Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living

Book Description

Lofts, by definition, are former commercial spaces that have been converted for residential use and living/working environments. But lofts, by design, are vast silent expanses, soaring arches, stalwart steel girders, massive beams, and all the powerful drama of a curtain-time stage set. The importance of urban loft design for the architectural and design world is highlighted in this collection of the finest, most dramatic of these transformed spaces.

Features six categories-minimalist, fifties revival, modernist, deconstructionalist, multi-purpose, and post-industrialist-from six major international cities-New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, London, Paris, and Tokyo

Customer Reviews:

Rather excellent.......2001-03-11

I have only really studied 3 loft books and this would be my second favorite.

The author looks at Manhattan lofts exclusively for one half of the book and uses the other half for projects all over the world. All in all, her selection is good in that the reader gets a fair sense of what is currently happening in the design of these spaces (lofts). You usually get about 3-4 color photos per loft, a short description and floor plan.

Overall, a great book and source of inspiration if you find yourself with an abandoned, urban space and about a million dollars.

Nothing new here.......2000-10-26

The good thing about this book is that it does show pictures of lofts....that's about it. It showcased some lofts that have been pictured in other books before, and the picture quality is not always the best(at times the photographs look as though they were taken twenty years ago or with bad film). I usually read my design books but after about halfway through, I just looked at the pictures. Save your money for something else.

Lofts New Designs for Urban Living.......2000-03-14

I bought this book on the strong recommendation of the other reviewers and was disappointed. I have bought 8 books on the subject of lofts and this is my least favorate. The photos are generic architect shots, the layout bland and the printing is flat and sometimes fuzzy, and just unappealing.

Check out Living in Space and the International Book of Lofts.

I have to wonder if the other reviewers are friends of the author...

(Just my opinion, your milage may vary...)

Lofts New Designs for Urban Living.......2000-03-14

Check out Living in Space and the International Book of Lofts.

I have to wonder if the other reviewers are friends of the author...

(Just my opinion, your milage may vary...)

well worth the money.......2000-01-09

the author, Felicia Eisenberg Molnar, mirrors the clean minimalist sense of design in some the photographed loft spaces in her text. ms. molnar's words explain the realized mission of architect, designer, and client devoid of the fuzziness and fussiness of many books on interior design. the reader is walked and talked through converted industrial spaces and shown how they have been transformed for the humans fortunate to inhabit them.

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Coffee Table Book

Design Basics: Ideas and Inspiration for Working with Layout, Type, and Color in Graphic Design

Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1564968545

Book Description

Design Basics presents creative and innovative design in an affordable format. This book presents inspiring, contemporary projects—and explore particular aspects of graphic design. With examples of work ranging from brochures to packaging, to self-promotion, this bok is a sure source of inspiration for all graphic designers.

In Design Basics the reader will be presented with the inner workings of graphic design while the focus is on layout, type and color.

Customer Reviews:

Coffee Table Book.......2003-01-25

This book is supposed to explain "what makes a design's layout compelling" (it doesn't), show "myriad ways type can be used" (definitely not, most of the time the author doesn't even tell you what type face is being used), and demonstrate how to use "color to get the message across" (yes, there are some nice examples here but no CMYK or RGB color guide).

More often than not, this book resembles a coffee table book-- nice images, little information, weak analysis, and nothing noteworthy to learn. Basically, you buy this book to just flip, flip, flip, and then you are done with it. Still, it has a couple of nice images to look at, and maybe give you an idea or two, so it gets 2 stars. But don't buy it if you are seeking inspiration or if you want to learn to design.

Book Description

The Zen of Photography: How to Take Pictures with your Mind's Camera is a collection of 100 sayings that the author has written over a 25 year period. By merging the study of photography and the study of Zen philosophy, one learns to use a camera as a way of connecting more fully with the world. Consequently, a camera is not used as a wall between what is seen and what is experienced, but is a tool that serves to unite the photographer with what is being experienced through the photographic process. This book teaches that photography is much more than f-stops, shutter speed and aperture settings, film choices, and camera purchases. If photography were merely a technical operation, robots could take great pictures. Learning is about readiness. Because you are a loving, thinking person who found this book, you want to be inspired to elevate your picture taking to a level in which you learn from the moments you observe and teach others to be moved by those moments. This book is ready for you.

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"0" would be a more appropriate rating!.......2004-03-27

This small book contains 100 useless sayings, each on it's own page. Here's a good example ---- #78 "It is not good enough to be a good photographer. You also need to be a good person who takes pictures." PUH .... LEEZE! Save your money, save some trees and look at some [alternative] for inspiration.

Worthless drivel.......2002-03-13

This book is more a collection of empty platitudes (and generous whitespace) than any kind of substantive guide to improving your photography. Truly, it's not about photography -- or even the art of seeing -- at all. Not even any pictures. Sheesh. See "Tao of Photography" by Gross & Shapiro instead -- it's fully of nicely reproduced classic images that are well chosen to illustrate the (much more substantial) points made in the text.

a not so inspiring book.......2001-02-03

I'm really disappointed about this book. I am already a photographer, an admirer of the zen life style (a very humble practitioner), and of course a reader of books about these themes. I expected this one would be a further motivating lecture to increase my horizons, but... This is a real example about how words like "zen", "open mind", "satori" and so on, can be poorly used, trying to capture readers through a beautiful title and a promise of taking pictures with "the mind's camera". First of all, the author says in the Introduction: "I understand that my message will only be heard by those people who are ready to listen and those who already know. For those who do not listen and will not know, read on with an open heart". A serious author can not condition readers from the very start. At the end of each book, each reader will take hia/her own conclutions. My heart was open, and I am a guy who like to learn of each and every little things. But it is not enough to write a few words in a white background to make it sound something "humble" or "zen". Employing the words of the Masters, does not make anyone a Master, and this book is not the exception. It could have as much as twenty pages, considering that the same ideas are repeated once and again along the one hundred pages. "Trying to be one with..." is as nonsense as "¡Be spontaneous!". Maybe the intention was good, but sometimes a Professor of Communications can teach a lot from the silence.

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DM WHERE ACTION IS (Dennis the Menace Series)
Hank Ketcham
Manufacturer: Fawcett
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0449136698
Release Date: 1981-07-12

Book Description

This invaluable reference teaches effective and practical techniques to improve the overall performance and outcome of design projects in various industries. Value Engineering highlights the application of value methodology to streamline current day operations, strategic planning in company or business segments, and everyday business decisions in the private sector. The book shows how to maximize budgets, reduce life cycle costs, improve project understanding, and create better working relationships. It explains how to gather information for the creation, evaluation, development, and presentation of new project ideas and shows how to design an appropriate task agenda and timeline.

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It's not worth the money.......2006-10-10

I own this book. While it does contain some valuable information on the Value Methodology process, it not to be considered more than a companion to the author's course on Value Enigeering. Thus, I have not found it to be a good nor readable resource.

Much of the text (326 pages) is devoted to overhead presentation type information, i.e., heading and bulletized list likely originating from the author's own presentations developed to teach his class. Have you ever received an overhead presentation without the author's notes? It is very difficult to understand the points being made. Many pages contain examples of forms that a VE team leader might want to use. They amount to little more than a page full of empty boxes. In the latter portion of the book, many pages contain very little information and lots of empty wordless space. This text is not a book, it is a compilation of stuff gathered over the years that the author has taught his VE course.

Solving Ordinary and Partial Boundary Value Problems in Science and Engineering (Crc Series in Computational Mechanics and Applied Analysis)

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Solving Ordinary and Partial Boundary Value Problems in Science and Engineering (Crc Series in Computational Mechanics and Applied Analysis)
Karel Rektorys
Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

This book provides an elementary, accessible introduction for engineers and scientists to the concepts of ordinary and partial boundary value problems, acquainting readers with fundamental properties and with efficient methods of constructing solutions or satisfactory approximations. Discussions include: · ordinary differential equations · classical theory of partial differential equations · Laplace and Poisson equations · heat equation · variational methods of solution of corresponding boundary value problems · methods of solution for evolution partial differential equations The author presents special remarks for the mathematical reader, demonstrating the possibility of generalizations of obtained results and showing connections between them. For the non-mathematician, the author provides profound functional-analytical results without proofs and refers the reader to the literature when necessary. Solving Ordinary and Partial Boundary Value Problems in Science and Engineering contains essential functional analytical concepts, explaining its subject without excessive abstraction.

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A must for writting references........1999-03-07

A wonderful resource book with easy tab reference locations

The most comprehensive reference book available........1999-01-13

I discovered The Gregg Reference Manual as a student in an Executive Secretarial curriculum at a local community college. It was a required textbook at that time. Not only did I come to depend on the book for everything, it has become a permanent fixture in my library of books, and I continue to use it daily. It truly sharpened my grammar and punctuation skills, and I now have excellent verbal and written skills as a result. It has been ten years since I purchased the book, and because the world has advanced in such a short period of time, I decided I needed a more recent edition. I began searching for the Gregg Reference Manual, but I had no success. I had just about given up when I discovered the Amazon.com website. I was really excited to find the book via website, so I quickly ordered it.

An excellent, easy-to-use guide to writing.......1998-10-06

This manual is really excellent: clear, succinct yet detailed, and very user-friendly. It is a much better guide for the everyday or business writer than the Chicago Manual of Style. In particular, its organization and layout make it easy to quickly find the answers you need. Definitely recommended by this average writer.

Oh no... I can't find my old Gregg Reference Manual!!.......1998-09-17

I'm buying my second copy of The Gregg Reference Manual today since my old one has apparently disappeared. I purchased my first copy of this book as a secretarial student in the early 1980's and have used it regularly for both professional and personal writing and editing ever since. I feel lost without my Gregg Reference Manual. My kids will get lots of use out of the new copy as they write reports and business letters in junior high and high school. I can't wait to receive my new book. It's too bad it won't come with the dog-eared pages I used to mark the most frequently used subjects in my old copy.

No matter how arcane, it's in there........1998-07-29

I used this book for years while working at a university bookstore. No matter what rule of punctuation or grammar I needed -- and no matter how unusual the application -- I could always find the answer in the Gregg Reference Manual. It's the most complete writing reference I've ever found.

The Gregg Reference Manual/Indexed (Gregg Reference Manual (Paperback))

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The Gregg Reference Manual/Indexed (Gregg Reference Manual (Paperback))
William Sabin
Manufacturer: Glencoe/Mcgraw Hill Post Secondary
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O910C4

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central place of temperment in parenting

Raising CuddleBugs and BraveHearts - Volume I: Measuring and Understanding Your Child's Temperament
Nancy J. Harkey , and Teri L. Jourgensen
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Since Dr. Spock published Baby and Child Care in 1941 there has been a seemingly endless stream of books with advice on parenting. In spite of that great effort-much of it wise and useful-parenting has not become easier, and outcomes for our children do not seem to be improving. According to many authorities, they are worsening. Authors Harkey and Jourgensen strongly suggest that a major flaw in most parenting advice is the assumption that one child is much like another, and one parent is much like another. Instead, the unique and highly individual temperament of the child makes a world of difference in how that child learns and socializes, how he or she responds to discipline, learns self-control, reasons, and makes decisions about life. Parent temperament, in turn, has a profound influence on actual parenting style, no matter what theoretical model the parent follows. In the first volume of a two volume set-Raising CuddleBugs, BraveHearts, WorkerBees and ButterFlies: Measuring and Understanding Temperament in Children-the authors give parents a well researched questionnaire for measuring temperament in children, and a thorough description of temperament differences in children's behaviors. In Volume II, subtitled Adult Temperament and Parenting Styles, parents are shown how to explore and understand their own temperament, and how to look at the effects of parent temperament on their expectations for their children and on their own parenting style. The most accepted research model for good parenting is described, and parents are challenged to "stretch" toward this model while staying within their own temperament comfort zone.

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central place of temperment in parenting.......2005-02-25

The two volumes cover the two primary elements in the child-parent relationship--namely, the temperament of the child and the temperament of the parent. As anyone who has had this relationship knows, these temperaments do not always mesh ideally or effectively. With their professional and working experiences in the field of child care, Harkey and Jourgensen take a good look at the crucial place of the respective temperaments in child-rearing. With this, they provide tests for identifying different types of temperaments and discuss how the interaction of the different--sometimes similar, sometimes complementary, sometimes opposing--child and parent temperaments work in the relationship. Harvey has been a professor of psychology at California State University-Pomona. Her daughter Jourgensen is a certified trainer for the Myers-Brigg Temperament Indicator who gives workshops on temperament measurement and parenting.
The importance of temperament in the child-parent relationship cannot be overestimated. As the experienced authors point out, the two different temperaments making for the nexus of the child-parent relationship are usually the main factor in the degree of success or failure of child-rearing. No one would deny this is the basis for the quality of the relationship between a parent and child.
In focusing on temperament, the co-authors recognize the conditions for the effectiveness of any school of parenting. The usually overlooked or taken-for-granted subject of temperament they bring in does not aim to replace any school, theory, style, etc., but to form the basis for how guidance, rules, discipline, etc., are brought into and inculcated in child-rearing. They offer no quick fix to any problems of parenting or a child-parent relationship. But their subject and the counsel they relate in applying it is invaluable for parents, teachers, counselors, etc., regarding the challenges, dilemmas, and uncertainties of relationships with young persons.

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Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term.

Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de siÃ¨cle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siÃ¨cle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de siÃ¨cle.

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Really Nice Postmodern Criticism..........2004-06-13

This slim volume of exquisite little critical essays is a gem of literary and aesthetic criticism. Bernheimer was dying of cancer when he composed these last pieces, and they were edited and published just after his death. But sickness and death are only marginally reflected in the essays: Bernheimer was an expert of comparative literature, and that is the locus of the book.

He is looking at the phenomenon of aesthetic Decadence which appeared in European literature c.1885-1905. One can argue that Decadence had earlier adumbrations in Poe, Baudelaire, Gautier, and the Goncourts, but their earlier efforts really saw fruition in the period known as the Fin de Siècle.

One can look at the table of contents to see Bernheimer's topics of Nietzsche, Flaubert, Zola, Huysmans, Freud, etc. But what I want to impart is the excellence of Bernheimer's critique: he has a firm handle on what's become known as Postmodern criticism, but he's much more lucid than others who dabble in the genre. He writes a very nice English: he constructs very pellucid texts with lovely language--vocabulary, syntax, and punctuation. And his vision is very clear: he understands what he sees, and he is able to clearly formulate his vision to relate it Au lecteur (to the Reader) in such a manner as to make it easily apprehendable--something too often lacking in Postmodern criticism. Highly recommended for students and scholars of turn-of-the-century literature, culture, and intellectual history.

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Mostly history and things to worry about

Decadent Societies
Robert M. Adams
Manufacturer: North Point Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0865471037

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Mostly history and things to worry about.......2004-12-18

More as a historian than a philosopher, Robert M. Adams in DECADENT SOCIETIES provides a summary of a few instances in which empires have collapsed, along with instances of countries (France and Russia) that have paid so little attention to the welfare of the people in a single country that revolutions have wiped out the aristocracy of the Bourbon regime in France or the dynasty of the Romanov family and supporters which were previously considered the ruling class in Russia. A final chapter, The Present Instance, written in 1983, when the author was old enough to get Social Security benefits, shows a wide consideration of problems that could snowball in a mature technological society, but generally dismisses concerns of the Moral Majority of that time, as well as more philosophical considerations.

Several pages have footnotes, but there are no notes, bibliography, or index at the end of the book, and foreign phrases and the opening quotation from Montaigne are not translated. The Introduction shows an awareness of the usual forms of condemnation. "Overindulgence in food, sex, spectator sports, or television can be cited as evidence of decadence; it is the terminal state of any vice the moralist feels like denouncing." (p. 1). In the field of literary criticism, "Eric Auerbach has shown in his classic study Mimesis that the wide and ordered vision of the classic period gave way during the late Latin period to the narrower, more confused, but more intense vision of Ammianus Marcellinus and Gregory of Tours. Gregory cannot even recount clearly the episodes of a blood feud between two little gangs of rural thugs. He doesn't have a structured view of experience, such as might order and relate things to one another. His details are vivid but he cannot arrange them lucidly as Homer and Tacitus, for example, could." (p. 7).

For philosophy and history, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee are considered complementary on pages 12-13 in a way that brings the Introduction to the conclusion, "If the earth collides with a wandering star or nukes itself into a bed of glowing ashes, none of our personal qualities will be of the slightest interest to anyone." (p. 14). The author's ability to provide numerous examples of leaders who effectively terminated their societies' world influence in less trying times, such as "Between 440 and 450, Attila the Hun ravaged all Europe without effective interference by Roman armies" (p. 19), is balanced by an awareness that a large amount of misery was required for any other alternative. "Nobody could better have exemplified the concept of imperial duty than Marcus Aurelius, who clearly would rather have done almost anything than spend his life in the Danubian marshes fighting savage tribesmen. Yet that was what, for the last ten years of his life, he did almost uninterruptedly." (p. 27). The fall of Rome seems early compared to the eastern half of the empire, identified in this book with the city of Constantinople. (p. 18). The "great aristocratic houses of Constantinople . . . maintained across the centuries vital and vigorous military traditions. Severe, laborious, brave, and (above all) intelligent, these were the men who made the Byzantine armies the best fighting forces known to the Middle Ages--and kept them that way for nearly a thousand years. (We pluck the passing irony that Byzantium, which survived a full millennium after the fall of the Western Empire, earned thereby among the unthinking a reputation for `decadence' that still passes current--as if any society that endures a thousand years and then goes down fighting against overwhelming odds weren't thereby demonstrating vitality far beyond the average.)" (pp. 25-26).

France faced severe budget difficulties, an aristocratic Parlement which refused to impose necessary taxes, and "In the declaration of May 3, 1788, it not only declared that taxes could be voted only by the States General, but added that the lettres de cachet were illegal and that the customs and privileges of the separate provinces were inviolable." (p. 70, footnote on Tocqueville). Attempting to undo the New Deal in the United States might have similar results if, as Adams wrote, "It is an attitude to which two-tier economies, such as we seem to be developing in the United States, are evidently liable. The French experience adds callousness at home to the Roman example of weakness abroad as suggestive evidence of eminent social decline, and so of potential decadence." (p. 72).

Russia was uniquely backward in many ways pointed out on pages 72 to 83, but what struck me most was the odd description of the intelligentsia element of Russian society. "A few isolated `thinkers' adrift in a sea of illiterates, deliberately deprived of social functions and practical experience, but given self-importance by the mere fact of education, they were noses of wax, easily twisted by anyone who thought it worth his while." (p. 80, footnote).

The British Empire furnishes a history which we are apt to apply to our own situation. "Sir John Seeley once said, with a seriousness that German scholarship is quite incapable of understanding, that the British Empire was acquired in a fit of absentmindedness." (p. 85). The failure to settle religious strife by the separation of Pakistan from India when the British withdrew is now compared to "children whimpering over the misdeeds of their parents" (p. 109) much as current problems in Asia hardly seem to be America's problems initially but could get much worse than when this book was written in 1983. Economics is also important. "All the statistics seem to support both Britain's absolute inferiority to the west European average in per capita GNP and the relatively slow rate of her industrial growth." (p. 113).

Perhaps this book sees furthest into the future with the observations in The Present Instance on "Gluttons who eat enormous meals are like decadent Romans, but they are also like rich Victorian businessmen, like merchant princes of the Renaissance, and for that matter like St. Thomas Aquinas." (p. 128). We are heavy, now.

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Alternative to a decadent society
James A Rhodes
Manufacturer: H. W. Sams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

The Decadent Decades: Decadence in Victorian Society and the Arts 1880-1900

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The Decadent Decades: Decadence in Victorian Society and the Arts 1880-1900
Peter Wilson
Manufacturer: Parkstone Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Society Finches
Mervin Roberts
Manufacturer: TFH Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Great for those beginning

Breeding Society Finches
Mervin Roberts
Manufacturer: Tfh Pubns Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Great for those beginning .......2006-07-20

This is an older book that I found in my local library. I went on Amazon to purchase this book because it had a lot of good tips on how to breed and care specificly for society finch. All the other books that I have read had to do with Zebra finches. It is a small handbook, but well written for starters. Although the photos were taken of only one clutch, there were many photos throughout the book to show the growth of the babies. I would recommend this book if you enjoy raising society finches. I still take this book out from time to time to re-read it. (I love breeding society finches!...wish there were more books about them.)

ALL HALLOWS 24 - the Journal of the Ghost Story Society

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ALL HALLOWS 24 - the Journal of the Ghost Story Society
Bernard Capes, Edward Gorey, Paul Finch, Tim Waggoner, Hunter Seitz, Mark Nicholls, Joan Board, James Doig, Roger Dobson, Hugh Lamb, Mark Edwards, Malcolm Stevens, Richard Dalby, Karen Lewis, Barbara & Christopher Roden All Hallows
Manufacturer: The Ghost Story Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P0U2UI

ALL HALLOWS 35 - THE JOURNAL OF THE GHOST STORY SOCIETY - FEBRUARY 2004

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ALL HALLOWS 35 - THE JOURNAL OF THE GHOST STORY SOCIETY - FEBRUARY 2004
Barbara Roden, Roger Dobson, Michael Parry, David Longhorn on Robert Westall, Ramsey Campbell, Hunter Seitz, David McVey, Nicholas Waller, Neil Phillip, David Mills, Paul Finch, Kevin McFarlane, Kim Guilbeau, Paul Shaw, Sarah Monette All Hallows
Manufacturer: The Ghost Story Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Ending the Silence: The Origins and Treatment of Male Violence Against Women

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Ending the Silence: The Origins and Treatment of Male Violence Against Women
Ron Thorne-Finch
Manufacturer: Univ of Toronto Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Estate Landscapes (Society for Post Medieval Archaelogy Monograph Series)

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Estate Landscapes (Society for Post Medieval Archaelogy Monograph Series)
Jonathan Finch , and Kate Giles
Manufacturer: Boydell Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Book Description

In recent years, the post-medieval landscape has attracted new interest from archaeologists, historians, and geographers concerned to understand the development of the historic environment. One of the key structuring elements within these landscapes from the sixteenth century until the aftermath of the Second World War was undoubtedly the landed estate. However, it was not until the late nineteenth century that any systematic attempt to quantify the presence of these estates was undertaken, prompted by the move to democratic reform and the persistent link between political power and landed wealth. Yet the importance of the landed estate in structuring power, social relationships, and both agricultural and industrial production was not limited to the UK. From the eighteenth century, the link between the UK estates and patterns of landholding and exploitation in the colonies became increasingly complex and recursive. This volume explores the relationships between the form and structure of British and Colonial estate landscapes, their agricultural management and the political structures and social relationships they reproduced. The articles address themes as diverse as the creation and development of the agrarian landscape, improvement, ornamental landscapes and gardens and estate architecture. Overall, it highlights the wealth and diversity of existing scholarship and suggests new directions for post-medieval archaeology in this dynamic area of research.

Highways to Heaven: The Auto Biography of America

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On the Automobile and America's 20th Century, Nothing Better

Highways to Heaven: The Auto Biography of America
Christopher Finch
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060165510

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On the Automobile and America's 20th Century, Nothing Better .......2006-09-11

Virtually all serious books on the automobile are, in some form or other, polemics, taking one side or another of the endless cultural wars about the car, treating it as brute villan despoiling the environment, gulping gas, spreading sprawl, destroying mass transit and undermining community character and individual morals, or as the ultimate manifestation of American industrial might and consumer culture, opening up the landscape, freeing the individual to make his own choices, making gracious suburban living and escape from noxious and failed cities possible, and serving as the prideful foundation of American culture. Finch's book is happily different. Written by an author who manages to be a serious lover of car travel (not just cars, an important and oft overlooked distinction), an environmentally aware citizen and a lover of American culture, it is a clear eyed, dispassionate walk through the automobile's role in shaping 20th century America that does not hide any warts but captures fully all the dynamism that the car released into American life. The book is particularly good on how the automobile first liberated an enormously varied manifestation of local responses and then, as it enabled people to venture into new and strange locales, became an enormous force for homogenization of American life (i.e. national chains like MacDonald's replacing local drive-ins, freeways becoming the standard model for roads) as a people sought familiarity and predictability in unknown places. And, for those who grew up in the American West, it captures the space conquering sense the car gives particularly well. As told by Finch, the relation of the auto and Americans began as a love story, but it is now a marriage, one with lots of sex and mutual affection and likely to last, but one that has all the rough spots and smoothed-over incompatibilties of a real marriage as well, most of which are more likely to be endured into the future than resolved. A must read for transportation planners, urbanists, environmentalists and general lovers of American culture. Its insights have not aged at all in the 15 years since its 1992 writing.

Let's Talk Birds : A Guide to Raising Birds in Southern California

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Let's Talk Birds : A Guide to Raising Birds in Southern California
Finch Society of San Diego County
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: B000LXV0DW

Letters from John Wallace to Madam Whichcot: and Some Correspondence with John Fardell, Deputy Registrar, 1802-1805 (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society)

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Letters from John Wallace to Madam Whichcot: and Some Correspondence with John Fardell, Deputy Registrar, 1802-1805 (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society)

Manufacturer: Lincoln Record Society
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Binding: Hardcover

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The steward reports to Madam Whichcott from Harpswell, c.1721-27; Transaction of the church's legal business at Lincoln, 1802-05.

On the inductive philosophy, including a parallel between Lord Bacon and A. Comte as philosophers;: A discourse delivered before the Sunday lecture society, Nov. 26, 1871,

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On the inductive philosophy, including a parallel between Lord Bacon and A. Comte as philosophers;: A discourse delivered before the Sunday lecture society, Nov. 26, 1871,
A. Elley Finch
Manufacturer: Longmans, Green, and Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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