Residential Architecture: Continuing Dialogue

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Michigan-based architect Dominick Tringali uses the skill and knowledge that has brought him over 20 industry awards to share strategies on building the ultimate dream house. By combining unique concepts with innovative techniques and materials, Dominick's portfolio displays an array of homes noted for their timeless appeal. This $45 million collection of elite, custom homes contains the residences of notable CEO's, lawyers, doctors and sports celebrities.

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Elegant yet innovative classic designs.......2006-05-26

This book was invaluable in helping us plan our dream home. The Amazon.com reviews seem extreme - - real users planning real homes seem to love this book. That's exactly who we are, and we're glad we ignored the nay-sayers here! It's true that if one is looking for ultra-modern, cutting-edge design that abhors tradition and pushes the envelope, this probably isn't the book for you. However, for real people planning updated, traditional homes that have a sense of timeless beauty and grace, this book works! We've gotten quite a few ideas from it that we absolutely love.

Homogenized America.......2005-12-22

If you would like to have a generic mini mansion or starter estate, this would be a good guide. It contains every custom home builder cliche ever concieved. Or, in other words, it contains all the main stream unoriginal home ideas that you can view for free at any home plan website. There is no substitute for an imaginative architect and this book is no exception. The best any homeowner can do when researching the process of building a new home is to find a good builder and a good architect... this book represents neither. My advice, skip this title!

A beautiful reference for new home builders!.......2005-06-08

I absolutely LOVED this book! Not knowing much about architecture and design, this book was a wonderful reference for my husband and me. The beautiful pictures helped us in deciding what we truly wanted in our dream home. If you're going to spend the time and money in building a new home for your family, I would recommend reading this book first so that you can understand the process and create the best living space for your lifestyle. I can't wait to get started!

Buy it just for Pages 70 through 73!.......2004-05-18

Do you have any idea how hard it is to find examples of high-rise remodeling? Trust me, it's not easy. The small section on Mr. Tringali's creation at 5000 Town Center alone is worth the price of the book! 5000 Town Center is metropolitan Detroit's only true high-rise condominium tower. The photos are beautiful; I just wish that there were more of them. I really appreciate the fact that the floor plan was included for this design, but most of the other homes are shown without floor plans. This small section of the book is a rare chance to see inside of one of the many fantastic designs in 5000 Town Center. Unfortunately, but understandably, it's almost impossible to see all of the designs in the building, even on their own 5000TownCenter web site. It kind of makes sense - after residents buy their space, spend hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of dollars rebuilding their new home, they just want to enjoy it for a long time to come. These units are almost never available for purchase.

(A few years ago a back ordered a book, sight unseen, on high-rise homes. It cost me almost $70 and turned out to be a children's book. I wish that I would have been able to buy this book back then.)

Beautiful...........2003-06-13

This book was a great help to me and my husband in becoming comfortable (and knowledgeable) in the process of hiring an architect to design and build our dream home. The homes photographed in the book are gorgeous and it is a great addition to our coffee table. I recommend this book fully.

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Stories that stay with you.......2006-01-01

I've found it to be the case that short stories often make a greater impact and impression on me than novels. That is, I wasn't as captivated by these stories as I was with some of Endo's novels, but now a year or so later I can remember the events in them almost as though they happened to me myself. Please allow me to try explaining how I mean that by way of an example: when I was younger, I often had to walk several miles through the cold to get to school. I dreamed one year that I'd been given a pair of blue gloves, and for a long time afterword, on these walks, I'd sometimes wonder why I hadn't brought my gloves. The dream was so detailed, so mundane that I'd momentarily confuse it with reality. Perhaps a short story is similar in the respect that it gives us a level of detail which can't be easily sustained through a novel? At any rate, I'll ask you to take my word for it that I can recall making a war-time, school trip to a run down Japanese leper colony on a grey winter day as though it happened.

The subject matter is rather typically grim, for Endo. It mostly concerns sick, dying men, crisis of faith, the Japanese inquisition, dour war-time Japan then dour post-war Japan, etc.. Endo's talent makes this much less painful reading than it may sound. One of the author's primary plot concerns is the fate of religious apostates -does grace extend to those who believe but aren't strong enought to endure? It's a question that makes for compelling literature, but for Endo, a religious minority in an often hostile land, we may assume that this wasn't a strictly academic concern! If I could just throw my humble own opinion in, it always seemed to me that the point of Christianity was that people had utterly failed to stay to the law, thus it'd be odd if grace was denied to any but the perfect. That's what I hope anyway.

There is one very odd thing about this book (it's the reason I'm hurrying to write this review on new years eve.) A science-fiction story, set in the year 2005, is included in this collection. Not just a science-fiction story but a toilet humored (literally) science-fiction story. That Endo would write such a story is pretty remarkable in itself, that such a story can still be of an overall dour tone is truly amazing. Dissapointingly, the technology in Endo's 2005 doesn't bear much resemblance to that of the year that just ended. Personally, I'm so amazed that I lived to see the year 2000 that none of the years that followed have made much of a numerical impression on me. Anyway.. happy 2006 (and beyond) everyone! Maybe this will finally be the year that our scientists crack the riddle of the shrink ray.

As eloquent and powerful as anthing you'll ever read........1998-07-22

This is a collection of short stories spanning a twenty year period from the late 50's to the late 70's, and in these stories we come across most of Endo's favourite themes - martyrs of Christianity in Japan, the stories of those who apostatized (gave up their religion for fear of torture and persecution), Endo's own prolonged illness and his fear of suffering, and his own religious uncertainty.These themes sound altogether pretty depressing, and yet when you read his writing, the crisp, clear style seems so effortless that you might think,like I did, that you could gladly read anything he wrote, on any topic no matter how turgid. His ability to contrast the depth of one person's belief with the weakness and uncertainty of another's is genuinely masterly. I think he manages to do this so well because he is able to comprehend both types perfectly, and he clearly does not favour one over the other. His message is ultimately humanist - that we are none of us perfect, n! either those who seek perfection nor those who give up, knowing perfection cannot be achieved, neither those who face fear and suffering nor those who run from it, and furthermore that the idea of sin should not be used by one person to chastise another, but rather to help guide each of us in our own lives. Endo is able to conjure up powerful emotion in only a few pages, as he does recounting his own feelings of guilt towards his mother in one story, or his joy at a reunion with some childhood friends, or the ambiguous guilt of the 'kakure' apostates on a small island off Kyushu. Though I cringe to admit it, I honestly thought on reading these stories 'If only I could write like this!'

Twelve Days of Christmas Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

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Twelve Days of Christmas Stained Glass Coloring Book (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
John Green
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ASIN: 0486291944

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Fifteen full-page line drawings illustrate all verses of the traditional carol, including a partridge in a pear tree, three French hens, eight maids-a-milking, eleven pipers piping and all the others. Just color and hang near a source of bright light to bring a special glow to the holidays. Verses included.

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Fun for all ages.......2000-11-18

This is the second time I've purchased this stained glass coloring book. Buy a new set of markers and watch everyone in the family (from age 3 up) have fun coloring the pictures which illustrate the song (8 Maids a Milking, for example). We liked ours so much the last time that we kept them in the window all year. Dover is a wonderful publisher, and if you like this coloring book, look for the other stained glass coloring books. It's an easy way to make a colorful craft for Christmas.

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Discovering stained glass (Discovering)
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English and French Medieval Stained Glass the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Corpus Vitrearum)

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Jane Hayward
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This comprehensive two-volume catalogue covers the outstanding collection of English and French medieval stained glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written by curator Jane Hayward, the catalogue is posthumously published as Part I in the Corpus Vitrearum series and represents the culmination of Hayward's pioneering work in the field. 123 panels are examined in depth, ranging from 12th-century border ornaments from the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis to early 16th-century English Passion glass. The catalogue is illustrated with over 500 black and white reproductions and 40 colour plates. It includes discussions on provenance, collection history, dating, style, and iconography, as well as detailed descriptions, restoration charts, and considerations of the current condition of each panel. Mary B. Shepard, Hayward's colleague at The Cloisters, provides an indepth history of collecting medieval stained glass at The Metropolitan Museum of Art -- a fascinating look at the formative influences behind the growth of one of the most important collections in the world.

English Heritage in Stained Glass: Oxford (English Heritage in Stained Glass Series)

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Michael Archer
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English Muffle (Book of Designs, Stained Glass Patterns in the Victorian Era)

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English Muffle (Book of Designs, Stained Glass Patterns in the Victorian Era)
Peter Foster
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Victorian stained glass design pattern that incorporate the use of English Muffle Glass.

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English Stained Glass
Victoria & Albert Museum
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English stained glass
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Between 1909 and 1915 Eug_ne Atget produced seven albums filled with photographs of Paris at the height of its belle _poque. This book presents Atget`s albums in full for the first time, edited with the sequencing and repetition that the great photographer intended. In addition, Atget`s pictures are analyzed in an altogether new way: as commercial picture documents produced by a photographer for the artists, archivists, antiquarians, designers, and builders who were his clients. Atget`s Seven Albums is thus many books-a critical edition, a fresh view of Atget`s work, a new kind of history of photography, and a social history of art and of Paris in the early twentieth century.

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Atget's Seven Albums
Molly Nesbit
Manufacturer: Yale Univ Pr
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ASIN: B000OS3HIK

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Is your cat a "home alone cat?" Do you leave him by himself when you take off on the weekend? Well, if you answered yes, you know the personal column for cats is one of the city's hottest meeting places for city felines. The Classified Cat is a humorous interpretation of the often lurid and bizarre "Personals" section found in most urban newspapers. In it, city cats are fighting loneliness and searching for fulfillment by writing their own personals hoping to find the perfect mate. Written by felines for felines, the listings expose the soft and furry underbelly of the cat world, while also reflecting on the culture of dating, the personals, and the difficulties of meeting that perfect life companion.

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Not amusing.......2006-04-06

I expected something more humorous. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to invent "personal ads" that a cat might write, and if you have a cat, you won't be surprised by anything you read here. Waste of my time.

Me-YOW!.......2002-12-02

I'm actually a bird lover, but when I read this book I knew I had to get it for all the cat owners on my holiday list. The personals concept is cute, especially once you get the hang of the abbreviations (of course F=female, but did you know Sp=spayed?), and the illustrations are SO clever. With quirky details, Ms. Piersall really seems to capture the human inside every kitty.

The 1972 Arctic Cat Cheetah: a new cat ushers in a new way to buy.(TIMELINE): An article from: Snow Goer

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2006 Arctic Cat.(Rode Reports 2006)(Product/Service Evaluation): An article from: Snow Week

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2006 Arctic Cats fuel our enthusiasm.: An article from: Snow Goer

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5.5m s/f in deals gives Hartz Mountain best leasing year ever.(ANNUAL REVIEW & FORECAST): An article from: Real Estate Weekly

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Title: 5.5m s/f in deals gives Hartz Mountain best leasing year ever.(ANNUAL REVIEW & FORECAST)
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500 reasons to ride: 500 class utility 4x4 comparison.(Arctic Cat 500, Honda Foreman 500, Polaris Sportsman 500, Suzuki Vinson 500, Yamaha Kodiak 450, ... Evaluation): An article from: ATV Magazine

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500 reasons to ride: 500 class utility 4x4 comparison.(Arctic Cat 500, Honda Foreman 500, Polaris Sportsman 500, Suzuki Vinson 500, Yamaha Kodiak 450, ... Evaluation): An article from: ATV Magazine
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Title: 500 reasons to ride: 500 class utility 4x4 comparison.(Arctic Cat 500, Honda Foreman 500, Polaris Sportsman 500, Suzuki Vinson 500, Yamaha Kodiak 450, all terrain vehicles)(Product/Service Evaluation)
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The 900 cat you've been waiting for: D & D Powersports 9-SS kit.(snowmobiles) : An article from: Snow Goer

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The 900 cat you've been waiting for: D & D Powersports 9-SS kit.(snowmobiles) : An article from: Snow Goer
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Title: The 900 cat you've been waiting for: D & D Powersports 9-SS kit.(snowmobiles)
Author: Tim Erickson
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Allied attributes: Arctic Cat's 700 EFI shares common bonds.(FIRST RIDE): An article from: ATV Magazine

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Title: Allied attributes: Arctic Cat's 700 EFI shares common bonds.(FIRST RIDE)
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Arctic begins diesel production.(Arctic Cat Inc.): An article from: Powersports Business

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Arctic begins diesel production.(Arctic Cat Inc.): An article from: Powersports Business
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Title: Arctic begins diesel production.(Arctic Cat Inc.)
Author: Guido Ebert
Publication: Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 25, 2006
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Arctic building diesel quad with Roush.(ATV)(Arctic Cat Inc., Roush Technologies) : An article from: Powersports Business

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Arctic building diesel quad with Roush.(ATV)(Arctic Cat Inc., Roush Technologies) : An article from: Powersports Business

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Title: Arctic building diesel quad with Roush.(ATV)(Arctic Cat Inc., Roush Technologies)
Publication: Powersports Business (Magazine/Journal)
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