Site Planning and Design for the Elderly: Issues, Guidelines, and Alternatives

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Design for the elderly is at the forefront of architectural topics today. Yet, while much has been written about the design of indoor spaces, little work has been done on planning outdoor spaces to accommodate the needs of the elderly. Site Planning and Design for the Elderly specifically addresses this issue, drawing from a large body of original research, current knowledge, and theory to provide the background knowledge and specific information necessary for informed decision making throughout the site planning and design process. More than just a reference on accessibility standards, this volume offers key insights into the needs and concerns of older people in the built environment and presents guidelines and alternatives for responsive site planning and design. Organized in a clear step-by-step format for easy reference, issues and specific guidelines are provided for each stage of the planning and design process within the context of housing for older people. Moreover, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, developers and students will find the topics covered applicable to other settings where older people ore a part of the user profile, such as downtown renewal, hospital, and park planning projects. Numerous illustrations and case studies highlight major points throughout the text. The first sections of this volume provide valuable background information on housing options available to seniors and outline design implications of the social and physiological changes associated with advancing age. Critical design and management issues are discussed, objectives are outlined, and implementation strategies are developed, including methods for promoting wayfinding, enhancing personalization, and maximizing opportunities for social interaction. The body of this volume provides specific guidelines for each stage of development. Site planning areas addressed include site selection, the layout of housing units (including relationships between facilities offering different levels of care), recreational amenities, and circulation systems. Detailed guidelines for the location, spatial configuration, detailing, and amenities of major site components and recreational facilities are also provided. Entryways, parking, patios, rooftop developments, and gardening centers are among the specific areas covered. A brief outline of the major issues affecting use of each site component is particularly useful for making decisions regarding facility provision and for prioritizing development alternatives. Critical detailing and amenity specifications are pinpointed and thoroughly described. Paving materials, signage, lighting, site furniture, and pedestrian street crossings are among those elements examined. A concise overview in tabular form of the major guidelines presented throughout closes this practical volume. It is possible to design a site that will not only enhance the lives of elderly residents, but will be cost-effective and highly marketable as well. Site Planning and Design for the Elderly provides practical solutions to the problems of exterior design for one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population today.

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Steve makes technology phobia free!!!!!!!!.......1999-02-06

This book is easy to read, easy to follow and easy to understand. Steve gets the fact that not eveyone is a technowiz and therefore talks to his readers as ordinary people--he's one of us. Besides losing the fear factor, he also gives great advice on how to use the new camcorder for the readers' fun and profit. Job well done!

A Great Learning Tool.......1998-04-02

This book is great for new camcorder users. Before buying or after buying a camcorder READ THIS BOOK! With Steve Bryant's creative and fun approach to this subject this book is second to none!

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deceptively simple, accomplishes much with very little.......2001-12-15

Bill Barker's artwork is incredibly simplistic to look at, it consists of just crisp black and white drawings, populated by stick figures, alien space ships, and wonderfull depictions of buildings and structures.

The kit consists of many little toys, (stickers, key chains, instant savior, postcards), and a simple book of drawings. Although the book is the main attraction, the other items can be very creative, they complement the ideas of the artwork well. It's especially nice that they aren't just museum-style throw-a-popular-painting-on-a-postcard, the artwork fits in with the format it's presented on, it's this kind of thought that really goes a long way.

The book has a healthy mixture of simplistic (and sometimes hypnotic) designs, and heavy imagery that manages to say a lot about life and the world with very little. There are a few activities to keep you busy, cutting out holes and such. The pages are mostly single sided, with a little bit of occasional explanation on the back.

As for the content, it's a lot about life, a lot about the process of time and how we go through it. Many of his drawings depict time in unique ways, using rooms and factories to demonstrate it's flow. One of my favorite iamges is of an single factory that demonstrates a complete lifespan, complete with interesting news on life after death.

Of course he also says a lot about alien culture, but not so much about the aliens (who are never seen, just felt through the presence their space crafts), but about the people around them, and how they react.

If you enjoy alternative artwork, and like the feeling of opening up a great gift, I highly recomend Schwa.

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Beenhakker offers a comprehensive examination of all aspects of risk management--from financial structures and techniques through the development of efficient portfolios and decisions that will minimize investment risks and taxes. The result is a multifaceted approach to risk management, one that advances new theory and involves interaction among various disciplines. Beenhakker takes special care to point out the assumptions underlying developments in risk situations, and his book not only is self-contained in one volume, but also assumes no prior knowledge of the various disciplines upon which it is based and from which it draws its ideas. Professionals with investment responsibilities in both the public and private sectors will find a variety of new concepts explained clearly and simply. Their colleagues in the academic community and students will find the book to be a unique bridge between theory and practice.

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Title: The 1996 Telecommunications Act.(Telecommunications Act of 1996: Ten Years Later Symposium)
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Cable firms, TV stations caught in war of nerves. (Special Report: High Technology) (Industry Overview): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Cable firms, TV stations caught in war of nerves. (Special Report: High Technology) (Industry Overview): An article from: San Diego Business Journal
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on September 13, 1993. The length of the article is 558 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: Cable firms, TV stations caught in war of nerves. (Special Report: High Technology) (Industry Overview)
Author: Penni Crabtree
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Cable TV: Regulation or Competition?
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Does video delivered over a telephone network require a cable franchise?: An article from: Federal Communications Law Journal

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Does video delivered over a telephone network require a cable franchise?: An article from: Federal Communications Law Journal
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The Role of Competition and Regulation in Today's Cable TV Market

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The Role of Competition and Regulation in Today's Cable TV Market
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The satellite home viewer improvement act: Price and quality impact of direct broadcast satellite companies' provision of local broadcast stations [An article from: Telecommunications Policy]
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Prior to 1999, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) companies were generally not permitted to deliver local broadcast stations to their subscribers while cable companies did not face this constraint. With the passage of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act, the Congress removed this asymmetry and created a more level competitive environment. In this paper, reduced-form equations are employed to test the impact of DBS companies' provision of local broadcast stations. When both DBS companies provide local broadcast stations, cable companies improve the quality of service they provide to their subscribers, although no impact on the price of cable service is found.

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Subscriber rates and competition in the cable television industry.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE) : An article from: Internet Business Newsletter

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this book is amazing........1998-07-09

As a a teenage mother of a 1 year old son and being 6 months pregnant with twins, I find this book amazing. It has very many helpful resources, tips, planning, guides, and other useful things throughout. I wish I had this book during my first pregnancy.

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In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War that tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air.

Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders. The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications.

A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II--from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945--for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

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Good Starter.......2007-06-22

This is a good start for those that are reading about WWII for the first time. The book is user friendly for an introduction to World War II. The authors speak very clearly and it is easy to follow.

History at the Pointy End of the Stick.......2007-06-04

As a faculty member at the U.S. Army Command and Staff College, I got to tell you I love this book. It provides a tight, well-written global account of the fighting in this global war. Military professionals will find the book informed and useful, but Murray and Millett's smooth but brisk writing is also accessible to the general reader. Hitting this balance is no easy thing. The book is "joint" or "purple" in that it looks at air, land, and sea operations. The authors provide coverage of both axis and allies, but they are clearly more familiar with and better informed on operations in Europe than they are in Asia and the Pacific. The focus on the operational level, but they pay a good deal of attention to strategy and spend time looking at how decisions played out at the tactical level.

They begin their account with a general history of military developments during the interwar period. Weapons rarely come with instruction books and the major powers pursued different types of weapon systems and had different ideas on how to use them, which reflected the political and cultural values of their societies. These peacetime decisions played a large role in wartime performance.

A major shortcoming of all the axis powers was that their strategic planning was horrible. What made the Germans so successful early on was that they were good at combined arms operations (the coordinated use of infantry, artillery, engineers and air units that provided close air ground support) which allowed them to move faster than their opponents. Their early success came as much because of allied mistakes and contained and caused them to overlook serious problems like logistics, which became much more serious as the war went on.

The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most key campaigns of the war. If the Germans had won then it would have been impossible for the allies to invade Europe. The battle though was never that close, the German Navy was overly centralized, had a weak logistical structure, failed to concentrate their focus, and was not ready to challenge the global nature of Britain's naval power. In the east, support facilities and logistics came into play. They understand that little things could have enormous ramifications. For example, the German Air Force did not have enclosed hangers for their planes on the eastern front, so ground crews had to work out in the bitter cold of a Russian winter. They did their maintenance work as quickly as possible and sometimes it was not as thorough as it should have been. These shortcuts often resulted in poor performance in the skies. German shortcomings gave the Soviets enough time to reform their army and become a much more effective fighting force than the Germans.

The authors pursue their account in a topically focused narrative fashion. In essence, they address the Battle of France, and then move to the Balkans in another chapter, and then look at the invasion of the Soviet Union, and then the Battle of the Atlantic, and then the war in the Pacific and so forth. Many times this results in chapters starting six months before the conclusion of the previous chapter. This approach, though, is best. It allows the reader to follow events to their logical conclusions. Of course, at the time, people had to deal with the air war at the same time they had to deal with the u-boats, and events in Europe had at the same time they happened in Asia. The alternative to this structure is the heavy chronological focus that Sir Martin Gilbert uses in "The Second World War" where one chapter can be on Europe and the next on the Pacific, and then the next on a vote in the British Parliament that affected the lend-lease. Only one chapter--an examination of the various home fronts--which comes for some odd reason at the end of the book breaks out of this mold.

There are numerous strengths to this book. Murray and Millett cover all the major fronts and give lesser lights, like Australia, their moment. They focus on less than sexy topics like logistics Despite what many people think, the United States faced profound logistical shortcomings before and during this war that significantly shaped the decisions that U.S. leaders had to make. The U.S. Navy turned to carrier and submarines because they lacked the logistical support to go toe-to-toe with the Imperial Japanese Navy in a surface fleet engagement. Nor do they see the war as a simple conflict of mobilized economies. Intangibles like military leadership and motivation were also important in determining the outcome of battles.

There are shortcomings with this book. While the coverage is broad, it is a bit shallow. Specialists will be disappointed in important battles getting only a paragraph of coverage. To some degree this type of problem is inherent in the format of the book--how do you cover all of World War II and get into every part in depth without writing a book that weighs 200 pounds? They are less familiar with naval operations than they are with air and land battles. They dismiss the Norway campaign as a strategic draw, but fail to note that the Germans drove the Danish and Norwegian merchant fleets into British hands, offsetting all the work u-boats had done during the previous two years. This omission is all the more surprising give the importance they attribute to the Battle of the Atlantic. They misidentify the Italian battleship "Giulo Cesare" as just "Cesare." They attribute the sinking of HMS "Hood" to a 15 inch shell from "Bismarck." This claim might be true, but most naval historians believe it was an eight inch shell from "Prinz Eugen" that hit the torpedo room or an anti-aircraft magazine. The authors attribute the Liberty ships to Henry J. Kaiser when it was actually the British that developed the ship. They blame the Tenth Fleet for failing to introduce convoys in 1942, which allowed the u-boats to score a lot of easy victories up and down the east coast. The Tenth Fleet was not established until 1943. When it comes to matters in the Pacific, they also make a number of errors. They put the "Enterprise" and "Lexington" in the wrong location on December 7, 1941. At Midway, the U.S. sank four Japanese carriers, not cruisers. At Leyte Gulf, they say the "Enterprise" and "Saratoga" were present when it was only the "Enterprise." They also under report the fire power of the Brooklyn-class cruisers which could fire six inch shells not five inches as they report. A lot of these mistakes are minor and could easily come from hitting the wrong keys on their keyboards, but they all come in naval affairs, which is no accident.

Best Comprehensive Piece on WWII Available.......2007-05-08

This book is a must read for those who want to know about WWII. The book is a gem for anyone, no matter their background. I think the high school student or the PHd candidate will find something in this book that will enhance them. The book flows almost like a novel. It is almost like reading the old series "world at war". The authors also make it interesting and present a deep perspective on the war. They do an excellent job blending the story from the strategic to the operational phase without missing a beat. The book also covers all sides of the war, the air war, the sea war, and the land war from the point of view of the nations involved. It doesn't touch the individual side, but that is unrealistic in a comprehensive story. The book is very well documented. It is a good first start for any research project.

The book doesn't just gloss over the big parts of the war. The book does an excellent job of covering the forgotten parts of WWII like china Burma theater, the home front, and little covered parts of the eastern front like the Germans in the Caucus Mtns. They also cover the things like the plight of the jews, politics of the event and other such things. The authors also do a good job of incorporating statistics to tell the story that enhances things, not distort or distract from the main points. The authors does a good job of both presenting the facts and sliding in his opinion on things. They do that in a way which enhances the story, not detracting from it. This book does slant to the American side but that isn't all bad. It does touch on the other side of the story from time to time. Overall it is a treat to read this book.

Amazing.......2006-12-15

Plain and simple, this is an amazing book, surely the best one-volume military history of World War II out there. Murray and Millett nimbly and ably cover all the war's theaters on land, at sea, and in the sky. The research is solid; the analysis is top-notch; and the writing is crisp and clear. I can say this of few books published by university presses, but A War to Be Won was a pleasure to read from start to finish. Even when chapters aren't as tightly written as the rest, they are interesting and insightful; this is true, for example, of the material on the Pacific Theater. Where the book really shines -- in both its argument and its prose -- is the Eastern Front. The authors engagingly describe what for many American readers is an (unjustly) unknown front that involved millions of German and Russian troops in some of the war's largest, most brutal battles. Specialists might debate their assessment of the Soviets' operational excellence, but Murray and Millett present a solid case. In any event, it surely whet my appetite for more specialized reading on the Eastern Front. Such is the case throughout the book, where the authors' presentation encourages further and deeper exploration.

With its explicit focus on operations, the book doesn't fully explore strategy, diplomacy, tactics, or the experiences of individual soldiers and sailors. So if you're looking for those perspectives, you might want to turn elsewhere. But for an account of World War II at the operational level or simply for a solid overview of the war, you can do no better than A War to Be Won.

Shooting the bull on WW2.......2005-03-23

I got this book hoping for something to update/replace Liddell Hart's operational analysis of the war. Sigh. Not hardly.

The authors have written a book too short by half. They have many opinions, some interesting, but it's difficult to know why one should credit them on any given point, as their ridiculously scanty citations will show. Bombing the fuel facilities at Pearl Harbor wouldn't have done much good, as they could be rapidly replaced. Really? Says who? The authors just "know" this. The section on 1941 in Russia is especially odd; one would scarcely know that there were debated issues.

The book is an okay introduction, but if you've read enough about the war to have some idea of the controversies, you'll be dissatisfied. Though lord knows, any book that tries to put MacArthur in his place can't be all bad.

(And hey, if anyone knows of a book that does Liddell Hart's job better, please mention it in comments. As it is, he remains the best we've got, but SURELY 30 years of research have counted for something.)

A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War. (Reviews: general and international). (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
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Williamson; Millett, Allan R. Murray
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A War to be Won : Fighting the Second World War, 1937-1945

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Williamson; Millett, Allan R. Murray
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Daring sea voyages undertaken today are routinely monitored by satellite and highly sophisticated technology. It was not always so. In the Middle Ages, navigation was a tenuous balance of art and science. Progress in shipbuilding gave sailors more freedom. Mathematics and compasses encouraged them to set out on longer trips for destinations further and further away. Yet ocean travel remained mysterious and terribly dangerous. Sailors had to rely on their knowledge of the stars, the direction of the wind, the currents, and migrating flocks, and on the lore and wisdom of their fore-fathers. They also relied on handmade maps, crudely but beautifully drawn.

The selection of maps in this handsome book dates from the 12th to the 18th century. While they may appear quite primitive to our eyes, they reveal the steady progress of the earliest seafarers in their determination to conquer the sea. What they lack in geographical accuracy, they make up for in charm. They are fascinating historical documents and an eloquent testimony to the bravery of all those who set out not really knowing where on earth they were going.

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A pure pleasure for the mind and the eyes.......2002-07-31

This book is absolutely fascinating! The author has done a wonderful job in speaking of these ancient maps. Although I was not too interested in the subject, I quickly found myself devouring the book! It is a perfect gift for all, both for its iconography and the insight it gives on this remarkable page of our history...

A Major Disappointment.......2002-02-24

I got suckered by this book. The typos are abominable; the text trite. Sure the maps are good, but most are the same classics you see in any history of maps book.

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