of Eastern North America (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Lawrence Kilham
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