Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind

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A lively account of America's most original Victorian architect. Frank Furness's energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture. This first biography details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, probes the horror of war and its translation into aggressive architecture--train stations, banks, and libraries--and illuminates Furness's influence on his century and the world. 200 b/w illustrations and photographs.

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Engrossing.......2005-05-26

This book presents history and architecture in a way that everyone can (and should!) enjoy -- it is superbly and entertainingly written. Yes, more color pictures would be nice, but the real essence of this book is that it distills Furness's biography and designs into an engrossing story that also tells us about Philadelphia and America in the late nineteenth century.

Expecting more.......2003-02-05

Furness must have been an intense character, and the insight this book gives on his family, childhood, history, and being a novice architect is informative, but I was hoping for a less bias, more thorough analysis and review of him and his work. And color photos! Furness's work needs to be shown with a little color, at least.

Even better than the titillating title!.......2001-03-12

This book transcends the genres of both biography and architechural study to emerge a fully-formed captivating portrait of an American original. The book is also beautifully-produced. I couldn't put it down!

Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind.(Review) (book review): An article from: New Criterion

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Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind.(Review) (book review): An article from: New Criterion
Mildred Schmertz
Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review
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Title: Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind.(Review) (book review)
Author: Mildred Schmertz
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 19 Issue: 10 Page: 76

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Pottery: A Guide to Advanced Techniques (Manual of Techniques)
Doug Wensley
Manufacturer: Crowood Pr
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ASIN: 1852237813

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Raising the Bar aims to educate, pay homage, and raise awareness of the heroes and role models in the international community of disability sports. These first-time portraits and interviews introduce athletes who triumph by sheer grit and determination.

RAISING THE BAR: NEW HORIZONS IN DISABILITY SPORT

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RAISING THE BAR: NEW HORIZONS IN DISABILITY SPORT
Artemis A.W., III, and Larry Rothstein; preface by Christopher Reeve; introduction by Philip Craven Joukowsky
Manufacturer: Umbrage Editions na
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Binding: Hardcover
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Raising The Bar: New Horizons In Disability Sport
Christopher Reeve
Manufacturer: Umbrage Editions
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ASIN: 188416742X

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This delightful book contains cartoons about business by Sidney Harris, one of the world's premier cartoonists.

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What's So Funny About Education?
Lou Fournier , and Illustrated by Tom McKeith
Manufacturer: Corwin Press
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ASIN: 0761939342

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"Fournier has firmly placed one foot in the pragmatic world of today, while the other points toward a future view of education where teachers and students are treated with respect, and all learners achieve to the best of their abilities. He does this through the medium of humor, and you are in for a genuine treat."
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Thornburg Center

Playful (and very funny) satire offers fresh insights on education!

For everyone who has ever thought that the truth about education is stranger—and funnier—than fiction, here is the book that proves you right!

Never has there been a greater need for comic relief for educators, as teachers, administrators, students, and parents alike become increasingly frustrated with the shortcomings and dizzying fluctuations in the educational system. Using satire and affectionate humor, author Lou Fournier delivers both stark and subtle epiphanies alongside enduring truths, offering a deeper social commentary on the present conditions and future directions of American education. The author shares wildly humorous observations and editorials that both individually and collectively provide thought-provoking kernels of wisdom.

With an engagingly satiric approach, the author spares no topic in casting a wide net over education, covering music and the arts, school culture, leadership, assessment, staff development, history, technology, higher education, and so many more.

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What's So Funny About Looking for a Job?
Scott Badler
Manufacturer: Compcare Pubns
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ASIN: 0896383652

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Developed through 20 years of experience in auditing practice for clients in a brad spectrum of industries and up-to-date through SAS-112, the CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments provides literally hundreds of management comment examples for numerous situations that that are encountered by real firms working with real clients. Beginning with an example of the actual opening paragraph of a management letter, this compendium continues through all critical areas encountered during an audit and ends with suggested closing paragraphs so that even a first-time management letter preparer can produce a high-quality final product like a well-seasoned auditor. The CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments is also an efficient review document for use in brainstorming for other effective and useful comments that apply to a client's situation. This indispensable reference enables you to provide greater value in your audits and be of more benefit to your clients.

CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments

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CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments
Bert L. Swain
Manufacturer: Cch Inc
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The CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments was developed through 20 years of experience in auditing practice for clients in many different industries. The guide provides literally hundreds of management comment examples for numerous situations that can be encountered by a practitioner. Examples are also provided beginning with the actual opening paragraph of the management letter through all critical areas generally encountered during an audit and, finally, suggested closing paragraphs are provided. This guide enables a first-time management letter preparer to produce a high-quality final product like a well-seasoned auditor. The CPA's Guide to Management Letter Comments is organized in a manner that closely follows the traditional audit process. Comments that are applicable to other areas such as organizational governance, administrative, and other matters are also provided. The Guide can be used during the actual preparation of the management letter as well as an efficient review document for use in brainstorming for other effective and useful comments that apply to a client's situation. The Guide allows the auditor to provide greater value in his or her audits and to be of more benefit to clients. Furthermore, the management comment letter text in the book is provided on a free companion CD-ROM in folders that correspond to the chapters in the book where the text appears.

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Is it possible for low-paid workers to obtain higher-paid jobs through upward mobility over time within the earnings distribution? Based on new empirical evidence from a number of European countries, the book focuses on earnings mobility, an issue that is of increasing concern to policy makers and governments throughout the world.

The widening earnings dispersion which is developing in European labor markets has had the inevitable consequence of worsening the position of the poorer members of society. This book identifies those individual characteristics which affect upward mobility either by increasing or decreasing the probability of individual workers improving their chances of earning higher wages. The authors, including some of the leading labor economists in Europe, offer a comprehensive European perspective covering a total of thirteen countries. They shed new light on the way in which labor market incentives and institutions affect both the incidence and duration of low-paid employment.

This book will be of interest to both academics with an interest in labor economics and policy makers throughout Europe.

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Parents learn to recognize and deal with both bullied and bullying children with this authoritative guide. Discussed are warning signs parents should be alert to, the psychology of bullies and victims, how to empower children to prevent victimization, and how to reach out to bullies. Bullying behavior from early grade school through the early teens is explored. Also included is information on how not to raise a bully and what schools can do to help prevent bullying.

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World War II legend

Rather curious because this book was pulped by court order

A piece of history in its own right.

This is a sine qua non for students of WW II in the Pacific

A book our elected officials should read.....

Coral and Brass
Holland M. Smith
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553265377
Release Date: 1987-07-01

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World War II legend.......2004-09-20

This is the autobiography of Marine General Holland ( Howlin Mad) Smith.
He got into the Marines by accident, never having heard of them. He tried the Army and they did not want him. The Navy recommended he try the Marines. He went to Officer's school and became a Lt. He served in the Pacific, and saw the Japs use their landing craft for amphibious exersizes. Later he was in the Phillipines and went around setting up sites for future artillery positions, in case we had to fight there. He noticed Jap stakes at some of the sites he was setting up. This was in the 1920's.
He did not like the way the Navy treated the Marines while on board ship, charging them twice what the Navy folks were charged for room and board.
Smith was part of the new Fleet Marine Force and helped design the landing craft to be used, against much Navy resistance. Smith and John Higgins designed a landing craft with a drop down front that became known as the Higgins boat. This was based on the Jap design that Smith had seen in Asia years earlier. Smith helped write the manual on amphibious operations.
When the war broke out, Smith requested a combat command despite his age, and finally got one. He and Admiral Kelly Turner fought each other, and the Japs. Turner, before the battle of Tarawa had refused to ship 50 Landing Vehicle Tracked craft to carry the Marines. Smith threatened to call off the operation unless the craft were provided. Nimitz sided with Smith and the craft were there for the operation, and were critical as the Higgins boats could not get over the Tarawa reefs.
In the battle of Saipan, Smith fired Army General Ralph Smith, and this caused a big ruckus when it was publisized. While at Iwo Jima, he was not an active commander, as he had been pushed upstairs. At Okinawa, many wanted Smith's leadership, as the Army General Buckner was slow moving and did not use the Marine resources available to him.
Smith was a giant that helped make the Marine Corps what it is today. As Sect Forrestal told him when the flag rose at Iwo Jima, "This guarantees the Marine Corps for another 500 years."

Rather curious because this book was pulped by court order.......2002-08-31

Shortly after the original edition of this book came out a bunch of US Navy admirals sued Howling Mad for libel, won, and got a court order to have the remaining copies destroyed and all Howling Mad's royalities turned over to them. For the "good" of Navy/Marines/Army relations the court case was kept rather quiet. Guess this makes this book one of those "banned" books of high collectability. Anyone who reads this book must read Edmund Love's "The 27th Infantry Division in WWII" for balance.

A piece of history in its own right........2001-08-11

Penned by Smith with the help of Percy Finch in 1948, Coral and Brass is the autobiography of one of the most colorful and controversial commanders of WW II. Prior to the Japanese in the Pacific, Marine "Howlin' Mad" Smith waged war with the Navy and the Army. Never one to back down from a fight, he often railed against real and imagined slights. His resentment against the Navy seemed to stem from the horrible treatment he and his men received aboard ship in 1909. Headed to Nicaragua, the Marines were denied access to the canteen and were forced to pay 10 to 20 times the going rate for cigarettes and candy. At the Naval War College in 1920 he again ran headlong into the Navy's mindset that Marines "...were the lowest form of naval life" and "Marine officers are not qualified...to command large forces in war." It was largely through his efforts and others that the Marines were finally placed on equal footing with the other branches of the service.

In 1933, the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) was created and a permanent organization for the study and practice of amphibious warfare was brought into existence. The following year they produced a new doctrine of landing operations - the "Tentative Landing Operations Manual", which was subsequently adopted by the Navy in 1938 and by the Army in 1941. In 1937, then Col. Smith was made Director of Operations and Training and began building a modern amphibious force along the lines of the new doctrine. He later became Commander, V Amphibious Corps and then Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force.

Smith and several other men of vision understood the nature of the coming war in the Pacific and set out to train and supply the Corps properly. It was these men who fought so hard for the production of the Higgins boat, Roebling's "Alligator", the LVT and other amphibious craft. In this regard and in tactics, Smith was a foresighted genius. For better or worse, he also saw himself as a combat commander. Surrounded by controversy for most of his career, this book was written largely to justify his dismissal of Army Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith at Saipan. He tells us in the introduction that he does so relying "largely" on his memory. Perhaps that explains why many of his recollections are at odds with other written materials and testimony of the day.

Smith is one of those men who became larger, much larger than life. The media of the day sided with H.M. Smith and the history of the event is largely taken from a magazine article written by Robert Sherrod and subsequent newspaper articles. Questions, nevertheless, persist as to his fitness to command. (See, "Howlin' Mad" vs The Army by Harry Gailey) This is unfortunate for, in his proper element, the man was, without doubt, deserving of the praise heaped upon him. His co-author should have told him that making "I" his favorite word would not serve him well.

This is a sine qua non for students of WW II in the Pacific.......1998-06-22

Covers the development of the fledgling Fleet Marine Force, a new concept in Amphibious Warfare. Deals in some detail the extremely important aspect of how landing craft were devised for this mission. Anyone who knows anything about the pre war Marine Corps or Navy will find the men and ships of that time on parade in this book. "Howlin' Mad" didn't get his nickname as a mistake. The only question is was he more angry with the Japanese, or the brass of the Navy or the Army. Describes his long and usually unsuccessful fights with the Navy as to who would control the landing force. Readers must recall that WW II began with the Marine Corps headed by a Major General, and the Marines themselves considered as what Harry Truman later called them in 1950, "The Police Force of the Navy." It would be the Fleet Marine Force and its success, formed by the brains and experience of a handful of officers, and the blood of all hands when it came to that, that would break this mold. Forever? There isn't any such thing. Each new generation of Marines must refight the fight to retain the right to fight. Jimmy Forrestal, looking at the U. S. colors being raised over Iwo asked Holland Smith if he knew what that event signified. Forrestal then told him that it meant a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. Two years later we were fighting in the halls of Congress to continue our right to exist. And by 1950, there were only some 23,952 serving officers and men in the Fleet Marine Force. A year later there were over 30,000 Marines serving in the Korean War. So, you Modern Day Marine Warriors, this is your charge. It's your turn. You've got some pretty good shoulders to stand on, but the battle is yours.

A book our elected officials should read............1997-10-07

A book our elected officials should read. It is full of our mistakes and triumphs. In a time when budget cuts and base closures are on daily new headlines. Perhaps our elected officials might learn a lesson from Howlin' Mad Smith, that a small, efficient, highly motivated fighting force can be an unstoppable force. The Marines took Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima because . . . they were Marines. Howlin' Mad Smith help shape them into a modern fighting force, and his autobiography tells all. Mistakes, triumphs, and lessons to be learn.

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Coral And Brass
Holland; Finch, Percy Smith
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J35PGC

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Coral and Brass
General Holland M. Smith
Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000TZAQ5K

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Coral And Brass
General Holland M. Smith
Manufacturer: Ace
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ASIN: B000KHFAKS

Coral and Brass "Howlin'Mad" Smith's own story of the Marines in the Pacific

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Coral and Brass "Howlin'Mad" Smith's own story of the Marines in the Pacific
General Holland M. Smith
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VWA6UQ

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Coral and Brass
Smith; General Holland M.
Manufacturer: Ace Books; Inc.
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ASIN: B000KK69EG

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coral and brass
smith general holand m.
Manufacturer: scribners Sons
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MT25SO

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Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements demonstrates the imperative need for ethnoarchaeology to include a deep sense of the history of the specific social group under analysis for its findings to truly impact archaeological thinking.

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This book aims to facilitate a cross-fertilisation of ideas and approaches between fields covering different pulsators and with different areas of expertise. The book successfully covers most known types of pulsators, reflecting a highly productive and far reaching interchange of ideas which we believe is conveyed by the papers and posters published, making it a reference for researchers and postgraduate students working on stellar structure and evolution.

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Asteroseismology Across the Hr Diagram
M. J. (Edt)/ Thompson, Michael Thompson
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Pub 01/1//2003
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ASIN: B000N5IQOE

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