Building Type Basics for Hospitality Facilities

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Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for luxury hotels, resort/theme hotels, convention hotels and conference centers, limited service hotels (motels), and casinos.

Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details.
Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, lighting, internal traffic, security, and accessibility issues that are unique to hospitality facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

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disappointed... .......2006-02-25

it's ok, but I was disappointed at the lack of real information. alright, there are some good parts, but then I found the Rutes Penner book and it really is full of stuff. A better choice.
--Carrie, Blacksburg, VA

Hospitality Facilities.......2002-02-28

Great Book, I am an architect new to hotel design and I found this book filled with lots of valuable information, especially in chapters 2 & 3 where they discuss some awesome projects. Nice photos and diagrams throughout the book.

Not recommended.......2001-10-27

Sorry, but this isn't much of a book. Only 160 pages without the index and other stuff in the back, mostly self-promotion by a few architects of their own projects -- ok, some nice hotels and good color pictures in the middle -- only a little technical information. Other books have much more content, or more pictures of a wider variety of hotels/resorts. Way too expensive for what you get.

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An exciting title designed to guide people to the wealth of design talent and artistic expertise which is currently resurgent around Britain. As people are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the anonymous uniformity of factory goods they are looking for a rejuvenation of old skills and the development of new ones.
A book for: Tourists wanting to visit workshops to see wood turning, glassblowers, toymakers, potters etc. at work: Holidaymakers looking for galleries and craft shops in which to purchase hand made artefacts: Homemakers who wish to find out where to find hand crafted tiles, sundials, tables, fountains or other items for house or garden: Buyers and Collectors who can use the book as a mail order catalogue for buying anything from rocking horses and dolls' houses to walking sticks and clay pipes.
The book is lavishly produced, printed in two colours throughout plus a full colour 16 page Gallery Guide section. It includes fourteen regional chapters - all with maps - divided by craft, from ceramics and silver to furniture and toys.

Hand Made in Britain - the Visitors Guide

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Hand Made in Britain - the Visitors Guide
Victoria Pybus
Manufacturer: Vacation-Work
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N63RPG

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In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter.

Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North Carolina. Upon Maggie's death in 1920, her will bequeathed her estate to Bob Ross—a black man who had grown up in the sisters' household—and his daughter Mittie Bell Houston. Mittie had also grown up with the well-to-do white women, who had shown their affection for her by building a house for her and her husband. This house, along with eight hundred acres, hundreds of dollars in cash, and two of the white family's three gold watches went to Bob Ross and Houston. As soon as the contents of the will became known, more than one hundred of Maggie Ross's scandalized cousins sued to break the will, claiming that its bequest to black people proved that Maggie Ross was mentally incompetent.

Revealing the details of this case and of the lives of the people involved in it, Gene Stowe presents a story that sheds light on and complicates our understanding of the Jim Crow South. Stowe's account of this famous court battle shows how specific individuals, both white and black, labored against the status quo of white superiority and ultimately won. An evocative portrait of an entire generation's sins, Inherit the Land hints at the possibility for color-blind justice in small-town North Carolina.

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Story About a Southern Community Pre-Civil Rights Era.......2007-03-08

The author is obviously passionate about this true story about a southern jury during the days of Jim Crow which ruled in favor of a black family which was willed 800 acres of land by two white women. It reflects honestly what life was like, the patronizing attitudes of white people who considered themselves friends of black, and the integrity of a rural community which was not influenced by the prejudices prevalent in society at that time. Great read!

Easy reading evokes hard thinking.......2007-01-12

A writing teacher and former reporter puts together all of the elements of good fiction into an extremely well- researched factual account of events that rip a community and intra-family relationships apart. Racial tension and a trial that doesn't turn out like anyone would have predicted climax a detailed study that is anthropologically dissected in plain English. It is not what one would expect to read about a rural North Carolina community in the time period between the Civil War and the 1920s but it did happen and that's the fascination of this book.

TREATMENT OF SOUTHERN BLACKS BY THEIR WHITE NEIGHBORS.......2006-06-28

Many people who live outside the south think all southern white people treat their "darkies" as slaves, even years following the War of Agression. Little do they know just how well the relationship between whites and blacks has been because very few yankees ever heard of facts that told just how well the situations were and are. This book tells the story of just how well that regard is and was. This book needs to be read by all schoolchildren and their parents all over the United States to point out that racism is not just a thing of the south, but is more rampant everywhere as well as in the yankee north than one would suppose. Why did not the northern newspapers outside of North Carolina pick up this story when it was reported almost daily in 1921 by the Charlotte Observer during the trial? I suppose it was way too painful for the northern states to be faced with the fact that their forebears had been so very wrong about the way black men had been treated by the southerners. Oh, yes! Slavery of any one is wrong, but the yankees took it to extremes. And yes, there was bad treatment by many southern slaveholders, but not all. And to fight a war, killing thousands because of it, many in cold blood, was also wrong.
This book is an excellent read and one that should be read by all, young and old, black and white alike.
I had the privilege of attending the book signing in the very same courthouse in the very same courtroom in Monroe, NC where the trial was held. Afterwards, I had the distinct pleasure of touring the very same house owned by the Ross sisters, pictured on the cover of the book, (not on any tour). The house has been bought and is being restored by the great granddaughter of the builder of the house.
I highly recommend that you buy and read this book and offer it to your teenage children to also read and then discuss it with them. Anne Medlin Sendgikoski, Cartersville, GA

To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil

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Got me thinking

To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil
Angus Lindsay Wright , and Wendy Wolford
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ASIN: 0935028900

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In the country with the widest income gap between rich and poor and where millions of children fend for themselves on city streets, one of the world's most successful grassroots social movements has arisen. To Inherit the Earth tells the dramatic story of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, or MST -- millions of desperately poor, landless, jobless men and women who, through their own nonviolent efforts, have secured rights to over 20 million acres of farmland. Not only are the MST fighting for their own rights, they are transforming their society into a more just one--and their approach may offer the best solution yet to Brazil's environmental problems in the Amazon and elsewhere. Authors Wright and Wolford put the movement in its historical, political, and environmental context, trace its growth, and address the issues the MST faces going forward. And throughout, they share dozens of personal stories of people in the movement—stories filled with tremendous courage, personal sacrifice, faith, humor, drama, and determination.

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Too partial. . ........2004-12-01

The authors of this book are so pro-MST that the last page in the book includes information about where you can send money if you wish to contribute to the movement. It may be true that some land reform is necessary in Brasil, but not in the way the many of the people involved in the MST go about it. Yes, some of the landholders who own large farms and ranches resort to violence to protect their property, but the squatters also aren't afraid of killing people to get what they want. There has got to be a better book out there that tells both sides of the story. This one is too biased.

Got me thinking.......2004-08-31

I have not done much research on the MST, but this book does a great job of highlighting their struggle. The authors are clearly pro-MST and pro-Land Reform, but don't shy away from pointing out the difficulties the MST and their supporters face. I think this book is a must read for those who want to understand the issues surrounding the rural poor who are simply asking for life's basics (a place to call home, food, education). They seem to have been demonized by Brazil's conservatives and large land owners as violent land grabbers. This book gives an "on the ground" account that shows this to be false. I was also impressed by their treatment of the debate between the large agri-business model that the U.S. clearly supports versus the small landholder that actually cares about the land they work. More books like this are needed.

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Jack Lueders-Booth's photographs
Excellent documentary
great documentary work
poignant, honest, beautiful

Inherit The Land

Manufacturer: Pond Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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By the Lake of Sleeping Children

ASIN: 097619550X

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This wrenching photo essay by Jack Lueders-Booth provides a rare and intimate view of the personal lives, dwellings and struggles of families who live and work in the garbage dumps of Tijuana, Mexico.

Lueders-Booth's penetrating photographs, made over a six-year period, are further illuminated in a personal way with an essay by prize-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea. Author of the current bestseller The Devil's Highway: A True Story, Urrea worked as a missionary in the 1980s in the dumps that Lueders-Booth depicts in Inherit the Land.

This will be the third collaboration between Lueders-Booth and Urrea. In the first two, Across the Wire and By the Lake of Sleeping Children, Lueders-Booth's photographs served to illustrate Urrea's text. In Inherit the Land, Urrea's writing augments Lueders-Booth's photographs.

What has been produced, over these years of unprecedented access to the garbage dumps, tarpaper shacks, barrios, jails, back alleys and forbidding canyons of this unknown border, is a vast and comprehensive image bank of pictures the likes of which have rarely been seen. Few have had the chance to penetrate the daily lives of their subjects so completely as has Lueders-Booth. His cameras have lived among the people he photographs, he has picked trash with them, baptized their babies, played with their children while their mothers cook him meals gleaned from the trash dumps in the hills.-Luis Urrea

Jack Lueders-Booth's photographs are included in the collections of many museums and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York. After retiring from 30 years of teaching at Harvard University, Lueders-Booth continues to teach and photograph in and around his hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Luis Alberto Urrea's books have received a number of literary awards, including the American Book Award and The Christopher Award. Urrea currently teaches and lives with his family in Naperville, Illinois.

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Jack Lueders-Booth's photographs.......2006-07-31

A quick impression of the photographs by Lueders-Booth might cause one to remember conversations about 'colonialist gaze' and other such Postmodernist concerns with the representation of foreign cultures. The photographs, however, are much to powerful and engaging to be defeated by such narrow arguments. They present the people of Tijuana, Mexico, living in and around the large municipal dumps that surround their town. Children play, adults search for valuables or burn wood, while makeshift cemeteries are created from scraps and a broken baby crib.

There is a sense in all of these images that there is nothing foreign here at all. In truth, Tijuana is but a stone's throw from the U.S. border, and there is little about these people or their lives that cannot be found inside our borders. They are the faces of poverty, of destitution, and their representation here makes them doubly powerful as symbols of repressive capitalism and the victims of economic oppression.

Excellent documentary.......2006-07-10

If it's true that one picture is worth a thousand words, then Jack Lueders-Booth presents us with a 69,000 word book that you can finish in less time than it takes to read the last night's box scores--or that you can linger over in wonder, page by page, giving yourself over to each, and to the stories implicit in each, for many minutes at a time.

The border has become the topic du jour, and by now the very word border conjures up a reality apart from what, for most of us, is daily life. It's not a particularly evocative or unsettling image, the border, when referring to the dividing line between Italy and Switzerland, or Uruguay and Brazil, or even between two countries claiming, with occasional cross-border skirmishes to italicize those claims, each a piece of the other.

But talk of the border here and it's one and only one you mean and you cross it, north to south, at your own psychic risk. Fictional characters have been discovering it as far back at least as D.H. Lawrence and as recently as Cormac McCarthy, and as actual characters have learned, and continue to learn every day.

Ambrose Bierce was probably not the first and Jack Lueders-Booth will surely not be the last--but Jack's is just as surely as stunning a document of that mythic crossing as we're likely to get.

Now, mythology tells us that heaven belongs to god, hell to the devil, and the borderlands, the wastelands, the shantytowns, the DMZ's, the dumping grounds, the scabby, toxic, orphaned frontier places neither flanking country will acknowledge as its own--these belong to neither the one nor the other but to the trickster.

Call him Hermes. Call him Legba or Exu. Call him Coyote or Lord of the Crossroads. They are one and the same for all their many names. And the Tijuana dumps in "Inherit the Land" seem to have been the classic trickster crossroads for Professor Lueders-Booth.

For it was here that the god unblocked the path to a reality other visitors, perhaps, have experienced, but whose visionary intensity no one's camera ever captured quite this splendidly before.

McCarthy's border trilogy is a masterpiece of modern American prose. Luis Urrea's "Across the Wire," "By the Lake of Sleeping Children," and, now, "Inherit the Land"-is no less a masterpiece trilogy of modern American prose and photography.

Now, we often hear photographers--those who poke their lenses into the sores of the world, that is--accused of aestheticizing their subjects. Yet the poet Rilke tells us that in beauty is the beginning of terror. And the formal beauty of these pictures serve, to my eyes at least, to expose, not distract from, the terror--the terror and the humanity both. And expose them not once, but time and again, keeping them, as only great art can do, fresh, the pain and the beauty just as revelatory on the twentieth viewing, or the hundredth, as on the first.

Anything, however initially exotic or extreme, appalling or enchanting, becomes familiar over time. And while it doesn't necessarily breed contempt, familiarity usually breeds, even worse, complacency and indifference, even oblivion. Oblivion literally in that we forget what first surprised, engrossed, appalled, and bewitched.

"What surprised, appalled, engrossed, bewitched me when I first went to live and work in Calcutta--yet another world," in the words of Luis Alberto Urrea's Introduction, "of stench and dirt and mangled dogs and untouchables--became old hat, hardly noticeable, six months down the line. Even three."

It's up to the artist to keep the knife-edge of perception, reaction and emotion sharp. And that knife's edge is as sharp, in "Inherit the Land," as the light of Mexico itself.

great documentary work.......2006-04-12

This book by Lueders-Booth was one of the 10 best of last year as rated by American Photo. I take their recommendations with a grain of salt, but this is really first rate documentary photography. Lueders Booth has such respect for his subjects who are struggling to live--with some grace--under the most difficult circumstances. He never
milks the situation, which so many photographers do today. He's also a photographer's photographer. His way of relating people to their environment is informative, moving, and memorable. The images stay with you. This is a book to own and live with. I can't recommend it more highly

poignant, honest, beautiful.......2006-03-18

A moving essay about the families living on the dumps of Tijuana by a courageous and talented photographer. Every single photograph is testament to the photographer's commitment to bring us closer to the circumstances of their lives. The portraits are poignant, honest, and beautiful.

Inherit the Dust from the Four Winds of Revilla

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Inherit the Dust from the Four Winds of Revilla
Jose M. Pena
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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ASIN: 1599260654

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Rich in period analysis, here is fascinating historical perspective covering 250 years of existence primarily of a 1750 Spanish settlement originally called "Villa del Señor San Ignacio de Loyola de Revilla" and now known as "Guerrero Viejo." Although many books cover the genealogical aspects of families that originated in this city, the historical contributions of the early pioneers, their descendents, and the controversy related to land grants, called "Porciones" -- awarded by the King of Spain -- have, for the most part, remained in the background. This, then, is the principal objective of this book. The book provides summaries on the evolution, history, wars, and problems of Mexico. Using some of his ancestors as a sample, the author shows the hardships they endured and discusses their contribution in the formation of the two great nations that the United States and Mexico have become.

At the same time, the book shows that the land grants (and heirs) took one of two alternate roads -- depending on their location -- when Texas and other territories were ceded to the United States. People and land grants located on the Mexican side were victims of the violent and blood soaked history that Mexico has had. On the other hand, those located on the U.S. side, were subjected to mischief and flagrant violations of the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Sadly, in 1953, the Falcon Dam inundated Guerrero Viejo and many of the land grants.

Thus, for all intents and purposes, the heirs of most land grants met the same end and a financial obligation (of $193.0 Million plus interest) exchanged between the U.S. and Mexico has remained unpaid for over 80 years. The reader will long-remember the amazing facts developed in this book.

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Inherit the Land
Lawrence Walsh , and Suella Walsh
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1434314014

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The 1950s ushered in Elvis, the Supreme Court Decision on Segregation, and for Kathleen Ryan Moran, who lived on the farm which had been in her family for five generations, a threat to her heritage in the form of man with a secret-a secret that tormented him daily.

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Inherit the Land
Lawrence Rich
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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Inherit the Land
Moelwyn Merchant , and W. Moelwyn Merchant
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
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ASIN: 0863838170

All that we inherit;: Being the family memorials of the Walkers and Mathers of Hobart, and the reminiscences and memories of James Backhouse Walker, solicitor, ... both of early Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land

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All that we inherit;: Being the family memorials of the Walkers and Mathers of Hobart, and the reminiscences and memories of James Backhouse Walker, solicitor, ... both of early Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land
Peter Benson Walker
Manufacturer: J. Walch & Sons
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ASIN: B0006E0532

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Inherit the Land
Jack Lueders-booth
Manufacturer: Pond Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N67GXU

Inherit the Land: Landowners in the Eighties

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Inherit the Land: Landowners in the Eighties
Lawrence Rich
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA3Z44

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Vertisols are heavy clay-like soils that although fertile and potentially productive are difficult to cultivate. They occur extensively in many warmer climates such as Africa, Australia, India and Texas. Based on a workshop held in Zimbabwe in May 1999, organized by the Department of Research and Specialist Services (Zimbabwe) and the International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM), this book reviews the current state of knowledge on the management of vertisols in Africa, with comparative chapters covering other parts of the world.

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