Hip Hotels: City, Revised Edition

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Hip Hotels: City was the very first book to address a whole new travel phenomenon: hotels of such sheer style and individuality that they have redefined the travel experience. Through innovative architecture, outstanding design, and world-class cuisine, Hip Hotels have become destinations in their own right. But the book did not just identify a trend, it has led it. This revised edition reflects that, introducing ten stunning new hotels. They include Blakes in Amsterdam, Anouska Hempel's latest venture, which brings her Asian-inflected minimalism to a superb piece of Dutch Golden Age architecture. In London there is One Aldwych, one of the finest examples of the new contemporary luxury that is fast turning the traditional grand hotel into a museum piece. The Establishment in the heart of Sydney takes the hotel-as-destination concept to a new level: besides being a superb hotel, it houses the city's hottest bar, restaurant, nightclub, and sushi bar, all in one incredibly radical architectural conversion. And there are new destinations: Stockholm, Marrakesh, and Delhi, whose recently opened Manor Hotel is a total surprise—a fine example of fifties modern architecture that was originally built as a hunting lodge.The biggest names, the hippest locations, and above all the most stylish hotels in the world: with this new revised edition, Hip Hotels: City remains the definitive guide. 600 illustrations, 500 in color.

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Hip Hotels: City.......2006-07-13

Hip Hotels is a "Must have" for anyone travelling the world. Why stay in boring and predictable chain hotels when yo can go somewhere much more exciting for often no extra cost. Even the most discerning traveller will find a hotel in one of these "Hip Hotel" books and be hooked forever. Try it and see - you will nt be disappointed.

Excellent guide to cool hotels, or lovely coffee table book.......2004-11-18

This book has lovely photographs and useful descriptions of some very trendy hotels all over the world.
I have found the book a very useful guide for finding cool hotels to stay in - it can be so hard to find a really good hotel and this book really helps in that regard.
Of course, you need not use it as a guide and there are many cities in this book that I have yet to visit - the pictures are lovely and you can enjoy the book as a visual feast whether you are looking for a place to stay or not.

beautiful hotels.......2002-06-19

The book Hip Hotels by Herbert Ypma is the second edition of the first book of his series about beautiful hotels in the world. In Hip Hotels, he shows trendy design hotels in major cities such as New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, etc. Every hotel is featured with an introductory text as well as many larger and smaller pictures, so you can directly see what to expect. The book is a nice coffee table book and is enjoyable to read even if you do not intend to make a journey right now but just want to see which hotel could potentially tempt you.

nice, but not totally up-to-date.......2000-02-14

im a hotel snob and do tons of travel, sometimes simply to go to a city for the hotel. while the book has some very useful and practical information, the hotel business changes as fast as the net. some very fine, very hip hotels have been missed. there should be, maybe a next edition, bigger sections or more books per city, assuming the city or region has enough. in any event, the pictures are great, the text is simple to follow and pretty accurate as to tyhe hotel and it's vibe. i'd give it 4.5 stars if it had more hotels.

The first great book about hotels - Highly recommended.......1999-05-07

Just bought the book, enjoyed the text and of course the pictures. Nothing like it on the market I can't wait for Hip Hotel Escape next Autumn

Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)

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The Quintessential book on Urban Design
The most important book for my town-planning practice

Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)
Edmund N. Bacon
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140042369

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The Quintessential book on Urban Design.......2007-01-05

This is my favorite book on urban design....how cities work, history of city design, and the key elements that make a city exciting, livable, and functional. A key insight of Mr. Bacon is the potential for the integration of various movement systems (train, car, pedestrian, etc.), and the vitality possible at the intersections and nodes of those systems.

The most important book for my town-planning practice.......1998-10-18

This book changed the way I looked into the conception of cities. The command of urban spaces, with beatiful examples through history, put me to new design of cities or to renew existing city centers including new perspectives for the citizen or people that just pass by.

National Parks: The American Experience (Second Edition Revised)

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A very good but not definitive history of the national parks
Excellent survey of National Park history

National Parks: The American Experience (Second Edition Revised)
Alfred Runte
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0803289235

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A very good but not definitive history of the national parks.......2006-08-20

This book provides a good history of the national parks. The first chapters on the history of the national park idea and the national park system are particularly interesting and well-written. Runte emphasizes "cultural nationalism" as an explanation for the park idea, the notion that American cultural identity could rest on our relationship with wilderness and scenery, and thus best be established in opposition to Europe, where culture is tied to human history.

Runte makes those claims well, but the first edition attracted the most attention for its "worthless lands" thesis, and this edition begins with a response to his critics. This is a very measured response, emphasizing clarification more than argumentation, but Runte stands his ground on the issues. His main claim is that a necessary condition for creation of a park before the 1930s was that the land be worthless or un-economic for primary products such as agriculture, grazing, mining or timber; many of the parks were recognized as valuable for tourism, which is why they were made parks. Properly circumscribed, the thesis gets the first decades right, though it starts to break down at about the time the Everglades NP was established. By the time of the New Deal and Civilian Conservation Corps, the worthless lands thesis is clearly no longer correct.

Like other histories of the national parks that I've read, this book emphasizes the trophy parks - - those with monumental scenery such as Yellowstone and Yosemite. Runte nods in the direction of the national recreation areas (like Lake Mead) and urban parks (like Golden Gate) more than most other authors, but he really only mentions them in passing. Many other parks, even beautiful ones, get ignored if they are not famous (Voyageurs, Big Bend, and Theodore Roosevelt, to name three). And what's up with Steamtown USA or Homestead National Monument of American, for crying out loud?

Like everyone else he ignores whole categories of national parks, some of which are visited more than the trophy parks - the historic sites in Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston; the battlefield parks; and the Blue Ridge Parkway, among others. Each of those units get 5-15 million visitors a year, while Yosemite and Yellowstone get about 4 million. Even so, I haven't yet found the history of the park system that gives these non-monumental parks justice.

Leaving these other parks out matters a *lot* for Runte's thesis. Golden Gate NRA sits on prime real estate in America's most crowded city, and is hardly "worthless" land. The historic sites on the eastern seaboard lie in the most valuable parts of Boston, New York and Philadelphia - not to mention the National Mall and other sites in Washington DC. Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Manassas, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga/Chattanooga and other battlefields are subject to strong development pressures and surrounded by suburban growth. Cuyahoga, Santa Monica Mountains, Cape Cod, and other parks would make attractive up-scale suburbs and second homes if they were not protected.

Clearly the "cultural" and "recreational" parks differ from the scenic and monumental parks, and they differ in precisely the ways most damaging to Runte's worthless lands thesis. Though Runte has given us a classic history of the parks as we have traditionally thought of them, we need a new approach to the history of the national park system as a whole. The literature has emphasized scenery, wildlife, geology and science but not culture and history. Though Runte begins with American cultural nationalism, he does not fit the cultural and historical parks into his vision of the system as a whole.

Excellent survey of National Park history.......2004-11-05

Almost a century and a half ago, Yosemite and Yellowstone gave birth to the National Park idea. Even in the 21st century the concept's definition is not concrete. Alfred Runte's important contribution to environmental history tells the story of the national park idea since its inception and its continued reinterpretation.

According to Runte, cultural nationalism sparked the National Park idea, not environmentalism. Americans enjoyed finding natural wonders that rivaled or even surpassed Europe's scenic beauty. At first national parks served as symbols of national pride and, in time, as areas of public recreation (14). As National Parks thoroughly discusses, economics, not altruism, have played a huge role in the designation and management of national parks. "Worthless" land - land which could not be utilized in the form of mining, farming or another pursuit - determined which landmarks the nation protected as well as how it would protect them (49). In principle, the nation believed in the contradictory statement, worthless land builds cultural nationalism. The early preservationist movement rested on what scenery lacked rather than what it contained (58).

Wilderness preservation was not the primary justification for national parks until the 1930s. Until then preservationists supported actions contrary to their primary aims. Preservationists encouraged tourism both to show a recognized use for the land as well as demonstrate that tourism might generate more revenue from the land than could be earned by exploiting its natural resources. Preservationists allied themselves with railroads and concessionaires that pushed for designation of parks to increase passenger traffic to each natural preserve and, in turn, income. The damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite taught preservationists to rely as much on economic rationales for protection as on the standard emotional ones (83). Preservationists actually encouraged the development of more roads and trails in National Parks, fearing alternate uses such as reservoirs.

Runte opens his narrative by describing the sad state of Niagara Falls, which even as early as 1860 became commercialized with gatehouses and fences rimming the cascades as numerous curio hawkers annoyed each visitor. Niagara Falls became one of the first warnings against the negative outcome of encroachment upon national wonders and strong evidence in convincing Congress to designate Yellowstone a national park (9). The early intrusion of capitalists at Niagara Falls proved a harbinger of things to come. Contradictory to Niagara's warnings against decimation of natural beauty, national parks, by their mere designation, became attractions corporations pounced on to extract tourist dollars with little thought to consequences.

Runte's exhibits his smooth writing style. He expertly transitions from one chapter to the next. He organizes his narrative topically and generally follows a chronological order but backtracks on occasion, which sometimes proves confusing. The book misrepresents fact on a few occasions. For example, it insinuates that Zion National Park became a park in 1919 without national monument status first, when in reality Zion had been Mukuntaweap National Monument since 1909.

Runte's volume is by no means exhaustive, but distinguishes itself as an excellent survey of National Park history. Runte focuses on the national park idea, but never concretely defines it at no fault of his own because the national park idea is constantly being reshaped. The volume expertly illustrates the contradictions in the national park idea and the exploitation the idea has generated.

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Design of Cities Revised Edition

Manufacturer: Viking
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I71BZ8

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Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)
Edmund N. Bacon
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N757DA

Book Description

This book shows decorative painters how to enhance their fruit and floral subjects with the traditional elegance of decorative gold, silver and variegated accents.

Thirteen step-by-step acrylic demonstrations provide complete guidance for painting each subject from start to finish, including specialized instruction for using today's metallic-based paints and leafing products to produce the lustrous gilded effects found in old-world decorative painting.

Classic projects make ideal gifts and home accessories, including:

-Glass and porcelain holiday ornaments with floral motifs -Candle and holder adorned with clematis and berries -Decorative wooden plate accented with fruit and gold trim -Gold-rimmed metalware tray with a red poinsettia design -Pendulum clock featuring clock face with flowers and gilded scrollwork

The author begins the book with a highly detailed introduction to gilding and leafing, featuring step-by-step photos, complete supply lists, and problem/solution demonstrations.

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Decorative painting at its best!.......2003-05-21

If you are a decorative painter, this is one book that you must have for your "stash." The projects are incredibly beautiful and very doable with Rebecca's step-by-step approach. Her directions are detailed and precise, enabling you to complete projects that look just like the pictures! Well worth the price, this book is a must have!

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If you look hard enough, you can find a face in the most unexpected places: on a light switch, a shoe, a cardboard box, or a map. Look around. They're everyplace! With its funny illustrations, colorful design and playful die-cut cover, this is a book that will tickle the funny bones of readers of all ages.

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faces everywhere.......2007-02-27

I gave this to a nephew less than a year old. Though he is not reading yet, I know this will be a favorite. All children are facinated with faces on themselves, others, toys, etc. This very creative picture book opens one's eyes to faces in less familiar places. Once you start thinking about it, they are everywhere you let your imagine wander.

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great book for visually discriminating people

Face to Face: Francois and Jean Robert
Jean Robert , and Francois Robert
Manufacturer: Lars Müller Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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By Francois Robert & Jean Robert.

6.5 x 9.5 in.
80 duotone, illustrations

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great book for visually discriminating people.......1998-12-08

this is a very nicely printed and designed book and a really good present for anyone who loves design and has an active imagination. I bought 30 for my clients.

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Searching for our emotional roots
Just Fun
Small, square, and friendly
Faces Faces Everywhere!
FACES EVERYWHERE

Faces
Francois Robert , and Jean Robert
Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account
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Binding: Paperback

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All Deluxe Notecards have the following specifications: Slipcase with Velcro closure, 5 x 6 in., 20 blank folded cards; (5 images), 20 envelopes.

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Searching for our emotional roots.......2006-11-18

A bell back looks sadly: it is the arc-shaped sad mouth (to fast or slow the clock's internal spring), the nose is the rotary button for minutes, the eyelid-heavy eyes are the dropped rotary buttons for clockwork and wake-noise. A brown brief case opens its zipper like a clumsy civil servant, a branch cut shear reminds rather of penguins from Patagonien as to the market garden, where it was robbed visually. After few exercise minutes one recognizes, that for many things a human face is the subtle designed basis. Radios and little house fronts, brushes, kitchen utensils, measuring tools: though produced for technical work, they nevertheless in a subtle way shake and wake that human in us, which was lost apparently. Was the plug socket designer sad, when he drew, wanting to give us secretly references on a work dead end offering no prospects with small wages? The manufacturer of the measuring instruments - did he miss to be surrounded by animals at his assembly-line?
The selection of the photographers Francois and Jean Robert pulled to the light, which was meant perhaps only as anonymous report - or did not even turn out for the creators in consciousness, because their subconsciousness (Unterbewusstsein, Sigmund Freud), before being pushed and blocked up by the reasonable control, broke through: uncensored like dreams, which sometimes bring up for discussion, what they want instantly, (and not what our overcautious political correctness is demanding). The world of the emotional expressions, which was lost in the arms of technology - this lost world seems to have in-crept secretly back into the tiny articles, like doing a soul migration as known by the Hindus, - the purchase products seem to have been inspired like African art, propelled by a magic, pre-religious charm.
Therefore "FACES" is not only a book for designers or Voodoo specialists, but also a book for children, usually more alive and creatively searching and feeling than adults! At least the hidden souls of animals in all those technical objects: Kids are able to identify them, I am sure! This tiny, square book is a manifest of searching for our lost emotional roots again!

Just Fun.......2006-08-19

My 10 year old daughter and I enjoyed looking through this book and laughing.

Small, square, and friendly.......2001-11-27

My girlfirend loved it. It has lots of great photos... showing how there are happy faces everywhere. Beware, however, that you will get the point before you look at all the photos.

Faces Faces Everywhere!.......2001-11-27

As soon as I looked at the first few pages of this book I was hooked, from cover to cover this book is packed with an imaginitive look on the world and shows over 130 faces in places you would'nt have dreamed of looking for any meaning what-so-ever.

My advice to anyone who has'nt got this book is to obtain one as soon as possible, this book simply has a fun outlook on the moderm world.

FACES EVERYWHERE.......2000-11-08

After viewing this book, it changed the way I look at objects around me in my daily life. I SEE FACES EVERYWHERE! It's quite an experience. Try it.

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Face To Face
Robert Francois & Jean
Manufacturer: Lars Muller
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UDWP9G

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REPORTING FOR DUTY, SARGE!.......2001-03-17

This collection is CALCULATED to delight all Beetle Bailey afficionados. The eclectic bunch of funny people in this Army setting is sure to leave many people laughing. The comic is not so much about the army, per se, but about a group of funny people who just happen to BE in the army. Pvt. Beetle Bailey should be promoted to Private First Class and the Sarge should be promoted to Sergeant Major! It's all Sarge can do trying to keep a hilariously unruly motley crew in line.

Sarge has more on the ball than the lovable, inept Gen. Half-Track of the wandering eyes. Sarge and his look-alike bull dog, Otto are the ones really running the place. Or is it Pvt. Beetle Bailey, who has perfected the fine arts of Sarge baiting, work dodging and bringing out the funny side of everything? I'm still not sure.

One thing I AM sure of is that it is best if you read this sitting down. If you try reading this standing up, you'll fall over when you laugh so hard.

The Beetle has landed!.......2000-08-19

This is another fine collection of Beetle Bailey strips that is sure to please any fan.

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Shape up or Ship Out, Beetle Bailey

Manufacturer: TEMPO BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0448171783

Shape Up or Ship Out, Beetle Bailey (Beetle Bailey #9)

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Shape Up or Ship Out, Beetle Bailey (Beetle Bailey #9)

Manufacturer: Tempo Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0448057085

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Fiction, Humor, Beetle Bailey, Comic Strip

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