New Towns For Old: Achievements In Civic Improvement In Some American Small Towns And Neighborhoods (American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint)

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John Nolen (1869-1937) was a pioneer in the development of professional town and city planning in the United States. Nolen's comprehensive approach merged the social, economic, and physical aspects of planning while emphasizing, in the author's words, "versatility, special knowledge, and cooperation." Between 1905 and 1937, Nolen's firm, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, completed more than 350 commissions throughout the United States. Among the best known of these is Mariemont, Ohio, whose development Nolen directed from the ground up.

Rare and long out of print, "New Towns for Old" (1927) is still of great interest to planners and urban historians. The well-illustrated study contains an overview of the development of American urbanism and a concise discussion of Nolen's ideas for the improvement of towns and cities. Individual chapters examine a variety of towns planned by Nolen including Mariemont, Ohio; Kingsport, Tennessee; and Kistler, Pennsylvania, as well as the new suburbs of Union Park Gardens in Wilmington, Delaware, and Myers Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. The re-planned towns of Cohasset and Walpole, Massachusetts, are also featured. The forward-looking final chapter includes material on Venice, Florida, one of Nolen's most ambitious projects.

The new edition of "New Towns for Old" contains additional plans and illustrations, a new index, and a new introductory essay by Charles D. Warren, which presents biographical and historical context that illuminates the diverse, productive career of this nationally significant practitioner. Perhaps most significantly, it features Nolen's project list, which has never before been published.

"Nolen . . . sought to realize the dreams and eliminate the nightmares he saw woven into the fabric of American cities, towns, and villages," writes Warren in his introduction. "His idea of reform was pragmatic, accommodating plans to realities without losing sight of temporarily elusive ideals. His successes and failures are recorded in the landscapes and the cityscapes he left behind."

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Must Have.......2005-06-21

New Towns For Old is a must have for anyone that is interested in building great cities. Nolen's descriptions of the new towns of his time are filled with lessons that can be applied to current practice. Once you read this book, you will want to see these cities.

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Olga Tobreluts: Digitalised Academism
Agnes Ramnant
Manufacturer: Exhibitions International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9053251472

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Looking Back: Memoirs and Photographs
Todd Webb
Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0826312942

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LOOKING BACK: MEMOIRS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Manufacturer: New Mexico UP New Mexico
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IA7GZE

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This second edition contains the most essential and current information on the venture capital industry, including profiles of over 1,100 companies. New features include: ten new articles by leading authority W. Keith Schillit, redesigned company profiles, an international funds section with articles on the globalization of the venture capital industry, and three new indexes-a geographic guide to the funds, a venture company executive index, and a general index to all companies.

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This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined “fetal politics” and the contemporary abortion debates. With its close interplay of visual and verbal texts, it traces both the history of fetal images from the sixteenth century onward (including the classic Life magazine photographs of Lennart Nilsson in 1965) and the consequences of how obstetrical and embryological knowledge was represented over time in Europe—to both specialists and the public—as medical knowledge came to be produced and understood through anatomical observation.

As the abortion debates witness, perhaps no flesh is more overdetermined with cultural meaning than the female reproductive body. Language and rhetoric have had an important role in framing the debates and shaping attitudes: “pro-choice” versus “abortion,” “anti-abortion” rather than “pro-life,” “fetus” rather than “baby” or “unborn child,” “uterus” rather than “womb.” How visual modes of representing obstetrical and embryological information, which have similar consequences in forming both public and professional opinion, shape the politics of the abortion debates has until recently received very little attention.

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A "mud-on-your-boots", eye-level picture of World War II.......1998-11-30

This unique and illuminating book offers an incredible picture of the individual fighting man in the Second World War. Arranged in rough chronological and geographic order, it tells the stories in the words of the men who fought and wrote about it. This is definitely not a romantic, rosy picture of "war heroes", nor do you have to suffer through the details of Rommel's planning, or Eisenhower's secret fears--this is the story of the front lines, land, sea, and air. Each story is an article that appeared in YANK during the war--vivid, interesting, and packed with all the details that make it lively reading from first to last.

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Now its second edition, Sasol Birds has been hailed as the most comprehensive guide to bird identification in southern Africa. In its new edition it incorporates all the latest research and features three quick reference guides.

The Southern African Birdfinder: Where to Find 1,400 Bird Species in Southern Africa and Madagascar (Sasol)

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Great stuff

The Southern African Birdfinder: Where to Find 1,400 Bird Species in Southern Africa and Madagascar (Sasol)
Callan Cohen , Claire Spottiswoode , and Jonathan Roussouw
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1868727254
Release Date: 2007-01-11

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The authors outline and describe 39 key bird routes and more than 330 birding sites (and their associated birds) across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the little-documented but increasingly popular areas of Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi. All sites are ranked into one of three categories of priority: essential (the region s best), excellent (top sites but expendable to a time-limited visitor) and local interest (ideal for those looking for new areas to explore). Sites include practical details of access, best times to visit, habitat diversity and the birds that occur there and general natural history; the more important sites feature a detailed map. A guide to finding the region's top 150 birds and an annotated checklist conclude the book.

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Great stuff.......2007-01-09

I just got back from a two month self-guided birding trip to South Africa. I used this book for all my planning and selection of the places to visit. The book proved invaluable. It is well laid out, includes very good maps - including one of the whole of Southern Africa with all the birding spots clearly marked on it, it has many excellent bird and scenery photographs and a complete list of all the birds that can be seen with a cross-reference to their location in the book. A few minor points that caused me some irritations during the trip: only odd pages are numbered in the middle of the right hand side (very confusing); some of the maps are a little misleading e.g. the Sir Lowry's pass map is incorrect - the trail starts directly opposite the car park and not downhill as shown; some of the instructions are also incorrect e.g. the instructions to the Damara Tern Colony (I could not find the location.) These are minor points that an able birder can easily overcome. The book also covers other Southern African countries however having lived in Zambia and Zimbabwe I found their coverage of these two countries to be very sparse only covering the top birding spots. I strongly recommend this book if you are planning a trip to this beautiful area of our planet so rich in birds.

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Sasol Birding Map of Southern Africa
Ian Sinclair , and Trevor Hardaker
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Map

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Exactly what I wanted
Excellent Comprehensive Field Guide
Birds of Southern Africa
Birds of South Africa
Birds of Southern Africa

Birds of Southern Africa
Ian Sinclair , Phil Hockey , Warwick Tarboton , and SASOL
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

ASIN: 1868721035

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Birds of Southern Africa is the best and most authoritative guide to the birds of one of the world's most fertile birding regions. Two hundred color plates comprising over 4,000 expert illustrations help birders to distinguish all of southern Africa's approximately 950 bird species. The illustrations have labels highlighting diagnostic features, and many birds are depicted in flight as well as still. Special attention is given to plumage variation by age, sex, and season.

The informative text, written by eminent ornithologists, is fully integrated with the color plates to facilitate use in the field. Detailed species accounts emphasize the essential characteristics of each bird, including information on behavior, calls, and habitat preferences.

All species names and divisions are in line with the latest recommendations of the International Ornithological Committee, while well-known and local common names are also included. Both beginners and advanced birders will appreciate the regional checklist, quick reference guides, and excellent family summaries. Up-to-date distribution maps feature dual shading to indicate areas of low and high abundance, while cross-referencing is made easy with color coding and a simple numbering system.

Absolutely up-to-date and both beautifully and comprehensively illustrated, this field guide is a terrific reference as well as a superb visual record of the rich variety of a region that is home to one-tenth of all bird species.

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Exactly what I wanted.......2007-06-08

This book is superbly illustrated, with clear descriptions of each type of bird and makes identification fairly straight forward.
While I have not used it in the bush yet, I expect it will be invaluable in identifying each bird I may encounter.

Excellent Comprehensive Field Guide.......2007-03-30

I'm so glad I bought this guide before visiting South Africa recently. I took it with me everywhere and it shows! It is easy to find the bird group you are looking for from the table of contents as well as quick references (both names and diagrams) that direct you to the appropriate page. The drawings are very well done. I especially like how distinguishing features and subtle differences between similar species are pointed out both in the written descriptions and diagrams, making for easier identification. Also, in species where juveniles or breeding birds differ considerably in plumage, additional diagrams are added to depict this.

With this many species, space is limited, and I have read complaints that there is not enough information about the species, so I suppose that is something to consider if you are looking for in-depth descriptions, but I don't think that was the intention of the authors for this guide. As a field guide it is excellent and reasonably sized to carry around with you in a backpack (not a pocket guide!). If I want to know more about a particular species, I look it up on the internet later. I looked at some other books at a local bookstore in South Africa and I was glad I had bought this one. Definitely recommended.

Birds of Southern Africa.......2007-03-09

Book was purchased for our forthcoming trip to Botswana. It seems to give excellent coverage of the birds
we're likely to encounter there and with little repetition of birds we've seen before in Kenya and Tanzania.
The maps are well done and illustrations are excellent.

Birds of South Africa.......2007-02-24

Sinclair's book is a big improvement on the earlier fieldguides for the area that I had (Newman and Prozesky). The art is better and the info is compactly displayed. I can't claim to be knowledgeable about this avifauna, nor have I used the book in the field. However, the book is just the sort of new work that I was looking for in preparation for a visit to South Africa.

Birds of Southern Africa.......2006-08-30

I own all the field guides for this area and the Sinclair book is the best. The illustrations are excellent and the text and range maps are opposite the illustrations making it easy to use in the field. I do question the inclusion of some species where there are only two or three records for the area covered as this makes someone visiting the area go through a lot of alternatives to make an identification. Also better explanation of the summer ranges of certain species would help.

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Best Southern African Bird Guide!

Sasol Birds of Southern Africa
Phil Hockey , Ian R. Sinclair , and W. Tarboten
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Best Southern African Bird Guide!.......1997-05-05

The Southern African Subregion may have the most field guides of any region, but the SASOL guide is undesputedly the best field guide to the region and probably the best bird book in Africa! The book illustrates every single of the 900 species in full color. The plates are beautifully illustrated and the species are often shown in flight and females and juveniles are very often illustrated. The only very slight downside is that the plates are a little small, but there is a new, larger version that has been newly published in South Africa by Struik Publishers (Cape Town). In South Africa's Birds & Birding magazine it was voted as the best field guide of the region by many ornithologists

SASOL First Field Guide to Birds of Prey of Southern Africa (Sasol First Field Guide)

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SASOL First Field Guide to Birds of Prey of Southern Africa (Sasol First Field Guide)
David Allan
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Sasol Birds of Southern Africa
Ian Sinclair , Phil Hockey , and W.R. Tarboton
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Sasol Eerste Veldgids Tot Roofvoels Van Suider-Afrika (Sasol First Field Guide)

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Sasol Eerste Veldgids Tot Roofvoels Van Suider-Afrika (Sasol First Field Guide)
David Allan
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1868723135

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Sasol Voels Van Suider-Afrika
Ian Sinclair , Phil Hockey , and Warwick Tarboton
Manufacturer: Struik Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 186872140X

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