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There was military project management. There was construction project management. Then there was business project management, a tool described as 'the wave of the future'. Where are architects in all this, professionals whose work has always been project-driven?
There is design management in engineering, product design, graphics, packaging, management theory and even in politics. Construction consultants talk about managing design. When are architects going to become committed to managing design?
Getting There by Design adopts an architect's view to design and project management. It sets out the fundamental principles and shows how they are applied, dealing with these two topics as one indivisible subject.
'Getting There by Design' demonstrates how to:
- make project efforts goal-oriented
- set up a planning and monitoring basis to architectural projects
- put the architect's fee calculus on a rationale basis
- diagnose your firm's practice culture
- develop successful teams
Put your practice onto a more effective basis.
Ken Allinson is an architect in private practice and principal of 'Architectural Dialogue'. He also teaches design studio and lectures on design and project management. He was formerly an associate at DEGW London and the Terry Farrell Partnership. He has practice experience in Europe, the USA and Japan and is the author of 'The Wild Card of Design' (1993).
A clear guide that helps you make project efforts goal-orientated
Learn how to set up a planning and monitoring basis to architectural projects
Be able to diagnose your firm's practice culture and develop successful teams
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Good PM book for creative types.......2001-01-06
Allinson covers the bases on project management from the perspective of the creative side of the brain. This isn't a "create a WBS following these rules and get an M&M" style book. You will have to think to use the information but it is well worth while. If you are a creative type working in a project managed environment, this is a very good book. The references and his descriptions are very useful.
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Creative Light and Color Techniques in Watercolor
Eaglemoss Publications Ltd
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The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
explores the technological transformation of the photographic image. Contributors investigate such issues as the relationship of technological change to visual culture; the new discourses of "techno-culture"; medicine's new vision of the body, and interactive pornography. They also examine the cultural meanings of new surveillance images; shifts in the domestic consumption of images and their relationship to memory, history and biography; the social uses of video and computer games and the changing role of photography as document and as art.
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This digital document is an article from Mosaic (Winnipeg), published by University of Manitoba, Mosaic on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8095 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: National photographic: images of sensibility and the nation in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Nadine Gordimer's July's People.
Author: Laura Wright
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Mosaic (Winnipeg) (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: University of Manitoba, Mosaic
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Page: 75(18)
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This digital document is an article from Afterimage, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1640 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: ON OTHERS' OUTLOOK.(Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran)
Author: William V. Ganis
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Afterimage (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34
Issue: 6
Page: 24(2)
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Inside the Minds: The Art of Retail is the most authoritative book ever written on the ins and outs of retailing - through all channels. Featuring Chairmen, Presidents and CEOs representing some of the world's leading retailers, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of all aspects of the industry and the keys to conceptualizing, differentiating and delivering a successful and profitable product. From the history of on-line retail to the steps involved in building a name analogous to convenience, authors pull readers through all methods for efficiently reaching the consumer and expertly delivering product to market. From revamping a brand, to the particulars around excellent customer service, as well as finding and retaining the best employees, authors articulate the finer points around retail now, and what will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great minds driving the world of retail, as experts from all sides offer up their thoughts around the keys to success in the fascinating industry.
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Very good practical advice for business growth.......2004-10-14
I appreciate the format of the book, which provides perspectives from many different types of retailers and of many different sizes. Very interesting to see the different problems confronting each, as well as which issues confront all. Even better, though, is the approach each takes to common problems. Only history will show which ones are most most successful, but all in all a good book for people looking for ideas on how to grow their own retail operations.
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- Reveals how the American antidumping law actually works
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Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details of Unfair Trade Law
Brink Lindsey
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American Trade Politics, Fourth Edition
ASIN: 1930865481 |
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Presently, the U.S. stands alone in opposing meaningful reform-an untenable position. In this book, the authors explain how these insidious rules have endured, and why and how to promote a successful antidumping reform strategy.
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Reveals how the American antidumping law actually works.......2004-07-05
Brink Lindsey (Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies) and Daniel J. Ikenson (Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies) effectively collaborate in Antidumping Exposed: The Devilish Details Of Unfair Trade Law to reveal how the American antidumping law actually works. A popular law that sounds appealing with such concepts as "fairness" and "level playing fields" is convoluted, technically complex, and doesn't actually deliver as promised. Here revealed in comprehensive detail, is a step-by-step guide to how dumping is both defined and implemented under current rules. The authors describe the many methodological quirks and biases which result in the stigmatization of healthy competition as "unfair" and penalized. Antidumping Exposed ought to be required reading for every national politician, agency policy maker, economist, and corporate executive concerned with international trade issues in general, and the anti-dumping laws in particular.
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Here's a great gift book for the new or continuing grandparent. Judy Ford calls the relationship between grandparent and grandchild, "a virtual love fest of the most splendid kind." Ford is also the author of Wonderful Ways to Love a Child and Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen and her books are, well ... wonderful. Topics are divided into "Clarity," "Connection," and "Courage," and include such mini-essays as "Appreciate Wrinkles," "Love Your Son-in-Law or Daughter-in-Law," "Address the Blues," and "Fight the Good Fight."
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Honoring the unique role that grandparents play, this delightfully heartwarming and down-to-earth book offers more than sixty inspiring suggestions for how you can actively participate in your grandchildren's lives, whether they live down the block or across the country. Parenting expert Judy Ford gives practical tips for developing your identity as a grandparent and for ways to complement and not conflict with parents. A must-have for all grandparents, Wonderful Ways to Love a Grandchild has been awarded The Family Channel's Seal of Quality.
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Every grandparent will LOVE this book!.......1999-04-08
"Wonderful Ways to Love a Grandchild," speaks to the heart and soul of a grandparent. It reminds those of us who ARE grandparents, what a special title this is. And to those of us who will one day be grandparents, it fills us with anticipation of this wonderful event. The perfect gift for a grandparent.
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For a Wonderful Grandchild (Helen Exley Giftbooks)
Helen Exley
Manufacturer: Helen Exley Giftbooks
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Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer
ASIN: 1861874804 |
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The love between a grandparent and a grandchild is one of the strongest bonds in the world. But sometimes grandparents just can't be there. So this book helps bridge the gap and makes sure the feeling of being cared for stays with them always. This is a keepsake that lasts a lifetime.
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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Judy Ford's full 3 hour reading of "Wonderful Ways To Love A Grandchild" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or low-cost adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... Honoring the unique role that grandparents play, this delightfully heartwarming and down-to-earth book offers more than 60 inspiring suggestions for how you can actively participate in your grandchildren's lives, whether they live down the block or across the country. Parenting expert Judy Ford gives practical tips to complement and not conflict with parents. A must have follow-up to Judy Ford's Wonderful Ways to Love a Child! Wonderful Ways To Love A Grandchild has been awarded The Family Channel's Seal of Quality. Judy Ford's other books have also been awarded the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval and the Literary Guild Book Club Selection. AUTHOR: Judy Ford has been a therapist, public speaker, and human relations consultant for the past three decades. Her parenting class, "Parenting with Love and Laughter," gives parents practical tools to use while focusing on the joy of parenting. The author has appeared on Oprah, CNN and the Sally Jessy Raphael television programs, and has been featured in Parenting and Child magazines. REVIEWS: "Nothing less than a fantastic product." - The Crayon Report.
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- Really enjoyed this account of overlooked general
- Poignant.
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Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill
Hal Bridges
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General William J. Hardee: Old Reliable (Southern Biography Series)
ASIN: 0803260962 |
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Among the high-ranking gray uniforms Daniel Harvey Hill caused a stir as a sash of red in a bullpen would. Hot-tempered, outspoken, he stormed his way through the Civil War, leading his soldiers at Malvern Hill and Antietam, and sometimes stepping on the toes of superiors. But he was much more than a seemingly impervious shield against Union bullets: a devout Christian, a family man, a gloomy fatalist, an intellectual. Lee’s Maverick General makes clear that he was often caught in the crossfire of military politics and ultimately made a scapegoat for the costly, barren victory at Chickamauga. Hal Bridges, drawing on Hill’s unpublished papers, offers an outsider’s inside views of Lee, Jefferson Davis, Braxton Bragg, James Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, and others up and down the embattled line.
In his introduction, Gary W. Gallagher rounds out the portrait of the controversial Hill, whose reading of military affairs was always perceptive.
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Really enjoyed this account of overlooked general.......2006-07-02
Sometimes a person's personality really hurts their career. Lee and many others called D.H. Hill a malcontent etc... because he questioned the ANV's strategy, found many of his fellow officers wanting in even basic military skills and wondered how the south could win with poor arms and ammunition. People always say it was too bad Jackson wasn't at Gettysburg but there was nothing to do about it. DH Hill was in exile at that time when Lee's army was saddled with many incompetent commanders like Pickett and Heth.
Poignant........2004-03-09
Daniel Harvey Hill had two key faults. First, he was a very perceptive officer. Second, he always spoke his mind. D.H. Hill was not the only general officer to find himself on the outs with Jefferson Davis during the Civil War but he was one of the very few who was consistently shunned after his fall from grace.
Hot tempered and unusually outspoken, he stormed his way through the Civil War, fearlessly leading Confederate soldiers at Malvern Hill and Antietam while continuously stepping on the toes of his superiors. Ultimately, he was made the scapegoat for the mutiny of almost all the general officers serving under Braxton Bragg after the confusing victory of the Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Chickamauga. This mutiny was so pervasive that Jeff Davis was required to leave Richmond and visit the battlefield in order to put down the revolt against Bragg, a Davis favorite. Amazingly, Davis retains Bragg against the wishes of almost every general officer who participated in this engagement.
This is a very interesting book, providing insight into why the Confederacy ultimately lost middle Tennessee, thereby opening the way for the Federal advance on Atlanta.
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Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
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World's Fairs and the Leisure Class.......2001-12-09
Robert W. Rydell's book, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 is far different a study than Roy Rosenzweig's, yet it offers some interesting insights into how the moneyed leisure class still indulged in luxuries of their own. Rydell writes that the impetus behind world's fairs was to boost the economy while maintaining an American authority over the displays. Just as saloons and amusement parks were necessary for America's working class, the World's Fairs were designed for the leisure class.
The world fairs of 1876-1916 betrayed a much more sinister agenda. Ideas of American progressed became related to scientific racism. The widening concern over immigration by the leisure class eventually promoted eugenicist ideas about the hierarchy of white populations.
World's fairs did not stand in direct opposition to the leisure pastimes of the working class. In fact, they utilized them to "scientifically" and racially segregate members of the American population.
Rydell argues that the world's fairs in America from 1876-1916 were a material vision of political, business, and intellectuals to promote their vision of racial dominance. Thus, so far we have witnessed segregation of leisure along class lines but not until reading , All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 is it so clear that the elements of leisure rested on racial superiority.
Great historical study.......1999-05-19
This book is an extensive study of American World's Fairs from 1876 to 1915, a pivotal period in this country's history. The author gives a lot of historical background about that era, plus a lot of well-researched information about the expositions of that period. He does a great job of showing how these expositions were designed to lure the public into supporting the interests of the power structure of the time. In addition to the text, there are a lot of photographs, some quite rare, to give the reader a feel for these expositions.
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Arab Falconry: History of a Way of Life
Roger Upton
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ASIN: 0888395043 |
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