Architects Process Inspiration (Perspecta 28: The Yale Architectural Journal) (Perspecta)

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"Architects, Process and Inspiration: A Collection of Essays"

Founded in the early 1950s, Perspecta is the oldest and most distinguished of the student-edited architectural journals that have flourished in this country for decades. The focus of Perspecta 28 is the architect's persona. The essays concentrate on the role that personal vision plays in the process of perceiving, transforming, and building a world outside of oneself. The idea is that design process is a personal activity that grows out of an individuals education and experiences.

"Can you recognize the personal in a mans work?" asks Louis Kahn in the previously unpublished lecture that opens the issue. The following essays, in which contributors search for clues to Kahns "personal", take the form of discrete installations. The final form of each piece grew from its particular written and visual message, revealing the "personal" in the authors work. Jean Nouvel's nihilistic lecture, Aldo Rossi's anachronistic cartoons, W. G. Clarke's quiet travelogue through the South's backwoods: each installation is an evocative interweaving of message and medium. The essays share a belief in the power of personal vision and human energy, which cannot be found by analytic means alone.

Contributors include Gunter Behnisch, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Thomas Burton, W. G. Clark, Margaret Helfand, Louis Kahn, John Keenen, Thomas Leeser, Jean Nouvel, John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, Terence Riley, Aldo Rossi, Adele Santos, and Robert Venturi.

PERSPECTA: THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL: ARCHITECTS, PROCESS AND INSPIRATION - A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS NO.28

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PERSPECTA: THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL: ARCHITECTS, PROCESS AND INSPIRATION - A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS NO.28
LAURA TURLINGTON (EDITOR) ROSSANA SANTOS (EDITOR)
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: B000OR3BX2

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Lots of theory, beautifully expressed, but ..........2007-02-07

Williams' understanding of the material he covers is every bit as impressive as his ability to convey it. He writes beautifully. His explanations of the complex phenomena affecting image quality are brilliantly edifying. No student of the photographic process can come away from reading this book without having learned more than anticipated. I've so enjoyed reading (and re-reading) this book that I hesitate to say anything negative about it, but I'm compelled to add that I am disappointed by the conspicuous lack of any practical strategy for tying together all the theoretical discussions that should influence aperture selection.

Having equipped us with an understanding of the limits of human vision, a means to quantify degradation caused by defocus and diffraction, the impact of enlargement factor and viewing distance, the limits imposed by lens and film, and the mechanisms behind several other variables, when it comes time to tie it all together, he just drops the ball. He may have overestimated his readers' ability to deduce things for ourselves, but for someone with my modest IQ, it just feels as if he has given us a fine bottle of wine, with no corkscrew.

He does a great job providing practical coverage of many other areas affecting image quality, but the first half of the book, that which I personally found most interesting, falls moot for lack of any means to deploy it. Don't let that stop you from reading this book, though - I, for one, cherish it.

Image Clarity: High Resolution Photography

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Image Clarity: High Resolution Photography
John B. Williams
Manufacturer: Focal Pr
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPF19Q

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The discretionary economy: A normative theory of political economy
Marc R Tool
Manufacturer: Goodyear Pub. Co
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The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political Economy. (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
James T. Peach
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FI6QW
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1222 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: The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political Economy. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: James T. Peach
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: 36 Issue: 3 Page: 814(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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The Phone Book takes a hands-on, interactive approach to helping students refine and practice their telephone skills. All phone skills are covered in detail, including listening, question-ing, speaking, handling incoming and outgoing calls, customer orders, customer problems, and complaints. Examples of proper techniques are also included.

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Telephone skills for those who have none.......2004-07-24

To be honest, I'm not sure who their target audience is. The book seems to be written for people who have very little, if any phone service experience, but at the same time seems to be directed at professionals. They went to the trouble of explaining what a collect call is, but their examples include setting up major meetings and handling complicated situations. At one point it sounds like they are explaining to a top level executive that it's common for calls to be transferred, and don't be afraid to do so. I've been doing reception work for a long time and was recently promoted to Executive Assistant because of my excellent phone and office skills. Not to brag, just to illustrate that I know something about customer service on the phone. Some of the examples seem like a downright rude way to respond. A lot of the book did not apply to my business and that made it really hard to apply whatever it was they were trying to teach. I went through the whole book in one day, and I just didn't find anything in it that made me glad I bought it.

HOWEVER, if you are new to reception work and nervous about what you're going to be doing, I would not count this book out. It has some good role-playing activities and such that would probably make a newbie a bit more comfortable and give you more confidence in answering the phone and dealing with the whole gamut of situations that you will run into. It will make you think about what to say and how to handle tough situations and customers.

For people with a lot of years of this kind of experience, don't bother with this book. For those new to the profession, particularly if you will be doing sales calls, buy a used edition and give it a shot.

The Phone Book: Telephone Skills for Business Success Student Text

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The Phone Book: Telephone Skills for Business Success Student Text
Judith E Fisher
Manufacturer: Career Education
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQWN5A

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Children who live and work on the streets or work in commercial situations at a young age, are subjected to gross injustice and are frequently neglected by national law --- despite the fact that almost every country has signed and ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This is a one-stop guide both for experienced advocates and for non-specialists in the field. It explains how to use regional and international treaties and mechanisms for the protection and defense of street and working children when national law fails.

The last fifty years have seen the emergence of a range of human rights treaties together with permanent monitoring systems established by the UN. While these are imperfect tools, they can be very useful in supporting national campaigns, and creating pressure for legislative reform or an end to particular violations.

This manual, which presents information in an accessible question-and-answer format, is divided into three sections for ease of reference: the first section defines substantive rights --- survival, fair treatment, and empowerment; the second section provides practical guidelines on how to use regional and international human rights systems such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or the UN Committee on Torture; the last section contains a comprehensive list of human rights documents with tables by country detailing the status and the stage in the implementation process of each of the convention in each country.

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How to Live with Your Kids When You've Already Lost Your Mind
Ken Davis
Manufacturer: Ken Davis
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N2VOVO

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Best Book on Special Schools and Prescribed Drugs

Honest, Realistic and Hilarous

How to Live With Your Kids When You'Ve Already Lost Your Mind
Ken Davis
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Best Book on Special Schools and Prescribed Drugs.......2005-08-05

I was touched by this book written by a struggling mother who got mad when caught up in a seemingly deceitful school/medical system. She provided a lot of useful information about what to do and what not to do to get help for a child. Can the people you would normally put your trust in, really be so cruel and deceitful just to cover their mistakes? My heart goes out to this mother. More people need to speak out. This book contains a lot of useful contact information as well.

Honest, Realistic and Hilarous.......2001-02-09

Having a special needs child, I have read so many books about parenting in my journey to find out what I was doing wrong, I have learned a lot from this book. While Christian based, it did not smother me in many of the typical ways that have made me feel that I should be damned into the fiery depths of hell for my shortcomings and/or imperfections as a parent. It is the first book I have read that not only admits parents are imperfect, but celebrates that very fact! What a relief to not be brow-beaten by "perfect" parents and those "expert" child professionals. This book will make you laugh until you cry as you listen to the author tell stories as if he had been sitting in your livingroom watching you. This is a definite read for parents who want realistic ideas on parenting and for parents who need to be reinforced for not being a perfect parent. Outstanding! I only wish Amazon could get the publisher to print this one again!

How to Live with Your Kids: When You've Already Lost Your Mind

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How to Live with Your Kids: When You've Already Lost Your Mind

Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar
ASIN: 0310260590

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This condensed audio version of the book is read by the author.

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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history.

Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War incorporates a spate of new research and a number of recently declassified documents concerning the Vietnam War. This new evidence and scholarship expands the volume's coverage of the experiences of average soldiers during the war.

The reader gives close attention to the experiences of women and minorities in the war.
The text includes new chapters on the experience of the average soldier and on the legacy and memory of the Vietnam War.

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vietnam.......2007-06-12

this book is such a waste of time, it tells you only the point of view of one's man ego and his denial of america's defeat by the north vietnamese. throughout the whole war,the u.s miltary only rely on body counts for there victory ,hoping the north vietnamese would fear the u.s army and surrender ,but in the end ,they were wrong ,the nva and viet cong were determine to fight to the death.

face it,even though the u.s military won many battles,the united states lost the war and retreated . the whole world is aware of this defeat but only some american citizen like this author denies this.

many of the vc casualty are infact innocent civilians ,that the u.s military has covered up by placing nva /vc uniforms and weapons on dead civilians ,then taking photographic pictures of it.

the united states gain nothing from the war ,with 60,000 + dead u.s soldiers ,thousands m.i.a (s) ,150,000 billion dollars down the drain ,over 100,000 seriously injured soldiers including amputees (missing legs,arms , body parts) ,and handicaps ,torn the country apart during the 60's and 70's ,fail to stop communism,fail to protect south vietnam,fail to stop an army that is 10 time smaller then u.s army,and fail to justified the war in rightious context,basically the united states gave up and retreated.

the north vietnamese suffered high casualty by fighting u.s army,australian army ,arvn army,south korean army,and new zealand all by them self ,but fighting to regain there country for a better vietnam in the future was a well justified reason to die just like anyother civil war (compared this to american civil war casualties).

so one's man ego and his obsession of denial will not change the world's view on why people should think who really won the war,everybody knows who won this war,and media wasnt wrong at all.

A good, although sometimes boring look at the Vietnam War.......2006-03-07

This book has a lot of good information in it. Through the essays you gain a deep understanding of some of the events that influenced the course of the war that other books cover only slightly or omit all together.

There are a couple HORRIBLE essays that seem to drag for a long long time. Each chapter concludes with 2 essays that either have differing points of view or cover different aspects of the chapter in more detail.

The blessing of this book is that it has a lot of information that comes directly from the Vietnamese, including some translations of South Vietnamese army members as they consider their defeat and flee Saigon after the North takes it over.

Over all, I like this book. At least one of the essays in the very beginning is bad enough that I almost put the book down and didn't pick it back up, but once you get past that, you are in for a good read!

Lessons learned.......2006-02-02

As the book title and "a reader" suggests this is a book with tons and tons of essays on the Vietnam War. These essays cover just about everything that was political or social or anything else about the war. It has topics on Kennedy, Johnson, Eisenhower, Nixon, My Lai, The Tet Offensive, discrimination, the domestic homefront, etc. This book provided a great wealth of sources for a research paper that I had to do. However, unless you are really into the Vietnam War, or that era, this book may be a little dry some times. It does provide a lot of good information, such as facts and figures, but it is just a bunch of peoples, the scholars who wrote the essays, opinions; as well as some Vietnam Vets accounts of the war itself, coming home, etc.

I am giving it four out of five because of the dryness that sometimes occurs. Yet, it does remain a really good source for material, if one has to do research or just has general curiosity. Of course, by the end of the book, the reader will begin to see the lessons learned from Vietnam.

a look into the war that America lost.......2002-12-17

This book id a seris of documents that examines the war. It gives the reader alot of insight into how decisons were made and the consequnces of these decisons. it a well rounded look into the war and its aftermath. The book deals with America involvment with the French until the fall of Saigion and the aftermath of the war. The section that deal with the North Vietnamese and there thoughts and roles are particlar strong. a few weak essay hold the book back from a five star rating. Highly recomended

Major problems in the history of the Vietnam War: Documents and essays (Major problems in American history series)

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Major problems in the history of the Vietnam War: Documents and essays (Major problems in American history series)
Robert J. McMahon (Editor)
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In the early years of the Republic, America was a land filled with uncharted flora and fauna, a treasure-trove for every naturalist in the world. One such naturalist was Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano and Canino, nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. Called the father of American descriptive ornithology, Charles-Lucien was the author of the monumental American Ornithology: or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson.

Born in 1803 to Lucien, a younger brother of Napoleon, Charles spent his early childhood in Rome, where his father, an ardent republican and opponent of the Empire, had sought papal protection. In 1810, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the family left Italy with the intent of emigrating to the United States; instead, they were apprehended by the British off Sardinia and taken to England, where for four years they lived publicly as celebrated captives. Charles was privately tutored, learning English and concentrating on his favorite subject, natural history.

With his wife--and first cousin--Zenaide, Charles joined his uncle Joseph in exile in Bordentown, New Jersey, in 1822. Stroud recreates the lives of these not quite Americanized Bonapartes in splendid and startling detail. Point Breeze, Joseph's estate, encompassed 1700 acres dotted with formal French gardens and a large artificial lake stocked with imported European swans. Here Charles hunted and studied birds, and encountered such purely American animals as the skunk and the rattlesnake. It was here, too, that American Ornithology took shape, and that he first collaborated with the still-unknown John James Audubon.

When Charles left America in 1828, he traveled to Italy and wrote works of comparative zoology, as well as a magisterial study of the mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish of that country. Throughout the next decades he was instrumental in setting up scientific congresses in Italy, where scientists the world over were welcome. Yet he was also involved in the growing republican movement in Italy, and it was because of this that he was forced to flee the country and eventually settle in France under the protection of his cousin, the hated Napoleon III.

Based extensively on archival sources, including many unpublished letters still in the possession of the Bonaparte family, The Emperor of Nature is the first biography ever written of Charles-Lucien Bonaparte. Forced by the circumstances of his birth to be a perpetual visitor, he nonetheless carved out a place for himself in the science of the natural world. It is at once a compelling story of the fate of Europe's imperial family, and an impressive contribution to the history of nineteenth-century science.

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A Resolution for 2001.......2001-01-04

Adding The Emperor of Nature to your "must read" list will be one resolution that you will find a joy to keep. The author's graceful style in this scholarly, yet never pedantic, biography of the complex, heretofore little recognized naturalist and ornithologist, Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, is sparked by insightful and witty asides. Players in this intellectual and political history--the contraversial Bonaparte family, both its men and women, James Audubon, Thomas Say and other natural historians--emerge as distinct personalities as we read Bonaparte's lively--often impassioned--correspondence. The drama of Bonaparte's life, marked by his lifelong dedication to the science of natural history, is deftly enhanced by rich descriptive detail as each "scene is set". Equal attention is given to the underbrush of family and scientific disputes and jealousies, to the complications of early 19th century travel and the preservation of specimens, and to physical and psychological health issues. The abundant illustrations throughout, including many from the author's own collection, (it is always so disappointing when the illustrations in a biography, no matter how erudite, are limited to a tiny center folio of tired old photographs!) were a delight to this fascinated reader.

A fascinating biography, erudite yet highly readable.......2000-09-18

Fans of the Bonaparte family and of 19th-century science have had to wait a long time for a biography of Charles-Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's nephew and the leading ornithologist of his age -- this is the first. Happily, it has been worth the wait. Stroud has crafted a masterly portrait of a gregarious, complicated, hugely talented man, who published the first volume of his famous American Ornithology when he was just 22. By drawing on Bonaparte's own voluminous correspondence and those of others to and about him, which fortunately survive in great abundance, Stroud brings alive a man full of contradictions. Bonaparte was fiercely devoted to his scientific efforts, though drawn away from them by radical politics. He loved his wife and children dearly but neglected them, often for months at a time. He was ever concerned about money, yet on numerous occasions gambled away what little he had. Bonaparte's time and contemporaries are equally well-drawn, with some of the foremost scientific, literary, and political figures of the day drifting in and out of Bonaparte's rich life with pleasing regularity -- luminaries like Louis Agassiz, James Fenimore Cooper, Isadore Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, and, of course, Napoleon himself. One of the book's great contributions is a highly readable fleshing out of Bonaparte's close yet often tempestuous relationship with Audubon. Stroud has enlivened Emperor of Nature with luscious illustrations (including a beautiful color insert) chronicling every stage of Bonaparte's life, and she supplies complete reference notes and bibliography. If you liked Stroud's biography of the naturalist Thomas Say, you'll love this.

Engrossing and Engaging.......2000-08-27

One does not have to be an ornithologist, and I am not, to become absorbed in this scholarly yet eminently approachable biography. The life of the nephew of the Emperor Napoleon is placed confidently in the turbulent times on both sides of the Atlantic. While its focus is on the man who "helped to lay the foundation for the modern science of ornitholoy, upon which Darwin based his theory of evolution," it is, at the same time, a history of the era in which he lived. Ms. Stroud turns quite a phrase ("the ground rumbling with revolution") and I surprised myself by reading it from start to finish in one long pleasant afternoon.

Kudos for The Emperor of Nature by Patricia Tyson Stroud.......2000-08-15

I agree completely with the review in the July issue of Library Journal and couldn't say it better myself. The Journal stated: "In this extensively researched, detailed, and skillfully written work of natural history and familial squabbles, Stroud, a scientific scholar and author of Thomas Say, New World Naturalist, presents a historical, political, and scientific account on the leading ornithologist of the 19th century--who also happened to be Napoleon's nephew. In a clear, precise, and witty manner, she conveys the life of Charles-Lucien Bonaparte (1803-57)from birth to death through his own letters and publications and through the letters and correspondence of his contemporaries: Agassiz, Audubon, Gould, Huxley, Owen, Say. and many other great naturalists of the 19th century. A wonderful read, this biography, the first ever of Charles-Lucien, includes a vast bibliography and over 30 pages of notes. Recommended for all libraries." Review by Michael R. Blake, formerly with Harvard Univ. Lib. Alexander McCurdy

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