Condemned Building: An Architect's Pre-Text--Plans, Sections, Elevations, Details, Models, Ideograms, Scriptexts, and Letters for Ten

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This book provides the last word on feature-by-feature comparisons of AutoCAD and MicroStation from the user's perspective. Each chapter presents a quick summary of a specific feature in AutoCAD, followed by the related feature in MicroStation. The AutoCAD software users will find the book to be a great asset in transitioning from the AutoCAD environment to the MicroStation design environment. Conversely, the book is equally valuable for the MicroStation product user who needs to make the transition to AutoCAD. Thorough coverage of translating drawings between AutoCAD and MicroStation provides vital information for users working with both platforms. For the user who works with both products and for the user who wants to know more about the "other" software package, this is the book for you.

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Microstation V8 for Autocad Users.......2007-06-27

I have worked on both Microstation and Autocad since 1981. However,for the last 7 years I have been involed with Autocad only and this book supplied answers to questions that I had and brought me up to speed on the use of Microstation V8.

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Ocean Liner Postcards in Marine Art.
A Very British Book
Woefully inadequate
A unique must for ocean liner buffs

Ocean Liner Postcards
Robert Wall
Manufacturer: Antique Collectors Club Dist A/C
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1851492755

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The cards provide an enduring record of the great age of intercontinental travel by sea. This book gives a fascinating picture of a more leisured age before the advent of the jet airliner.

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Ocean Liner Postcards in Marine Art........2002-08-18

I echo the opinions of the first reviewer`s comments if not his star rating.As a British collector of Liner postcards I probably am biased towards it`s "Britishness" but it is unquestionably the best [and admittedly the only]book on this subject available.Look,love Liners- like lots!

A Very British Book.......2001-05-03

This book could have been written in 1925. It is a model of its kind: well-organized, quite literate, and with very valuable details, appendices, and a good index. There are lists of publishers, timelines, and most important, Artists -- and that list indexes the particular card(s) in the text. Further, in this little book there is a capsule history of passenger shipping from 1837 to 1950 --and it is a far better-written, more lucid and more informative narrative than most of what passes for history these days in larger size picture-books. If you read this book you will have taken a giant step toward being a serious collector.

That said, there are drawbacks as well as virtues in this little book's Britishness. Most of all, it concentrates almost entirely on British shipping, with perfunctory nods to the Germans (lightly represented), the French (hardly represented at all), or the (completely ignored) Dutch, Swedish, Italians, and Americans. And despite the virtuosity of the artists represented there is a certain sameness about the examples.

That really didn't bother me. This is a beautiful little book about a wonderful little subject. If it takes no note of the sleeker, more stylized Art Nouveau or Deco styles popular on "the Continent," it does give a very good exposition of the realistic yet painterly artists, many of whom (Wyllie, Dixon and Shoesmith for example) were superb draftsmen as well as painters --talents sorely needed, then and now.

I only hope Mr. Wall will tackle the other countries in another volume -- and I will rush to buy it.

Woefully inadequate.......2001-02-14

The world of ocean liner postcards is a fascinating one, filled with exquisite exterior and interior views of long-gone ships. But this volume misses most of the best. Where are the gorgeous chromolithographed Hamburg-America cards, whose detail is astonishing and artistry is breathtaking. Has Wall never seen one? Wall has a single North German Lloyd card, out of hundreds of beautiful examples I've seen. Why? Where are the lovely Red Star cards, some so beautiful they've been turned into posters and reproduced and are for sale even now. Where are the delicate Japanese cards, so different from their European counterparts? Has Wall never seen them? Apparently not. The cards reproduced here are almost entirely British, as if only British steam ships mattered--and yet these are the most common cards available today and among the least distinguished. Furthermore, a fair number of Wall's examples are in such poor condition that no collector would have them in his or her collection. Worse yet, Wall's book is filled with small inaccuracies. Normandie cards, he says, are rare--and yet I have seen at least 200. For the person interested in ocean liner postcards--and there is good reason to be interested, both for artistic and historical reasons--this book is a shame. It could have been remarkable, but it was evidently put together by someone who has very little knowledge or experience of these miniature artworks. By the way, at one time I had 7500 different ocean liner postcards in my collection, so I think my opinion has considerable validity. I bought this book hoping to show my wife what the best ocean liner postcards were like, what my collection was like when I owned it. I wasted my money. Instead of buying this book, spend you money at a postcard show. If it's a good one, you'll find a number of cards better than any in this book.

A unique must for ocean liner buffs.......1999-08-22

August `99 OCEAN LINER POSTCARDS IN MARINE ART 1900-1945 is a very attractive, nicely produced little handbook (the first of its kind) aimed chiefly at ocean-liner buffs, for whom it will surely be a must-buy. The book may also be of interest to those who recall the age of ocean liners and perhaps even sailed on them. The reproductions of more than 200 color post cards of passenger ships are surprisingly good, as are many of the paintings themselves. For some reason, artists - even marine artists - often have difficulty in representing ships in a way that is anatomically accurate, as it were: the perspective may be off, the stacks too high, the hulls to large and looming. Not to worry: most of the paintings commissioned for post cards - which after all were marketing vehicles - are imbued with an irresistible romantic aura that overcomes all defects. Regrettably, the information about the ships depicted in this nifty book is quite sketchy and the text, which presents short histories of the lines involved, is rather dry.

Technical Sketching with an Introduction to CAD: For Engineers, Technologists and Technicians (3rd Edition)

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Technical Sketching with an Introduction to CAD: For Engineers, Technologists and Technicians (3rd Edition)
Dale H. Besterfield , and Robert E. O'Hagan
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0134725727

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A straightforward approach to engineering graphics that introduces the basics of communicating ideas through detailed and accurate three-view or pictorial sketches. It enables working drawings to be produced by computer and explains how to interpret working drawings as well as the basic principles of graphic communications toward understanding computer-aided drafting and design. KEY TOPICS: Designed to encourage proficiency, this book introduces the basics of technical sketching techniques, lettering, and instrument drawing. It also provides detailed descriptions of orthographic projections, including pictorials, auxiliary views, and sectioning. The third edition of Technical Sketching with an Introduction to CAD: For Engineers, Technologists and Technicians has been revised to reflect the latest standards of dimensioning and tolerances as well as a new chapter on Autocad. It also includes metric units. An essential reference for any engineering professional.

The Principles, Construction, and Application of Pumping Machinery (Steam and Water Pressure): With Practical Illustrations of Engines and Pumps Applied ... and Efficiency Trials of Pumping Machinery

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The Principles, Construction, and Application of Pumping Machinery (Steam and Water Pressure): With Practical Illustrations of Engines and Pumps Applied ... and Efficiency Trials of Pumping Machinery
Henry Davey
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1900 edition by Charles Griffin & Company, Limited, London.

Exploring Drafting: Fundamentals of Drafting Technology

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This is a solution manual for another book.

Exploring Drafting: Fundamentals of Drafting Technology
John R. Walker
Manufacturer: Goodheart Wilcox Company
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ASIN: 1566375657

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This is a solution manual for another book........2004-04-03

This book is just the answer to quizzes, questions, and a portfolio of what correct drawings should look like. No instruction for self learning. This book is just an instructor's resource. (only relates to ISBN 159070181X)

As a solution manual, however, it looks emphatically able for its intended role. There seems to be a related Text book and supplemental Worksheets that goes with this solution manual.

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Drawing on a spectacular private collection of twentieth-century posters, ads, photomontages, and graphic ephemera, this book showcases more than two hundred examples of progressive graphic design from the 1920s and 1930s. The selections represent the work of Soviet, European, and American avant- garde designers and artists who used the new technologies of mass production and distribution to market everything from salad oil to communism to the avant-garde itself.

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Greatest Time of Design!.......2003-01-17

this book is a real find! there are some truly magnificent and stylistically ground-breaking samples of early 20th century graphic design here. most of the selections represent the pinnacle of the german and russian avante-garde designers of the 1920's and 30's, including alexandr rodchenko, el lissitsky, lazlo-moholy nagy and many others. But there is also a decent overview of french and american designers as well.

this period of work is profound because of it's ingenuity, daring graphic experiments in text and layout, and it's use of collage, photos and text, and dada influences to create bold graphic statements. the pieces included in this volume span many different media in the graphic arts...war propaganda, art exhibition posters, product advertising, civil program posters, packaging, publishing, and even fine art.
it is a testament to this collection of designers, because many of them worked simultaniously in many different mediums all at once, especially those involved in the bauhaus movement and the russian avante-garde artists.

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A lovely walk through the Smokies........1998-03-15

I discovered this book while looking for a present for my aunt's 88th. birthday present. She and her late husband traveled all over the country taking their time to wander back roads and see things tourists miss. One of their favorite spots was the Smoky Mountains. I'm sure this book will bring back many pleasant memories for her. The paintings are wonderful as are the many small vignettes of birds and tree leaves. Even if you haven't been to the Smokies--as I haven't--you'll find the book enjoyable. Haven't read it yet, since I think my aunt should first, but I couldn't resist looking at the paintings, as did my parents. I highly recommend it.

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Great Smoky Mountain Impressions
Steve Kemp
Manufacturer: Farcountry Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560372060

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From closeups of delicate and colorful wildflowers to long vistas, from forests to creeks, waterfalls, and rock formations, this is a touching photography-and-text tribute to one of the United States' most beloved national parks.

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This is one big book........1999-10-18

As befits one big dog! The slap-pawed, slobber-jawed Marmaduke has been entertaining us for 40 years with the same joke, and that's saying a lot in this day and age. While many so-called "funnies" have resorted to sexual innuendo, drug use, and sensationalistic topical humor, we can always count on Marmaduke to humor us with his size. Oh, that and his ever-present bone.

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Marmaduke: Ever Lovin' Marmaduke 2
Anderson
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0317317873

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