Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology (Suny Series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology)

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Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology (Suny Series in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology)

Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0791412784

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Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical Review
Leonard J. Evenden
Manufacturer: American Geographical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092YQ3Q
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 1994. The length of the article is 904 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: Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology. (book reviews)
Author: Leonard J. Evenden
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1994
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v84 Issue: n2 Page: p232(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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By thoroughly dissecting and annotating sumptuous digital landscapes, this second title in the Digital Photography series reveals the secrets of creating great landscape pictures. Find out how to manipulate point of view, light, arrangement, and timing for superb, artistic results. With a little imagination and digital retouching, it's possible to "change the weather" in a photo or produce dramatic effects. See how to get giant images and panoramas (great for mountain ranges or cityscapes), correct slants, boost a picture's brightness and sharpness, add layers of color, combine images in a montage, and more!

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Not Comprehensive.......2005-07-20

This is a hard book to get your mind around. It is so obviously well intentioned and aims at filling a real need. After all, digital media does offer tools to landscape and other photographers and has limitations that film doesn't have.

Moreover, the publishers, in this and other books in their photography series, have come up with a different approach to teaching photography. The usual approach has been to have a narrative about some aspect of photography and then to provide examples, with each part building on the material previously presented. The AVA books instead start with a picture and then try to show the decisions and processes that the photographer used to get the final product. But they've gone even further imposing a strict graphic format for each subject. They start with a relevant quotation from the photographer. Then across a two-page spread, that includes the photograph, they give general tips, Down the left hand of the spread a flow chart of the photographer's actions is provided from capturing the image to creating an ink jet print. The author divides the brief discussion of the picture into three sections entitled shoot, enhance and enjoy.

The problem for me was that the digital process was not developed coherently. Rather, the entire process was set forth again and again and again. But as it was set forth it never described the steps taken in anything but the most general way. If one is an advanced photographer and already knows what is involved, the picture and spread might serve as an idea book. But if that was the author's purpose, it might have helped to discuss where the photographer's ideas came from.

In addition, many of the pictures were composites or involved extreme manipulation of the image, such as by twisting it around. My guess is that the average landscape photographer is not interested in surrealism but wants to know how he can make a picture that he took look more like what he envisioned at the time of capture.

This book also gave me the impression that it was designed to provide its audience with small bits and pieces, as if that audience would be unable to grasp some larger, more comprehensive view.

For some one interested in learning about digital photography, this book is not the place to start. Instead I would suggest something like "Photoshop CS2 Workflow" by Tim Grey, or if one wanted a tutorial approach, Barry Haynes' "Photoshop Artistry" book.

A lightweight..........2004-10-14

After reading the review suggesting this book is a little too much and it involves throwing around large files etc, I thought that this would be a high end book and something I would be interested in. Well Im a bit sad to say its very light on material. If your a beginner you may get a kick out of it but anything more than that you will be very dissapointed in this title. Much better books out there.

Beautiful, but sloppy........2003-09-12

A. The blow-by-blow accounts of the steps the photographers featured in this book use to create these stunning images are indeed comprehensive, and fascinating. There's stuff to be learned here, even for beginners, but almost all of the examples require access to some pretty serious cameras and computer hardware...the artists are regularly working with individual files of 50, 100, almost 200 mb in *.RAW format, and spending hours or days in Photoshop to achieve the effects illustrated.
B. For all its beautiful production values and technical sophistication, this thing was sloppily edited...words are missing, lead-on sentences go nowhere, and in at least one instance, "there" was unforgivably used when the author meant "their." If there's a second edition, let's hope some of the money gets thrown at a decent copyeditor.

Not Quite Comprehensive.......2003-09-02

This book provides a terrific overview of digital manipulations of landscape photos using Photoshop. For each of the sample photos in the book, the author provides a step by step guide from camera to final print.

My major quibble is the actual format of the book. At 7.5 x 9 inches, the page size is much too small. The illustrations of the intermediate steps and some of the computer screenshots are too small to be effective. A larger format book would have been much better.

a beautifully organized book.......2003-08-17

A book for digital landscape photography inspiration!! The book is organized in a very simple straightforward manner. Each page-spread has a sumptious photograph, comments from the author, comments from the photographer and a bullet recipe/list on how the photograph was accomplished. A strong knowledge of Photoshop is needed to understand the "how-to-do list." However, regardless of your Photoshop background, this is a book on landscape photography that you will keep returning to for inspiration and ideas.

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Grandes días para la gastronomía: la buena mesa juega cada día un papel más preponderante en nuestras vidas y en la economía española. : An article from: Epoca
Jonatan Armengol
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EZ8TRW
Release Date: 2006-03-13

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Thomson Gale on November 25, 2005. The length of the article is 665 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: Grandes días para la gastronomía: la buena mesa juega cada día un papel más preponderante en nuestras vidas y en la economía española.
Author: Jonatan Armengol
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 25, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1077 Page: 73(1)

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Nuestra Economia de Cada Dia
Ernesto R. Fontaine , and Osvaldo Schenone
Manufacturer: Alfaomega Grupo Editor
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Binding: Paperback

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International cost of capital...blockage discounts . . . valuation issues unique to ESOPs...specific valuation issues for sports teams...capital structure in emerging growth companies...methods for calculating equity risk premiums...These days, understanding the complex issues in advanced business valuation requires a team of experts. The HANDBOOK OF ADVANCED BUSINESS VALUATION is your team of valuation experts—nationally recognized practitioners and legal minds from across the country who provide authoritative answers and innovative solutions to your most perplexing valuation questions. Structured in a user-friendly, general-to-specific arrangement, The HANDBOOK OF ADVANCED BUSINESS VALUATION represents a broad cross section of the latest conceptual thinking on the subject. Only in this thought-provoking volume will you find: Abstracts and interpretations of recent empirical studies in lack of marketability, blockage, and more; In-depth treatment of specialized valuation issues from many industries—including healthcare, technology, and sports franchises; Lucid, intuitive explanations of complex and esoteric procedures for intercompany transfer pricing analyses and ad valorem property tax appraisals. Like its predecessor volume VALUING A BUSINESS—which covered basic business valuation concepts and practices in authoritative, all-encompassing fashion—The HANDBOOK OF ADVANCED BUSINESS VALUATION provides a new benchmark of advanced, contemporary discussions for investors and experienced business valuation practitioners. Valuation experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Willamette Management Associates, Arthur Andersen, American Appraisal Associates, and more combine their expertise in this well-written, thoughtful, and convincing reference—one with absolutely no close rival in the flourishing field of business valuation and security analysis.

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rough going.......2004-12-02

The author is obviously an expert in this field, but his book is very difficult to wade through, even for someone well-versed in finance. I had the same issue with the "Body of Knowledge" books. If all you do for a living is valuation, you might appreciate these tombs, but for practical use, one I like more is "Unlocking the Value of Your Business".

New information for the new economy.......2000-06-13

A great addition to your reference library. The Handbook is an incredibly useful tool for valuation of the new companies and industries that have emerged in recent years. I highly recommend it.

Book Description

This book tells everything a person needs to know to start a successful gift basket business, including how to identify target markets, develop an effective marketing plan, find and build relationships with suppliers, and keep good business records.

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Not Too Involved.......2005-07-31

This book didn't go too in depth at only 122 pages, but this would be a good book for someone just toying with the idea of starting a gift basket service. It would help a person decide if this business was right for them. Also, there were quick tips on almost every page that I thought were helpful and informative.

A good start.......2005-07-19

This book is a good start for people wanting to launch a basket service. It gives the reader tips and warnings from people who are already in this business. I like the format.

Start Your Own Gift Basket Business (Start Your Own Business)

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Start Your Own Gift Basket Business (Start Your Own Business)
Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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This was a lousy investment........2003-08-11

This book discussed the specific business of gift baskets very infrequently and was extremely outdated. There was no mention of the internet whatsoever and the use of a computer was virtually non-existent as well. It would have been nice to know how to set up inventory and manage bookkeeping through Excel, for example. I agree with the first review also--there was no information on exactly what labor and products are needed to put together a gift basket (other than the obvious gifts and basket). The title of this book should be "Start Your Own Fill-in-the-Blank".

A WORTHWHILE BUY.......2000-04-14

I really enjoyed this book however I felt it should have included a section on how to put a gift basket together for those of us who don't have a clue. I still found the book to be very helpful and worth purchasing.

Start Your Own Gift Baskets Business (Extra Income Magazine National Business Library)

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Start Your Own Gift Baskets Business (Extra Income Magazine National Business Library)

Manufacturer: M. Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000EGN0AM

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The gift basket industry is one of the hottest, most profitable segments of retailing for home-based entrepreneurs and commercial operations alike. Start Your Own Gift Baskets Business shows you how to tart on a shoestring for less than $250. Written as a primer, this book gives you: a complete overview of the gift basket industry, help in assessing potential markets, start-up business basics.

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Start Your Own Gift Basket Business (Start Your Own Business)
Joann Padgett
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Art
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K089DK

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This is an account of the most important instance of forced labor by foreign workers outside their own country in the twentieth century, when millions of workers from the USSR, Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Italy and elsewhere toiled in the service of the Nazi regime. The workers are examined first from the viewpoint of the Nazi leadership, the entrepreneurs and the authorities, and second through the eyes of the workers themselves. It is the first major study of what in effect was slave labor on a massive scale, whose reverberations are still felt today in current debates about work compensation and the legacy of the Third Reich.

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Michael H. Kater
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on August 1, 1998. The length of the article is 741 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: Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. (book reviews)
Author: Michael H. Kater
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1998
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: v33 Issue: n2 Page: p317(2)

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Posterity Lost provides a penetrating analysis of two developments which are revolutionizing late 20th century America. The decline of the American family and a waning faith in the Idea of Progress are in sharp contrast to our historic past. Richard T. Gill links these two significant developments by examining our changing attitudes to the future. Americans today increasingly focus on the short term instead of a long term view, and the losers in this myopic process are both the family, which is responsible for rearing the future generation, and the 'Idea of Progress,' which once guaranteed that future generations would enjoy increasingly happy and productive lives.

Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family.

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Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family.
Richard T. Gill
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NI37O0

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Watchable Birds of the Rocky Mountains
Mary Taylor Gray
Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0878422811

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Watchable Birds Of The Rocky Mountains -
Mary Taylor Gray -
Manufacturer: Mountain Press -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O00XOE

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WATCHABLE BIRDS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
M. Gray
Manufacturer: Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WQMMOE

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