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Pamphlet Architecture 23 - Move: Sites of Trauma
Johanna S. Dickson Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1568984006 |
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Founded in 1978 by architect Steven Holl and bookseller William Stout in an attempt to skirt the editorial control of the reigning architectural magazine culture, Pamphlet Architecture has been disrupting the status-quo ever since. This series of small experimental volumes has introduced important ideas and spurred much-needed debate among students and practitioners alike.Pamphlet Architecture 23 carries on this tradition with a book selected in an open competition. Johanna Saleh Dickson's entry was chosen from over seventy submissions received from architects, academics, and students from across the nation and around the world.
Her pamphlet investigates the events of May 13, 1985, when a bomb was dropped by police on a Philadelphia row house in order to evacuate its residents-members of the radical organization MOVE. The fire that ensued killed 11 MOVE members and destroyed an entire city block. Tainted by these traumatic events, the reconstructed house located on the site has stood unoccupied for nearly two decades. Dickson proposes an architectural treatment that might facilitate and promote healing within the affected community.
A call for ideas for Pamphlet 24 has already gone out. A winner will be selected in September of this year and the next innovative project will be published in spring of 2003.
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Discovering AutoCAD 2004
Mark Dix , and Paul Riley Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0131410822 |
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This introduction to management accounting and its significant role in making sound business decisions teaches readers how to be wise users, not necessarily preparers of accounting informationa strong user-based approach that is endorsed and supported by the AECC. The authors present accounting information in a broader business context-emphasizing what accounting information is, why it is important, and how it is used to make economic decisions. Specific chapter topics cover classifying costs, determining costs of products, cost behavior, business decisions using cost behavior, making decisions using relevant information, the capital budget: evaluating capital expenditures, the operating budget, standard costing, and evaluating performance. For individuals with a future in management accounting.
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Discovering AutoCAD, Release 14
Mark Dix , and Paul Riley Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Textbook Binding ASIN: 0130801836 |
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Map Mania: Discovering Where You Are & Getting to Where You Aren't
Michael A. DiSpezio Manufacturer: Sterling ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1402705999 |
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Discovering Drawing
Ted Rose , and Sallye Mahan-cox Manufacturer: Davis Pubns ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0871927209 |
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Discovering AutoCAD 2002
Mark Dix , and Paul Riley Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0130932973 |
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Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach to Discovering, Learning and Remembering the Body
Anthony Apesos Manufacturer: North Light Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 158180931X |
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Bring Your Figure Drawings to LifeTo draw the human body with accuracy and confidence, you have to know how its anatomy functions beneath the skin. But like many artists, you may struggle to apply traditional anatomy courses to your work in a meaningful way. This unique guide bridges the gap between observation and creative expression by showing you how to use your own body as a reference tool for better work.
Whether your goal is to achieve tight realism or stylized illustration, Anatomy for Artists goes beyond perceptual instruction, enabling you to blend what you see with what you learn and feel to be true about human anatomy. This active, physical approach to anatomy will allow you to develop rendering skills that capture the human form with greater richness and clarity.
Unlike conventional anatomy books, this guide focuses on the body's movements as opposed to its static structure. As you follow along, you will not only learn the relationships between bones, muscles and tendons, you'll observe these relationships in your own body as you perform various motions and exercises. Detailed illustrations reveal intricate anatomical features and also illustrate how the body's individual parts function together and affect one another.
When you begin drawing again after completing this book, you'll see improvement in your work right away, from rendering details to achieving proper proportions. You'll also experience a greater satisfaction from your drawing as you capture the essence of the human form with greater speed and ease.
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CHINESE AND ORIENTAL ART DISCOVERING ART SERIES
Michael Batterberry Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JWE4SS |
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Discovering AutoCAD 2000
Mark Dix , and Paul Riley Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Textbook Binding Similar Items: ASIN: 0130842648 |
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Book DescriptionThis text, designed for first-time AutoCAD users, functions as both a classroom teaching tool and a self-study guide. With an accompanying website created to provide support to students and professors, Discovering AutoCAD 2000 gives readers a thorough and practical understanding of AutoCAD concepts through active, participatory learning.
Book - Discovering AutoCAD 2000 utilizes a combination of instruction and exercises to help the reader master AutoCAD. The text is organized around drawing tasks that demonstrate the techniques being taught at every point. Drawing exercises are reproduced in large, clearly dimensioned format, and are accompanied by tips, step-by-step suggestions, and illustrations that show what to expect when steps are completed correctly.
Companion Website - The accompanying website contains multiple choice assessment quest ions for each chapter that can be used as check-up exercises or quizzes to help both p rofessors and students assess how well techniques are being mastered. It also include s an extended AutoCAD project for each chapter that provides extra challenges for stud ents, as well as a syllabus builder that guides professors in creating a graphic web p age containing their classes' information and assignments. Finally, the site's Netsea rch capability directs readers to other sites that explore AutoCAD topics.
Instructor's CD: Qualified instructors using this text may order an instructor's solutions disk.
Customer Reviews:
I have Paul Riley as a teacher.......2005-04-17
Paul Riley is my Teacher and he teaches a great course.......2004-01-26
AutoCad 2000 is an adequate book for learning atuocad.......2003-08-02
Easy, step by step progress.......2000-05-06
This book will teach you the basics of AutoCAD and much more.......2000-04-12
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Discovering AutoCAD 2008
Mark Dix , and Paul Riley Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0131592262 |
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Designed for introductory AutoCAD users, Discovering AutoCAD 2008 offers a hands-on, activity-based approach to the use of AutoCAD as a drafting tool—complete with techniques, tips, shortcuts, and insights that improve efficiency. Topics and tasks are carefully grouped to lead users logically through the AutoCAD command set, with the level of difficulty increasing steadily as skills are acquired through experience and practice. Straightforward explanations focus on what is relevant to actual drawing procedures, and illustrations show exactly what to expect on the computer screen. Introduces readers to the AutoCAD commands using a structured, intuitive approach. Provides a simple overview of basic command procedures in a step-by-step format. Demonstrates what users should expect to see on their screen and encourages self-paced study. Includes drawing suggestions, timesaving tips, and meaningful explanations of how to use techniques in actual applications. Working drawings accompany drawing problems. Designed for introductory AutoCAD users.
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Discovering Autocad Release 13
Mark Dix , and Paul Riley Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0135210305 |
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Photographing Wild Birds
Chris Gomersall Manufacturer: Amphoto Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0817464166 |
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Nikon User's Guide to Bird Photography.......2005-09-25
Life in a Hide.......2002-07-01
After his discussion of field craft, the author discusses several different assignments that he's had and how he approached them. While interesting, this just supplements the meat that he's provided earlier in the book. Finally Gomersall discusses post-production problems like cataloging and marketing.
Throughout the book there are cameos by other bird photographers like Niall Benvie, but these seem more like interesting garnish than helpful hints. If you are interested in hints from Benvie you'd be better off reading his "The Art of Nature Photography", a good work in its own right.
I'd be remiss if I didn't compare this book to the bible of bird photographers, Arthur Morris' "The Art of Bird Photography". The Morris book devotes more of its pages to the technical aspects of bird photography like film and exposure compensation. And while Gomersall's pictures are excellent, Morris' pictures are breathtaking. But both books are tops in what they teach.
This book may discourage you from bird photography, or at least help you in a realistic appraisal of success. The author talks of arriving in his hide before dawn and leaving after dusk, and of spending days without what he considered a successful picture. These tales of endurance led me to spend several hours in a hide, and I must confess that the pictures I captured were better than my run-of-the-mill shots. But I'm not certain my devotion runs to fourteen hours in a small cramped tent.
But as a bird photographer, I would not want to be without either of these books.
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Photographing Birds in the Wild: Photographic Hints and Tips
Paul Hicks Manufacturer: Voyageur Press (MN) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 086343357X |
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Whether readers are knowledgeable birders who wish to find out more about photography, or whether they have a photographic background but need to know more about fieldcraft and specialist photography techniques, this book clearly explains how to get fine results using basic 35mm cameras and equipment. Above all, it will increase readers' enjoyment of a uniquely rewarding pastime.As photographic subjects, wild birds present quite a challenge, mainly because their phenomenal eyesight and (in most cases) acutely cautious nature make them so difficult to approach. However, like any good challenge, bird photography can often be tremendously rewarding, and its popularity is ever increasing. As a result, there is a continual improvement in the standard of work being produced. Far from being just a record of species and behavior, the best bird photographs are genuinely artful images.
The books provides the less experienced photographer with a practical guide to photographing many species of wild birds in a variety of situations, ranging from an ordinary back garden to a remote Scottish island. The author uses a 35mm single-lens reflex camera, and most of the illustrations reflect his preference for natural lighting--although basic flash techniques, which are sometimes indispensable, are also covered. For birders, photographers, nature lovers. For beginner and advanced photographers.
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Photographing Wild Birds
Chris Gomersall Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OLXOU8 |
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What's So Funny About Computers
Sidney Harris Manufacturer: William Kaufmann Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0865760497 |
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What's so funny? (A Tech Perspective).(jokes about computer technology): An article from: Community College Week
Reid Goldsborough Manufacturer: Cox, Matthews & Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008G4QHY Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Community College Week, published by Cox, Matthews & Associates on January 20, 2003. The length of the article is 873 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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