Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation (Critical Voices in Art, Theory & Culture)

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This is a book of theoretical essays by architect Stan Allen, which examine the ways in which the modes of representation and techniques of realization available to the architect affect the practice of architecture. Allen shows how these models of representation are put into play in specific buildings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. While the practice of architecture is circumscribed by a function, the many practices that contribute to the realization of this task affect the look of our cities and the spaces we live in.
Allen's essays, organized into three sections:
Representations
Buildings
Media

The final essays analyze the role of media in architecture, specifically the reproduction of buildings in photographic form, and the impact of computer-aided design techniques.

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Photography: a handbook of history, materials, and processes
Charles Swedlund
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Binding: Paperback

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PHOTOGRAPHY A HANDBOOK OF HISTORY, MATERIALS, AND PROCESSES
Charles Swedlund
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Photography, a Handbook of History, Materials, and Processes
Charles Swedlund
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Photography, a Handbook of History, Materials, and Processes
Charles Swedlund
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A Must Read For African Americans In The New Millennium

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Race for Success: The Ten Best Business Opportunities For Blacks In America
George C. Fraser
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Race For Success is both an inspiration and a game plan for people just starting out, as well as for those looking for a career change. Infused throughout with Fraser's passionate, positive message and clear-cut direction, it is backed by profiles of ten top Black achievers who share the secrets of their success.

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A Must Read For African Americans In The New Millennium.......2000-02-23

This book was an awesome read. Fraser was focused and expected nothing but the best from himself and others. He recognized the role that race plays in our society; however, he refused to allow it to limit his personal or business life. He offered insight on how to succeed as a minority in corporate America by encouraging and promoting racial pride, self-help, and self-development. This book will encourage anyone, however it should be required reading for all minorities. In spite of all of life's challenges, including the color of my skin, the author inspired me to push, dig, fight, and expect to win this game called life.

Don't hesitate-buy this book immediately.......1998-12-14

This book is tremendous. It actually exceeded my expectations. This is one of those rare times when a book lived up to it's hype. I have already read certain parts over again. It serves as a constant source of inspiration. It g ives you an opportunity to focus on the areas of interest to YOU. My favorite sections is the contact information in the back of the book, and the seven morals and principles of success.

Unusually POWERFUL and UNIQUE.......1998-02-07

"Race For Success" is the fuel necessary to participate in this marathon called "Life." An unsually powerful and unique combination of sound principles, historical perspective, motivation, knowledge and resources, the book is a true call to action. It is a tool for personal growth, economic empowerment, community revitalization, and much, much, more.

Race for Success The Ten Best Business Opportunities for Blacks in America

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Race for Success The Ten Best Business Opportunities for Blacks in America
George C. (Hugh B. Price, Foreword) Fraser
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
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Race for Success (The Ten Best Business Opportunities for Blacks in America)

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Wonderfully helpful..............2000-07-15

This book provides great insight into the teenage mind. It helps parents cope with the teen years. I read it twice!

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Published by the International Institute on Strategic Studies, The Military Balance is an annual assessment of the military capabilities and defense economics of 169 countries world-wide.

Key features of The Military Balance include:
· Region-by-region analyses: major military issues affecting each region; changes in defense economics, weapons and other military equipment holdings; and the trade in weapons and military equipment.
· Comprehensive tables: key data on weapons and defense economics, such as comparisons of international defense expenditure and military manpower.
· Analysis: essays covering significant military and economic developments, such as the "European Rapid Reaction Force".
· Wallchart: detailed world map that shows current areas of armed conflict, with explanatory tables.

Designed to be an easy-to-read reference, this key title informs readers in as brief a fashion as possible on the widest variety of military topics through a mix of hard data and considered and informed analysis.

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Impressions of top Nazis.......2003-04-04

This book was written by a US army doctor who was at the Nuremberg Trials and consequently came into contact with the Nazis there who awaited justice. His book proports to give away secrets of these infamous men but for the most part it only gives impressions that the author and other staff had. He does make a compelling case that Hitler had Parkinson's Disease but his claim that this is what caused Hitler's infamous blunders of WWII (such as invading the USSR) is highly debatable at best. The book's true value (and the reason I gave it 3 stars) lies in the photos of the massive collection of Nazi artifacts the author gathered. From Hitler's darned socks to Ribbentrop's medals, any WWII buff or collector will be impressed with Mr. Lattimer's collection.

In conclusion, if you want to see photos of items that once belonged to top Nazis like napkins Hitler used, then pick up this book. If you want an in-depth analysis of the infamous Nazi leadership and the secrets they had, this isn't the book for you.

Dr Lattimers wishful thinking.......1999-12-26

This book, supposedly adding something to our knowledge of the leaders of Nazi Germany, in fact adds nothing at all. The information on Hitlers Parkinsons Disease is already well known to historians. Dr Lattimer also maintains that Hitler was informed that he was suffering from this disease at about the time of the fall of Dunkirk and that it thus precipipated his decision not to invade England and to invade Russia instead because he had been told that he had only five years to live. This is pure conjecture. No evidence is offered for this view. Even more fanciful arguments are offered by Dr. Lattimer about Goering's possible role as a successor to Hitler and the outcome of that eventuality. He also offers, in appendix one, an account of Lindberghs examination of German air an missile technology before an after the war. This entirely gratuitous appendix is simply a vehicle for Dr. Lattimer to let us know that he knew Lindbergh. In fact the whole book is simply a collection of "I was there" recollections and highly speculative pronouncements on the possible course of the war without any historical merit whatsover.

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Entertaining and highly relevant
Way off topic
Entertaining montage of military history
Lighter side of battles!

Fatal Victories
William Weir
Manufacturer: Pegasus Books
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"A bull's eye performance."- Publishers Weekly

"Unique and thought-provoking."- The Historian

A noted historian and master storyteller explores the costly, often calamitous -effects of victories gained by brilliant military commanders in fourteen historical -battles-from Hannibal at Cannae to Bunker Hill, Sarajevo, Pearl Harbor, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.

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Entertaining and highly relevant.......2007-09-03

This is a very well written and entertaining book for those who like history, particularly military history. The theme of this book is that sometimes a victory can have ultimately fatal consequences for the victor. This story is told through the military history of 14 events, ranging in time from Hannibal's victory at Cannae in 216 B.C., to the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam in 1968. While different types of fatal victories are discussed, there is unfortunately no summary chapter to tie them all together. Also, some of the fatal consequences occurred long after the victory (in one case centuries), so many factors in addition to the effects of the victory played a role in the ultimately fatal outcome.

One type of fatal victory is well understood - that of the pyrrhic victory, where the losses incurred by the victor lead to an ultimate defeat. (While the victory of Pyrrhus at Asculum is mentioned, it did not merit a chapter.) Other types of fatal victories are often not considered as such and indeed some might argue that the ultimate defeat was not due to the "fatal victory" at all. For instance, Weir considered Hannibal's victory at Cannae to be fatal because, contrary to his expectation, the victory did not result in the Roman vassals flocking to him, thereby largely negating the effect of the victory. It could be argued, however, that his ultimate defeat was not the result of this victory but was rather due to the fact that he underestimated the Roman's determination to fight-on to their ultimate victory. Hannibal's mistake lay therefore not in the victory, but in attacking Rome in the first place. The victory of the Japanese at Pearl Harbor is considered in the same vein. (Again I think that the victory was not the problem, it was thinking that a single victory, no matter how great, would induce the US to sue for peace.)

Weir argues that another type of "fatal victory" occurs when the victor assumes that his victorious military approach did have to be modified to account for the development of new technology and tactics. The victory of Muslim forces at Hattin was used to illustrate this, but if this was a "fatal victory" the fatality did not occur for centuries. Many of these "fatal victories" were thus fatal not because of the victory but because of fatal assumptions regarding the capabilities and determination of the enemy.

Another class of "fatal victories" is the victory that leads to a public relations disaster. The British victory over the Irish rebels in the 1916 Dublin uprising and the American victory in the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam are both examples of this type of "fatal victory". Again, it can be argued, however, that these victories were not fatal in and of themselves, but merely highlighted failures in the approaches to handling both conflicts.

While I may quibble, as above, with some of Weir's choices for "fatal victories" or if they even satisfy any logical criteria for their actually being fatal, I nonetheless do recommend this book. The history provided is well written and entertaining, and the background given for each victory is very illuminating. The book is also very important in 2007, as the American military victory in Iraq in 2003 may be the source of another chapter in a future edition of this book.

Way off topic.......2006-06-27

The writer theory is that sometimes the initial military victory affect the losing side in a way, he never expected and sometimes the victory dazzles his own side, so much that it leads to disaster.

I have no argument with the writer theory as such. I could accept this could be true in many cases. Its quite natural for people to keep going with success. If it works once then try it again and I don't doubt that sometimes it leads one to disaster.

However what I do object to the examples that he offers to prove his point.

Some battles listed such as Lutzen in 1632, Chickamauga 1863 in the US civil war and Vietnam in 1968 were actually quite a way into the war and some examples eg Dublin uprising and the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914 are not military victories at all. What are they doing in the book? Maybe he should have widened the subject matter in his introduction to include these events.

However in the cases where he does discuss some military battles, I am not sure that they prove his point.

Hannibal after his great victory at Cannae discovered that the Latin allies would not leave Rome alliance. This does not mean that Hannibal victory at Cannae cost him the war. If he had lost the battle at Cannae would it have changed the result of the war? I doubt it. What it shows is that Cathage numbering 700,000 people could not hope to defeat a Rome and it Latin allies which numbered 6,000,000. As such Hannibal idea of how to conduct the war was flawed from before he left Spain. His victory at Cannae simply confirms this.

A similar case could be made for his example of Pearl Harbour. The plans were already set in motion. The Japanese were already attaching other places at the same time. That Japan seriously expect to take on the US and hold them shows that their plans were flawed before they began the attack on the US. A Japanese loss at Pearl Harbour would not have changed the result of the war, only the timing.

Another example the writer provides is of Attila at Chalons. Aetius's aim was to inflict a partial defeat on the Huns but he did not want to destroy them, as we wished to play them off against the Visigoths. He succeeded brilliantly. You cannot blame his victory for changing the situation as that was his Aetius's aim before the battle. Also the writer underestimates the effect of the loss on Attila. It certainly weaken him and led soon to the fall of the Huns.

Another example, I thought was just silly, Hattin led to the fall of the Crusader kingdom. After Hattin, the Christians were a small outpost depend on foreign aid to keep going. To say that the Moslem's rejected gunpowder in favour of horse archers as a result of this victory is absurd.

On the balance, I don't think most of the examples work. Although Boer victory at Majuba Hill in 1881, he mentions probably does.

Overall he has some nice descriptions of battles so if you are interested in that sort of stuff you might want to read them for this but this is not what the writer stated was his point. What we need is analysis of what the situation was before the battle and how the battle changed the situation! This we do not get.

Entertaining montage of military history.......2004-08-04

This is one of those composite books, dealing with a group of battles, campaigns, or events, with the idea here being that the author will discuss victories that led to defeat in various times in history. The examples themselves are interesting at times, but somewhat uneven, and the narrative itself is generally well-done.

There are a few shortcomings of this book. I particularly didn't think that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand qualified for as a battlefield victory, though he does a competent job of recounting the event itself. Several of the other battles contained minor errors (nothing major, though) that marred the narrative a bit.

Given all of the above, the author has a breezy writing style that's interesting to read without being too unintellectual, and he presents his case for each battle's inclusion in the collection intelligently. I would recommend this book to everyone who's interested in warfare in general, or history.

Lighter side of battles!.......1998-12-17

This book deals with serious subjects in a newsy & unfussy manner. The author uses almost no heavy historical jargon & a minimum of dates, which makes for an entertaining & informative series of battle accounts. Weir describes the historical background & central characters with just enough detail to tickle one's interest. Some of his suppositions & links that develop the negative consequences of the "fatal victory" were not always wholly convincing. The actual accounts of the battles I thought were a little lightweight. He is however, obviously very well read & a good storyteller. I do recommend anyone interested in military history to give this a book a try, provided they can find the paperback version, as I did. I also suspect that this book will possibly provoke readers into the purchase of some of the "heavier" books mentioned in the excellent bibliography.

Martin feasts on fatal flub; Ferbey squad's heavy throw on freeze bid allows victory.(Sports): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press

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Martin feasts on fatal flub; Ferbey squad's heavy throw on freeze bid allows victory.(Sports): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
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Release Date: 2007-01-30

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on January 29, 2007. The length of the article is 875 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: Martin feasts on fatal flub; Ferbey squad's heavy throw on freeze bid allows victory.(Sports)
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Oregon's flaws not fatal in the final minutes of victory.(Sports)(The Ducks squander a big lead with turnovers, missed free throws and failure to rebound): ... from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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Oregon's flaws not fatal in the final minutes of victory.(Sports)(The Ducks squander a big lead with turnovers, missed free throws and failure to rebound): ... from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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Release Date: 2007-03-30

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on March 24, 2007. The length of the article is 832 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: Oregon's flaws not fatal in the final minutes of victory.(Sports)(The Ducks squander a big lead with turnovers, missed free throws and failure to rebound)
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Fatal Victories
William Weir
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