Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis (Architecture)

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Chicago has long been considered the capital of American architecture. This city and its suburbs are world-famous for their Chicago School commercial buildings and Prairie School residences. From the re-building after the Great Fire of 1871 through the 1922 international competition for the Chicago Tribune tower, architects flocked to the city not only from across America, but also from Europe, to aid in the development of these schools. Figures such as Louis H. Sullivan, Holabird and Roche, William Le Baron Jenney, Burnham and Root, and Frank Lloyd Wright became household names in the history of Chicago's contributions to American architecture. But less familiar names - among them, German emigres Augustus Bauer, Otto Matz, and Peter Weber - also played a significant part in these developments. Interchanges between Chicago and, particularly, northern Europe ranged from the presence of several German architects in the city during the nineteenth century through the many Chicagoans who studied in Europe at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and returned home to make their city a "Paris on the Prairie."

Chicago Architecture, 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis accompanies a major traveling exhibition of the same name. Including twenty essays by leading specialists, it surveys those international interactions which helped Chicago to become the mid-western metropolis that it is today. This lavishly illustrated volume, which also contains an extensive catalogue section and an annotated bibliography, provides a contribution of lasting value to the scholarship on this important topic.

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Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis
Art Institute of Chicago; Musee D'Orsay; Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Manufacturer: Prestel Pub
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UTMDIS

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Full-color ready-to-mail postcards reproduce stunning examples of a truly American folk art from a Washington State exhibit of antique quilts. 24 full-color postcards.

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ASIN: B000GY1HIO

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Johnny Hart
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: B000UTEEOO

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Johnny HART
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ASIN: B000HT98B6

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Johnny Hart
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0449126757
Release Date: 1984-01-12

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Johnny Hart
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ASIN: B000RB1S9Y

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Johnny Hart
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ASIN: 0449128148
Release Date: 1984-06-12

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Manufacturer: Fawcett
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ASIN: B000HE6TN6

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Do you want to know what a job in this industry is really like-and do you want to know it quickly? WetFeet has the best research (and writing) team in the business. WetFeet guides are the industry standard--based on thousands of insider interviews and written with humor and skill, our materials are recognized by candidates and companies alike as the insider guide of choice.

Talk to people up and down WallStreet, and most will tell you that Goldman, Sachs & Co. is at or near the tip-top of the investment banking world. Survey after survey gives Goldman leading marks for its service in a variety of product and industry areas. But what differentiates Goldman from some of its top competitors? WetFeet has searched high and low for the answer to that question and many more in our exclusive Goldman, Sachs & Co. Insider Guide. Read on.

In the WetFeet Insider Guide on Goldman Sachs, our insiders tell you about life inside the premier investment banking firm. You'll be ready to ace your interviews after reading your WetFeet Insider! You'll learn answers to all of the following questions: * What is Goldman's culture like? * How is the company organized? * Who are some of the company's most recent clients? * What are the exciting new developments at Goldman? * What is a day in the life of a Goldman investment banker like? What about a trader? * What do employees love most and like least about the firm? * How does Goldman's recruiting process work?* What tips do insiders offer to help you score big points with your interviewer?

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out of date.......2001-10-21

As a former Goldman employee, I found this report was disappointing and out of date. A more useful report on Goldman is the Vault.com 2002 Guide to Goldman Sachs or "The Culture of Success."

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If a company's soul is defined by its employees, Cheryl Tsang's Microsoft First Generation offers the definitive look at the way one of the world's top corporations has really been shaped. In straightforward but perceptive profiles, Tsang introduces a dozen key individuals hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen before 1990--when the primary focus was creation and development, rather than growth and maintenance. They are mathematician-programmer Bob O'Rear (hired two years before Microsoft relocated from Albuquerque to Seattle), technical writer Russell Borland, programmer Richard Brodie, senior vice president Scott Oki, chief information officer Neil Evans, CPA Dave Neir, Ida Cole (the first female VP), CD-ROM author Min Yee, technical manager Ron Harding, publishing-systems manager Russell Steele, Asian-business-development manager Paul Sribhibhadh, and senior diversity administrator Trish Millines Dziko. "The people who comprised Microsoft's first generation were exactly right for their time. They were the pioneers," Tsang writes. "The founders of Microsoft were shrewd to have hired them, for the company's monumental and continuing success would not have been possible without [their] exceptional work and passion." --Howard Rothman

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What began as a modest start-up partnership only twenty-five years ago has already surpassed all the giants of contemporary capitalism, including General Electric and IBM, and has achieved a value estimated at nearly $500 billion. How did Microsoft achieve all of this in so short a time? What was the true nature of the Microsoft environment in the beginning, and what are the secrets behind its triumph?

Find the answers here. With Microsoft First Generation, Cheryl Tsang skillfully renders recent history in bold, colorful strokes, highlighting each of the specific business qualities and entrepreneurial traits that turned Microsoft's dreams into reality. Meet the early builders of Microsoft, and step inside the famous culture of loyalty, the storied "maniacal work ethic," and the hardcore world of reckless risk-taking that remains so integral to the computer giant's matchless and ongoing success.

Here, up close and personal, Tsang introduces readers to twelve members of Microsoft's mythic first generation, each of whom has walked away from Microsoft as a multimillionaire. The collection spans a diverse collection of creative geniuses and business wizards, from Bob O'Rear, employee number seven, who joined the team in 1977 and wrote the original MS-DOS program on the first IBM PC; to bestselling author Russell Borland who, after innocently answering a help wanted ad for a technical copywriter in 1980, suddenly became the mouthpiece of an entire company, singlehandedly familiarizing the world with Microsoft products; to Trish Millines, who began as a software tester in 1988 and then blazed a trail and effected lasting change as a powerful advocate for ethnic diversity in the technological arena.

Featuring candid appraisals of the idiosyncrasies of software culture, fascinating portraits of the enigmatic Bill Gates, and rare photographs of the company's early days, Microsoft First Generation uncovers a range of surprising success secrets-and reveals, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.

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not up to the mark.......2004-11-10

Just another book. Nothing special. As the name suggests, I wanted to have a look into the way these first guys faced compitition. That is missing. The stories lack in detail. Also its does not cover the complete Diaspora of the kind of people working at Microsoft.

Truly awful.......2004-07-14

It is such a shame. Imagine a party where everyone is telling the best reditions (often exaggerated) of their life choices and career path. These party goes will be slapping each other on the back for their good judgement, their luck, their brilliance. They are unlikely to tell the truth such that you would ever use the story as a basis for your own decision making. The story is also unlikely to provide access into what actually happened so that you get a sense of being there or give lessons to repeat it. Record these stories at your next party. Transcribe them. Publish as a book.

Does what it says.......2001-12-10

I picked this book up and I think that it is very good. I started reading it right after finishing up a book on Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux. Thus this is almost the flip side of that coin, showing how Microsoft became. One thing that surprised me was that Bill Gates was not one of the main focuses of this particular book, though he is mentioned quite frequently. Rather it shows some of the others responsible for possibly the most successful computer company ever. This is not all just programmers either, but a good selection of people from various different aspects of the microsoft realm.

Dull..........2001-08-01

Unfortunately, this book simply isn't very well written... it reads like an 8th grader's English homework. The interviewees don't really shed any light on Microsoft, and their stories are so lacking in detail as to be pointless. Read "Gates" for a far better treatment of the topic.

First Generation: A wonderful example to today's society........2000-01-13

Tsang's book, Microsoft: First Generation, display's a great example to today's society, and generation. The book focuses on 12 key members of Microsoft in it's earliest stages, which, in a way, helped create the infrastructure of the company. The interviews show how all 12 ex-ms employees ended up where they were, and what it took to be successful. I applaud Mrs. Tsang for her hard work. I recommend this book to anyone interested in business, or Microsoft itself.

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Labour and labour markets in and between town and countryside have been puzzling to economic historians for generations. This book brings together specialists in economic and social history to explore a series of key mechanisms related to the organisation and interdependence of urban and rural labour markets. A variety of issues, such as distribution, specialisation, and division of tasks, economies of urbanisation and -(conversely) rural delocalisation, (temporary) mobility of labour and commercial links, organisation of working time, methods of remuneration, gendered specialisation of activities, are dealt with in this book from the viewpoint of (changing) relationships between rural and urban labour markets. The renewed interest of social scientists in this research field is reflected by the diversity of the cases analysed according to geographical, demographic, and economic and political conditions. This book, therefore, provides interesting opportunities for a comparative reading of the significance of labour in the organisation of societies in the course of the centuries that preceded and led up to the 'industrial age' in Western Europe.

The World Labour Market: A History of Migration

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The World Labour Market: A History of Migration
Lydia Potts , and Terry Bond
Manufacturer: Zed Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0862328829

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Education: Reflecting our Society?.......2004-01-21

Excellent reference book for students in the Education field. This 2000 edition has condensed and easy to read information on current trends in education, testing and achievement, and has statistical data (including tables) to back up most of its content. It was a valuable asset to me. It even covers students at risk.

Education: Reflecting our Society? (Information Plus Reference Series)

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Education: Reflecting our Society? (Information Plus Reference Series)
Gina Guiliano
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ASIN: 0787675199

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A thoughtful blueprint for a new world order: "Today, humankind is facing a choice. It is time for every individual, nation, and state to rethink its place and role in world affairs."--Mikhail Gorbachev

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What will the future be?.......2007-07-19

This is a very short book,of only 81 pages. It is really more of an essay than a book;but it gives as clear a description of what this Great World Leader sees as what the people of the world must do if there is any long-term hope for civilization.
As you read this book ,you will be reminded of several events .The one thing that immediately came to mind to me was the funeral of President Ronald Reagan with Gorbachev in attendance.Unlike the scene when Khruchev addressed the United Nations and pontificated that "We Will Bury You";the thought that emanated from Gorbechev was,You were a good man,and together we did our best;now it's in other's hands.
Years before when President Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall and said;"President Gorbachev,Bring down this wall",Gorbachev realized the need for a change of direction. He believed he could trust Reagan and though it required great strength and wisdom,changed The Soviet Union's failed direction of opression and Communism to a course of fredom and democracy.It must be a great disappointment to him today,in watching the world's nations not working together to confront the terrorism that is now taking place ,all in the name of "religion".

The Search for a New Beginning: Developing a New Civilization,

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The Search for a New Beginning: Developing a New Civilization,
Mikhail, Gorbachev
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEVPX8

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