British Built: UK Architecture's Rising Generation

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For a while now the "Young British Artists" have been soaking up the international limelight thanks to a sensibility that is at once outrageous and thoughtful. Architecture, of course, always takes a while to catch up to the other arts, but now, finally, Britain has emerged as one of the world's most fertile breeding grounds for international design talent. Catalyzed by such leading international architecture schools as the Architectural Association and the Bartlett, a new wave of architects, from home and abroad, is combining local and global styles in exciting new buildings and projects. Post-Imperial British designers are indeed synthesizing foreign cultures with Western conditions in an entirely original way.

Profiling Britain's most dynamic and intriguing practices, British Built features projects by S333, Caruso St John, Alison Brooks, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), muf, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Gollifer Langston, de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM), Kathryn Findlay, FAT, Adjaye Associates, Sergison Bates, Klein Dytham Architects (KDa), and Deborah Saunt David Hills Architects.

British Built, the sequel to our successful SuperDutch, includes studio profiles and essays outlining the unique characteristics of the British architect working today and presenting an even younger generation of architects whose stars are only just appearing on the horizon, including atopia, softroom, dECOi, and Tonkin Liu, among many others.

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a fantastic photo essay from the late 1800's to the 1980's

Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic
Jane Livingston , Frances Fralin , and Declan Haun
Manufacturer: Thomasson-Grant
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Binding: Hardcover

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a fantastic photo essay from the late 1800's to the 1980's.......1999-04-18

JUST ANOTHER GREAT WORK BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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This collection explores the linkages between environment and economics from the Indian perspective.

Environmental Economics: An Indian Perspective

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Environmental Economics: An Indian Perspective
Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKR7AC

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Ferdinand Eberstadt, the man whose war production strategy was credited with shortening World War II by one full year, was America's financier extraordinaire. His contributions over a period of nearly fifty years helped to shape the world of business and finance as we know it today. In this lively analytical biography, Perez and Willett chronicle Eberstadt's career in the public and private sectors and explore the motives, methods, and personal style that were responsible for his successes as well as his failures. The foremost American expert on German finance during the 1920s, Eberstadt achieved recognition as a financial negotiator at the Paris Reparations Conference in 1929. As an investment banker, he was instrumental in helping to restore confidence in the business community following the stock market crash, through his support of small, depressed "blue chip" firms. The performance of Eberstadt's trendsetting Chemical Fund, founded in 1938, led to the popularization of mutual fund investing in the 1950s and 1960s. Through a series of private capital deals involving chemical and pharmaceutical companies, Eberstadt and his partner strengthened those industries and in the process developed the leveraged buyout technique--a bold innovation that has achieved major importance in modern corporate financial strategy. This balanced, clearly written account is packed with information and insight on both Eberstadt's career and the radical changes we have witnessed since the 1920s. It will be of interest to a broad readership in business, finance, investment, government, and twentieth-century American history.

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This series is jointly published by the Asian Development Bank and the Comparative Education Research Centre of the University of Hong Kong.

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Offers pragmatic information on the realities of day-to-day practice from some of the most innovative, respected, and visionary leaders in the planning profession today. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this guide provides straightforward lessons from today's most effective planners on the core values, skills, and techniques needed for success. Through personal, real-life examples from the trenches, these experts explain in their own words what works, what doesn't, and why.

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Bunk, sophmoric.......2004-07-12

While there are some top-notch planners included in this book, far too many are simply buddies of the editor who have accomplished little in their careers. The editor offers his usual perversion of the latest pop trends to tie it all together. Much sloganizing, little of substance.

Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association

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Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Sy Adler
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 709 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: Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. (book reviews)
Author: Sy Adler
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v63 Issue: n2 Page: p289(2)

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Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Frank B. Gray
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 842 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: Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. (book reviews)
Author: Frank B. Gray
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v63 Issue: n2 Page: p290(1)

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British Arrogance and American employment of deserters........2005-08-29

Hats off to these authors for writing a book about the Chesapeake/Leopard duel and the resulting conflict with Great Britain over impressment of American sailors. I think this book does a great service to historians for why the War of 1812 came about. One author took the diplomat side of the story while the other covered the naval aspect. What one finds explains a lot about the subsequent war five years later.
British sailors were poorly paid and badly treated. American sailors were better paid and treated. British sailors deserted in droves for the American merchant marine and small U. S. Navy. Britain took it upon herself to stop ships at sea or even a foreign harbor and take what sailors it needed to complement the ship's crew. This was British Arrogance at its worst. No apologies/nothing in the way of compensation if they took other's nation's citizens. The British Navy regarded this as a right. Today we call it piracy. The U.S. government under Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison tried to stop it. However, American merchants and the U.S. Navy willingly took on British deserters for crew on their ships. This also was probably wrong. The confrontation was set. The Leopard stopped the U.S. Navy frigate Chesapeake and demanded to search it for deserters. When the Commodore refused, they put several broadsides into the U.S. ship. The Chesapeake was completely unprepared for battle. The Chesapeake surrendered and three British deserters were taken off.
This was not the end of the affair. There was needed a scapegoat for the U.S. ship's surrender. This was the Commodore, even though the Captain and some of his lietenants were as guilty of being unprepared as the Commodore. The subsequent trial and acquital of the junior officers was unfair.
This is a nice easy read. Again, hats off to the authors for writing about a little known event.

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Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion of civilization. Never was this connection more apparent than during the Metallurgic Age, which coincided with Englands Victorian era and the Gilded Age in America. This era, covering essentially the 19th century, saw unprecedented advances as a passion for technology and learning fueled a period of discovery and of practical application of the sciences. This work explores in depth the connection between Victorian creativity and the advance of engineering. It examines this age of accelerated invention and the evolution of new fields such as metallurgy, automotive engineering, aerodynamics and industrial arts. Numerous unsung inventorsmany of whom lost one or more of the frequent patent battles that peppered the eraare remembered here along with the concept of the meta-invention. The result is a revealing look at how metallurgy permeated all areas of Victorian life and affected changes from the kitchen to the battlefield.

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The following text is from the back cover:.......2005-06-06

LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS OF PREY
ARTHUR CLEVELAND BENT

The all-inclusiveness of Bent's volumes on North American birds has made them classics of our time. Arthur Cleveland Bent was one of America's outstanding ornithologists, arid his twenty-volume series on American birds, published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, forms the most comprehensive, most complete, and most-used single source of information in existence. No ornithologist, conservationist, amateur naturalist or birdwatcher should be without a copy; yet copies are increasingly hard to come by. Now, however, Dover Publications is republishing at inexpensive prices the entire series, beginning with the two-volume set on birds of prey.

In these two volumes, the reader will find an encyclopedic collection of information about more than a hundred different subspecies of hawks, eagles, falcons, buzzards, condors, and owls. Not a group of general descriptions, but a collection of detailed, specific observations of individual flocks throughout the country, it describes in readable language and copious detail the nesting habits, plumage, egg form and distribution, food, behavior, field marks, voice, enemies, winter habits, range, court ship procedures, molting information, and migratory habits of every North American bird of prey from the ubiquitous barn owl to the extinct caracara of Guadalupe Island.

Completely modern in its approach, the study was made with full recognition of the difficulties inherent in the observation and interpretation of wild life behavior. For that reason, not only the reports of hundreds of contemporary observers throughout the country were utilized, but also the writings of America's great naturalists- Audubon, Burroughs, William Brewster-of the past. The complete textual coverage is supplemented by 197 full-page plates containing close to 400 photographs of nesting sites, eggs, and the young of important species at various stages in their growth.

Unabridged republication of 1st (1937, 1938) edition. Index for each volume. Bibliographies of 403, 520 items. 197 full-page plates. Total of 907pp. 53/8 x 81/2. Paperbound.

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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey (California Condor, Vultures, Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Amercan Osprey) Part One (of Two) Only

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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey (Part 2) Orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes -- Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum -- Bulletin 170

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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey Hawks Falcons Caracaras Owls

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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey Hawks, Falcons, Caracaras, Owls; PART TWO

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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey Hawks, Falcons, Caracaras, Owls; PART TWO
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Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Part One

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LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS OF PREY. (PART 2). ORDERS FALCONIFORMES AND STRATIFORMES.

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