Concise Townscape

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This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like.

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The Concise Townscape

Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000FDTM42

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The Concise Townscape

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ASIN: 0442217706

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The Concise Townscape
Gordon Cullen
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold
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ASIN: B000KV1UW6

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The Concise Townscape
Gordon Cullen
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IZM672

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This digital document is an article from Travel America, published by World Publishing, Co. (Illinois) on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 710 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: If you only have a day in ... Carlsbad: flower fields, ocean breezes, and California ambience await visitors.
Author: Ellen Clark
Publication: Travel America (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: World Publishing, Co. (Illinois)
Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Page: 14(2)

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Smile, you're live! appearing as a guest on a television or radio show can be a breeze--if you prepare.(TOOLS OF THE TRADE) : An article from: State Legislatures

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Smile, you're live! appearing as a guest on a television or radio show can be a breeze--if you prepare.(TOOLS OF THE TRADE) : An article from: State Legislatures
Gene Rose
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from State Legislatures, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 853 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: Smile, you're live! appearing as a guest on a television or radio show can be a breeze--if you prepare.(TOOLS OF THE TRADE)
Author: Gene Rose
Publication: State Legislatures (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31 Issue: 6 Page: 36(2)

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This sassy pink book holds the recurring, all-important dates of your bad girl posse.

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Little Nemo in Slumberland: 30 Postcards
Winsor McCay
Manufacturer: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1556705239

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Long-term, close trading relations based on trust have come to be regarded as a key to the management of buyer-supplier relations in industry, while the arm's length and adversarial commercial bargain has fallen out of favor. This book examines these contrasting approaches, and the link between them and corporate performance, through a study of the electronics industry in Britain and Japan, and offers a unique integration of multi-disciplinary theorizing and original comparative empirical work. It will be of use to those interested in the nature of the firm, and students of comparative economic performance in Japan and Britain.

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If childhood is magic, kids have created its principal enchantment by dreaming up their own games, writing their own rules, inventing endless variations on anything fun. Bottle Cap Soldiers, Kid Crusher, Ring-a-leavio, Chinaberry War -- no one remembers the scores anymore and the rules changed as often as the players, but the strongest and best memories of childhood grow from the games we played.

With this enchanting volume, Steven A. Cohen shares a collection of childhood memories from a host of stars, public figures, and writers, from President Bill Clinton and Al Roker to Jackie Collins and Rob Reiner. Novelist Brad Meltzer describes an ongoing series of increasingly lunatic dares he and his friends staged to determine the Craziest Kid in the World. Movie star Esther Williams remembers the dollhouse built by her father in the midst of Depression-era poverty, and the endless scenes she acted out with simple paper dolls behind its miniature walls. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss recollects a Wisconsin childhood in which his friends created a version of hardball called Five Hundred -- until they hit the ball into the zoo's elephant cage and the vast gray beast gobbled it down.

As varied as these tales are, together they create a marvelous picture of childhood freedom and imagination. As Maraniss remembers, "There were no adults acting out fantasies of being major league managers. Childhood was for children." In an age when computers, television, and soccer practice all compete for a child's attention, these stories recall a different time -- when free time was actually free.

We all have memories of the games we played -- memories so fond and so powerful that the events themselves could have happened yesterday. With this moving and hilarious collection, the simple joy of imagination introduces us again to the genuine magic of childhood.

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The Loss of Imagination.......2002-03-22

As an only child, I had plenty of motivation to use my imagination to create different games to amuse myself with. Most often these involved Legos, Matchbox cars, darts, and tennis balls, depending on the weather and location. Editor Cohen seeks to tap into that time in all of us, in this little stocking-stuffer type book which assembles the brief memories of writers and famous folks in (as the subtitle says), "A Celebration of Childhood and Imagination." While some of the entries don't really fit in that well with the overall theme (Jackie Collins and Lou Stovall's come to mind), most do evoke a sense of wistfulness and childhood innocence. The contributors recount in simple prose (and in two cases poems, and another, in illustrated panels) the games of their youth-from paper dolls, to neighborhood Olympics, to Chinaberry wars, and so on. It's the kind of book one wonders if could be done in 50 years now that children have much less unstructured playtime outside the home-something to think about.

The Inner child.......2001-12-28

I loved this book. Like many of the contributors to this excellent anthology I played ball games; stood on street corners with a 'gang'and generally tried to mix in. But I had glasses from the age of 6, too much reading under the blankets with a torch so the rougher games were out for me. One pair of spectacles and it had to last! With this in mind, I eagerly read, nay devoured Glen Roven's account of his own childhood. I am, next year, a first time author - published in August 2002, but my first love has always been the theatre. That world of imagination that we all seem to lose sight of in the short-sightedness of growing older. Glen, if he'll excuse the informality, comes over as a cross between Mickey Rooney and George M Cohan, and no doubt the show was put on in the barn! His memories of putting on shows is priceless - the sequence with the glasses is a gem - and far from being reluctantly wheeled out to entertain the grown-ups this was one boy who you didn't dare to hold back. This was a kid born with a baton in is mouth and rhythm in his veins; his career since then has proved that. Childhood is the foundation of adulthood and we should never forget it. In our rush to mature we sometimes lose the inner child, with its imagination and open-eyed wonder on seeing something new, through eyes that are without cynicism and predudices. Short sightedness can be cured! Everyone should be encouraged to read this anthology, to realise what some of us have forgotten, the wonder of being a child, and the impulsivenss, sometimes recklessness of youth. Glen's account speaks to me, personally, on many levels, but chiefly in the world of the imagination of theatre. I urge you to read this book, latch onto the inner child, if needs be rake it forwards from the recesses of your memory, live your youth again and if the spirit moves you to do so go, fly that kite.

The Games We Played: A Celebration of Childhood and Imagination

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The Games We Played: A Celebration of Childhood and Imagination
Steven A. (editor) Cohen
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Trade
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q832T2

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How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment to the old continent in decades? Written by a high-level insider, Opening NATO's Door provides a definitive account of the ideas, politics, and diplomacy that went into the historic decision to expand NATO to Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the still-classified archives of the U.S. Department of State, Ronald D. Asmus recounts how and why American policymakers, against formidable odds at home and abroad, expanded NATO as part of a broader strategy to overcome Europe's Cold War divide and to modernize the Alliance for a new era.

Asmus was one of the earliest advocates and intellectual architects of NATO enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism in the early 1990s and subsequently served as a top aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, responsible for European security issues. He was involved in the key negotiations that led to NATO's decision to extend invitations to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and finally, the U.S. Senate's ratification of enlargement.

Asmus documents how the Clinton Administration sought to develop a rationale for a new NATO that would bind the U.S. and Europe together as closely in the post-Cold War era as they had been during the fight against communism. For the Clinton Administration, NATO enlargement became the centerpiece of a broader agenda to modernize the U.S.-European strategic partnership for the future. That strategy reflected an American commitment to the spread of democracy and Western values, the importance attached to modernizing Washington's key alliances for an increasingly globalized world, and the fact that the Clinton Administration looked to Europe as America's natural partner in addressing the challenges of the twenty-first century.

As the Alliance weighs its the future following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and prepares for a second round of enlargement, this book is required reading about the first post-Cold War effort to modernize NATO for a new era.

Opening NATO's Door - How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era

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Opening NATO's Door - How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era
Ronald D. Asmus
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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OPENING NATO'S DOOR: HOW THE ALLIANCE REMADE ITSELF FOR A NEW ERA

Manufacturer: Columbia UP New York
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ASIN: B000IA97O2

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The Rise of Capitalism: Enlightenment Thought and the Commercial Republic.......2007-06-26

For years historians linked capitalism to the Protestant Reformation. Max Weber argued that the Calvinist view of predestination opened the door to seeking profits on earth. The Protestant "work ethic" was credited with inspiring generations of artisans to work harder and innovate. Protestantism further challenged the feudal system and ultimately inspired the rise of capitalist societies. It was a nice story which allowed historians to show a progression in history from individualism in theology to individualism in economics. Indeed, this story was widely reprinted in textbooks into the 1990s and is still popular. This thesis would seem to have everything going for it, except that it is wrong.

In this watershed work, Hiram Caton in a single stroke rewrote the rise of the capitalist states. Religion, whether Protestant or Catholic, was not a major factor in the coming of a new polity and economic system. Indeed, in Protestant Holland, one of the first of the modern commercial republics, the Calvinists tended to support the Orange stadtholders against the commercial interests represented by John de Witt. Instead, capitalism arose from a combination of a new scientific outlook that, while not incompatible with Christianity was certainly not dependent on it either, and a new moral ideology best represented in the writings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

Far from looking to Luther and Calvin for the origins of the modern world, Catton instead turns our attention to Bacon and Descartes, each of whom (in very different ways) proclaimed that modern man was superior to the ancient writers. Both asserted that we must begin seeking knowledge afresh from the world around us and not from ancient texts. (This is in sharp contrast with the Protestant emphasis on rediscovering truth from scripture alone.) These scientists in turn allowed for the rise of engineers who found practical applications for the new science.

Nearly simultaneous with the revolution in science was the a similar revolution in political thought. Although Catton acknowledges that this revolution borrowed from the Republican tradition and Ghibelline (anti-clerical) politics, it was essentially new. Hobbes also rejected traditional doctrines and founded a system (absolute monarchy) on his perception of human nature in the present. Locke modified and made Hobbes's vision much more palatable, but he did more than that. He also openly propagandized for the new liberalism and directed his writings towards a much broader citizenry than political writers before him.

These two trends found their best expression in the person of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was an amateur scientist, engineer, and political propagandist for the new Republic. In his 'Poor Richard's Almanack' he propounded this new, essentially secular, ideology among all adult male citizens. His work, along with Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and the other revolutionary fathers helped lay the groundwork for the American Republic, the most successful of the commercial republics to arise in this period.

In conclusion, Catton was able to demonstrate that religion, far from creating the commercial republic, was subordinated to it. Certainly religious thought did not die out, but it ceased to be a public matter and became essentially private. In some ways this was an enormous benefit to faith. Like commerce, faith thrives in the free market of ideas and nowhere are people more religious than in the United States. But religion had effectively ceased to be the glue that held the fabric of society together. Instead contract, trade, and a political system that assumed factions would always exist, became the dominant motif of the new republics.

Catton also re-established the importance of liberalism in history. For years historians had suggested the American revolution was essentially a conservative one, based on republican ideology. Certainly echoes of that ideology are found in the revolutionary period. The opposition to standing armies, long since forgotten, was a Republican idea. But the American Republic and its European counterparts were founded largely on liberalism. John Locke, not Lord Bolingbroke, was its guiding light. The Republican hypothesis, formed in part by some historian's present day political opposition to liberalism, receives its death knell in this book.

In the final analysis, this is an exceedingly important work. One of my professors in graduate school once remarked that the world had changed more from 1800 to the present day than it had from 4000 BC to 1800 AD. Catton's book explains why this remarkable transformation took place. I highly recommend it.

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